In order to purchase Yo La Tengo Hanukkah tickets, you should be required to submit notarized reference letters from two (2) friends and one (1) minor indie-rock blogger attesting that you are not a scalper.
Zach Schonfeld
@zachschonfeld.bsky.social
Freelance writer and editor. Contributor to Pitchfork, Paste, Vulture, The Guardian, etc. Author of two books. Still sitting in a room. Email: zschonfeld@gmail.com.
The New Yorker style guide be like "Tony, which reënacts Anthony Bourdain's early career, is a bio-pic set in the nineteen-seventies, when teen-agers listened to Motörhead and Blue Öyster Cult."
mother earth is pragnent for the third time, because y’all have formed babby
Album bios are always like, "She wrote these songs while navigating a miserable, toxic relationship. Thankfully, she's now in a much healthier relationship with fellow Doofus Records signee Nutty Holly."
To my mind, Cheekface has emerged as one of the most distinctive and hard-working bands of the '20s. For Pitchfork, I wrote about the new kings of dorky talk-singing, "America's Local Band," Cheekface:
Cheekface: Podium
Read Zach Schonfeld’s review of the album.
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Really loved The Odyssey but it bugs me a little how they felt the need to change the language for modern audiences
Listening to that weird album where the Beastie Boys hit middle age and started rhyming about 9/11 and gun control
You know your career in public service is going well when you have to put out a video statement to your constituents that includes the sentence "Every one of these messages is time-stamped on our court-sanctioned co-parenting app."
You guys ever see Iceage play in a random Ukrainian restaurant in the East Village
Dirty Love is number one, you'll have to come back to me for a full list
Zach Schonfeld@zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 6d agoPeople are always like, "If I had a billion dollars, I'd log off and never post again!" But that's not true. You'd get bored of your money in six months and log back on like, "Here's my ranking of every Frank Zappa song that mentions poodles."
i need to Eternal Sunshine the part of my brain that remembers the Dead Kennedys twitter account personally thanking mitt romney for being part of the resistance
People are always like, "If I had a billion dollars, I'd log off and never post again!" But that's not true. You'd get bored of your money in six months and log back on like, "Here's my ranking of every Frank Zappa song that mentions poodles."
Why does my dog-nephew look like he's disappointed that his autofiction novel didn't make Obama's summer reading list
Given how many liberties Christopher Nolan took, I'm surprised Homer's estate gave him the rights to The Odyssey. Then again, Homer's kids are probably making a ton of money from this.
The siren song should’ve been the first new Joanna Newsom song in more than a decade. That’s what it would’ve been for me at least.
It's lonely to be one of the 17 Americans who love Manic Street Preachers, but I perservere.
Tom Ewing@tomewing.bsky.social · last wk.Don't think there's a UK band which inspires such a variety of opinions among Brits and such uniformity of opinions among Americans (mostly 'shrug') as the Manic Street Preachers
David Cronenberg was 83 when he guested on a Charli XCX album, which is sort of like if George Cukor appeared on a Cyndi Lauper album in 1983.
Post a perfect '90s album that isn't 4 Non Blondes, Crash Test Dummies, Deadeye Dick, The Hippos, Lou Bega, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Green Jellÿ, Sir Mix-a-Lot, Sprung Monkey, Willi One Blood, Days of the New, Gerardo, or Eiffel 65.
My grandmother pronounced it with a hard G. While we lived there.
Zach Schonfeld@zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 2w agoI like the way Buscemi says "Welcome to Los Angeles, Mr. Fink" with a hard G
In order to one-up this Charli XCX album, Taylor Swift must hire Trent Reznor to produce a nihilistic post-industrial album about how marriage is a noose.
Film Critic Spends First Three Paragraphs of "The Odyssey" Review Making Sure Readers Know He's Read "The Odyssey"
recall reading quite a few 1981 newspaper articles about the Stones touring which acted as if they were geriatrics. "Can they still 'Start Us Up'"? they were in their late 30s!!
Charli XCX made an early-2000s dance-punk album. Charli stans are getting into Liars and debating whether The Rapture really was the best album of 2003. They're making pilgrimages to Glasslands and bidding on rare DFA compilations.
This is my _Back To The Future_. I do not care what results.
Zach Schonfeld@zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 2w agoFor my community service project, I'm time-traveling back to 1983 and letting everybody know that snare drums don't have to sound like that.
For my community service project, I'm time-traveling back to 1983 and letting everybody know that snare drums don't have to sound like that.
Want to recommend this beautiful and tender memoir by Matthew Schnipper. Chronicles the aftermath of a child's death with rigorous honesty, disarming humor, and lots of music-obsessiveness. Will be thinking about it for a while.
Festivalgoers are worried about Beck after the singer repeatedly calls himself a loser in rambling performance
Ween is going all in on promoting this 12 Golden Country Greats reissue, which is nice, but I really wish they'd start playing live again.
Every time a new Christopher Nolan or PTA movie comes out, AMC Lincoln Square becomes both the hottest club in Manhattan and, I imagine, the most nightmarish movie theater to work at.