Maybe it was Peppermint Lounge. What matters—PINK GINGHAM BUNNY SUIT. And Gang of Four showed up backstage all dressed as cowboys

Oh wow. Terrible news.

#RockHall prediction: Likely to be inducted: Carey, Collins, Hill, INXS, Sade, Buckley, Maiden Who should get inducted: Vandross, New Order, Maiden, INXS, Wu-Tang, Buckley, Carey

repost if you’re older than this calendar that’s been barely hanging on in grandma’s house since september 1996

One of his more overlooked singles. Great track, liebling!

I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were: MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles) Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna) MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls) MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)

If some guy stole my shit and made millions off it while wiping out my job prospects, and you, as my friend, bought that guy's cheap mass market replica of my shit, you and i would for obvious reasons have a problem. It being a massive company, not a guy, actually makes it even more of a problem.

I mean, Leppard were never really a “hair” band, so the guy’s opinion is suspect anyway.

It had a lot to do with how record companies were selling CDs, especially for rock and alternative artists. They held back commercial singles to get you to buy the album, or marketed promo only singles to certain markets. Apple has five AAA Top 20 hits but only one Billboard Hot 100 due to this.

Every Breath You Take With Or Without You Love Hurts I Will Always Love You Without You Love The Way You Lie You’re Beautiful Crash Into Me He Hit Me (It Felt Like A Kiss) I Will Possess Your Heart The One I Love Hello I Will Follow You Into The Dark Why do people not read lyric sheets?!?

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

This single (and album) changed my life.

The album that kickstarted my Bowiephilia. Now I have just about everything he recorded.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Indeed. Changed my ears forever.

I think about this a lot. There is an argument that “Hysteria” is the Mount Everest of the form. Mutt and the band threw everything they could at the structure of rock and this was as much as it could take and still wildly succeed. Try to do more and it’s nonsense. Try to do less, it’s reactionary.

Revisiting Kiss a bit since Frehley’s death. They’re really not that great a band, if we’re honest. They stumble on a hook, then underserve it with single-entendres. But this! This song has a great feel all the way through. Wonder if Frehley actually played on it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m_c...

There are some days I feel this is the best song Prince ever recorded. Today was one of those days. So was yesterday. Maybe tomorrow, too…

Women don’t care about the Cybertruck. The wonderful woman in my life wants only one thing.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

One of his very best singles. And that’s saying something.

Remember when Tuesday ruled cuz new CDs came out??

Haven’t watched it in a while but Timberlake’s face. Iggy to the suits: “FEEL the music. Feel SOMETHING.”

I guess I have three therapists.

I love David Lee Roth saying “the reason the critics like Elvis Costello more than us is because they all look like Elvis Costello.” And also Tokyo Storm Warning rules. Blood and Chocolate is solid. I’m sure Costello hates Halen. Music is a land of contrasts

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

This is, by some distance, my favorite John Mayer song.

I miss having shared cultutal moments that aren't traumatic.

Don't look now, the Brewers have a better record than the Dodgers. 👀

Would have improved the drill scene. #CmonSteveGetIt

The workout feels extra effective when they’re playing Def Leppard at Planet Fitness

Peter, Bjorn and John. I remember thinking when they hit: This is where indie rock is going? I started listening mostly to electronic music for a while there.

I rode the elevator with Salman Rushdie, guiding him to a studio interview. We talked about lakes.

Hard to guess when you’ve been listening for almost 40 (gulp) years: Hysteria Animal Gods of War But some tracks from Slang, Retro Active, Pyromania and even Diamond Star Halos sneak into the Top 10.

Lovely interview with Jarvis Cocker about creativity by @annkpowers.bsky.social. And it just so happens to involve additional creativity by @rosepkid.bsky.social. Reinforces Cocker’s point that we’re all surrounded by people who need to create to express the unspoken. www.npr.org/2025/06/08/n...

Does this prove my point that anything with an electric guitar (possibly all guitars) is now Dad Rock?

First CD bought. 1991. I was an aspiring high school DJ at the time. Needed popular tracks and quick.

All rock music is Dad Rock in 2025. Someone recently told me The National was Dad Rock. So, basically, anything with an electric guitar now.

Just as interesting? Songs marketing tried to ruin, hammering us again and again, but it was too damn strong. This one stands head and shoulders above that crowd. Soundtracking cruise ship squares only made it seem *more* subversive. Johnny Yen’s got that lotion in the cabin next door…

I find it unfair at times that Hysteria gets criticized for things it didn’t - couldn’t - dream of doing. It’s just a pop album crafted by big dreamers in a desolate Dutch studio. It would be like the monoculture rejecting Nevermind because we were annoyed that kids started wearing natty sweaters.

Bad Company, White Stripes, Soundgarden? Nicky Hopkins, Carol Kaye and Zevon? All fairly mainstream choices when it comes to rock music. If anything, this year’s class leaned slightly *away* from pop with Mariah Carey not getting a nod.

I always thought this was an unusual pick given the subtle shade David threw at Madonna over the years.

The National Weather Service has paused automated services that provide severe weather alerts in languages other than English after the government contract for those services expired, the agency confirmed to PBS News.

There’s something warmly Midwestern about this exchange, @anniezaleski.bsky.social You know you’re having a great chat when you talk about artists like they’re the mailman. AZ: I have to ask you about Antony Price, obviously. FERRY: Oh, yeah. I saw him yesterday. AZ: Oh, did you? How’s he doing?

Lord, so many. Mott the Hoople, Super Furry Animals, Blur… But if we really want to talk about English superstars who never registered here, probably the originals: Tommy Steele, Cliff Richard. And they had hits here, but KLF mania was nowhere near what it was in the UK.

I’ve had tinnitus for 25 years. Growing up around large farm equipment followed by a career in sound wasn’t the best. But I’ll say this, I’ve come a long way in my acceptance and want to encourage sound creatives: Tinnitus and hearing aids? It’s not the end. In fact, it can make your work better.