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New Music Friday: 1/19/24

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New Music Friday: 1/19/24

Cultural Consumption: 1/18/24

Cultural Consumption: 1/18/24

Time to get Crackin'

Where Have All the Good Sites Gone!

Where Have All the Good Sites Gone!

The hollowing out of Pitchfork is sad news. But it's also just the latest grim dispatch from the digital media hellscape

Cultural Consumption: 1/17/24

Cultural Consumption: 1/17/24

From a phony soundtrack to a real singer-songwriter

Cultural Consumption: 1/16/24

Cultural Consumption: 1/16/24

Much mellower than planned.

Cultural Consumption: 1/15/24

Cultural Consumption: 1/15/24

When you're creeping up on 50 and you have a family and a house to take care of, "three-day weekend" doesn't necessarily mean "a lot of extra time to loaf around writing Jefitoblog posts"; often, instead it means "now there'

New Music Friday: 1/12/24

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New Music Friday: 1/12/24

Cultural Consumption: 1/11/24

Cultural Consumption: 1/11/24

As a much younger listener, I was extremely lyrics-focused — not to the extent that great lyrics would get me to forgive the idiosyncratic vocal stylings of, say, a Bob Dylan, but definitely to the extent that my first trip through any new album was typically spent reading through every verse

Cultural Consumption: 1/10/24

Cultural Consumption: 1/10/24

Woof! This day has just about defeated me in terms of the amount of time and creative energy that remains, but I've got a pretty good streak going here and I don't want to break it now, so here we go. For as long as I

Cultural Consumption: 1/9/24

Cultural Consumption: 1/9/24

If you're anything like me, you regularly lose track of artists whose work you've actively enjoyed. Hooked up to this great informational firehose we're all attached to, I'm not sure there are enough "follow" buttons, push notifications, or newsletter blasts

Cultural Consumption: 1/8/24

Cultural Consumption: 1/8/24

Today's musical roulette wheel landed on Del Water Gap's 2023 release I Miss You Already + I Haven't Left Yet. Prior to diving into the record in question, I didn't know anything about this act, but I'd enjoyed a couple other

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New Music Friday: 1/5/24

Cultural Consumption: 1/4/24

Cultural Consumption: 1/4/24

Some days are more conducive than others when it comes to listening to stuff and then writing about it, and today definitely landed on the "less conducive" end of the spectrum. This is a bummer, but on the other hand, I had less time for listening because I

Cultural Consumption: 1/3/24

Cultural Consumption: 1/3/24

The discovery algorithms used by Spotify and Apple, etc. have never done a lot for me in terms of putting new stuff I'll love in my ears, so I'm kind of ambivalent about that stuff at best — but I'm also an outlier in a

Cultural Consumption: 1/2/24

Cultural Consumption: 1/2/24

Today's soundtrack comes to us courtesy of my brother Brian, who sent me a Bandcamp gift copy of Kyle Craft's Full Circle Nightmare for Christmas. It was released in 2018, but it's all new to me — and besides, from the production to the arrangements,

Cultural Consumption: 1/1/24

Cultural Consumption: 1/1/24

Unsure of what to listen to next and let down by whichever bits of code are supposed to help Spotify and Apple Music point me toward stuff I'll like, I decided to try Gnoosic, a discovery engine that works by asking you to give it the names of

Stephen Busken Photography

Old Interview: Danny Seraphine, October 21, 1994

I tracked Danny down at a company called Street Sense, Inc. …didn’t know his relationship to or with the company, just knew that he could be reached there…figured maybe it was a management company, so I called and said “I’m calling to talk to someone about Danny

Cobra Pumps

I had my first broadband line installed in 1999, just in time to surf the wild mp3 frontier in the heady months before the law stepped in and started cutting filesharing services off at their grubby knees. Napster — and later, to a greater extent for me personally, Audiogalaxy — opened the

Old Is New

In the 1996 film Big Night, Stanley Tucci and Tony Shalhoub play brothers who own a slowly failing Italian restaurant in 1950s New Jersey. It’s a premise ripe with comedy, and Tucci — who co-wrote and co-directed — takes frequent advantage of those possibilities, playing up the dynamic between his pragmatic

Buzzkill

January isn’t even a week old, and I’ve already heard my first “Really? Them?” band of the year: Glasvegas. I know it’s the first month of the year, and release schedules are for shit, and writers have to reach to find stuff to write about. But these