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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I’ve been writing a bit more for my newsletter, here’s my most recent one. Maybe consider subscribing? markrichardson.substack.com/p/breathing-...

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Breathing Smog: Thoughts on Early Bill Callahan

This past weekend Julie and I saw Bill Callahan in Kingston, NY.

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

one of those singles comps that’s sequenced perfectly and plays like an album

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

how about a movie where the “making of Keith Jarrett’s The Köln Concert” cinematic universe fuses with that of the “making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska?

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

should be a law that says this tune has to appear in every fall mix youtu.be/p0n9YEARMwg?...

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I Can Smell The Leaves

YouTube video by The Olivia Tremor Control - Topic

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Jeremy D. Larson @jeremydlarson.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Man, I remember hopping on the phone with Kaleb for this piece and thinking, "Oh you write almost exactly how you talk." He was so thoughtful & cared about his truth, his blue and funny vision of the world. Loved this piece, one of his many great accomplishments in life pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

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Johnny Cash: American Recordings

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we explore Johnny Cash’s 1994 comeback American Recordings.

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Marc Hogan @marchogan.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Love this, from @markrichardson.bsky.social : “Was the revolution in sound I perceived happening entirely in my own mind?” open.substack.com/pub/markrich...

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Revisiting a Half-Decade Ballot I Filed in 2004

Formative electronic dreams from the new millennium

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

feeling good about the car armrest bin curation

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I wrote a little newsletter about Brian Eno’s Thursday Afternoon open.substack.com/pub/markrich...

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Forty Years of Thursday Afternoon

Brian Eno and the Power of Formats

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

v. excited to read Jayson Greene’s new novel

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

if you have a friend named Paul a couple times a year you have to say to them “Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul, let’s have a ball”—they expect it

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

emo(ish) songs I like 1 - for aesthetic and demographic reasons I never much cared for emo, enjoy a few things but much actively repels me. Love this song tho youtu.be/BuOWtICv0tE?...

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E. Texas Ave.

YouTube video by The Promise Ring - Topic

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

my favorite Beach House song & when this comes up I tend to listen to it 3-4 times in a row. the vocal performance is pure guts, Legrand straining against limitations, would be an interesting song to cover, I think www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9wK...

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Beach House - Real Love

YouTube video by Sub Pop

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

stoked to read @jeremygordon.bsky.social’s new novel

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

for the p4k Sunday review I wrote about Movietone’s magical The Blossom Filled Streets pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

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Movietone: The Blossom Filled Streets

Read Mark Richardson’s review of the album.

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The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Eye and Ear Control: Watching Albert Ayler David Grundy watches recently unearthed footage of saxophonist Albert Ayler in concert from 1966. www.thewire.co.uk/video/eye-an...

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Eye and Ear Control: Watching Albert Ayler - The Wire

David Grundy watches recently unearthed footage of saxophonist Albert Ayler in concert from 1966

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

this improvised Keith Jarrett piece from his standards trio sounds like a tune from a lost Peanuts special, with Jack DeJohnette playing the lead instrument youtu.be/_FJQWN6ijio?...

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U Dance

YouTube video by Keith Jarrett - Topic

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

v. interesting interview w/ the guy who shot the Blood on the Tracks cover...

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

this is how David Lynch described life after encountering transcendental meditation—probably the best sales pitch for a spiritual system I’ve ever heard

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

remembering when The Elephant Man was in theaters and this spot was running on TV. the source of many nightmares and I’d have to leave the room when it came on youtu.be/2SupMFBxenw?...

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The Elephant Man 1980 TV trailer

YouTube video by robatsea2009

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

David Lynch taught me how to think about art that takes an unconventional shape—learning to trust your responses and intuition, starting with your emotional reaction and working outward. he steered away from “decoding” his work and encouraged people to move beyond “I don’t get it,” opened up so much

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

great record, investigated her music after reading about her in @annkpowers.bsky.social Joni Mitchell book. this is often available cheap, worth picking up

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

example of a song where the drum arrangement is an absolutely perfect fit for the song’s emotional meaning, framing every line just so—probably helps that the drummer wrote the lyrics youtu.be/ZiRuj2_czzw?...

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Rush - Limelight

YouTube video by RushVEVO

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

given his stature, it’s remarkable how cheap used copies of Bob Dylan’s albums are. easy to find an original pressing of, say, John Wesley Harding for less than $10. his music doesn’t fit easily into the “lifestyle vinyl” trend I guess.

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

was listening to this CD quietly early this morning, came out 25 years ago. this track made an enormous impression on me in 1999, one of those moments where you instantly love something and expend a great deal of energy to hear more like it www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdaR...

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Curd Duca - Touch

YouTube video by nUspIk

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

this came out 20 years ago in November, such were the vagaries of year-end voting I submitted it as my No. 1 track of 2005—holds up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3Bm...

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The MFA - The difference it makes (HQ Superpitcher Mix)

YouTube video by Yoshitatsu

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

the John Zorn->Taylor Swift connection

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

put my order in for Evan’s round-up w/ a bunch of great writers—more music writing that looks good on paper

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Andy Cush @cushac.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

if you've ever thought to yourself, gee, i wish there was a music publication where i could still read things like a searching and beautiful @markrichardson.bsky.social piece on Fennesz's latest album, i have good news for you www.hearingthings.co/fennesz-mosa...

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

weed is legal and a new Zeppelin documentary is premiering on 70-foot screens: this is the world I dreamed of when I was 19 youtu.be/ZUTLOltEOf8?...

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Becoming Led Zeppelin IMAX Exclusive | Official Trailer | Experience It In IMAX®

YouTube video by IMAX

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

makes me happy to see people remembering Olivia Tremor Control, even on such a sad occasion. there were periods where I wasn’t sure that would happen, seemed possible they’d be a “you had to be there” kinda thing, glad their music continues to be discovered

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

thinking about Olivia Tremor Control, RIP Will Cullen Hart

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

next few weeks reading and listening sorted

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

as a writer I go back and forth between thinking new ideas are always coming & it’s fine to throw them out there randomly vs. thinking they should be held close and nourished b/c their number is finite

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

a lovely late fall day in the Catskills

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

look for someone to make an enormous amount of money marketing bottled water with added fluoride. maybe call it “Smile”

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Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

love this potted history/analysis of tiny desk-style streaming video from @ericdharvey.bsky.social, and not just b/c we talked about it at length a few months ago ericdharvey.substack.com/p/last-month...