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zacharylipez.bsky.social
Editor at large for Creem Magazine. I am in a couple bands with people who are in other, more successful, bands. Like your mom, I have a newsletter.
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Most recent sohoradio show up on Mixcloud. Yeah New York, Yeah Mamdani episode, with NYC hits by Elucid, Supertouch, Mobb Deep, WFYE, Savak, Zohra, Bambara, New Kingdom, Nona Hendryx etc. Also there was a latency in headphones so I talk super weird. www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/ab...

If you’re on the market for some groovy, occasionally mellow side of Uriah Heep, rock music… swell new Electric Citizen is out today. heavypsychsoundsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/electr...

Listen to this thing. It's the best sounding bassline we've ever released. ryecoalition.bandcamp.com/album/paid-i...

Tonight! 7-9 ET on Soho Radio we got a special YEAH NEW YORK YEAH ZOHRAN episode! Lots of classic nyc artists! Lots of me speaking in an unnaturally high/disconcerting tone of enthusiasm! And nothing but the hottest post-punk hits! (Also some Mobb Deep) sohoradio.com/schedule/

I interviewed INFINITY KNIVES & BRIAN ENNALS for CABBAGES. They held nothing back. www.cabbageshiphop.com/infinity-kni...

A couple years ago, I converted to Islam and married a woman named Zohra. No other music writer can claim to be that ahead of the curve. Subscribe to my newsletter. zacharylipez.ghost.io

the new one is like if the sickos image was a music video

SWIZ, GVSB

Slightly old-er interview with @zacharylipez.bsky.social in @washingtonpost.com in 2022. One of my faves on the book junket that year. cool photo by Romi Mori. Looks like i mainlined some liquid eyeliner! .https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/10/28/kid-congo-powers-memoir/

zohra.bandcamp.com/track/empire...

VERY EXCITED THAT NOURA MINT SEYMALI, ONE OF MY FAVORITE BANDS IN THE WORLD, HAVE A NEW SINGLE OUT NOW AND A NEW ALBUM COMING IN NOVEMBER!!!! noura-mint-seymali.bandcamp.com/track/gu-reh

i have made a terrible mistake

I do not care for people being “ahead of their time.” Oddly, I am ok with “your audience hasn’t been born yet.” See also: stuff like this.

Two dif friends sent me pictures of myself, one from 1999 (or 2000) and one from 2009 and I present them here so you can skip the middle 500 pages of Meet Me In The Bathroom.

Sly Stone inventing coldwave in 1969 youtu.be/6LAwBvm1Igs?...

Thank you @zacharylipez.bsky.social for cutting me to the core with this wonderful review and then making me smile after the procedure. Subscribe to Abundant Living if you know what’s good for you!

New newsletter, new record reviews of Languid, Savak, Sex Faces, Fugitive Bubble, The Austerity Program, Habak, Labrador, and Siyahkal!!!! zacharylipez.ghost.io/punk-metal-c...

New newsletter, new record reviews of Languid, Savak, Sex Faces, Fugitive Bubble, The Austerity Program, Habak, Labrador, and Siyahkal!!!! zacharylipez.ghost.io/punk-metal-c...

Happy to see that the author of the dumb GQ dad rock article is the same guy who gave my first band its first terrible review in the Village Voice. He wasn’t necessarily wrong then, but still I’m glad that he’s spiritually floundering. I’ll get all my enemies eventually. 😀

New Nadah el Shazly is out! And it’s a banger! (Profile in Summer issue of CREEM btw) nadahelshazly.bandcamp.com/album/laini-...

See the full music video for "Black Sand," the first single from our new album Animal Hospital, is now on YouTube. The album will be released August 29th, 2025 on @feltelabel.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3coo...

Sad update on Matthew Sweet's health; he's still with us but cannot sing or play instruments anymore. www.gofundme.com/f/support-ma...

Offering up some constructive sabotage-from-within suggestions to the band Refused as they equivocate towards doing what they planned on doing in the first place.

