Eric Harvey
@ericdharvey.com
prof ∙ critic ∙ music and media ∙ Hoosier in Michigan ∙ award-losing author of WHO GOT THE CAMERA?, which Rolling Stone called "approachably erudite" ∙ ericdharvey.com
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Eric Harvey
@ericdharvey.com
· Oct 27
hello friends, loved ones, and haters, I wrote a long piece about the last 25 or so years of "indie," inspired by @chrisdeville.bsky.social's fine new book
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Concrete Jungle
Practice Makes Perfect
Penitentiary Philosophy
It's No Game (Pt. 1)
Metronomic Underground
Practice Makes Perfect
Penitentiary Philosophy
It's No Game (Pt. 1)
Metronomic Underground
November 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Concrete Jungle
Practice Makes Perfect
Penitentiary Philosophy
It's No Game (Pt. 1)
Metronomic Underground
Practice Makes Perfect
Penitentiary Philosophy
It's No Game (Pt. 1)
Metronomic Underground
Soon after being booted from a Sly & the Family Stone tour (for upstaging the headliners), the Wailers recorded this heater for KSAN. An early document of the band's Americanization by Chris Blackwell (what Linton Kwezi Johnson called "international reggae"). Locked IN archive.org/details/BobM...
Bob Marley & Wailers Record Plant KSAN 1973 : KSAN : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
FM broadcast of Bob Marley & The Wailers from the Record Plant in Sausalito on 10/31/73. Broadcast on KSAN-FM San Francisco CA, introduction by Tom Donahue.
archive.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Soon after being booted from a Sly & the Family Stone tour (for upstaging the headliners), the Wailers recorded this heater for KSAN. An early document of the band's Americanization by Chris Blackwell (what Linton Kwezi Johnson called "international reggae"). Locked IN archive.org/details/BobM...
Reposted by Eric Harvey
For your holiday shopping consideration this Black Friday and beyond: SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS, my book about 21st century indie rock morphing into pop. Perfect for millennial dads, moms who shopped at American Apparel, Gen Z indie fans curious about the past...
Such Great Heights 9781250363381 - Macmillan
The definitive history of 21st century indie rock—from Iron & Wine and Death Cab for Cutie to Phoebe Bridgers and St. Vincent—and how the genre shift...
read.macmillan.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
For your holiday shopping consideration this Black Friday and beyond: SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS, my book about 21st century indie rock morphing into pop. Perfect for millennial dads, moms who shopped at American Apparel, Gen Z indie fans curious about the past...
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Terre Haute, Indiana native Harrison Whitaker
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Terre Haute, Indiana native Harrison Whitaker
just tried to multiply two two-digit numbers on paper and I won't tell you how poorly that went
November 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
just tried to multiply two two-digit numbers on paper and I won't tell you how poorly that went
every time I see this post I listen to the first Walkmen album again, that's my promise
Defector is once again hiring interns. This shit pays pretty well and can be done remotely. Send this to any promising youths you know: defector.com/would-you-li...
Would You Like To Be Defector’s Sixth-Ever Editorial Intern? | Defector
Big news: Defector is looking to hire editorial interns for the summer of 2026. Wow! That could be you! How could it be you? I am here to answer that question, and many more. What will a Defector inte...
defector.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
every time I see this post I listen to the first Walkmen album again, that's my promise
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Baltimore and Atlanta: I'm doing two more talks in 2025. Two cities that have been home, and I'm looking forward to both. Tues, 12/02 at the Enoch Pratt Central Library with Senator Emerita @jillpc.bsky.social + Thur, 12/04 at Auburn Ave Research Library with @jduffyrice.bsky.social. Come say hello!
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Baltimore and Atlanta: I'm doing two more talks in 2025. Two cities that have been home, and I'm looking forward to both. Tues, 12/02 at the Enoch Pratt Central Library with Senator Emerita @jillpc.bsky.social + Thur, 12/04 at Auburn Ave Research Library with @jduffyrice.bsky.social. Come say hello!
had a rogue eyebrow hair the other day that was pointing downward and was thus rendered visible in my periphery, it was like having a tiny stick caught under my windshield wiper all day long
one thing about aging is that you get more and more inexplicably long hairs - like, you all of a sudden just have one eyebrow hair that's two inches long
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
had a rogue eyebrow hair the other day that was pointing downward and was thus rendered visible in my periphery, it was like having a tiny stick caught under my windshield wiper all day long
that's how you do a lede
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
that's how you do a lede
Democracy Dries In Darkness
At this point, the Washpost edit page is just trolling its readers.
This is today's actual house editorial.
This is today's actual house editorial.
