Browsing: Everything

In the tradition of The Old, Weird America and Deliver Me from Nowhere, cultural critic Steven E. Jones explores American pop culture through the work of record producer Tom Wilson, and the artists with whom he collaborated in the miraculous year 1966.

After the success of A24’s Backrooms, Hollywood pundits claimed studios would start mining more internet horror as an unlimited box-office money glitch. It was recently announced that the YouTube horror series The Mandela Catalogue—which is produced by Steven Spielberg—would be arriving in 2028. That same day, another announcement hit: A24 would join the SCP Foundation…

Everything is Everything: Tom Wilson and Pop Music in 1966by Steven E.Jones (Stanford University Press, 240 pages, $20.00, September 29, 2026) sets out to decode a transformative year in popular culture. It’s the year go-go dancing met the electric blues, bubblegum pop met underground rock, free jazz met psychedelia, and they all morphed into one…