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Tucker Francis

a year of buying records - a mix

Hi again, and happy new year. Here’s hoping it’ll be better than the last one. This morning I'm recovering from a delightful NYE party that my friend Devon threw. I had exactly two drinks and spent most of the night tending to a pizza oven, which

Sugarcube is back + some records I liked this year

Hello out there. It’s been a while since I’ve posted here, but I’m going to start trying to show up again with some sort of regularity. 2025 has been a weird year, and I have dealt with that by running a lot, playing possibly too much chess,

What I’ve been listening to

It’s been a busy few weeks here in cubeworld, and I haven’t been able to set aside much time to write. I’ve been doing a lot of listening though, so I thought I’d share a few things I’ve been enjoying recently. Adam Hurt - Earth

Joe Claussell’s dancefloor spirituality

To recommend a podcast anytime after 2015 is to prepare to be ignored. We have too many podcasts. This is an incontrovertible fact. I’m going to recommend one anyway, because it deserves credit for enriching my life in countless ways via the dispensation of priceless cultural and musical knowledge.

The Pearl and some scattered thoughts about reverb

Last month, Nashville got eight inches of snow, and as it seems to go with most southern cities, we lacked the equipment and planning to deal with it. The temperatures were well below freezing for nearly a week, the roads remained icy and horrible, and everyone who could just stayed

In Communion With The Moon

To describe Daniel Romano as prolific would be an understatement: at my best count, the Canadian musician has released nearly 30 albums or EPs since his first solo LP, Workin' for the Music Man, came out in 2010. Over the course of this vast discography, Romano has shown an

Southern Nights

This week is Americanafest in Nashville, which, if you don't know, is sort of like a smaller South by Southwest Music—showcases, panels, etc. at a whole bunch of different venues all over town. Very much unlike SXSW, you can actually go do a lot of this stuff

Sugarcube 3.0

The last time I published a newsletter, it was early May 2020, and it was my first one since May 2019. I wrote about Barrington Levy's monumental dancehall masterpiece, Englishman, and shared a playlist from the Sunday morning DJ sets I'd been doing on Instagram Live.