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Democracy Dries In Darkness
Andy Dalton looks like another quarterback’s evil twin
November 25, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Andy Dalton looks like another quarterback’s evil twin
Wailers, Skatalites, and Maytals weren't asked to represent Jamaica at the 1964 NYC World's Fair because they were too scarily Rasta. Jimmy Cliff performed the *very* Rasta "King of Kings" there, but bc it was the charming, effortlessly suave Cliff, it didn't matter
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez3Z...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez3Z...
King Of Kings
YouTube video by Jimmy Cliff - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Wailers, Skatalites, and Maytals weren't asked to represent Jamaica at the 1964 NYC World's Fair because they were too scarily Rasta. Jimmy Cliff performed the *very* Rasta "King of Kings" there, but bc it was the charming, effortlessly suave Cliff, it didn't matter
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez3Z...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez3Z...
seasonal reminder: take it easy on the pine-scented shit. A little goes a long way
November 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
seasonal reminder: take it easy on the pine-scented shit. A little goes a long way
This is a wild quote from an MTV exec (in the audience of a November 1981 panel about the lack of Black artists on MTV), illustrating MTV's programming diversity with two reggae artists, one who'd died six months earlier
November 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is a wild quote from an MTV exec (in the audience of a November 1981 panel about the lack of Black artists on MTV), illustrating MTV's programming diversity with two reggae artists, one who'd died six months earlier
the only ones I've ever seen (I bootlegged the first episode of Andor [it had Russian subtitles]); I get the appeal but I also have standards of quality and a grudge against character universes that require seeing multiple dumb movies to keep up with a story
There are two great SW movies (1 and 2 here) and one great show ("Andor"). The rest ranges from fun slop to awful slop.
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
the only ones I've ever seen (I bootlegged the first episode of Andor [it had Russian subtitles]); I get the appeal but I also have standards of quality and a grudge against character universes that require seeing multiple dumb movies to keep up with a story
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Goodbye Jimmy Cliff. His vocal in this 1976 SNL performance, good lord---one of the best singers of his generation, of any generation. vimeo.com/155135842
many rivers to cross
jimmy cliff on saturday night live, 1976.
vimeo.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Goodbye Jimmy Cliff. His vocal in this 1976 SNL performance, good lord---one of the best singers of his generation, of any generation. vimeo.com/155135842
again, "appointing the hottest attorney" proves to be a loser's bet
Lindsey Halligan, who brought the cases, is a former insurance attorney who once served as President Trump's personal lawyer before his return to office. n.pr/3LUfu9z
Judge tosses Comey, James cases after finding prosecutor unlawfully appointed
Lindsey Halligan, who brought the cases, is a former insurance attorney who once served as President Trump's personal lawyer before his return to office.
n.pr
November 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
again, "appointing the hottest attorney" proves to be a loser's bet
I find it heartening that there are two people who go by "Ken Pomeroy" doing two very different things with their very specific skills and each succeeding
The Oklahoma City singer-songwriter's tunes will break your heart, then mend it. n.pr/44a3QOb
Ken Pomeroy on her latest album, 'Cruel Joke'
The Oklahoma City singer-songwriter's tunes will break your heart, then mend it.
n.pr
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I find it heartening that there are two people who go by "Ken Pomeroy" doing two very different things with their very specific skills and each succeeding
RIP Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, aka H. Rap Brown, one of the most forceful, unforgiving, and charismatic voices of Black Power. "There's no such thing as 'second-class' citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant." www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JOZ...
Speech by H Rap Brown.Just as important today as it was yesterday.
YouTube video by Blackgorillafamily
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November 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
RIP Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, aka H. Rap Brown, one of the most forceful, unforgiving, and charismatic voices of Black Power. "There's no such thing as 'second-class' citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant." www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JOZ...
I stick with my claim about cultural lists: make them insane and argue for that insanity, or GTFO. This is watery coffee, trying to please all possible constituencies. And about half the list are movies that are "fun" but that don't "make people laugh at jokes" (which is what comedies do)
The movie listed at #1 is so incredibly misplaced that it calls into question the veracity of the entire list. It belongs on the list, yes, but SO MUCH further down. An absolute, credibility-wrecking flub. Boo, @variety.com! Boo!
variety.com/lists/best-c...
variety.com/lists/best-c...
The 100 Best Comedy Movies of All Time
Variety's list of the 100 best comedy movies of all time includes 'Annie Hall,' 'Pretty Woman,' 'Waiting for Guffman' and 'Young Frankenstein.'
variety.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I stick with my claim about cultural lists: make them insane and argue for that insanity, or GTFO. This is watery coffee, trying to please all possible constituencies. And about half the list are movies that are "fun" but that don't "make people laugh at jokes" (which is what comedies do)
