Category: nonfiction
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Spittoon Scrap Tune Wrap
The songs I spun voraciously in 2024—Now featuring more new stuff than before!
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SONIC-ATOMIC SIDEREAL SONG BOMB
OK. This is it. You fucked up in 2022 and didn’t finish the annual listening retrospective…
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Comp Book Comp – February 2023
A few (mostly) recent entries in my Lynda Barry-inspired comics journal, compiled here to entertain and perplex you.
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SNOT ROCK CD Selections 002: The Miles, Live! In Palmdale
Sorry for the delay. I seem to be using my extended burnout as justification for weekend trips up and down the California coast these days. I’ve seen the Miles, a classically scrappy San Diego rock trio, about five times since they formed in 2018. In that time, their song-to-song style has veered between hefty-swag-packin’ garage…
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SNOT ROCK CD Selections 001: Elvis Costello, My Aim Is True
I’m starting this CD reviews series with a personal favorite: My Aim Is True, Elvis Costello’s 1977 full-length—the album where Declan Patrick MacManus conclusively proved that mixing jittery nerd-rock, cynical lit-pop, semi-goofy vintage posturing, and biting, self-aware toxicity makes for a pretty solid angst-pop cocktail. I first heard Costello in high school. It was a…
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On Compact Discs
My CD player isn’t really supposed to be a CD player. It’s a Sony SLV-D370P, a CD/DVD/VCR combo platter from the mid-2000s. Back then, it must have been a versatile, exciting piece of machinery. But in 2022, I found it in my parents’ garage, pretty dirty but fully functional. Mom and Dad are firmly on…
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18 August Adds
It’s mid-August, and I’m back with another unsolicited listening report. All of these songs are highlights from my annual, evolving mega-playlist. No genre constraints, no “newness” mandate, no rankings, no funny business. It’s just the shit I like right now. But because I have no self-discipline, it’s only August, and it’s already a nine-hour mess.…
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The Green Day Answer
These days, when people ask me who my favorite band is, I always say the same thing: “Do you want the cool answer, or the Green Day answer? “Because it’s Green Day.” It’s true. It’s partly a Bay Area pop-punk localistic loyalism, sure. It’s largely nostalgic. Mike Dirnt and I share a birthday. Counting in…
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22 June Tunes
It’s mid-June, and I’m back with a mid-year listening report. All of these songs are highlights from my annual, evolving mega-playlist. No genre constraints, no “newness” mandate, no rankings, no funny business. It’s just the shit I like, in chronological addition date order. But because I have no self-discipline, it’s only June, and it’s already…
SNOT ROCK BOT RADIO 