love of my life

Hell of a pack

This is my favorite song of the 2020s so far open.spotify.com/track/68FIR7...

Real talk: if anybody has a hookup for the Grandaddy show in Dallas this Thursday, I’ve got a buddy I’m trying desperately to get in

Oh my GOD

I fuckin love this song, man open.spotify.com/track/6WbGnE...

Hell yeah

THE Joanna Newsom album to me, THE Joanna Newsom song to me, and a perfect episode to me, a person who made a freak folk mixtape as a class project freshman year of high school.

This is the start of my petition for my dream: to be a guest on 60 Songs @harvilla.bsky.social if we ever get to the Mountain Goats (a band I’ve written a lot about) or the Hold Steady (a band I’m literally writing a book on). There are very few things I am qualified for in life—this is #1.

Grail

this week in pulls:

Go Sabres Fuck You* *Boston

Life Without Buildings Bandsplain episode: yay! The episode being spurred by a recent viral tik tok hit: …okay!

i played at Mr. Roboto just the other day. cool DIY venue run by very kind people. help em out if you can!

This is such a cool, weird album. I totally misunderstood this band’s deal when they were around, and when I came back to this album I was fucking blown away. open.spotify.com/track/6JMJqb...

speaking of pittsburgh

A message from Mr. Roboto, the Pittsburgh diy venue that has single handedly done more for my little band than any other music space outside our hometown. They could use some help existing, and man do they deserve it

Go Bills

Can someone recommend me a great hardcore album from 1998

👍

I’ve had two beers and I have A LOT to say about Anberlin. And largely? it’s not positive.

One of the best rap albums of the 2010s. Somehow better every time I revisit. open.spotify.com/track/1xDOo4...

woooo

I love flipping people off when I’m the one driving like shit

Brought to literal tears listening to 10 second CLIPS of “I’ll Believe Anything,” an absolutely massive, heartrending slab of indie rock and one of the greatest rock songs of all time

The Bible:

After many years of assuming it was none of my business, I have followed in @themountaingoats.bsky.social footsteps and have gotten *heavy* into Magic the Gathering

Unbelievable, perfect sounding album. Feels crazy every time I throw it on. open.spotify.com/track/6amFDa...

Despite not having ever followed baseball closely, I have joined a fantasy baseball league and am now deeply invested in America’s Pasttime

I love in the interview parts of What Did You Expect? where they say something like "we wish we could play some of these songs on the reunion tour but we can't remember the tuning we made up for them."

When I first heard Archers of Loaf I thought, “That’s insane, it sounds like he took all the strings off his guitar and put them back on at random” and it turns out that’s basically what he did

Bracewar is a band I thought was fine in 2008 and now I think that’s historically great hardcore

you are a special individual whose music makes a unique contribution to the world that no one else on earth could make. except Ted Leo. he could eat your songs for lunch and have room for dessert. he could do your shit with oven mitts on both hands.

I went on the Modest Mouse cruise FOR JOURNALISM

We did it !! Im moved beyond words,‘I cannot express enough how much this just changed the next few months for me. Blessed beyond measure, thank you

Had a shitty but necessary ER visit that resulted in $500 of medical bills that are hitting in a month when I’m between paychecks for longer than normal, trying to scrape together a little extra to get it paid before it goes to collections etc

My latest Reader music feature is all about Dr. Charles Joseph Smith, a classically trained pianist and pillar of Chicago DIY who is about to release a multi-disc archival compilation on @sooperrecords.bsky.social

Pierre Chuvin is the best followed closely by Bleed Out followed closely by Jenny From Thebes and from then on it’s all pretty much tied except for Peter Balkan which is at the bottom

I think Bleed Out, that's gotten the most play from me at least. Goths might be...I feel like it's a strong holistic effort but I don't love all the sonic concepts. Getting Into Knives and Dark in Here have some totemic individual songs but have nothing holding them together. Been a weird run!

These are simply fighting words. That first statement must be an April Fool's joke, perhaps even a goof. That said, Pierre Chuvin, Getting Into Knives, and Dark In Here all made it much easier to get through the main COVID years.

Pierre Chauvin is the obvious choice, but that seems like cheating given how it was recorded. Otherwise it's Goths or Bleed Out

I think it’s clear that Beat The Champ is the last truly great Mountain Goats album—the capstone of their very good decade following the stunning 2000-‘05 run. Taking that as a given: what’s the best album in the decade since then?

twothirtyeight was the first band I thought of with the first post. MFers had dashboard singing backup. Staples still releasing interesting stuff on barsuk.

I disagree with this so much (Cursive is great) but this is the energy Bsky desperately needs right now

I am sorry to take a hater stance on a lovely Tuesday afternoon but the band Cursive is an emperor’s new clothes situation. Everyone believe it’s good music because there’s a cultural idea that it’s a “classic” when in fact it sucks total ass.

the entire Silkworm discography would like a word

I think Web In Front is the best rock song ever written

This is the best song of the last 5 years to me open.spotify.com/track/2nNOFu...

There are 20 or 30 Florida bands that no one listens to, no one talks about, but are totally load bearing in terms of the way emo, alternative rock, and screamo evolved in the 90s and 2000s, and I’m gonna keep banging that drum until people get it

huge if true www.youtube.com/watch?v=370N...