When I was a kid I used to have vivid dreams about nuclear holocaust. Now, it's rising oceans and climate change. In both cases the imagery was both horrifying and beautiful.

It's basically sixteen "songs of the summer" in a row.

I was reminded this morning of the time Aretha Franklin made the phrase "beautiful gowns" into the coldest shade ever thrown. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzPp...

I am at a Beths concert tonight and it turns out The Beths are pretty popular.

Based on how I felt in the 90s: Beastie Boys Belle and Sebastian Fishbone OutKast Phish Primus Public Enemy The Roots Smashing Pumpkins Tribe Called Quest (there'd be more women in a solo list)

30 years of Tigermilk today youtu.be/tte_GX1rZAU?...

Why did we have a dozen farewells to the TNT broadcast team including the whole all star game last year?

Phoebe Bridgers doing an arena tour is wild. It’s like an Elliott Smith arena tour. (I like both artists)

I wonder how much more “Naive Melody” is played now than when it came out. It feels ubiquitous in 2026.

I'm genuinely happy for Knicks fans but Instagram Reels of them screaming into cameras isn't nearly as interesting as the algorithm thinks it is. (It's also not lost on me that whenever they do this much frontrunning...historically that's when they get kicked in the teeth).

Tonight I am watching my oldest kid graduate high school, and the Fiery Furnaces, at two venues that are about 4 blocks apart.

The record store I was just in was doing a listening party for the new Modest Mouse album and ngl...it sounded pretty good.

QTP with your top 5 favourite comfort albums (off the top of head): Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun Van Morrison - Common One Eric B and Rakim - Let the Rhythm Hit Em Songs Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co

footage of a Phish concert is playing on the big screen during Dan Deacon's set, if he said anything about why I missed it when I was buying drinks

Is it really too late to think of something better to call Victor Wembanyama than "Wemby"?

It would be incredible if he died during the celebration on the fourth.

OK smarty, don’t go to a party.

It was Bridge to Terabithia.

Mike Breen: “unbelievably historic”

As a Celtics fan I know I’m supposed to hate the Knicks but idk I’m pretty happy for everyone involved.

Not that many people these days sing about how they hope you understand they were born to be a rambling man.

Is there a state that doesn’t hate its biggest city?

New Seefeel and Board of Canada in the year 2026, within months of each other. 🙏

I haven't seen or heard anything about it but I listened to the new JPEGMAFIA album at the gym today and he was cooking with this one.

1. Ticket to Ride 2. Dear Prudence 3. A Day In The Life 4. Everybody’s Got Something To Hide… 5. I Want To Hold Your Hand 6. I Want You (She’s So Heavy) 7. Here Comes The Sun 8. Something 9. Revolution 10. Cry Baby Cry

My worst sports take is that I agree with Bill Simmons on the fiesta colored t-shirts.

Artists I seen live that you...perhaps *shouldn't* see anymore. Ryan Adams Arcade Fire Morrissey Sun Kil Moon Swans Waka Flocka Flame (debatable)

I would never pay 40 bucks for a used CD bin staple like this but having “Change Your Mind“ on vinyl is at least a bit tempting. neilyoung.warnerrecords.com/products/sle...

My such list: Allman Brothers Band Beastie Boys Black Sabbath Terry Callier Miriam Makeba Prince Elliott Smith Toots and the Maytals A Tribe Called Quest Van Halen

Interesting twist. Here are mine in descending order of number of times I've seen. Not sure how I feel about this. 1. Phish 2. Flaming Lips 3. Jonathan Richman 4. The Shins 5. Bright Eyes 6. Goose (Goose?) 7. Lucinda Williams 8. Fishbone 9. Primus 10. Ani DiFranco

I’ll just go with the 1994 Horde/Lolla lineups: Beasties, Black Crowes, Blues Traveler, Boredoms, Breeders, Flaming Lips, God Street Wine, G Love & Special Sauce, Ziggy Marley, L7, P-Funk, Smashing Pumpkins, Tribe Called Quest

I love it when announcers praise the "timing" of Wemby blocks. I have good timing when I block my 11-year-old too.

Out on the road today, I saw a Helping Friendly Book plate on a Hum Vee.

When @bradshoup.bsky.social finishes his 1985 playlist.

1. Halloween 2. Prince of Darkness 3. The Thing 4. They Live 5. Big Trouble in Little China

Basketball is good.

The NYT removed the "um"s in Trump's answer on Taiwan, but put "um"s in AOC's answer on Taiwan to make her look dumb Trump said "Um, I would say 'like' is maybe too strong a word...um, no, I'm holding that in abeyance and it depends on China, depends, it's a, it's a.." L: Trump R: AOC Video below

Never heard of this, don’t shop at Walmart, but I want it bad.

Listening to The City of Angels Soundtrack (1998).

I really like this This Is Lorelei album, but the guy's voice is distractingly similar to Phish's Mike Gordon at times.

I have read 22 of those books that I can remember. At this point I can't recall which Bronte/James/Wharton books I have read and which I have not.

I’ve been hearing Cheap Truck’s “Surrender” more than usual in the wild lately and every time think “is this the best rock song of all time?”

Great to hear one of history's most notorious mass murderers weigh in on Hollywood casting news. Definitely keep breathlessly reporting his every utterance without ever holding him accountable for, y'know, the murders.

I can't believe Teddy Swims is touring arenas and how much mileage he's gotten out of one song that would have been the 6th best song on a Sharon Jones album.

I just realized that Wilco is playing here on Father's Day...I mean come on!

Kind of wild that Robyn of all people just put out an album that was immediately memory-holed. Times have changed.

How I discovered new music: 80s: MTV, radio, parents and friends Early 90s: Promos from my radio show Mid 90s: Friends, tape trading Late 90s: Magazines Early 00s: Other Music recs, internet radio Mid 00s: P4k, blogs, and OiNK Late 00s-late 10s: promos Late 10s-now: My own streaming exploration

I would posit that the true “definitive generation song“ should never be an actual good song. Individually we are cool but collectively lame.

This thread makes me hungry for PB&J sandwiches, Ruffles, and baby carrots.