Frank Sinatra is just the tip of a whole iceberg of pre/non-rock pop music that I used to have zero respect for. I appreciate craft now, not just whether they mean it, maaan

"This Tornado Loves You" is a perfect song and so particular to Neko Case's sensibility, POV, quirks, strengths - I love when songs are these little monuments to the writer's existence, something that simply couldn't exist without the precise conditions of their being www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTL0...

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

Joni Mitchell, 1974 Topps style, in honor of her birthday today

Obligatory #VinylSanta "This sort of thing is my bag, baby" post (1/2)

had to revisit Clube da Esquina in honor of Lô Borges. perhaps the most *all timer* of all timers on my record shelves, an album I could listen to any time, any day, and feel my spirits lifting. RIP 🕯️

48 years to the daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

TFW Mr. Martini busts open the jukebox, too

Seth Rogen Wants To Put On A Slow, Dumb Show For You And Crack You Up

Jesus Built My Accordion

This articulates something I've come to understand since the internet made everything more accessible. Every successful artist we didn't like was seen as actively blocking those we loved from their rightful audience, so we hated them, instead of just saying, "eh, it's not for me"

Sadly, not a First Avenue dance night… not yet, anyway

Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year.

Weird Al Yankovic, 1981 Donruss, in honor of his birthday today

What is the rationale for dropping a popular request show? Does it cost more to form a playlist from online submissions (maybe the occasional phone call, idk) rather than programming further in advance?

I was rooting for Milwaukee, but 3-for-3 with 3 home runs, six shutout innings and 10 strikeouts? In the first inning alone, he struck out the side and then led off the bottom of the first with a homer. The only player who could top these achievements is perhaps Ohtani himself, in the future.

Sugar, 1992 Topps style, in honor of Bob Mould’s birthday and the first new Sugar music in 30 years…

Pretty sure the only thing "magic" about the old Chi-Chi's was that it was magically someone in our party's birthday every time we went there so we could get the free fried ice cream

Lennon, "The Day After", Challenger, Rock Hudson, and... That time in jr. high when the school had a contest for the most persuasive slogan to bring a Saturn auto plant to the Quad Cities (which back then was basically Flint but for farming equipment). Somehow we failed, so it went to Tennessee.

Or in case you think turntables aren't expensive enough.

Remembering Kirsty MacColl who would have celebrated her 66th birthday today.

Same. I first heard about them from a girl I liked in high school. Pretty sure she was an Avalon fan, but I jumped right into Greatest Hits (covering the first 5 LPs) and couldn't have been more confounded, in a good way.

"In 1995, American musician and artist Laurie Anderson created a CD-ROM computer game called Puppet Motel in collaboration with artist Hsin-Chien Huang. Thirty years later, I bought a copy on eBay, along with a 1999 computer that could run it." Laurie Anderson Isn’t Playing Games:

*Menacingly, in Belgian accent* We're Front 242, next you have Club 241...

This is not only true for me as well (especially the "months later"), but Nate, who I've never met, is one of my prime recommenders on Bsky

"Are you sure... you want to sleep with COBOL people?"

"Danny Thompson was extraordinary: a man who played the upright double bass as if it were a lead instrument, who may have been an accompanist but who was never a sideman. Whoever he played with and whatever he was playing, he sounded like himself."

"That's no ordinary squirrel - look at the bones!"

To put it another way, I'd listen to The Black Parade over The Wall any day of the week.

Too old to have been a posters-on-the-wall fan, but their 2006 album The Black Parade was one of the few hard rock albums of the sordid Loudness Wars era that I truly enjoyed

Bill Rebane and his Northern Wisconsin film studio is how I ended up bagging Tiny Tim's groceries at the Merrill, Wis., Piggly Wiggly one Saturday afternoon in the early '90s.

*pounds furiously on the drums*

I used to go to the basement of my college library to read the transcripts of this hearing (40 years ago this week) in their government documents collection. Frank Zappa's testimony was especially entertaining.

Tiny Vinyl, you say? One song per side? Available at Target? Collectible? "Yes, but also more expensive than most CDs." Riiight, got it.

Devo’s “Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!” was released on this date in 1978.

Travis rn

#MNTwins announcers, in the 9th inning of tonight's 10-4 loss to Toronto: "any reproduction of the pictures, descriptions and accounts of this game without the express written consent of..." My wife, watching the game: "who would want to reproduce this?!"

For record buyers of a certain age, that circular sticker is as iconic as any record company's actual logo.

Probably best known for her role in the movie Nashville (1975), but her 1972 album for Elektra blew me away when I first heard it a couple of years ago.

60 years ago today

I'll admit, I needed to be reminded of this. Ditto for canceling access to Twins TV broadcasts that only this year were made available to non-cable subscribers.

"Oh, I wasn't speeding, officer, I was going faster miles an hour."

Health Cab For Cutie

Slightly diminish a band: LCD Boombox

Slightly diminish a band: The Regional

In the last two weeks, the Prince estate has published bogus, sourceless, “inspirational” quotes to its social feeds. As someone who counts him a top three foundational musician and did a lot of research on behalf of the label that now controls most of his recorded work, I am unspeakably embarrassed

Hard to believe it's been that long already. Congrats, everyone! I got my wife her own subscription during the last member drive and she loves it too.

Such a great read, it could be a bonus chapter of Our Band Could Be Your Life

I learned about Klaus when Bowie died and I saw him in the background of Bowie's '79 SNL appearance. Was obsessed for years afterward.

How will the Twins protect their leads now that they've traded away their five best relievers?