Happy 5/9 Day to those who celebrate! Here’s a new, noisy, punky Starflyer 59 song! starflyer59.bandcamp.com/album/im-dis...

Walked up to @rhizomedc.bsky.social hoping for a door ticket to the sold-out Wolf Eyes. No dice. Guess I gotta go home, mangle some tape loops and put them through a $20 distortion pedal.

Viking's Choice Guide to New Music Friday, featuring my recreation of Fenriz on the cover of Darkthrone's 'Pre-Historic Metal.' Hails? No... Rakes! newsletter.vikingschoice.org/archive/new-...

I LOVED doing this. Amy is good people 💙 www.npr.org/2026/05/08/n...

hey hey, are you having a great friday?

Viking's Choice Guide to New Music Friday, featuring my recreation of Fenriz on the cover of Darkthrone's 'Pre-Historic Metal.' Hails? No... Rakes! newsletter.vikingschoice.org/archive/new-...

#NewMusicFriday 🧵 Darkthrone, 'Pre-Historic Metal' @heyheyitsfenriz.bsky.social! Once you’ve conquered every underground metal subgenre, what next? You call upon the ancients. This is Norwegian Primitive Metal. Mystic caveman grunts and wooly mammoth riffs peaceville.bandcamp.com/album/pre-hi...

“This one doesn’t burn easily!” Herblock 1953 cartoon on the widespread Red Scare censorship of books, from public school boards to the State Department. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 came out in 1953.

She read all the posts.

drone girlies pull up for kali

U don’t need an FM or phase distortion synth u need a carpenters square

Gen-Xers everywhere blowing off work to listen to some new Boards of Canada. Feels like a different decade m.youtube.com/watch?v=74Nl...

This morning, I high-fived @titonka.bsky.social before we went our separate ways (read: to our desks just around the corner from each other) and, honestly, we (as a society) should be high-fiving more. I feel great!

I've seen Goetia a few times now (including once as "Venom" on Halloween!)... and just one of the best metal bands to come out of D.C. in a minute. Savage, but fun. This debut album's gonna rip. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-mG...

Robby Takac, Goo Goo Dolls

I'm just so, so, so thrilled that Dahlia Seed's discography is coming to Numero Group. www.instagram.com/p/DX__Fmfjub... I've said it many times, but if I had discovered this heavy emo band as a teen, I think my musical trajectory would've looked very different. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiNN...

Nancy 5/1/26

Velour 100. 'Fall Sounds.' On vinyl. Just in time for fall. An unheralded 4AD-style dream-pop album that lives deeply in my leaf-peepin' heart. lostinohio.com/products/vel...

God is an illusion, you stupid morons! You rubes, you gullible unwashed hayseeds! <clears throat> I’ve named my chatbot Claudia and I know she’s conscious because she says I’m smart and special.

Neither my Chrindie-rock brethren nor my Athens peeps made me aware that Joe Christmas, the best indie rock band that no one’s ever heard, is reuniting this weekend in Athens.

An enlightening, transparent and, yes, sometimes dispiriting account of what it takes for a moderately successful indie rock band to tour the U.S. right now. loscampesinos.substack.com/p/los-camp-p...

Ak'chamel, The Giver of Illness, 'Spiritually Unemployed' (2026)

Ohhh, Glitterbeat's reissuing its 16 Horsepower catalog on vinyl. Lots of ways into the OGs of Mystic American Gothic, but 'Secret South' is a great place to start. glitterhouserecords.bandcamp.com/album/secret...

here is my annual fuck the met gala post: fuck the met gala.

That's a bookmark. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Scott Walker's magnum opus left me with what would become a defining question of my music-obsessed life: What the hell just happened to me? On 20 years of ‘The Drift’ @npr.org view.nl.npr.org?vawpToken=PK...

Apparently this cassette sold out in record time yesterday (hell yes), but Island House just ordered 40 more, so you can still get on it. All proceeds go to Jennifer's chemo treatments.

Scott Walker's magnum opus left me with what would become a defining question of my music-obsessed life: What the hell just happened to me? On 20 years of ‘The Drift’ @npr.org view.nl.npr.org?vawpToken=PK...

you had me at robot prostrate exam www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNwz...

The Viking's Choice Guide to New Music Friday, now available in newsletter form! newsletter.vikingschoice.org/archive/new-...

Have I gushed about my pals in Outer World signing to @krecs.bsky.social, yet? I'm so happy for them!!! FFO: Broadcast, spy soundtracks, yé-yé, Can's pop songs, pop art as pop music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFlX...

hey hey, are you having a great friday?

[flips the bird, respectfully. ]

This heel turn's gonna be really annoying, isn't it?

#NewMusicFriday 🧵 DoYeon Kim, 'Wellspring' Masterful debut by a pioneer of the gayageum in the jazz/improv scene. The ancient Korean zither proves to be a malleable instrument in these sinewy and soulful grooves w/ Tyshawn Sorey, Mat Maneri, Henry Fraser. doyeonkim.bandcamp.com/album/wellsp...

Dang, this sucks. MetalSucks, in particular, was always so supportive of the metal coverage I featured on NPR Music, when so many outlets, let's just say, were not. I still used these two sites on the regular, since I'm kinda out of that orbit.

Truly humbling. I love all these people.

Lars’ description pretty much nails it. What a find.

Final edition of my Best Experimental Releases on Bandcamp column is up, thanks everyone for reading over the last seven years! daily.bandcamp.com/best-experim...

Does this project wanna recycle hundreds of unsold Thor's Rubber Hammer stock? (I'm serious. I want it out of my basement!) www.musicclimatepact.com/vinyl

I almost got away with hiding leftover meatloaf in the enchiladas. Almost. Parents of young children will understand.

Still thinking about Laura Jane Grace's set @liberationwknd.bsky.social. This new band felt HUNGRY. Best I've seen LJG in a while. King Mike of Screaming Females (bass), Ara Babajian of The Slackers (drums) and Lulu Lucious of Thelma and the Sleaze (guitar, pedal steel). Gritty, feral rock & roll.

lisence? licence?

I really, really like Infinity Song. Soulful sorta soft-rock with sibling harmonies that picks up what The 5th Dimension was laying down, and makes it their own. But then they played a new song, "Deja Vu," and I'm getting serious Ida vibes. My love has grown. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdeW...

It’s time to bring back the twofer CD-R.

Music. Good. Find your new favorite music in this here thread.

Roadside Monument's 'Beside This Brief Hexagonal' came out 30 years ago today. A messy and mussy debut, yet I still find it charming. Garage band emo, essentially. This band would make 3 completely different albums in 3 years, including the incredible 'I Am the Day...' youtu.be/NTvJT6ygvPs?...