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Excited to chat with Alice Gerrard & talk Hazel Dickens with @jessiew.bsky.social during a live taping of @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social in Knoxville this weekend!

I had forgotten about this Olin-Wright essay: jacobin.com/2015/12/erik... and his discussion of real utopias.

Then we ponder the concept of "the singer songwriter" and go off the rails a little as we grapple w/ the role and efficacy of protest songs in our current political hellscape. In the mix: Tiktok-ification, mass movements, hopelessness and hope, the violence of the state, and the songs of the people.

This was such a special interview to conduct: the first in two episodes with historian Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/the-...

from someone who has covered movements for a ~decade, studied them longer: it's not that what's happening right now is "new" (we can find precedent for present tactics in treatment of Black organizers in the 2010s onward, organizing on Palestine and ATL's Cop City, others). it's still really bad!

❗️Bob: “Hey, there’s a female Bob Dylan out there, apparently”❗️ Read @jonbern.bsky.social’s recent interview with @lucindawilliams.bsky.social in @rollingstone.com

I have watched the video of the execution that occurred in Minneapolis in the last hour. Here is a text description for those who, quite rightly, don't want to watch it, but feel they need to know.

Saw the Ann Lee movie (well, half of it). The Shakers deserve better

Jennifer Kelly (@aquariumdrunkard.com, Dusted) needs our help. Underground music heads, please join me in chipping in.

Please say he’ll be playing Alan Partridge 🙏

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide. He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

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Dreamt I was attending some type of conference all about the cassette tape. The name tags were old tape labels. If a gathering like this doesn't exist like this already, maybe it should??

!!! I love Boots Riley and I love this play x.com/DiscussingFi...

We have a long road ahead of us but our team is built for this moment. Thanks for the support! 🌾

RIP Bobby Weir! 🌹 youtu.be/-_UCpLbx7yU?...

For the past 10 months I've been researching the history of knitting in Appalachia via archives, museums, and with sheep farmers, wool producers & practitioners here and in Ireland. I'll be presenting on my work to date at this year's Knitting History Forum knittinghistory.co.uk/meet-the-spe...

The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says they've been informed by the FBI that US DOJ has said FBI will solely lead the investigation into Renee Nicole Good's killing by a federal officer. State investigators no longer have access to "case materials, scene evidence/investigative interviews"

"Soothing and transportive from start to finish, this is a record to sink yourself into and get to know intimately well." Thank you @recordcratesunited.bsky.social! recordcratesunited.com/2025/12/29/w...

Finally facing facts that no non-dairy egg nog is as good as the real stuff :(

As a close friend of Dory's, a performer of her music, and one of the carriers of her legacy (and her microphone !), Julia shares stories of Dory's painting and needlepointing in her Berkshires farmhouse, Frank Sinatra's deaf cat, and plans for the Dory Previn archive.

Just spent $40 on bumper stickers for my Jewett-head friends. Had to www.workingloose.com/products/i-r...

I've been a bit quieter than usual these past months because @astra.bsky.social and I have been going deep into what we are calling End Times Fascism. The research has been bleak, I won't lie, but it's also been inspiring.

So great to see Wednesday Knudsen’s ATRIUM on this list! “Each title evokes an image or feeling (such as “Place of Dream,” “Room and Window,” “Skyline”) that the listener can focus on while immersing themselves in her sound poems.” daily.bandcamp.com/best-of-2025...

In celebration of the last Bandcamp Friday of 2025, we're offering 20% off all releases & merch—hats, tapes, pins, stickers, LPs & digital albums—Friday 12/5 only, w/ code BCFRIDAY25 Your support helps our amazing artists & keeps this little feminist label going strong! spinstersounds.bandcamp.com

Cranberry Chess Pie & Pecan Pie with Brown Sugar (no Karo) and Bourbon

Waltz with us again!

Love to make a little make a little ramekin pie preview

Making Our Future— my book on the visionary potential of grassroots culture in West Virginia—just celebrated its 3rd birthday. Some day I’ll write another one! uncpress.org/978146967162...

