Christmas is just 15 days away...

One might ask “but what was the national guard doing deployed in DC?”

New episode of R U Kind up on @nqra.bsky.social featuring the likes of NRBQ, Paul Damian Hogan, Joe Westerlund, Papir, John Thayer, Improvement Movement, Mycota, Kassi Valazza, Way Dynamic, Yes, Vanity Mirror, Fleetwood Mac, Barry Walker Jr... nqra.live/r-u-kind/

RIP Legend

Gorgeous new one from Haylie Davis... hayliedavis.bandcamp.com/album/countr...

Dad Calling    Just To Say He Loves King Crimson https://theonion.com/dad-calling-just-to-say-he-loves-king-crimson/

Tim Robinson has truly outdone himself with The Chair Company. Just WOW!

Is “timbre” pronounced timber or tamber?

when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale

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Isn't a huge part of this the fact that @pitchfork.com "grading system" is extremely flawed, in that everyone reading the reviews and being reviewed grew up with a similar school grading scale (except it was 100 that was perfect rather than 10) and a 6.6 makes us think of 66%, which is an F? Maybe?

We’re currently seeing the unraveling of our democracy at the hands of the ultra-rich and led by a bumbling demented want-to-be tyrant and all over the internet, his followers are like “buckle up, cuz NYC is over now” in response to Mamdani’s win. The utter blindness to reality is stark.

When there's absolutely no risk with listening to an artist's music, as there's no purchase that needs to be made, what is the critic's role if it used to be to protect consumers? And maybe we're getting better at understanding artists' vision and not judging it against an arbitrary set of criteria.

Fantastic new piano music from Paul Damian Hogan. It’s a vibe… pauldamianhogan.bandcamp.com/album/many-m...

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

This was a packed Hillsboro City Council meeting — at least 3 hours long. Residents demand: stop ICE collab, aid for immigrant families, end Flock surveillance, and hold police accountable. This community, about 30 minutes west of Portland, is living in fear!

Wrote a lil tribute to our late, great Donna Jean Godchaux, may she rest in peace... 🌹💀⚡️ nqra.live/donna-jean-g... @nqra.bsky.social

Donna's vocals on these small-venue 1976 shows are exquisite. The Wheel, Mission in the Rain, Music Never Stopped, Dancin' in the Street, Looks Like Rain - some of the best live harmonies the Dead ever pulled off came from this era thanks to her. youtu.be/Nh6UssjmGx8?...

You know our love will not fade away, Donna 💔 On my last @nqra.bsky.social radio show I talked about how much I love Donna’s song “Rain” from Cats Under the Stars. Whatta song! youtu.be/YJ6pkQ7YTXg?...

Oh shit, hadn't heard this one!

New episode up on @nqra.bsky.social for some weekend listening. Not spooky but also not NOT spooky! 👻 nqra.live/r-u-kind/

I’m kinda thinking purple

fresh prog-psych future-pastness by jantar (with a heady abdullah ibrahim cover). jantar.bandcamp.com/album/acqua-...

This is really good

I have loved this song so much for so long and I just today learned that Herbie Hancock plays electric piano on it!! youtu.be/FIF7wKJb2iU?...

I can argue that we don't need to give him our tax $ anymore

Always loved this one. Ace's songs on Dynasty and Unmasked were crucial in making those albums worthwhile. youtu.be/BvLBK3WKDjg?...

Fuckin love this one! A very welcome oddball within the discography. And a Jon Anderson vocal cameo just elevates it that much more. But gotta say I'm more a fan of the first side with Gordon Haskell singing (like a madman).

Um, I think not, Siri

After a federal court blocked Trump from deploying Oregon’s own National Guard, he responded by sending 300 federalized California Guard members to Oregon early Sunday, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom.

I'd love to give a radical left to his big fucking bronze melon

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down. All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown. So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

HEGSETH: *points to general's ribbon bars* "What'd you get that one for? Fucking your mother?" GENERAL: *sternly* killing vietnamese children

HBD Ernest Joseph "Trey" Anastasio III

NEW EPISODE: Hope you're not doing anything for about four-and-a-half hours, because NQRA Station Selects requires your attention. You're just going to have to down-tools and focus on this, sorry. But don't worry, you'll thank us for it. Link in comments.👇

Four (!) hours of new music from Tuluum Shimmering tuluumshimmering.bandcamp.com/album/leapin...

Saw One Battle After Another and it fucking rules

Saw the new Naked Gun this week and laughed hard pretty much the whole time! Highly recommended.

RIP. Trouble in Mind was a big influence on BBiB and I remember spinning so many of those early TiM releases (Paperhead, Mmoss, Resonars, Doug Tuttle, Morgan Delt) on the East Village Radio show from 2009-2014. Big love to Bill and Lisa and their artists for all the amazing work!

New Tuluum Shimmering is always a good thing tuluumshimmering.bandcamp.com/album/leapin...

Big fan of Haylie's!

I've got a new NQRA show ready today. Hope ya dig!

A 12-foot statue of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein frolicking and holding hands appeared on the National Mall in Washington, DC on Tuesday, September 23. A plaque under the statue states that it has been erected “In Honor of Friendship Month."

I love when you hug and kiss your dog for like a straight minute and then when you let them go, they instantly bend down to bite at their crotch so hard and you wonder how long you’d been holding them back from that.

We're at the point where the Trump does something worse than Watergate daily, often multiple times a day. And none of it makes news; it's just normal now.