Ryan Meehan

YellowParenti Politics Podcast · YellowParenti

RIP to michael parenti, many of whose impassioned, penetrating, often amusing lectures are collected on this stealth podcast channel podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...

Process of Time - The Wire To make sense of ongoing tech revolutions, a new generation of musicians is making music that metabolises electronic processes through analogue forms, argues Ryan Meehan

is there a metabolic turn in experimental rock? does it hold potential for a new aesthetic confrontation with the data regime? what my friends at @thewiremagazine.bsky.social indulged me to suggest is, maybe? www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

got to interview weir maybe a dozen times & he was always lovely. but he also spoke very slowly, with long thoughtful pauses that made me think we'd been disconnected, but i didn't want to be interupt. so once, when we actually did get disconnected mid-thought, it took me far too long to notice.

Process of Time - The Wire To make sense of ongoing tech revolutions, a new generation of musicians is making music that metabolises electronic processes through analogue forms, argues Ryan Meehan

To make sense of ongoing tech revolutions, a new generation of musicians is making music that metabolises electronic processes through analogue forms, argues Ryan Meehan

www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

A Girl is a Gun In 1966, in the throes of an uprising at the University of Strasbourg, a student named André Bertrand plastered the campus with a work of propaganda whose telltale clash of text and photo proclaimed t...

once you’ve been ejected from your fifth screening of marty supreme, make your way to metrograph this week for luc moullet’s cowboy psychogeography, A GIRL IS A GUN, which i wrote about for @screenslate.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/gir...

Chuck Kesey peers into microscope

Nancy's Honey Yogurt Presents the Grateful Dead, August 27th

more sad news from the merry prankster family: just heard that springfield creamery proprietor (& organic yogurt innovator) chuck kesey has departed, only a few months after his wife sue. we spoke with them both about the dead's infamous 1972 benefit a few years ago. www.dead.net/deadcast/sun...

NYC TO CUOMO: DROP DEAD

is there a source on the heroin story? never heard that one

godspeed donna jean

Nightmare of Infamy: Ed Wood’s Glandular Cinema On a new biography of cult cinema’s patron saint.

i greatly enjoyed thinking my way through @willsloanesq.bsky.social’s tender & amusing biography, ED WOOD: MADE IN HOLLYWOOD USA. read my blood-curdling (not festive) review over at MUBI’s Notebook: mubi.com/en/notebook/...

back at it in the World's Only Music Magazine with a feature on the delightful new record from Andy Boay (a.k.a. Andy from Tonstartssbandht), and a festival experience at Dripping in which all of my atoms were split. buy before you try...

Cory Hanson: I Love People Read Ryan Meehan’s review of the album.

Pairing Laurel Canyon splendor with a surreal perspective, the Wand frontman’s latest solo album offers wry portraits of the strange characters and bleak situations that populate modern life

Cory Hanson: I Love People Read Ryan Meehan’s review of the album.

cory hanson has made another jukebox of bouncy & beautiful tunes about our contemporary psychosis. i wrote about it for @pitchfork.com: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

On a new Willem de Kooning exhibition, by @cryinmeehan.bsky.social

thanks for reading & i definitely have more to learn about the topic. reading list growing all the time

Interesting Times A rapid response to Zohran Mamdani's momentous victory, and how the Left might prepare for the fight ahead

almost forgot to mention, zohran’s victory got me so hopped up i entered a fugue state and wrote my first substack about what challenges the future might hold open.substack.com/pub/eeeesspe...

i’ll take my expressionism: abstract, with a healthy cloud of suspicion thank you very much

andrew cuomo, leave new york city

what movie (now in theaters) deserves such scorn? you’re going to have to crack the latest @thewiremagazine.bsky.social to find out

or you can ask me personally. it’s really pretty obvious. but i’d prefer you buy the magazine & read the full review www.thewire.co.uk/issues/497

🙏 Ryan Meehan @cryinmeehan.bsky.social for this - if you still don't know anything about Michael Hurley, you can get started here, and it's not a long read. Dare I say: fans of @ivorcutler.bsky.social, or of our own @littlejohnnee.bsky.social, are in for a treat. Such a truly unique talent.

Stereolab : Instant Holograms on Metal Film : Aquarium Drunkard When it comes to Stereolab, the fact that nobody else can make music quite like them should be justification enough for their return. Instant Holograms on Metal Film is a record for the faithful: stat...

the latest from @stereolabgroop.bsky.social plays like a series of melancholy landscapes viewed from the window of a trans-europe express. i reviewed their enjoyable reunion record, Instant Holograms on Metal Film, for my friends at @aquariumdrunkard.com: aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/06/03/s...

Big Wednesday By 1978, the New Hollywood revolution was cooling into its brushed aluminum entertainment phase. For some of the so-called “Movie Brats,” this transition would cement their fortune, and leave others i...

those of you longing for a hot götterdämmerung summer should consider checking out john milius' ungainly surf epic BIG WEDNESDAY, screening at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social this very afternoon. wrote 'er up for my friends at @screenslate.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/big...

“An exercise in possibilities”: Ryan Meehan remembers Michael Hurley - The Wire Following Michael Hurley’s death on 1 April, Ryan Meehan tracks the outsider folk singer and cartoonist’s journeys across America and remembers the restless bohemian spirit that powered them

Following Michael Hurley’s death on 1 April, Ryan Meehan tracks the outsider folk singer and cartoonist’s journeys across America and remembers the restless bohemian spirit that powered them

thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/ryan-meehan-remembers-michael-hurley

1991: The Year Punk Broke In August 1991, in the throes of a tightening political and economic downward spiral, the KGB made one final attempt to save the Soviet Union. News of the infamous “dacha coup” reached Sonic Youth on ...

i wrote about nirvana, the soviet union, and the two meanings of "alternative" for @screenslate.bsky.social on the occasion of tonight's screening of dave markey's 1991: THE YEAR PUNK BROKE at @nitehawkcinema.bsky.social williamsburg: www.screenslate.com/articles/199...

surely nothing will go wrong with this one