Substacks recommended by Jeremy Shatan

Recommended by Jeremy Shatan

On Repeat Records

By Kevin

Ditch the algorithm. Music discovery made easy—curated by someone who remembers when a mixtape could change your life.

Nonfiction Living

By Karen Capucilli

My Adventures As An Amateur Anthropologist In And Out Of My Apartment

Wisdom and beauty in every post!

- Jeremy Shatan

By Ian Paul Sharp

LP: features, reviews and curated playlists informed by a lifetime of listening.

The Wax Museum

By Jared Smith

Crate digging through culture. 🎶 Vinyl discovery, curated mixtapes, new music, and physical media recs.

This newsletter has a great structure, with a balanced view of the music of today and that of the past. Always a great read!

- Jeremy Shatan

Recent and Decent

By Matt Bull

A celebration of recent and decent music. Playlists, reviews and other musical titbits.

A lively read and some great recommendations - what more could you want?

- Jeremy Shatan

Emily Sprague's Internet Brain

Connectedness to the music and art projects of Emily Sprague via here, the internet. Associated act: Florist.

No Expectations

By josh terry

A weekly music newsletter from Chicago-based writer Josh Terry. Anti-algorithm. Pro-independent artists.

Music Book Club

By Tamara Palmer

Community + magazine + future publisher of music books

Scott Hirsch Sound

By Echo Magic

Scott is a sound designer, mixer for film and video, musician, and a Grammy nominated audio engineer. Scott has released 4 solo full LPs and tours frequently. He operates the post-production and music studio collective Echo Magic.

Hum, Buzz, & Hiss

By Melted Form

Weekly new music recommendations with an emphasis on ambient music, plus creative reflections, artist interviews, and occasional music by me

A wonderful guide to ambient and adjacent sounds, with some beautiful writing, too!

- Jeremy Shatan

Deplatformable Newsletter

By Paul

Join our newsletter for Marketing Tips, Stackhacks, and Fun Curious Factoids! Not the worst way to spend a couple of minutes today. Seen more than half a million times.

Critical Conditions by Wayne Robins

Storytelling about rock pop music and culture through decades of interviews, reviews, and feature stories, shaken in a blender. Might be Steely Dan, Dylan, Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, boygenius. Might be Laura Nyro, Suzanne Vega, the Ramones.

New Directions In Music

By Marshall Bowden

If music is your best friend, always there for you, in the best times and the worst times, if you turn on some music to start your day, and if you brake for rainbows, this is the place where I explore and celebrate music and the people who create it.

Marshall's writing is always surprising, well-informed, and connected. I always learn something new, even if I was already familiar with what he's writing about!

- Jeremy Shatan

Dr. Murphy's Daily Dose

By Patrick Murphy

My personal Substack

GUNKYARD by GUNK

By gunkyard

nyc indie music show paper and online blog -- thegunkyard@gmail.com editors: ceci sturman & hannah pruzinsky ig: gunk.nyc

The Israel Nash Transmission

Broadcast from the Hills of TX, The Israel Nash Transmission is where sound, spirit, and creative thought converge. Notes, musings, and transmissions from Israel’s world.

The Discover Tab

By Dan Gorman

Helping you find something good to listen to.

Dan is a true original who brings unbridled enthusiasm to everything he writes about. Always a delight, even when he's falling down a death metal rabbit hole, haha.

- Jeremy Shatan

PalCinema, Television, & Music

By Dan Pal

Dan Pal writes about film, television, and music in addition to various memoirs. His Top Ten Memoir covers music from every year of his life and his Palangeau Park videos document with dedication and humor the progress of his gardening efforts.

Dan is just a cool guy with so many smart, emotionally connected things to say about movies, music, and people!

- Jeremy Shatan

False Azure Records

By Ryan MacEvoy McCullough

False Azure Records is an independent label emphasizing intimate explorations of new and lesser-known chamber music, art song, piano (and other keyboard) repertoire, electro-acoustic hallucinations, and field recording.

The Song's the Thing!

By 🅝🅘🅒 🅑🅡🅘🅢🅒🅞🅔🖋🎸🎵🎥🎙

TUNES. INSIGHTS. SHARED EXPERIENCE. THOUGHTS. CONVERSATIONS. Subscribe to go deep into: SONGWRITING & GUITARING 🖋🎸🎵🎥🎙

A lively addition to Substack's musical firmament!

- Jeremy Shatan

Sipsman | Communique

By Mike Caulo

Monthlyish updates on current projects from Mike Caulo 💌 mike@sipsman.com

Luscious Jackson’s Substack

By LUSCIOUS JACKSON's Substack

Thoughts, memories, and new projects. All posts exclusively written by the members of Luscious Jackson.

Why? It's Luscious Jackson, ferggoddsake!

- Jeremy Shatan

Night After Night

By Steve Smith

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.

Modulations - Electronic Music

By Nick Lewis

Exploring all aspects of electronic music, including Ableton and Bitwig, events, plugins, hardware, and everything related to creating beeps and beats with Modulations. Join us for the fun and games.

Thought Enthusiast

Thought Enthusiast is an AdHoc Project where we chat with fascinating thought leaders across various facets of music, tech, and culture whose work we admire, simply asking “what’s on your mind?” and “why do you care?” 💭

They curate their interviewees as well as they curate their music festivals!

- Jeremy Shatan

Hear Hear

By Adam Offitzer

Monthlyish music newsletter with playlists, songs, and artists worth listening to, across all genres.

Always a lively read and enough overlap with my taste that often find something new to love via Adam's recommendations.

- Jeremy Shatan

RVA Playlist

By Andrew Cothern

Music writer Andrew Cothern shares the songs and records he's currently obsessing over and his favorites from the Richmond, Virginia music scene. Plus, a personally curated playlist!

Sound Off

By Katy Henriksen

Sound Off explores creativity at the intersection of art, music, and literature, and digs into what that work and the people making it tell us about art and life in the 21st century.

Elana’s Substack

By Elana Low

My personal Substack

One of my favorite artists of recent years. Every song is a gem and she is a wonderful human and writer, too!

- Jeremy Shatan

The Run Out Grooves

By Mitchell

Sometimes, the last song says everything. Essays on the greatest (and not so great) album closers. How they’re made, what they mean, and why endings stick.

Largehearted Ledger

By David Gutowski

The Largehearted Boy weekly newsletter: books, music, & more

New Amsterdam Records

New Amsterdam Records is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit artists' services organization dedicated to supporting new music by composers and performers whose work transcends traditional and outdated genre distinctions.

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Recommended by Jeremy Shatan