Jon Hainstock Keeps Singing

Jon Hainstock is so obscure he doesn’t have a Wikipedia page, which in 2009 is either a mark of genuine underground credibility or just unfortunate. His song I Don’t Understand got to me immediately—first watch, first listen—and part of it is the video, where at some point a guy drives a piece-of-shit car directly into him and Hainstock just keeps singing. Doesn’t flinch. Doesn’t stop. I respect that more than I can explain rationally.

He also has the best hair I’ve seen in a long time, which happens to be exactly the same overgrown, vaguely mullet-adjacent thing I’ve been wearing myself—the kind that makes people ask when you’re finally going to the barber. The answer is: I’m not. This is the look for 2009 and I will not be taking questions.