Hello reader, A UFO has landed in the South Bronx and you are invited to get beamed up. This is the official end of this blog project. I got a proper domain with no awful ads and everything! If you want to follow my ongoing sonic adventures and analysis, COME AWAY WITH EMD is the […]

take over this dogwalking company, in order to fund my making music and writing about it without any weird cultural imperative to be dishonest or full of shit, AND IT IS A LOT OF WORK, AND I AM ALSO SPENDING 40 MINUTES PER LETTER WRITING TO IOWANS ABOUT WHY I THINK ANDREW YANG IS THE […]

Hi, So, I fucked up. This blog was supposed to end with me writing to you about my best friend and how geniously talented and revolutionary they are, but I was really tired and confused and disheartened at the end of my project. I also realized I could have gone to Seattle to see my […]

Hi, In case you are wondering when you can expect more writing and for me to make good on all my PROMISES, e.g. this book about women who have been revolutionary to musical culture and this declaration of war on the Chicago Reader, please know you can still expect these things! I went through a […]

My friend, Neil, is making this cool new podcast. He is DEFINITELY achieving his mission statement of creating my new favorite song in a minute or less with this number, “Roman Polanski Just Won an Award.” He is also responsible for my favorite thing someone said about me this week, one of the earliest supporters […]

…LIVING TRASH FIRE. LIVING TRASH FIRE. Here and here are some examples of the Chicago Reader’s take on Riotfest. Also, here is the very excellent and thoroughly researched feature I wrote for that very publication that they did not want to commit to socially or politically OR PAY FOR. Bikini Kill Are Not the Revolution […]

Well, I have had a very hard time getting a very excellent Bikini Kill feature I wrote published, because apparently journalism is mostly just advertising nowadays and criticism is not allowed anymore–ESPECIALLY not criticism of Bikini Kill, who it would seem are the sacred cow of feminist music journalism, so only fluff pieces are allowed–just […]

This is actual punk culture: three women who went to see Refused and The Hives alone, giving each other rides home, starting a band, organizing a misfit prom to raise money for abortions. Haiku review of Refused/The Hives @ Vic Theater, Chicago, IL 5/20/2019: white boys from Sweden care more about oppression than Bikini Kill

There is a post I want to write about Bikini Kill. It is a post about how important they were. A post about how they galvanized a movement that has actually changed the world, and is thus very revolutionary. The greatest example I can think of is Girls Rock!, a summer camp in which young […]

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