Resource Roundup #73
For the week of April 7th.
Happy Friday Folks,
Yesterday it was 85 degrees and sunny, and today I don’t think it has stopped raining since I woke up. I write this to you from my dining table by the window, where I have the fireplace on next to me and the red lantern in my living room lit up overhead. Seasons change, and we change with it. Good.
We dropped a new podcast episode this week with Nashville-based musician Hubble Salgado, who makes funky folk music under the name Fresh Air 4. You can listen to that here:
We also have a few more tickets left for our special house show in Durham tomorrow with Live From the Nest and featuring the music of Alexander Robichaud, Scivic Rivers, and Dissimilar South. Get em while they’re left— this one’s going to be special.
I’ve been WAITING for this ONE! North Carolina band Wednesday dropped their new album today and it does not disappoint. I’ve told everyone for months how obsessed I am with Bull Believer, but I’ve had this song on repeat allllll morning.
See more about Wednesday in their Paste Magazine feature.
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Love this perspective on humans and the earth. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the popularity of takes such as “we are the virus” and how so much of apocalyptic media includes elements of eco-brutalism and the earth regenerating without humans, but I also think it’s important to ask: how can we co-exist? How can we help?
And within that idea of apocalypse vs. dystopia vs. utopia, this Frederic Jameson piece is one I’ve been citing a lot lately.
Came back to this Tracy K. Smith poem this week. So good.
I also came back to this story, “Ghosts” in The Believer. I think about this piece all the time. I still think AI is bad overall, but this piece is so beautiful it almost makes me reconsider.
Just a great week for music, truly. New Indigo de Souza as well.
An old piece but one I’ve enjoyed. By David Graeber in The Baffler, A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse.