Today we celebrate the 50th birthday of our dear friend, Dave Bazan. We’ve been working together for 22 years and remain in awe of his singular artistry, humanity and kindness. Happy birthday, Duder! Photo by Chona Kasinger

second new @sugarcopperblue.bsky.social song is out! recorded & mixed at tiny telephone dot gov in oakland california somehow i also took the press photo??? such is life check out those tour dates: pitchfork.com/news/sugar-a...

Bob Mould out there claiming all my disposable income this year.

they called it trickle-down economics because 'financial waterboarding' didn't poll well with focus groups

Really digging this @pedrothelion.bsky.social duo format. Looking forward to seeing them here in a few weeks… www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA8Z...

you deserve joy, and love

Shame on you, @nytimes.com.

Y'all know what to do

Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

For those who celebrate

A good friend sent me this a few years ago, and it always bubbles up around this time of year because… yeah. I was at this show, sitting in the floor just in front of Vic and Liz. I can only watch it when I know I've got spare time to break down here and there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpU1...

I don’t do too well with reflections or resolutions. 2025 was a dumpster fire, if we want to hem the fire into a specific period. As did we all, I spent a lot of time managing existential dread and a crushing empathy for the growing number of people marginalized and targeted by the worst among us.

Happy new year to all of you from Antarctica, where I’m deep in book research & tagging along with a crew of mad scientists. But looking forward to returning later this year, carrying stories and songs to share with you.

Finished my 61st of the year this morning. And this was a low year for me. Do better, people

All my instagram ads are fat-dad new-year-resolution fitness apps and it’s disturbing how on-target they are.

Great point - thanks, my friend.

Laying groundwork for a book of color photography to accompany the B&W one I put out earlier this year, because I guess I like losing money.

"Hello, Carol. We're John Cena" isn't just great, it's Mary-Tyler-Moore-Slides-Down-Walnuts great. #PLUR1BUS 💜

AI is a goddamn thief, a capering lump of slime claiming to be art, and it's no surprise it found footing in Trump's America

Split pea soup is grinch food

Yes, it’s illegal. Like changing it to Department of War, like ten thousand other things. Part of the Trump strategy is to break the law and convey “the rule of law is weak and feminine and laughable and should be overridden by Our Guy.” Trump is fundamentally anti-law. /1

things can indeed be effortless and light, because magicians walk among us youtu.be/uQDwt4MOZdY?...

Look, the dude didn’t say that everybody who listened to the Velvet Underground record started a GOOD band

I’m just waiting for them to all break out into Jonah Ryan’s chant of “no more math!”

Steven Drozd appreciation post

This used to be my house.

Two-fisting egg nog and cold brew. I have no explanation

These dudes are getting set to do a couple more 'Destination' weekends in 2026 and we made up some old-school Xerox fliers for these very special shows.

One group of people that you do not want to fuck with is restaurant staff. They work long shifts on their feet for shitty pay and have to deal with the rudest people known to humanity multiple times per day. And that’s just front of house. I would fight the Siege of Leningrad with four line cooks

CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

I mean...

🚨 BREAKING: Oversight Dems received 95,000 new photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate. These disturbing images raise even more questions about Epstein and his relationships with some of the most powerful men in the world. Time to end this White House cover-up. Release the files!

Listening to algorithm-shuffled music in the car with the kid last night and "Strutter" came on. I quickly skipped it and had to explain why KISS sucks and we don't mess with them. Maybe over-explained a little bit, but the point was definitely made

pry it from my cold dead hands you virtuous twits

Kruk & Kuip SHOULD go in together. Yesterday. Also, Joe Buck fully sucks

what if Time New Roman is also woke and the actual Imperial Typeface is Hobeaux Roccoco what then

So it's not enough for us to be The Bad Guys, we've gotta be the dumbest, too

the way that ai is being advertised now is that everyone has to pretend to be incompetent and incredibly incapable and useless at everything

What a pathetic piece of shit. This man has no business having a child.

A deeply under-appreciated album. (But not by me. I deeply appreciate it.)

In-n-Outkast

Burger King's X

pals you gotta quit spotify

I have not yet, to my knowledge, heard this person speak until today. I just turned the sound on for this one because I just *had* to… and it's actually somehow worse than I'd imagined.

it is bandcamp friday today if you have not bought our new lp - lnk.to/wv287

I’m ecstatic to announce my new double LP, Autechre Guitar, is now available for preorder from Bill Orcutt’s Palilalia Records. Ten songs by the English electronic music duo, Autechre, transcribed and arranged for solo acoustic guitar. 🙏 🟩 shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/autech...