David Glickman
@sublimebombast.bsky.social
Freelance Music Writer. Stuff at Pitchfork, RA, CREEM, and Bandcamp. Former bookseller at McNally Jackson.
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Black Eyes: Hostile Design
Read David Glickman’s review of the album.
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Back in 2010, my friend Tom made me a mix CD with a slightly obscure @dischord.com band on it that I quickly became obsessed with. 15 years later Black Eyes have finally put out a new album and I got to review it for @pitchfork.com pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
New Sharp Pins album is great/Kai Slater being 3 for 3 this year in terms of albums is truly impressive sharppins.bandcamp.com/album/balloo...
Balloon Balloon Balloon, by Sharp Pins
21 track album
sharppins.bandcamp.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
New Sharp Pins album is great/Kai Slater being 3 for 3 this year in terms of albums is truly impressive sharppins.bandcamp.com/album/balloo...
Checked this out of morbid curiosity cuz this review is going around my corner of social media and I’m kind of aghast that it exists. Just some of the blandest, most uninteresting takes on early 2000s radio rock that was already some of the blandest music that existed! pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
After: After EP / After EP 2
Read Billie Bugara’s review of the EPs.
pitchfork.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Checked this out of morbid curiosity cuz this review is going around my corner of social media and I’m kind of aghast that it exists. Just some of the blandest, most uninteresting takes on early 2000s radio rock that was already some of the blandest music that existed! pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
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There is a fantastic mix of scrappy, rough and tumble indie pop coming from the Midwest, and I got to write about one of my favorites, Good Flying Birds’ Talulah Tape for @pitchfork.com pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Good Flying Birds: Talulah’s Tape
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pitchfork.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
There is a fantastic mix of scrappy, rough and tumble indie pop coming from the Midwest, and I got to write about one of my favorites, Good Flying Birds’ Talulah Tape for @pitchfork.com pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
There is a fantastic mix of scrappy, rough and tumble indie pop coming from the Midwest, and I got to write about one of my favorites, Good Flying Birds’ Talulah Tape for @pitchfork.com pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Good Flying Birds: Talulah’s Tape
Read David Glickman’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
There is a fantastic mix of scrappy, rough and tumble indie pop coming from the Midwest, and I got to write about one of my favorites, Good Flying Birds’ Talulah Tape for @pitchfork.com pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Back in 2010, my friend Tom made me a mix CD with a slightly obscure @dischord.com band on it that I quickly became obsessed with. 15 years later Black Eyes have finally put out a new album and I got to review it for @pitchfork.com pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Black Eyes: Hostile Design
Read David Glickman’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Back in 2010, my friend Tom made me a mix CD with a slightly obscure @dischord.com band on it that I quickly became obsessed with. 15 years later Black Eyes have finally put out a new album and I got to review it for @pitchfork.com pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Help out the old VIBE staff if you can www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...
Donate to Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs, organized by Mya Abraham
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling S… Mya Abraham needs your support for Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs
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November 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Can’t wait to invalidate his legacy by electing the first socialist Muslim mayor of New York today
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died. He leaves behind a legacy of war, torture and impunity.
“The Dark Side”: Dick Cheney’s Legacy from Iraq Invasion to U.S. Torture Program
Dick Cheney, the former vice president and one of the key architects of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, died Monday at age 84. Cheney served six terms in Congress as Wyoming’s lone representative befo...
www.democracynow.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Can’t wait to invalidate his legacy by electing the first socialist Muslim mayor of New York today
Got to vote for Zohran today
November 2, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Got to vote for Zohran today
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Deerhunter come back we miss you
Deerhunter’s ‘Fading Frontier,’ one of the best albums of 2015, was released 10 years ago today
October 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Deerhunter come back we miss you
There’s a new Black Eyes album out for the first time in 21 years and I could not be happier blackeyes.bandcamp.com/album/hostil...
Hostile Design, by Black Eyes
6 track album
blackeyes.bandcamp.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
There’s a new Black Eyes album out for the first time in 21 years and I could not be happier blackeyes.bandcamp.com/album/hostil...
Life Without Buildings reissuing one of my favorite songs they ever made makes me very happy errolshotwax.bandcamp.com/album/love-t...
