Cannot recommend Preston Lauterbach's book, enough. A great long vacation read.

beyond the scope of @livetapes.heads.social.ap.brid.gy (i think?) but some oddball non-music stuff in here.

Oh yeah, it's always time to reshare this amazing mix for the holidays. If you haven't heard this, absolutely treat yourself. @liledit.bsky.social took a look back at what it is and how it happened the other year.

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"You will be visited by three spirits." The three spirits:

First snow, scored by David Behrman.

Want to learn about Takuro Okada's stunning new jazz record, 'Konoma'? I interviewed him for In Sheep's Clothing Hi Fi. Co-released by Temporal Drift and ISC Selects. insheepsclothinghifi.com/takuro-okada...

Want to learn about Takuro Okada's stunning new jazz record, 'Konoma'? I interviewed him for In Sheep's Clothing Hi Fi. Co-released by Temporal Drift and ISC Selects. insheepsclothinghifi.com/takuro-okada...

Donald Trump could have just kept his mouth shut about Jamal Khashoggi. But to smear a dead journalist, while sitting with the person accused of orchestrating his murder is just vile. Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open. Cretin behavior.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”

Andrew Khedoori, the good feller behind the excellent Longform Editions, has announced a new project, Residence, featuring year-long overviews of artists as they create new work. The first two acts, covering 2026: #ColePulice and #whait aka @moreeazemusic.bsky.social and @wendyeyes.bsky.social

The City Museum in St. Louis.

In addition to all this 👇, Scott Tuma’s solo guitar records are woefully underrated. #souledamerican dismalnichetapes.bandcamp.com/track/all-th...

If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

Ric and the Icks are running the Kennedy Center lol.

What's great about this news is that it further demonstrates how UCSB has become a truly important general archive location for music all around. Their famed cylinder recordings collection alone, online for listening, started two decades back, for instance.

Post something random for the collective amusement.

Diane Ladd as Ida Sessions impersonating Mrs. Mulray.

🍁 I love playing records in public in the afternoon. If you are in the St. Louis area — or anywhere in the world, for that matter, you’ve got time — come by the Royale in South City this Saturday. Autumn afternoon music.🍁

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

850+ tracks, 3 days of heaven: Instrumental Music for Hardware Stores and Weed Dispensaries. music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

This is rad. Spencer Doran (Visible Cloaks) highlights early mechanical music. insheepsclothinghifi.com/componium-en...

Ah man, this is genuinely lovely. What a guy. "I had no skill as a musician and still don’t. It was all imagination"

This Bob Ross sticker! 💀🎨💀 (detail of a NY Times photo by Evan Jenkins)

Bitchin Bajas Live at Glob on 2025-10-13 https://archive.org/details/bitchinbajas2025-10-13.mix.flac24

Define "Perfect Ending"?

#NoKings but the Gizzard Wizard gets a pass.

Ben LeMar Gay's ‘We Gon Win’ has a great chant, fyi. #NoKings youtu.be/J5FdIrp6m_4?...

Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster

this was only a few degrees off where sabbath and priest were at the time if you ask me www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGqr...

RIP Ace Frehley. One of my favorite things on the planet is Frehley's bark at the end of KISS MEETS THE PHANTOM OF THE PARK (1978). Please take 90 seconds and enjoy. youtu.be/rHoRmzB03dg?...

The late seventies were a wild time.

I can’t overly romanticize the band for any number of reasons but being born in 1971, by the dawn of the eighties they were this ambient force, like maybe them and the Beatles were the only two bands per se I knew of by name. He was part of it all. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

The gatefold for D’Angelo’s ‘Voodoo,’ issued by @lightintheattic.bsky.social, is something to behold.

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

With the upcoming release of LeBrennessy I thought it might be a good time to remind people why Hennessy and Black culture are so intertwined. Many think it's the association with hip hop, but actually that's just a manifestation of an older alignment that was formed during and after World War II.

If what was happening in Chicago was happening in NYC, there would be wall-to-wall cable news coverage

Laddio Bolocko on a Saturday. #records

"Too."

A beautiful text on Steve Roden and the nature of archive.

While going through text messages from Kaleb—insert an image of Charlie Brown saying “sigh” here—I found this, from about a year ago. The point he was making applies to all of us.

Attempting to capture the Hacky Sack guy while driving. He’s been keeping it up for 40 years.

As always, today is a great day to support artists, writers, creators. If you have the means, buy a book, commission an art piece, sign up for someone's Patreon, go to a live theater performance, purchase someone's album from Bandcamp. You can also leave a nice comment or write a review.

Kaleb Horton RIP.

The dumbest most craven people alive are being paid 6 figure salaries to be actively dangerously wrong about things and Kaleb Horton, a better writer than pretty much anyone, couldn't find work and now he's dead. Just upsetting

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

Welp, I didn't ask for it, don't want it, wouldn't recommend it, but I've been raptured. These people are insane.