Riot Fest is wild: Rilo Kiley, Weezer (doing Pinkerton cuts) and today Jawbreaker? Young, anguished, alienated Michael is eating this weekend.

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Album of the Year from a generation-defining band. Dig in, it's a beauty.

If you could go back in time and tell one of the creators of The Man Show that he'd be cut for being too liberal ...

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Everything is a sequel or a remake these days.

What Robert Redford contributed to American films via Sundance is genuinely immeasurable. He was also an extraordinarily talented director--Ordinary People and Quiz Show are two of the best American studio movies of their eras--and an actor who somehow wore his incredible charisma almost shyly. RIP.

Cool be worse, we're at least getting a new Strokes album next year.

Wait, universal healthcare and making people's lives better polls well? Weird.

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I'm sorry, but this is the weekend when we explain to our non-online loved ones what the groypers are. I don't like it any more than you do, but that's where we are.

A) Consolidation sucks for nearly everyone. B) Protect John Oliver at all costs. consequence.net/2025/09/para...

When it comes to Unexpected Comeback That Absolutely Delivers, the last Tribe album is tied with the shock My Bloody Valentine album.

My wildly hot take is that being on Bluesky is better than being on Twitter. Also, you should drink water, apply sunscreen and try to get exercise and other obvious things that are obvious.

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I miss the days when "Nazis are bad" was something that everyone could agree on, or at least felt compelled to say.

I dunno, maybe produce some funny shows that people like to watch? I seem to recall that sort of thing has worked in the past for MTV and Comedy Central.

Between Long Story Short and Too Much, two buzzy TV creators have dropped shows featuring music journalists as main characters. Come on, Stephen Falk, drop a new show that will give me enough ammo to do a think piece.

I wish things were less dumb.

I'm not saying I want a song from The Smiths' Meat is Murder to end up in a Burger King ad, but it would serve Morissey right. www.stereogum.com/2321710/morr...

When discussing late-career masterpieces from culture-dominated legends, I neglected to mention The Cure's "Songs of a Lost World." I apologize and pledge to do better in the future.

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Maybe I'm still hyped on last night's show, but it's pretty clear that Nine Inch Nails is the '90s survivor most likely to make a Time Out of Mind/Blackstar late career masterpiece at some point. (I don't expect the new Tron album to be that, of course, though I'm sure it will have a few bangers.)

Saw Nine Inch Nails last night and @zachschonfeld.bsky.social and I texted throughout the night. An incredible set (starting with a piano version of "Right Where It Belongs"), but when Josh Freese did the drum solo on "Perfect Drug," all I could text him was....DAMN. Just jaw-dropping.

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Special thanks to Josh Gondelman, Maris Kreizman, Peter Stampfel, Spyro Poulos, Sophie Weiner, Abe Gatling, Grace Robins-Somerville and Pete's Candy Store. I'm proud to say the ANTICS Variety Show raised $50 for the Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project!

Everyone on this website, waiting for the White House press conference.

Tonight! Come to the ANTICS Variety Show at #petescandystore for a free show featuring some of NYC's finest musicians, writers, and comedians. We start at 10, and did I mention it's free? Good vibes guaranteed. Hope you can make it out!

"Perfect Circle" or "Exhuming McCarthy"

Tomorrow, the ANTICS Variety Show debuts at Pete's Candy Store at 10pm. We're all about community and good vibes, so the show will free, and we'll pass the hat for WRRAP: Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project. Hope you can make it out!

It's a crime that Portishead never made a Bond song.

Huh, wonder if this is legal?

New York, come to the ANTICS Variety Show on Sept 2 at Pete's Candy Store, featuring all these amazing people! Free, and we'll pass the hat for WRRAP: Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project.

If you see Flea, you know you're watching a great film.

According to her new single "Tears," Sabrina Carpenter gets wildly turned on when a man: -Unloads the dishwasher -Texts her back -Demonstrates they have at least basic levels of communication skills. These seem like low bars to clear. www.stereogum.com/2321140/sabr...

-Daft Punk unveiling the pyramid stage at Coachella -The Grizzly Bear BK show that Jay-Z and Beyoncé attended -One of the last RATM shows -The last, to date, Radiohead show -An unknown group called Mastodon opening for Dillinger Escape Plan -Yeah Yeah Yeahs right before "Maps" blew up.

Congrats to my friend Chris DeVille on his release day! His book it so hot that it sold out before I could buy a copy at his event last night. I had a blast anyway, of course.

This is such a dispiriting time. I just want to post about "I wonder what Zadie Smith and Brendan Yates talked about while waiting to record their parts on the new Blood Orange album?" but instead I'm compelled to complain that Trump put his face on the five-dollar bill. Sigh.

New York, come to the ANTICS Variety Show on Sept 2 at Pete's Candy Store, featuring all these amazing people! Free, and we'll pass the hat for WRRAP: Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project.

Psyched to be a part of this!!!

On Tuesday, Sept 2nd, the ANTICS Variety Show will premiere at Pete's Candy Store. We start at 10pm, the show will be free and we'll pass the hat for WRRAP: Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project. The line-up is so stacked I have to do a second post!

The new Water From Your Eyes is so great. It takes galaxy-brained geniuses to realize that combining Stereolab and the Red Hot Chili Peppers somehow creates a sum greater than its parts.

What A Time To Be Alive

The Virgin Newsom vs the Chad JB Pritzker.

This was my karaoke song for years. Not gonna lie, I went fucking hard with it. youtube.com/watch?v=w_HA5Czhtx4

Mass resentment against AI companies for taking people's careers and making everything insane is an opportunity just waiting for the right progressive leader. "I won't let AI take your job" is a winning slogan that will only get more potent. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

There are way more good-to-great Batman films than bad ones.

I can already tell that Liam Neeson opining about his saved episodes of Buffy in the Naked Gun remake is a bit that will stay with me for a very long time.

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