So inspiring

Happy Herb Day to you all! In honor of Mr. Alpert’s 91st birthday, I’m revisiting my favorite of his “deep cuts” over at Jagged Time Lapse… danepstein.substack.com/p/herbal-rem...

In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

This is easily one of my fave baseball books ever. Dan's Big Hair and Plastic Grass & this one form the perfect 70's baseball books out there.

Today at Jagged Time Lapse: Flashing back on the musical legacy of The Year of The Fonz. danepstein.substack.com/p/sit-on-it

Great book! D&J Glove Repair recommended.

Since today is MLB Opening Day - and this year marks the 50th anniversary of the incredible 1976 season - I figured I oughta remind y’all that Stars & Strikes, my favorite of my three baseball books, is still in print and can be obtained via your favorite online or brick-and-mortar book purveyor!

Today at Jagged Time Lapse: Part Two of my extensive 2021 interview with Motörhead guitarist Phil Campbell, in which he recalls the messiness of Lemmy’s West Hollywood apartment and grooving to ABBA, The Eagles and ELO on the Motörhead tour bus. danepstein.substack.com/p/phil-campb...

7 years ago, we learned about Bob Mueller’s conclusions. Today, there are a lot of posts on social media claiming it was a farce, or worse, a fraud. But those posts are disinformation. Here is the actual information, with links for those who want to do a deep dive. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

During my junior year of college, I attended a record release party in NYC for Robyn Hitchcock's wonderful Globe of Frogs album, which turned out to be one of the more mortifying evenings of my life. Read all about it at the latest Jagged Time Lapse... danepstein.substack.com/p/leave-the-...

Today at Jagged Time Lapse: Saluting the passing of long-serving Motörhead guitarist Phil Campbell with a flashback to an extensive interview I did with him back in 2021. danepstein.substack.com/p/rip-motorh...

Today at Jagged Time Lapse: Flashing back on my favorite non-musical Elvis film moment, one which Basil Ermine (or whatever the hell his name is) has apparently not included in EPiC. danepstein.substack.com/p/elvis-and-...

During my last two years of high school, no school dance was complete without at least one Squeeze song, so my inner 16 year-old pretty much flipped at the chance to speak with Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook last week about Trixies, Squeeze's wonderful new album: floodmagazine.com/218253/squee...

Easing into Friday with quite possibly the smoothest album of 1978.

Today at Jagged Time Lapse: Flashing back to March '78, and Paul McCartney's uncanny ability to inject a bit of sunshine into even the dreariest of late winter/early spring days. danepstein.substack.com/p/we-can-mak...

The American people have sacrificed enough. Stop the war. Tax the billionaires.

Today at Jagged Time Lapse: Various thoughts on a handful of recently-watched rock docs, weird dreams and processed meats. danepstein.substack.com/p/we-could-b...

The costs of this Iran war debacle will likely be more than the cost of extending the ACA health insurance subsidies. If you asked Americans, which do you want: another war in the Middle East or lower health care costs at home, is the margin 90 to 10? 95 to 5?

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff. For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2069...

Today at Jagged Time Lapse: Some thoughts on electric sitars, including the one I bought a couple of weeks ago. danepstein.substack.com/p/sitar-me-up

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

Somehow I missed this jam while writing my tribute to the late Mickey Lolich

Today at Jagged Time Lapse: Flashing back to February 1976 with the help of some Billboard charts and mind-blowing videos from Cat Stevens, Telly Savalas and C.W. McCall! danepstein.substack.com/p/it-was-50-...

Today at Jagged Time Lapse: Flashing back on the late, great Mickey Lolich and the 1968 funk jam that bears his name. danepstein.substack.com/p/from-sixty...

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

I found a beat-up M-Audio Axiom 25 at my local dump this past summer. In today's Jagged Time Lapse, I write about how it has been helping to keep me at least somewhat sane in these dark and trying times. danepstein.substack.com/p/night-errand

It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.

