doing exactly what i wanted to do today: watching sports on my couch while drinking a beer
A plug for @joshterry.bsky.social's always excellent No Expectations newsletter, in which he drops a surprise plug for They Live, which I watched w/ my 19yo son last week in a successful attempt to both slight amuse and further radicalize him.
The 2024 country music check-in. New LPs worth your time from JP Harris, Sierra Ferrell, Zach Top, and more.
okay iām back here again. wrote about country music at the newsletter today and i promise to no longer save my best jokes for twitter www.noexpectations.fyi/p/best-count...
The 2024 country music check-in. New LPs worth your time from JP Harris, Sierra Ferrell, Zach Top, and more.
logging back on to bluesky. i got a full-time job now at wttw news (pbs chicago) as their newsletter producer and i also get to keep my own newsletter, no expectations. this week, i wrote a loose and longform essay about the sphere and the grateful dead. www.noexpectations.fyi/p/dead-and-c...
A new fan goes to Vegas for the opening weekend of Dead & Companyās Sphere residency.
do people rank radiohead albums on this website or was that a twitter only thing to start 2024? hereās my ranking in the first newsletter of the year www.noexpectations.fyi/p/radiohead-...
Discography Deep Dive: Radiohead. Plus, a NNAMDĆ gig recap, and newish LPs from Kacey Johansing, Ryan Davis, and Graham Hunt.
The latest Doom & Gloom Dispatch is ready for your inbox tomorrow morning ... if you're not already subscribed, why not subscribe already!? doomandgloomfromthetomb.substack.com
I recapped my first year as a Newsletter Writer for the final No Expectations of 2023 www.noexpectations.fyi/p/the-no-exp...
A look back on the first year of the newsletter. Plus, my favorite 2023 lists, a new playlist, and the return of the Chicago show calendar.
For this edition of the Hell World top 5 songs series, here's another killer lineup of writers and musicians writing a lot (a lot) about The Cure. www.welcometohellworld.com/the-cure/
The top 5 The Cure songs ever
Here it is: The Best Music of the Year I celebrated the first anniversary of my newsletter No Expectations by writing about my favorite 2023 albums. I hope you find something that you really dig and buy their record. Let's hear it for independent music www.noexpectations.fyi/p/the-60-bes...
No Expectations 052: Celebrating the yearās best LPs and the first anniversary of this newsletter.
Time is a smear, we live in Hell, media is crumbling, & itās easy to get in oneās own head about āproductivity.ā But this year I set out to write a book, & while Iām nowhere near done Iāll have written well over 320 good pages by the end of this month. Iām pretty proud of that.