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How I’d Fix Atlanta was a free monthly essay series for four years. It’s been a couple of print zines and a performance on a stage a few times. Quite often, it’s stickers. HIFA is large, it contains multitudes. Every September, we do a big fundraiser to abolish medical debt. From 2023-2025, we raised more than […]

This is beginning to hurt. This is beginning to be serious.

Random notes: • As a concert film, this is exhilarating and often thrilling. As a rockumentary, it feels pretty guarded and sanitized, as though the filmmakers were afraid to upset the Gallaghers by a...

For years, private equity firms have snatched up the catalogues of music's biggest names. Now they're after independent labels.

First Macklemore was dropped over Gaza. Then other artists walked. Ed Sheeran has largely stayed out of politics. Now, the empty stage is telling a different story.

Read Stuart Berman’s review of the album.

I wore my Slowdive shirt to the movie and then I wondered, is this how Slowdive feels when TikTok-brained Zoomers start showing up at their gigs? Is this how Vashti Bunyan feels when Devendra Banhart ...

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Read Mitch Therieau’s review of the album.

Read Zach Schonfeld’s review of the album.