I created a 100-song Spotify playlist for Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music 1969-2000. Click here for it and my introduction.

For the usual weekly music thoughts, a couple of quick live show reports. (Was @programme4.tv with a post-show interview of @rachellichtman.bsky.social by @pulmyears.bsky.social all that? Yes it was, friends, yes it was.)

It took me some time to get my head around how Cait Brennan blends 50s rockabilly with 80s contemporary rock and just a splash of Prince, fully sqeezed and filtered through a 90s college rock to create something that sounds not just unique, but uniquely -real- and grounded in this day and age.

And now time for the @rachellichtman.bsky.social awesomeness. With bonus @pulmyears.bsky.social and @sydneyaja.bsky.social of course, as is correct and proper.

Oh, AI, never change.

Eisenhower’s all-staff email ahead of D-Day:

Some of my favorites

Andy Merrill (Brak) is an Amazon delivery driver. Carey Means (Frylock) got CHF from/exacerbated by COVID & was recently working as a restaurant dishwasher. C. Martin Croker (Zorak) died of sepsis from an infected tooth he couldn't afford to get treated. Capitalism destroys both art & artist.

Discrimination based on gender identity or expression is illegal in New York City. Trans New Yorkers are protected by law. Our City will protect your rights, defend your humanity and stand beside you without hesitation.

Now live: Letting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 33 - John C. McGinley, during which we discuss his Emmy-worthy performances on Rooster and the return of Scrubs, working with Oliver Stone on Platoon, and his experiences on Office Space and other films willharris.substack.com/p/letting-th...

Me too, kitty cat. Me too.

Outstanding write-up of @rachellichtman.bsky.social's glorious Programme 4 roadshow--if you're in range of the final three shows, you owe it to yourself (and to the Browner Corporation) to be there!

This week, songs about dears from @aimeemann.bsky.social, @pugwalsh.bsky.social, @caitbrennan.bsky.social, @theeminus5.bsky.social and more!

Without stating your age post a movie that released when you turned 18.

This peak America250 news item happened in my mom's hometown, so maybe i can persuade the Shotgun Dog Army to give me a running start.

If you like labradorite and/or sparkly things and/or digital art that is not genAI, can I interest you in some of my bookmarks? wyrdingstudios.com/products/lab... P.S. they now ship for free in the US

Seriously, if you're in the Chicago are and don't attend this show, you'll miss out on a one-of-a-kind roster of talent, incl. @richkoz.bsky.social, @frankconniff.bsky.social, @tracebeaulieu.bsky.social, @joelmurray9of9.bsky.social, @norao.bsky.social and many more. Get tix while you still can!

Today we honor the brave men who gave their lives fighting against everything Donald Trump stands for and believes in.

For the holiday weekend bandcamp's got my first three albums for super cheap! I'm in the middle of a huge distribution change so for the near future this is the only way to hear 'em, and I stuck a few bonus items in there to make it worthwhile. caitbrennan.bandcamp.com/music has the goods.

For the holiday weekend bandcamp's got my first three albums for super cheap! I'm in the middle of a huge distribution change so for the near future this is the only way to hear 'em, and I stuck a few bonus items in there to make it worthwhile. caitbrennan.bandcamp.com/music has the goods.

Dr. Cyclops made one mistake and that was not having a catchy theme song. Or Billy Barty as a sidekick. That's two mistakes. youtu.be/Biicfplhygo #svengoolie

My mom took me to this very weird movie at a drive-in when I was seven and it still haunts my nightmares. Definitely memorable, as you'll read here...

Celebrating Dr. Robert Moog, on his birthday.

Today is the last day to comment to the FCC that LGBTQIA2S+ names, stories, identities don't need a warning label. This new potential rulemaking is an attempt at criminalizing the mere fact of being trans or otherwise queer, in the name of discrimination, bigotry, and persecution. Tell them no, now.

A bit of news: as of today I've officially regained the rights to my entire catalog from both Sire/Warners and the great folks at Omnivore. Most of my music has temporarily disappeared from streaming but it'll be back shortly along with new & prev. unreleased songs etc. caitbrennan.bandcamp.com

A fond farewell to Stephen Colbert tonight, and a hearty fuck you to CBS and the Ellison goons who canceled him.

Quote with a fictional band that isn't Spinal Tap

Chicagoland pals, an absolutely legendary lineup of music and comedy superstars await you at @rachellichtman.bsky.social's Programme 4 supershow May 27th at Space in Evanston. You gotta get there! Tix: www.ticketweb.com/event/progra...

Also all books by trans and non-binary people would be banned in schools. Sometimes it feels like everyone is truly just curling up in a ball, covering their ears, and yelling LALALA until it’s their turn

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan

Congrats, Google. We now have unreliable AI narrators of impoverished information sources, representing their hallucinations as truth. I'm glad I learned to use a card catalog when I was a kid, because fuck this. I'm going to the library. (3/3)

The existence of Wired magazine presupposes the existence of Tired magazine, to which I would very much like to subscribe.

TRANS GIRLS WITH GLASSES

I'm thrilled to share this new indie horror short from my dear friends Brett Truett and Fara Zimmerman, featuring a bevy of Cait Brennan songs old and (very) new! Very grateful to be a part of it! youtu.be/zhUyqVBtGks?...

Tonight’s @programme4.tv show at @wfmu.bsky.social’s Monty Hall was fantastic. Amazing crowd, the final version of the show is incredible, @rachellichtman.bsky.social was downright INSPIRING in the Q&A, etc. If you’re in the NYC area, PLEASE come to the next one at Le Poisson Rouge on July 16!

I'm thrilled to share this new indie horror short from my dear friends Brett Truett and Fara Zimmerman, featuring a bevy of Cait Brennan songs old and (very) new! Very grateful to be a part of it! youtu.be/zhUyqVBtGks?...

ALL RIGHT I am down to the last two shows for my Boston Fringe debut! GOOD SEATS ARE STILL AVAILABLE! Strictly limited engagement!!!!!

Great to hear one of history's most notorious mass murderers weigh in on Hollywood casting news. Definitely keep breathlessly reporting his every utterance without ever holding him accountable for, y'know, the murders.

REVIEW: burnunit kicks off with some straightforward country songs on GIRL FRIEND – "Transgender Hick" is perhaps the trans country album of our time -- but it's the experimental places burnunit takes us after that hit hard. Read the full review here! rainbowrodeomag.com/...

If you see this, post a STAR TREK

Inexcusably rude of our students to turn their backs on graduation speaker Augusto Pinochet

It is one of the many broken things in our discourse that people who live happily in multi-ethnic big cities are in a “bubble,” yet somehow these fearful white cowards are “real Americans.” The bubble they live in is choking them to death.

Jarvis Cocker exploring distant galaxies atop his intergalactic space-tiger.

Everyone knows Hollywood is fucked, but most people don't actually know why. The studios used the strikes as cover to cancel a full 1/3rd of TV production across the board. 1/3 of TV cast & crew are out of work. Fully. There just aren't jobs for them. Many are people who made your favorite shows.

I'm so old, when I first moved to the Haight, that Fotomat was a Fotomat. This is a much cooler use (and I'm glad it's still there!)

before and after smoking a big explosive cartoon cigar

I'm devastated. I had one last question for Jeeves and now it'll never be answered...

Perfect day to support great independent artists and this is ABSOLUTELY an instabuy for me.

I am unbelievably honoured that I was able to work on @cine-matographe.bsky.social 's new 4k release of COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME. I recorded an audio commentary track and my TCM segment is also included as a bonus feature. This film means a great deal to me vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...