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George Grella
@gtra1n.bsky.social
Write/edit about music & stuff all over the place, amazing taste, hard core values. Prolly only person to play CBGB and write about opera for the FT. Edit Brooklyn Rail music section, kickass newsletter: killyridols.substack.com
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If you see this, post a bird
November 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM
November 8, 2025 at 7:26 AM
November 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The party continued, apparently
October 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Just saw the sad news Allison Knowles has passed
October 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
October 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
October 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
October 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Buon compleanno maestro
October 24, 2025 at 4:33 AM
October 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
October 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Sullivan Fortner, Taylor Bullock, and Esteban Castro tag teaming the blues at the Greene Space
October 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
We are on the side of civilization against barbarism, and that's what the Momenta Quartet is doing at their annual Momenta Festival. Free concerts, and free to read the latest at KillYrIdols open.substack.com/pub/killyrid...
October 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
For Steve Reich's 89th birthday, a look at time, infinity, and more. For all to enjoy at KillYrIdols: open.substack.com/pub/killyrid...
October 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
October 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM
A new Essentials album at Kill Yr Idols, Pharaoh Sander' *Africa*, for all readers: open.substack.com/pub/killyrid...
October 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Art Review: Sixties Surreal at @whitney.org opens today, charts a course from American dream to nightmare: open.substack.com/pub/killyrid...
September 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Name a Film from before 1950.
September 23, 2025 at 12:35 AM
More writing to do
September 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
An Essential album: Edo de Waart & the SF Symphony's inaugural recording of John Adams' Harmonielehre. Here's why: killyridols.substack.com/p/the-essent...
September 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Coming October 10 on ECM
September 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Sometimes you grab a book off the street because it makes you go, huh.

And then it means something. Coming soon to the newsletter…
September 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Perfect timing: on a day when we find out there's still many millions of dollars available to fight to preserve the mediocrity of Prestige, my latest is on the empty valuelessness of it all. Free to read at KillYrIdols open.substack.com/pub/killyrid...
September 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
New project
September 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Read speculative fiction
September 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM