Archive - AHB's Goodies

Eeriemysterious instrumentals

an introduction for new subscribers & some non-chill music sans vox

Oct 21

September 2024

Your Own Private Idaho

Music inspired by a visit to Sun Valley & Ketchum. An escape into the American frontier sensibility inhabiting these places. A book on Vladimir Putin's…

Sep 10

June 2024

Steve Albini started fires, 1962–2024

a culture hero who defined my 1990s (mostly) trolled with a heart of gold

Jun 4

April 2024

cosmic jazz lounge with beats & spirituals

music to elevate your soul...or perhaps annoy your spouse-slash-housemate

Apr 23

February 2024

♡ LOVE SONGS ♡

PLUS: An interview with a kid who appeared in The Smile's new video directed by contemporary auteur Paul Thomas Anderson. I also talk to the kid's mom.

Feb 13

Hello from Brassland

In 2001 I began a music label with two members of The National. Devoted to collaboration and community rather than a focus on making hits, some have…

Feb 2

January 2024

welcome to my mixtape delivery service

albums I spent a lot of time with in 2023 & why I do this Substack

Jan 16

in-between then woke up new

a gentle entrance to the year ahead

Jan 2

December 2023

A musician who tended this year's Rockefeller Center tree shares his fairytale of New York

Matt McGinley's journey from pop-punk to podcasts to accidental spruce farmer. Also: a perennial holiday mixtape and the death of Shane MacGowan.

Dec 20, 2023

atypical boogie & a holiday premonition

plus: André 3000's ambient flute LP leads me to revisit an earlier mixtape

Dec 12, 2023

September 2023

for today's active lifestyles (memory edition)

another mix for running, jumping, pumping, cycling and making the blood flow

Sep 26, 2023

for today's active lifestyles (Brassland edition)

a mix for running, jumping, pumping, cycling and making the blood flow

Sep 14, 2023

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