When both Rob H and the Great Ann Powers make a rec, it should become a drop-everything-and-read situation.

Easy. A little shop in the mountains that, in the mornings, sold pour-overs and mini donuts (plain, powdered sugar, and cinnamon-sugar) and in the evenings sold craft cocktails and… donuts.

a cool thing about "cd's" is you push one button and it plays an entire album of music ad free and then (unless you request otherwise) it just stops and awaits further instruction. a very elegant system.

I’ve thought about it. It’s pavement’s cut your hair.

Phil Collins (social media) Phil Collins released "I Wish It Would Rain Down" #OnThisDay in 1990 as the second single from "...But Seriously".

Sweet Lord www.instagram.com/reel/DQbsFtX...

This whole record rules, but this song in particular feels like “chase this light” era Jimmy and I’m not one bit mad about it music.apple.com/us/album/flo...

A breathtaking “Deez Nuts” own.

It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”

This album has the goods music.apple.com/us/album/aut...

Age verification? My first concert was Metallica and Guns and Roses in Dallas in the 8th grade. I watched a 300 pound man pummel about 20 dudes into dust in the pit. Faith no More opened and Mike Patton deep-throated the mic. GnR played an entire set!

Spent the better part of a decade trying to convince Congress that PEPFAR was a good investment. Warms my heart that AG is willing to show more spine than many of those Congress people who paid lip service in private but wouldn’t support publicly because it wasn’t politically advantageous.

“Spilt Milk” by Jellyfish is perfect, except for “My Best Friend.” It goes. Songs about your wang age like milk, no matter how amazing a musician you are.

Still giving thanks that I saw RFTC back in the day. Just ripping one heater after another. youtu.be/-ISAhYiEJuU?...

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

'Extraordinary Machine' happened mostly because Jon Brion begged Fiona Apple (during their "weekly lunch") to do an album with him as a distraction from his mid-'Punch Drunk Love' breakup with Mary Lynn Rajskub??? I knew absolutely none of this

RIP Kurt Vonnegut. Gone 18 yrs. Dang.

Spooling up the ole Silk Road for illicit Ethiopian coffee, direct to my kitchen

It was a hollow award to begin with

NYC, 2015

There are two people in Congress-the chairs of the Senate & House Appropriations Committees-who have enormous power over the illegal impoundment of funds appropriated by Congress, which is sowing chaos across the US. They need to be relentlessly contacted at their offices, in person and by phone. 1/

Worked in Advocacy for these programs for the better part of a decade. They are the real deal. It hurts to see all the good work these programs have done so casually dismissed for what? Political points with the base? Just a bunch of fucking idiots too dumb to see the blood on their hands.

It had all the potential. RIP to a real one.

As per my every-four-year tradition youtu.be/C4vPBBGDJJc?...

Zooropa hive, rise up

Goose rules, man

I love this album. Messy, raw, joyful, sorrowful and quiet… it sounds like the season feels to me the older I get music.apple.com/us/album/nig...

FWIW, literally sitting in an ER room right now with a loved one, who is on some serious antibiotics, with my insurance card in the seat next to me and an estimated bill for care that I know we can’t pay.

Last 5 concerts you saw: Glen Hansard Death Cab / Postal Service Pearl Jam The National DOMi & JD Beck

Looking for the light…

Updating the HiFi!

This metric seems important

Sitting in the car listening to MJ Lenderman instead of watching the debate.

First concert: Metallica/GnR Last: Pearl Jam Worst: US Maple (opening for Pavement Loudest: Hum Best: Bjork Most Surprising: the Frames Happy I got to see: Tom Petty Wish I could see: Bowie

Good album alert music.apple.com/us/album/bet...

Post a *perfect* album from the 90s that isn’t nirvana, Pearl Jam, soundgarden, or Alice In Chains

First concert: Metallica / GnR Last: the National Best: Bjork Worst: American Maple (opening for Pavement) Loudest: Hum Most surprising: Kesha Most seen: U2 The one I wished I could have seen: David Bowie Next up: Glen Hansard

This is the season when Austin entices unsuspecting visitors to move here, unaware that we plan to trap them in traffic and bake them to a late August crisp. It’s a unique form of predation, don’t judge us

Me firing up the ole HiFi when that foreign pressing of the Lost in Translation soundtrack arrives in the mail…

1) tour bus rules and regulations & how to survive your time there 2) “Spilt Milk” by the Jellyfish 3) a definitive ranking of Chuck Klosterman books 4) why playing the violin tells you everything you need to know about life 5) crimes (against art and man) perpetrated by Big CCM

NEW JARDIANCE REMIX JUST DROPPED

The Today Show producers scheduling both Uncle Joey AND Alanis to come in for interviews within an hour of one another shows the amount of chaotic power they have accumulated. It starts with the batshit Halloween costumes, and only descends further into darkness from there. Be forewarned!!

Sure, having to call AAA sucks, but being able to wait on AAA in a French bakery (staffed by ACTUAL FRENCH BAKERS) is sort of sublime

let us have a moment of appreciation for the green guys from the old Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy covers, who I have loved for all my life

“The dead are always with us, holding us in their sway. We, the living, are the exuberant and temporary anima of their departure.” Brother Nick, swinging hard on a Monday morning. https://www.theredhandfiles.com/what-do-i-do-with-these-songs/

The volume coming out of this photo is absolutely staggering

"This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them."

What the hell is happening here