This is the name of a Task/Mare of Easttown satire show

Fuck. I was literally teaching about Voodoo and microtiming last week.

The new Springsteen movie but it’s about Ween making “Chocolate and Cheese” and yes Rob and I will be playing Dean and Gene.

The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, by WP Kinsella (1986)

TONIGHT! Hope to see you there 🙏🏾

Maybe the best ever horror score as well from Jerry Goldsmith

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here. Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

I love how pointed this cover is, especially with Jeff obsessed with getting Lauren to be the next Bond girl lol

Bill Frisell Quartet, John Hollenbeck Royal Toast, whatever you count as Tyshawn Sorey’s 12th album…

This, but for The Shaggs

It was a real treat to write about the best indie band Notre Dame has produced since Ted Leo graduated in 1993. Listen to @ratboysband.bsky.social! magazine.nd.edu/stories/ratb...

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this

I mean, I know that left-NIMBYs want to find all kinds of complicated reasons why the housing market supposedly doesn't follow the logic of supply and demand But his looks like as linear a relationship as you could possibly map out on graph paper

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

A 15-minute megamix of the upcoming opera by @cherialissa.bsky.social and me about the 2012 NFL referee strike

the 2025 Mets

sometimes i watch classic hollywood films — this happened recently with HIGH NOON — and i think, “yeah i get it, this whips.” i’m having a similar experience with music right now and specifically the work of duke ellington. i’m listening to the man’s work and i’m like, “yeah, this stuff is sick”

There are a lot of good American cymbal smiths now too

If NPR stopped doing this false equivalence BS, they’d raise more money than what they got from the CPB and immediately become the most important American media outlet.

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

Part of the reason why my sister’s favorite artists for a time were Arlo Guthrie and The Lovin’ Spoonful

Just so I'm clear: TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft. TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism. Free speech, everyone.

Exactly. Art is a vocabulary for processing what it is to exist

How many times has a pitching line like this happened?

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For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Brazilian composer Hermeto Pascoal, known as 'The Sorcerer', dies aged 89 reut.rs/41PaRCS

Terriers (which oddly had nothing to do with terriers of any kind)

I can’t get over how big the alligator on Djokovic’s shirt is. I guess Lacoste wants it to show up better on screen, but it’s so hilariously out of proportion.

Something something Tallahassee wants no children something something

I love that Hyundai is having someone who’s lived in Chelsea for 30+ years repping a massive SUV

I'm so excited to share my and Samanthe Ege's new article on the life and music of Julia Perry (1924-1979), in @oxfordamerican.bsky.social!! I'm so grateful to our editors and for Samantha's partnership in this comprehensive work of public scholarship: oxfordamerican.org/magazine/iss...

Some Mets *Guys*

Maybe it’s not my favorite, but last night we were listening to Automatic for the People while driving back from visiting family, and Nightswimming came on as we crossed into Manhattan, and the city lights humming with the dog and baby asleep in the backseat was awfully lovely.

It took only 15 years from pub

Terry Riley's "The Holy Liftoff" performed in Ojai by JACK Quartet and Claire Chase the most recent work by pioneering American composer Terry Riley “I feel like this piece sums up a lot of things I’ve worked for.” youtu.be/Pt-P8cV_xzY?...

Jim McNeely’s advice to young composers (a thread):

The incredible singer is birthday buddies with the incredible playwright Will Arbery!

That’s one more time than this Shostakovich has seen it (he prefers the La MaMa energy of Godspell)

This fall I'm teaching Advanced Popular Music Transcription at NYU for the first time. Here's what I'm having the kids do. Thread!

“We apologize for the extreme lateness and the overcrowding. We are in the position of trying to fit four trains’ worth of people into one.” You probably have bigger problems on your mind, but today brought avoidable austerity measures to SEPTA. Credit to the conductors for grace under pressure.

Music tech educators: Tune-Yards is doing a remix contest if you want a legally available set of stems to work with tuneyards.ffm.to/remixcontest

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

These two guardsmen at NoMa station just appeared to spit on a black woman and told her to have a nice night as she was going down the stairs from the platform they were making fun of her when I turned my camera on and started waving

Discerning readers should look for my and Samantha Ege's new 3000-word feature on Julia Perry in the next issue of @oxfordamerican.bsky.social! As far as I know, this is a more comprehensive discussion of her life and career than any other single article to date, and it's written for the public!

lol should I put my cash in a chip bag the next time I go to the ATM here?

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album covers but with muppets: thread

Donna Murphy, ladies and gentlemen.