Psyched the Bill MacKay / Ryley Walker Land of Plenty reissue is out today. Big thanks to Drag City for making this happen. See link to purchase. Get a copy now. Long live music..! www.dragcity.com/products/lan...

Visited Chicago a couple of weeks ago. One of the most beautiful places we've ever been. People like Rand Paul are really bad for our country

A lovers rock and dancehall kinda Sunday morning—Maddie Ruthless on ROVR www.rovr.live/s/wwe2axrspr... #nowplaying #np

ICYMI, I spent the better part of a decade researching and writing a book about a First Amendment crusader who took on a criminal administration. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sean-...

If you're swinging through MoMA to catch the Hilma af Klint before it closes, do NOT miss this small but mesmerizing exhibition on the work of Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa www.moma.org/calendar/exh... #design #architecture

Out today—more orchestral jazz-funk/lush library loveliness from Sven Wunder svenwunder.bandcamp.com/album/daybreak #nowplaying

Terrorism case against Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh thrown out

When John Coltrane recorded A Love Supreme, "it was on each member of the band to deliver immediate versions of their ongoing private compositions on a moment’s notice in Van Gelder’s studio"—love this new @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social piece www.tabletmag.com/sections/art... #jazz

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Gilmore Girls enthusiasts should peep @jillmapes.bsky.social at @hearingthingsco.bsky.social on the characters’ music nerdery—was reminded that I caught a Sam Phillips show w/ friends outside of Philly back in 2003/04 (?) and she killed www.hearingthings.co/those-gilmor...

At @theconversation.com, Edward Avery-Natale on "the heyday of the anarchist-inflected punk scene in Philly in the 1990s and 2000s" (Ink & Dagger photo by the talented homie Justin Moulder—"you won't change into me / you won't, you won't") theconversation.com/how-philly-a...

Keith Haring's last studio paintings "offer vivid invocations of joy and loss"—see them at NYC's Gladstone Gallery news.artnet.com/art-world/ke... #art

We love you, Carol Kaye www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/a...

wrote about Disney's reinstatement of Jimmy Kimmel Live, Nexstar and Sinclair's continued refusal to air the show, the ever-present shadow of Brendan Carr, and what these developments mean for the free-speech battles at the center of it all: slate.com/technology/2...

So cool, Doug. And a connection to producer Skip Drinkwater en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_Dr...

Happy Birthday, John Coltrane—"I couldn't wait to go to work at night. It was such a wonderful experience. I mean, I didn't know what we were going to do!"—pianist McCoy Tyner on this great 2012 segment that unpacks 'A Love Supreme' www.npr.org/2000/10/23/1... #jazz

Was able to snag an OG 'Astral Traveling' LP at a reasonable price a couple of years back. Love it deeply. Solid "organ jazz" primer that includes Lonnie Liston Smith and a bunch of others I don't know theshfl.com/guide/Organ-... #jazz

"Millions of artists have made waves, but not like this"—Upcoming Phillips auction features 27 Raymond Pettibon works www.phillips.com/article/1619... #art

Lots of jokes on here but this is just beyond reckless and dangerous. I’m glad I’m well aware of the fact that I don’t owe even the slightest bit of respect to anyone who voted for this monster. You don’t owe Trump voters anything

“Some are so unique that there are maybe a handful in the world left” www.curbed.com/article/red-...

“Streaming has inherited the techniques of personalized marketing. And like the rest of the music industry, it often assumes that people don’t like music or underestimates users’ capacity for engagement and curiosity” english.elpais.com/culture/2025...

The Midtown movie that changed NYC’s sidewalks and plazas is coming to theaters https://gothamist.com/news/the-midtown-movie-that-changed-nycs-sidewalks-and-plazas-is-coming-to-theaters

Greenpoint / North Williamsburg residents and weird tourists: You will soon be completely powerless, for 12 hours or more, against the ceaseless roar of motorcycle engines during this year's Indian Motorcycle Riders Group Charity Ride. It is incredibly loud, and my god it is glorious

Found lots of comfort in spellbinding sets from Doug Shaw and Mary Lattimore tonight at Union Pool. Can’t look at internet, must pretend it’s only that and nothing else

Trump's "tactics are similar to those used by leaders in other countries who have chipped away at speech freedoms and independent media while consolidating political power" www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

AI-generated art: Objectively terrible *and* taking jobs from actual artists www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/artists-ar...

