Join me later this afternoon on Miller's Cave 4pm Eastern as I go sonic spelunking in the murky crevices of roots music. This week features folks like the Raelettes, Dex Romweber, Slim Harpo and more. It'll be the best hour of your day. Replay 9pm Sunday Listen online radioharborcountry.org

I got in trouble for playing this song on the stereo at the record store I was working at when it came out. The owner ran out of the office and put on Lionel Ritchie instead. I think time has vindicated my position in this matter.

Chronicles from the Hellscape: Weekend of perfect weather, tour of Deagan instrument factory (mallet division) during Ravenswood Art Walk, and a stroll thru recently re-opened Alfred Caldwell Lily pool. Oh, the horrors. Please, oh please, send your masked goons to protect us from this. #chicago

my most Gen X coded belief is that cities and the culture at large suffer profoundly for the near-complete death of alt-weeklies

This just in! The American Library Association's BOOKLIST review just *starred* my upcoming book, calling it a "rollicking memoir" and "compulsively readable." Pre-order now! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... @illinoispress.bsky.social @ala-booklist.bsky.social @booksky.bsky.social

Not in word list?!!!! What would Snuffy Smith, Gabby Hayes, and Yosemite Sam have to say about this consarned outrage!

Join me tomorrow on Miller's Cave 4pm Eastern as I go sonic spelunking into the murky crevices of roots music. This week features folks like Barrence Whitfield, Lavern Baker, Link Wray, Dwight Yoakam, Girl Trouble, and more. It'll be the best hour of your day. Listen online radioharborcountry.org

See? It IS possible for something I see on the internet to make my life just a smidge better.

Music festival Port-a-Johns. Availability of 'Nduja sausage Lack of Henry Kissinger My corner bar's ability to make a good Negroni

From "Today in HIstory" at allthatisinteresting.com I guess we take it for granted that funerals these days are, by and large, less dangerous than they used to be.

Love how my hospital visitor's pass makes me look like I'm Most Wanted in the Wyoming territories for rustlin' and bank robbin' circa 1871.

I'm so down with any and all punctuation jokes of this caliber.

Was interviewed quite a bit for this. Looking forward to it with excitement and, to be honest, great sadness.

what if we call it the department of gwar

Honestly, either one will do...

As the "Chicago=Hell-hole" talk ramps up, reposting this from 10 days ago. If you believe this framing, fine, don't visit, we don't want you here.

Chicago is a wonderful city. Trump is a fucking liar

replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names

There are two indisputable truths in this video: 1. Zigaboo is the greatest drummer most people have never heard of---few hit that kick with more authority. 2. I will never, EVER be as high as Dr. John is during the intro.

Great album and a timely mention. Was just talking about them yesterday.

Gromit is celebrating with his usual impression of a throw rug. #NationalDogDay

I would have liked to have been in attendance as well...must finish teleportation project.

Just back from the Delmark Records block party. Beer, BBQ, jazz, joy, blue skies, low humidity, community. Oh please, Dear Leader, I hope you and your imbecilic goons can save us from further indignities in Chicago. Failing city. SAD! #Delmark #Chicago

Here’s what I see: A) The vast majority of Dems have coalesced around a morally clear platform. B) The vast majority of elected Dems have coalesced around protecting and pleasing their donors. C) Those two encampments are miles apart.

STILL ahead of their time. Why didn't we listen when we had the chance?

Oh, to see the might Girl Trouble again. Stupid continent between them and me. If only my teleportation skills were up to snuff. Show up for me, Seattle. #girltrouble

Jeez, that's a Hemingway level of brevity and sadness.

Found at an estate sale yesterday. Wasn't aware of the wide range of fix'er-upper guidance available to the readers of Popular Mechanics back in the day. The articles on knot-tying and do-it-yourself leather tanning hit a little differently in this context.

My book is AT THE PRINTING PLANT and I am STILL running edits through my head during any walk or bike ride lasting more 4 minutes. Or when I am chewing. Or when I am not chewing.

I didn't know Drew Carey was in the Tokens...

it's wild how frankenstein is so deeply embedded in pop culture as a character and concept, and yet the actual novel of frankenstein is still a goddamn revelation of craft and inspiration

Dancing AND kielbasa? Count me in! (Though I wouldn't want to be the person mopping up at the end of the night)

The Onion: Continuing on as one of America's true treasures.

"If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs." Anne Fadiman, born on this day in 1953

I'd gladly pay 2X as much for my streaming music service as i do now, if that extra $ went to the artists.

I'd say "Spinal Tap," but that one's 11/10.

I still remember exactly where and when I first heard this (1986, Lower Wacker Drive in Chicago---a long story for another time) and thinking "what PLANET did this song come from?" I love it no less now. And more songs should realize "who needs words?"

I can't disagree with this.

Having Navin Johnson from #thejerk vibes today. Not because THE NEW PHONE BOOKS ARE HERE, but because the NEW FALL CATALOG for UIP Press IS HERE, and my upcoming book, The Hours Are Long, But The Pay is Low is in it www.press.uillinois.edu/books/find_b... Pre-order code F25UIP for 30% off #booksky

The author event at Gman Tavern celebrating Sinead and the release of the essay anthology "Nothing Compares to You" was a delightful evening of discussion and music. You can experience a touch of it by getting your own copy of the book. Congratulations to @marthabayne.bsky.social and all involved!

The 1:38 point of the Phil Spector-produced "Do You Remember Rock N Roll Radio" by the Ramones never fails to elevate my mood, raise the hairs on my arms, and put my mind to an exploding sunset... Or, you know, almost any moment from Roy Orbison's Monument records run...

What’s the most “cinematic” song you’ve ever heard, like it belongs in a movie trailer?

Famously, Tom Lehrer said that political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. So it's good that he lived long enough to see Kissinger put in the ground.

No One In James Taylor Audience Has Functional Enough Knees To Give Standing Ovation theonion.com/no-one-...

Somewhere this weekend, someone is about to play their first ever set in a grassroots venue. Be there. Buy the ticket. Post about it. Tell a mate. That’s how music scenes grow.

Imma gonna give a pass on Nugent's, Corgan's, and Hootie's, but I'm definitely in on Chuck D.'s., and I hear the salad bar at Bowie's is pretty wild.

Never seen this. Awesome. I have been listening to, and watching videos of, Devo playing "Satisfaction" for, well, 45 years now, and I am no closer to understanding Alan's drum part.

Wolf

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGlN... With time to spare. With time, in fact, to play twice.

There is so much to like about this photo. So very, very much.