for a long time, i've wanted to write this piece: a celebration of Cass Elliot and a corrective to the myth about her death, which happened 50 years ago in July. her daughter's new memoir presented a reason to dig even deeper, here nytimes.com/2024/05/09/art…

'what would steve albini do?' is not the worst thing to ask yourself most of the time

gonna listen to just the first 30 seconds of pod + surfer rosa + rid of me + in utero all day in honor of steve albini; nobody was better at facilitating atmosphere + rawness + malice + antagonism + the most vivid sense of place imaginable

alright all you horny Challengers people, i made you a Luca Guadagnino playlist nytimes.com/2024/05/03/art…

🎼 clap your hands, everybodyyyy youtube.com/watch?v=amjYmR…

tell my psychiatrist to send an invoice to daryl morey

this series has taken years off my life

you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

Did an editor write this headline?

(Yes)

nytimes.com/2024/04/19/art…

if i have to delete my account and move to a different planet, well, it's been a good run nytimes.com/2024/04/19/art…

'She's almost certainly wildly misunderstood by people,' says her friend Cate Le Bon, 'but there's a perverse joy in that.' I profiled St. Vincent, or maybe Annie Clark from Dallas nytimes.com/2024/04/18/art…

Answering Lindsay Zoladz's challenge to list my own top 69 Love Songs songs, with reflections on that landmark album at f'in' 25. tinyurl.com/69lovecarl

At no point in this video from the Jimmy Buffett tribute at the Hollywood Bowl can you possibly predict who they will show next

Some of you asked, and a few of us answered. Here's our not-so-hot take on BEYONCÉ’s Act II, 'Cowboy Carter,' a roundtable/hoedown with me, and my New York Times Arts colleagues Wesley Morris, Ben Sisario, and Lindsay Zoladz.

nytimes.com/2024/04/02/art…

had a blast talking cowboy carter with some brilliant minds here 🙏nytimes.com/2024/04/02/art…

tired: will they play 'texas hold em' on country radio

wired: will they play 'blackbiird' on the sirius xm beatles channel