Big Mama Thornton - Let's Go Get Stoned Big Mama Thornton was born today in 1926! RIP. She was a musical pioneer with a big booming voice and presence. Critical to the development of rock and roll. #BigMamaThornton #MusicBirthday #MusicSky #Stoned youtu.be/yvTa-03IULY?...

Aw shit I’m going to see @themountaingoats.bsky.social in Kalamazoo! It’s been a long time since I’ve seen them live. Too long. Bell’s is a good venue.

Annoys me beyond belief that I still need to go to fucking x to get the gossip re: Sherrone Moore allegedly knocking up his assistant and forcing her to get an abortion and then threatening to kill her for ruining his life.

"There’s a canon of African-American artists from the counterculture era who were equally risk-taking, willing to dabble in noise and the adventurous …" A Black Psychedelia Primer: denniscooperblog.com/steve-ericks...

Feeling like I might need to organize a political movement to convince Costco to bring back the two-pound tubs of Hannah Tzatziki. ✊

I’m not present. I’m the drug that makes you dream. I’m an Aerostar. I’m a Cutlass Supreme.

2025 rapper categories: -the ones who go to the Grammys -the old heads back after forever -the old heads who never left -stoner intellectuals -regional obscurities who, sure, yeah -college basketball locker room icons -rap-adjacent superstars for swaggy young people, esp. white kids who say "unc"

30 years ago before I had any professional bylines, my mantra was “I don’t want an autograph, I don’t want a picture, I just want to tell them how I think they should do their job, I’m not trying to be their friend” & frankly more ppl should consider this position

The White Stripes - One More Cup of Coffee (live) Meg White is celebrating a birthday today! I Love this White Stripes Dylan cover. #MegWhite #MusicBirthday #TheWhiteStripes #MusicCover #JackWhite #Drums #Guitar #BobDylan youtu.be/YeR6aDTdpMc?...

If I win the powerball tonight I’m going to buy some alt-weeklies and hire a bunch of the great writers who’ve been fired over the past few years. My business plan will be “Profitable enough. Fuck growth.”

I paid for all of these out of my own money so you are getting a fair rating!

new iOS update is sleek and also defaults in Music to “you must want songs transition as they would on a dance floor.” so many people will wonder why they can’t just listen to an album. Apps > Music > Song Transitions > toggle off.

🗓️The annual Get Back Advent Calendar is back! It's Dec. 9, precisely 25 days (today included), til Jan 2. Every day I'll count down to the Beatles' 1st day at Twickenham, deep diving into what the Fabs did every day leading up to the Get Back/Let It Be sessions. theymaybeparted.com/2023/12/09/g...

I told our publicist I will talk to anyone and everyone to explain how Tapedeck is trying to make a penny per play the floor rather than ceiling for streaming royalties, so here's yet another podcast about it.

Jimmy Smith - Root Down (And Get It) Jazz organ player Jimmy Smith was born today in 1925! RIP. This song is such a groovy jam. No wonder the Beastie Boys sampled it! #JimmySmith #MusicBirthday #MusicSky #JazzSky #BeastieBoys #Sample youtu.be/HkD1EhuTPxI?...

If you need any TS merch for the swifties in your life, she’s having a big sale right now and you can get Eras shirts for $12-15. (I already have one or else I’d be all over this deal.)

Despite their social media intern’s math error (2025 minus 1980 does not equal 50), MOJO put together a pretty insightful list of Lennon’s legacy.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

RIP Steve Cropper — Stax legend, honorary Blues Brother, and, for three minutes at least, the best guitarist Big Star ever had (on the best Velvet Underground cover ever made): youtu.be/M7MghG2mRLk?...

a toast to St. Joe Strummer, “double whiskey, coke, fuck ICE!”

Sheffield sheffields it up for O-Rod.

Looking for frames for these. Anybody got recommendations for where to find weird sized poster frames?

Gotta take this opportunity to strongly recommend shredding your own cheese. It’s not hard and it tastes way better (and it’s cheaper).

Ron Wood has officially been a member of the Rolling Stones for 50 years. Is it time to stop calling him the "new guy"? "You'd have to ask Mick and Keith," he tells us. "It's been part of my life for so long now, it's hard to imagine doing anything else. So yeah, I feel like a Stone." Interview ↓

Got my Jonathan Richman tickets! Considering that Ty Segall matinee. I love daytime shows!

I cannot stress enough that is some rando responds to something you reposted trying to draw you into a “but have you considered” discussion of it, they are not acting in good faith, and you just block. Please, embrace the blue sky way. block. block. block.

Courtney Barnett Live at Pitchfork Festival 2018-07-20 https://archive.org/details/ajc02048_courtney-barnett-2018-07-20

A couple of posters that used hang on my GLONO partner Stephen Macaulay’s high school bedroom wall.

Local morning news guy reporting on the skating park’s opening day said you can “book a sesh” and I wish I was still on twitter so I could heckle him.

Live: The Lemonheads in Kalamazoo

Solo acoustic “The Outdoor Type” from last night in Kalamazoo. www.instagram.com/reel/DR4o70S...

Was the Detroit leaning that Chrissie Hynde sang about the same as the gangsta leaning William DeVaughn and later Dr. Dre sang about?

Awfully sad news: Justin Baren, vocalist and bassist of Chicago pop band the Redwalls, dies at 40 chicago.suntimes.com/music/2025/1...

He’s still totally got it (when he wants it).

Was not expecting to hear the Lemonheads do Dando’s “Shots is Wild” off his Baby I’m Bored solo album!

Dando made it!

Uh oh. A “travel” delay…

I posted this elsewhere, but need to have it here too: Instead of the four Sam Mendes Beatles movies, we should have just one epic on this night in Liverpool. As told by George Harrison in the Anthology book 🍷🥚🎹🤮👧

Big credit to @oldmcdougall.bsky.social’s story here in @nj.com yesterday, one of the best pieces of music journalism this year in its final month. The missing tape is the hook but this is much more about moms and daughters, art across generations and finding new spaces in older styles.

New VU book forthcoming w/ a bunch of cool unseen pics of the band at the Boston Tea Party, 1967-69. [email protected]

Another great Prince story from Professor Dash.

“CALIFORNIA LOVE” TURNS 30 TODAY open.substack.com/pub/shinebri...

Fb memories is a motherfucker. Reminding me of back when my kid was 3 and used to ask me what stuff meant and I’d read him books and he’d listen and ask questions. I was a good dad for a while there.

But wait — there's more! I took a deep dive into "The Chicago Stomping Grounds of Tom Waits" with this new blog post: www.robertloerzel.com/2025/12/03/t...

The chicks will cream for Capital One. people.com/john-travolt...

I have to say, when I started recording songs into a boombox in my employee-housing apartment at MSH, I did not anticipate one day talking about those songs with PEOPLE magazine people.com/the-mountain...

If anybody publishes a “best songs of 2025” list that focuses primarily on sad, folkie three-minute love songs with conversational lyrics, prominent acoustic guitar, straightforward delivery, etc., hit me up. Bonus points for pedal steel, clever wordplay, pretty harmonies and catchy melodies.

Was reading an old music-journalism anthology yesterday and discovered this 1999 article about three lifers playing up to seven sets a night in a Chicago dive bar that was open until 5am. One of the best pieces of music writing I've read in some time. Long but worth it!

I’m hoping I have better luck with this one. bsky.app/profile/swan...

Been listening to at least five seconds of each song on Pitchfork’s playlist of the 100 best songs of 2025 and other than the handful of songs I already like, what a bunch of dentist office music. The kids have really bought into the yacht rock aesthetic, haven’t they?