absolutely and uncontroversially one of the fucking best to ever fucking do it

Please tell Ben I just got his book and I’m looking forward to digging in!

There is a fifth wave of ska, beyond that which is known to rude boys

Can’t believe we lost the goddess Christine McVie three years ago today. 💔 Wrote this for NPR Music when she died. www.npr.org/2022/12/05/1...

Picked up some Black Friday dollar bin CDs that include some of @libbycudmore.bsky.social's dearest friends and most bitter enemies.

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.

A theory: all Warren Zevon songs are Thanksgiving songs because Warren Zevon has big Uncle Making A Scene energy

the average crowd at an indie pop show

My secret agenda here was finding out new comps that I could buy, and y'all are coming up gangbusters.

The '100% dynamite' series on Soul Jazz Records. The 'Jukebox Mambo' series on Jazzman records.

What are your favorite various artists compilations and box sets? I'll start. Currently listening through this:

@tarkus1980.bsky.social @discordpod.bsky.social

For a brief time everything worked out right for Badfinger & they came up with an all-time classic album. From power pop to boogie rock and various points in between, Straight Up is a no-skips album that deserves your attention, so listen up. #MusicSky discordpod.com/listen/168-b...

3FHaR is a classic, but there's always been an odd "first draft" quality to the mixing and mastering that I find it hard to get over, and it's something DLS got better about on their later albums. So Paul's Boutique takes this match-up.

Wrote about maintaining a daily listening practice on my blog 🎧

Farewell to the great Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican singer who played a pivotal part in introducing reggae to the rest of the world. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

She runs through the night as if nobody cares She screams and she cries and ignores all the stares She wants me to come, but I'm never going there The goldheart mountaintop queen directory

DOCTOR: How did you hurt your neck? ME: (Thinking back to when I bopped too hard to Phil Collins 1984 hit "Sussudio" in the car while driving to Aldi for Secret Cheese) ME: Sex Games.

All music is ambient music if you’re far enough away from it bro ❤️

Last night we at @discordpod.bsky.social recorded our second annual Thank You For The Music episode, and let me tell you the playlist for this episode is *nuts*.

Have the internet ruin a song: I Could Never Take the Place of Your Manosphere

It’s technically bedtime but this is where my head’s at: youtu.be/5YygxKYYER0?...

Best use of an ongoing reference to a 1 second excerpt from a Mutt Lange-produced album

There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.

I knew him as Adam Bahner. The world knows him as Tay Zonday, the man who sang "Chocolate Rain" He sounded exactly the same at age 15 as he does as an adult

“There you go man Keep as cool as you can Face piles of trials with smiles It riles them to believe That you perceive the web they weave And keep on thinking free” 🎶🐺

I STILL have some of these CDs!

I wrote about the late, great Todd Snider. stevenhyden.substack.com/p/todd-snide...

"Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.” - Henry Rollins

AND I WANT

A major writer of enduring consequence. I read last week that he was too sick to be on the road and too broke to be off it. Awful people indulge themselves in despicable rationalizations about life choices and lost highways, but it's murder most foul. I don't think I can take this business anymore.

I love that every generation has the same Tom Jones experience. "Oh this guy is corny as hell" to "Okay this guy is corny as hell but it's fun to laugh at him" to "Okay this guy has bangers" to "Okay this guy is a generational talent and a complete fucking genius."

I rely on my Nazareth-endorsed Hair-Of-The-Dog-ometer to let me know exactly when I'm messing with a son of a bitch.

I can't believe I never noticed that the Boston spaceship is a guitar

i love the story of Neil getting consumed with Kenny Buttrey needing bigger sticks, to the point where you wonder if NY envisioned him using like a baseball bat on his snare

My daughter did a round of senior photos in front of First Avenue in Minneapolis and I had to honor @discordpod.bsky.social at least once.

Been on a Sloan kick lately, so I'm just going to thread a bunch of great Sloan songs.

The hosts on our podcast belong to a very specific generational cohort who will tell our kids that we once mimed playing songs on plastic instruments, and we will never pretend that it was not awesome

Our most downloaded episode, thanks to the Pandora algorithm broadcasting us to confused patrons of various spas, garden stores, and wellness clinics!

my sources are telling me that the song of the fall is …by god, this can’t be right. it’s, once again, deacon blues by steely dan

“And I dream I'm an eagle And I dream I can spread my wings”

Long time friends of mine when I retweet anything related to this album into my timeline and they see it

A good way to weed out the jerks in the Deadhead world is asking what they think of Donna Jean. I absolutely love her. An integral part of the all-time best Dead era. RIP. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Note to self: you are still here, alive and on earth. Go outside and look at the leaves changing colour. They will look back at you: let’s see who blinks first…

#FallFriday meets #Halloween 👻 THE FALL, There’s a Ghost in my House #postpunk #musicsky #indierock

File under: Pictures You Can Hear

Compleat Beatles, dated as it is, remains important as it's the one non-"house approved" Beatles documentary that got to use all the music & images etc. Plus Malcolm McDowell's narration was never bettered. & it does the job in 2 hours!

“Tortoise did have a champion at, I believe, ‘Conan O’Brien.’ Every time we put out an album,' McCombs recalled, NBC’s Tortoise fan 'tried to get us on the show. And then the producers would say, ‘Who do we point the camera at?''" Tortoise on resilience, rejuvenation, and survival: