Best of 2025

Best of 2025

2025 is mostly a blur, but here are 20 of the people, places, things, and experiences that I loved the most. 


Traveling through French Polynesia
Beyonce’s  Cowboy Carter tour
Nine Inch Nails at Barclays Center
Floating Points - Lazarus EP (music)
Lady Gaga’s Mayhem Ball at Madison Square Garden
I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken (poems)
The Loves of My Life by Edmund White (RIP to one of the greats)
Kim Deal at Brooklyn Paramount
Pee-wee as Himself documentary
Beth Ditto crashing with us in NYC
Thrift shopping in Vancouver with Douglas Coupland
Working on The Chanel Gazette for the 2025 Chanel Métiers d'Art show in NYC
Exit Opera by Kim Addonizio (poems)
Startlement: New and Selected Poems by Ada Limon
Alex G - Headlights
Soft Beasts by Jia-Rui Cook (poems)
Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy (memoir)
Weapons (movie)
YHWH Nailgun - 45 Pounds (music)
Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee (music)
Various Artists – Telepathic Fish: Trawling The Early 90s Ambient Underground (music)

T. Cole Rachel

T. COLE RACHEL is a writer who lives in Brooklyn. He writes poems, essays, and all manner of music-related journalism. He's from Oklahoma and collects ceramic cats.

http://www.tcolerachel.com
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