Ornette Coleman was born in Fort Worth, Texas on this day in 1930.

daylight saving time is a corrupt scheme by Big Smart Appliance to make you frustrated with having to change all the clocks twice a year and submit your oven to the horrors of Logging On

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

Born on this day in 1931, founder of Stubb's BBQ and supporter of great Texas music: C.B. Stubblefield. Below: C.B. w/ Terry Allen & Stubbs BBQ Statue by Terry Allen

Holy heck, Fugazi just released the 1992 Albini sessions for Bandcamp Friday! Proceeds going to Letters Charity.

Not claiming conspiracy, but my voting place in Tarrant County this morning had ten voting machines. Eight were for the GOP primary, while only two were for Dems. It's a very red area, so I get some split, but Dems were piling up, while GOP were sailing through. 1/2

I have listened to at least four of these in the past year.

Damn.

I used to have to watch these for my job. That was the Clinton years. I don't think I've seen one since. My life has not suffered.

5200 words on redoing old songs for no good reason, the deadly scourge of "indie folk," pop's middle class, listening to sped-up music on purpose, jazz revisiting century-old music, a kind of music somebody named "futurismus" and maybe they weren't even joking, and my 150 favorite albums of 2023.

Help me please! I’ve been dicking about with the Hive Mind website, which has been severely underused for a few years now. Please have a look and send me feedback. Xx www.hivemindrecords.co.uk

Every news story is now “State Senator Randy Pervert (R-Springfield) was indicted on 8 counts of lewd behavior with a child under 12 and has been put on paid leave from his two jobs as Border Patrol liaison and youth pastor at First Presbyterian (PCA) where parishioners say they were ‘blindsided.’”

The "Accountability" issue is getting muddled and we should be clear about what it is and isn't. I don't need Democrats to post Trumpian memes and say swears on TV, I want them to impose legal consequences on our criminal president and his accomplices. Until they can, they should cheerlead for it

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

As someone whose nine-year-old life was turned upside down when the first one was released, this is a terrific thread about why I just don't care about Star Wars anymore.

In honor of Jeff's experience, I listened to her 2015 album Dance. Still sounds great.

Why isn't the left excited about the moment that might be found wherein we come unstuck, Flap A from Slot B, slapping in the wind?

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters. The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

Lived in UK for seven years. Adapted to many things, including writing my doctorate in British English. Never fully got comfortable with Celsius for the everyday. Seventeen? How do I dress for that again?

New Jill Scott dropped, so the day can't be a total loss.

Very funny.

I know this is my own music podcast, but dang: I've got good taste in music.

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

And those who work there should be be held accountable.

Me. I'm one of the fans. Sinatra/Jobim for the crossover win to my ears.

Amen.

Listened to the James Gang's Rides Again today for the first time. Got to "Ashes The Rain and I" and heard strings I'd loved for decades in Fatboy Slim's "Right Here, Right Now". Those moments of recognition are so fun.

FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.

RIP Ebo Taylor (1936-2026)

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“Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting” Charles Mingus’ Blues & Roots was recorded on February 4. 1959. #NowPlaying #JazzSky

Fausto Fawcett & Chelpa Ferro • Pesadelo Ambicioso 🇧🇷 February 23 • Outra Música Records outramusica.bandcamp.com/album/fausto...

Oh wow! BaianaSystem dropped a new release today!!

Unironically love my Three Dog Night best of.

An important point in my intellectual development was when I read The Bell Curve and realized that I did not always need to read a book to know that it was stupid. Freed up so much time in life.

Was in a truly great used book/record store earlier today. Been years since I was in one that good. It was nice. (But expensive.)

The priest at my church got beat up at an anti-ICE protest on the peninsula this week, and when he showed up for Mass today with a black eye all the church ladies swooned like they had seen a Backstreet Boy.

This is how direct the lineage is, Muddy Waters learned guitar in Mississippi Juke Joints watching Son House & Robert Johnson. 20 plus years later he finds Buddy Guy, fresh off the train from LA & starving in Chicago. Buys him food, & gets him a gig. Legend isn’t even enough.

Hey Texas. Check and double check your voter registration. The GOP just lost in an R+17 district so take nothing for granted.

Richly deserved

If this Rehmet victory is real, then for the first time since the 1990s, I won't be only represented by Republicans.

ICYMI Have you ever wanted to watch a film from 1930 but couldn’t find it? They’re now in the public domain, so I put together a database of every feature film released that year and where to find them. Enjoy! pre-code.com/how-to-find-...

Sal Buscema: “I wanted to get into the business and am not sorry that I did… it worked out for me, and I’ve never regretted it.” A contrast to Kirby, "comics will break your heart" but Sal created virtually nothing, so Stan didn't shamelessly poach his characters and claim them as his own.

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

Out now. “Recorded almost half a century ago in the year that gives the album its title, Nineteen Seventy Seven was considered too leftfield and confrontational to meet approval from the military junta's censorship programme that dogged the Brazilian arts scene with its oppression for so many years”

Rodney Taylor solidarity.

Music Week: 53 albums, 3 A-list. Link: tomhull.com/ocston/blog/...

Weiss is a reflexive contrarian whose superficial edginess masks deeply conventional and uninteresting thinking.

Favorite '60s pop/rock/country albums, a thread: Judy Garland: Judy at Carnegie Hall (1961) From here it looks like the end of an era, but at the time it was a fresh start for Hollywood's greatest belter, her voice having gained character through [checks biography—egad]. Given that, pretty funny!

Items of Bluesky interest in this month's Semipop Life include a Malawian "Headmaster Ritual"; Monaleo and Titanic albums I like if not as much as certain of you; a few millennia of Black history; and a NMIXX set that as usual is fascinating if not quite great: bradluen.substack.com/p/semipop-li...