Happy proper release day to this smoker from Rome Streetz and Boldy James

"It’s an embarrassment that we’re the richest, most powerful country in the world and we have shit for news in this country. It’s shit" — Jim Acosta and Alex Wagner on "how legacy news organizations caved to President Trump and the critical role of independent media" crooked.com/podcast/trum...

Got friends and family who play in the Bret Tobias Set in Philly, and they are on fire. Been loving this guy's songs for decades magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/12/m... @magnetmagazine.bsky.social

Fun sample-ready interludes/segues between tracks on this record

Gonna drive our newborn baby girl home from the hospital after it dumps eighteen inches of snow. Sorry to my fans but I will not be live-skeeting through the event.

Don't get confused I flew her to Paris, we hit the Louvre I jumped out the Cullinan, Balenci' boots tidal.com/track/428313...

there was a lotta chatter yesterday about the paid emergency snow shovelers recruited to clear out NYC as it was hit with the worst blizzard in a decade. but what's it actually like to crack the ice on behalf of the city? I spoke with an emergency shoveler to find out: slate.com/business/202...

"This is such an incredible day for myself. You wake up every day really grateful to be an American, so thank you" — Brady Tkachuk's older brother, Matthew, to Trump last year www.thenation.com/article/soci...

“It was really loud, sparks flying, it was unnerving for sure. It seemed fine in the moment, but then smoke started to fill the whole car when we were not moving” gothamist.com/news/nyc-sub... @gothamist.com

Not only is it shameful and crappy for legacy newsrooms to routinely exclude mentioning independent reporters—much less linking to the work on which they rely—failing to include good external links is also incredibly stupid/amateurish from an editing and SEO perspective moz.com/learn/seo/ex...

Haven’t seen any reporting on this—if accurate, pretty terrifying situation this morning when a Court Square-bound G train apparently filled with smoke owing to a fire under a car www.instagram.com/p/DVJXkFQkf_... #MTA #nycsubway #transit

This guy gets it.

Lotta snow in my neighborhood in my neighborhood in my neigh bor hood

snow day news drop: last week, i turned in a draft of the book i've been working on for the past 6 years! right now, it's called "the invisible hit parade: a taper's history of music" & will be out in 2027 from da capo/hachette. much more to come, obviously!

Make sure you are stocked up on Byrds records during this snowstorm, as you may be unable to get to the store tomorrow

Very good Artforum piece from @dadastrain.bsky.social on the “Urban Stomp” Museum of the City of New York exhibition and the history of social dancing in NYC www.artforum.com/columns/urba...

"Everybody sees time drifting away, and there are a lot of things I want to know about life, but they’re not necessarily like: If I eat blueberries, will I live longer? It’s more: on what day did the Kinks record 'Waterloo Sunset'?" www.washingtonpost.com/books/2026/0...

"To encounter Sun Ra’s life and music is to confront someone who didn’t believe things were impossible. He governed it, using cosmic jazz as a way to decide what reality could be." The new PBS doc looks great www.pbs.org/wnet/america... #jazz

Wait until the US government finds out what's in these "files" that mention Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. Will be crazy

Linda Davis, a K-8 special education teacher, was killed today after ICE pursued a driver fleeing a traffic stop in Georgia. Linda Davis is one of many people who have died after coming into contact with ICE. The government doesn't record these deaths, but we do.

“In A Silent Way” by Miles Davis was recorded 57 years ago today. PERFECTION

I wrote about the time Jesse Jackson brought the movement to Sesame Street. [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

Der Spiegel staff indoor swimming pool created by revolutionary Danish midcentury designer Verner Panton in 1969. Dig those ceiling lamps www.dezeen.com/2026/02/13/v...

Should Enid’s rise again, aging gentrifiers everywhere will merge & form a single all-powerful Voltron gentrifier, wiping out trash TikTok cocktail spots and other basic shit to resurrect Matchless, The Abbey, Lodge and other widely mourned treasures in their place greenpointers.com/2026/02/12/s...

“Something inside of me said, ‘Go up there and stand with these people,’ said Zobel, who has never been to a protest before in his life" — @willbunch.bsky.social on the "Everyman shocked into action by the horror of immigration raids" www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Records of the Beatles' breakup to go up for auction: "...a highly reliable detailed source of the dynamics within The Beatles and what drove them. As such, these are vital historical documents” www.artsandcollections.com/records-of-b...

