I tried. I really tried to listen to both of these but... life's too short. 2001 is just not a good year in music for me 😞

Ah dang! Missing this! I need to set calendar reminders for these...

Every time I see a photo or video of Angine de Poitrine, the thing I think the most is that I hope their newfound fame will allow them to buy cooling systems for their headpieces (Also, if you Google "Angine de Poitrine" something happens on the search page)

Today is the birthday of British comic artist Frank Bellamy (May 21, 1917-July 5, 1976).

Sigh. Another one where I don't expect to be on the winning side, but Stereolab have always left me cold. Alison Krauss ✅

Hello people in other time zones. This is happening tomorrow, or today, or next week, or last year, depending on where you are. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

I'm sitting by an open-air swimming pool right now, but it's in Mexico, so about as far away from a Lido as you can get. Since I don't have YouTube music i was only able to skim the album, but it was not bad! And I've always found Damon Albarn to be repellant so... Clearlake ✅

OUR CULTURE IS BEING DESSICATED BECAUSE THAT GIRL WHO GOT HATCHED FROM A SWAN EGG IS A BLACK BUT GREEKS ARE WHITE EVEN IF THEY ARE FROM SWAN EGGS THAT’S JUST SCIENCE AND THE BATMAN GUY HATES CULTURE AND WHITES AND SCIENCE

Uh… Yeah… yeah, that’s what he meant.

I feel like I should vote Sloan out of some Cancon obligation, but they've just never appealed to me. The Death Cab album isn't one I've heard much, but it's better than the Sloan one for me so... DCfC ✅ I'm off to listen to the Hip in penance.

Not sure I'll do much with #NewMusicFriday this week (Drake is... not my thing, but he's really been pushing Toronto on the global stage these last few weeks so kudos?). Instead, with Caroline Rose releasing a new single, I've been going back to "Loner", my favourite album from 2018 #NowPlaying

@sirbenfro.bsky.social I saw that the Kindle pre-order for the new book is up on Amazon UK - will there be one for Canada? 🙏

The good taxpayers of New York have given me a pair of Meta glasses because I am low vision disabled, and I seem to have used them more than a lot of people on here, so let me say a little about my experiences:

This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...

Today it's one of the few albums of 2001 that I actually own! And I like it! And I'm not in the headspace to tackle that other album in the slightest! Malkmus ✅

Oh et puis encore un SMBC parce que celui-ci est l'un de mes préférés du monde :D @zachweinersmith.bsky.social

Today's match is an interesting one, and I find both quite fascinating. Four Tet probably has the edge for being a bit more engaging to the casual listener but, listening to one after the other, I honestly wasn't sure when Four Tet ended and Fennesz began. Four Tet ✅

This is what people hiding criminal activities do.

Anyone else find the census site just crashed? 🙄

Just finished a quick marathon of all four previous seasons of The Lovecraft Investigations as a refresher for this one; it's on BBC Sounds/iPlayer, and it's a great reworking of the Cthulhu Mythos, I highly recommend it. And before you ask, yes it avoids all the racist stuff from Lovecraft!

Another day of things-that-are-not-for-me 😞. I used the skip button and got further on the Aaliyah album so... ✅? My prediction that I wasn't really going to enjoy 2001 is bearing out, but there've at least been a few things I've found that I've enjoyed. Some of them have even won their bracket!

In less fabulous news, @divorcehq.bsky.social is going separate ways, with Adam & Kasper announcing their departure over on IG. I got to see them in Toronto recently, but I'll be looking forward to whatever comes next www.instagram.com/p/DYPVB6VCnp...

Well fuck yeah! There's a blistering new Caroline Rose single out today! "Yip Yip Yow" #NewMusic open.spotify.com/album/3tIZZj...

I have been watching The Batman on a plane for as long as I can remember

And I guess this is why that track showed up? "II & III" getting a 40th anniversary reissue at the end of the month - www.roughtrade.com/en-us/produc...

A random Camper Van Beethoven track showed up as a "new" single on Spotify this week (it's from '86, with "II & III" cover art?), which sent me down a rabbit hole that led to discovering that the band posted their live show archives on the Internet Archive! archive.org/details/Camp...

