The Line of Best Fit
The Line of Best Fit, Matt Young, Cal Cashin, major thread*, Christian Wethered, Simon Harrison, Thomas Hannan, Laura DavidNew perspectives on music and pop culture
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Where do I begin with... Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers?
With a sound famously indebted to the patented 12-string Rickenbacker chime of Roger McGuinn of The Byrds, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers emerged from Gainesville, Florida in 1976 with a defiant sense of rock classicism. “It’s by the book”,...
The next chapter of the 2020s Great Slowcore Revival is about to be written
I’ve watched the great slowcore revival of the 2020s with great interest.
The last five years have seen a renewed love for the drowsiest rock bands of the 1990s and 2000s, while a wave of new artists is wearing their love of all things slo...
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Yours Sincerely, Haruomi Hosono
His genre-fluid work has touched multiple generations, from all walks of life, across the whole world. But, as the sun rises on a fresh project, as he releases his first solo album in seven years, Yours Si...
Where do I begin with... Sparks?
So the argument here is that Sparks are the greatest U.S. band of the last 50 years.
Yes, fine, you immediately recoil, a bunch of competing names spring to mind and you throw them before you can sift them. I guarantee those bands you are...
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Lonnie Gunn embraces the horror of it all
“Every dirty thing is pretty. Every pretty thing is dirty,” Lonnie Gunn says when describing the beauty of seeing mould up close. What is commonly seen as an ugly fungal nuisance can resemble ice...
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The leading voice in new music discovery: New perspectives on pop culture from from the biggest independent music website in the world.
I write about music and culture. Fiction and non-fiction. (He/Him) F I N I T U M : A novella - Out Now
Avant-rock post-critic and groove historian. Substack Editor at BEST FIT, mercurial freelancer in a number of other places.
A series of interviews and musings on identity. Get to know the people you thought you already knew.
songs, poems, and sometimes reviews
Simon is a former journalist from back-in-the-day and now, apparently, a current journalist from over-the-hill
Thomas Hannan is occasionally the singer and guitarist in a Prince and Bruce Springsteen covers band.
ok so have you heard of...
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