30
May
Introducing Shadow Play
Football is the biggest game on Earth.
Last anyone counted, maybe a quarter of a billion people play it in
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Notes
18
Mar
Fool me twice
In November 2025, Isaac Chotiner of The New Yorker posted on X about a piece in the news startup Semafor
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22
Jan
Breaking noise
What really happened this week in global politics? Essentially nothing.
Not that the breaking-news media would have you think
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25
Sep
‘Lou Reed Was My Babysitter’
Chicago’s Jeff Tweedy, of Wilco fame, has a new triple-album (!) solo release, Twilight Override, out on September 26.
24
Sep
‘Snurra På Hjulet’
Now to Stockholm for a new single out of the psychedelic soundscape of Dungen, or Gustav Ejstes—and friends, when
23
Sep
‘Waiting for Love’
Over to Oslo for some new indie-pop from Anna of the North, a.k.a. Anna Lotterud. Anna described
22
Sep
‘Antidepressants’
The title track of Suede’s latest album has all of the wrenching emotions and ‘90s bombast of the band’
18
Sep
‘Chateau Blues’
Does anyone rock out anymore? The answer is, yes: Austin, Texas’ Spoon. If the name doesn’t entirely ring a
17
Sep
‘Patterns / Solo (Pt. 1)’
We were able to share a preview of the modernist composer Max Richter’s new album, Sleep Circle, in July.
16
Sep
‘Venus Flytrap’
The Bristol-based producer who goes as A Sagittariun (you may remember him) has a new EP out, here with