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Warning: Mild Backrooms spoilers ahead. My first adult apartment was a two-bedroom on the third floor of a well-kept building in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This was before the area got too cool and overpriced. I shared the place with a roommate and it was pretty huge as far as New York apartments on the salaries of two fresh-out-of-college office assistants went.

Like all Americans, I don’t care about problems until they affect me personally. AI is big problem. I know this because I am constantly hearing people raise very valid criticisms about it such as “this shit sucks” and “get this loser technology out of my face.” The news will tell you how bad AI sucks too.

Hello ZERO CRED readers. Welcome to the weekly whatever column where we catch up on new music, movies, books, etc. Today we’ve got a bit of all three. I took last Sunday off because it was the 4th of July and it is absolutely illegal to make me type words on the national fireworks holiday. I need these fingers for possibly exploding off my body. So to make up for it, I am removing today’s paywall and also running a $2.50 sale.

Welcome to ZERO CRED, a newsletter about music, books, and music books. Last week I interviewed author Scott McClanahan about his fantastic new book Fights! and we ended up talking so much about music books that I was able to squeeze another post out of it. If you enjoy this, you might also like my weekly column which is primarily about music and books and music books and zines. It is available every Sunday to paid subscribers. Memberships are 50% off right now. Upgrade for only $2.50 a month.

Hello and welcome to ZERO CRED, the only newsletter ever to exist. Today’s post is a conversation with Scott McClanahan, author of The Sarah Book, Hill William, and others. Scott has been my favorite living author coming up on a decade now so this was a big honor for me. His new book, Fights!, will be released on July 14 via Chelsea Hodson’s Rose Books, which has also published books by Chris Norris and Geoff Rickly.

If I’m being very honest, I tend to stay with projects until long after the joy they bring me has run dry. Chalk it up to my compulsive need to overproduce or my annoyingly obsessive personality, but I stick with an idea until well pas…

Hello ZERO CRED readers. Welcome to the Sunday column. Some usual music and podcast rambling below, but first I wanted to explore one of my favorite little obsessions from this time of year, Father’s Day cards. For some reason I am fascinated with the narrow ways greeting card companies think we express love and appreciation for our nation’s dads.

Hello and welcome to ZERO CRED, the only newsletter about music ever to exist. You can subscribe for free and have it sent to your inbox. Or you can upgrade for just a few bucks a month which greatly helps out and also gets you some benefits. Today’s post is an interview with Greg Attonito of the Bouncing Souls. Check the interview archive for more chats with people like Everclear’s Art Alexakis, Spiritual Cramp’s Mike Bingham, and more. The story of the Bouncing Souls is well documented.

Hello and welcome to ZERO CRED, Earth’s greatest music newsletter. Every Sunday I send out a weekly column to my paid subscribers where I ramble about new music, books, or whatever dumb crap is going on online that week. You can upgrade for only a few bucks a month and get it sent straight to your inbox. For this week’s post, I thought I’d try something slightly different and dig into a few new albums by old favorites. When I was a teenager I put so much pressure on the artists I loved.

Apologies again for no column last week. It was the busiest weekend I’ve ever experienced, what with everyone I’ve ever known being in town for my wedding and all. But we tied the knot and it was the greatest day of my entire life. Perfect weather, perfect friends, perfect everything. Not a single thing went wrong which is more tha…