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1 week ago | 
danepstein.substack.com | Dan Epstein
Greetings, Jagged Time Lapsers!First off, I just want to say how proud I am of my millions of fellow Americans who took peacefully but vociferously to the streets for the thousands of “No Kings” protests held on Saturday across our fair land.
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2 weeks ago | 
danepstein.substack.com | Dan Epstein
As most of you surely know by now, Sly Stone passed away this week at the age of 82. While it’s sad to see him move on to a presumably funkier plane, it’s kind of incredible that he made it to that relatively advanced age, especially given his history of (shall we say) misadventure.
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2 weeks ago | 
danepstein.substack.com | Dan Epstein |Tony Fletcher
Welcome to the 17th episode of the CROSSED CHANNELS podcast — a.k.a. the podcast in which music journalists/obsessives Dan Epstein (the Yank) and Tony Fletcher (the Brit) clash and connect over music from either side of the pond. This time out, our subject is The Smiths, the most iconic British indie band of the 1980s.
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2 weeks ago | 
forward.com | Dan Epstein
I was heading down the street to my local ice cream parlor when an album sticking out from a record store sidewalk-sale bin caught my eye. The guy on the front of it was, without a doubt, the baddest dude I'd ever seen in my life - a lean Black guy in studded black leather, platform boots and a voluminous Afro, hurtling through the air with a giddy grin and a left foot angled upward to connect with, presumably, the chin of The Man.
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2 weeks ago | 
floodmagazine.com | Dan Epstein
Sly Stone didn’t release much in the way of new music over the last four decades, but the influence of the records he put out between Sly & the Family Stone’s 1967 debut A Whole New Thing and 1982’s Ain’t But the One Way will probably extend for as long as humans have ears.
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2 weeks ago | 
danepstein.substack.com | Dan Epstein
Greetings, Jagged Time Lapsers!Well, I’m still trying to reach the top of the mountain on my current book deadline, so today’s Dio-tastic post is a repeat from the early days of JTL in late 2022, which I figure most of you haven’t read.
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3 weeks ago | 
danepstein.substack.com | Dan Epstein
Last weekend, while taking a much-needed lunch break from my impending book deadline, my girlfriend and I decided to check out Everything Nice, a cool little records n’ stuff shop in Ellenville, NY. Along with OG pressings of Queen’s Sheer Heart Attack (my second favorite Queen LP after Queen II) and Wings Greatest, I left with a stack of dusty 45s — some which I knew well but didn’t already own, and some which I’d never heard but looked like they might be worth taking a cheap chance on.
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3 weeks ago | 
danepstein.substack.com | Dan Epstein
Greetings, Jagged Time Lapsers!I wrote the following piece two years ago this week, shortly after the passing of the brilliant pop songwriter Cynthia Weil. Whether because of its subject matter, my writing, some well-timed shares, a lucky threading of the algorithmic needle, or all of the above, it became far and away the most-read thing I’ve ever published here at JTL.
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4 weeks ago | 
danepstein.substack.com | Dan Epstein
Let me begin this shorter than usual (because I’m still on a book deadline) missive by apologizing in advance to my many Canadian friends and readers, because I’m about to have a chuckle at the expense of one of your favorite musical sons: Mr. Tom Cochrane. It’s nothing personal.
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1 month ago | 
danepstein.substack.com | Dan Epstein
(This one goes out to my friend Steve Gerlach, who noticed something in my recent Bruce Springsteen piece that demanded to be expanded upon.)In the spring of 1982, a few days before my 16th birthday, my mom alerted me to a sale that was happening at a discount stereo and appliance shop we occasionally patronized on Chicago’s North Side.
