Sam Hockley-Smith

Writer and Editor

[willy 🌜💧 @willystaley]

At a glance, looks like a photo from a Thrasher event called, like, “Homies Only Slam Jam” at the Vans park in Milpitas.

[Sam Hockley-Smith @shockleysmith]

Feeling attacked by Song Sung Blue

[Sam Hockley-Smith @shockleysmith]

Twitter has decided it needs to show me Stranger Things fandom tweets even though I haven’t seen the show since the first season and the whole experience is revealing previously unseen dimensions of the parasocial

[Sam Hockley-Smith @shockleysmith]

Ah yes we’ve all been there. So frustrated with a new mayor that we take off our uniforms? And put them in boxes? And then leave them on the side of the road for some reason? A classic scenario.

[Krista Monroe @KristaMonroe]

And so it begins.

Right after Mamdani was sworn in on a quran at midnight, boxes of NYPD uniforms have been abandoned on the side of the road.

Good luck, NYC. 😬

[Sam Hockley-Smith @shockleysmith]

Fine I’ll reveal it then: she whispers “there’s a scene sort of like this in Lost in Translation (2003)”

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Cynthia Erivo tells Variety that she will never reveal what Glinda whispers to Elphaba at the end of ‘Wicked: For Good’:

“I’m never telling anyone. It is movie related, I suppose, what she said to me, but it’s also us related as well.”

🔗: https://t.co/yFm9ZIFdW9

[Sam Hockley-Smith @shockleysmith]

https://t.co/a001Y5cwBj

[Sam Hockley-Smith @shockleysmith]

Here it is: Twenty albums that changed the way I looked at the world this year, renewing my faith in music and humanity (lol) in the process

[Sam Hockley-Smith @shockleysmith]

@trayert When I was a kid they had one of these at the library near my house and to this day it is the most refreshing water I’ve ever had

[Sam Hockley-Smith @shockleysmith]

Back in the Pazz and Jop days, I'd always give equal points to my ten favorite albums. It was totally not in the spirit of the poll, but I couldn't figure out how, like, a Starlito album was supposed to be rated against a Tim Hecker album or whatever. They do different things!

[DREW DANIEL @DDDrewDaniel]

since it is music list season, I'm afraid I must tap the sign: here's why I hate ranking "favorite records" and think it's a bad thing to quantify aesthetics: https://t.co/iNvvV6Grx2

[Sam Hockley-Smith @shockleysmith]

https://t.co/x2KwvqUKwn

[Sam Hockley-Smith @shockleysmith]

POPSTAR IN DA BITS

[Sam Hockley-Smith @shockleysmith]

watched like 17 limp bizkit videos in a row yesterday and there's this one later period one where fred durst adlibs "damn you're so hot" multiple times in the chorus

[Sam Hockley-Smith @shockleysmith]

very very very sick

[Bill Orcutt @billorcutt]

New on Palilalia, Shane's Parish's latest "Autechre Guitar." Shane's been working on this one a LONG time. The first two singles are up, you can read Philip Sherburne's illuminating notes and preorder the gatefold 2LP and CD!

https://t.co/1rWcPjo3Ys

[Sam Hockley-Smith @shockleysmith]

what if it works though

[derek @brainedimage]

Electro-Harmonix just sent out this email

this company makes guitar pedals. their most famous one is called Big Muff

[Sam Hockley-Smith @shockleysmith]

wait this is amazing. beat of the year? https://t.co/2gcS5h9YDD

[Loraine James // Whatever The Weather @LoJamMusic]

This is hard

Young Eman - pop star in da bits

[wyatt williams @wyatt_williams]

really nice substack here from sam

[Sam Hockley-Smith @shockleysmith]

The Empire State Building is texting me

[Sam Hockley-Smith @shockleysmith]

a very enjoyable year end list that feels somehow more "true" to pitchfork than many from the past. feels exciting. interesting. worth thinking about.

[Mano @manobells]

tuck in https://t.co/HRbLf1EJ74

[Sam Hockley-Smith @shockleysmith]

The lists! they're good.