Jack Denton
@jackwdenton.bsky.social
Epistemologist @ NYmag
Writing in NYmag, Pitchfork, Harpers, NPR Music, Rolling Stone, Noisey, FADER, Outline, Pacific Standard, Mother Jones, New York Times, etc.
Co-author of 3x3, an occasional music newsletter: https://threexthree.substack.com/
Writing in NYmag, Pitchfork, Harpers, NPR Music, Rolling Stone, Noisey, FADER, Outline, Pacific Standard, Mother Jones, New York Times, etc.
Co-author of 3x3, an occasional music newsletter: https://threexthree.substack.com/
Wrote about Ballard's psychopathic hymn to the shadow modernities of the everyday
threexthree.substack.com/p/out-with-a...
threexthree.substack.com/p/out-with-a...
July 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Wrote about Ballard's psychopathic hymn to the shadow modernities of the everyday
threexthree.substack.com/p/out-with-a...
threexthree.substack.com/p/out-with-a...
Reposted by Jack Denton
July 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I co-reported this piece with Adam Platt—and upped my medical anxiety—on how dangerously salty restaurant food is
Doctors have long warned about the risks of eating too much sodium. But in an era of Maximum Flavor, chefs say we crave it more than ever.
Is All This Salt Killing Us?
Doctors have long warned about the risks of eating too much sodium. But in an era of Maximum Flavor, chefs say we crave it more than ever.
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July 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I co-reported this piece with Adam Platt—and upped my medical anxiety—on how dangerously salty restaurant food is
Reposted by Jack Denton
I did a short little blog about Zohran, some amazing Scottish music, and being allowed to even consider the possibility of better horizons
threexthree.substack.com/p/smallpipes...
threexthree.substack.com/p/smallpipes...
Smallpipes, small hopes
Zohran and the permissions of Brìghde Chaimbeul's celtic rag
threexthree.substack.com
July 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I did a short little blog about Zohran, some amazing Scottish music, and being allowed to even consider the possibility of better horizons
threexthree.substack.com/p/smallpipes...
threexthree.substack.com/p/smallpipes...
I did a short little blog about Zohran, some amazing Scottish music, and being allowed to even consider the possibility of better horizons
threexthree.substack.com/p/smallpipes...
threexthree.substack.com/p/smallpipes...
Smallpipes, small hopes
Zohran and the permissions of Brìghde Chaimbeul's celtic rag
threexthree.substack.com
July 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I did a short little blog about Zohran, some amazing Scottish music, and being allowed to even consider the possibility of better horizons
threexthree.substack.com/p/smallpipes...
threexthree.substack.com/p/smallpipes...
Hard to think of a vocal performance from this century that conveys the feeling of desperation nearly as well as the first verse of Young Thug's "Harambe"
July 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Hard to think of a vocal performance from this century that conveys the feeling of desperation nearly as well as the first verse of Young Thug's "Harambe"
A few short reviews by me on the 'stack
threexthree.substack.com/p/the-perfec...
threexthree.substack.com/p/the-perfec...
The Perfection That Isn't
Vincenzo Latronico, Henry Threadgill's soundtrack to war, cryptic pedagogy with J. Hoberman
threexthree.substack.com
June 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
A few short reviews by me on the 'stack
threexthree.substack.com/p/the-perfec...
threexthree.substack.com/p/the-perfec...
Great day to run this one back. Salute
www.nts.live/shows/image-...
www.nts.live/shows/image-...
Image Search - Beach Boys Demos 10th April 2025
Playing Surf, Classic Rock. Themed mixes, hidden gems, bedroom demos, interviews and other odds and ends once a month.
Email: [email protected]
www.nts.live
June 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Great day to run this one back. Salute
www.nts.live/shows/image-...
www.nts.live/shows/image-...
April 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
the real freaks were the people listening to WFMU over the phone. forget AM sound quality, imagine how bad the audio probably sounded
jacobin.com/2025/04/wfmu...
jacobin.com/2025/04/wfmu...
April 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
the real freaks were the people listening to WFMU over the phone. forget AM sound quality, imagine how bad the audio probably sounded
jacobin.com/2025/04/wfmu...
jacobin.com/2025/04/wfmu...
One thing not based in reality? The Times' commitment to this completely made up definition of "based"
April 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
One thing not based in reality? The Times' commitment to this completely made up definition of "based"
the name for his new era just hit me: Bonhomie Iver
April 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
the name for his new era just hit me: Bonhomie Iver
call me old fashioned, but he’ll always be (Sandy) Puff Daddy to me
March 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
call me old fashioned, but he’ll always be (Sandy) Puff Daddy to me
Periodic reminder that quite possibly the best song ever recorded is available to be listened to at any time, and no one can stop you
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhQA...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhQA...
