It's now technically autumn! Here’s a few playlists with overt, subtle, or historical fall vibes. fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-5...

I don't particularly like this song and think this is a somewhat ahistorical take but isn't the issue with this song that it's grating? it's not even a little bland, it's aggressively quirky

🎵Roofman / come together with your hands / Tatum / playing some sort of con man🎵

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New free issue featuring a mid-80s alternative mixtape and new music from Selve, Snuggle, Winter, and Halloween fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-5...

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we need new rock guys who have a goofy hat collection like young Jeff Ament

I am just trying to understand how Wet Leg have a song called "Pokemon" on their new album which is almost certainly the most commercial tune they've made, the closest anyone's come to writing their own "1979," but they didn't promote it, and it's the only song they never play live

If you like R.E.M. I can't stress enough how fun it is to see these guys play the hell out of the IRS era songs and Shannon channels Stipe so well - get on this, it's so fun and you can count on R.E.M. never touring again

"WHAT REALLY WENT ON THERE?" 1985 = year I discovered Peel and therefore The Fall. Good list, this

enjoying a @routinelayup.bsky.social CD…and CDs in general… www.ienjoymusic.net/routine-layu...

New playlist 🌺YOU'VE BEEN RIPPED OFF🪻, a mid-80s alternative mixtape mostly focused on 1985 More accurately, this would be two 90 minute cassettes 🟢 Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/3tg... 🍎 Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... 📺 YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

i don't have to wish i were a mutant because i already am one

I cannot recommend these playlists highly enough. And all the other ones. Matthew never misses on these.

Some of my most popular playlists ever! Featuring music for the late 90s sophisticate, Black Beatles covers, electroclash, blog house, indie sleaze, alt-rock, college rock, and more. fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-5...

thanks to whomever RTed this into my feed. the playlists I've tried are terrific, such as the Black artists Beatles covers one

the amazing thing about music is that it can rock, rot, or rule

the NIN "peel it back" poster that you get to rip and modify is so cool - "ships flat some disassembly required" shop.nin.com/products/pee...

Some of my most popular playlists ever! Featuring music for the late 90s sophisticate, Black Beatles covers, electroclash, blog house, indie sleaze, alt-rock, college rock, and more. fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-5...

congratulations to Hot Chip for joining Madonna, Squeeze, Hall & Oates, Steve Miller Band, New Order, and Buzzcocks in the "artist who have a hits compilation that is clearly their definitive masterpiece album" category

fyi whoever has this email account, it's not me, block and disregard them

Anyone can make an alt rock playlist w Blind Melon on it but it takes a REAL HEAD to include a Live song that isn’t Lightning Crashes or I Alone

ALT-CRUNCHY: NEO-HIPPIE, JAM BAND, AND FOLKY VIBES 1992-1998 It's that time of year again! Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/5IX... Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

when I see kids make tasteless jokes about 9/11 - a historical tragedy I witnessed in person - I just think about how I should've made a lot of Pearl Harbor jokes as a teenager, missed opportunity

curious about what led to Haim having Dora Jar or Flowerovlove open all the shows on their tour except Madison Square Garden, which got a Fcukers DJ set announced last minute - why not just have Fcukers play at least? is this a revenue thing because it's much bigger show?

one of the biggest misheard lyrics disappointments of my life was when I found out Tame Impala was not singing "because I'm a man, woman / don't mistake me for a dude"

I was so hoping they'd do "She's Gone Away" when STC was there, and they did

New issue of the Fluxblog newsletter features the latest in my series of playlists chronicling the history of indie/alternative music, this time covering the recent past fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-5...

Today @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social published a review of Y2K by Kristen Felicetti. My favorite part was how she noticed that, by centering memoir, I avoided telling a (false) universal story about how “everyone” experienced Y2K, which would have been impossible. lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

yup every playlist I've done over the past 5 years or so is on Spotify AND Apple and usually also YouTube music.apple.com/profile/matt...

true in pretty much every era: PEOPLE ARE EXCITED ABOUT A NEW SINGER-SONGWRITER GUY WITH THE WORST SINGING VOICE YOU'VE EVER HEARD

New playlist INDIE IN THE ALGORITHMIC AGE 2015-2019 - bringing my chronology of the story of indie/alternative up to the recent past, when streaming changed everything 🔺 Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/7Lr... 🔴 Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... 🟥 YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

New issue of the Fluxblog newsletter features the latest in my series of playlists chronicling the history of indie/alternative music, this time covering the recent past fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-5...

finally some nostalgia for elder Gen Zs

oh man I feel very nostalgic for some of this

Nine Inch Nails and King Gizzard synth table techno sets in the middle of rock shows... this is an innovation I strongly endorse

coming home from a NIN show to watch a new Alien Earth... truly living a beautiful dark twisted fantasy tonight

a lot of young people don't know that back in the 90s pills used to be jagged and little, they've only ever known a world full of huge smooth pills

finally some nostalgia for elder Gen Zs

New playlist INDIE IN THE ALGORITHMIC AGE 2015-2019 - bringing my chronology of the story of indie/alternative up to the recent past, when streaming changed everything 🔺 Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/7Lr... 🔴 Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... 🟥 YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Once again recommending @fluxblog.bsky.social for expertly & tastefully curated playlists that take you on journeys of music discovery and history. I just saw his early-2000s OTHER MUSIC playlists and got such a blast of NYC college nostalgia. Follow him! open.spotify.com/user/1230590...

Coming up soon I’ll be adding a new playlist to this chronology picking up the history of indie/alternative in the second half of the 2010s! fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-4...

Coming up soon I’ll be adding a new playlist to this chronology picking up the history of indie/alternative in the second half of the 2010s! fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-4...

Want do you want to hear? Art rock classics, post-punk art-funk greats, soul shakers, soft rock, indie sleaze bangers? Got ‘em all right here: fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-5...

King PU$$Y Eater never recovered from this

Over 1 hour of clips from videotaped Other Music NYC in-store performances: Blonde Redhead, Teenage Fanclub, Ida, The Rapture, Mayo Thompson, Momus, The Clientele, Handsome Boy Modeling School and many many many more youtu.be/XEMaYswpv-I

Want do you want to hear? Art rock classics, post-punk art-funk greats, soul shakers, soft rock, indie sleaze bangers? Got ‘em all right here: fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-5...

a lot of records get remastered anniversary editions and it's kinda whatever but the new Machina/The Machines of God significantly fixes the album, which had a distinctly bad mix/mastering job - it's so much better now

This issue features new songs by Ghostface Killah, Big Thief, and Ami Taf Ra, plus McCARREN POOL PARTIES ERA 2006-2008, a compilation of artists who played the famous pool shows in Greenpoint, Brooklyn fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-5...

it's humbling, in a good way, that despite how much I pay attention to contemporary music and track it in detail through various projects, I still often find myself in the position of finding out there's artists I have never ever heard of who can play arenas