Have you seen these ChatGPT ahh flyers? Well, we at 404 Media see them everywhere. “It might feel like you’re ‘saving time and money,’ but you’re actually slowly turning your brand into something generic like all the other brands out there using AI tools.”

NEW: We are inviting you to participate in a Ranked-Choice Voting Experiment for the Democratic primary for governor in Wisconsin. Let's recombobulate. Vote here👇 www.therecombobulationarea.com/p/the-wiscon...

old-guard indie rock is having a big moment on Twitter lately

I’d like to see more of this. It’s actually good to admit when you were wrong.

Folks, The Recombobulation Area’s INDEPENDENCE DAY SALE … continues!! 100% independent. 50% off. www.therecombobulationarea.com/p/today-we-c...

this artist is new to me and she rules

Rolling thread of Wisconsin artists I am lovely lately: Kenn Kwint (Milwaukee, 1937-2020)

Some personal/professional news... The Recombobulation Area is returning to its roots as an independent publication, and I am parting ways with Civic Media. We’re turning the page, but our story continues. Let’s keep recombobulating, folks. www.therecombobulationarea.com/p/the-next-c...

This rules

My hot takes: 1. "lol reflecting pool fail" probably didn't need to be as big of a story as it was 2. "the president is committing fraud and attempting to imprison real people to cover up the pool fail" should be a much bigger story than it is

Name a TV show you’re positive nobody remembers but you

A logic puzzle for experienced concertgoers: Tomorrow Echo and the Bunnymen and Third Eye Blind play Summerfest at the same time. You can see half of one first, half of the other last. Which set do you see first, which last, and why?

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

Miz and Bauers again

It fucked me up

Real heads know

Good morning only to the guy developing an open world video game set on the East Side of Milwaukee in 1994

This short film about Wisconsin abstract painter Louis Thayer Hills is your happy thing for the day www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVSs...

Still a lot of incredible artwork for sale at the Jazz Gallery. I believe they’ll be selling through tonight during the 1913 show

Giles 💔

Funniest scene I've seen in a long time. Widow's Bay is a show so good it finally killed a five-decade-old horror trope

I go to bed and wake up every morning looking at one of his paintings. I’d get more but I still have a few to hang and my wife might kill me if I bring home more art for our small, stuffed house.

Milwaukeeans, take note:

Louis Thayer Hills is one of my favorite Wisconsin painters ever, and his family has been selling off his work for very cheap just to put it out into the world. They’re hosting a sale this Friday (5-8) and Saturday (12-5) at the Jazz Gallery. Treat yourself.

At first I was like "woah, TMJ4 has a Pete from Mad Men" but then I realized EVERY person in this show has a Mad Men corollary

we all played it

Good morning to the Brewers run differential

Year of the Dog barelycivil.bandcamp.com/track/year-o...

Does John Cale always dress like he just finished filming a flashback episode of Widow's Bay or ?

A perfect summertime rap album, just insane levels of fun from start to finish, may everybody know the pleasure of grilling out to this

Musical artists whose name is also a complete sentence: • Britney Spears • Tom Waits • Ben Folds • Don Was • Harry Styles • Bill Withers • Michelle Shocked • Luke Combs • They Are Gutting a Body of Water

A Ti West-directed episode of Widow's Bay really should have slapped harder tbh

Jakob really was born into it. His mom was Lou Dog.

Life goal achieved

In which I ponder mortality at a Feelies show... and might possibly break some news.

Farewell to Rob Base, whose "It Takes Two" sounds like the greatest single ever whenever it's playing.

NEW: Francesca Hong entered the race for governor as the wildcard, and with a campaign unlike any other in the Democratic primary field, she's built her campaign into a contender. Can this wildcard play a winning hand? Let's recombobulate: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/wildcard-c...

The amazing thing about Kenny Mason (well one of them) is although rock is only a very small part of what he does, he makes better rock songs than 99% of rock bands. Just an elite song craftsman www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW5A...

Back in 2005 there was a band called Robbers on High Street that sounded so much like Spoon you cannot even prepare yourself for it. And Pitchfork casually dropped a burn so sick I think about it 20 years later.

Tag yourself

Pete Crow-Armstrong's tough few days continues... Monday: apologizes for "word choice" in verbal spat with White Sox fan a day earlier Tuesday: Dropped routine flyball off bat of Sal Frelick Today: Whiffs on grounder in CF, setting up Little League homer for David Hamilton

The Beach Boys have recorded many of the worst songs of all time

Machine Gun Kelly over Fugazi? No Clash albums but three (!) Big Audio Dynamite albums? Two post-"American Idiot" Green Day albums in the top 10??? Wow

Underreported political story in Wisconsin: How Francesca Hong jumped ahead out the gate in what was supposed to be a hotly contested Democratic clown-car primary race for governor and seems to be running away with it with less than 3 months to go

This weather, a modest backyard, a popsicle and the Saturday Afternoon Boogie Bang. What more could I ever need?

RIP Duke’s on Water, home of the “happy hour” that lasted 9 1/2 hours.

Streaming makes its so easy to set records, because so much data is tabulated in so many different ways, and the novelty of releasing three albums at once pretty much ensures that some random records will be set, even if they underperform. Drake is gonna get the headlines he wants out of this