Recent Songs
Cam ScottLeft politics, creative music, punk rock and other changing fidelities
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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Moving Day
When I started this newsletter in the fall of 2022, I was fairly transparent about my goals. Rather than continue to pitch sluggish and non-paying journals, I wanted a place to test ideas and write more responsively. And if a generous core...
The Hard Stuff
Wayne Kramer, damn. There was wisdom in those fingertips—from Chicago blues to free jazz cosmism, surf shred to psychedelic soul, Kramer and the MC5 synthesized the hardest, freest music of their day into a strutting, sweating, and inciting...
Without Fear
Music criticism is a tricky thing; both constant and occasional, moving with a fast-replenishing facet of culture and always tailing the moment. As oddly, following music in writing means that many of our most-read authors leave no central...
A Fork In It
There aren’t many venues for serious music criticism left out there—or for any substantial writing about art at all. Most online coverage simply duplicates a label’s copy across platforms, or sorts a week’s releases into playlists, restatin...
The Work of Moving People
It’s almost impossible for me to imagine contemporary music without the presence and influence of Phill Niblock, whose glacial, unmetered drones carried the lessons of minimalism to submersive extremes for more than half a century. Whether...
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