Slow Descent Into Radness

James has a quick wit, a formidable grasp on music, an expansive empathy, and a steady output — all on display in the pages of his 'stack. Weekly music recommendations alone (new + old) are worth the price of admission.

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Crackling music journalism delivered thrice-weekly by a trio of former editors at the vaunted, dearly-missed Q Magazine. These guys spend their work-weeks delivering prose to the world’s biggest still-extant publications, but somehow have decided to spend their free time creating this, their own hub of music discussion, with incisive reviews of important new releases and un-stuffy interviews with major stars of yesterday and today. Weirdos.

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Once a navigation star in the Substack firmament, this blog has lately gone fallow. Maybe if enough people sign up, Scott will return from his wanderings.

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One sign that society isn't, on balance, plummeting toward a boiling pool of tar is that on the internet right now you can read bi-weekly, just-harvested prose from George f#$%^&* Saunders.

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J.E.H.S. is a brain workout! Thrill to the inner workings of a fabulous mind, spilled forth like golden ooze from some ancient gourd, which on close examination proves to be positively writhing with intricacy (the ooze does; the gourd is too old for that)!

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Good, hard thinking about music, the music business, and other things entirely.

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