Today at Jagged Time Lapse: Part Two of my interview with Zombies lead vocalist Colin Blunstone, in which we go track by track through Odessey and Oracle. In this part, we discuss the middle third of the album, along with the band’s unusual vocal blend… danepstein.substack.com/p/colin-blun...

One thing that might get a little overlooked here is how important it is that DHS is massively exaggerating arrest totals (10k??). What people on the ground know is that immigration enforcement is barely occurring, and ICE/DHS are really conducting a terror campaign in the guise of enforcement.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

For those needing a little levity in this dark stretch, the new episode of the CROSSED CHANNELS podcast finds Tony Fletcher and I discussing some of our favorite live recordings while he flips me shit for being increasingly lax in my gig attendance. danepstein.substack.com/p/love-you-l...

Annual reminder that King didn't say *people* should be judged by their character rather than their skin. He said he dreamed of a future day when *his children* would live in such a state, while observing they did not; that U.S. had never delivered on its founding promises.

i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good

Today at Jagged Time Lapse: Part One of my extensive interview with Colin Blunstone of The Zombies, in which we (among other things) go track-by-track through Odessey and Oracle! danepstein.substack.com/p/colin-blun...

Have we really just passed the anniversary of the greatest Replacements gig I ever saw? The calendar doesn’t lie, so I’m reposting a piece I wrote about the Tim box set, which contains a disc devoted to that incredible 1/11/86 show at Chicago’s Cabaret Metro. danepstein.substack.com/p/flashback-...

Today at Jagged Time Lapse: Reposting an appreciation of the Screaming Trees — including recollections of their two absolutely unforgettable Chicago shows that I witnessed in person. danepstein.substack.com/p/you-just-w...

Coming this Spring & Summer: MAKE THE SCENE with the Programme 4 Fall Preview Tour, featuring a screening of Programme 4 television now with an exclusive preview of an all-new half hour programme4.tv/makethescene

Part of “Which Side Are You On?” involves regularly asking myself who’s on that side with me, *enough.* Not, “who who was slow to catch on,” or “who doesn’t fight fascism the way I think we should,” or even “who *used* to be on the wrong side?” Just, who, like me, knows fascism must fall.

I am at a vigil for Renee Good at St Mark's in the Bowery. They handed out cards bearing the names of people killed by ICE in this second Trump era. There are a lot of cards.

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

This slogan adopted by Kristi Noem, "One of Ours, All of Yours," is taken from the Nazis, who retaliated for the killing of an SS officer by murdering all the inhabitants of the Czech village of Lidice, apparently none of whom had anything to do with it, and razing the village to the ground.

Good and timely read from my friend Dan. "You might think that there’s nothing you can do about our current predicament, but if Curtis were here today, he’d tell you otherwise — that there’s strength in our numbers, and that we can all do something, even if none of us can do everything."

Today at Jagged Time Lapse: Turning (once again) in times of trouble to the inspiring songs of Curtis Mayfield. danepstein.substack.com/p/withdraw-f...

I’m with The King on this one… www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-pP... #happybirthdayelvis #fuckfascism #AbolishICE

The ICE agent who murdered Renee Good must be prosecuted for murder. He enjoys no immunity from state murder charges. Then, Blue state governors must call up their National Guard to protect us from the armed ICE terrorists. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Today at Jagged Time Lapse: Flashing back to my 2020 interview with Jody Stephens about the making (and legacy) of Big Star's #1 Record and Radio City... danepstein.substack.com/p/jody-steph...

My column on Renee Nicole Good and the miserable, wretched souls trying to justify the actions of an ICE agent who shot her dead: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.

Today at Jagged Time Lapse: Still ringing in the New Year, this time with a viewing of MTV's NYE 1983 bash, featuring Pee-Wee Herman, live sets from Billy Idol, Stray Cats and Cyndi Lauper, and an air of endearing haphazardness that would soon be MIA. danepstein.substack.com/p/the-first-...