Yancey Strickler

Yancey Strickler is the Cofounder and Director of Metalabel, Cofounder and former CEO of Kickstarter, and Cofounder of the artist resource The Creative Independent.

Music

Rough Guide to Pavement

A couple of years ago I decided to narrow down the entire Pavement catalogue into my twenty favorites songs, and

01 Oct

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The Wire (Season 3)

Last night the third season of the best show on television, HBO’s The Wire, began. The Wire is a

19 Sep

Music

Rough Guide to DFA

DFA is a NYC-based production outfit/record label lead by James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy. The duo’s first production

16 Sep

Music

Interview: Clinic

My first big piece of writing for an amazing publication at the time: neumu. This is a long interview and

09 Oct

Music

The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up

My first piece of published writing. It ran on Pitchfork. I sent it to them on spec. It was an

20 Jan