2025’s Best Jazz Releases
A look at the year's best jazz records, both new and archival. Including looks at Anthony Braxton, Mary Halvorson, Henry Threadgill, Jessica Williams, and many more!
A Baseball Hangover
Reflecting on a Blue Jays season full of triumphs and a personal year of lingering transphobia.
The N-Word and the F-Word
Or how nostalgia-fueled TikTok videos mask the spectre of lurking fascism by appealing to a past that ever existed
Repost: new sounds from a big horn
Digging into Theon Cross's tuba-powered jazz and the disbandment of Sons of Kemet.
Bad Vibes
A review of John Pistelli's novel Major Arcana, a comic book themed novel with a weird undertone about trans people.
What Is A (Trans) Woman?
A review examining the bold yet muddled claims in Jules Gill-Peterson's book A Short History of Trans Misogyny.
A Note From the Editrix
Just a reminder this is more or less Roz Milner’s blog and you signed up to get these emails at some point. I will send you essays on music and books, but...
Tag Lock
An excerpt from my upcoming story collection "Bad Girls" about a woman who solicits hair from her online followers.
Shoplifting from American Apparel - An Indie Sleaze Mixtape
A C90-style mixtape capturing the highs and forgotten gems of 2000s indie music nostalgia: big names like LCD Soundsystem, The White Stripes, and Justice / overlooked gems by artists like The Jaguars, Wintersleep, and Free Energy.
Building A Girl
This email reviews Alyson Greaves's "Welcome to Dorley Hall," a bold deconstruction of gender transition narratives.
Misha Mengelberg at 90 / Some housekeeping
Some housekeeping notes: At Dusted Magazine, I wrote up a new Apartment House record of early John Cage compositions...
Repost: Getting Close to Low
I delve into Low's legacy through their 2004 box set, celebrating their unique sound and Mimi Parker's impact.
The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Reading Torrey Peters' The Masker Ten Years Later
When Torrey Peters first burst onto the scene it was like a breath of fresh air. It was about a decade ago with her novella The Masker, and its grotesque mix...
Repost: MFA vs YYZ
Originally published November 2021 I read an interesting review in the London Review of Books the other day that talked about the state of Literature, which...
Seduced By Song: Proposal For a Book On Music, The Self, Etc
I'm writing a memoir about my journey as a trans woman and music critic, exploring the power of song.
You do the work and the joy is in the doing
This morning I saw a post on Bluesky by Gretchen Falker-Martin. "I have such a great idea for a novel, how do I--"Sit down and write it. If you can't produce...