A San Francisco Ravedream
A chronicle of Bay Area nightlife, part of the "Writing on Raving" series, originally published in print.
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The music business is utterly enshittified. What's next?
Ruminations from the epicenter of Slopworld.
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Dripping 2025 reconfigured my festival calculus
Discomfort, acceptance, surprise, and exaltation in the woods of New Jersey.
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Silicon Valley Hates You
The Silicon Valley death drive is the resoundingly anti-human, anti-creative conceit at the root of generative AI development.
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Techno and the Chinese Century: 'The Last Year of Darkness' in review
This 2023 film about club culture and queer nightlife in Chengdu, China, is a compelling watch—and an eye-opening one.
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Longform: A Spectre is Haunting Electronic Music
Marx would surely have loved the club, but would have been aghast at the economic conditions therein.
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Longform: The New Industrial
Or why Dean Blunt might be the truest spiritual successor to Throbbing Gristle.
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Longform: Exiting the Vampire Algorithm
A defense of human-led music discovery in the digital age—with apologies to Mark Fisher.