Got some fun episodes this week from AthFest, starting with @dashriprocknola.bsky.social from the green room at the legendary Georgia Theatre in Athens, GA! Playlists on Tidal & Apple, too. Subscribe in your podcast app or divebarmusicclub.com/episode/dash...

Runners: anybody using Strava alternatives, like Trackster?

Watching ICE agents literally run away from a Mount Laurel Starbucks without their coffee because the neighborhood completely rejected them is pure gold. South Jersey will make you unwelcome every single time you show your faces.

Rest in power Jennifer.

Replaced the battery in my scroll wheel iPod. Works like a charm!

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

You know you live in a small southern town when the funeral home is hosting a back to school event.

My watch has a sleep tracker. It's useless. It indicated I was asleep at 8:30, when, in fact, I was doing laundry and working until 12:30. Literally walking around my house, not sleeping.

Let's put our heads together and start a new country up Our father's father's father tried, erased the parts he didn't like Let's try to fill it in, bank the quarry river, swim We knee-skinned it you and me, we knee-skinned that river red Song: Cuyahoga Album: Lifes Rich Pageant

Lo-fi psych-pop greats Olivia Tremor Control were a driving force in Athens, GA’s Elephant 6 collective and released two cult-beloved albums in the ‘90s. Their surviving members finished this new double LP working from recordings and notes Will Cullen Hart left behind. stereogum.com/2505601/the-...

My semi-annual note to self that the US re-recording of "Goodbye Girl" irritates me to no end. Also, I wanna see Squeeze on this tour.

New Music Friday! The latest album from one of Nashville's best, Aaron Lee Tasjan, features some of his sharpest songwriting to date, including "The Real" (below), penned with Todd Snider. Read my review on Americana Highways. #listenbetter americanahighways.org/2026/07/15/r...

Since Trump returned to office, ICE agents have shot and killed six people as part of the administration's immigration crackdown. In previous shootings, DHS alleged that the people it killed posed a specific threat. Now, the agency is no longer even claiming its officers feared for their lives.

The AI images on local food trucks' social media are the worst, but the absolute grossest image is an AI rendering of sliced, stewed okra. Looks like maggots in green circles. Cannot unsee.

It's a tiny step in the right direction, but I am finally really for real no I mean it decluttering my studio. Making almost no dent in the visual chaos, but a massive weight off my mind.

CD sales are going... up? www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

He reportedly called his ex-wife to ask her to "lie for him" and to "cover for his character."

“I don’t want to cheapen it by going out there just for ego and money.” Despite a recent flurry of R.E.M.-related activity, guitarist Peter Buck explains why a full reunion with his former bandmates is never going to happen...

JFC I have a photo of my great-great granddad on my wall, and the workers here just asked me if it was a picture of Hitler. Fucking hell. I was like, no, he's some rando from Anderson, South Carolina. Goodbye, dead relative photo!

As we explain, reanimating the dormant Comstock Act isn't just a risk to abortion pills via telehealth, but to medication abortions and *procedures* in clinics. It's the goal of folks like Jonathan Mitchell and Comstock evangelist and OLC staffer Josh Craddock www.autonomynews.co/trump-attorn...

Per SC Votes on FB: Voters who voted R in the previous primary and voters who *did not vote at all* in the previous primary are eligible to vote in the specially called primary die to the death of the previously chosen candidate for US Senate.

I turned off whatever that glowy feature was on my iPhone, and dang my eyes feel better when reading on it.

Search functions that Bluesky needs: •Search someone's follows/followers by "mutuals" •Search a term and filter by "people I follow" or "people who follow me" •More exact ways to filter multi word search phrases. Can we get a working option like A+B -C, or other ways like "A B" -C? What else?

DISTURBING report from Dan Haar of Hearst. ICE/DHS had videographers deceptively wear "MEDIA" markings at an arrest. It's "part of a long tradition of authoritarian governments...creating confusion with what is independent media and what is government propaganda." www.instagram.com/reels/Dav_je...

Who is Dr. Annie Andrews? Senate candidate is in the spotlight after Lindsey Graham's death 19thnews.org/2026/07/anni... via @19thnews.org

ICE is still killing people instead of capturing and deporting them. Reason: inadequate training and complete lack of accountability.

