A lot to discuss in Five Out this week… - The UConn of old may be back -What it means when a coach ducks non-con smoke -Remembering Richie Adubato -The Project B Paradox And more!

o brother, where art thou might actually just be the best movie

just walked into the living room and saw robert kraft and portnoy. sorry drake maye but your vibes are cursed forever and i won’t be hearing arguments otherwise

14 minutes left in the second quarter, down 13. prediction: bills are gonna win this one with a ray davis momentum touchdown

bills gameday song

visually, my son’s dirty diapers vs the two helmets featured in this oregon/iowa game

album is a wonderful, underheralded (in retrospect if not at the time) artifact of the high outlaw period that is really the work of an outsider's outsider

Great album, great artist, great interview.

while i was in 21 hours of labor on tuesday (...) the posts kept coming :) got the chance to speak with the inimitable and kind James Talley for Don't Rock The Inbox about the 50th anniversary of 'Got No Bread, No Milk, No Money But We Sure Got A Lot Of Love' www.dontrocktheinbox.com/james-talley...

Lovely interview with James Talley courtesy of DRTI @natalieweiner.bsky.social @marissarmoss.bsky.social

*corinne bailey rae voice* boy put your diaper on while your dad sings this song

I wrote about the irony of the AI bubble, a phenomenon driven by storytelling and imagination in an industry that has contempt for both

A big reason we started NCS was to address coverage equity and make sure fans, old and new, were aware of all the good in the game. It’s why I will always believe the watch guide is one of the most important things we do. Glad to be back on it this season.

you give don’t rock the inbox $2 (diapers for my kid) and every friday you get recs that carry you through the weekend www.dontrocktheinbox.com/put-a-record...

one more bump this week

fascinating breakdown by @txnewsprincess.bsky.social of a city getting offered millions to partner with ICE and turning it down www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/...

coming up with little songs to soothe my newborn baby and telling him that he and his mom’s love “is the main difference between me and lorenz hart but otherwise we are equally talented”

not being dramatic when i say this is why independent music journalism is meant to exist www.dontrocktheinbox.com/james-talley...

Dirk’s one of our finest relaxers.

breaking news i’m a dad

for this week’s My Time Back i wrote about Toci Ezi’s excellent debut novel This Kind Of Trouble and how a great writer can thoughtfully manipulate their reader mytimeback.beehiiv.com/p/this-kind-...

for this week’s My Time Back i wrote about Toci Ezi’s excellent debut novel This Kind Of Trouble and how a great writer can thoughtfully manipulate their reader mytimeback.beehiiv.com/p/this-kind-...

You heard me

monday album

billikens gameday 😈

jordan goodwin lighting up the spurs? 👀

bills/seahawks super bowl let’s make it happen

darnold’s throws are honestly pornographic

james buchanan collinsworth

you’re not gonna wanna hear this: sean mcdermott’s still got it (complimentary)

bills gameday song

if you search don williams on apple music or spotify the most recent album is this clear AI slop supposedly released friday. sounds like shit and has a different voice. real slap in the face to one of the greatest singers ever

saturday album

you think anyone ever played a blink 182 song for guy clark?

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

he truly killed this shit. real arrival stuff

“first posthumous release” really implies “we’re gonna crank so many of these out now that he’s gone”

friday album

Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker said that when activists sent a casket on her lawn, it was a threat on her life. But painted on casket itself was a very important clue to their likely intent, the hashtag #SayHerName I wrote about the history of symbolic caskets used in protest *against* violence.

one last time bumping this week’s My Time Back. just out here trying to write something that gives yall a breather from algorithms and makes you exhale without having to remind yourself to do it

the way this album makes me want to get better at things

Tom is reliably correct on everything but this point, on which he's so wrong it's hard to believe he wasn't hacked. There are only like 5 duds in this list, but ofc using the Hot 100 as a barometer of a year's musical quality is as useful using an actual barometer to check what time it is

you can easily make any seminal year look fishy pulling the reliably overly earnest year end hot 100. we think '91 is cool but year end says paula abdul and bryan adams ran shit. but 89 is the year rhythm nation, 3 feet high & rising, straight outta compton, countless 5 star joints find an audience.

hanging out with my friends talking about the sports podcast power list

they don’t make albums much more cathartic than this shit

perfect album

too many music rants lack…a point

ICYMI: I was interviewed by @natalieweiner.bsky.social at Don't Rock the Inbox about my book Soul-Folk (@3313books.bsky.social). Among the many, many things I hope you take away from it is that you need to listen to the Isley Brothers' Givin' It Back www.dontrocktheinbox.com/on-soul-folk...