A stunner casting-wise and looked super stylish—but wow, can’t believe how ultimately thoughtless and paper-thin this film was. Insulting

The new issue of WFMU's program guide/magazine, LCD, is out. It's huge, colorful, and packed with articles mostly on the theme of "the song." I contributed this TRUE STORY about a 17-year earworm that an FMU listener dislodged for me.

Back issues of Remix, which I wrote for back in the early 2000s for ~five years, is evidently a collectible on these here streets. When I lived with my brother back in those days, a friend leafed through it in our living room and said “that’s the most boring magazine I’ve ever seen in my life”

Great piece from Lily Moayeri on the small army of artists behind the sound of Lily Allen's infectious West End Girl LP www.mixonline.com/recording/mu...

The amazing RUTH ASAWA retrospective at @moma.bsky.social has closed. I loved it so much I went twice. What joy it was to be in room after room of her generous work. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

Once again: people are angry for very good reason, and this brand of post is perhaps one of the most tedious and bewildering. Practically every social media platform is rabidly pro-‘AI’ so are govts, academia, companies. This one small space being critical of AI is okay, I think.

Peptides seem terrifying, everyone is nuts and just making up words nymag.com/intelligence...

Aided by genAI models like ChatGPT, “writers” hoping to get paid for fake stories have become an even bigger problem for publications big and small. One such writer almost pulled one over on COYOTE — until @soleilho.com, who is a nerd, spotted a key idiosyncrasy.

Tragic to see that Achilles Heel in Greenpoint has shuttered, and so pathetic that the guy behind it as well as Diner and Marlow & Sons—the subject of tons of worshipful posts and articles over the years—is reportedly just a union-busting creep ny.eater.com/restaurant-c...

Concerning Miles Davis, adaptive introgression, and long geological time. My review of "Oak Origins: From Acorns to Species and the Tree of Life," over at my Substack, The Taproot Review. brianbaughan.substack.com/p/evolutions...

9 February 1964: The Beatles' first Ed Sullivan Show appearance is watched by a record-breaking 73.7 million people. Paul McCartney: "We came out of nowhere with funny hair, looking like marionettes or something. That was very influential." See more: www.beatlesbible.com/1964/02/09/t...

Some of the performers from the Bad Bunny halftime show kept the music going outside the stadium after the show and it turned into an impromptu street party.

Are you a fan of the Super Bowl? You must be super psyched about tonight, which is a big night for fans of the Super Bowl

In Michael Scherer’s NY Mag profile of this unhinged freakshow, there’s mention of him dumping yogurt into his face on Air Force One, no spoon. “…really gross. Fucking disgusting, man. Just eating quarts of plain grass fed yogurt”—Alex Wagner to Scherer podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Psyched for this

Not long after DownBeat ran its famously scathing review of the summer 1961 West Coast dates w/ Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane convened his quartet at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in New Jersey— @andybeta.bsky.social on the marvelous and unsung Ballads LP www.everythingjazz.com/story/john-c...

@nbcnews.com please stop using the term “immigration crackdown.” It’s inaccurate, and misleading. There was no immigration surge to “crack down” on, no large scale immigration offenses. It was/is an initiative by the govt to target legal immigrants & an ancillary excuse to intimidate US citizens.

You might also enjoy this, which includes that film among much else. mspmag.com/arts-and-cul...

Rewatched Blood Simple today—hadn't seen it since we caught it at Film Forum in 2016 (!). So damn good. "All of the violence and death in Blood Simple derives from miscommunication. This accounts for the film’s tone, an unusual synthesis of horror and farce" www.criterion.com/current/post...

"It is not wrong to seek solace in nature. But we cannot turn a blind eye to injustice, however far away it occurs" | Ansel Adams in the age of ICE www.hcn.org/issues/58-2/...

A limited single LP "preview" of Frank Tiberi's tapes of early-1960s John Coltrane performances is typical of Record Store Day cash grabs—the full haul drops in September. Lewis Porter discusses an "amazing 32-minute" performance of Resolution taped in 1964 lewisporter.substack.com/p/coltrane-a...