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on some personal news?

on some personal news?

Before I get into talking about myself, I’d be remiss to not acknowledge the women killed in Atlanta two days ago. It’s horrifying the way racist, misogynistic murderers get to be portrayed as people having a bad day and given bios that are designed to make the white

on yankee hotel foxtrot by wilco

on yankee hotel foxtrot by wilco

Something Old I made a poll to choose between this and Illinois by Sufjan Stevens. I will do that album, too, if for no other reason than the cover is absurd. But today we experience Wilco. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is an album with a cover so nice I couldn’t

on cryptoart as an argument for self-archiving

on cryptoart as an argument for self-archiving

I said I wasn’t gonna write about NFTs because nobody wants to hear it and I’m not sure I have much worth saying about the whole concept, but they’ve been on my mind. Or at least the idea of them and why I’m so instinctively turned

on old playlists + new music

on old playlists + new music

A few days ago I decided to change my newsletter’s URL to just my name. It really doesn’t matter and the newsletter is still called the same thing, but I figured it could be fun to do a spin on the something old/something new format in celebration

on media + the lie of teenage power

on media + the lie of teenage power

This isn’t really about the Britney Spears documentary, though it is necessarily informed by at least the position it's had within the cultural conversation lately. In true Something Old Newsletter fashion, it was triggered by a piece of writing which was done in reference to that documentary.

Got my friends to talk about music journalism this time

Got my friends to talk about music journalism this time

Lately I’ve been reading a lot of older album reviews for the laugh. In the last week I’ve read two 2004 Pitchfork reviews. One was Funeral by Arcade Fire and the other was Joan of Arc, Dick Cheney, Mark Twain... by Joan of Arc. I laughed out loud

on pop-punk, misogyny + me

on pop-punk, misogyny + me

I’ve often found myself starting to write essays about the interplay between being a woman and being heavily influenced by emo and pop-punk. I’ve always shied away from doing it, though, because I never felt like I had anything to add. The misogyny baked into those genres is