Nice to see @andrewhickey.500songs.com ‘s @500songspodcast.bsky.social ep on Dark Star quoted in @jnewton100.bsky.social’ new “Here Beside the Rising Tide”

Fantastic assessment from @usefulnoise.bsky.social

Catherine O’Hara SCTV thread youtu.be/990OaFr8EYw?...

No, it’s not his best, & I could not care less that it isn’t. He’s already written songs for the ages. I want songs for now. Gimme more people writing abt King Trump’s private army. It's our blood and bones And these whistles and phones Against Miller and Noem's dirty lies youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

@questlove.bsky.social talking with @kimletgordon.bsky.social about the heartbreaking sound of @neilyoungarchives.bsky.social 's "Philadelphia" made my morning www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHpQ...

Trump wants to appear eager to minimize clashes between his government militias and protesters. But he doesn't want them to stop doing the things that are causing the clashes in the first place. The "pivot" is really about getting Dems to back off in budget talks. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2057...

If media is going to claim a "pivot," let's stipulate some threshold questions: Is ICE still treating US cities like occupied territory? Will there be serious governmental investigations into ICE killings? Any accountability for them? If not, nothing is changing. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2057...

Holy crow, do I love The Vera Project! youtu.be/muJGpwC-CTQ?...

Listened to demo of Black Muddy River tonight and thought back to that long discussion on here a couple weeks back about Dead singers singing other Dead singers’ songs. Sue me if you must, but I would not have minded if Brent took a turn on lead for BMR

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Digging this show from ‘82 Playing to open first set ✅ Followed by Shakedown with good vox ✅ Minglewood followed immediately by Samson, first and only time ✅ jerrybase.com/venues/856

Snow Day (not here in the PNW) mug roll call #harDCore

Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Republic continues to have fascinating and haunting connections to the real world.

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

Our Democratic elected officials are not rising to this moment so most of them must go. Any elected official who isn’t willing to organize a Project 2029 around punishing everyone in the Trump administration in order to save democracy must go.

Just watched Columbo — late era Columbo, mind you — marvel over the wonders of a fax machine and realized I am one thousand years old

Introduce yourself with five concerts you wish you'd seen: Mozart (anyone performing anything of his fresh in his lifetime, why not?) Huddie Ledbetter John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy 11/1/61 The Beatles in Hamburg (any date'll do) Bob Dylan 5/17/66

How @ericxyz.bsky.social gave form to @denizcamp.bsky.social 's story in Assorted Crisis Events no 8 astounds me. Every issue astounds me. This time out, even the choice of paper is chef's kiss. Shake my head every time. assortedcrisisevents.com/issues/volum...

good discussion imo, with someone who (in her words) saw Trump coming and tried to do something about, but got shut down by Dem leadership newrepublic.com/article/2052...

Was hoping to match @radiator9987.bsky.social artist for artist. Got close. Public Enemy Bikini Kill Johnny Cash Patti Smith Chuck Berry

As much as I love spending time with live Coltrane (and that’s a ridiculous amount), I really love spending time with live Coltrane plus Eric Dolphy youtu.be/4RxwO11QI8A?...

We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.

Always regret not seeing these Seeger sessions shows

Listening to Franklin's from 5/15/80 and thinking about how jam-packed and eye-opening the Deadcast ep on the song is www.dead.net/deadcast/blu...

Great appreciation from someone who knows

This'll be on repeat all day

Well shit, I’m guess I’m buying this too. Dan and Dischord were always my models for doing it yourself.

Just bought one to read and one to give away. Love being able to support people making media

Not my house, but I know my—wait, er, um…

Did not know Bertha’s Grateful DrG will be in PNW! Just got Seattle tix!

Enjoying this 3/14/81 from Enjoying the Ride

One of the best shows I ever saw

Great guidelines for the media we need - and deserve

Felt like I needed some very Bobby-ish Bobby today and ended up at 10/12/24 for the Sailor > Saint. Which was excellent. But nicer still to stumble onto the Playing (reprise), which isn't necessarily out there, but is to my ears very happily weird. relisten.net/grateful-dea...

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal warns ICE: "No law enforcement professional wears a mask... Those that come into our communities wearing a mask to commit crime... You getting arrested". "Fake wannabe law enforcement... The criminal in the WH will not be able to keep you from going to jail".

Just say she lied. It’s not fucking hard. You’ll sleep better, I promise.

Hey, #Seattle #music folks - Tim's Tavern needs help with some unexpected renovations. I just made a one time donation. Can't lose this #WhiteCenter live music gem! www.timslivemusic.com/save-tims

What a great show. Six min till the vox even start here, perfectly paced, and the break just around 10 min will suck the breath right outta your lungs youtu.be/bm03wqLY3Nc?...

Very interesting 🧵 that uses this up-to-the-minute moment to dive into what’s fundamentally happening / happened in the United States

The best meal I make, and it has nothing to do with me. Includes 1.5 pounds of bacon, 2 lbs each of wild shrimp, scallops, and Dungeness crab, 1.25 pounds of hot smoked salmon, probably a pound and a half of chopped clams. Oh, and a quart of half and half

@johnnyhoey.bsky.social there’s a doc about your efforts?!?!

Curious what folks think about Robin Kelley’s bio of Thelonious Monk. I’m only 50 pages in, but it’s everything I want in a bio. Meticulous research. Rich context. And still very approachable.

Next time I'm in the area, gonna drive by the house in (not quite so little) Lynnwood, WA where Coltrane recorded the Om LP in between dates that yielded Live In Seattle and A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle. nwmusicarchives.com/label/camelo...

i've come around to the utility of the livenation-owned setlist.fm, but i still way prefer a loving fan-made setlist/chronology page. i wrote a bit about why & made a list of a few dozen favorites that i return to often (or just thought were swell). what did i miss? jessejarnow.com/2025/12/a-pe...

There are I-don’t-know-how-many newsletters I like but that I’ve unsubscribed to because it’s just too much content to keep up with. One of the many things I miss about magazines is their monthly arrival made them special, and I devoted more time to them accordingly

Jack Smith is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to release the recording of his full closed-door deposition before the panel. "Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."