New Madonna era got me making fan edits for Danceteria 👸🏼🪩 WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE

If you watched John Travolta’s “Propeller One-Way Night Coach” apple.co/propeller this weekend on Apple TV and loved the music… I made a playlist of select tracks from our film just for you! Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/6iC... Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

We made a film with John Travolta (his directorial debut!) and it’s streaming now on Apple TV! Watch “Propeller One-Way Night Coach” now: apple.co/propeller It’s only an hour so sit back and enjoy the flight ✈️🎬

I wrote this article about the great Patty Griffin’s ‘Living With Ghosts’ five years ago and every word still rings true. Her clarion call debut moonlights as a rock album. Argue with the wall.

Patty Griffin released her debut album ‘Living With Ghosts’ (1996) 30 years ago this week | Listen to the album + read our tribute by @marramark.com here: album.ink/PGriffinLWG

OBVIOUSLY I updated my Madonna playlist this morning with I Feel So Free. Links below! Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/0Jb... Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... Youtube: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Nice sonic callbacks to Future Lovers in Madonna’s I Feel So Free. Even the lyrics about creating a new persona are a reference to the message in FL. Effective tethering to the vibe of COADF without being overtly referential. Chills!

My thoughts on Madonna’s Confessions II cover… and what some of the subject matter on the album may lean into.

Here's a video from November where a DJ dropped that spoken word snippet "Oh by the way it all started like this" right before Lil Louis's "French Kiss" … the same snippet we hear in the preview for Madonna's "I Feel So Free". Anyone know where this spoken word is from?

Blake Watt's long-awaited Family Stereo debut album dropping in July on the same label as Father John Misty, Midlake and Beach House feels very very right.

Big day today! For over a year I’ve been working on this John Travolta film “Propeller One-Way Night Coach” as an EP and one of its two editors… plus a bunch of other bts roles but that’s indie film! We’re so proud of it and it’s PREMIERING AT CANNES 😱 Drops globally on Apple TV 5/29!

40!!! And forever iconic.

Our season premiere of FOX Reality Check with superstar Kalen Allen @thekalenallen.bsky.social just dropped on YouTube. Watch and send to your friends and situationships! ⬇️

Sometimes you stumble upon an album you immediately want to frame.

Picked up some CDs this week as I continue building a new collection after the fire last year. I never say “rebuilding” bc tbh so many I lost were either rare or I didn’t have catalogued so I’ll never be able to fully replace them. Still incredibly angry about that… and also all the vinyl I lost.

Ok PCD I see the vision…

First new album purchase of 2026: hemlocke springs

To celebrate Sarah McLachlan’s Tiny Desk today (finally!) shout out if you BOUGHT her new album last year 💁🏻‍♂️

Picked up a few more CDs lately as I build a new collection after the fire: EBTG, Deep Dish, Mariah Carey, Cher, Thievery Corporation, William Orbit, The Style Council, Mandalay, Ben Watt, Sasha & John Digweed… Some of these you can’t get on streaming but physical media lasts forever 💿

Janet Jackson’s ‘Control’ is 40 today. 40!!! I was 16 when she dropped this and it immediately became one of several pop albums - along with Madonna, Duran Duran and others - that laid the bedrock to my pop music taste that’s forever in overdrive today. 🧵1/4

Happy for Durand Bernarr’s Grammy win for ‘BLOOM’. Much deserved! Overqualified” is in my weekly playlist for next week ⬇️

Slowly rebuilding my dance CD collection. Been hunting for this Deep Dish album and finally got my hands on it at Amoeba Hollywood this week. Richard Morel is all over this, Lem Springsteen (Ultra Naté’s “Free”) and BT play on it and it’s got one of my all time fave dance tracks… 1/2 ⬇️

Lol’ng at the whiplash of my Heavy Rotation on Apple Music

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This week Defected Records dropped a 2+ hour long 2011 mix by the late Frankie Knuckles exclusively on Apple Music. It was supposed to be a Digital / CD / Vinyl release but his health wasn’t well at the time (we lost him in 2014). LEGEND.

Some of you won’t understand and (pats you on the head) that’s okay.

Congrats! And TY to EIC Justin for letting me go (very) long on Madonna, Taylor Swift, EBTG, Mariah Carey’s ‘Glitter’, Tanya Tucker, Whitney Houston and more…

Nothing will make me walk out of a record store faster than if they don’t put prices on their CDs and instead want you to bring your selections to the counter so they can tell you the prices.

First spin of the Cameron Winter album and now I wanna play a bunch of Rufus Wainwright.

Another example of why you can’t trust Google’s or anyone else’s AI summaries. Factually incorrect!

I played CDs all day. Wish every Sunday could be like this.

What Grateful Dead album is everyone playing rn? I pulled up Anthem of the Sun.

I loved loved loved his voice. Damn.

I’ve been dreading this anniversary week for months. Tonight I’ll be with community in Altadena as we make it to the 1-year mark.

Dropped my first “10 SONGS” playlist for 2026. This week’s collection has Mariah Carey, Radiohead, ANOHNI and 2 songs from Heated Rivalry (which I finished last nite and thought was just okay but I digress…) Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/51n...

Yes I did. This Jonathan Jeremiah album instantly transports me back to my ‘70s childhood of shag carpets, wood stereo consoles, Bacharach and AM radio warmth.

A cover so stunning I keep a copy in our living room.

Yes… but it should be noted that it’s the *physical release of ‘Here For It All’ with the solo Mariah version of “Sugar Sweet” - not the streaming version of the album that has Kehlani and Shenseea on the song.

What was the first album you played on January 1st? Mine:

I’m a completist so I needed the year to end before posting my 25 favorite albums of 2025. I wish Rosalía’s ‘LUX’ connected with me but my music consumption this past year after losing everything in the Eaton Fire in Altadena was all about ease and immediacy. Maybe I’ll vibe with it in 2026.

Reading about the time Linda Ronstadt met Princess Margaret at a Beverly Hills party in 1978. With color commentary by Michael Caine. Did not go well!

My 10 favorite songs of 2025. This was difficult! But when I pare down a list I pick songs I’ll want to hear years from now. It’s not about contemporary impact… it’s about longevity. These are 2025 songs that will follow me into the future. Including Mariah Carey, Baxter Dury and Addison Rae.

My favorite lyric from a 2025 song. This line knocked me sideways. I thought about it for days and days...

Can’t believe I missed Brandi Carlile! I’m tired.

I don’t know how this Baxter Dury album flew into my orbit but its songs are an engrossing mix of salty storytelling, underpinnings of despair, and open-shirted intercontinental characters set to dance music. Like a wild mix of “Trainspotting” and Cerrone. Look at these lyrics they are fn poetry…

‘Twas a year of solid albums with black and white cover shots…

At age 15 in late ‘84 all I cared about were Madonna’s ‘Like A Virgin’ and Teena Marie’s ‘Starchild’ albums.

TIL 10,000 Maniacs removed “Peace Train” from later pressings of ‘In My Tribe’ after Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam wouldn’t condemn Ayatollah Khomeni’s fatwa against Salman Rushdie because of his “The Satanic Verses” novel in ‘89.

Anyone else play this today?