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“Play us a song, you’re the drummer boy…” 🎄🥁 @titus-andronicus.bsky.social

The first soundboard tapes of the entire Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour have arrived!

My fave albums of 2025, #1-10: Tamino—Every Dawn's a Mountain Turnstile—Never Enough Lady Gaga—Mayhem Sam Fender—People Watching Lily Allen—West End Girl Uwade—Florilegium Free Range—Lost & Found Feine Sahne Fischfilet—Wir kommen in Frieden The Beaches—No Hard Feelings Lorde—Virgin

New Interview Index in the newsletter. Been meaning to do this forever. Way too many tbh. www.flaggingdown.com/p/interviews...

Now imagine doing it with NOT famous people. "What, you don't know Vince Melamed?? He played synths on Empire Burlesque and 'Brownsville Girl'!" (They've already fallen asleep)

Very late to this but love this Sufjan Advent Calendar project. A different writer writing about a different Sufjan Christmas song every day. A lot to catch up on.

this show was way undersold (either not promoted enough or too much $$). some dumbasses near us were talking & we kept trying to get them to shh & then a woman in front of me did the same but they listened bc it was BONNIE RAITT. also nusrat fateh ali khan w/ed vedder & jeff ament.

If we can't get new Tom Waits live shows, I'll take a new Tom Waits live video! Full pro-shot with a killer setlist: Walk Away Gun Street Girl The Fall of Troy Goin' Out West Big Black Mariah Yesterday Is Here Innocent When You Dream (w/ Eddie Vedder, Ani DiFranco, Bonnie Raitt, Steve Earle…)

Bob Dylan writes about Willie Nelson in a new New Yorker profile (Bob also says before this, "It’s hard to talk about Willie without saying something stupid or irrelevant, he is so much of everything") www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

How years as a underground taper led Jeff Friedman to an official role helping the Bob Dylan digitize their archives

Comedy legend @merrillmarkoe.bsky.social checked in to give us an exclusive report on Bob Dylan’s Christmas lights - her first one in five years! Get the full scoop in this episode at youtube.com/live/8XCF3ZXc0e4

One of the surprise perks of doing this is occasionally people send me their old Bob stuff they want to get rid of. More than happy to give it a new home. Thanks Victoria!

It’s too bad this came out after live albums lost cultural purchase bc it should be near the top of every Best Live Albums Ever list

Here we go…Counting down the 50 Best Covers of the Year!

Oh good, people are just having ChatGPT write their Zillow descriptions now

Bought OTD in 1972: this was a total game changer - a very effective piece of popcult activism and a great listen. It opened up a whole swathe of 60s US pop that Brits had hardly heard and the sleeve notes offered the word Punk as a way out of early 70s stasis: ‘the relentless middle-finger drive’

While we impatiently wait for this year's Bob Dylan copyright dump to appear, we console ourselves remembering that in only seven short years we could get the first ever Weird Al copyright dump!

Pet Sounds-like-shit

Been working on this for the last month, all killer no filler!

Damn this band sure has some crazy-named singers…

This video is SO GOOD

"Ok I've got a knockout idea for a new ad for our cassette tapes. Now go with me here…"

20 years ago tonight, Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell enjoyed a Lazy Sunday:

Pick your fighter

Underexplored theme of the Rolling Thunder Revue: They throw a big party to bring everyone together, then Bob threatens to punch someone on his crew Two different crew people, two different parties, two similar stories

Nice try Rob there's no way this is a real album

Will there be a 1975 Dylan "copyright" collection this year??? I'm ready to hear this. #Jooooeeeeeeey

Gift the fellow Dylan nerd in your life a subscription to Flagging Down the Double E's! 10% off annual gift subscriptions if you use this link (and you can schedule them to be delivered on Christmas): www.flaggingdown.com/subscribe?co...

A wonderful read on Dylan and the RAWR project from @stevenhyden.bsky.social with a side dose of observations from @raypadgett.bsky.social

For all that Dylan setlists don't change much, the list of songs he played One Time Only in 2025 is pretty impressive Garden Party Going Down To Bangor Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues The Lakes Of Pontchartrain Lonesome Day Blues Mr. Tambourine Man Route 66 Scarlet Town The Times They Are A-Changin'

Ending 2025 with some reflections on my trip to Dublin to see Bob Dylan with 2 SoE all-stars, @inthephishbowl.bsky.social & @whitecitycinema.bsky.social! youtu.be/OmFKcsFD9_k?...

Part 2! Going behind the scene with the director, who talks about a surprise planning meeting with Dylan himself, and the one thing Bob kept asking him about.

The 20 Best Cover Albums of the Year!

A decade ago, Bob Dylan performed a concert for just one person in the audience. It was part of a Swedish social experiment about what it's like to experience group events alone. I talked to that one person about what it's like to see Dylan sing just for you.

Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net

A decade ago, Bob Dylan performed a concert for just one person in the audience. It was part of a Swedish social experiment about what it's like to experience group events alone. I talked to that one person about what it's like to see Dylan sing just for you.

Aquarium Drunkard :: Year In Review 2025 aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a... Looking back to look ahead. Our list arrives in the spirit of sharing, and we’re back with our annual Year In Review. As always the following is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.

"Ray Padgett is the only person I know who cares about any of this more than I do." 😂 Seriously, great piece, a must-read

60 years ago tonight, bob dylan & the hawks in san jose, taped by allen ginsberg (on a uher bought for him by dylan). a messy tape, a bobologist recently used source-separation software to boost dylan's voice. "long distance operator": youtu.be/QBjiHRFEdz4 "it ain't me babe": youtu.be/MacmT-xi-cw

I mean, whose lap would you be sitting on?

Got in my head I wanted to hear a brawny full-band live version of "Boom Boom Mancini." This one hits the spot.

I paid for all of these out of my own money so you are getting a fair rating!

Great book, get it for the person in your life who has strong options about “Beth/Rest”

Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.

new iOS update is sleek and also defaults in Music to “you must want songs transition as they would on a dance floor.” so many people will wonder why they can’t just listen to an album. Apps > Music > Song Transitions > toggle off.

Most Rolling Thunder 1975 shows were announced only a few days in advance. For the 50th anniversary of the tour finale, I spoke to the guy in charge of getting the word out town to town on extremely short notice. Most people didn't believe him, and once Bob tried to start a fistfight with him.

This spring will be Bob Dylan's first-ever concerts in: * Waukeegan, IL * Saginaw, MI * Bowling Green, KY * Tyler, TX * Abilene, TX