Maya Mabern
@mayayam
Maya Mabern
heard on NTS Breakfast Show w/ Flo 11.18.25
heard on NTS Olivia O. w/ Julie 11.14.25
Negative review of After’s most recent EPs (written by a BU alum), which I cannot stop listening to. This review fills a lot of gaps in the piece I was trying to write about the fruitger aero phenomenon and tech-optimism coming back in the wake of AI. Though I am definitely a victim of nostalgia bait here, I can’t deny that the lyrics and motivations lack substance, reminiscent of an AI copy of the real thing. Back to Frou Frou, methinks.
10.29.25 - What’s the score?
What’s the score? I asked the bouncer at gold room, a bar next to a bunch of other bars and a furniture store that I frequent more often (sometimes, versus not at all).
Blue Jays are up. We’re getting crushed.
I walk past rodeo express and see disgruntled patrons watching the jays jump around and hug outside. I let out a
... See moreLos Angeles Notebook - Joan Didion, from “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” originally appearing in the Saturday Evening Post, 1967
heard on NTS A Scene In Between w/ Samuel Knee - Californian Indie Garage Psych Underground 1982-87 04.03.25