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Basement Business

Short-form writing about indie songwriting, new and old.

These cats are scared and feral: Better Oblivion Community Center’s “Dylan Thomas”

I wanna live at the Holiday Inn: Phoebe Bridgers’ “Smoke Signals”

Quiet as a rose’s sting: Big Thief’s “Shark Smile”

“Shark Smile” carves out a small slice two people’s shared life in the moments immediately before tragedy. It’s the first song I’m writing…

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I spend much of my life writing, but very rarely about music — the thing I tend to care most about. After a few years of slipping…

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