Just a reminder that although we have some nice dates in the diary I’m still looking for more gigs for Songdog in 2026 across the UK (and beyond). The lineup is cooking on all burners and it’s the best it’s ever been. The lines are OPEN, so don’t be shy, promoters, get in touch!

btw that youtube channel with the terry riley live set is legit one of the richest musical sources I've ever found on the internet. when the riley performance ended it served this masterpiece up next www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap5a...

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While its okay moments don’t dishonor efforts before and after, the bad stuff stops in a mausoleum and won’t acknowledge it’s stranded; U2’s album is Boomer Comeback but gruesomely recorded by men in their twenties. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/r...

seems like every week somebody sends a tremor thru the feed just going "did you know that [year] is now [a logical number of years] ago?" and y'all gotta stop letting that hurt

Broken Social Scene have announced their first new album in nine years, 'Remember the Humans' Hear "Not Around Anymore" www.treblezine.com/broken-socia...

Somewhere in the general vicinity of 2000 words on class, race, gender, glam, gadgetry, circuitry, circuses, eccentricity, editorializing, annoyance, and my 150 favorite albums of 1973.

Bill Nelson's Red Noise album 'Sound On Sound' reviewed by Tony Mitchell in Sounds 3rd, February 1979.

Gerrard Street Powers

me finally owning a home in a walkable neighborhood when im too old to walk

Much much better than the album that looks to be #1 here this week....

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Full Bad Bunny speech

♥️♥️♥️

Somebody gotta do it

February's poem: W.S. Merwin's "Iceberg." Appropriately. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/i...

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SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods. S1: archive.org/details/sctv... S2: archive.org/details/sctv... S3: archive.org/details/19-m... S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s... S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky

For Lloyd Cole's birthday I've written a fresh appraisal. I love his first two solo albums and EASY PIECES best. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/01/31/s...

Happy birthday Philip Glass 🎂 📷 Ebet Roberts, 1987 "Glass is mercurial: constantly changing, shifting, reinventing himself. A practicing Buddhist, he seems to embrace the idea that nothing is permanent." - Anne Midgette #caturday

the Hubble Space Telscope has spotted the most distant objects in the galaxy, people paying to see the Melania documentary

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HELP BLAKE'S HOUSE!!

NEW MUSE ALBUM COMING

Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis

The Trump administration is building the very thing conservatives and libertarians have always feared most: an unaccountable federal leviathan, untethered from the Constitution and hostile to our individual rights.

This is long, but well worth reading taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/political-...

#NowPlaying open.spotify.com/album/0hrKy2...

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YEP

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Just finished Drum by @scribblerrob.bsky.social. Well it didn't take long to read initially but it will take much longer to read it again but this time properly and fully. The "Metallic KO" section. That palpably came from the gut. Major novel. Publishers and media need to get on its case.

If you work at DHS and know the identities of the CBP officers that murdered Alex Pretti, my Signal contact info is in my bio. I’ll keep you anonymous.

At 81, Robert Wyatt incarnates the spirit of late 20th-century radicalism in song form. The shivering fragility of his voice belies the strength of his songwriting. wp.me/pzXeC-cUQ

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There’s Rakim and then everyone else.

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JUST 1 MORE THING: If we’re to accept this idea that a person having a firearm at a law enforcement encounter is per se evidence of a person’s intent to “inflict maximum harm,” doesn’t it then follow that law enforcement can’t constitutionally bring firearms themselves, per multiple Amendments?

Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center

“You could use this record to heat up your apartment on those cold winter days.” Marion Brown

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Kids should hear what my co-pilot @petridisch.bsky.social did with Glass petridisch.bandcamp.com/album/glass-... bsky.app/profile/prof...

One of the greatest songs of that amazing year 1987

The amount of times I've picked up a record purely because the sleeve notes read 'Bass - Robbie Shakespeare, Drums - Sly Dunbar' RIP Sly, and thank you.

RIP Sly Dunbar (1952-2026)

In the aftermath of the Minnesota shootings, many Americans have come to the same uneasy conclusion that we scientists reached long ago: you cannot believe anything this government says.

This came up in my old posts today. Don’t know why, but it feels good to know that Andre 3000 specifically is this kind of guy.

Remembering Thom Bell on his birthday. Here's a playlist of some of his finest compositions and arrangements, including gems by The Delfonics, Detroit Spinners, Stylistics, O'Jays, Archie Bell, Elton John, Jerry Butler, Dionne Warwick, Laura Nyro, David Byrne etc open.spotify.com/playlist/5RR...

Slim Shady on the mic.