Love Trinity, by Life Without Buildings
1 track album
errolshotwax.bandcamp.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Life Without Buildings reissuing one of my favorite songs they ever made makes me very happy errolshotwax.bandcamp.com/album/love-t...
Packing up to move and I’m going to fight whoever let me buy this many books
October 1, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Packing up to move and I’m going to fight whoever let me buy this many books
One of the preeminent garage rock/DIY pop labels of our time. From the early albums of Mikal Cronin to their recent releases like The Tubs and En Attendant Ana, there was almost never a point I wasn’t excited about something they were releasing. A true loss for the indie world
The indispensable Chicago record label Trouble In Mind has shut down
Trouble In Mind Records Has Shut Down
How’s this for a Friday bad news dump: Trouble In Mind Records has ceased operations. The Chicago independent record label has been one of the brightest lights in underground rock over the past 16 yea...
www.stereogum.com
September 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
One of the preeminent garage rock/DIY pop labels of our time. From the early albums of Mikal Cronin to their recent releases like The Tubs and En Attendant Ana, there was almost never a point I wasn’t excited about something they were releasing. A true loss for the indie world
My friends in Crushed have put out one of the best debuts of the year, a stunning collection of internet soaked experimental pop that is as effortlessly cool as it is heartbreaking. Can’t recommend it enough crushedworldwide.bandcamp.com/album/no-scope
no scope, by crushed
12 track album
crushedworldwide.bandcamp.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
My friends in Crushed have put out one of the best debuts of the year, a stunning collection of internet soaked experimental pop that is as effortlessly cool as it is heartbreaking. Can’t recommend it enough crushedworldwide.bandcamp.com/album/no-scope
The new Beths album is one of the best indie pop albums of the year. Which I think is something people say about every album they put out, but something about their latest is hitting extra hard this time thebethsnz.bandcamp.com/album/straig...
Straight Line Was A Lie, by The Beths
10 track album
thebethsnz.bandcamp.com
September 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The new Beths album is one of the best indie pop albums of the year. Which I think is something people say about every album they put out, but something about their latest is hitting extra hard this time thebethsnz.bandcamp.com/album/straig...
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Reviewed the new Lathe of Heaven album for Pitchfork, a great mix of early Killing Joke, early Flock of Seagulls, and a whole bunch of apocalyptic vibes pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Lathe of Heaven: Aurora
Read David Glickman’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
September 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Reviewed the new Lathe of Heaven album for Pitchfork, a great mix of early Killing Joke, early Flock of Seagulls, and a whole bunch of apocalyptic vibes pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Saw someone refer to Grouper as "mommy" and I've never recoiled from something harder in my life
September 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Saw someone refer to Grouper as "mommy" and I've never recoiled from something harder in my life
Reviewed the new Lathe of Heaven album for Pitchfork, a great mix of early Killing Joke, early Flock of Seagulls, and a whole bunch of apocalyptic vibes pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Lathe of Heaven: Aurora
Read David Glickman’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
September 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Reviewed the new Lathe of Heaven album for Pitchfork, a great mix of early Killing Joke, early Flock of Seagulls, and a whole bunch of apocalyptic vibes pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Realizing too late that being a writer mostly just consists of googling synonyms
August 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Realizing too late that being a writer mostly just consists of googling synonyms
Reading Pynchon for the 1st time is so funny because there will be something like “we’re supporters of the Confederate general who fought the Russians in the SF Bay during the Civil War”, laugh, wonder what it’s making fun of, and find out that, no, that actually happened
August 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Reading Pynchon for the 1st time is so funny because there will be something like “we’re supporters of the Confederate general who fought the Russians in the SF Bay during the Civil War”, laugh, wonder what it’s making fun of, and find out that, no, that actually happened
Excellent interview about a whole chunk of dance music I know very little about (but am excited to explore). Also touches on how the punk/DIY zine underground set the templet for this type of thing which is a fun bit of cultural exchange
I interviewed Florida rave pioneer Peter Wohelski about TRiP Magazeen, a DIY zine from 1992-94 that covered UR, Aphex Twin, Mixmaster Morris, Laurent Garnier and so many more. Newly compiled, it's a time machine from a lost, pre-internet world.
futurismrestated.substack.com/p/fr-130-thi...
futurismrestated.substack.com/p/fr-130-thi...
