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Just got a strong urge to hear an AMERICAN RECORDINGS-style cover of the Extreme song "Hole Hearted." Too bad Johnny Cash is dead.

*extremely Anthony Kiedis voice*

love him or hate him, you just gotta hate elon musk

Sorry. Im sorry. Im trying to fix it.

Ended up at a Taco Bell right after a high school football game let out and would now like to buy stock in Mountain Dew Baja Blast.

🎵 I once got taken into custody in a Cheesecake Factory parking lot 🎵

I don't watch a lot of TV, but when I do, it's pretty much just comedies. I guess FUTURAMA isn't considered a 21st century show or else it would be on my list.

Maybe I'm just having a day, but the new Neil Young album is making me kind of . . . emotional.

This Nina Winder-Lind album is so good it makes me kind of depressed that not every album sounds just like this.

This one came out 10 years ago today. I didn't get around to writing about it, but man, it holds up.

GET HYPE

Surprised to learn from this AllMusic review of a Howard Jones album that a synthesizer isn't a "real" instrument.

Big fan of both of these, but I've been listening to the audiobook of Kathleen Hanna's memoir and just got to the Le Tigre section today, so I think that's a sign . . .

Since I just listened to it tonight . . .

It's been out a few months now, but I can't get enough of the new Charlotte Cornfield album.

PSA: There's a new book of short stories by Danny McBride, and the audiobook is read by him, John Goodman, Walton Goggins, and more of your favorites, and it rules.

On this July 4th, remember the words of Dashiell Hammett, who was jailed by HUAC for not naming names. "I don’t let cops or judges tell me what I think democracy is." —Dashiell Hammett

all you fascists bound to lose

Where is the sorely needed mashup of Sturgill Simpson's "Make America Fuk Again" and the Coup's "Laugh/Love/Fuck"? These songs were clearly made for each other.

My most listened-to albums of 2026, at the halfway point: 💿 Sturgill Simpson - MUTINY AFTER MIDNIGHT 💿 Mitski - NOTHING'S ABOUT TO HAPPEN TO ME 💿 Kevin Morby - LITTLE WIDE OPEN 💿 Courtney Barnett - CREATURE OF HABIT 💿 Buck Meek - THE MIRROR 💿 Fugazi - ALBINI SESSIONS

As someone who has been struggling with this for months, if not years, without the ability to take any time off due to the crumbling economy and empty social safety net he helped create, I am torn between “glad you got the help you need” and “fuck off.”

I'd probably shit myself, too, if I paid the prices people are expected to pay for concerts these days. Remember when concerts cost $5, you could pay at the door, and the band played nothing but Fugazi songs? Also, the band was Fugazi?

I haven't been watching a ton of movies this year, but I did get through at least four this week, and they were all totally OK.

Had never heard of this band, but spent a good chunk of my afternoon watching their videos. This one in particular rips.

Just in time to make "Make America Fuk Again" the song of the summer.

MINK CAR was the first TMBG album that made me think, "Wait, this is kind of . . . lousy?" That said, it has three songs I really like, and I've never clicked with GBV, so I'll probably still vote for it.

Hey @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social participants prepping for '88, don't sleep on RADICAL DEPARTURE, the solo album from Ranking Roger of the English Beat and General Public. Despite the title, it's very much in line with his earlier bands.

WATCH THE VIDEO BLUESKY DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE!!! (I posted a link to this and Bluesky immediately broke.)

29 years ago today, silo explosion-survivor Frank Grimes accidentally killed himself. #TheSimpsons episode “Homer's Enemy” first aired on May 4, 1997.

"Do you wanna stay in bed all day? YEAH! Do you remember feeling any other way? NO!" Easy vote for my favorite Le Tigre album and one of my favorites of the tourney. Saw them play two or three times after this album came out, and they were a blast.

a good name for a horse would be Kris Klipclopperston

I was in a record store a couple weeks ago and a college kid came in asking if they had any Metallica records, but was like, "'Metallica'? I think that's how you say it?"

Me, showing off my knowledge when eating Japanese food in a Japanese restaurant: "this is the kind of food they eat in Japan."

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Tom Waits just released a song with, of all people, Massive Attack. It's like a funeral march version of "Hell Broke Luce," and it's really fucking good. Then again, hard for me not to love a Tom Waits song, so don't take my word for it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVTV...

Where is the sorely needed mashup of Sturgill Simpson's "Make America Fuk Again" and the Coup's "Laugh/Love/Fuck"? These songs were clearly made for each other.

I was going to write a DC for GO FORTH, but then discovered that @thomasawful.bsky.social basically already did way back in 2015, and it's way better than anything I would have written. So go read this and then vote for Les Savy Fav!

Best railcar graffiti I've ever seen