Every time I hear “Far Away Eyes” it makes me want to administer the Ludovico technique to Mick Jagger.

Excerpts from today’s Patreon post, up now. Wrestling with how to save the world through a podcast about country music. You know, the usual.

Other day I was in a Lyft, very nice and new with a strong scent of cinnamon and actual butthole. Driver was an older guy with lots of jewelry blasting rave music so I couldn’t tell if the butthole smell was something that had happened in the car or a just a note he liked in the air freshener.

Ever since I figured out how to make my own ringtones, like 15 years ago, “I Wanna Be Adored” has been the ringtone on my phone. I’ve never gotten sick of it. RIP Mani

It’s entirely insane that “stars” became a term we use to refer to celebrities. If I go outside and look up on a clear night, I am reminded of the scale of the universe and it puts my problems in perspective. None of that happens when former Mickey Mouse Club cast members do a pap walk.

Oh this song is called “I Shot the Sheriff” that sounds cool I hope the guy in the song doesn’t turn out to be a total bitch about it

Democrats Concede to Republican Demands of Throwing Newborns into Volcano, Citing Need for Return to Bipartisan Normalcy

fiscally conservative but socially a loser

Got a haircut so, regrettably, it is once again over for you hoes

Let 👏 People 👏 Enjoy 👏 Thongs 👏

In a world that made any sense the average prices of an album and a concert ticket would be the inverse of what they are now.

Irish bands taking over the world within 5 years www.businessinsider.com/ireland-basi...

Can’t wait for SexGPT to start convincing guys it would be hot to self castrate

I wish I had a supercut video of the past ten years showing clips of whatever Lyft drivers were listening to before they saw me wearing cowboy boots while walking to their vehicle and assumed I have the worst taste in music

it is actually hilarious that Taylor Swift has decided this is a good time to release a new album

A quick reminder that this thread is turning into the best overall place collating Kaleb's longer-form work; Jake's been steadily adding to it, with the latest entries just today. (And the tweets and the photography and the podcast and etc. are all out there too.)

Some important info on Kaleb Horton and his writing for MTV: as I learned, he'd reupped the Merle piece on his site earlier this year, but otherwise his 2016-2017 work there was scrubbed and long unavailable. Happily, I was able to find a Wayback link with them all. Share, read, and remember.

Just logged in to Twitter to read all of my DMs with Kaleb and now I am really, really sad. This is a person who was unquestionably fumbled by American media. I feel like making a list of people who should have been forced to hand it all over to him. I might even fucking be one of them.

And now I'm just spelunking around and here's this Facebook post by Kaleb Horton from September 2017. It was three months after MTV dumped its freelancers. I'm sure it would have been a piece there; instead he posted this on FB just to have it written out: Toys 'R' Us as societal microcosm.

Failing to get into metal and hardcore as a teenager is fundamentally doing youth incorrectly.

can someone play Aphex Twin for RFK Jr? I just want to see what happens

Just for the record, I was raptured but when nobody else was I decided to come back

Alright, I thought about just not saying anything (because that’s always an option, believe it or not) but ultimately decided I do have a responsibility to point out that Blow is the best Red Lorry Yellow Lorry album.

Wait, what happened. I thought we were doing a civil war to eradicate the ideology of the shooter. What haaaaaaaaappened

Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up? TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.

“Uh..” *turning to look behind me while keeping mouth on mic because I’m a pro* “…I guess… I guess not counting gang violence?”

I’m glad I got into music before streaming services because I just looked at Ennio Morricone’s album discography on Tidal and what in the fuck

I support Tyler Childers in his Try Singing Along to This One era

A bunch of assholes are mad that Rogan isn't on this list and my show's artwork appears in the preview image every time it gets shared to social media, so I'm prob about to get review-bombed. If you've ever enjoyed C&R but haven't left a review, now would be a great time. time.com/collections/...

This month’s Patreon post went up last night. Tried to talk about one reason the world looks broken, so it’s a bit more than usual.

Interesting how many “love it or leave it” guys flip out when their wife wants a divorce

It’s amazing that the Grammy’s think they’ve found a solution by inventing Best Contemporary Country and Best Traditional Country categories rather than opening themselves up to approximately 450% more drama.

I like the A.I. CEOs whining about not being able to do copyright infringement for their "world-fixer" tech because the implication is that the cure for cancer is in some fucking Tom Waits lyrics somewhere or something and we've all just been too stupid to realize it

Someone should stand outside holding a sign about all of this.

For everyone who wasn't able to make it to Nashville last September to attend my talk with Allison Moorer at the Country Music Hall of Fame, they've added the video of the event to their website and you can watch it now.

Maybe the coolest looking book I’ve ever seen?

FFS. Spotify are now making the number of plays each episode of each podcast has had (on Spotify, not on the myriad other, better, podcast apps which you should use instead) publicly visible. I don't even track my own stats, I don't want random people seeing them.

I believe in the death penalty but only for people who park their car in front of your driveway or mailbox

Bedlam in Goliath > Frances the Mute > self-titled > Amputechture > Deloused > Lucro sucio > Noctourniquet > Octahedron None of them are bad but that’s the ranking.

trans pope or GTFO

Been taking a lot of doctor-prescribed walks around the neighborhood (apparently I need to calm down?) and East Nashville’s mural game has really gone to shit in the past five years

“There’s a button that the President can push that will get everyone to pay attention to him, and he’s going to keep pressing it because it makes him feel important” is as important to understanding what’s going on as “he actually thinks that tariffs work”

Everything I said about Herbert Hoover in S1 was a warning about Donald Trump bringing us to where we are right now. The class politics of S2 should be blatantly obvious to anyone operating at better than a fourth-grade reading level.

Sorry, neither Kendrick nor Drake won the beef because neither of them based a whole diss track around a sample of the intro of "A Pox on You" by Silver Apples.

my faith in the kids has been restored by seeing Sharp Pins open for Hard Quartet last night

my google alert for “cocaine” and “rhinestones” being triggered by a new Bootsy Collins interview? 10 out of 10

I understand why PIL matters and how influential they were on a lot of bands I love but I fucking never want to be listening to PIL

sorry I can't come I have to stay home and listen to Space Ritual by Hawkwind three times in a row

that's crazy those Teslas in Las Vegas just caught on fire by themselves out of nowhere wonder if that'll happen to other Teslas at other dealerships around the world

NEW: I emailed the band. “We broke up with him first. We quit Twitter in 2022 when he was only half a Nazi. Then someone else took our handle, pretending to be our official account, so we filed a legal complaint to put a stop to that—which is why @dropkickmurphys shows as suspended."