Substacks recommended by Lo Carmen

Recommended by Lo Carmen

putting the fun back in dysfunction!

What a refreshing joy to have Lola Kirke here on Substack, not only one of my favourite singer songwriters and sweet as pie but funny as fuck and winningly wry ❤️🌹❤️

- Lo Carmen

Jessica’s Substack

By Jessica Hopper

My personal Substack

Jessica Hopper is the best in the biz, always digging deep and in unexpected places to shine a light on the real stories.

- Lo Carmen

Light in the Attic's Substack

the modern love child of our zine & our blog

Keeping the stories and music alive of some of the most greatest & most exciting artists in the world - including many that you may never have heard of!

- Lo Carmen

Historical Hysteria

By CARRÉ’s Substack

I'm Queen Kwong and this is the down and dirty on my life as a musician, millennial and hysterical woman.

Queen Kwong is brilliant artist and an equally fantastic writer!

- Lo Carmen

Will Hermes: New Music + Old Music

New music worth hearing + old music worth remembering. Deep-dive playlists. Interviews. Record reviews. Tour & ticket alerts. Vinyl. New York City sounds. Mid-Hudson Valley vibes. Lou Reed. Genre-fluid.

Feels like catching up with your music obsessed friend who gives you all the life changing hot music gateway tips. The breadth of Will Hermes music love and knowledge is staggering as is his generosity with sharing it.

- Lo Carmen

Vault du Valentish

By Jenny Valentish

All the things I'd never pitch to my editors

Jenny possesses a rare combination of razor sharp investigative skills with deeply personal revelations and laugh out loud subversive wit - I love everything she writes!

- Lo Carmen

Rawdoggin' Reality

By Margo Price

Conform, go crazy, or become an artist. Finally, a place to share my musings, poetry, lyrics, literature and songs, and connect with fellow artists and fans.

Margo Price is a brilliant, thought provoking and inspiring writer - whether she's creating songs, books, essays or general opinions! I'm so excited she's here!

- Lo Carmen

Diary Of Amy Rigby

Everyday life and music from the original Mod Housewife

Amy is such a warm, engaging writer and musician - her memoir 'Girl To City' is a wonderful read, and her Substack diaries continue the great stories.

- Lo Carmen

High Roads and Low Roads

By High Road Rider

Stories, memories, ideas, reflections. I'm Kelli. Sometime writer, dog groomer, and musician. I also drive taxis. New posts weekly.

Moving observations of the underbelly of the world and the characters that inhabit it from a musician moonlighting as a taxi driver in rural Australia.

- Lo Carmen

Kate Spicer says Sort Yourself Out

eu·pho·ri·a (yū-fōr'ē-ă), 1. A feeling of well-being. 2. The pleasure state induced by a drug or substance of abuse.

Messy, honest, darkly funny - such a great writer.

- Lo Carmen

Robert Burke Warren, Showfolk

Bass player, writer, stacker of wood, teacher, performer, author of novel Perfectly Broken and one-man show Redheaded Friend.

It doesn't matter what Robert decides to write about, I am always drawn right in. A literate and lovely storyteller, with endless cool stories about music and the things that matter.

- Lo Carmen

Trouble Man: Musings of David Yaffe

"Her life was saved by rock and roll"

David Yaffe is such a deeply knowledgeable music lover and a music insider with a sublime way with words and a generous, unique vision. Highly recommended.

- Lo Carmen

Please Take My Advice

By The Paranoid Style

Your opportunity to get in on the ground floor.

An exhilarating writer - I want to run out and listen to everything Elizabeth turns her typewriter to... also a fantastic musician!

- Lo Carmen

Badreads

By Lauren Hough

Essays, bad jokes, rants, and unsolicited advice from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Hough, and a dog named Woody Guthrie.

Sharp, raw, brilliant writing. Makes you cry and laugh, nod and shake your head at the same time.

- Lo Carmen

Dada Drummer Almanach

By DADA DRUMMER ALMANACH

Sound, Art, Vegetables

Great engaging writing about musician life and essential deep dives explaining what's really going on in the murky world of music business.

- Lo Carmen

Kevin Morby's Fam Club

All things Kev Mo

Kev Mo pulls back the veil and let's us peek inside his creative process and the world of making music - and he has such a beautiful way with words.

- Lo Carmen

The Slider

By Mark Mordue

loose thoughts in tight times

I've been an admirer of Mark's for more than 20 years and I'm so glad he's finally joined Substack - go subscribe!

- Lo Carmen

The Honest Broker

By Ted Gioia

A trustworthy guide to music, books, arts, media & culture by Ted Gioia

The definitive voice in music culture writing - deep and thorough dissertations on everything that matters.

- Lo Carmen

Alive in the Nineties

By Aaron Gilbreath

Music and life as a listener in the 1990s

Aaron has such a cool way of digging deep into archives, his own and others, and showing us what it was like from the inside. A beautiful writer and a total music obsessive. My kind of people.

- Lo Carmen

The New Cue

By Ted Kessler

The World's Greatest Music Newsletter, delivered to your inbox every Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings.

Great music interviews and recommendations, I'm always learning about new artists here

- Lo Carmen

A Hot Mess

By Holiday Sidewinder

Memoirs, Music & Chaos in the somewhat colorful life of artist Holiday Sidewinder, the antiheroine of her own story.

Undoubtedly my favourite writer, and not because I'm biased. Eve Babitz meets Bob Dylan. So good.

- Lo Carmen