Pulling into my parking lot with the windows down and “Cumbersome” on the stereo, insisting that the Yarl isn’t dead.

Car Seat Headrest re-recorded “1937 State Park” for its 10th anniversary, so I rewrote my post about “1937 State Park” from 10 years ago. Also, I very strongly recommend the Meghan Dowlen record I wrote about in this issue! +new songs by Meg Stalter & Fundido. fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-6...

Car Seat Headrest re-recorded “1937 State Park” for its 10th anniversary, so I rewrote my post about “1937 State Park” from 10 years ago. Also, I very strongly recommend the Meghan Dowlen record I wrote about in this issue! +new songs by Meg Stalter & Fundido. fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-6...

the rule of used records is you will see certain artists/titles in bins over and over for years but the second you actually want it, they'll suddenly never turn up

oh this is gonna be a TREAT stereogum.com/2497957/the-...

"Stuck culture" is the ultimate dumb-intellectual rhetorical notion of the 2020s and I'll tell you why you should be DEEPLY EMBARRASSED to ever indulge it

NERD WAVE 1978-1982, a look back on a pivotal post-punk moment in which the nerd emerges as a new wave rock archetype with a distinctive twitchy affect Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/1Gh... Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

TEEN CITY ROCK: POWER POP ERA 1974-1980 A lot of catchy songs about girls, boys, crushes, being a teen, hating school, and loving parties and rock & roll. Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/17p... Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

very interesting how the 3 biggest Dire Straits songs - "Sultans of Swing," "Walk of Life," "Money for Nothing," all mega-hits - are about audiences observing musicians

Every song reminds me of a summer spent hanging out at the roller rink and going to pool parties. Perfection.

This shit is so fire I got second degree burns

m y g o d i t ' s f u l l o f s t a r s

New issue features the THIS WAS SUMMER 1989 playlist, plus new songs from ISTA, Spacemoth, Olof Dreijer, and Smerz, and a look at Harry Styles and Lizzo in flop mode fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-6...

the concert industry has wildly overestimated the number of rich people that exist today

New issue features the THIS WAS SUMMER 1989 playlist, plus new songs from ISTA, Spacemoth, Olof Dreijer, and Smerz, and a look at Harry Styles and Lizzo in flop mode fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-6...

Dang, that's bug spray and Suave shampoo and sunburns and magazine collages and crumpled notes to boys left unsent

About to be my whole personality

You can’t tell me time travel isn’t real.

Matt, doing the Lord's work and reminding us that Living Colour's "Cult of Personality" was brutally snubbed by Rolling Stone's Best Solos list and should have been in the Top 20.

AFK (hanging in a buffalo stance)

An excellent summer. We were so lucky to have Prince. And New Wave wasn’t quite dead yet.

New playlist THIS WAS SUMMER 1989, flashing back to the summer when we all danced with the devil in the pale moonlight 🎱 Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/6rh... 9️⃣ Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... 💓 YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Here's a preview of the opening sweep...

when you were a kid, what song sounded like "the future" to you? for me, it was this, and it still kinda does www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9gO...

BELIEVE IN ANYTHING: CANADIAN INDIE ROCK IN THE 2000s is new-ish (I think) and an idea I’ve had rattling around in my head for years. As usual, Fluxblog Delivers 🫡

I have THIS IS SUMMER playlists for the following years: 1967, 1969, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2016. Which years should I do next?

We had this going at dinner last night and the 9yo got a full education on both the era and the teenage versions of her folks.

For Billy Joel’s birthday, I’m re-upping @fluxblog.bsky.social’s 🎯 tweet.

against my better judgment I put on a youtube video arguing that 1985 is the most important year of X-Men and was blown away by this guy pronouncing Samuel Guthrie as "Samuel Goo-thair-eee" and I don't know how anyone would arrive at that

hot damn

New issue features the WHAT WAS SUMMER 1995 playlist and new songs by Isaiah Rashad, RIP Magic, April + Vista, and Chenayder fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-6...

New issue features the WHAT WAS SUMMER 1995 playlist and new songs by Isaiah Rashad, RIP Magic, April + Vista, and Chenayder fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-6...

I'm looking over this playlist and thinking "Well I love a lot of these songs but I don't necessarily have huge adolescent emotional memories attached to—" and then I got to "Blind" and "Stars" back to back

Oh yeah

It was nice of Matt to make a playlist exclusively for me.

Sharp shit, babe

music did not peak during my senior year of high school but it sure got pretty damn good

New playlist THIS WAS SUMMER 1995, recreating the most boombastic summer in human history 🥗Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/0vk... 🍎Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... 🐠YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I am an incredibly picky person when it comes to the curation of music + very rarely trust the playlists of others, but I have to sing the praises of @fluxblog.bsky.social, who has yet to let me down with his incredible mixes (on a WIDE variety of very specific themes) on Spotify.

I can’t decide if he’s doing cosplay of The Most Interesting Man In The World or if this is that KFC campaign where people take over as the new Colonel

This is a great playlist that my baby absolutely hated. Though I can't tell if that was because she could tell I was trying to blatantly manufacture an emotional moment, or if she was simply overstimulated by all the bleeps and bloops.

Man, we really never had a chance, did we.

New playlist MILLENNIAL BRIGHTNESS, the immediately identifiable sound of a more optimistic era, 2011-2015. It features music by Ellie Goulding, Chvrches, Purity Ring, Charli XCX, Phantogram, Taylor Swift, Tegan & Sara, Haim, Carly Rae Jepsen, etc fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-6...

Somewhere right now in an abandoned mall this playlist is echoing through a cavernous Urban Outfitters whose polished concrete floors have known no footfalls in years. A tree is growing through the ceiling. Moss has entombed the graphic tees

New playlist MILLENNIAL BRIGHTNESS, the immediately identifiable sound of a more optimistic era, 2011-2015. 🔆Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/5VJ... 🌟Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... ☀️YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

the new Lime Garden record is one of my favorites from this year so far, really fun and strong, and also has that distinct mid 2000s "could be in an iPod ad" vibe www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUNs...

New playlist MILLENNIAL BRIGHTNESS, the immediately identifiable sound of a more optimistic era, 2011-2015. 🔆Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/5VJ... 🌟Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... ☀️YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

My collection of playlists covering the history of "alternative" is updated, we're now up to 44 fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-4...

this is one of Phoenix's most obscure songs, it's also one of their very best - they should consider circling back to this sort of peculiar French R&B www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm0x...

My collection of playlists covering the history of "alternative" is updated, we're now up to 44 fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-4...

I feel like every restaurant or store or whatever that plays music over the speakers should just pick a new playlist from @fluxblog.bsky.social every day instead of whatever algorithmic automated radio station thing they've got going on. Immediate vibe upgrade music.apple.com/profile/matt...