Pro tip—some text here to paste into the comments section under any Instagram post that features a video of a great white shark: "that isn't a great white shark" Great conversation starter and no one ever says this!

America's alt weeklies "broke news, took down corrupt politicians, and helped launch countless writers’ & artists’ careers" www.coyotemedia.org/what-we-talk... @coyotemedia.org

“With an autocrat, you cannot give an inch,” Colbert said. “If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

We caught the Michael Shannon-led R.E.M. project in London in August (theyre awesome), and as they were doing Fables of the Reconstruction, which was produced by Joe Boyd, Shannon mentioned that Joe Boyd was somewhere in the crowd with us that night. Got goosebumps

What the right wing resents most about us is that we have so much more cultural power. We should use it.

When the producer of The Seven Year Itch needed a promotional image, he asked Sam Shaw—inside the famous photo www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

another pretty shot of Redford in The Natural. one of my favorites in any movie, looks like a lost Edward Hopper painting.

The NYPD "has spent more than $3 billion amassing information that reveals where you have been, whom you have interacted with and what you have said, thought and believed" (love the Wesley Allsbrook illustrations, hate the subject matter) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

My first byline for the @nytimes.com - a long overdue interview with the mysterious saxophonist Shamek Farrah, whose two albums for m Strata-East - along with the rest of the label’s vital catalogue - finally arrived on streaming services this year.

In NYC you can wander into a beautiful bar like BierWax on a *Monday* for a happy hour beer, no cover charge, and maybe you’ll catch a DJ set by one of the producers behind the likes of Black Moon and Smif-n-Wessun. Sure we have our complaints about the MTA and pricey restaurants etc but come on

Melody Maker on “A Quick One While He’s Away,” 1966: "Pete’s magical achievement — a sort of miniature pop opera . . . There are several sections, including a country and western bit and some 18th century music. It’s fun, and a new departure for any pop group.”

Aiming to see the Mercedes Matter show at @berrycampbell.bsky.social in NYC—Matter was one of America's "earliest champions of abstraction" berrycampbell.com/exhibitions/... #art

Steven Heller re-publishes a column from years ago about Sue Coe's important activist art "because it has sadly not lost any relevance in 2025" www.printmag.com/daily-heller...

"At this point Trump has openly mused about being a dictator, so it wasn’t a major logical leap to imagine his presence at the US Open feeling something akin to Adolph Hitler at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-us-o... @marisakabas.bsky.social

When he was still a teenager, Rashad “Ringo” Smith snuck into a Def Jam xmas party and handed Rakim a beat tape. He ended up producing "Don't Sweat the Technique" and tons more of the Eric B. & Rakim LP—he was neither paid nor credited for his work www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaF3...

One of the world's largest collections of second-hand books—and the building that houses them—is for sale www.worldofinteriors.com/story/richar...

Given its legacy of proudly touting its discriminatory door policy—per Tim Lawrence, Studio 54 dismantled the dancefloor's "function as a space of communal dance"—the fact that the commercial and arrogantly elitist club is reopening to market a luxury beauty brand is perfect ra.co/news/83537

Glad we caught this powerful photography exhibition in Scotland conceived by filmmaker Steve McQueen www.nationalgalleries.org/exhibition/r...

Love Rear Window. Its framework owes to a short story that suspense writer Cornell Woolrich called “It Had to Be Murder” when a crime fiction magazine published him under a pen name in 1942 www.dominicumile.com/blog/jeff-de...

Hard not to immediately fall in love the composition and energy of Stephen Shore's 1960s-era black & white photos of NYC www.curbed.com/article/step...

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

For magazines and newspapers, staff cuts and re-orgs are "decimating once vibrant hubs of cultural commentary" observer.com/2025/08/arts...

I bear more grudges Than lonely high court judges When you sleep, I will creep Into your thoughts like a bad debt That you can't pay

"An outpouring of creativity" with "few parallels in the history of popular music" materialized during a particularly brutal period in Brazil www.stereophile.com/content/bril...