Before we get into September, we wanted to let you know: if you enjoyed Mark Sinker’s A Hidden Landscape Once a Week, there’s more where that came from! Sinker has a Patreon, which helps him continue to cover “a field rich in feuds and disputes, fads and weirdness.” He and Hazel Southwell also have a podcast in which they discuss issues related to the book and writing about pop more generally, and Southwell has a separate Patreon to fund her independent motorsport journalism.
So: support writers! But even if you don’t have Patreon money at the ready, we have writing for you:
- Jonathan Bogart’s Just One Song More project covers the riches of recorded music from 1927.
- For The Young Folks, Leonel Manzanares de la Rosa has written a tribute to Celso Piña, the cumbia specialist who passed away on August 21st.
- Manzanares de la Rosa also has a new show on Dublin Digital Radio.
- For Resident Advisor, Joshua Minsoo Kim reviews Devour, the new record by Pharmakon: “That Devour is such a tiring album is a testament to its cohesiveness.”
- Claire Biddles interviewed Ezra Furman, talking about queerness, activism, and dread for The Line of Best Fit.
- Do you think about Taylor Swift thinking about cars a lot? Jonathan Bradley is with you, keeping “Infatuation, Freedom, and Fast Cars: Automobility and Taylor Swift” on Medium.
- Finally, for Rock & Roll Globe, Thomas Inskeep has written two roundups of the U.S. pop top 40 this week in August 1969: singles and albums.