Music obsessive, deeply engaged with an omnivorous array of sound. Keep up with it all at my Linktree. https://teapawt.org/t.co/kewr4QdmvQ (He/Him)
New York, NY
Joined December 2012
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It's been a wonderful year for recorded music. In the Best Of 2026 (So Far), find my favorite albums from January to June. Tell me what resonates! #bestof2026
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Amalthea, pianist and composer Sylvie Courvoisier's (@associationmu) latest album, debuts a dazzling new quartet with Patricia Brennan (@pfvibes), Thomas Morgan, and Dan Weiss—and gives us this week’s A Song For Friday. anearful.substack.com/p/a-so… #flumusicfriday
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Spend an hour at the 2026 Big Pop Show in North Carolina, filled with amazing performances by Pipe, Instrument, Parking, Lifeguard, Sleep Tight Tiger, and more! Note: Preorder the soundtrack on Bandcamp. Sure to be a defining live document of our era. youtu.be/2vdgnlpCxBY?is=c9v6…
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Here for it. Graphic Content Festival: Feldman & Brown at St. Michael’s on the UWS. Feature the always miraculous andPlay duo, and others, performing Christian Wolff, Steven Swartz, Morton Feldman, and Earl Brown. #livemusic
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Here for it. The @WFMU #RecordFair, aka CRATE DIGGER HEAVEN. Who knows if I’ll find anything? But last year I found an LP I’d been trying to find for years—and it was only $7.99! Wish me luck… #vinyl
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katie dey’s seventh album is an unfathomable masterpiece and includes this week’s A Song For Friday. Also: Sophie Buskin, Jess Kerber, Panamint, Twisted Teens, Dazy, Neil Rolnick, and Christopher Cerrone & Hub New Music. anearful.substack.com/p/a-so… #newmusicfriday
Here for it. Benefit concert for Sascha Melamed at [Untitled] Warehouse, featuring Autobahn, Anastasia Coope, and @musichorsegirl. The community is gathering! #livemusic
A stunning new single from Or Best Offer, one of NYC’s best bands, is this week’s A Song For Friday. Also: Sam Burton, Ambassador Parsley & The Lying Hearts Club, forestlike, Jeremiah Chiu, India Gailey & Leah Plave, and Matthew Aucoin. anearful.substack.com/p/a-so… #NewMusicFriday
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Prepare thyself! The Best Of 2025: Rock, Folk, Etc. includes 166 releases and features new reviews of Prewn, Lawn, Makeshift Art Bar, FACS, Cootie Catcher, Pets, Delivery, Kaput, Starling, Racing Mount Pleasant, Julie Beth Napolin, Tamino, and dodie. anearful.substack.com/p/best…
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Boyhood’s latest album, I’ll Dream InStead, includes DUI, this week’s A Song For Friday. Also: Maisy Owen, Water Damage, Dead Gowns, Dummy, Psych-O-Positive, Teilz, Jeffrey Silverstein, Marina Kifferstein, and Igor Levit. anearful.substack.com/p/a-so… #NewMusicFriday
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New Mattiel has arrived. 🔥🔥🔥You know what to do. Hint: it involves pressing “PLAY.”
My new single Heartbreak Heatwave is OUT NOW on all platforms. Watch the video on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=-rixvmNF…
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Here’s….GRACE! @gracejones for @Moncler may be just the thing that gets me to buy a new winter coat. moncler.com/en-us/re-icons-g…
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Here for it. You Can See Everything by @nathanfielder at @AMCTheatres Lincoln Square.
A Song For Friday: @. A stunning second album from Victoria Rose & Stone Filipczak. Also: Jimi Hendrix, Kill Alters, Bodega, Nina Stanley, V.V. Lightbody, Poiesis Quartet, Guy Barash & Cornelius Dufallo, and Clarissa Bitar. anearful.substack.com/p/a-so… #newmusicfriday
It's never too late to catch up with some of the best music of the 2020s!
Check out last week’s edition of The J-Card podcast to hear all about @AnEarful’s mixtape of underrated 2020s debut albums.
jcardpod.com/p/jeremy-shatan…
BEST OF 2025: JAZZ, LATIN & GLOBAL: Music from far-off realms and far-out imaginations speaks with incredible vitality on these 24 albums. Includes new reviews of Killdeer Trio, Ches Smith, Chicago Underground Duo, Untethered, and Le Diouck. anearful.substack.com/p/best… #bestof2025
Cameron Winter’s Live At Carnegie Hall, an intimate and epic live album and a musical gift from the Geese frontman, gives us this week's A Song For Friday. Also: David Crowell, more eaze, claire rousay, Beat Keller & Jorge Espinal, and Kee Avil. anearful.substack.com/p/a-so…
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And I had a great time chatting with the estimable @AlexeiShishkin on one of my favorite podcasts. I was especially excited to run down six debut albums from the 2020s that everyone should know about!
Had a great time chatting with Jeremy Shatan about working with Beastie Boys, photography, sharing music, six under-appreciated debut albums of the 2020s, and running the @AnEarful blog and podcast since 2009!
Listen / Watch: jcardpod.com/p/jeremy-shatan…
A Song For Friday: iiisa//isabel crespo pardo’s debut defines music on their own terms. Also: Clutter, Wishy, TV Buddha, Renata Kazhan, Emily A. Sprague, Conor Nelson, and Gabriel Cabezas & Alyssa Weinberg. anearful.substack.com/p/a-so…
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Here for it. @geese_band at @ForestHillsStdm. What have these guys been up to since the last time I saw them in 2023? Can anyone fill me in? 🤣🤣🤣#livemusic
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