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Hello and welcome to REPLY ALT, the only/best email newsletter about music. Sorry I haven’t updated in a few days. I’ve been busy stockpiling a few audio interviews for your listening displeasure. I have a freakin delightful interview running in a few days with the musician who made my favorite album of the summer, a super secret project that you perhaps caught me ominously tweeting about the othe...

Hey there and welcome to a fresh edition of REPLY ALT, music’s only email newsletter. Occasionally I like to mess around with the podcast feature of this newsletter by going to someone’s house and rummaging through their personal belongings while interviewing* them for an hour. (* = aimlessly shooting the shit because I refuse to prepare questions or topics or do anything that might make me seem l...

Subscribe to REPLY ALT! It’s free! Unless you want to pay for it! Then you can pay! The last time I tried out the podcast feature on my newsletter, I visited the home of Chris Farren to record a casual chat about his new album, Born Hot . So it seemed fitting that for the second edition I visit the home of his co-conspirator Jenny Owen Youngs. I’m guessing most of the people who have followed my m...

In today’s edition of I’d Like to Tell You About My Friends, I’d like to tell you about my friend Christopher “Chris” Farren. Perhaps you know Chris from his past work in the band Fake Problems or his current work in the Jeff Rosenstock buddy project Antarctigo Vespucci. Or maybe you know him from the internet, where he has carved out his own little universe around himself. Or maybe you don’t know...