It was an honor to review & blurb the legendary Alice Gerrard's new memoir, out now w/ @uncpress.bsky.social! I was trying to work in a mention of how she taught her dog to grab her a beer from the fridge (as just one example of her legendary status) but I couldn't quite make it work

Dory Previn got “Female Bob Dylan-ed” before her 1st album even came out! Big thanks to the Dory Previn Documnetary co-director Julia Greenberg for sharing this clipping from Dory’s media scrapbook. Listen to our new episode “Screaming in the Car with Dory Previn” wherever you get your podcasts.

We deep dive into her writing and the way she translates emotion and experience into song, detouring to talk mental health advocacy, Valley of the Dolls, Catholicism and more. As a wise man (Sarah Bachman) once said, you will love Dory Previn if you've ever really snapped!

It was a great pleasure to work with Sarah Bachman (artist, at left) and Michelle Markel (co-author, center) on the launch of our children’s book, *Fearless Benjamin* (Lay) at the Abington Quaker Meeting House Tuesday evening. Special thanks to Loretta Maguire Fox and Lee Hall!

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Tonight was a very bad night.

Ok I may be biased but Jesse's forthcoming @uncpress.bsky.social book--on the white Appalachian migrant arm of Fred Hampton's Rainbow Coalition--is so good, with urgent lessons for anti-racist working class organizing today. John Sayles thinks so too. uncpress.org/978146969396...

“Knudsen deftly uses these basic ideas to create huge worlds.” Read Marc Masters' astute review of Wednesday Knudsen's double LP ATRIUM in his monthly Bandcamp Daily column of the best new experimental music. Pick-up a copy of ATRIUM on @bandcamp.com daily.bandcamp.com/best-experim...

My parents listened to so much Archie Fisher when I was growing up that his music feels imprinted on my bones. RIP to a giant of traditional music

This actual bandana is part of the collection at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum in Matewan, WV. Well worth a visit wvminewars.org/news/baneban...

For your consideration, @criterion.bsky.social 🐈

We discuss the film's moody representation of the Greenwich Village folk scene and the flattened renderings of its women, the protagonist's "bleak circle of failure," and the hero's journey of the cat Ulysses—and consider where it ranks on our "golden dulcimer" scale of folk music films.

This was such a thoughtful, reverent session, listening to and discussing Ella Hanshaw’s music. Attendees became fans and were singing along by the end. They wanted to take this photo to share with Ella’s family ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/album/ella-h...

Though there's a lot of overlap bet/n @spinstersounds.bsky.social & my folklore work, the Ella Hanshaw record is the first to really bridge those 2 worlds directly. Excited to talk about that with 2 of my favorite feminist folklorists & musicians at the big #AFS2025 folklore conference this weekend.

Guitar mage Tom Carter (Charalambides) on Wednesday Knudsen's forthcoming double LP ATRIUM... ATRIUM will be out on digital & CD 10/24. Vinyl has been delayed to 11/28 due to a pressing issue, but it will be here in due time! Pre-order: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2

Join Wednesday Knudsen this coming Tuesday, October 14th at 6pm ET for a listening party & exclusive preview of her forthcoming masterful double LP ATRIUM! RSVP: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/merch/atrium...

Today we release the 2nd single off Wednesday Knudsen's double LP, ATRIUM. Skyline I is a deep & expansive melody of arching arpeggios, evoking Lynchian scenes of a stark winter forest or a city coming into view from a vast desert landscape. Listen: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2

"The piece raises from the canvas to the canopy, echoing out over the mountains in a stunning reflection of the jagged landscape." Thank you @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social for this review of Wednesday Knudsen's "Fair Aegis" off her 2xLP ATRIUM, out 10/24 www.ravensingstheblues.com/wednesday-kn...

Pre-order Wednesday Knudsen's double LP ATRIUM, out 10/24 on SPINSTER & Feeding Tube Records wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2