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. Shortly after that, the reality of the pandemic started to kick in—we were in this thing for the long haul—and the accompanying malaise made sure writing was the last thing on my mind. I spent the rest of the year reading a bunch of books, listening to the Grateful Dead, and playing dozens of hours of Zelda. I put "start writing Sugarcube again" on my list of goals for 2021, and I'm just now getting around to it (it still counts).

While I acknowledge that publishing five or six newsletters in nearly three years probably doesn't sound like the track record of a person who is invested in publishing a newsletter, I'm excited to get back to it. I love writing about music, because I'm an obsessive music fan, and writing about music gives me license to indulge my obsessions and rewards me for them. Sugarcube 3.0 will probably be the messiest, most scatterbrained version of this newsletter yet: I'm going to write about the music that I'm excited about right now—regardless of age or genre—and most importantly, I'm going to have fun with it. Hopefully, I'll be able to get some other folks to write about what they're excited about here as well.

Thanks for reading, and look out for more to come here very soon.

-Tucker