Magwaza
YouTube video by Johnny Dyani - Topic
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March 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Periodic reminder that quite possibly the best song ever recorded is available to be listened to at any time, and no one can stop you
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhQA...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhQA...
YHWH Nailgun album feels like 20 mins of a guy punching you and himself in the face. Electrifying
March 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
YHWH Nailgun album feels like 20 mins of a guy punching you and himself in the face. Electrifying
Reposted by Jack Denton
I went to the Bowery Ballroom to see a show and all I got was the news
www.vulture.com/article/jess...
www.vulture.com/article/jess...
Will the Revolution Start at a Jesse Welles Concert?
The folk singer bringing NPR liberals, Marxists, and Joe Rogan together.
www.vulture.com
February 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I went to the Bowery Ballroom to see a show and all I got was the news
www.vulture.com/article/jess...
www.vulture.com/article/jess...
I went to the Bowery Ballroom to see a show and all I got was the news
www.vulture.com/article/jess...
www.vulture.com/article/jess...
Will the Revolution Start at a Jesse Welles Concert?
The folk singer bringing NPR liberals, Marxists, and Joe Rogan together.
www.vulture.com
February 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I went to the Bowery Ballroom to see a show and all I got was the news
www.vulture.com/article/jess...
www.vulture.com/article/jess...
I'm feeling like a real Chicago-style chump getting so excited about commuting to work in sunny, 45 degree weather, but the ten polar vortexes this winter have broken me. Won't be eating any Italian beef though
February 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I'm feeling like a real Chicago-style chump getting so excited about commuting to work in sunny, 45 degree weather, but the ten polar vortexes this winter have broken me. Won't be eating any Italian beef though
really good wikipedia malapropism
February 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
really good wikipedia malapropism
Beautiful and impressively candid essay on family from @britinacheng.bsky.social in NYmag's My Week in NY newsletter today:
link.nymag.com/view/62056a3...
link.nymag.com/view/62056a3...
February 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Beautiful and impressively candid essay on family from @britinacheng.bsky.social in NYmag's My Week in NY newsletter today:
link.nymag.com/view/62056a3...
link.nymag.com/view/62056a3...
Really unique and moving film. The first scene is worth the price of admission alone
www.criterionchannel.com/the-image-yo...
www.criterionchannel.com/the-image-yo...
The Image You Missed - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Dónal Foreman • 2018 • Ireland Starring Arthur MacCaig An Irish filmmaker grapples with the legacy of his estranged father, the late American documentarian Arthur MacCaig, through MacCaig’s decades-spanning archive of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Drawing on over thirty years of ...
www.criterionchannel.com
February 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Really unique and moving film. The first scene is worth the price of admission alone
www.criterionchannel.com/the-image-yo...
www.criterionchannel.com/the-image-yo...
Perhaps Republicans will squander their power by being too cringe
February 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Perhaps Republicans will squander their power by being too cringe
The translator of On the Calculation of Volume outed herself as Scottish when she used "swither" at least twice in the second book.
Wild move by New Directions to let her smuggle that into the American edition, though I'm glad to learn the term
Wild move by New Directions to let her smuggle that into the American edition, though I'm glad to learn the term
February 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The translator of On the Calculation of Volume outed herself as Scottish when she used "swither" at least twice in the second book.
Wild move by New Directions to let her smuggle that into the American edition, though I'm glad to learn the term
Wild move by New Directions to let her smuggle that into the American edition, though I'm glad to learn the term
This is cracking me up:
"As a guard, Ross, 6-foot-6, had to survey the whole floor, had to sense what to do in a split second, had to anticipate where others would be. Ross had to have vision. Like any filmmaker. Any artist."
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...
"As a guard, Ross, 6-foot-6, had to survey the whole floor, had to sense what to do in a split second, had to anticipate where others would be. Ross had to have vision. Like any filmmaker. Any artist."
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...
Column | How his basketball past shaped RaMell Ross’s viewpoint in ‘Nickel Boys’
As a guard at Lake Braddock High and Georgetown University, RaMell Ross had to have vision. The same holds true for his career in film.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
This is cracking me up:
"As a guard, Ross, 6-foot-6, had to survey the whole floor, had to sense what to do in a split second, had to anticipate where others would be. Ross had to have vision. Like any filmmaker. Any artist."
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...
"As a guard, Ross, 6-foot-6, had to survey the whole floor, had to sense what to do in a split second, had to anticipate where others would be. Ross had to have vision. Like any filmmaker. Any artist."
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...