📺 The Media Guide S7E6

It's a bit of a rough week in new stuff with the lone exception being the exceptional Friday of new music we had. There are too many albums to even talk about and even more I want to listen to again.

But I did my best to get through a few and share a few I thought stood out above the rest. I hope you check them out. They're a lot of fun.

We also announced the winners of our inaugural annual awards for strange fiction from other small litmags. You should go check those out. We'll be putting a print collection together, but a lot of them are free to read on the various websites already, so go check them out.

A lot of really great writing in 2025 that deserves to be celebrated.

Presenting: The Foofs 2025

Please welcome to the stage... FOOFIE and THE FLOOF!!!

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Quick reminder our first anthology in print is available direct from us or anywhere books are sold online, including Weightless Books.

A Great Big Fuss (2025)

a foofaraw anthology—don’t go making a huge deal about it, that’s what we’re here for…

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I'm also going to be sitting down with Lit Mag News for a little interview Q&A tomorrow, which I'm both excited and nervous for—wish me luck!

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🤖 If Destruction Be Our Lot #1 — Image Comics

For anyone who's read any of these writeups in the past, you might have some familiarity with Matthew Rosenberg and my obsession with the comics that he writes. This is his newest series from Image Comics, written alongside his brother Mark with art from Amy McDonald.

This is a sci-fi adventure where humanity is extinct, robots happily roam the world without us, and we follow a robot modeled after Abraham Lincoln who feels like there must be more to life.

🦜 The Great Parrot-Ox and the Golden Egg of Empathy by The Claypool Lennon Delirium

I wasn't familiar with this project going into it, so the name of the band kind of went over my head at first. Then listening to it, I started getting vibes of Nightmare Before Christmas meets the Beatles, with some Tame Impala and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard sprinkled in. Funnily enough, if you look at the name of the band—you'll notice the name Lennon there—that is not a coincidence.

This is a project from Sean Ono Lennon, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, as well as Les Claypool from Primus along with João Nogueira on keyboard and Paulo Baldi from Cake on drums. It's a really fun album that makes me want to go back and listen to their whole discography.

I think the Primus-like storytelling and quirkiness comes through, and you get a little bit of that mid to late-era Beatles psychedelia. The bass guitar on this is also stellar.

The whole package really comes together in this. I think this is something pretty special that I hope people don't sleep on.

🌞 Sunshine For Happiness by Emma Louise

Fun, soulful, deep pop album. It gives me feelings of Maggie Rogers meets Radiohead doing a soulful R&B—especially the first track, which opens up feeling like "Creep," definitely stealing a little bit of that rhythm.

🪶 MAITREYA CORSO by Maya Hawke

This is Maya Hawke's fourth studio album, and I think she's done a fine job on the previous three, bringing her unique sound and quirkiness front and center. There's a decent amount of improvement here especially in the variety of arrangements and the way she plays with vocal patterns makes for a really compelling album that shows a great deal of growth from her earlier stuff.