After 12 wildly improbable years of high-flying good times at Sea-Tac Airport, the Sub Pop Airport Store will be closing on Dec. 31, 2025. Before we taxi off for good, come through and take some lovingly curated “junk” home with you.

You know what was about a billion times more reliable than BlueTooth in the car? My circa 1982 Sanyo boombox lying on the front seat.

Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.

I don’t think I’ve listened to this Dark Star > Stella > Eyes since the Listen to the River box was new. Lordy be. Love Bobby on DS. Lots of territory traversed. Nice listen on a winter’s day. relisten.net/grateful-dea...

Any dentists in Kenosha, WI wanna help out a young autistic girl,?? This child needs 5 root canals due to her autism medicine. Imma trade you a pair of tickets to our show in Chicago with GNR and a meeting next July www.gofundme.com/f/help-with-...

Introduce yourself with bands you’ve seen five times or more… Fugazi Bikini Kill Wilco Dylan Springsteen

I can’t be the only person who reads the phrase, “And it’s not even close” and immediately dismisses the argument at hand, assuming a lack of curiosity or creativity or both

The number of ways this is disgraceful behavior from the Secretary of Defense is...a lot. Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.

Latest entry in the annals of #Fugazi and #GratefulDead are more similar than you assume: there are pieces of Sand Camels & Glass Camels highlighted in the latest Deadcast (thanks @bourgwick.bsky.social!) that to my ears could find a home on later Fugazi albums

This. And, look Dems, you didn't even have to pay Molly an arm and a leg. Nailed it for you in 30 seconds by focusing on values.

5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage: “Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers” “Church members flee as federal agents arrive” “Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee” “Border Patrol questions people at Walmart” “Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”

No interviewer ever needs to ask again, “Back in [time past] could you have ever imagined [significant achievement]?” No, they couldn’t. No insights lie down that road. Don’t waste your question opportunities

Harm to SNAP recipients, federal workers, and others is real. In a normal democracy it’d make sense to prioritize reducing that harm in the short term. In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.

Tis the season

Sheets of sound. Also sheets of sound.

Anyone seen the Springsteen movie? I’m a Bruce nerd, and I … did not enjoy it. It’s a great story to tell. But film is a visual medium, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a film that more ignored the imperative to “show, don’t tell.”

Kept wondering why I keep thinking the name of the so-far awesome show “Shoresy” was “Shoesy,” and realized it’s because of @hamshooz.ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.ooo

Breaking: A federal appeals court just denied a last-minute bid by the Trump admin to temporarily halt some SNAP funding during the shutdown.

Assorted Crisis Events #6, by @denizcamp.bsky.social & @ericxyz.bsky.social, hits harder for me than any other so far. John suffers from Temporal Diminishment, but with my dad, we called it dementia. This whole series has touched me more than any art I’ve encountered all year. Maybe all decade.

Conservative Man Proudly Frightened Of Everything

LOL it must have absolutely killed NYT headline writers to have to write this one

I’ve never been inspired to read anything about CCR, so thanks to @andrewhickey.500songs.com and 500 Songs for filling me on Bad Moon Rising’s ties to Scotty Moore on I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone

NYT disappointments, in order: 1) Normalizing fascism 2) Increasing charges for games, possibly to make up for lost revenue from subscriptions cancelled in light of #1 3) Refusal to accept common words in Spelling Bee

If you’re gonna write a song about the helpless feeling of not being to keep your loved ones safe, writing a melody that’s fit for a lullaby is perfect youtu.be/DexmYN0wMJU?...

Folks rightly talk re the band Suicide as an influence on Springsteen's State Trooper. It's audible in the demo of Downbound Train too in the relentlessness of the drums. But here it's also infused with psychotic early rockabilly. Bruce gets the common ties in these sources youtu.be/nuC9rSEU-M0

"People can say they don’t want you here,” the judge said. “They can say they don’t like the way you’re enforcing the law and that they wish you would leave Chicago and take your agents with you.” Keep it up, Chicago. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/28/j...

