Has anyone ever been promoted from being an adjunct, or is "the thing that they don't tell you" that this never happens, and that you stay at the career level you're first willing to accept?

I watched a Nile Rodgers Rig Rundown and found it endearing that he keeps a couple of fuzz pedals on his pedalboard to mess around with for fun during soundcheck, but he's never used them in the real set

We privately tell each of our cats that they're secretly our favorite, but that they can't tell that to the other cats

I buy tonic when I have gin in the house, but then I need to keep buying more gin because I have leftover tonic. I don't see how this cycle will ever end.

Received an email from the Dean of Instruction full of logical fallacies, teleological reasoning, and circumlocutions. I'm not even sure AI could write something so meaningless.

Running for a 3rd term with 30% approval? Bring it

One sure way to get me to *not* buy a ticket is to bill the event as "an evening of songs and stories"

The debut LP by The Velvet Underground sold 30,000 copies. Incredible success. 99% of bands don't sell 30,000

Between Amazing Rhythm Aces and Aztec Two-Step, there's one good band name (Amazing Two-Step Aces)

Some bangers on here

1. Flip the Senate this year 2. Block all GOP SCOTUS nominations 3. Hold the Senate and elect a Dem POTUS in 2028 4. Kill the filibuster 5. Pass HR1 6. Pass 18 year term limits on SCOTUS 7. Fill the 5 new vacancies with liberal justices 8. Have nice things

Banger: "There is nothing, nothing, to celebrate about teachers and students being forced to resort to degraded forms of learning, practice and assessment. We might as well credit a basketball hoop in the prison yard with reviving organized sports."

5/18: Jake Xerxes Fussell & Trummors at Tumbleroot in Santa Fe. Gonna be a good one, Jake's amazing.

2027 will be the year of the microtone

Whoa it's Bandcamp Friday again

It's here!

"Dream and stay tan" —Stephen Bishop

I don’t get why people use the word shirtsleeves when they clearly mean short sleeves

Zoom zoom on, Beverley Martin

Gillian Welch and James McMurtry not being on that list is crazy. But hey, at least they gave Nile Rodgers a spot

I don’t think the world should have billionaires but for some reason Paul McCartney being one doesn’t bother me

The Studio "Casting" (episode 7) with Ice Cube was some of the smartest and funniest TV writing I've seen in a long time

Do not attempt viewing the Farrelly Brothers film "Balls Up" you have been warned. Stale, musty

Re-upping this Mixcloud show for #CountryRockSunday

Just saw a deceased cat (not ours) by the side of the main road in our neighborhood. It's roughly in the same spot as another one I saw a few weeks ago, no sign of trauma or being hit by a car with either. I sincerely hope people aren't poisoning them by accident, or worse.

Getting lioopy

Had a dream that there was a canonical literary work called "The Law of the Claw," by author Edgar Allen Paw.

Joined Threads and it sucks. Deleting that app pronto

First time I saw Gregg Foreman perform was at Jon Hiltz's basement with a melodic post-hardcore band from State College, PA called Junction. Knew right away he was destined for indie fame, which he achieved shortly thereafter with The Delta 72. RIP.

Even those generally sympathetic to Hasan Piker tend to preface their remarks about him with “I don’t agree with everything he says.” Yet I can’t find any famous public statements of his I disagree with

Took decades, but I have finally mastered coffee in a French press. The key is a coarse grind, and sufficient time to bloom the grounds prior to adding the rest of the water. 5 minutes to brew, no more.

Mamdani supporters should rally to repeal the requirement that a U.S. President must be a natural born Citizen. Could move the Overton Window, if nothing else,.

Installment #8 of Oceanfront Property on @nqra.bsky.social up now:

Theory about R.E.M: Everything went downhill after Peter Buck bought a mandolin and wrote "Losing My Religion"

Rare night out for the Trummors crew last night. We clean up ok

Open-back headphones recommendations for the home studio enthusiast on a budget? Looking for accuracy over coloration.

Do other countries use the term nepo baby, or is it only a US term because our default mode is rugged individualism/class doesn't exist?

My partner is now obsessed with a certain polka dotted duo...I suppose this is payback for inundating her with Gillian & Dave for a year

Sam Blasucci's latest and greatest. Strong AOTY contender

Joseph Stalin's analysis of Zionism in "Marxism and the National Question" (1913) makes more sense than the establishment Democrat position in 2026

Angine de Poitrine is the Meow Wolf of bands

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

Dipping into the most highly anticipated song entry in the All One Song series. "The motel of lost companions waits with heated pool and bar" @aquariumdrunkard.com @tylerwilcox.bsky.social

So stoked that my Partscaster Precision Bass almost ready to ship. Here it is in the builder’s shop in upstate NY

From two years ago: Wrote about records from Mythical Motors, Bill Baird, Hour, and Trummors:

Guess who has to retake his written and road driving tests? Yep, it's me...fun!

My industry plant is looking a little haggard. How can I spring her back to life?

According to The New Yorker's in-house style for italicizing publication names, only "The" and "-er" should be in italics.

I love that bass nerds (complimentary) Scott Devine and Ian Martin Allison did an Angine de Poitrine episode.

Skimmed the Geese article. It seems times have changed, so I'd like to announce that we'll no longer be sending physical press kits with 8x10 b&w glossies of us by snail mail. Probably no more cassettes with typewritten letters to music critics either.