Rock Vibes: on Charli and The Strokes
The Strokes and Charli XCX both have new indie rock records out in late summer 2026, and everybody including me wants to compare them. Sonically, Casablancas’ vocals gesture towards the heavily-AutoTuned style of Charli’s previous album brat, and Charli’s album…
Its Her Factory Radio July 26, 2026
Wet Leg – CPR (horsegiirL remix) Kerala Dust – White Noise Deep Sea Diver – Teardrop (Massive Attack cover) La Securite – Detour Radio 4 – Dance to the Underground Paul Westerberg – Dyslexic Heart The Soup Dragons – I’m…
Its Her Factory on Inhailer 7/19/26
Here’s the playlist for my radio show this week: Amilie Lens – Our Frequency Snooper – Recess Water From Your Eyes – Playing Classics Icona Pop – Dance to This Monobloc – City Boy Harsher – Jeans Til Tuesday –…
Its Her Factory Radio July 12 2026
Here’s the setlist for my Inhailer.com show yesterday. Channel Tres – Black Techno Guy Genesis Owusu – LIFE KEEPS GOING The Cure – A Forrest Dinosaur Jr. – Several Got Away Kim Gordon – DIRTY TECH Bush Tetras – Can’t…
Its Her Factory – On the Radio at Inhailer.com
I have a radio show every Sunday from 5p-7p Eastern on Inhailer.com. I’ve decided to publish my playlists here, both to keep track of my shows for my own records and to give y’all a sense of what I’m spinning…
Music/media labor is a new type of ‘reproductive labor’ in the era of finance capital and AI
In July 2026 the sports-leaning internet publication DEADSPIN published a how-to explaining the various ways one could use prediction markets to bet on music charts. “Events that you can trade on include Spotify and Billboard Hot #1 Songs, album sales,…
Good Vibes Only & Resilience and Melancholy Expanded Second Edition AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER
I have two books coming out in the next six months! First, GOOD VIBES ONLY: PHENOMENOLOGY & THE BIOPOLITICS OF ALGORITHMIC LEGITIMATION publishes November 17, but you can pre-order it now on the Duke UP website: https://www.dukeupress.edu/good-vibes-only. This book argues…
The 2026 Inhailer Indie 500
The 2026 Indie 500 was this past weekend, and it’s time for my analysis of the countdown. Perhaps it is unsurprising that a radio station broadcasting from the home of one America’s great historical independent record labels – King Records,…
The political onotology of ‘independence’ in popular music
I’m writing something about the ontology of “independence” in popular music, and if you’ve been reading this blog for any amount of time you know it’s where I make my first drafts of whatever I’m writing. So this is rough…
“Rock Music,” Anti-Poptimism, and Neoreactionary Masculine Resilience
May 7, 2026 Jacobin published a piece titled “Liberal Poptimists Tried to Kill Rock. They Failed” and “pop girlie” Charli XCX announced a new album and single titled “Rock Music.” Charli’s song takes the mocumentary tone of her recent A24…
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