I don’t know what I said via voice texting to come up with the phrase “certain Meredith ballbag.”  I don’t even know anybody named Meredith. Should I start a band?

SoCal! At 7:30, I’m at Stories in Echo Park with Lead Into Gold founder/ @ministryband.bsky.social alum Paul Barker, Wax Trax’s Andy Wombwell and former Ministry crew member Judy Pokonosky to discuss THE LAND OF RAPE AND HONEY, my new book about the record for Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series.

For your Sunday morning perusal: Highlights from a digital breakfast I had with Neu/Harmonia icon Michael Rother and underground culture maverick Thurston Moore, courtesy of SPIN. If you’re in Brooklyn, see them at Knockdown Center tonight! www.spin.com/2025/03/mich...

“Two pieces made with dismantled toy pianos, wind-up toys, popping candy, bow, toy spring reverb, Buddha Machine, Tamayura bell, Japanese iron wind chimes, electronics, and voice.”

I think I found the record-collecting analog to people who use dating apps for free meals. But will music love you more than you love it? townsendmusic.store/product/157149

Is the interest in the cassette format genuine or implied? I mean, a Bandcamp DL >does< sound better, right?

“It’s a rock ‘n’ roll trip to the airport: I’m dropping off eight peeps in leathers and picking up two dudes that need showers…”

Depression ameliorated by the discovery of a 1980 live bootleg of Lene Lovich in Boston. What a fuk’n band! m.youtube.com/watch?v=vIzP...