I wish Alabama could play this in the stadium pregame. Oh the good old days when our coach and players were laser focused and all borderline too into football. 😂

maaaan we’re about to have five straight days/nights of football, then the MLB playoffs begin on Tuesday??fuck me up

Brief reviews of albums 8-14 are now up on the blog. This includes records from Buddy Holly, Miles Davis, Count Basie, Thelonious Monk, Little Richard, Sabu, and Machito. Jazz, rock & roll, Afro-Cuban jazz, world music, and more. Links to previous posts included in case you want to see older posts.

How any team connected to the White Sox won anything back to back will leave future sports historians completely perplexed.

What I imagine y'all see every time my skeets cross your timeline.

Cause of death lol

...and now that I've spent the morning discussing Saskatchewanian country and western, let me tell you friends that I'm really excited to see Deafheaven tonight. Do you consider them shoegaze inspired black metal or black metal infused shoegaze?

I'm here to amuse myself if nothing else.

We have a winner ladies and gentlemen. And Colter has a new album out in November which had me checking tour dates....

This right here is a man of the people. Guess the artist by tour locations...

@sulkirk.bsky.social Dude. We've never even met and I had a dream we were hanging out in Finland last night. Brains are weird.

This'll be a fun question to brainstorm. Let's hear what you've got/seen/heard of.

Really dislike this last two weeks of the season Blue Jays implosion.

I don't know why I'm surprised there are Ghost tribute bands, but I am.

Yasmin Williams' music is so good. She deserves so much better than this. She would deserve better than this even if her music was terrible, but you know what I mean.

a lot of dollar generals only have one employee in them at a time which means you can usually walk in there and drink all the cleaning products you want without having to pay

Today's #TicketStubWed is Gogol Bordello from the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, GA exactly 17 years ago today. Such a shame they seldom play Baro Foro anymore. That song rips and was one of our big grad school party anthems lol

Not sure I never got any records back, but definitely had some bootleg concert tapes disappear forever. Give me back by DMB tapes from Louie Louie, Brooke!

Hell yeah. Takaat in Birmingham on 10/30 at TrimTab. This is all the guys from Mdou Moctar’s band.

I hope 10,000 people see this skeet and buy all of their records. Rose City Band is a tour I’d hop on. This man’s tone is unreal. And the buttery smooth playing is *chef’s kiss*

these rapture clowns are nothing compared to the cult leaders we used to have. Jim jones gave you koolaid and a tropical vacation. heaven’s gate gave you fresh Nikes. used to be a proper damn country smdh

So, legit: Rose City Band is the best band you currently aren’t listening to. I don’t even think it’s recency bias. I walk away from shows all the time where I’m like: “That was good/solid/fine.” Whatever these bros are doing is elite though. Truly must see shit. Especially for $20 or whatever.

“Why do you still buy CDs, Woven Antelope?” “”Because these three Rose City Band albums cost $45 instead of $90 and take up 25% as much space.” 🤷🏻‍♂️

Who's gonna be my roommate at Solid Sound?

Just once I'd like a municipality having a community shred day to invite Marty Friedman and Dave Mustaine instead of bringing a bunch of boring ass paper shredders.

(1) Buried in the convo of another post, people are talking about incomplete show info being provided by venues. The worst example I ever faced was going to a metal show that had three bands on the bill. I was mostly interested in the opener so I showed up early to get a good spot.

I'd take Mike Gundy over Trent Dilfer. #BlazeOnThatMullet

Happy Aja Day to all of the Dan Heads. Be sure to listen to it in Walt & Don's preferred pristine sonic media format.

Combing through the archives and here is Nels Cline making some noise in Chattanooga on 05.11.25 before he played with Wilco later that night.

There are some incredible gems in the comments section of this article. Highly recommended.

Easiest choice ever with D. You get Italy, Greece, Turkey, Iran, Lebanon, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, China, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Indonesia, Japan, Nepal, etc.

People of Birmingham, come to Woodlawn Theatre tonight to see Rose City Band.

People of Birmingham, come out to the Woodlawn Theatre tonight for Rose City Band. Gonna be a real good time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZF_...

Mmmmmm. Breakfast

It’s wild to me that Auburn just handed the keys to the MBB program to someone with zero head coaching experience. I know it’s really late in the game to find someone new, but if he doesn’t pan out, how long do they hold onto him simply because he’s Bruce’s son?

Might need to obtain this Guerilla Toss sweatshirt. 🤔

Somehow slept on John Scofield's Uncle John's Band album which came out a couple of years ago and his cover of Neil Young's Old Man rules.

Egan's (Tuscaloosa) Downtown Pub (Tuscaloosa) War Eagle Supper Club (Auburn) Marty's (Birmingham) J. Clyde (Birmingham) Blue Monkey (Birmingham)

Keith Haring, 1983

Can't speak for anyone else, but this is good and right and true for Alabama.

Playoffs clinched! Now let's win the division.

Survivor league nearly imploded under the weight of that Browns win. That game cut 9 of the 42 remaining players (21%)

Anybody have video of this? I haven't been able to watch and would love to see it.

The Panthers are ass and they are just mauling the Falcons.

I've got tickets to Falcons/Rams Monday Night Football on 12/29. Could stay a couple of days and tack on Umphrey's McGee at The Tabernacle on 12/30 and Baroness at 5/29 on 12/31. Never done a metal New Year's Eve. 🤔

i like mountains

Wisconsin is apparently really bad. Like worse than we even thought bad. Takes some shine off of that Bama win last week when Maryland is absolutely waxing them.

Saw someone lamenting the lack of music/concert videos on here, so here’s some Geordie Greep from 09.07.25 at Saturn in Birmingham, AL.

It's weird when a niche industry pops up in an unexpected place, like Andrews Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Center in Birmingham. They did Joe Burrow's surgery this morning and have done tons of notable athletes in the past: