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Jack Denton

@jackwdenton.bsky.social
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Epistemologist @ NYmag Writing in NYmag, Pitchfork, Harpers, NPR Music, Rolling Stone, Noisey, FADER, Outline, Pacific Standard, Mother Jones, New York Times, etc. Co-author of 3x3, an occasional music newsletter: threexthree.substack.com

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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Wrote about Ballard's psychopathic hymn to the shadow modernities of the everyday threexthree.substack.com/p/out-with-a...
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Out With Aliens, In With Alienation
On the science-free sci-fi of J.G. Ballard's Concrete Island
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I co-reported this piece with Adam Platt—and upped my medical anxiety—on how dangerously salty restaurant food is
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I did a short little blog about Zohran, some amazing Scottish music, and being allowed to even consider the possibility of better horizons threexthree.substack.com/p/smallpipes...
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Smallpipes, small hopes
Zohran and the permissions of Brìghde Chaimbeul's celtic rag
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I did a short little blog about Zohran, some amazing Scottish music, and being allowed to even consider the possibility of better horizons threexthree.substack.com/p/smallpipes...
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Smallpipes, small hopes
Zohran and the permissions of Brìghde Chaimbeul's celtic rag
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Hard to think of a vocal performance from this century that conveys the feeling of desperation nearly as well as the first verse of Young Thug's "Harambe"
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
A few short reviews by me on the 'stack threexthree.substack.com/p/the-perfec...
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The Perfection That Isn't
Vincenzo Latronico, Henry Threadgill's soundtrack to war, cryptic pedagogy with J. Hoberman
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Great day to run this one back. Salute www.nts.live/shows/image-...
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Image Search - Beach Boys Demos 10th April 2025
Playing Surf, Classic Rock. Themed mixes, hidden gems, bedroom demos, interviews and other odds and ends once a month. Email: animalimagesearch@gmail.com
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
harpers.org/archive/2025...
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
the real freaks were the people listening to WFMU over the phone. forget AM sound quality, imagine how bad the audio probably sounded jacobin.com/2025/04/wfmu...
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
One thing not based in reality? The Times' commitment to this completely made up definition of "based"
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
the name for his new era just hit me: Bonhomie Iver
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
call me old fashioned, but he’ll always be (Sandy) Puff Daddy to me
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Periodic reminder that quite possibly the best song ever recorded is available to be listened to at any time, and no one can stop you www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhQA...
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Magwaza
YouTube video by Johnny Dyani - Topic
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
YHWH Nailgun album feels like 20 mins of a guy punching you and himself in the face. Electrifying
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I went to the Bowery Ballroom to see a show and all I got was the news www.vulture.com/article/jess...
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Will the Revolution Start at a Jesse Welles Concert?
The folk singer bringing NPR liberals, Marxists, and Joe Rogan together.
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I went to the Bowery Ballroom to see a show and all I got was the news www.vulture.com/article/jess...
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Will the Revolution Start at a Jesse Welles Concert?
The folk singer bringing NPR liberals, Marxists, and Joe Rogan together.
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I'm feeling like a real Chicago-style chump getting so excited about commuting to work in sunny, 45 degree weather, but the ten polar vortexes this winter have broken me. Won't be eating any Italian beef though
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
really good wikipedia malapropism
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Beautiful and impressively candid essay on family from @britinacheng.bsky.social in NYmag's My Week in NY newsletter today: link.nymag.com/view/62056a3...
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Really unique and moving film. The first scene is worth the price of admission alone www.criterionchannel.com/the-image-yo...
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The Image You Missed - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Dónal Foreman • 2018 • Ireland Starring Arthur MacCaig An Irish filmmaker grapples with the legacy of his estranged father, the late American documentarian Arthur MacCaig, through MacCaig’s decades-spanning archive of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Drawing on over thirty years of ...
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Perhaps Republicans will squander their power by being too cringe
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The translator of On the Calculation of Volume outed herself as Scottish when she used "swither" at least twice in the second book. Wild move by New Directions to let her smuggle that into the American edition, though I'm glad to learn the term
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
This is cracking me up: "As a guard, Ross, 6-foot-6, had to survey the whole floor, had to sense what to do in a split second, had to anticipate where others would be. Ross had to have vision. Like any filmmaker. Any artist." www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...
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Column | How his basketball past shaped RaMell Ross’s viewpoint in ‘Nickel Boys’
As a guard at Lake Braddock High and Georgetown University, RaMell Ross had to have vision. The same holds true for his career in film.
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
"Join my Polycrisis?"
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The Gulf of America. The American Abyss. The Gaping, Rapicious Maw of America.
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New York Mag Union @nymagunion.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
📣📣WE HAVE A DEAL!📣📣 Last week, @nymagunion.bsky.social reached a tentative agreement with New York Magazine and Vox Media. We could not be prouder of our members who made it clear they were ready to withhold their labor if Vox Media didn’t meet them with a fair contract.
WE HAVE A DEAL
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
"I got higher / I got fake"
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Really enjoyed this piece, which reminded me of a wonderful Cecil Taylor quote, on being unafraid to embrace his wide-ranging influences: “Everything I’ve lived, I am.”
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
This, by Becca Rothfield, is overall really good. Reminds me of something I once heard Adam Shatz say about feeling like an aestheticist among activists and an activist among aestheticists thepointmag.substack.com/p/on-the-old...
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On the Old Romantics
Issue 34’s letter from the editors
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Sure would be great to close a busy week with a fair deal on a new contract!
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Such an interesting conversation. One of the best tone glows I’ve read in a long time open.substack.com/pub/toneglow...
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Tone Glow 173: Caxtrinho
An interview with the Brazilian singer-songwriter about the influence of Candomblé on his music, his connection with the Vanguarda Paulista artists of the 1980s, and living as a Black man in Brazil
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I return to this 2018 Deadspin post every few months. The [tersely] in particular is perfect deadspin.com/malcolm-glad...
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This 2005 essay on Houston by the late, great Susan Alcorn is filled with incredible stuff like this, something out of Denis Johnson www.counterpunch.org/2005/12/17/t...
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
97% of @nymagunion.bsky.social members just signed a pledge to walk out of work if we don’t get a fair contract from @voxmedia.bsky.social. If you love @nymag.com and the work we do, sign our solidarity pledge to support us in the event of a walkout: nymagunion.org/reader-pledge
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Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
“This would be like losing our CBGB, an institution that gave birth to all this music style... In a few years from now, we’re gonna hear about this or that singer, or this or that musician who got their start at Terraza.” Read this piece and go support Terraza 7, one of NYC's finest venues!!!
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Wrote about one of my favorite places in New York, a cultural and political crucible of Jackson Heights that is now fighting for its life. Among others, I heard from countless musicians, Jessica Ramos, the former booker for ABC No Rio, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez www.grubstreet.com/article/terr...
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‘This Would Be Like Losing Our CBGB’
Terraza 7, a Jackson Heights institution, is in trouble. Supporters — including Jessica Ramos and AOC — say it must be saved.
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Gotta hand it to Nathan J. Robinson. Returning from being semi-canceled and his publication imploding by co-authoring a book with Chomsky (not dead yet!) is impressive fortitude www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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The Worlds of Noam Chomsky
If ordinary Americans know one critic of the American Empire, it’s almost certainly Chomsky.
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This attitude is a recipe for knee-jerk takes and many of the worst aspects of content churn
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I recognize not the point, but why was Jan 2020 more than twice as high as 2023 and 2024?
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This is pretty good, although I retain a lot of sympathy for what Chris Hayes is worried about www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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What if the Attention Crisis Is All a Distraction?
From the pianoforte to the smartphone, each wave of tech has sparked fears of brain rot. But the problem isn’t our ability to focus—it’s what we’re focussing on.
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
oh yeah...totally...and much like the Romantics, broadly susceptible to fascism thepointmag.com/politics/las...
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
last night was a movie fr (LOGISTICS, 2012)
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I support everyone in joining me in my long held position of being crank-level categorically against food delivery apps www.gq.com/story/quit-d...
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It’s Time to Quit DoorDash and Uber Eats
The writer P.E. Moskowitz didn’t believe in New Year’s resolutions—until they discovered what was on the other side of ordering in all the time.
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Nonfictionalized: How Publishers Learned to Keep Worrying and Love the Colon
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Hang on, we can't just move on from this... www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/d...
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
T.J. Clark stares into the abyss, and punches it in the face: “Not derision but tactics.”
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
"But let’s face it: Allegorically is the least interesting way to read anything. Nothing ruins a question like an answer; the world is weirder than that." www.vulture.com/2019/02/what...
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