Link Digest: 3/16/26

Hey, folks! Apologies for the radio silence here over the last week or so. I was recently promoted at the day job, which has come with a change in schedule and a whole bunch of meetings. I expect things to settle down over the next week or two, but in the meantime, I'm in a brief period of adjustment that includes ending every day feeling like my brain's been juiced.

While I chip away at the columns waiting on the docket, here's a fresh assortment of the best stuff that's come through my RSS lately. Enjoy!

Country Cutler warns us that going analog isn't going to reverse the decades of changes wrought by digital distribution and streaming;

Annie Zaleski makes the case for why music writing matters;

Rax King uses a David Foster Wallace essay as the springboard for a really beautiful reminder of what's lost when a writer falls back on easy cynicism — or, worse, blatant dishonesty;

Burning Ambulance writes about the sound of black aggression;

Ironic Sans remembers when the Hackers website was hacked, and rounds up all the different works of art that various museums refer to as "their Mona Lisa";

For Flaming Hydra, Bryan Hioe writes with devastating eloquence about the utter waste of war;

Also at Flaming Hydra, an interview with Jenette Kahn, the woman who saved DC Comics — and revolutionized the industry at large — when she took over in 1976;

Record Lung offers up an interview with the great jazz pianist Pat Rebillot;

Stephen Thomas Erlewine says goodbye to Augie Meyers;

and the Quietus goes deep on the Andrea True Connection's "More, More, More."