really love that the platform selling tickets (sorry, allowing applications to maybe, if I’m lucky, possibly buy tickets) to the most expensive event I’ll ever attend in my life is a janky piece of web garbage that doesn’t even work #WorldCup26 ⚽️

World Party, Way Down Now, live on Letterman 🎵 youtu.be/G-UMi41pk…

possibly the best Tiny Desk concert that NPR has ever had: Diet Cig in 2017. three songs, less than ten minutes, a masterpiece of pure, joyful, & fabulous indie pop-punk 🎵 youtu.be/B-oxSercn…

Russel Taine Jr., Blind (take 1 live): youtu.be/bgGye6DPt… solid jam from a friend’s band’s new EP, out today & available on Bandcamp 🎵

if you still use twitter you support white supremacy

Neko Case, This Tornado Loves You, live on Letterman in 2009 🎵 youtu.be/bTL01SV3d…

Alexandra Petri: "Sometimes I wish I did not know the difference between correlation and causation. I think I would be happier. I would certainly have a lot more suggestions for solving problems. I could tell people, with a straight face, to wear suits to the airport to usher back in a golden age"

we still get some catalog junk mail, but it’s a lot less since I’ve gotten consistent about canceling them with CatalogChoice

Dessa, Fire Drills, live 🎵 youtu.be/UFdd5vYlk…

The Onion: Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process "Big Earl here’s got a masters in sociology from Vanderbilt, and nothin’ makes Big Earl madder’n generational cycles of systemic violence"

Indivisible: cancel Spotify "Spotify is exploiting the work of artists to line their pockets while recruiting for ICE – a secret police force that is terrorizing American communities. Spotify is actively amplifying the Trump regime’s drive to authoritarianism."

Florence + the Machine, Everybody Scream, live on Later… with Jools Holland 🎵 youtu.be/yNxhjJMi4…

The Guardian: Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ "“Normal. That’s the word,” Verbeek wrote in his newsletter. “[In Norway], taking care of one another through public programs isn’t radical socialism. It’s Tuesday.”"

The Beths, Straight Line Was a Lie, live on Kimmel (again, you’re welcome) 🎵 youtu.be/j42HHzUW1… looking forward to seeing them live Tuesday night!

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

at Genuine Joe’s (/Russell’s Bakery) ☕️ it’s not Joever till it’s Joever

No Kings Day is almost here. The Trump regime believes that if it can overwhelm us with atrocities and threats, we'll surrender our rights without fighting for them. But the people won’t bow down. We will rise. Join us at a peaceful protest on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Ruth Ben-Ghiat: War on America, Chicago Theater of Operations "I have studied Fascist and other authoritarian takeovers for decades and have remained in the United States to be a witness and real-time analyst of our own experience. Consider this as the first of a series of Lucid war bulletins."

Austin Verde 🏆 Nashville Gold It can only be one | #USOC2025

we just traveled there,, and it wasn’t “War ravaged” in the slightest. anyway, pretty funny letter home from the Portland front by Rebecca Solnit: "We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee ... https://chrisgrayson.net/2025/09/28/we-just-traveled-there-and/

Tricky, Black Steel 🎵 youtu.be/9RVObkXuZ… "I got a letter from the government the other day Opened and read it, it said they were suckers They wanted me for their army or whatever Picture me giving a damn, I said never"

Lorde, Solar Power 🎵 youtu.be/wvsP_lzh2… "It’s a new state of mind Are you comin’ my baby" happy Sun Day 🌞

is there anything more cool, dorky, human, & beautiful than a handful of people who can sing & play instruments performing cool, dorky, human, & beautiful songs they made up? yay for streaming & ubiquity, but no thank you to algorithms & autoplay & non-human “intelligence”

The Paranoyds, Bear, live 🎵 youtu.be/RUGkmPfkV…

canceled our Disney+ & Hulu subscriptions (this won’t be the first big company I’ve brought to their knees. remember when Starbucks used to charge for in-store wifi? I never paid, not once. you’re welcome)

The Clash, Know Your Rights, live in 1983 (!) 🎵 youtu.be/qxl3PRmaX… "#3 - you have the right to free speech so long as you’re not dumb enough to actually try it"

sunset, Newport OR

sunset, Newport OR

sunset, Newport OR

the current administration & Congress are cutting a bunch of energy-efficiency & solar rebates, but they’re still available through the end of the year. spend this money!

Los Campesinos, Romance is Boring, live on KEXP 🎵 youtu.be/tW3yLHgHy…

all set for October! or September. whichever comes first 🍺

Los Abandoned, _Van Nuys (Es Very Nice) 🎵 youtu.be/-OqmC4K9F…

​We are the 5th community to raise this banner, created by Austin supporters after Uvalde. We're united with all those communities in mourning for all tof those we've lost - and in the outrage that this banner will surely be needed again.

I finished the book Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe. it was great - sharp, hilarious, & warm 📚

10,000 Maniacs, Don’t Talk, live on Letterman, 1987 🎵 youtu.be/1v4m4SzmA…

The Guardian Gets It: https://chrisgrayson.net/2025/08/16/the-guardian-gets-it/

Janelle Monáe, Q.U.E.E.N., feat. Erykah Badu 🎵 youtu.be/tEddixS-U…

the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been shut down, but that doesn’t mean the end of PBS or NPR. it does mean they need direct support more than ever. PBS is cheaper than most streaming services & has lots of good shows. two words: Seaside Hotel

An update from us here at PBS 💙

M.I.A., Born Free - both from 2010 🎵 easy mode: live on Letterman hard mode: official video/short film (that warning card is not messing around)

Goose Island Beer Co.’s Bourbon County Vanilla Rye Stout (2024) 🍺 cheers, big brother 🍻

Julieta Venegas, Sin Documentos, live at The Kennedy Center 🎵 youtu.be/Ok4Cn1dT7…

The Sundays: A Certain Someone, “live” (video, at least) 🎵 youtu.be/Vrsq8L6Tu…

Wet Leg, Catch These Fists & CPR, live for 3voor12 🎵 youtu.be/AvrFys8jo… "is it fun? is this a vibe? is it love"

First Aid Kit - War Pigs, live 🎵 youtu.be/xXRcDERfn…

Ken “Popehat” White, with a beautiful July 4th story: "The America I love is not a stretch of soil or a place where the people of my blood lived and died. It’s a set of impudent and improbable goals: the rule of law and equality befor... https://chrisgrayson.net/2025/07/04/ken-popehat-white-with-a/

Sleater-Kinney, Dig Me Out, live on NPR 🎵 https://youtu.be/c620wBEOqLE

I finished the book The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. what a masterpiece of dystopian speculative fiction, it belongs right next to Orwell & Huxley 📚

Lucy Dacus, Ankles, live at Glastonbury today 🎵 youtu.be/TJT5Vnp0t…