Jeff Tweedy and Living Hour (@livinghour.bsky.social) teamed up for a dream collab on Silver Jews' "We Could Be Looking For The Same Thing" at Wilco's Solid Sound Fest !

Forgot I ordered this.

Preorder here ffm.bio/hila

"Death is Not the End" & "The Dark" out now i.chelseawolfe.com/dintetd

Weekend music mail. Well, technically I picked one of them up at a show, but it was still weekend related.

Was replacing the seat of my fifteen year old Aeron chair and realized that step nine calls for a torque wrench set to 250-in lbs, not 250-ft lbs. Oops. Wish I'd realized that sooner. I could have gotten a much cheaper wrench.

Sad13 - 1331 a mixtape of 13 ~1 min-long songs, out 7/10 via Exploding In Sound recorded & produced by me at home the first 3 tracks are out today, plus a self-directed video for “Watermelon Manicure” www.sad13.horse/1331

new album 'Say a Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going' out 8/21 on @polyvinyl.bsky.social preorder/presave/listen to 'reelin' linktr.ee/sqrrlflwr

Did some music shopping this weekend. Found an interesting reissue of the 2nd Fruit Bats LP, the 2nd Sunflower Bean LP, a 2019 reissue of A I A : Alien Observer from Grouper, a test pressing of a 2009 Richie Lawrence LP that to my knowledge never got a vinyl release, and the new Jesca Hoop album.

June Highlights.

Fruit Bats’ album, The Landfill, is officially out today! Listen anywhere and order from the Merge Records store. Fruit Bats is also on tour with full band, check out if they're coming to a city near you! lnk.to/thelandfill

Glad to see this come together. First saw this band when Alice opened one of her early SF shows with a set of this material. (It is basically just her existing band, in beach themed costumes, doing dance music instead of poppy jazz/folk).

Some news from me! I quit GameSpot to launch something new. Introducing @lookingfor.game, an independent weekly newsletter where I highlight upcoming PC games and deliver demo codes straight to your inbox. Sign up at lookingfor.game 🥳

Music mail from Stockholm, Sweden. I look forward to giving this new VEPS record a few spins.

Was surprised to find this a few nights ago. Abandoned and in pieces, with a note stapled to it indicating that at one point it was being held for a former employee. Took it home, cleaned it up, put it back together, and will hand it off to the person from the note tomorrow. Miss that place.

So building on yesterday's Cramps news, I notice that the Bandcamp page in fact lets you listen to everything they have listed up there now for free, with the exception of the preorder for the new archival release...BUT if you buy that now, you get all of it now as well. So, go nuts.

This makes up for their 2023 tour, where they didn't come through town, and then cancelled all their shows after all my travel plans were locked in and paid for. (Though I did wind up using the ticket refund to go see 'Remember Sports', so it wasn't a total loss.)

Over the weekend, I was surprised to find out that Desario had dropped not one, but TWO new albums of material out into the world.

Whole lot of music mail this morning.

Local TAGABOW show in November? Yes please!

IT WORKS! We have zork on ATProto now.My bot stores no state on its server - the entire gamestate is serialized into a blob inside each of the bot's replies and stored in the PDS. Whole thing runs from a laptop, game engine is a pure reduce function. No jetstream, no open ports, reads from appview

Placed an order with Amoeba figuring it would ship from California and be here in a day or two. Nope. Shipped from KY, visited OH, then AZ, then MO where it hung out for a weekend before finally reaching CA. Will it actually reach my home tomorrow or will it flee the state?

The next unsolicited sales person who shows up on my doorstep this week (that isn't trying to sell me girl scout cookies) is going to meet the worst incarnation of me.

youtu.be/AiiuYaAT9Nw?... Another song from Ever The Optimist is out. Are you mellow, or are you dramatic?

We are now at the stage of the political mailer season where I am tempted to just replace the mailbox with my paper shredder.

Criterion Spring Sale time! Trying to decide between 'Videodrome' and 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp'...

Listening to mic check at the 'Water From Your Eyes' show and will freely admit I was not expecting the vocalist to bust out a Don McLean song or America's 'Sister Golden Hair'.

We are proud to finally announce that our third long player record "You're Gonna Need A Little Music" will be out on the 17th July 2026. yardact.lnk.to/YGNALM

My fourth full length album “If I Let It Quiet” will be out on @audioantihero.bandcamp.com and Lavender Vinyl on July 24th 🥲 Preorders available now on my Bandcamp.

Today's listening.

May highlights.

The new Hiss Golden Messenger album is the most beautifully mixed record I have heard in years.

Perhaps the solution is to mount the food dish to the top of a Roomba in order to make the dining experience more exciting.

I'm not really sure what happened this tour to make Clarion blow up and start getting last minute venue upgrades and sold out shows, but good for them.

The prevailing theme for RSD 2026 appears to be "Stuff you ignored a decade ago, even when it reached the bargain bin".

My wallet was not prepared to get back to back release notifications from Spacemoth, Tierney Tough, and Lightning in a Twilight Hour.

Our new album is out today! A sincere request to help spread the word!

Criterion Channel is the only one of my subscriptions who send me a link and a yearly reminder of when I would need to cancel by to keep the auto renewal from kicking in. Probably why I have never cancelled them. (That and all the Criterion Collection store gift codes).

Hello blue sky dot com! We are going on tour again this spring! Playing with @thelastarizona.bsky.social @walteretc.bsky.social and many more friends We can’t wait to see your faces again! Please tell all your friends, tell your mom, tell your pet lizard linktr.ee/pacingmusic

Art Thief Leaves Behind Tacky Jeff Koons Piece

April highlights.

As annoyed as I am about having to miss the Gladie show tonight, the fact that my prior commitment (Nick Lowe) is a reserved seating event takes some of the edge off. The number of GA/Standing Room events I can endure in a row diminishes with each passing year.

I treat protests like I treat Burning Man. I don't tell anyone that I am going, I don't take pictures while I am there, and I try to wear something unrecognizable in case I show up in somebody else's photos. You can support things without making it into a PR stunt.

Our new album “Ever The Optimist” is released on July 31 and available for pre-order now - tr.ee/h-BvQzXQyw The 11 track album comes in different color variants of the 12”, a CD and other items, with more coming later!

I love it when an artist goes through the trouble to set up an ARTIST PRESALE for a run of dates, and then the promoter completely fucks up relaying that info. One venue, code works fine. One venue, code doesn't work at all. Next venue, code is recognized, but sale date was miskeyed.

Hey @aprilrichardson.com, how did @pftompkins.bsky.social manage to feature in a @trashcansinatras.bsky.social video before you did?

New Bedouine! Glad to hear that LP4 has been completed and is soon available for pre-order.

New Fruit Bats album! “The Landfill” releases June 12th and can be preordered from the Merge Records store. The new single “The Landfill” is out today and can be streamed anywhere!💚 Listen now: lnk.to/thelandfill

PLAYIN SOME BIIIIIG GIGS WITH STAR 99! 2 NIGHTS IN SOME OF OUR FAVORITE PLACES, 2 HOURS-ISH NO REPEATS (prob) LET'S GET WEIRD AND HAVE A FUN PARTY DEEP CUTS FAN FAVES BIG TUNES ALL OF IT EVERYBODY LET'S FUCKIN HANG AND SEE HOW THIS SHIT GOES!!! ON SALE TOMORROW 10 AM PST @ jeffrosenstock.com

Will I remember to clean the dust off the ceiling fans before I switch them on for the first time this season?