Oh FFS people let's hand out some instruction manuals, eh? www.npr.org/2025/11/21/n...

Finally some good news to break up the doomscroll, via @treblezine.bsky.social: www.treblezine.com/converge-ann... #metalsky #musicsky

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

#nowplaying I am listening to Swans, reflecting my fucked up Monday mood. #musicsky swans.bandcamp.com/album/white-...

instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."

Why...?

#nowplaying @chatpileband.bsky.social and Hayden Pedigo "In the Earth Again." Unexpected, cannot describe, but am completely entranced by it. Lovely, plaintive guitar passages w/Chat Pile's signature, ominous noise occasionally popping in. #musicsky #metalsky chatpile.bandcamp.com/album/in-the...

Oh hey cool I just muted variations of "third term" and I can already feel my ulcers shrinking.

It's amazing that we can still understand Cris Collinsworth while he's got Aaron Rodgers' balls in his mouth.

Wednesday on a Wednesday. #musicsky

Thousands out in Fort Collins, Colorado for #NoKings #NoKingsFortCollins

#nowplaying Tombs - Feral Darkness (thanks @mmmmmmuhh.bsky.social for the tip). Two songs in and this one's a fackin' ripper! Sludgy goodness. #musicsky #metalsky tombscult.bandcamp.com/album/feral-...

Good day for new releases! #nowplaying They Are Gutting a Body of Water, "LOTTO". Starting off with huge guitars into lovely shoegaze so I'm definitely hooked. #musicsky theyareguttingabodyofwater.bandcamp.com/album/lotto

#nowplaying UK's hippest indie/post-punk band bar italia's latest, "Some Like it Hot." I loved 2023's "Tracey Denim," but they lost me a bit on "The Twits." The opener is a dance-y little bop. #musicsky baritalia.bandcamp.com/album/some-l...

Lovely sentiments that we should all remember. This is the world. open.substack.com/pub/thecorne...

Finally saw Deafheaven last night and oh...my....gawd it was good. #metalsky #musicsky

#nowplaying new Author & Punisher, "Nocturnal Birding." Maybe I'm in the right mood for it today, but this is gratifying, doom-y industrial sludge. Overdriven rhythm, chainsaw guitar tone a la "Broken"-era NIN. It wants to be loud. #musicsky #metalsky authorandpunisher.bandcamp.com/album/noctur...

But Fox News didn't pull Brian Kilmeade after he called for killing homeless people? The cognitive dissonance is a roar that gets louder every day...

#nowplaying: Excellent review on @treblezine.bsky.social this morning of what sounds (so far) like a very promising black metal release: #musicsky #metalsky www.treblezine.com/der-weg-eine...

Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week Reporter: [nods] Trump: so we must murder on the high seas Reporter: [nods] Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once Reporter: [nods] Trump: the cock on that bunny Reporter: [nods] Trump: bigger than you think Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives

Finally saw the Melvins last night. Good gawd those double drums pummel live. #musicsky #metalsky

Incredibly important point: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This story, of equal or greater important to the Kirk shooting, is getting no material media coverage. The 16-year-old who shot two students in a Colorado high school on the same day Charlie Kirk was killed was a virulent white supremacist and antisemite. www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

Trump claps for himself at his arrival at the US Open – a denial-anxiety response to the audible boos being directed at him.

Song of the day, guns a-blazing: #musicsky unwound.bandcamp.com/track/swan

This whole thread is important. We need to continue valuing artists, especially right now. But that doesn't mean they get a blank check, and criticism itself can be an art form.

How can I say this nicely.... screw this guy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...

oh no this can't be good....

I dare you to listen to this whole song and not thrust your fists in the air in victory at the 8:44 mark. You cannot do it. Be you alone in your office, riding the subway, eating momo in a restaurant, your fists will involuntarily find the sky. #musicsky bosskband.bandcamp.com/track/the-re...

Maybe it's not in _your_ word list, but....

#NowPlaying noisy messy sludge-gaze™ goodness from South Korea that has remained in my rotation for a couple-few months now. #MusicSky #MetalSky baan1.bandcamp.com/album/neumann

I'm having one of those days where I feel like life is stumbling between a series of awkward things I wish I had not said.

Thank you, @themountaingoats.bsky.social, for a powerful and accurate Ozzy obituary. "The timbre of his voice—instantly recognizable; once heard, never thereafter mistaken for anybody else’s—allowed those who experienced it to feel addressed; recognized; seen." pitchfork.com/features/ozz...

The sudden popularity of an entirely A.I. band feels like both a culmination of Spotify’s anti-artist policies and a precursor of hells yet to come

ok second yelling post of the day but OMGOMGOMG DEAFHEAVEN IS COMING TO MY LITTLE TOWN OF FORT COLLINS COLORADO OMG BEST DAY EVAAAAR!!!

OMG PEOPLE STOP PUTTING ONIONS IN EVERYTHING some people don't like onions

Yussss metals!!! www.treblezine.com/7-great-meta...

I've used Spotify since its availability in the US in 2011, and have felt particularly shitty about it for the last 5-ish years. This article is a comprehensive list of why I, too, am switching to a different service.

Folks, this is a great reason to Patreon @treblezine.bsky.social. They constantly come up with interesting ways for me to discover new music, even when it's old new music. I can't wait for more of these playlists from @1000timesjeff.bsky.social!

Oh, really? I am shocked. "In reality, the anti-Trump protests [...] have been largely peaceful and restricted to just a few blocks around downtown federal buildings." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Things go poorly for the My Pillow guy...

This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous. prospect.org/justice/crie...

We put together a list of our favorite albums of the year so far, and they are all good and correct. Read, if you will.

Still waiting for Turnstile to be hardcore.

Friends, it's been a "House of Ideas" kind of day. #metalsky #musicsky thou.bandcamp.com/track/house-...

I have decided that all of my posts will take the form of politician/pundit posts, which is a sentence or two describing some sort of outrage, and then a single, simple, confident-sounding sentence (usually accompanied by a link to a CNN/MSNBC video). And it's going to be epic.

Just a reminder that most of Trump's executive orders are nothing more than press releases. After he ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pull funding for NPR and PBS, the CPB responded that it is authorized and funded by Congress and is not subject to the president's authority.

I totally want this.

YAY LISTS!! Oh man I love it when @treblezine.bsky.social does this stuff.

Irish atmospheric black metal FTW Alter of Plagues - All Life Converges to Some Center #musicsky #metalsky profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/track/all-li...