I'm finding solace in posting my mundane thoughts about music because all of my political thoughts violate the terms of service

I've been on a huge Scott Walker kick and I figured I'd find some groovy large ensemble arrangements on YouTube but I didn't count on witnessing this spareness www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj1W...

Massive deep dive with the GOAT Charles Hayward. Psyched to read this

"At its best art reminds us of the possibility of freedom in this world, and the reality of our connection to each other as the basis and grounding condition of that freedom’s expression."

I've been revisiting the music of Low and contemplating upgrading them from "wow great band" to "okay I think they may be one of the best American bands of all time" I'll follow up when I have any updates

Now we’re listening to my good friend @jefftobias.bsky.social’s latest leftist sophistipop masterpiece, “One Hundredfold Now in This Age” Opening lyric: “Burn the American flag 100x a day” My older son’s got the PlayDoh put again and is getting ABSTRACT

The search for truth and knowledge continues www.reddit.com/r/Bass/comme...

What is it saying about me and my politics that I agree with this but also think practically everyone on television is a fascist

I have no new music to present today but here are a few things I am excited about for Bandcamp Friday New Damaged Bug, Dwyer getting as weird as he pleases, "I can't wait for the sun to go down on the culture war" you and me both brother damagedbug.bandcamp.com/album/zuzax

The arc of justice isn't bending fast enough for my liking

The Internet, our home, is beginning to look like an immense pile of filth.

New Don Cab lore just dropped store.touchandgorecords.com/products/don...

Modern Nature at Milkboy. “The Heat Warps” (@bellaunion.bsky.social, @modernnature.bsky.social) is a solid and enjoyable listen that provides calm in a time of chaos. Photos by Eric Ring: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/25/m...

Kristi Noem’s podium at DHS is just a straight up Nazi slogan "One of ours, all of yours" was a Nazi policy made when an SS officer was killed in a Czech Village and then the Nazis killed every single resident of that village in response…..but don’t you dare call them Nazis….not even hiding it

this is your mission. roll up to this daycare in full tactical gear to harass some kids and teachers. when you get spooked by your own shadow like a panicked horse and start shooting your gun, our pedophile president will call the person you shot a terrorist. good luck soldier

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve. Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. This is not new but it is expanding.

📄🔥 Ornette Coleman - Crisis (1969) Ornette Coleman - alto, trumpet, violin Don Cherry - cornet Dewey Redman - tenor, clarinet Charlie Haden - bass Denardo Coleman - drums #nowspinning #jazzsky #vinyl

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.

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

🎶 “Guess who just got back today” 🎶 Im not playing this game with you. Just tell me

Professors and teachers: Consider assigning your students some of the many AI-related suicide/murder court documents. I'm going to in my creative writing courses. This could be relevant material in any classroom in which you think AI is a factor. Which is to say, all of them.

Talking Heads’ bassist, Tina Weymouth, from the August 1985 issue of Vogue #Womensart (Via TalkingHeads Fans FB)

Vito Acconci is in there somewhere, cranking it

Best side project... ever? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp7H...

For yr Xmas Day reading! I blurbed about 25 awesome experimental records for 2025 for @treblezine.bsky.social ! Tons to dig in to like Orcutt/Miller/Shelley,Laura Cocks,Zeena Parkins/Cecilia Lopez,Yowie,Blank Hellscape,Royal Arctic Institute,Zachary Cale and more! www.treblezine.com/the-25-best-...

I can't get my thoughts together for a proper year-end thing really. I loved seeing Khanate live (with Mick Barr opening). I listened to the fuck out of that new Rafael Toral album. I really loved watching Severance and Common Side Effects. I loved One Battle After Another. I'm grateful to be alive.

This is a quality compilation for a great org! It has that kind of sequencing where nothing alike is adjacent, you're always getting sent off in a different direction with every +1 on the track count. Very glad to be introduced to the unfamiliar names here, Crying Laughing is one to watch!

Dave Ruder and I put together this amazing 19-track comp to raise funds for trans healthcare. Featured artists include Crying Laughing, Mikel Patrick Avery, Ryan Power, Icy Demons (!!!), Jack Cooper & Tara Cunningham and many more. Put it in yr bandcamp cart! goldbolus.bandcamp.com/album/mandat...

New comp out tomorrow (secretly today hee hee) for BC Friday from me/Gold Bolus & @jefftobias.bsky.social with all proceeds going to GLITS and their amazing work in support of trans folx goldbolus.bandcamp.com/album/mandat...

“'Librarians out in our branches are seeing a lot of young people who are really excited by these collections,' Langlais told 404 Media. 'Folks who are coming in just for the games are picking up program flyers and coming back for something like that.'"

The idea of politics as a pendulum is very facile and soothing, and isn't credible. HAVING SAID THAT I sometimes find comfort in the idea that these motherfuckers are winding the pendulum wayyyy up right now so maybe when they're overthrown we'll get free healthcare, I don't know

I think I'll post a few songs I played on in 2025 over the next few days. I think I'll start with this piece by @daveruder.bsky.social from his moving & inscrutable new album. Dave's arranging chops really shine on this and the lyrics are downright freak shit daveruder.bandcamp.com/track/string...

Everything about this is great but I would like to draw the audience's attention to the trombonist wearing an eyepatch

Perfect music + art + title combo

No matter when this countrywide civil war breaks out, we must be well prepared. If it comes early, say, tomorrow morning, we should also be prepared. That is point one.

Great tape mossytapes.bandcamp.com/album/when

Hit the north

Reflecting again on how John Cale’s piano playing on Nick Drake’s “Northern Sky” is one of the single most moving things I’ve ever heard, and also how it's like the thirtieth most historical thing to occur over the course of his career in music. A remarkably passionate oracle. Truly no one like him.

Watching cable news ("MS NOW") while visiting family for the holiday and goddamn ideology is a hell of a drug

A few months ago a friend of mine challenged me to think about the ways in which political music could be uplifting as well as critical. I went for a long walk and listened to The Harder They Come; it was a profound experience. Eternal gratitude to Jimmy Cliff. RIP.

The people are starved for justice

Delve into this madness asap

I wasn't sold on The Chair Company til they dropped the Pere Ubu in there

I love the idea of state leaders responding to questions about political assassinations by saying "Well first of all he was an asshole" www.npr.org/2025/11/18/n...

The Lagniappe Sessions :: Modern Nature aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/17/t... On the heels of the band’s latest LP, The Heat Warps, Modern Nature return with their third entry in the Lagniappe Sessions, this time paying tribute to a pair of Beatles’ chestnuts.

just learned about the delightful 1940s.nyc, which matches tax assessment photos with old maps for maximum street-view time travel. here's the almanac house, where pete seeger & woody guthrie threw basement gigs & partied with dashiell hammett & nicholas ray, among others.

I just learned that Robert Moses was still alive when The Power Broker was published. That's kinda nuts. Someone writes an 800 page book about how much you suck and then it wins the Pulitzer

Thinking about getting into doing this kind of stuff www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg5W...

Music to plumb the depths of the national soul to www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1tJ...