#NowPlaying on Cosmic Church @iheartnoise.bsky.social for @campradio.bsky.social Coca Leaves & Pearls(@chrisforsyth.bsky.social) - Wrecked Anthem. Shout out also to @aquariumdrunkard.com @tylerwilcox.bsky.social & @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social chrisforsyth1.bandcamp.com/album/all-on... listen.camp

Obv the Kimmel thing is an awful sign of MAGA authoritarianism. This is also precisely why you don’t tie yourself to major corporations. More truly independent voices doing real work (see: WFMU) less comfortably aggrieved Hollywood folks shocked to find themselves in bed w the enemy (Maron, etc)…

Announcement: BASIC @ Big Ears 2026

Help out Chris Schlarb if you can: gofund.me/00f142a21

Very pumped for Sound & Gravity this week/not pumped about some of the decisions I'm going to have to make. William Tyler vs. BASIC? Steve Gunn vs Messthetics? Mary Lattimore vs. Jeff Parker? Bill Callahan vs. Mary Halvorson? Have mercy.

#NowPlaying #NewMusic2025 Coca Leaves & Pearls ( @chrisforsyth.bsky.social) - All One Song. 4 great tracks used on the recent Neil Young #podcast for @aquariumdrunkard.com presenter by @tylerwilcox.bsky.social chrisforsyth1.bandcamp.com/album/all-on...

Hearing reliable reports that Oasis is playing tracks from my albums “All Time Present” and “Dreaming in the Non Dream” as house music at their show in Pasadena tonight. Can anyone corroborate?

Happy first birthday to “This Is BASIC,” released 9/6/24 on No Quarter. BASIC plays Union Pool, Bklyn TONIGHT w Mike Polizze and Zach Cale, and Sound & Gravity, Chicago next week, Thurs 9/11 chrisforsyth1.bandcamp.com/album/this-i...

We heard the call and we are heeding it: up for Bandcamp Friday today is "All One Song" a 4-song EP of faux-Neil instrumentals Coca Leaves & Pearls cooked up for the @aquariumdrunkard.com Neil Young podcast of the same name. A guided tour of the Ditch!: chrisforsyth1.bandcamp.com/album/all-on...

CRUCIAL Bandcamp Friday purchase – Coca Leaves & Pearls' Ditch-worthy theme music for All One Song ... Finally, you can enjoy the jams without me blabbing over the top. @chrisforsyth.bsky.social chrisforsyth1.bandcamp.com/album/all-on...

Congratulations to Cory Doctorow, for coining an all-too-useful word.

Nace out, Gunn in at Jerry’s tonight.

Excited to bring this new trio's music to the intimate confines of 48 Record Bar in Old City, Philadelphia. Limited seating adv tix recommended: dice.fm/event/2wxo87...

Exposed: the fine line between Neil Young & AC/DC: youtu.be/u1l1ERiWasE?...

Saw Wilco last night for the first time (!) and the show was phenomenal. At times I felt like I was seeing the Grateful Dead in their prime but w the heroin and cocaine replaced by beta blockers and Ozembic. Very impressive.

The politics of America today and for the last 160 years boils down to “We didn’t hang enough loser Nazis when we had the chance.” Instead we named schools, highways, and parks after them. There’s no Joseph Goebbels High Schools in Germany.

First What Is Now gig went down easy at Ortliebs this weekend.

It's a real @chrisforsyth.bsky.social kind of day for me chrisforsyth1.bandcamp.com/track/techno...

Debuting new trio Sat 8/2 at Ortlieb’s in Philly. Chris Forsyth’s What Is Now w Joey Sullivan & John Moran Also: Wasn’t Wisnt The Other Side of a Dream DJ Emily Robb

Coca Leaves & Pearls t-shirt production hit a scary speed bump when screenprinting homie Neil Burke had a staycation at Jefferson Hospital. But he’s home recovering now and getting back in the swing. Grab a shirt for Bandcamp Friday today! chrisforsyth1.bandcamp.com/merch

I know a lot of us have feelings about Bandcamp’s changes in ownership over the last few years. But it’s still true that buying music directly from independent labels and artists on Bandcamp remains one of the best ways to support the musicians you listen to.

