I loved Daniel Lopatin's score for Marty Supreme. We're in a good era of movie scores: Marty, OBAA, Sinners, The Brutalist, Babylon, Dune.

LARRY RATSO SLOMAN

And the bells are ringing out for Christmas Day! youtu.be/hS_ZFMZHxS8?...

Life of the Record does it again with my all-time favorite Christmas song! Who knew that Once Upon a Time in America, Ennio Morricone, and On the Waterfront were inspirations? I listened to this while on the Peloton and there's nothing like crying while exercising!

An exquisite performance of Vince Guaraldi's Charlie Brown Christmas featuring Mike Clark, who played with Guaraldi in the 70s and also with Herbie Hancock. Despite the view (that big black thing in the middle is the bar of the railing), the music was perfectly Christmas

Feels like all of us music writers should check in with Dylan's office to see if Bob wants to provide a quote, no matter who the subject is, just to be on the safe side. Tortoise, Weird Al, Lana Del Rey - maybe Bob's got something to say!

Bob Dylan writes about Willie Nelson in a new New Yorker profile (Bob also says before this, "It’s hard to talk about Willie without saying something stupid or irrelevant, he is so much of everything") www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

She's right! And it all comes out in the 34 minute long version Neil played on November, 20 1973: reclinernotes.com/2023/06/11/n...

I didn't know it was around long enough to generate merch!

How have I never noticed John Heard reading Thomas McGuane on the plane in Home Alone? It's an oddly specific choice for this movie. Also, by transitive property reasoning, does this make 92 in the Shade a Christmas movie?

I can sing most of these songs word-for-word, thanks to wearing this soundtrack out with my kids. They're all perfect. Well you may be poor with a wolf at your door But money isn't everything You still got the sun and a river full of fun And you'll always havе a song to sing

Ethan Russell "I saw Keith standing by the pillar and told him to lean against it. I took two shots and then signaled for Mick to join him so I would have them both, the "glimmer twins." The customs officer noticed and threatened to confiscate the film, so I stopped.”

Reminder that Get Back is a Christmas movie

I made a list! reclinernotes.com/2025/12/14/f...

Excellent list.

I made a list! reclinernotes.com/2025/12/14/f...

Bob Dylan meets the drum machine circa 1985 (via Mike Campbell’s recent memoir)

Nerdy Neil Young post! This new version of "Lookout Joe" should have been on the original album. Its slow-as-molasses tempo fits the narcotized vibe of the other recordings and points the way to Neil's honey slides period the following year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u1V...

McCartney's greatest euphemism

Bitchin Bajas Live at Tubby's on 12/9/25 is up on #NycTaper. Sound quality on this one is fantastic. Directly to the head. www.nyctaper.com/2025/12/bitc...

From A Buick 6 part 8: Carmen got a little six Buick Charley Patton, John Fogerty and the car men. bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/32255

Big sigh

Fantastic interview with bassist Lloyd Swanton, essential for fans of The Necks: residenceproject.substack.com/p/the-necks-...

Pullman, the Chicago post-rock supergroup, have a wonderful new song out

And the @aquariumdrunkard.com album of the year goes to … just kidding we don’t do that kind of thing. Our year end list is a massive unranked blob of great music, just as the good lord intended. aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...

Aquarium Drunkard :: Year In Review 2025 aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a... Looking back to look ahead. Our list arrives in the spirit of sharing, and we’re back with our annual Year In Review. As always the following is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.

Aquarium Drunkard's Year in Review 2025 is out. For years, @aquariumdrunkard.com put out my favorite year-end music list and this year I had the privilege of contributing to it! Read the whole thing because there's so much 2025 music waiting to be discovered. aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...

So much fantastic music!

Some year-end lists congratulate you for having liked all the right things this year. The list @aquariumdrunkard.com buries you alive like an avalanche.

Aquarium Drunkard's Year in Review 2025 is out. For years, @aquariumdrunkard.com put out my favorite year-end music list and this year I had the privilege of contributing to it! Read the whole thing because there's so much 2025 music waiting to be discovered. aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...

A man is grateful

Coming soon . . .

great series. xian man is my favorite post-pavement song by malkmus or kannberg

A nice prompt to remind that if you love solo Malkmus, check out my series of deep dives on nine of his songs, one from each of his solo/Jicks albums: reclinernotes.com/stephen-malk...

Not caught up yet, but started the AOTY 2025 spreadsheet last night. You won't be surprised by the early leader. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Great piece on my first and still favorite Yo La Tengo album

I've been mainlining these excellent @jmhart.bsky.social tapes of this past summer's Fly Around Festival ... as you can see from the schedule here, the lineup featured some of the very best in the biz. doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/8019258...

Stoppard's Travesties blew my mind: a convergence Joyce, Lenin, and Tristan Tzara in Zurich in 1917 told through the prism of The Importance of Being Earnest and considering ideas about language, art, and revolution.

Stoppard's Travesties blew my mind: a convergence Joyce, Lenin, and Tristan Tzara in Zurich in 1917 told through the prism of The Importance of Being Earnest and considering ideas about language, art, and revolution.

shakey forensics: @unreleasedneil.bsky.social attempts to pin down the dates "like a hurricane" was written & recorded. drive.google.com/file/d/1j8Oa...

The ceiling of the North Park Theatre in Buffalo

Turkey Trotting in Buffalo - happy Thanksgiving!

Reflecting again on how John Cale’s piano playing on Nick Drake’s “Northern Sky” is one of the single most moving things I’ve ever heard, and also how it's like the thirtieth most historical thing to occur over the course of his career in music. A remarkably passionate oracle. Truly no one like him.

The always exceptional Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast completed its finest season yet exploring all the ins and outs of Blues for Allah. "The desert stars are bright tonight."

A fantastic piece by @cushac.bsky.social -long live Doug and the Bass VI www.hearingthings.co/the-guitar-b...

Benicio del Toro should get some sort of award for being hilarious and perfect in both One Battle After Another and The Phoenician Scheme in the same year.

Someone from Nebraska should make an album called New Jersey

I needed Nouvelle Vague at exactly this moment on time.

Yet another essential episode of Life of the Record!

"Hey, for the 268th time playing this song, how 'bout we do a tango?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCi-...