Weird Spotify thing: "Livin' on the Edge" has the 9th most streams on Aerosmith's "Get a Grip" album.

At the Stereolab show.

Kaleb is trending in my interests.

At the Lightning Bolt show.

Unsurprisingly, the Kieran Hebden and William Tyler collab album hits the sweet spot.

I have everything I like by Massive Attack on CD but this is going to put a big dent in my writing playlist on Spotify.

At the Mary Halvorson Sextet show.

Judging by how much mileage Pink Floyd have gotten out of Pompeii and the Dead out of Egypt it’s surprising more bands don’t do the big destination thing.

I'm sorry what kind of prompt is "black and white movies that are not boring"?

How the heck is Fiona Apple younger than me? She’s been famous since before I was old enough to legally drink. (It helps that she released arguably the greatest album ever written by a teenager ofc).

I never really liked "Losing My Religion" until the movie "Aftersun" and now I love it.

8.1 coverage for the Siket Disc, what a time to be alive.

You know I've never really believed that Eminem asks Stan, "how far along is she?"

Prompts! For me: 20s: Past Lives 10s: La La Land 00s: The Notebook 90s: 10 Things I Hate About You 80s: Cinema Paradiso 70s: Grease 60: The Young Girls of Rochefort 50s: Streetcar Named Desire 40s: His Girl Friday 30s: Bringing Up Baby 20s: Battleship Potemkin 10s: The Birth of a Nation

Hot take: I think "Slippery When Wet" is a pretty bad album, but "New Jersey" is not.

I don't hate this. Call it what it is.

If anyone wants to pay me to write a listicle about the most anxiety-inducing songs about divorce to listen to while getting a divorce, hit me up. (I'm having A Year btw)

You know what's become cultural wallpaper but is actually a very good song? Whitney Houston's "Greatest Love of All."

Finally getting around to the Billy Joel doc. Was not expecting Nas to pop up to rave about Piano Man.

When people say they miss negative music reviews what they're really saying is that they miss alt weeklies, in my opinion.

My 10-year-old informed me that my 3 favorite musical genres are "rap, disco, and 20-minute instrumental jams." Kids have you pegged at an early age.

To my therapist today: I'm pretty concerned AI is taking my job. Her: Me too.

Neil busting out “This Note’s For You” on the Budweiser Stage in Toronto is objectively incredible.

I thought this was a terrible take but maybe it’s just me. They’re great if you’re tall and other chairs don’t fit you right.

Pro tip: the Reese's Peanut Butter Halloween Pumpkins that they're selling in stores right now in mid-August are kind of ridiculously good. Because of freshness? New recipe? I don't know!

The store I’m in is playing “Paranoid Android” and for the first time ever I’m thinking….”do I actually frickin hate this song?”

Didn’t do a bad job in the $0.50 bin today

The last great B&S album or do we think "Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance" has enough going for it?

Rewatched “Inherent Vice” tonight- that movie is great the first time you see it but gets 20% better with each return visit.

This reads like a Stefon bit.

I wrote about Portland’s inaugural Back Cove Festival and took a bunch of photos.

At the Jack White concert.

At a Lucy Dacus concert and the wedding part is actually unbelievably sweet.

At the Madi Diaz afternoon show

At the Roots show. The first time seeing them since…2001?

The left is completely silent on the subject of men getting Laid, the fifth studio album by British rock band James.

The loss of Nectar's is mostly felt because of their connection to Phish but I used to go to dance/DJ nights upstairs in Club Metronome all the time. Losing any venue with that much history sucks for our culture.

New Chappell Roan sounds like the Sundays or a similar band. Don’t love the song after one listen but I love the vocals.

I think I would have been a pretty good heir to a fortune. I wouldn’t have tried to be an indie artist or musician but I would have been a great benefactor.

The boring but correct answer is The Star Spangled Banner.

Here in Maine rural conservatives even say this about Bangor (population 31,000).

What’s the oldest CD you own? I assume this question means the oldest one you acquired and still have, and this is definitely one of the first ones I bought.

For the early evening crowd.

I wrote about last night's tour-closing Phish concert in Saratoga Springs. Good show imo. www.jambase.com/article/phis...

"Matriarch of beloved steakhouse" is a heck of an obit. (Hilltop and its sixty-foot cactus sign and plastic cows is an iconic Route 1 fixture in the region)

They're going to encore with Tweezer aren't they?

Sign of the times: the vinyl bargain bin in the record store in my hometown is now an "under $20 bin".