God damn it. youtu.be/1PURNgMLOqA?...

Odyssey fever hasn’t gotten to northern New England apparently. No line and it’s not in the big theater. Still amped to see it.

Delicate vocals and just a monstrous guitar sound. hannahcole.bandcamp.com/album/switch...

Good piece about curated art-centric festivals around the country. (We are very lucky to have Thing in the Spring up here.) aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/07/17/d...

Exactly. www.404media.co/ai-fiction-i...

“DUM1’s tunes ramble loosely, all strum and jangle and sunny nonchalance, with the diffuse, slightly stoned charm of a Paul Westerberg tune,” writes Jennifer Kelly. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/8223986...

“[Jacob Ungerleider] sounds a lot like Elliott Smith…And yet, perhaps he’s a more hopeful version of the great indie songwriter. Almost every phrase, no matter how mordant, ends on an updraft.” New @aquariumdrunkard.com aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/07/12/j...

“A profound reckoning with the immutability of loss and the persistence of love,” writes Bill Meyer. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/8223081...

Random Thursday’s best was this live, late version of Mingus’ “Fables of Faubus,” with some very relevant anti-fascist sentiment in it. charlesmingusmusic.bandcamp.com/track/fables...

Hey @nytimes.com stop interviewing the dumbest people alive. No one cares about their fact-free opinions. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Feeling SO MUCH better today. youtu.be/W-rn7i_ETYc?...

Wrote a thing on the anonymous dub collective called Ferries for Bandcamp. daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the...

Yet another raspy alt-country singer-songwriter? Sure but this one writes really well and sounds like Willy Nelson. alexdupree.bandcamp.com/album/talkin...

“Yes indeed, they wail,” writes Bill Meyer. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/8222174...

Zinnias going wild

Cancer blood marker down another couple hundred points…getting there.

“Total Crasher Assault is truth in advertising — if the determinedly unprofesh nature of the proceedings here didn’t render the idea of ‘advertising’ anathema,” writes Jonathan Shaw. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/8221381...

“This album might be haunted by waters; it certainly makes no pretense not to be,” writes Justin Cober-Lake. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/8221269... @justinc-l.bsky.social

It’s my last day of radiation! youtu.be/A_a81IHT7hY?...

“Allred’s notes on the album’s Bandcamp page frames the pursuit for old gods within boundaries of mind-blowing complexity and excessive simplicity,” writes Bill Meyer. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/8220476... @poorfaulkner.bsky.social

“Wavery washes of tone build and recede, a tremulous sense of becoming emerging from their long, gentle crescendos,” writes Jennifer Kelly. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/8220363...

Mine was a single of “The Night Chicago Died” by Paper Lace. youtu.be/tR0gjl66PVs?...

My weed store offers a 15% discount on Sundays cos geezers need excitement. youtu.be/N7yqtHzO8Dk?...

Twee pop 4vr! railcardband.bandcamp.com/album/two-st...

Seemed appropriate youtu.be/o6qDpRbIM7o?...

I offer Lindsey Graham the same respect & grace that he's given to the citizens of Gaza for all these years. youtu.be/qqCcpZ_LzXM?...

True either way tho

Not going to pretend I know anything about futbol but this team (and its supporters) raised my spirits.

Will this make it harder to confirm Blanche?

I just like the Norwegian fans.

I LIKE the new Jack White. officialjackwhite.bandcamp.com/album/frozen...

Dusted writers contemplate John Oswald’s plunderphonic treatment of “The Diamond Sea” in a new Listening Post. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/8217758... youtu.be/G8vuGfs_I8E?...

“Drakulas are a Texas punk band, three of them veterans of the Riverboat Gamblers, all native to the same Denton nexus that birthed the Marked Men, Radioactivity and Bad Sports,” writes Jennifer Kelly. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/8217644... @dirtnap.bsky.social

Chicken and mango curry

“Motorik drum parts, squiggly synth arpeggios, and rapidly cycling saxophone phrases lock together in intricate interplay,” writes Tim Clarke. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/8216851... @nicemanwashing.bsky.social

“The Mekons’ Horror, released earlier this year, was already pretty frightening…This dub version, mixed by Pere Ubu’s Tony Maimone, plays up the unease with cavernous echo and ghostly keening,” writes Jennifer Kelly. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/8216739...

My best of Random Thursday was Peter Walker’s “Soleo,” but I can’t find audio.

Flowers make me happy.

Tortellini with prosciutto and peas.

“A testament to the emotive power of gradually evolving sustained tones, says Tim Clarke. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/8215946... abulmogard.bandcamp.com/album/where-...

Jonathan Shaw offers a brief list of scenarios approximating what it’s like to listen to Äxe’s Autogeddon. (A very fun read.) dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/8215833... caligarirecords.bandcamp.com/album/autoge...

“In a very real sense, this is all one song, driven from one end to the other, by ecstatic, unchanging rhythm.” My review of Object Hour’s Solved by Walking is up at @aquariumdrunkard.com aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/07/07/o...

“While the record never veers outside the conventions of its genre, the duet of ever-shifting, almost-structured voices has an electrifyingly ethereal quality,” writes Elijah Riker. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/8215040... @chriscorsano.bsky.social @dorjitashi.bsky.social

@seanwjelly.bsky.social ted leo in yr neighborhood

“It’s like Lush with a strong undertow of Nirvana, dream-pop edging into dystopia,” writes Jennifer Kelly. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/8214928... knitting.bandcamp.com/album/souvenir @mintrecords.bsky.social

“Mortuary Cult provides a listening experience that we could characterize as ‘fun,’ if fun didn’t seem entirely beside the point,” writes Jonathan Shaw. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/8214134...

“Max Knouse is so laid back he might tip over,” writes Jennifer Kelly. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/8214020... maxknouse.bandcamp.com/album/goat-p...

Wonderfully funny, a bit mean, obviously heavily imbued with Korean culture, but relatable because what ethnic group doesn’t devalue daughters (including white protestant traditionalists)?

“The format demands unusual musicality from its drummers, a willingness to use the kit not just for texture and pace but for bursts of colorful, sculptural orchestrations.” You-On at AD. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/07/06/y... @12xurecs.bsky.social

I’m not in the mood for patriotic content.