if you're interested, I wrote about last night's Peter Wolf gig in Detroit: jukeboxgraduate.com/peter-wolf-t...

Much of this story details that the Irish government provides stopover status for SU deportation flights, underlining that the US govt relies on other govts to facilitate its immigration enforcement

Seven years.

WDET is broadcasting the first radio interview with the White Striped right now & Ann Delisi just announced that the 5 songs they played that day will be released today as a one sided record & available only at Third Man Cass Corridor as a fundraiser for DET. There are 2500 copies. Go get em

Small business tyrants want the state to assure they have a highly exploitable, easily disposable workforce to maximize their profits and keep their faulty precarious ventures afloat in a system destined to consume them—and the assurance of a non-citizen status is how to do that.

💥 Hegseth goes to a white Christian Nationalist church in DC on Sundays. (Seriously, his pastor Doug Wilson said slavery was built on mutual affection.) Come on Fri, 4/24 to lobby the senate for a war powers resolution. Stay to scream at Pete on Sunday. 💅

it's really wild how people online just say things that they teach you first day of catholic school or or that you can see on the holy see's webpage

Amazon sells alarm doorstops and I never travel without it and I always use it no matter how fancy the hotel is. There are also hacks about using coat hangers that flight attendants post on eBay but i want something loud enough to wake everyone on the floor

I’m at Peter Wolf’s unsurprisingly sold out show in Detroit & I’ve already watched multiple men recite a section of the Wolf’s onstage patter by heart. It’s gonna be a night.

In honor of both Merle Haggard's 4/6 birthday, and also the tenth anniversary of his death, I picked a dozen 21st c. covers of Haggard songs for Good Country. (Think of this as a companion to the 20th c.-only list I did last week for No Fences Review, link to that one in this one)

FYI: Penzey's has vanilla extracts 33% off right now. Prices are only going to continue to go up & odds are good that most commercial brands will start using lower-quality ingredients, if they haven't already. Stock up now, while the good stuff is still kinda-sorta affordable.

Link: www.penzeys.com/shop/spices/...

With the Ticketmaster/Live Nation verdict in the news, time to put the spotlight on the pending legislation in NY State to end ticket resale scams & cap resale prices. Add your name to the petition here: #music #livemusic

why the New Yorker publishes the brilliant Hanif Abdurraqib and then does not put his name in the social media post about his essay is absolutely beyond me, but anyway, the important thing here is that you should always read Hanif

i don't mean to dunk but not even mentioning that this is an essay by **Hanif Abdurraquib** and not some hedge fund dickhead mad his stocks are falling is really just fishing for outrage

HEADS-UP, IRELAND: A likely ICE flight has just landed at Shannon again, likely to refuel before delivering shackled migrants to god-knows-where. This is the same plane that sent migrants to Uganda — a country they had never been to before — on April 1. #spéirghorm

"Judge Millwood wrote in her ruling that she believed that Mr. Ross’s younger son, Tony Ross, who she said was a retired Alabama state trooper now working at a federal courthouse in Anniston, had used his position as a government employee to have Ms. Ross-Mahé arrested." ACAB af.

“He asked for my number. I wrote it on a napkin but he didn’t call…” Country guitarist Brittney Spencer on making a fan out of Bob Dylan. By Phil Weller. The Nashville-based musician's pinch-me moment in 2024 might just be the start of something more www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/b....

"Stories should be specific, reported, and not easily replicated through desk research" and "Rates range from $200 to $300 per story" ummmmmmm

Her work authorization is good for another four years -- but she "stopped working for the government’s side in immigration proceedings ... after seeing the conditions in detention facilities and how detained people were treated" so ofc they're targeting her. www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Tom Waits in his new anti-war protest song with Massive Attack (out tomorrow): "Now who the hell are these federal pricks Hiding in the Senate like a bloated-ass tick … A coal to a diamond A vote into law They campaign up all the blood they can draw"

JD VANCE SAYS RICK STEVES SHOULD BE MORE CAREFUL WHEN TALKING ABOUT EUROPE

JD VANCE SAYS COOKIE MONSTER SHOULD BE MORE CAREFUL WHEN TALKING ABOUT COOKIES

Never been more grateful that my parents were city kids who never instilled one iota of fear, prob could have used a little when they let me take the train into Manhattan from CT when I was 15 all by myself. Mom teaching is how to walk into the Waldorf to use the ladies’ instead of GCT

We are all forced to weigh which harms we’re willing to except and which harms are our hard lines. It’s why I never judge people for where they shop. For every bad company we boycott there’s another bad company we use. This is true for EVERYONE and if you claim perfection you’re lying.

Sorry everyone, my wife asked me to delete the thread because it got too big. I'll let you know the next steps we take, if any. Fuck Target, Fuck Self Checkout, and Fuck AI though. We're exploring options with the lawyer.

the first of my bimonthly salon columns for April is about these two amazing books!

read this whole thread. i will never ever ever use self checkout again. anywhere

Pencil logo sketches by Jerry Dammers for 2Tone, 1979. On show from Saturday at the new V&A East museum.

the first of my bimonthly salon columns for April is about these two amazing books!

i was trying to write about the rock hall & went back to read what i wrote in previous years & " the fact that the MC5 were not first-ballot hall of famers completely disqualifies the entire body as a body of governance as to what is rock, what is influential, what is important, and what matters."

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

Rounding up a few subscriber-request shows today: - Asheville 04: Time Out of Mind on fire w/ Freddy Koella - Atlantic City 05: A rare 21st century "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine" - Atlanta 15: “Forgetful Heart” with viola - West Lafayette 25: "We're playing all the hits tonight" (he wasn't)

RIP Moya Brennan. Clannad was my introduction to contemporary Irish music oh so long ago. (Come to think of it I was going to go see them on their farewell tour but it was canceled because it was 2020.) www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

Rothko chicken!

Check it out, a real life Confederacy defender lecturing a critical race studies sociology professor on this here butterfly app! Rumors of Bsky’s imminent death-by-exclusivity have been greatly exaggerated.

This you? shiftwa.org/dem-party-of...

ultimately i think the drama around Geese comes from jealousy

here's the thing: if you watch this & do not immediately understand why this band is so popular with a certain demographic, then i would suggest you not write about music: youtu.be/Lt9P9CFZZpU?...

Fascinating that people are genuinely surprised to discover that a band going viral on social media rarely “just happens” without significant work being done behind it

there are just so many great music books coming out this year: www.salon.com/2026/04/14/a...

i cannot overstate what a scandal this particular three letter review caused at the time.

you could say that bands that bought billboards were taking advantage of bands who didn't have the money to buy billboards. billboards are not "authentic" because they also used them to sell cigarettes, booze and dish soap. it's the same fucking argument

also? they clearly don't have ears. just listen to the fucking music. and most importantly: if the music wasn't good it wouldn't matter how many people said they liked it. they're good! it's not my thing but I completely understand why they're as big as they are. maybe i write about this

so we've learned that WIRED has no idea how promotion or PR works, or anything about music fandom, or music. good talk!

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

FINALLY. GRAM PARSONS. I had given up. Even though it’s under the “Early Influences” cop out. THIS BETTER BE HOW THE DOLLS GET IN

I’m watching Lizzie Borden ‘s “Born In Flames” (bc I just wrote about the new Adele Bertei memoir) and man there is a lot here that is more than a little on the nose

UPDATE 🪦RIP 4 of Dorothy’s chickens