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Andy Cush

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bass in Garcia Peoples, songs/essays as Domestic Drafts, contributing editor at Pitchfork, cohost of @LateEraPod and Welcome to Chicago, also a bartender
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Tom Waits Just Released the Most Withering Diss Track of the Year

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By Andy Cush Verified, Ryan Dombal Verified, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd Verified
| Hearing Things Verified
Five Songs is a weekly series for paid Hearing Things subscribers in which we each choose a new song we like—or don't!—and write about why it has our attention. This week we've got a worthy heir to Aaliyah, a perfect power-pop song for mid-summer doldrums, a spoken-word assault on household pests from the master of junkyard weirdness, and more.
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A Legend's Technicolor Dub Extravaganza

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By Dylan Green Verified, Jill Mapes Verified, Andy Cush Verified
| Hearing Things Verified
Welcome to the latest installment of Five Albums, the weekly feature for paid Hearing Things subscribers in which we review a handful of new records catching our attention. As music journalists, the question we get most often from friends is how to stay on top of what’s happening now. This is our attempt to provide a practical answer.
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Stop Listening to Music

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By Andy Cush Verified
| Hearing Things Verified
Thomas Bernhard’s 1985 novel Old Masters consists primarily of a long monologue by an elderly Austrian man named Reger, a classical-music critic and world-class hater. His condemnations—of composers, politicians, Austrian standards of bathroom cleanliness, of music and art in general—have the searing, invigorating quality of religious sermons. Reger, like many of Bernhard’s characters, hates because he believes the world can and should be better than it is.
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