maybe your phone doesn't want to be found. i mean, do you?

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later"

From ‘March Hare 08’, pen in sketchbook

scalding hot take: ringo's new album is so much cooler than mccartney's, somehow effortlessly so even.

Cables for Bob Dylan, what more needs to be said, people? Bob and his band have been using our cables since 2016.

still really miss da capo's annual "best music writing" books. introduced me to so much.

extremely heady paid internship alert, apparently archiving ursula k. le guin's email?!

Eugene, OR: Paid Thomas Intern for the Ursula K. Le Guin Email Collection, University of Oregon

Gilbert Shelton

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

My zine about Junkshop Glam is nearing the printing stages! (I'm just waiting on my buddy to finish the cover.) If you want a FREE physical copy, send me your address in a DM!

catchy roll-slowing dub for your heat dome (featuring the only ewan maccoll/peggy seeger reggae cover of which i'm aware, "lifeboat mona"/"gallant dub") breadminster.bandcamp.com/album/perpet...

40 years later some of the folks filmed before the Judas Priest concert at the Capital Centre that became the 17 minutes cult fave doc Heavy Metal Parking Lot were in attendance at the AFI Silver for the screening of the film & outtakes. It was fascinating to hear bits of their life stories.

obviously lots of non-american acts have bailed on (or been prevented from) touring the u.s. over the past half-decade, but the new tourdates by the ex are the 1st time i've noticed a european band playing canada & straight avoiding the states (as they should, at this point) theex.nl/concerts.html

the sphere they had on the jersey shore in the '70s was way cooler. less surveillance too.

don't know if it has anything to do with their AI enshittification, but still mindblown that google invented/inserted a *fake street* next to my childhood home. (my dad informs me that the street behind the house is actually "private road", though, which i never knew.)

24th, May 1975 an interview with Michael Karoli of Can by Angus Mackinnon. "It's hardly surprising that Can don't sound remotely like anybody else."

this lovely piece unlocked a memory of being at cozy soup & burger very late one night (1995ish?) & getting interviewed with a friend by a public access show about what we knew about fiorello la guardia. it didn't make sense at the time either.

It's a great joy to bring Archivist King @andylanset.bsky.social to my newsletter this week. He describes how people made radio documentaries/newsreels with 1000-pound rigs, multiple discs, and the most arduous sound-editing process you can imagine: continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/a-difficul...

the anti-dancing nyc cabaret law might be finally dead? evgrieve.com/2026/05/as-2...

Being a brilliant musician, Cale found four string basses a bit dull. In the pic he's playing one of these

27/9/1968, The Boston Tea Party, Boston, MA. John Cale plays his last show with The Velvet Underground📸Alfredo Garcia

Sleepy Doug Shaw | The Old Country Waltz - 360 record shop, Red Hook, Brooklyn 3/8/2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDgWl2dAUZ0

50 years ago today, the grateful dead rehearse at the orpheum in san francisco, with multicam video! usually labeled as the july 12th soundcheck, it’s almost certainly from may, because of hart’s extra percussion kit & absence of eye of horus drum heads. heads.social/@bourgwick/1... #deadfreaksunite

The whole point of this trip was to see NRBQ, my favorite band, at Levon Helm Studios, which we did last night. By surprise they were joined for the entire set by John Sebastian, one of my favorite songwriters. I’m writing this from heaven.

today, the grateful deadcast plunges into the iffy vibes of the dead’s early 1976 & the making of “steal your face,” a contractual obligation produced by phil lesh & owsley stanley & the only dead album released in quad (though they didn’t label it or tell anybody). www.dead.net/deadcast/ste... /1

50 years ago today, the 3rd of 4 grateful dead rehearsal tapes from the orpheum in san francisco, mostly working on older songs before the tour launches later in the week. heads.social/@bourgwick/1... #deadfreaksunite

Every music person should read this.

Hippies, Guns, and LSD: The San Francisco Rock Band That Was Too Wild For the Sixties www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/hip... 'Great #longread history of The Charlatans by Ben Marks."

The lost art of record collecting; homemade hot jazz and blues sleeves. All the records (often transcription discs) in this thread are housed in hand-drawn and hand-assembled jackets. True labours of love by the original collectors. This is a sub-set of folk art that deserves wider appreciation.

How to Permanently Block Google AI Overviews and Get 10 Blue Links Back: A Thread

Lots on interesting videos in this selection from Simon Reynolds: "rock writers on the teevee" musicpresspantheon.blogspot.com/2026/05/rock...

Speaking of that NYTimes “30 Greatest Living Songwriters” list... here’s something I wrote for ‘em that's got nothing to do with it. It's about the brilliant new album by guitarist Marisa Anderson (gift link, fyi).

here's to Stephen Malkmus at 60 (from this interview: therumpus.net/2014/04/21/t...)

As of this morning, @thenewschool.bsky.social is de facto replacing its History department with a “Center for the American Experience,” which is funded by private and undisclosed donors. The New School has been New Colleged, and there’s no GOP to blame here. Our anti-fascist identity is over.

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50 years ago tonight, the grateful dead rehearse at the orpheum in san francisco, a jammy 45 minutes split evenly between “eyes of the world” & “playing in the band.” hart apparently had a 2nd percussion setup that didn’t make it to the road that year. heads.social/@bourgwick/1... #deadfreaksunite

Following on yesterday's news about the end of _Maggot Brain_, @mikemcgonigal.bsky.social has announced a new forthcoming zine/publication: www.facebook.com/yetimike/pos...

at union pool in brooklyn, the should-be-legendary sleepy doug shaw glows through ultra-melodic fingerpickin' tunes (closing with a mic drop version of "hurts me too"), then joins paul major & prison for full radioactive motorik-choogle meltdown & scream-out (plus horns).

omg, doug shaw is gone. fuck. fuckfuck. pure awfulness. love to anybody/everybody. ...and life is brief.

going to see my dad today & g00gle maps is either hallucinating a new mini-interchange connecting the neighbors' driveway, through their garage, to a nonexistent private road, or i've inadvertently accessed the secret w.a.s.t.e. map of the neighborhood.

even sadder today about the demise of maggot brain (& @mikemcgonigal.bsky.social's amazing yeti zine before that) (no copies of chemical imbalance in my stash)

whoever it was who decided that the difference between "signal" & "no signal" on our internet router should be a solid blue light & the same blue light slowwwawwly almost imperceptibly fading on/off, please come to the courtesy phone, i would like to shoot your clown ass from a fucking cannon.

this is not true, and this guy doesn't speak for me! nymag.com/intelligence...

RIP MAGGOT BRAIN — the only magazine that would ever pay me to write a 7,000 word history of a Feelies side project that never released a record