Happy 75th Birthday to Chris Frantz – drummer and co-founder of both the Talking Heads and the Tom Tom Club, born on May 8, 1951, in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, USA. 📸 Tom Hill #punkrock #postpunk #newwave #chrisfrantz #talkingheads #tomtomclub #punkrockhistory #otd

Folks, pls don't share photos godforsaken Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social thieves circulate. Screenshot of a tweet looks like crap. No credit to photographer, a Black man. Support @nashvillebanner.bsky.social! Credit: Martin B. Cherry/Nashville Banner nashvillebanner.com/2026/05/07/t...

every day i find an incredible guy (from a painting scroll attributed to qiu ying called "raising the alms bowl: the conversion of hariti, mother of demons) asia.si.edu/explore-art-...

I’m trying to plan out my ~speaking events~ for the rest of the year. if you work at a university or community college or a union and would like to have me come yap to your people, drop me an email!

Marblehead (where I grew up) deserves the attention it’s getting from this extremely cool dude but it is unfortunately not alone in “meeting” 3A requirements in a way where no housing will actually be built. If you’re in MA, channel this moment’s energy into changing the law. #Chowder #Nomar

Circe (from Southie) gives our hero a stern warning - he may lose a few goons if he goes too close to Boylston St, but if he goes too close to Comm Ave the whole voyage will be lost

you kid but a version of the odyssey where someone gets lost as shit trying to drive back home through boston while having various adventures could be great

Anyone who’s taken the 66 from Mission Hill to Harvard Square knows exactly how Odysseus felt.

www.untidyradio.com is looking for shows. Old or new. Dust off that podcast. If you'd like to create a show but don't know how, let us know, and we can show you how. Can be talk, music or both. #musicsky

Too hilarious lmao

This is Wynn. She insists on her human's full attention before jumping into the water. Not gonna do anything fancy, just likes an audience. 14/10 (IG: wynn_thegolden)

Other alternate headline. Ticketmaster is charging way too much for concert tickets with their dynamic price gouging and everyone is broke right now.

I DO NOT WANT TO 'CHAT WITH MY FILES'

Wednesday, May 6th *underlining represents Maine based musicians

according to this package of oreos i am a family

If you'd like to get your music reviewed, read the submission guidelines and send it in. It's FREE and low obligation. You won't hate it, I promise. www.etherdiver.com/other-people...

I think if you work in a creative field, this is the goal: to generate enough goodwill over time that your involvement alone makes a risky idea seem like a slam dunk

It was pretty remarkable to see these things. A sunset below clouds from above the horizon. A plane making what looked like a wake across clouds below. Mt St Helens (I think) peaking through sunset-lit clouds looking like another planet. Mt Ranier glowing blue above clouds in early morning.

time to repost one of my favorite images

it’s like they forget there’s a real person behind this account

46 years ago "Holiday in Cambodia" is the second single by the American punk rock band Dead Kennedys, released in May 1980 with "Police Truck" as the B-side. #punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #deadkennedys #history #punkrockhistory

I think about this comic all the time.

💀❌🏹 #art #illustration

Adulthood is just cycling between "If I don't say yes to every opportunity, no new opportunities will ever be offered to me" and "Oh no, I have said yes to too many things" over and over until you die.

Major publishers sue Meta for copyright infringement over AI training www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Whenever Bandcamp Friday rolls around, I like to remind folks that every day is BC Fri on @ampwall.com. Want 100% of your purchase to go to the artist? Check a box to cover the artist cut (which is like 25 cents on a $5 album)! There are a miriad of other ways Ampwall is great. Check it out!

I’m 41 years old today. Use the code fuckmybackhurts On bandcamp for 95% off from now until and through that asshole Bono’s birthday ( May 10th ) imrryr.bandcamp.com

Sunlight inside boston city hall r/brutalism

Updated ArtemisTimeline.com with about 100 photos from the new drop! You can click "new crew photos" if you just want to see the new ones!

Welp, there it is. (We’d heard they’d started looking at Smith; I guess it’s official now.) Another hit in a rough month for the Five Colleges, but we’ve got your back, Smith.

In tempestuous times like these, after everything above and aloft has been secured, nothing more can be done but passively to await the issue of the gale.

I recall Rob Halford saying something like "If we were going to put subliminal messages on our records, they'd say buy more of our records."

The introduction of synthesizers into global pop music, focusing on different regions and genres.

Spirit Halloween has the chance to do the funniest thing…

NASA just dropped 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. Too many to add to ArtemisTimeline.com, so I just put up a tool at ArtemisTimeline.com/vote so that people can vote on small batches allowing for all of the images to be sorted! (yes, I posted this before, but I had to fix something!)

each state should have their own derby

great hearts sometimes condense to one deep pang, the sum total of those shallow pains kindly diffused through feebler men’s whole lives

There doesn't seem to be a book about Foreigner either, or Pat Benatar, or KC and the Sunshine Band. We need way more books about mid-tier artists, we don't need another book about Dylan

Con artists posing as ICE agents and immigration officers are using WhatsApp and fake court hearings to bilk vulnerable people out of their savings with empty promises to fix immigration problems. As mass deportations continue, scam complaints soar.

Yes please futurism.com/artificial-i...

i have one (1) space that opened up in the may issue. if anyone wants to either a) write something in the next week; b)do a q&a; c)have me reprint something you wrote on your blog or elsewhere, please hit me up. i have two spots available for june

1/2 After another Bandcamp Friday, a reminder that @ampwall.com and @mirlo.space exist. Mirlo is worker owned and operates under principles of sociocracy www.sociocracyforall.org/sociocracy/ and artists/bands can choose how much per sale they allocate to Mirlo.

Saturday, May 2nd *underlining represents Maine based musicians

It remains very weird to me that in a world of actually useful technology -- photovoltaic power generation, mRNA vaccines, maglev trains, smart phones, etc -- the tech sector has gone so all-in on bullshit generators and plagiarism machines.

Dogs’ reactions when you ask them if they want a walk.

First Friday, May 1st *underlining represents Maine based musicians

The Balcony, by Édouard Manet, 1868-69, 📸 by Sarah Stier

Let me emphasize Liz's point here: Who benefits from you believing that these campaigns work? Agencies are just sales people, selling marketing services. They don't really care if they work, but they care if clients believe they do.