We need a 4-part Netflix true crime docuseries about 99 Records.

How to burn an American flag www.war.gov/News/Feature...

ICE unleashed tear gas on the street in Chicago’s Logan Square today and I tried to find meaning among the fog and my own anger about, well, everything. dansinker.com/posts/202…

OK, maybe my earlier zeal for this May '74 #AT40 was based more on what was in the RECORD STORES that spring. Great music abounded, but, so little of it getting airplay. A loss for those not in the know (but I bet lots of us had these albums!)

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505

For a few short weeks in October, the Block House Gallery is hosting a temporary exhibit of works by Alfonso Iannelli, the influential Chicago-based Italian-American sculptor, illustrator, and industrial designer whose work helped shape the Prairie School, Art Deco, and Art Moderne movements:

NEW MUSIC: Byron Stingily and Ten City introduce the next generation for the legendary Chicago house group with their electrifying new album ⤵️ 5mag.net/tracks/new-r...

The Lounge Ax was a legendary, long-running Chicago indie venue and they're raising money for a documentary about the last weekend they were open. I've seen clips, and it rips. Support indie filmmaking! #filmsky

Water damaged copy of “Alice's Adventures In Wonderland” which grew fungi.⁠ ⁠(Photo by Igor Siwanowicz).⁠ 🍄

Sarah Belle Reid Sound Installation in Chicago Florasonic: Semblance of FernSarah Belle Reid October 5 - November 23 Fern RoomLincoln Park Conservatory 2391 N Stockton Dr, Chicago, IL Opening Reception and Live PerformanceSunday, October 5, 2-4pmPerformance, 2:30pm Open Daily, 10am-4:30pmFree…

If you see this, quote skeet with a screenshot from a video game that released the year you were born.

Something completely ridiculous for the time capsule: Written in straight grey pseudo-objective journalismese, an attempt to explain to squaresville suburban Detroit weekly newspaper readers what exactly is this new wave punk rock stuff they keep hearing about. Some predictions are pretty amusing.

Chōjū giga (Scroll of the frolicking animals), 12-13th century, Kōzanji, Kyoto.

Between the Tigers’ collapse and Big Gretch’s capitulation to Trump, Michigan is in danger of being excluded from the Free State of the Great Lakes

Federico, Marcello, and Nico

imagine your HOA seeing one of these magnificent beauties on your front lawn

Brazil pledges $1 billion to kickstart a new fund to save tropical forests around the world.

Thalia Zedek Band has shared a new music video for the song "Boat", from their latest release The Boat Outside Your Window. youtu.be/ZPTRQoo8B7M

"It’s not a deliberate thing to be experimental. Sometimes random things work, sometimes they don’t. In my mind Paintwork isn’t any different to any other song I’ve done… that’s just the way I am.” Many Happy Returns to #TheFall's This Nation's Saving Grace, which turns 40 today! buff.ly/TfSV8x2

Love this crazy mix of trad Portuguese music with the modern - including parts by Julio Pereira playing an instrument I also play, the Braguinha m.youtube.com/watch?v=syUR...

I think about this from time to time.

Ok rap can still surprise/amaze me I guess. Infinite Coles ate it on this loving diss track about his dad Ghostface Killah www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2ZH...

“The FCC decided all by itself that radio and television were the only two parts of American life not protected by the free speech provisions of the first amendment to the constitution.” George Carlin, 1988

morning xo

That debut DAF album, the one that doesn't sound like any of the others they ever released for a variety of reasons, still sounds absolutely fucking brilliant 46 (!!) years on: daf-official.bandcamp.com/album/ein-pr...

On June 24, I began my Election Night speech by quoting Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” That's the spirit of this campaign, and our city. This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.

Leonora Carrington, Spiderweb (for Edward James) (tapestry, 1948)

What is the city but the people?

Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September

This seems important:

An accused Miami pirate radio DJ was arrested while broadcasting live on the air 5mag.net/featured/mia...

Once, Sesame Street was a lifeline for indie animators. It offered money and incredible freedom to create. This built an indie animation boom that powered MTV, Nickelodeon and much more. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-golden...

After the Great Fire, the Water Tower in the distance

Subway would do, I suppose. But picture sammiches from Bari, Graziano’s, Calabria, all the Fontano’s, and let’s add hot dogs and tacos. Greet illegitimate national force with legitimate local foods.

Ever wondered how many copies of a new Perry Como single you'd have ordered if you worked in a record store in 1947? The answer is 10.

The previous owners of a Louisville building must have known that the David Wojnarowicz mural on their property was significant — they erected a stud wall to keep it intact. That the work survived after four decades came as a surprise to the artist’s foundation and gallery.

Gaze at the shoes Long enough and the Shoes gaze back.

Lori Cannon, a longtime HIV/AIDS activist and advocate for the LGBTQ+ community in Chicago died Sunday following complications from pancreatic cancer. She was 74. to.wttw.com/4lxhroB

Derek Jarman’s hand painted designs for the original 1991 edition of England’s Dreaming. Three of them, never used. The book will be republished next year, anniversaries obvs

Major passing. Wilson define an enduring aesthetic and influenced so many musicians, especially in regard to storytelling and time

Sadie Benning, Julie's Rug, 2014 #artbots #moma https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137610

Reminds me of this post I came across