I’m interested in context and color, music, and the language that surrounds it. I’m interested in the stories.
A desire to find and to share is behind just about every project and professional choice I’ve made over the past decade-plus working around independent music and culture. This website is a working document of where that’s led and what I can offer now, through collaborative projects (with you, perhaps).
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Featured album bio: Dua Saleh - Of Earth & Wires
LA-based Sudanese-American artist Dua Saleh continues their ascent with Of Earth & Wires, a resolutely warm, spiritual, and frenetic follow-up exploring notions of home, humanity, and renewal. Executive produced by Billy Lemos (SZA, Paris Texas, Tinashe), the album features contributions from Bon Iver, aja monet, Gaidaa, and others. Saleh threads and deconstructs indie, R&B, and electronic pop with flashes of Sudanese folk, UK dance, and baile funk, sounds intrinsic to their story, all held together by ambitious, future-facing production and clear-eyed lyricism. Saleh’s soulful, gritty, shape-shifting style has found fans from The New York Times to NME, alongside their breakout role in the Netflix series Sex Education, making 2024's Ghostly International debut, I SHOULD CALL THEM, a proper arrival. The highly anticipated Of Earth & Wires responds to the moment as both a watershed in their career and an urgent dialogue with struggles faced on a universal level. Beyond mythological references and planetary narratives, with their strongest, most immediate material to date, Saleh makes the case for love above progress and greed, for divine beauty and the enduring flame of the human spirit.
Featured copy project: Ghostly x Audika & Tom Lee
In our reverence for great artists, Ghostly International has once again partnered with Audika Records and the estate of virtuosic and prescient musician Arthur Russell (1951-1992) on a limited capsule collection of some of his most memorable visual works. In 2019, we launched a handful of items from the archive of New York-based visual artist Tom Lee, highlighting postcard flyers he designed for his longtime partner, Russell. It’s been an honor and a privilege collaborating with these two stewards of Russell’s legacy, who were just as excited as we were to continue the project.
The second capsule further celebrates Russell’s visual language, bringing an expanded series of flyers by both Russell and Lee to a new spread of short and long-sleeve tees, plus a crewneck sweatshirt, and a baseball cap…
Featured curatorial project: Stack (and what’s next)
Hype Machine’s weekly discovery newsletter, Stack, launched in 2014 as “a snapshot of what’s happening in music now, from our hearts to your inbox.”
Five tracks, a featured album, a good mix, and a good read, delivered every week. That’s roughly 2500 songs from almost as many artists over the past decade.
Writing Stack, I highlighted a range of music, something interesting from each loosely defined sonic bin. The practice of listening, reading, and putting Stack together was a regular reminder that there is real joy in discovery. (I hope that it’s brought some to readers as well.)
The 500th and final Stack was sent in August 2025. Stack will return in another form. Add your email for updates here.