Summer Reading: Robyn Hitchcock, 2 Tone Records & a 6+ Hour New Music Playlist.
Take a break from the newscycle with this cheatsheet: great new books, Substacks, magazine clippings & 100 new songs.
It’s August in North America, and I’m trying to chill. To help y’all do that, and to thank you for joining me on this new venture, I’ve done two things:
1) I expanded the summer jams (“jellies”) playlist streams from two weeks back, and dropped the paywall for free subscribers. Feel free to share it with friends, and if you like, let me know in comments what summer bangers and bumpers are floating your boat.
2) I assembled a reading list of things giving me pleasure lately. We gotta grab that summer feeling while we can.
There are musicians who shut up and play, and those who don’t — including many I’m drawn to for that very reason. Robyn Hitchcock’s a master singer-songwriter surrealist
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