🎵 The Vernon Spring - Under a Familiar Sun (2025)

I had missed this album last year but was reminded of it through a collection of remixes that came out last week. Producer Same Beste has a way of pulling at the heartstrings with these glitchy piano de-compositions from which beautiful sounds bloom

2026-05-12


🎵 Two Steppes - Bowl of Flowers (2025)

This cassette arrived in the mail today from fellow Brooklyn DIY lifers Two Steppes. After taking a long break from music I’m so glad that Drew Gibson is back- pivoting away from harsh noise to something hazily melodic but with hidden depths and textures.

2026-05-12


🎵 Judee Sill - s/t (1971)

This blog is making me realize I have a type- quasi-religious mystics who make folk music that draws from a wide array of influences. In this case Sill’s songs switch seamlessly between winsome country to baroque counterpoint in her lyrical cosmology of angels and cowboys.

2026-05-17


Critical Listening interviews Maine Music Alliance

I was really inspired by Liz and Max’s podcast interview with two members of the Maine Music Alliance who sucessfully stopped a Live Nation venue from coming in and disrupting the local scene in Portland, Maine. I found the conversation to be especially helpful in demystifying the process of dealing with local government and how to change conceptual arguments into ones that are legible for policymakers.

2026-05-17