I'm getting to this matchup late in the day and, while I've always appreciated Silver Jews in theory, that Princess Superstar is the album I needed to hear on a Monday. Princess Superstar ✅

It's great seeing lots of new coverage for the Split Enz tour in NZ, though I'd be very surprised if they tried to make a new album together. Still, you never know... www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

The new Broken Social Scene album is out today, and it's rather good #NewMusicFriday open.spotify.com/album/6skQ2c...

It's just a 4-track e.p., but any #NewMusicFriday with new Little Simz is a good one - open.spotify.com/album/1CJBeo...

All of @nataliehaynes.bsky.social Stands Up for the Classics have enlightened me on so many things that influence (but aren't necessarily taught any more) modern culture. That, and how to pronounce all the names.

A reminder that this is why we make fun of The Odyssey. The book would not exist if Odysseus was not such a complete chaos goblin who was busy causing problems for himself by arguing with Gods and being a shit navigator. There is no way to make an extremely serious movie out of this material.

Another 2 new albums for me (seriously, what *did* I listen to in 2001?). Pete Yorn I've not heard of and he's... fine? Shakira, outside of a couple of singles, I've never actually listened to, but at least it's fun (even if I did just yell "It's fucking Eternal Flame!" at a colleague). Shakira ✅

"The Tragically Hip, Kawartha Dairy collaborate on new ice cream" "Portion of sales will go to the Breakfast Club of Canada" www.thewhig.com/news/the-tra...

This one isn't even close for me, but not from any historical loyalties (I've never "got" the Clash). The Beta Band put me to sleep, Joe Strummer woke me up. Strummer ✅

Since I discovered that Toronto Public Library has digital subscriptions to lots of UK music magazines, I've been occasionally dipping into issues of Prog. Of course, in an issue I didn't look at, they finally had something about Split Enz and "Mental Notes" www.loudersound.com/music/albums...

I have no idea which way today's matchup is going to go. Le Tigre I like well enough, but only in short doses. 41 minutes is too much for me. k. are completely unknown to me, but I'm liking it a lot in a Tsunami/Jenny Toomey-kinda way. (Still wish her album had made the cut for this year...) k. ✅

Legendary cartoonist Nicole Hollander has passed away at age 86 www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...

I'm slowly working my way through the audiobooks of @emmanewman.bsky.social's "Planetfall" series. "Slowly" because, while they're excellent and gripping, with mental health themes colliding with a dark gov-corp future, I need to take a break after each one! share.libbyapp.com/title/2396890

Lucinda Williams' "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road" was fantastic. "Essence" is... not. Far too one-note, slow, and unremarkable for me to connect. Superchunk we're OK. Certainly more interesting than "Essence". Superchunk ✅

It's #BandCampFriday, which means the bands on there get more money from sales than usual. For sheer value at $7 - I would recommend 'Woman on the internet' by Orla Gartland. Incredible pop. Their follow up album is also one to grab. orlagartland.bandcamp.com/album/woman-...

Love this beat in Star Trek where Khan whacks a guy so hard he blows the crotch out of his pants

This is (perhaps surprisingly) my first exposure to Fugazi - it's good! Not sure I'll go back to them too often, but I'm more inclined to check out more of their stuff now. Ludacris is OK (I'm not paying attention to the lyrics tho), but I can't do much of it. Fugazi ✅

Got up early in hopes of catching this photo before work this morning. There's only a few days each year where it's cool enough in the morning to make this shot possible. Thankfully, today was one of those days! #wildlife #birds

That mid-90s to late-Aughts period where wide swathes of artists felt like they literally had to fill the entire capacity of a CD for an album release was a dark, dark time

I left YouTube playing in the background and, after a diversion to the Who doing "A Quick One While He's Away" on the Stones' Rock n' Roll Circus, I'm back to Split Enz with their Sight & Sound concert from 1977, complete with Noel's epic spoons solo www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLjg...

I don't pay much attention to YouTube, but Peter Green has been uploading all sorts of gems from the Split Enz live archives over the years, like this performance of "Betty" and the non-album (and non-successful) single "Things" from Sydney in '79 www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7as...