Once again dismayed and disgusted that a platform that once published my work and the writing of several talented music journos took it all down without warning... Good thing I have a website of my own where some of these pieces can live on in the archives. gary-suarez.squarespace.com/orphans

Every single person who follows me (even those who only follow me because they read the Bill Maher piece and assumed I’d post about politics instead of just posting aging hipster drivel about obscure post punk bands) will love this LP by Sex Faces. Buy it! sexfacesdc.bandcamp.com/album/sexfac...

I love @labrador-tunes.bsky.social so much. What wonderful, brilliant, generous folks. Please check out their incredible new album: labradortunes.bandcamp.com/album/my-ver...

my pal just sent me pics of when he and I were hired as weekend bartenders at the 2009 ATP upstate (not pictured: my jaw grinding from all the uppers that My Bloody Valentine requested be provided for the festival)

hell yeah Radiohead staying undefeated in the “greatest band in the world with nothing to say, ever, about anything” category www.instagram.com/share/_eHle5...

OUT TODAY!

Nobody told me that the new Robbie Williams/Tony Iommi song goes so hard (and is accompanied by the most laugh out loud funny video I’ve seen in years). youtu.be/YfAFBOECxw4?...

Neutrals are celebrating the first birthday of their brilliant album “New Town Dream" with this ace video for “That's Him On The Daft Stuff Again.” More NTD birthday surprises next week... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chjs... @neutrals.bsky.social @staticshockrecords.bsky.social

Hot Soho Radio show tonight, with tracks by Savak, billy woods, Perennial, Now, Rhys Langston, TV Smith, Prostitute, Death Valley Girls, BKO, Swamp Dogg, Use Knife, Bullshit Detector, Azar Swan, DJ Haram, Dirt Nasty, Elkotsh, Landlady, Kilynn Lunsford, Taleen Kali, Wombo + more!

The new book from @danielrachel.bsky.social, THIS AIN'T ROCK 'N' ROLL, is a meticulously researched and sensitively told history of pop music’s enduring and problematic fascination with fascism. Out this October, with an introduction from @billybragg.bsky.social geni.us/ThisAintRock...

Recommend checking out the new Marc Ribot. Lovely songs by the boho genius, produced by Ben Greenberg so it feels like Ribot is your conscience. marcribot.bandcamp.com/album/map-of...

We are currently just a few short of our target 2000 subscribers that'll help sustain The Quietus over the coming year. Will you edge us over the line by taking advantage of the huge discounts in our spring sale? thequietus.com/news/the-qui...

doonesbury annotations, 1972 thread had to look this one up, a NIxon scandal soon to be eclipsed by larger affairs www.nytimes.com/1973/12/16/a...

just got the Digital Doonesbury at like $20, so ... an occasional annotations thread where I either explain stuff or ask for help understanding stuff. this is the first one that I think is incomprehensible without period knowledge! "greetings" is how draft notices began

In case you were in the market for Richard Thompson and dude from The Stranglers doing a pretty fun cover of Tobacco Road. youtu.be/SLl1xva5Nc0?...

A DJ is opening for Prostitute tonight so I was going to skip getting there early guilt free, but then I looked dude up and first thing that comes up is Canary Mission denouncing him. I’m in a car going there now to support. Didn’t even stop to comb my hair.

Thank you, self promotion, for giving me something to post about other than the news today.

I wrote 5000+ words on that newsletter thing I've got. A couple thousand of them are about finding my way back to myself by attending concerts. A couple thousand others are reviews of new music, my thoughts on Paddington, Hollow Knight, and other things. Read & share if you're interested. Thank you!

Hear the rowdy new @perennialtheband.bsky.social song "Baby, Are You Abstract?" from their expanded edition of 'Art History'

I wrote about billy woods zacharylipez.ghost.io/extreme-cryp...

I wrote about billy woods zacharylipez.ghost.io/extreme-cryp...