Brownouts
Prometheus BrownCultural commentary, mostly via music and photography, from a weathered rapper/DJ who left social media before all y’all.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 40 | Founded | 6 years ago | Last Issue | 7 months ago |
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Happy 304th Day of The Year
Abyssinian Creole & I @ Clock Out Lounge, Oct. 24 2025 | 📷: Daniel Pak
Empire Way Vol. 1 Update
GT and I managed to get an almost-finished draft of the 8-songs that will comprise our forthcoming collaborative album, Empire Way Vol. 1,...
EMPIRE WAY VOL. 1 SOON COME
A Prometheus Brown + Gabriel Teodros album 18 years in the making
I Have a Weekly Radio Show Now
Thank you to everyone who has ever paid or still pays for this newsletter, especially during the drought, especially during hyperinflation and economic precarity, especially in an era of endless, shameless grift. In the spirit of transparen...
It's September Already
Pedestrians at Jackson St. and Empire Way (now Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.), 1961, Seattle Municipal Archives
Hello again, friends and fam, comrades and ex-comrades, co-conspirators and spectators, stalking-ass opps and algorithmic passe...
What I Listened To This Month (May 2025)
Catch my most recent radio shows on KEXP 90.3 FM (Seattle) / 92.7 FM (SF Bay Area) in the KEXP archive, which goes back two weeks.
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