pretty despondent that GQ is "folding in" #pitchfork. despite covering less-interesting-to-me music in recent years, i grieve for their mega-talented staff, the dismantling of one of the only fact-checking newsrooms in the music biz, the loss of an adventurous outlet (always assumed i'd return to writing there when i had the chance), the entwined failures of the #indie & mainstream #music ecosystems. their acquisition-to-self-gutting speed run feels like the cultural version of climate collapse.

peace to brooke delarco, who died earlier this week, a mindbending-to-me link in underground rock, the connection between the hampton grease band & yo la tengo. the sound engineer in early '70s atlanta for harold kelling's starving brain eaters, she moved to #nyc & became in-house engineer for CBGB, ork records, etc. & worked for many bands including the feelies (where she was replaced, eventually, by ira kaplan). https://www.punkglobe.com/brookedelarco0220.php