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...

My wife keeps asking my what I’m laughing at while I do chores with headphones in and I’m finding it very hard to explain that I’m listening to every 2018 Hollywood Handbook episode in chronological order

Mountain Goats Releases, Ranked (Updated: March 2026)

Hey guys what’s up what’s going on over here

you know that's what your ego gets gettin' while the gettin's good they saw you coming a mile away (Camp Trash - Between the X's) camptrash.bandcamp.com/track/betwee...

working a spaghetti that is very wide instead of long

This is the kind of thing that used to feel shocking and now just feels like … Of Course

The goofy ass American-Spirit-smoking-MFA-student lyrics are the best part of Jets to Brazil

What the FUCK!!

downtown Hillsboro is one of the oddest Main Streets in Oregon but I like it. Sinister and small town, great gas stations and dive bars.

new painting! church avenue 9x12” acrylic gouache on paper

The Arctic Monkeys are the 44th most streamed artist IN THE WORLD right now.

No matter what changes in my musical listening habits, all the 20-25 year old albums from the Mountain Goats still feel like a revelation to me, a weirdly affecting and energizing collection of short stories. The boombox Flannery O’Connor. open.spotify.com/track/4KE1Ct...

At the end of the day, every day for almost a month, the only thing I can listen to is Bedhead

Here is a picture of 108 that has come up on my Instagram feed a few times this week that really captures the whole thing pretty perfectly.

The most important hardcore band that is being lost to time is 108

Son, there's a difference between grindcore and powerviolence that people are gonna tell you isn't important, doesn't matter, but I want you to know that it's life and death. This is more important than whether or not you're a good person. This is everything.

Here's a little story that didnt make the book. In 2001, Mike Park played the biggest set of his life. It was his first time in Korea as a professional musician: the Busan International Rock Festival 🧵

100%. Korine has 2, maybe 3 full classics and him being dumb as fuck is essential to the success of all of them

Just closed 23 tabs and submitted my first book draft.

Just closed 23 tabs and submitted my first book draft.

60 years ago today, mild-mannered jim bowl was bitten by a radioactive spider

Keegan grabs some change for the turnpike. Sweats out the sins from last night.

I have been writing a book about the Hold Steady for so long that I have started to narrate my day to day life in Craig Finn Voice

The world needs to understand how good the Recess Theory was.

Digging through the 7” collection, finding some real gems

Rubber Soul is good as all fuck brother

i’ve shifted my opinion from “sean mcdermott firing was weird” to “sean mcdermott was done dirty” to “sean mcdermott might be the greatest coach ever for holding all these insane people together and winning through the complete nonsense we didnt see”