Mark Richardson
@markrichardson.bsky.social
rock and pop music critic, @wsj, freelance elsewhere • former EIC @pitchfork • markrichardson.org • markrichardson.substack.com
I stopped watching TV because this spot for a new movie might show up during a commercial break www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sup...
The Elephant Man 1980 TV trailer
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Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎@sleepingvillage.bsky.social · last wk.In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?
I’ve been writing a bit more for my newsletter, here’s my most recent one. Maybe consider subscribing? markrichardson.substack.com/p/breathing-...
Breathing Smog: Thoughts on Early Bill Callahan
This past weekend Julie and I saw Bill Callahan in Kingston, NY.
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one of those singles comps that’s sequenced perfectly and plays like an album
I interviewed @byroncoley.bsky.social about archiving Steve Albini's belongings, their lifelong friendship, trying to put a price point on someone's memories, and what our belongings reveal about us for @pitchfork.com
Digging Through Steve Albini’s Closet
Byron Coley, the former Forced Exposure journalist and longtime friend of Albini’s, talks about archiving his collection of belongings, unexpected finds he’s listing for sale, and what made the Shella...
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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?
should be a law that says this tune has to appear in every fall mix youtu.be/p0n9YEARMwg?...
I Can Smell The Leaves
YouTube video by The Olivia Tremor Control - Topic
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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...
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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Love this, from @markrichardson.bsky.social : “Was the revolution in sound I perceived happening entirely in my own mind?” open.substack.com/pub/markrich...
Revisiting a Half-Decade Ballot I Filed in 2004
Formative electronic dreams from the new millennium
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feeling good about the car armrest bin curation
I wrote a little newsletter about Brian Eno’s Thursday Afternoon open.substack.com/pub/markrich...
Forty Years of Thursday Afternoon
Brian Eno and the Power of Formats
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crazy good piece by @amyphillips.bsky.social about teenage rock’n’roll dreams and creating building the world you want to inhabit on the walls of your childhood bedroom defector.com/living-throu...
Living Through This, Again | Defector
The moment I had long dreaded finally arrived: the day I’d have to dismantle my childhood. I suppose I should consider myself lucky. It took 43 years to get here, to this spring day in 2025, standing ...
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Modest Mouse “Every Penny Fed Car” is a miracle youtu.be/97MhsQfwXAg?...
Every Penny Fed Car
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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
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?...
E. Texas Ave.
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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...
Beach House - Real Love
YouTube video by Sub Pop
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for the p4k Sunday review I wrote about Movietone’s magical The Blossom Filled Streets pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Movietone: The Blossom Filled Streets
Read Mark Richardson’s review of the album.
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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...
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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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?...
U Dance
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v. interesting interview w/ the guy who shot the Blood on the Tracks cover...
Ray Padgett@raypadgett.bsky.social · 2y agoBlood on the Tracks came out 50 years today! I spoke to Paul Till, who took the cover photo (no, it's not a painting). The 20yo college dropout had sent some live shots to the Dylan office on a whim. He'd found their address in the phone book.
this is how David Lynch described life after encountering transcendental meditation—probably the best sales pitch for a spiritual system I’ve ever heard
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?...
The Elephant Man 1980 TV trailer
YouTube video by robatsea2009
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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
great record, investigated her music after reading about her in @annkpowers.bsky.social Joni Mitchell book. this is often available cheap, worth picking up
