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the tourist centers in europe have really changed. it's one of the places you can feel europe's weakening from the richest bit of the world to....well still a bit which is a bit rich, but not head and shoulders above the rest of the planet. central milan underneath that glass walkway thing and...

in a town called....i can't remember....they had these street decorations which were exactly what they have in the little italy tourist hell. not a surprise. but these continuities between america and the old world live on - i guess the right metaphor is echoes. the world takes on a different...

just left yesterday. never been to turin. i was thinking about staying another day and banging down on the train but had to get back here for work

one conversation with a sicilian: 'i love america you have so much freedom'

one of the best countries. terrible music everywhere. all i heard anywhere is 80s rock and relentless cheese pounding 4x4 bass. such a strong relationship with america. italians going to america and the american tourist imagination italy. so much of the ancient sites have been twisted to the...

he's obviously 14

i'm glad he's starting making some good singalong tunes again

they were harbingers of the auto-everything moment that we're in, drake and kanye back in the early 00s. emotional storytelling. there's something different about how they started to narrative their lives as opposed to prior rap. it's closer to alt country singer-songwriters

pretty much exactly how i imagined you ❤️❤️❤️

i gave him my number and he literally texts me about this all the time - it's really intrusive

the bass riff from 7 nation army is the most widely replicated tune of the folk canon, it has a life totally divorced from the source, and is passed around orally

they are all gil related, it's the same vocal on each tune (except rihanna but she's very close to the source material). and canada will rightly be part of the US soon enough. it's a lot of covers within a short period. i didn't know the gil scott heron one was a cover itself. but would a...

a micro-trend of the late 2010s:

we are in a cataclysmic rupture right now, at least if you take the 60s as a benchmark. cultural production has shifted dramatically but we are looking in the wrong place if we're expecting the shock to come from music. we've got entirely new forms now, the idea of music being culturally...

the one marlon james i've got i never read coz it's hardback and too heavy for my hands, i keep dropping it on my head

one way of understanding all kinds of art in the 2010s is the adaptation to an audience of screen-people. everything that stuck was the stuff that catered to that altered state. in films especially you can see across the decade people struggling to keep the old ways alive and a sort of...

neon screams is a brilliant book. marked down several points coz he's mates with luka but the actual book i loved