Robert Smith: big fan of soccer, not “small hand” Trump 👉 stereogum.com/2505484/robe...

Gotta confess I’m on the fence about the Blitzkrieg part. Starts strong: 🎶 I rode a tank, held a general’s rank when the Blitzkrieg raged, and the bodies stank. 🎶 But we get diverted with: 🎶 My tank helmet needed holes cut out to fit my little devil horns. 🎶

‘More real than anything you’ll see scrolling’: the radical resurgence of UK fanzines, 50 years after punk

‘We were literally slaves': Incarcerated men expose conditions at Arkansas prison & former plantation, @vevalenz.bsky.social reports. Prisons often frame agricultural labor as “rehabilitation,” but incarcerated people say their working conditions are dangerous & dehumanizing.

Plus It's All Free! bsky.app/profile/obso...

“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” the classic teen comedy, just turned 40—and still feels eerily fresh, Megan Garber argues.

Step inside CBGB in 1975 and watch Talking Heads perform "Psycho Killer" before it became a defining song of the punk and new wave era: zurl.co/DABGZ

Morbid Angel founding drummer Mike Browning dead at 62

ICYM my latest at No Such Thing As Was: some words about some songs about flying. (Pictured: The Attack.) joebonomo.substack.com/p/this-gravi...

Third Man Records has announced 'Turn Me Loose: Live at the Fillmore East 1968' from Sly and the Family Stone, the 69th entry in The Vault series. Subscriptions are open now through July 31st. zurl.co/95XIe

Justin Verlander To Retire At End Of Season #sportsball www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/07/just...

The White House in a new report accused leaders of the Smithsonian Institution of adopting a divisive, far-left ideological framework that erases American heritage, marking the latest move by the Trump administration to reshape US cultural and historical institutions.