Producer Mike has assembled a new mega-mix in tribute to the late, great David Lynch. Check it out!

open.spotify.com/playlist/2D6... A giant Moody Blues introduction Playlist I put together a few years ago, based off of a 2 CD Moodies compilation I made for myself in graduate school. Listen in order, I put a lot of thought into the sequencing.

RIP John Lodge. Here's a great song that gets easily forgotten because it was on a solo album instead of a Moodies album. youtu.be/BfFIIKlmPJg?...

And then there was one… Gonna be a tough weekend for the @discordpod.bsky.social crew. Rest in peace, singer in a rock and roll band.

This one hurts.

Bumpin’ that youtu.be/n0XSOKQDHTU?...

HEY BEACH BOYS FANS! Our own Ben Marlin has written a brand new book where he dives into their enormous catalog, track by track! (Cover design and editing by Amanda Rodgers!)

Long-hair David Byrne isn't real Long-hair David Byrne can't hurt you

If you count The Magnificent Moodies

8pm is too late for weeknight concert start times

Genesis’ Mike Rutherford and Charles Schultz’s ‘Peanuts’ were launched 75 years ago today 🎂

sometimes you gotta sit down and ask yourself….am i truly livin’ la vida loca?

Lost Tom Petty eight years ago today. Still the heaviest rock star death in recent memory for me.

Happy 40th to one of the greatest records ever made.

This week, @libbycudmore.bsky.social joins us for an album that's perfect in so many ways. Power pop icon Matthew Sweet suffered a debilitating stroke last year and may never play music again, and we pay tribute to him by discussing his album Girlfriend, which is equal parts joyous and bittersweet.

Happy birthday to Mike Post. Now playing this 12” which boasts his “Theme from Hill Street Blues” and his Northern Soul fave “Afternoon of the Rhino”. Both are in this playlist featuring his biggest tunes ▶️🎧 open.spotify.com/playlist/2B9...

I’m real proud of an upcoming @discordpod.bsky.social episode about Matthew Sweet I recorded with @richbunnell.bsky.social and @libbycudmore.bsky.social. Coming very soon!

There is a surprisingly large number of these, and the contrast with his actual persona makes the gag extra funny.

One Beatle After Another

It’s a Rutles kind of morning

Some vintage crate-digging geekery from the D&R Slack.

Thumbs up for the choice of cover photo, but let's be real, "Don't Give Up" is both Peter Gabriel's and Kate Bush's respective 40th-best song, tops.

You've officially hit peak middle age when the first three songs on Brothers in Arms transition into the alto sax that opens "Your Latest Trick" and you think "Oh hell yeah, now we're talkin'"

Farewell to Sonny Curtis, a member of Buddy Holly & the Crickets and the author of such enduring classics as the Everly Brothers’s “Walk Right Back,” the Bobby Fuller Four’s “I Fought the Law” and the Mary Tyler Moore Show theme “Love is All Around.” bestclassicbands.com/sonny-curtis...

This is funniest possible headline for a song literally called "Song for Bob Dylan"

Honestly, take them all the way down and let's go back to having to show up at a weird window in the back of a department store at 10am to get tickets to show www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Hey XTC fans! If you like the album The Big Express as much as we do (and you should), listener @barronimomusic.bsky.social did an outstanding series of live covers of the entire album (and then some) this summer. We especially love his take on "Seagulls Screaming (Kiss Her Kiss Her)."

finally

Today’s vibe:

Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth (1961).

Men I challenge you to try this: - Erupt from a volcano - Do battle with a robot stegosaurus-spider - Do battle with a pterodactyl-airplane - Do battle with a lizard-insect-missle-launcher - Do battle with a Manticore - Retreat to the river - Erupt from the volcano again

"If you ever get lonely, just go to the record store and visit your friends." - Penny Lane from 'Almost Famous' The film's soundtrack was released 25 years ago.

Bumpin’ that youtu.be/C8dqCQ2MHfQ?...

I can't decide which song is more quintessentially David Byrne on his new album: the one about how he loves his partner because she explains the themes and jokes on TV shows that he doesn't get, or the one where he tries a new moisturizing cream that makes him look like a 3-year-old.

It's a gorgeous album, and like Give Up by the Postal Service, serves as a snapshot of a moment in time when artists making music over the Internet was a strange, intriguing new concept.

The message I'm getting from BlueSky right now:

These song titles get capitalized the fuck up when they go through my Exact Audio Copy. I am not adhering to your twee singer/songwriter style guide

This, from Jaime Brooks, is the best music-related writing I've ready in a long time.

I like all kinds of music

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

It's amazing that this song is a 10/10 by the halfway point and then has a coda that's as long as the song proper and pushes it to be a 15/10 by itself www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_r7...

A bittersweet farewell to Rick Davies of Supertramp. Now you're planning the crime of the century.

RIP Mark Volman, tambourine king. youtu.be/Fb5i6UgGKo8?...

So sad to hear about the passing of Mark Volman. A great singer and a very funny man, he made pop music history with The Turtles, and of course I LOVED his Zappa years. Sending condolences, especially to my friend Howard Kaylan. Rest In Peace. deadline.com/2025/09/mark...

@discordpod.bsky.social I was going through your back catalog recently and decided to give the Gentle Giant 'Octopus' episode a relisten. It inspired me to dive back into their catalog - I forgot how hard these guys could rock! 1/2

Somebody suggested that someone on the @discordpod.bsky.social podcast clearly loves the sound of their own voice and buddy you cannot imagine how wrong you are across the board.

Bumpin’ that youtu.be/H-rEVVAw3-0?...

New on our Patreon: Amanda did a live listener Q&A! Learn about what it's like working at a record store (short answer: awesome) and more at patreon.com/discordpod.

Happy 90125 day to those who celebrate youtu.be/7LLzPPFc21o?...

In 1965, First Officer Spock, the leading songwriter of the Vulcan folk music revival, began DJ'ing and playing House Music, generating much controversy in the Vulcan folk music community.