FR 130: This ’90s Zine Lays Bare the Roots of U.S. Rave History
Peter Wohelski’s TRiP Magazeen is a lost snapshot of progressive electronic culture in its infancy
futurismrestated.substack.com
August 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Excellent interview about a whole chunk of dance music I know very little about (but am excited to explore). Also touches on how the punk/DIY zine underground set the templet for this type of thing which is a fun bit of cultural exchange
I have never felt like a bigger mark for a series of anniversary concerts in my life
Marking 30 years since their debut, Belle and Sebastian have announced North American & European two-night stints performing their first two albums, ‘Tigermilk’ and ‘If You’re Feeling Sinister’ in full.
Tickets on sale this Friday via belleandsebastian.com
#MatadorRevisionistHistory
Tickets on sale this Friday via belleandsebastian.com
#MatadorRevisionistHistory
August 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I have never felt like a bigger mark for a series of anniversary concerts in my life
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To be clear, what NOLA Councilmembers are proposing isn’t just facial recognition —they already have that.
They want to run facial rec *on everybody at all times* without warrant or suspicion of a crime.
This is without precedent in the US & and an almost unfathomable assault on the 4th Amendment.
They want to run facial rec *on everybody at all times* without warrant or suspicion of a crime.
This is without precedent in the US & and an almost unfathomable assault on the 4th Amendment.
![In using this surveillance network, NOPD has gone where virtually no other jurisdiction in this country has been willing to go. Since Tampa, Florida attempted a short-lived and much-criticized failed experiment in FRT surveillance over 20 years ago,+ there has been a strong national consensus that real-time facial recognition surveillance by the government must remain off limits. When the cities of Lakeland, Florida and Houlton, Maine recently installed small networks of FRT-enabled surveillance cameras, they quickly turned them off after coming under intense criticism. More than 20 jurisdictions across the country have banned most or all law enforcement or government use of facial recognition technology. Even in jurisdictions like Detroit and Miami that allow some uses of the technology to attempt to identify images of criminal suspects, binding policies unequivocally ban its use for real-time surveillance.' As a recent authoritative report by the National Academy of Sciences noted, using FRT to "scan[] passersby in public places for outstanding arrest warrants" is currently occurring only
"outside the United States" —that is, until NOPD's conduct became public.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:527au4rmz73xcdzttgywk3g5/bafkreicjs23xyazai3uwc2zyeb65pugq2hkll2ftynsfmdidhwp4oxu5rq@jpeg)
August 15, 2025 at 9:11 PM
To be clear, what NOLA Councilmembers are proposing isn’t just facial recognition —they already have that.
They want to run facial rec *on everybody at all times* without warrant or suspicion of a crime.
This is without precedent in the US & and an almost unfathomable assault on the 4th Amendment.
They want to run facial rec *on everybody at all times* without warrant or suspicion of a crime.
This is without precedent in the US & and an almost unfathomable assault on the 4th Amendment.
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I considered the Department of Homeland Security’s new white nationalist recruitment memes, in the context of the well-documented history of DHS downplaying and disregarding white nationalism and “domestic extremism.” As upsetting as these posts are, it also tracks.
DHS’s Neo-Nazi Memes Show the Agency for What It Is
From the beginning, the Department of Homeland Security has downplayed the threat of white nationalism while focusing its law enforcement power on groups it deems a threat to an imaginary ideal Americ...
newrepublic.com
August 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I considered the Department of Homeland Security’s new white nationalist recruitment memes, in the context of the well-documented history of DHS downplaying and disregarding white nationalism and “domestic extremism.” As upsetting as these posts are, it also tracks.
[email protected] uncovering and putting out two unreleased Frankie Knuckles mixes is truly incredible ra.co/podcast/1018
RA.1000 Frankie Knuckles ⟋ RA Podcast
ra.co
August 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
[email protected] uncovering and putting out two unreleased Frankie Knuckles mixes is truly incredible ra.co/podcast/1018