Beta’s Substack

newsletter for ambient and experimental music

An interdisciplinary interrogation of the cultural, political, and social forces shaping our contemporary society aka. "Jeremy Gordon's blog."

Sound, Art, Vegetables

Shfl is a random sampler of music recommendations. New recommendations added to the site, new features, and miscellanea are announced here.

How the police and the media distract us from what matters.

Explaining the weird new future and recommending weird old books

Music past, future and now—often electronic, but not always.

Music criticism, mostly on jazz.

News and views about new music – contemporary composition, creative music & improvisation, electronic and electroacoustic work, and idioms for which no clever genre name has yet been coined – on stage and on recordings.

A newsletter about electronic and experimental music.

music producer nick sylvester's weekly inquiry into the things that make us say 'what?' then 'wow'. published weekly, sometimes more. sometimes less!

I have been writing about New York City restaurants since the 1990s, and specialize in inexpensive eats.

Weekly music playlists by curators. "Everyone understands the importance of skirting the algorithm, but few know how to accomplish it. Herb Sundays is beautiful in both simplicity and execution" - Philip Sherburne

Musings and interviews on music from Berlin and abroad

the modern love child of our zine & our blog

Transmitting weekly from the frontlines of audio culture. In each issue I'll pluck one sound from the news, culture or daily life, and debrief on why it's important for your clients, brands, and how we listen now.

Polari is an underground gay slang from the 1960s, which I speak poorly. Find this and other musings from me, documentary filmmaker Matt Wolf.