Just a friendly reminder that The Pitt is back tonight!

JEMP Records Presents 🐟 NEW YEAR'S EVE 1993 LIVE AT WORCESTER CENTRUM, an all new 5-LP or 3-CD Box Set. Out February 20 and available for pre-order now → dry.gd/nye93. Details below.

It’s Ice Cream! Watch Phish ring in 2026 at Madison Square Garden 🍦 Harry Hood → 2001 → Tweezer now playing in its entirety in 4K HDR → youtu.be/In3FMYG4eZ8

One year after a Japanese industrial manufacturing company bought the naming rights to their ballpark, the Astros can call themselves players in the Japanese free-agent market. Tatsuya Imai is the first Japanese FA signed by Houston since Kaz Matsui - www.nytimes.com/athletic/693...

My 10 favorite records from 2025, though I'm not wedded to this ordering. Instead of championing an album of the year, I'm trying a new thing: my 5 favorite music moments of the year 👇🧵

This is what my listening looked like in 2025 - can't wait to see what 2026 brings.

December 2025

My 40 favorite albums of 2025. (What an incredible year for music.)

Along with Deer Creek, my favorite place to see The Phish from Vermont. It's a special venue.

i was so bloody excited to surf the winter airwaves & have my first full @wfmu.bsky.social fill-in slot since september that i didn't play (much) holiday music last night, but still tried to stay seasonally, uh, vibrational. archive/playlist: wfmu.org/playlists/JJ...

Christmas Eve Planner >> - Dry Time Ahead of Evening Showers - Tracking Above Average Highs - Rain Around Tonight/ Christmas Morning #INwx @fox59.bsky.social @cbs4indy.bsky.social >> fox59.com/weather/weat...

On our way from Stockholm, It started to snow, And you said it was like Christmas, But you were wrong, It wasn't like Christmas at all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iipp...

the complete yo la tengo hanukkah setlists, back to 2005. jessejarnow.com/category/ylt/

Instead of Christmas music, I just listen to the Grateful Dead

Night at the Museum sounds like a fun 2026 to me!

PROFESSIONAL NEWS: This Friday (Dec. 19) will be the final episode of Indiecast for the foreseeable future. Uproxx has discontinued production of the podcast I’ve hosted w/ Ian Cohen for just over five years as part of an overall downsizing of my role with the company. (1/2)

The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" is one of the all-time great Christmas songs. We spoke to Steve Lillywhite, Jem Finer & James Fearnley about how it was made. The song's long gestation, a key tape edit, an imagined NYC and an unforgettable duet. Listen: lifeoftherecord.com#/the-pogues/

Indiana State Senate rejects third reading of redistricting bill, will not move to Gov. Mike Braun's desk. Read more: https://fox59.com/indianapolitics/final-decision-to-come-from-indiana-senate-on-redistricting/ 

New Concert Announcement: Two nights of David Byrne at the Murat Theatre at the Old National Centre on May 1-2, 2026. #Indianapolis

Includes a Muncie, Indiana date

This came to me in a dream

New Concert Announcement: Friendship at The Blockhouse Bar in Bloomington, Indiana on Jan. 30, 2026. Put out one of my favorite albums this year - can't wait to see them live for the first time.

112 days until Opening Day

Spotify Wrapped 2025

Newly announced: Billy Strings, April 24-25 at Fishers Event Center.

November 2025

We are very sad to hear that Jimmy Cliff has passed. He joined Widespread Panic on stage, just down the road at the Lockn' festival in 2015. Enjoy this beautiful moment captured on video and let us know how Jimmy Cliff's music has impacted you.

now thru December 8 - 25% off EVERYTHING. Buy yourself presents because no one else likes you use discount code "blowout" at checkout 12XUrecs.bandcamp.com, 12XU.bigcartel.com art : Angela Betancourt

Chicago boards are up!!! 🥚

To celebrate the 5th anniversary of @treyanastasio.bsky.social’s The Beacon Jams residency, the sold-out shows will be webcast FREE via LivePhish and Nugs.net on November 28, 29, and 30 at 8PM ET.

Eggy - Chicago, IL - 11/15/2025 thecarton.net/setlists/egg...

Eggy - Chicago, IL - 11/15/2025 (LIVE STREAM) www.youtube.com/live/qQXXHEb...

Looking forward to giving this a listen!

Happy 80th birthday to Neil Young youtu.be/uX9k9aoX6gk

Khruangbin covered Sade at intimate Webster Hall show (pics, video, setlist) www.brooklynvegan.com/khruangbin-c...

repost with an iconic fictional band

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New Concert Announcement: @eggymusic.bsky.social at Moontown Brewing Company in Whitestown, Indiana on March 7, 2026.

Donna was a pioneer. She was an incredibly strong, talented, and courageous woman who carved out her own place in music and led a life of unbelievable accomplishment rest in peace ❤️

My favorite moment from the Phil & Friends '99 run. Criminal that Donna wasn't at Fare Thee Well.

RIP Donna

October 2025

Orcutt Shelley Miller played a session at Seattle's KEXP and there be video! Here's a short excerpt, check out the full thing on their youtube

Today's new release picks include 2 on standard streaming services: Silvana Estrada- Vendrán Suaves Lluvias (AOTY contender 4 me) Carly Rae Jepsen- E•MO•TION (10th Anniversary Edition) And the welcome return of the mathy pop-punks Good Luck! wearegoodluck.bandcamp.com/album/big-dr...

Sugar are back with their first new music and shows in three decades; hear "House Of Dead Memories"

Black Messiah is still perfect. RIP D’Angelo.

I went and saw Lucy Dacus a few weeks ago. Before her set, D'Angelo and the Vanguard's "Black Messiah" was playing in full on the loudspeaker at the Old National Centre. It was another incredible memory I have associated with that album. Major loss to the music community.