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Zachary Lipez
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Editor at large for Creem Magazine. I am in a couple bands with people who are in other, more successful, bands. Like your mom, I have a newsletter.
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As some here know, every year, on the week of her birthday and our anniversary, I write a poem for Zohra. (Been doing this for for 15 years and still can’t format worth a damn)
Reviewed the Sex Pistols album for CREEM (full review in current issue)
January 19, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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Budgie pays tribute to Kenny Morris in special piece for LTW louderthanwar.com/budgie-pays-... via @louderthanwar
Budgie pays tribute to Kenny Morris
Budgie pays tribute to Kenny Morris
louderthanwar.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:00 PM
As some here know, every year, on the week of her birthday and our anniversary, I write a poem for Zohra. (Been doing this for for 15 years and still can’t format worth a damn)
January 16, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Found out today that I played a benefit show with Das Racist and Japanther in 2010. (a lot of this time period is blurry. Just looked up photos from it on Nicky Digital, and I look like *hell*.)
January 13, 2026 at 6:59 PM
First soho radio show of 2026 is up on MixCloud. Zohra and I play the hottest tracks of the 20th/21st Century! Smash hits by Suede, Nothing People, Namir Blade, Postcards, Fishbone, Azar Swan, Chrome, Tomorrow Kings, Clint Ruin & Lydia Lunch, Henry’s Dress + more! www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/ab...
January 12, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Posting for accountability: newsletter of top 250 rock/rock-adjacent albums of last 25 years will be out by Jan 1st. zacharylipez.ghost.io
Abundant Living
Don't drag your orchestra into this thing
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December 28, 2025 at 2:27 AM
If you thought I believed some batshit stuff in 2024… fasten yr seatbelts!
December 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Alex CF from Fall of Efrafa/Morrow/1,000,000 other crustalicious bands has a new peace punk band and it’s fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun (till the pigs come around)! ancientlightspunx.bandcamp.com/album/reclam...
Reclamation, by Ancient Lights
13 track album
ancientlightspunx.bandcamp.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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I've heard maybe 5 of these tracks before, and none of them were among my favs on this show.

Exactly what I want from radio tbh.
Most recent @sohoradio show is now on Mixcloud if you’re on the market for two hours of the biggest smash hits of post-punk, occasionally interrupted by the wheezy and off-putting mutterings of an aging dilettante! Discover the stars of today… today! www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/ab...
December 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Most recent @sohoradio show is now on Mixcloud if you’re on the market for two hours of the biggest smash hits of post-punk, occasionally interrupted by the wheezy and off-putting mutterings of an aging dilettante! Discover the stars of today… today! www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/ab...
December 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
It was Zohra and mine’s wedding anniversary yesterday so we stayed up all night + started tracking what’s going to be our album of conspiracy ballads. Now I just need to convince her to keep Djinn Blossoms as our duo name and that the album should def be called “Murder Bananas.”
December 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Ah man I’ve been hoping that Fishbone would release their excellent Alice In Chains cover for purchase, and they have! fishbone.bandcamp.com/track/them-b...
Them Bones (Alice in Chains Cover), by Fishbone
track by Fishbone
fishbone.bandcamp.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Since I'm in the Baltics, we're pretty late with the whole Geese discourse. But seeing multiple Geese memes in the last few days (plus P.T.A. filming frontman's Carnagey Hall concert, for some reason), I went to my go-to music critic to find out what the deal is, and boy, it did not disappoint.
December 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Sorry to hear about Peter Greene. Besides the obvious Pulp Fiction stuff, his opening scene for Justified was a classic. Also, in my cosmology, we do apply extra credit for being a Beauty Bar regular, being generally “around,” and for being a good tipper.
December 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Dan Crenshaw’s bday will be deejayed by Steve Aoki. Second stage is Dim Mak showcase featuring performances by Lion Fever, Dance Disaster Movement, and Die Monitr Bats. (The “country music legends” is The Starvations 🙁)
December 13, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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love an End of The Year album ranking from Zach
December 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Zach always has the best lists…
…but now I gotta redo mine. Real monkeys paw shit
December 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Well, this is a tremendous list
December 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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We got some list’nin to do, amigos.
December 9, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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I look forward to reading two year end lists each year: @thequietus.com and Zach’s
December 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Oh my God this list talks about Surgery, I am all in.
December 9, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Saw Mdou Moctar mentioned, heard ten seconds of a song off Noura Mint Seymali's Yenbett then stopped it to prepare for a full listen. Lunch break is gonna rip. Can't wait to dive in to the rest of this later.
December 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Any year-end list with Milkweed and an L'Trimm reference is the list for me.

Psyched to dive-in later. Guessing I have approx. 37 new albums to check out this week.
December 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Never let it be said I haven’t earned my on-the-list-plus-ones. Here are 50 Albums of 2025! zacharylipez.ghost.io/playing-my-p...
Playing My Part In the Ecosystem: 50 (or so) Good Albums of 2025
Here are fifty (or so) albums that I liked very, very much this year. It is not every album that I liked very, very much this year. Not even close. But it is fifty of the 'em. Industry, you're welcome...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM