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In 2019 I sent a letter to Chris Rowley, onetime member of Huggy Bear, to tell him how much I loved his band. Along with the other members of Huggy Bear, Chris sort of disappeared from public life after the band broke up in 1994. A friend had mentioned that Chris runs youth programming at…

I founded JABS in 2018 when I was laid off from my job in Los Angeles. Releases include LPs by David Wojnarowicz + Ben Neill, Black Dice, The Scissor Girls, Open Mike Knight, and Adulkt Life; EPs by Brontez Purnell + Jason Kendig, Modessa, The Younger Lovers, Skingraft, and Petty Crime; and the publications ‘Your…

(selected) “No 12” Left Unturned: Jaymz Bedford and Michael Riesman” published Jan 2026 in Sound Collector Audio Review #8 [print only] “The Process” included in the book Georg Gatsas: The Process, published 2025 by light-years [print only] “ADD TO CART” published May 2025 in F Magazine Issue 13: Objectivity [print only] “Interview: Brice Nice of…

As curator for Know Wave from 2018 – 2023, I was responsible for programming, direction, and execution of online and in-person projects. Created six multimedia online oral histories: “Black Monument Ensemble” (2023); “Top Stories” (2021); “Katey Red” (2020); “Black Dice” (2019); “Brontez Purnell” (2019); and “David Wojnarowicz + Ben Neill” (2018). Organized three exhibitions: Sue…

Blind Date Party is a recording project by Bill Callahan and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy made during the summer and fall of 2020. In the booklet accompanying the records, Callahan explained that the idea was borne out of the early days of the pandemic: the sense of aimlessness, of missing routine, and crucially, of understanding everyone…

Fix the Mirrors compiles music writing from 2000 – 2018. Includes thoughts about Meltdown, Unrest, Shirley Collins, MF Grimm, and Ink & Dagger. There’s a whole section on Fred Thomas and a thing about Charles Gayle I wrote when I was profoundly sad. There’s a lot! 228 pages, perfect bound, black + white with hand-stamped…

Split chapbook with Jae Yeun Choi published by F Magazine in 2022. Jae and I met in 2000, working together at a record store in Portland, Oregon. Upon receiving the invitation to share this chapbook together, we spoke regularly about shared themes and starting points (Pleasure Principle by Gary Numan). I ended up writing about…

The Bowery Artist Tribute was initiated by the New Museum in 2007, in conjunction with the Museum’s new building at 235 Bowery. The foundation of the project was a series of interviews: 74 artists, curators, and assistants were spoke in depth about their relationship to the Bowery. These interviews were shared in part through public…

Zines all the time! Some recent ones include Like Gold and Faceted: The Story of Earth 2 Special Low Quantity Version, Blatzine, Three Interviews with Weirdo Dave, and Birthday Book. Some old ones I’m still really proud of are Vampire Rules, Somehow That Really Impressed Me, and Does It Make You More A Kid If…