Introduce yourself with 10 bands/singers you've seen live Bowie Springsteen Leonard Cohen Jeff Buckley Anna Calvi Angel Olsen Beastie Boys Beasts of Bourbon BB King Elbow (Also: Midnight Oil Beck Nick Cave & TBS Lou Reed TISM You Am I Radiohead + Portishead + Sigur Ros + Talking Heads)

Today’s Observer correction, a classic, doesn’t do justice to the context of the typo.

Jesus Christ

The perception that your leaders are crazy as well as wildly incompetent is probably not helping things.

if you ain’t sure just spit it, snoopy

Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDQR...

the quotes are good, the story is good (i wrote this story)

"After years and years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts to restrict free expression, I also will sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America." Donald Trump, Inaugural Address, 20 January 2025

Man 22 Minutes has been having a full blown existential crisis lately.

Three of the current top ten singles (the country's most listened-to songs, in effect) are by Drake and another three are by Michael Jackson Gary Glitter probably fancies his chances of a comeback at this rate

I have never felt more seen by a passage in a book

Just a few for testing purposes

There’s no Saints record on this piece of shit www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

A more important band than typically given credit for based on their (erroneous) perception as a one-hit-wonder outfit.

Can you imagine the number of old regimental swords, potentially live grenades and half decomposed canvass the National Army Museum would get?

Look at us! Listen to us! The song's been featured on (amongst other places) Tower of Song on @double.jplays.au and will be on ABC's Edge of Country show this week. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Mad Maxmaxxing

Look at us!!!

In this case I suspect correlation *is* causation

Lets goooooo www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVXG...

New Salonistas video, out today. Look at us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCUR...

Infuriating thread.

New Salonistas video, out today. Look at us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCUR...

This sums up the era we’re in.

“Giant tortoises have been fighting each other for over 120 years. According to the zoo, one tortoise stole food from the other 120 years ago, and since that day, they have been enemies”

Like a medieval court where poor townsfolk have to dance for their lives in front of the king, and some of them die in the process.

the lights and music continuing is exactly my kind of humor

It's true. I wrote about this. dailydot.com/capitol-riot...

I will say this*, the guy knows how to scam and grift. *State the obvious

“I say with absolute sincerity and honesty, coming up with SPACE RAPTOR BUTT INVASION felt like an antenna to God.” Incredible scenes.

i care about tinglers and my art and erotic art SO MUCH but sometimes folks do not believe me because my sensibilities are very unique, but i say with absolute sincerity and honesty, coming up with SPACE RAPTOR BUTT INVASION felt like an antenna to god. one of the most powerful moments of my life

Bee Gees voice "How deep is your angst" www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-back...

New research suggests more investment in community radio could help recover some of this losses faced by the music industries.

[frantically dialing the Dad Joke Hall of Fame]

(2/2)

Perennial indeed: cartoon from 2016… (1/2)

This refers to a somewhat nuts video, but is something I often think about population forecast stuff - it tends to assume that nothing else will change until the species just shuts up shop (or something similarly apocalyptic)

I ORDER MY COFFEE BLACK. NO SUGAR. NO MILK. NO WATER. NO CUP. THEY HAND ME THE BEANS. I EAT THEM IN THE PARKING LOT LIKE A HORSE. THE BARISTAS HAVE STOPPED CHARGING ME. I HAVE NOT SLEPT SINCE TUESDAY. I CAN HEAR THE WIFI

Perennial

you're laughing. they're raging, raging against the dying of the light and you're laughing.

Musk says an hour of his time is worth $100 million yet he spends six hours a day angrily posting online every time a big budget Hollywood movie casts a Black person in a starring role. Curious!

I hope the new Bee House has a ballroom attached. Also: I'm on Team Bee.

This hatred risks driving reasonable people out of politics, leaving us with fanatics, charlatans & psychopaths, as I wrote here: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/the-burden...

Sobering stuff from David Blunkett in the @financialtimes.com

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

You can find out about all the other gig guides around Australia at everycorner.au too!

Good to see community gig and event guides springing up. Kudos to @joe.hardy.id.au and team. If you don't know about sydneymusic.net, well, now you do. www.smh.com.au/culture/musi...