D'oh, you're right! It's been a while since I've run through the original seasons.

Okay, Discord and Rhyme (aka @discordpod.bsky.social) is back. I've only just started listening to the episode about #Endtroducing by #DJShadow and I can already tell what a rabbit hole it is. Do yourselves a favor and check it out. It's a blast. discordpod.com/listen/170-d...

Finally getting my thoughts written for the upcoming @discordpod.bsky.social episode on the first Van Halen album. Get ready for comparison points that no sane person would ever make, including a prominent mention of Jim Rice and Catfish Hunter (the baseball players).

Books and music and arts and film writing and criticism is important and makes the world a more beautiful place. I firmly believe that.

Definitely want to get the word out about this podcast. So much fun with great insight from the hosts. Endtroducing is my all time favorite album and they do this masterpiece great justice. Go check them out!!!!

I've been looking for a new musical genre to be autistically fixated on, might be time to give instrumental hip-hop a go

Very close race between Cuyahoga and Sweetness Follows

I don't know how long the finished ep is but we recorded for 3 hours talking about this magnum opus record. Just fucking fantastic top to bottom

We are kicking off 2026 with our good friend @shivambhatt.bsky.social to discuss NorCal producer DJ Shadow’s 1996 masterpiece Endtroducing….., whose release was a watershed moment for the art of instrumental hip-hop and a major influence on Producer Mike. #musicsky discordpod.com/listen/170-d...

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Somebody doesn't know it but they made this specifically for me

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In the 1984 music video for Phil Collins and Philip Bailey's "Easy Lover," they had enough money in the budget for a helicopter. It’s abundantly clear that the industry has regressed, and a Universal Basic Income for Artists isn't enough. My proposal: a Universal Helicopter Budget for Artists 🚁

Hyperballad, Human Behavior, Alarm Call

#NP When an LP starts with a track that's as ambitious & exciting as "Station to Station" but it doesn't overshadow what follows you know you're listening to a very special record! 50 years old & still absolutely essential! 🎶💥 #musicsky #albumalmanac #bowieforever @punkandnewwave.bsky.social

Rob Hirst was a goddamn legend not just of Australian but world music #RIP youtu.be/92WQWp15sAU?...

Quick schedule update: our DJ Shadow episode will be dropping on Tues 2/3, with episodes resuming biweekly thereafter. We had to record it a little later than our usual winter premiere to accommodate our guest's schedule, plus it's a long, intricate episode. But it will be worth the wait!

Occasionally the doomscrolling leads me to good news like this

I like that the best way to describe how Bob Mould’s guitar sounds is to use his album titles. “It’s sort of like… a metal circus? Y’know, how everything falls apart? Right, kind of like black sheets of rain. Or maybe copper blue, or candy apple grey.”

This one is gonna be another full meal

i just recorded a three hour long podcast with my friends @discordpod.bsky.social about the DJ Shadow masterpiece Endtroducing, and god damn if that isn't a perfect album

There are so many great TV themes that we completely left out Mike Post. All the more reason to do a second installment!

Hey, smiley strange! This month's Patreon bonusode is about our favorite TV theme songs, including (but not limited to) The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Cheers, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Toast of London, Reading Rainbow, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Tune in at patreon.com/discordpod.

safe travels to bobby weir in the greater weirdness.

Sad to report: RIP Bob Weir. "It is with profound sadness that we share the passing of Bobby Weir. He transitioned peacefully, surrounded by loved ones, after courageously beating cancer as only Bobby could. Unfortunately, he succumbed to underlying lung issues." www.instagram.com/p/DTWTKqKgKeP/

For one of my many enjoyable Dissolve assignments, I looked back at the post-breakup "Beatles movies" released while all four Beatles were still alive. Sgt. Pepper's was not the worst! thedissolve.com/features/mov...

When I was 4 years old I lived with my grandparents and my teenage uncle had the room beneath me, wherein he would get high on all kind of substances and blast Dark Side loud enough it passed through the floorboards and into my young, tender brain...On the Run is forever seared into my memory

This is already our best-performing episode by a considerable margin. I guess people have heard of this album?

I wrote about podcasting’s ongoing pivot to video, and the power of listening without also watching:

i/o was my favorite album of 2023. Didn’t expect a follow up so soon but can’t wait

"While an all-time classic today, it’s worth remembering that in its day, West End Girls was an unlikely track from an unlikely new synth duo (just as synth duos were going out of style) and a song that had unequivocally flopped all across the globe a year earlier." The making of West End Girls:

I’ll go with this one m.youtube.com/watch?v=K0HS...

100%, and the most correct way to frame it would be as a Bravo-style trash-TV documentary. "The Real Musicians of Yes"

Just finished the ep. Great job everyone! I’ve always been a pre-DSOTM fan, and some of that comes from the “I was into them before they were popular” impulse, plus I genuinely love the pure psychedelia of the first 2 albums. But this really is a masterpiece and I’m glad I got to hear y’all on it.

Read this headline too fast and thought Radiohead had released a watch

@discordpod.bsky.social Watching the sneaky drum solo always makes me realize how I take it for granted in the beginning of Time. youtube.com/shorts/8ttlj...

King's Red Hat

“Christmas in Hollis” is eternal, but The Pointer Sisters, Eurythmics, and Whitney kick things off with one of the great three-track runs

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We promise that it is a much better use of your time than the new Avatar

It's the most wonderful time of the year, when we examine a hugely popular album and tell you that it is, in fact, that good. We're pleased to report that The Dark Side of the Moon is also just as good as you've always heard it is, maybe even better. #MusicSky discordpod.com/listen/169-p...

My function as an artist is not to be popular, or even understood, but simply to be enjoyed.

To anyone wondering about our Dark Side of the Moon holiday episode: It's coming! The episode ended up being pretty gargantuan, but we're listening to the draft now, and it should be in your feeds either tomorrow or bright and early Christmas Day. IT'S REAL GOOD

oh no where did the groove go

Bought OTD in 1972: this was a total game changer - a very effective piece of popcult activism and a great listen. It opened up a whole swathe of 60s US pop that Brits had hardly heard and the sleeve notes offered the word Punk as a way out of early 70s stasis: ‘the relentless middle-finger drive’

Inspired by a discussion on the @discordpod.bsky.social slack, I decided to do a check of which artists have at least 24 hours (1 day) of material on my iPod. The list was fun to put together and there were a couple of surprises for me. Presented in order of how they appear sorted on my iPod:

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watching THIS IS SPINAL TAP, and the decision to make the band genuinely good musicians that just happen to be intensely stupid is what really rockets it into the stratosphere imo

Current vibe over at @discordpod.bsky.social HQ:

Fall Friday? In December? In this economy? #FallFriday #XmasMusic youtu.be/z6oFtDJ623g?...