Essays about music, memory, and culture, especially in a March Madness-style single-elimination bracket each March.
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Labor Day Flashback: Emily Costa on Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Cover Bands, and Connection
Thinking about money and art, about being a working, paid musician (or artist, or writer, etc. etc.), about what success looks like.
Happy Labor Day to y’all Xnessers. Thought we’d send a little flashback to an extracurricular by Emily Cos...
A Peek Behind the Scenes for Our Writers
Hey March Xness peeps, though we already have our first Xmas essay in (shout-out to Kathleen Rooney) and a couple extracurriculars also in hand (we’ll start running those later this month), just this morning we just sent out a note with som...
Kate Bernheimer on Joy Division vs Nicole Walker on PJ Harvey and Nick Cave
Mega Flashback to the OG March Sadness
We don’t revisit the original March Sadness tournament often. It took place a decade ago in what feels like a very different world. Way pre pandemic. Back when Twitter was fun. Wild times.
End of Summer Mix + a CD for our paying subscribers
Dear Xnessers,
As we occasionally mention, The Selection Committee makes mix CDs for our mostly local friends twice a year, usually in summer and at year’s end. Our End of Summer one just dropped, and if you’d like to give it a listen, her...
And Still I Think of You
A Backlist Banger: Scott Dickensheets on Dirty Vegas
It’s been a little bit since we sent you something from the backlist, so let’s bring back Scott Dickensheets on “Days Gone By” from March Danceness 00s Edition. It may have lost to Kate...
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THE tournament of music and memory on the internet. 2026 edition features SAD SONGS of the 1990s. Plays March 2026. Sign up for the lottery in July 25 if you want to write for next year's tournament! Details at marchxness.com
half of LISTLESS // girl on girl (rejection letters) // until it feels right (autofocus) // cnf editor (farewell transmission) // senior assistant flash editor (split lip mag) // getting dumber as I get older https://linktr.ee/emilylauracosta
Writer, maker, editor, other. Runs @tucsonessayclub, Essay Daily, DIAGRAM, The Memory Vending Machine, New Michigan Press, @marchxness, and Side Quests, among other projects.
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