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Eighty-Three Percent and a Lease
Read more . . . →Half of American renters are spending more than 30% of their income on housing. Not the broke ones. Double-shift nurses and warehouse workers pulling overtime in cities where a studio apartment costs more than a mortgage did twenty years ago. Twenty-two million households handing a third of every dollar to a landlord while the construction pipeline collapses and material costs climb 42% since 2020. Nobody in Washington treats this like an emergency because nobody in Washington rents. The median member of Congress is worth well over a million dollars. They own property. Rising home values are their retirement plan. They...
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onte - halcyon
Three plays in and I still can't tell if onte's halcyon is genuinely moving or just great at faking it. Either way, I'm on play four.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Charlotte de Witte and the Techno Takeover
Charlotte de Witte didn't water techno down to make it huge. She went harder. How KNTXT, a relentless kick and zero confetti took over festivals.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Standard Terms
Read more . . . →Gold records on the wall and the fine print on the floor below. A band of kids in leather jackets signing their first contract. It starts at the desk and does not stop at the desk, spilling off the edge, down the staircase, out the door, and presumably into the parking lot. The executive sits back with his hands together. He has read this document. Nobody with a skull tattoo and a first single reads the part about perpetuity. The gold records behind him belong to whoever signed the last scroll, and they are still hanging there, which is more...
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QZB & Duskee - Colder At The Peak
QZB and Duskee make drum and bass like they grew up on a mountain border, not a London estate. Colder At The Peak is icy and unusual.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Raphi - Keep It Movin'
Raphi chops a soul snippet over a four-on-the-floor kick on Keep It Movin'. Spent the first listen trying to place the sample. Disco house done right.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Ravekings & JSPH - Acid Fire
Ravekings and JSPH built a big room festival weapon called Acid Fire. It does exactly what the name says and your speakers will file a complaint.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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4K & Olivia Rose - letmego (VIP)
4K and Olivia Rose rough up a breathy one-word hook on this letmego VIP. A track that sighs its title this much shouldn't hit this hard, but it does.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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This Week on coldplaysucks: Oct 4 - Oct 11
Read more . . . →Sixty drops this week. House and drum and bass split the top of the pile between them, dubstep brought the heavy artillery, and somehow a pair of budget Bluetooth earbuds is sitting at number four on the monthly chart. I genuinely have no complaints. The Charts Isam Hadjih feat. Ormella - In My Dreams: holding the top for a 4th week, completely unmoved. Listen → TLM feat. Merely - Summer Jam: locked at two for 5 weeks running. Listen → Seven Lions & Kill The Noise - I Need: steady at three, 4 weeks and counting. Listen → Cheap Earbuds...
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Five Thousand Dollars and a Pinky Swear
Read more . . . →Trump is promising every adult American $5,000 if Republicans win the midterms. He calls it a “dividend.” From what? Tariff revenue the Supreme Court already gutted. The man is writing checks on a closed account and calling it generosity. The math alone should end the conversation. Two hundred seventy million adults times five thousand dollars is $1.35 trillion. The entire federal education budget is about $80 billion. He doesn’t have the money. Congress hasn’t authorized it. There is no application and no timeline. It is a number on a Truth Social post, and that’s all it will ever be. But...
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