I just gave to the Rainier Valley Food Bank in south Seattle. Amazing org doing so much good work. More vital than ever. givebutter.com/donate-rvfb

Luv 2 "take steps" or "move towards" oligarchy, a political concept which apparently recedes infinitely on the horizon, and which is never reached

It’s becoming increasingly clear that one political party in America thinks Naziism is a normal thing for a young man to look into, like trying out a new video game.

We have a bunch of real weirdos running the government and I think Tim Walz was right to point this out until he was stupidly muzzled by rich white democratic consultants whose lives will never be harmed by fascism.

TIL, in The Essential Peanuts, that Schulz hit on the idea of The Little Red Haired Girl (aside from his own unrequited experience) after listening one night to Hank Williams. Shoulda been obvs all along

Key points were: -be proud for showing up for democracy, this is the best of America -it’s ok to be angry about everything that’s happening and acknowledge that -use that anger and mold it into determination to keep doing the right thing -get organized locally

Can we judge a book a little by its cover? Or at least our excitement for said book? For all these hopeful leaning albums, I could use some more bright invitations

I love Ashley Kahn’s books on A Love Supreme and Kind of Blue. Man, I’d really love something similar on Coltrane in ‘61. The one downside in all the Coltrane books I’ve read, for me, is not enough exploration of Ole Coltrane and Africa/Brass. youtu.be/qUSMON8eO9Y?...

@skoisirius.bsky.social There you go!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

This is my shit. Also my jam. Also my favorite. (Oh wait, that’s ROGET’S large language model.)

As a fan of live Dead and Coltrane, sometimes I wonder how you can ever say what you need to say and go the places you need to go without 16+ min. Then I’m reminded you also can have 3 cohesive verses, plus choruses, and a solo, in under 1:20. youtu.be/gxBhIeTARBE?...

deep new @livedeadbook.bsky.social project examining documents from the grateful dead archive. he's got a new scholarly book out in spring about "touch of grey" (!!). "live dead" was ace, too, a close read of the dead's live recordings. gratefuldocuments.substack.com/p/hauling-it... #deadfreaksunite

That’s not to mention the literally thousands of pieces that are gone from the places MTV bought. RIP the groundbreaking and award winning Addicted To Noise and SonicNet

At the risk of sounding like the 55 yo dude I am: online #creators, download copies of your posted work (or own your platform in entirely). It sounds ridiculous, I know. It’s more ridiculous to lose access to hundreds and and hundreds of pieces you wrote or recorded variety.com/2024/digital...

Busy tonight, but bought the livestream for later. I s'pose that's just a "stream." Anyway, if we're gonna take a stand against the bootlicking capitulators, we gotta remember to pay the folks who ain't licking or capitulating. It's up to us, folks! And, you know, it's a blast that way!

Cardinal Timothy Dolan failed to report direct admissions of rape by multiple priests, lobbied against extending the statute of limitations for sex abuse, and moved money off the church books to hide it from victims of sex abuse. In case you were wondering.

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Just think if this, no reason. "The past is never dead. It's not even past.”

I don’t understand how downplaying causes, so you can appeal to everyone, keeps getting sold as a political strategy. It’s literally the opposite of that. It’s how vital issues get sidelined. It’s how you cede ground. It’s how you enable the opposition. Puppets who stand for nothing aren’t winning.

Willie Nelson has played over 5,000 concerts Bob Weir has played over 4,500 concerts Bob Dylan has played over 4,000 concerts The Grateful Dead played 2,318 concerts The Ramones played 2,263 concerts Phish has played over 2,000 concerts John Philip Sousa: hold my beer:

I really love #BobDylan ‘s current arrangement of Desolation Row. Clip from Merriweather Post Pavilion, 9/14/25

Paging @skoisirius.bsky.social and #Pinball Sky