As a weirdo who chose to read Jessica Mitford's *American Way of Death* in school, I am enjoying (such as it goes) *Stiff* by Mary Roach from 2003, particularly the audio book from my library.

Thanks to @sloanespencer.bsky.social's Dive Bar Music Club, I am an instant fan of Styrofoam Winos. Horrible name, unbelievable lyrical craftsmanship. Check them out if you like Ratboys, Ryan Davis, Fust, Wednesday, etc.

a lot more detail here. looks like Helm's widow was the critical factor in shifting power to this new regime theoverlooknews.com/amy-helm-rem...

Will be interested to see what happens. Is this "primary shareholder" a private equity investor? PE is a scourge.

I'm "strained my neck sleeping" old.

There's been a big push here in SC by the state R party to close election primaries to registered party voters. We currently have "open primaries," where you can vote R or D in a primary, then can only vote for the associated run-off cycle, ie cannot flip to the other in a run-off. IMPORTANT:

As Republicans mull how to replace Senator Lindsey Graham, national attention turns to Dr. Annie Andrews, the Democratic pediatrician vying for his seat in the midterms

I always felt like our late Senator took lessons from the Strom Thurmond SC political guide: vehemently spew whatever will get you re-elected. Anyway, we might get rain today, and we need it.

Oh shit… we in the studio and you know how it is these days.. out of sight, out of mind… so, to keep in sight and on your mind, dropped a new OG reprint from 1987. A personal favorite. Pick up a Fuck Racism Shirt while yoj ate there. Let em Know! www.fishbone.net fishbone.net/products/fis...

Read the scene where gravity is pulling me around Peel back the mountains peel back the sky Stomp gravity into the floor It's a Man Ray kind of sky Let me show you what I can do with it Time and distance are out of place here Song: Feeling Gravity's Pull Album: Fables Of The Reconstruction

Every so often I get to think of something that is not awful. I interviewed Henry freaking Rollins about his quest with Ian MacKaye and a few other schemers to revive Vengeance Records, The Cramps’ record label: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

when I was doing my ICE deaths tracker during Lent there were I think at least two other cases of people who died in custody that literally just got scooped up when ICE was actually looking for someone else. adds an entirely new level of rage to see how half-assed and cavalier they are

ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Another man was shot and killed by a member of the "memphis safe task force," the second in four days. www.cnn.com/2026/07/09/u...

In case anyone is curious to study how network effects lose critical mass, search inclusion is a good opportunity to update scientific theories of collective action

R.I.P. Bonnie Tyler, who gave us one of the greatest power ballads of all time (and one of the most awesomely weird music videos). youtu.be/lcOxhH8N3Bo?...

EVERY NOW AND THEN I GET A LITTLE BIT LONELY AND YOU'RE NEVER COMING ROUND EVERY NOW AND THEN I GET A LITTLE BIT TIRED OF LISTENING TO THE SOUND OF MY TEARS EVERY NOW AND THEN I GET ALITTLE BIT NERVOUS THAT THE BEST OF ALL THE YEARS HAVE GONE BY

I thought you might enjoy that! There's also a second 90-minute recording of WRAS from 1989 on this web page, if you want more: www.leecoweb.com/wras_atlanta...

I'm old enough to remember that after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook started doing "privacy popups" in 2018 where they told people that they cared about their privacy and user consent. Well, lmao. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/t...

This right here is why I don't post on IG & don't put photos on FB. My IG account is locked down, but I know that doesn't mean shit when it comes to this.

#music #musicsky #80smusic #radio #collegeradio #atlanta This rare recording of WRAS in Atlanta from 1987 shows why the 1980s really were the Golden Age of college radio. (Embedded player on the page so you can listen) Link: ➡️ www.leecoweb.com/wras_atlanta...

Nashville church leader charged with aggravated child sexual exploitation, police ask for more info www.wsmv.com/2026/07/08/n...

On this day in 2001, a belated celebration of twenty years of R.E.M. took place at the Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, North Carolina, in an event that doubled as a benefit for Don Dixon, who was recovering from a heart attack. Mike joined The Mayflies USA onstage for a performance of ‘Toys in the Attic’