Alt-country progenitors Souled American drop their first album in 30 years chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...

This new @souledamerican.bsky.social album is AWESOME

If you’re a fan of Ut, Jacqui Ham, Rob Smith & Dom Weeks (Furious Pig) have a new Dial record, “Watch,” that’s compelling & discomfiting in the best ways. Their Bandcamp has all their excellent past releases, too: dial.bandcamp.com/album/watch

Charles Bullen of This Heat involved here too. As with all their records, the free-ranging insular chaos creates an atmosphere unlike anyone else.

Love to watch videos of people getting Sproutpilled in real time - 2 min into "All The World Loves Lovers" (my choice for best song on Jordan: The Comeback) this man nods wisely at Paddy's lyrics and says "For real. For real song right here!", attn @stolendans.bsky.social youtu.be/NwpI-BAYCk0?...

Megyn Kelly doing the line from Clifford (1994)

Already getting looks from the ER nurses at my kid's cock-and-balls bear

Hey Atlanta: I can't make the @weddingpresent.bsky.social (playing Seamonsters in its entirety!)/Mark Robinson (@teenbeat.bsky.social of Unrest!) at the EARL tonight. DM me if you want my ticket.

This is the room at the gym where you wrestle Jesus

My kid just fell asleep to Royal Trux. I've either failed desperately or succeeded wildly as a parent

NEWS: Bar Brava temporarily closes after owner posts about “East African crime” and gets massive pushback. Sushi pop-up bails. Owner has apologized. www.minnesotamonthly.com/food-drink/b...

*racist tip thief finance bro owner

This babe would have been 70 today 💘 Watch this whole gig if you can. He's mesmerising. #MarkHollis youtu.be/ltkqicVdab4?...

Washing down my meds with Champagne, that's a happy new year

"Do not eat," if you know what I mean

Great, now I have to boycott my own hotel

PSA: @dominorecordco.bsky.social is repressing -- for the last time -- the Go-Betweens Volume 1 box set. No more having to pay $700 on discord for it! www.dominomusic.com/releases/the...

Coworker (end of a very long work zoom): "Okay, anyone have anything else?" Me: "Christopher Cross filled in on guitar for Deep Purple in 1970 when Ritchie Blackmore fell ill shortly before a show and" (coworker clicks End Meeting for All)

I told them I'm canceling Disney+ unless Jimmy goes back on air. I'll tell my kids that Mickey Mouse killed a guy, I don't care.

The second best news I've heard all day

If you are in Southern California, I am playing some songs, solo and w/ Kyle from Nothing Painted Blue, in the Redlands Library's performing arts series next week. (Actually a couple buildings away - see address below.) Early evening, family friendly, free.

Outrageous Cherry's Out There In The Dark is one of the best records of the last quarter century and this return was worth the wait. Perfect psych-edged power pop.

"Clifford"

Been a while since I worked in restaurants, good to know nothing's changed

KISS has several songs sung from the point of view of an adult wanting to have sex with a teenager, so this all tracks.

That's a lot of socks

As if this doesn't already peel the paint off my walls, an even more out there demo version will probably singe off what's left of my hair

rec of the day CHEATER SLICKS "don't like you" (in the red 2LP) 30th anniversary reissue of this scrapyard classic, expanded to include an earlier, even scrappier, demo version of the LP. one helluva winning stratagem! if not our greatest garage band, then who? intheredrecords.com/collections/...

Been here twice and will again, then I'll wander down to LeJeune's for a ginger plank dessert as usual. If you're having crawfish, definitely wash your hands before using the bathroom there, those bugs are hot.

*plays taps on a flugelhorn*

There's no turtle in that dog

Ice cream man reeked of weed today. Tipped extra.

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song! of the day! rip david thomas 💕 m.youtube.com/watch?v=Leax...

The great David Thomas, also known here in Cleveland as Crocus Behemoth, has left us. I've seen Ubu countless times. This is my favorite incarnation of the band, from the late 1980s, with the late JImmy Jones on guitar, Tony Maimonie on bass, and Allen Ravenstine making strange sounds on the synth.

RIP David Thomas aka (in the early days) Crocus Behemoth: those first four Pere Ubu singles were stunning in 1975-1977 (post punk before punk) leading up the The Modern Dance and Dub Housing. Born 1953, I salute you fellow Snake

Shock late night news per the official Pere Ubu page on FB that David Thomas has passed on.

RIP to one of the most singular, visionary voices of punk. Picking up Terminal Tower as a teenager opened my mind up to how much possibility for eclecticism, beauty, weirdness, and art there could be in punk rock, that there was so much more than buzzsaw guitars and shouting anarchy

Suddenly remembering meeting David Thomas at UCLA’s radio station in 1991 and asking him what he thought of Peter Murphy’s version of this. He had two objections: PM took out some of the guitar freakery and he made the lyrics understandable. RIP indeed.

RIP DAVID THOMAS. a large and ornery man who created lots of great music, and knew how to fall over as well as anyone i've ever seen. when robbie carey asked him if his choice of musette was "jarry-esque." he replied, "beefheart=esque is more like it." abd he meant it www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQP7...

youtu.be/I0Ov-rJGey8?... filmed at one of the best diners in the us, the punk owned and operated band box diner in mpls. corner of 14th and chicago

Re-upping Dusted’s extended conversation about Pere dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/1428470...

Sad news. I went to a Pere Ubu gig a few years ago where he banned applause between songs. One of the most intense musical experiences I've had.

The man finally gets his shot on national television and he does...this. Legend. youtu.be/Ogl6oPT_5bY?...

If you're within driving distance attendance is mandatory

For the handful interested, here's last night's incredible Souled American show at the Judson & Moore Distillery in Chicago, 4/17/25. No track listing since any fan knows all the songs anyway. Feels so good to have them back. recorder.google.com/81948e2e-b5f...