Welcome to The Weekender, where I gather up the records, movies, shows, books, and assorted rabbitholes I think are worth highlighting.
It’s my birthday this weekend! To celebrate, the music gods have dropped an absurd amount of good stuff today.
The Weekender drops every Friday exclusively for paid subscribers, and since I’m turning 38, I’m running a little 38 Special: this weekend only, an annual subscription is $38 instead of the usual $50.
That gets you a new Weekender every Friday for less than 75 cents an issue, plus full access to the archive and $10 to spend in the Gift Shop. If you’ve been thinking about upgrading, this is the weekend to do it.
And there’s a lot waiting for you in this one:
The Listening Room
my favorite record from a stupidly stacked release day
a long-awaited collaboration that somehow lives up to the hype
the wildest remix project I’ve heard all year
a forgotten 2000s record finally gets reissued. RIYL: Air, Röyksopp, Zero 7
an ’80s dance funk record I somehow missed until this week
The Screening Room
a video essay with some genuinely surreal timing
my favorite Tim Curry performance enters The Wax Museum Film Canon
a movie Hollywood tried very hard to make disappear
The Reading Room
the life story behind one of jazz’s most fascinating characters and catalogs
the book I’m finally pulling off my shelf for a Fall read-along
Thanks for supporting human curation. Your subscription gives me an excuse to spend an unreasonable amount of time digging through records, movies, books, interviews, essays, and assorted corners of the internet so you don’t have to.
Now let’s jump in.