New trio What Is Now w Joey Sullivan (Florry, Coca Leaves & Pearls) and John Moran (Bark Culture, Daniel Villareal Trio) debuts Saturday at Ortliebs.

Idk if it was Tom Verlaine or Richard Hell that said all punks were frustrated jazz musicians but I can totally relate.

You have the right to remain in the pocket. If you waive your right to remain in the pocket anything you play can and will be used against you in the court of public opinion.

R.I.P. Ozzy Osbourne (1948-2025)

Those first Ozzy solo records were huge when I was 11, 12 years old & it may not be much reflected in my playing now but they (esp Randy Rhoades) 100% directly influenced my desire to pick up a guitar. Later of course I dug Sabbath, but thx Ozzy for helping me choose a path.

All One Song :: Meg Baird and Charlie Saufley on “Interstate” aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/07/16/a... This week, you’re getting two fantastic guests for the price of one: ⁠Meg Baird⁠ and Charlie Saufley ...

New trio What Is Now w drummer Joey Sullivan (Florry, Bark Culture) and double bassist John Moran (Bark Culture, Daniel Villareal Trio) debuts 8/2 at Ortlieb’s in Philly.

#NowPlaying After listening to the great chat @chrisforsyth.bsky.social had with @tylerwilcox.bsky.social about Neil Young, I had to.

Working pretty hard to make my IG algorithm basically all Stones content, and it’s really a vastly improved user experience.

Old times were good times! Here's Neil Young & The Stray Gators (with a little help from Croz and Nash) at Winterland in 1973.

Op artist Bridget Riley

“Ditchy Times Require Ditchy Solutions” get the new Coca Leaves & Pearls shirt: chrisforsyth1.bandcamp.com/merch/coca-l...

A message from the striking municipal workers of Philadelphia:

Happy to rap about Neil and associated & highly relevant topics - dread, cultural failure, confusion - w @tylerwilcox.bsky.social for All One Song, the new podcast from @aquariumdrunkard.com : aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/07/02/a... All One Song : Chris Forsyth on "Lookout Joe" : Aquarium Drunkard

@aquariumdrunkard.com All One Song: A Neil Young Podcast ep:2 hosted by @tylerwilcox.bsky.social is now up. “Lookout Joe” with @chrisforsyth.bsky.social Great #podcast again. aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/07/02/a...

Tonight in Brooklyn

BASIC in the Northeast this week:

Last show w Dean & Co tonight at the great @turfclub.bsky.social in St Paul. They were kind enuff to invite me to sit in on 23 Minutes in Brussels last night ->

2 more shows w Dean & Co

Absolutely legendary night at Jerry’s on Front w TAKAAT last night.

MPA (Mikel Patrick Avery) gear passing the test.

Happy June 1st, everyone.

“Gonna raise me an army, some tough sons o’ bitches / I recruit my army from the orphanages” is one of the tuffest rhymes in the book.

Also, my brain broke while writing this week's edition and these 2 rad music events didn't make it in: * 5/30: "Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted" @ PhilaMOCA * 6/4: Takaat (of Mdou Moctar), Anne Ishii + @chrisforsyth.bsky.social @ Jerry's on Front

Wrote a big ol' guide to bands slated to appear at Porchfest tomorrow. If this is something that interests you, consider subscribing to my newsletter. Anyone who signs up today gets this week's edition: buttondown.com/soundadvicep...

Four solo dates in the Midwest in June, three of them supporting Dean Wareham* 6/16 Chicago @ Lincoln Hall* 6/17 Bloomington @ Reverberation Vinyl 6/18 Madison @ High Noon* 6/19 St Paul @ Turf Club*

the wire is one of the last bastions of good music media out there. they are worker-owned. they cover weird shit uncompromisingly. they have been doing so forever