Andy Kerr (NoMeansNo, Hissanol, Itch, etc.) -- Victoria/Amsterdam punk rock artist -- is interviewed by a 14/15 year old Irish kid named Logan, who already proves he's one of the best interviewers on YouTube by *NEVER TALKING OVER HIS GUEST*

This is a bummer. I picked up a lot of new release @3313books.bsky.social titles here over the years to keep me company on cross-country flights. And on arrival I'd grab a few cassettes b/c the truck we drive in WA each summer still has a cassette deck. The shop made Sea-Tac feel special.

For those who grew up in West L.A., having almost all of Pacific Palisades burn down and Rob & Michele Reiner being murdered in the same calendar year is extremely hard to process.

Don’t plan for a productive day after finishing this series. I’ve been sitting still for hours thinking about it.

I finished watching all of Twins Peaks S3 tonight. What the fuck am I going to do with myself now?

Very sad news about Brent McLachlan. The Gordons / Bailter Space carved out an alternate noise rock universe to Sonic Youth & MBV that was just as unwound and dreamy but also more sci-fi and paranoid.

Calling the 1 Line the "Lobster Express" from now on in honor of this

Was this the plan all along?

ESTO es por qué no tengo prisa por hacer una lista de Los Mejores de 2025 todavía. Acabo de describrir el grupo de DF, México que se llama Mengers esta mañana y su álbum de Oct 2025 que se llama Flavio - industrial/no-wave/synth punk excelente, influenciado por Suicide y Cabaret Voltaire.

THIS is why I’m not rushing to make a Best of 2025 yet. I just discovered the CDMX band Mengers this morning and their October 2025 album Flavio - great industrial/no-wave/synth punk, with nods to Suicide & Cabaret Voltaire.

El álbum “How You Been” de SML (International Anthem) no tiene que ser tan bueno para clasificarse para mi lista de 5 mejores álbumes de 2025, pero es bastante increíble. Miles Davis de “On the Corner” se fusiona con 99 Records

SML’s How You Been album (International Anthem) doesn’t have to be that good to make my Top 5 albums of 2025, but it’s quite incredible. “On the Corner” Miles meets 99 Records

“The Spanish Dancers” (1921) by Marie Laurencin

Wimps, Mark Robinson (Sings the Music of Unrest) and Pitschouse are playing the Sunset Tavern in Seattle/Ballard tomorrow (December 9). Hope to see some of you there!

Chance-buying a Tackhead 12” at Tower Records in 1986, alongside Ministry’s Twitch changed my music world. Both were produced by Sherwood.

Today in HOLY FUCK ARE YOU KIDDING ME DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG I HAVE WANTED THE TACKHEAD 12" SINGLES REMASTERED ON CD

Hot take: The voice of Cameron Winter of Geese is… fine? It reminds me of the voice of Alec Ounsworth of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah if played at 16 RPM The timbre has the usual rock critic/hipster nods to David Byrne, Beck, Chris Knox, Kevin Ayers + more I’m not surprised at all Geese are so hyped

There is so much to support on #BandcampFriday - For electronic dance, John Tejada (Los Angeles) has been consistently good since the 90s and great since the Kompakt years. He released another great more ethereal album this year, “The Watchline”

Ah, this old 1999 Sven Väth gem, "Dein Schweiss", popped up in my YouTube recommendations. But I had never seen the music video until now. This is, like, sooo stereotypically German and ultra-SPROCKETS, it makes the original Sprockets skits tame by comparison. ("AAAAGH, ANT FACE!")

Maybe 3 people at most will be concerned, but there should be no Friends Below Zero music on Spotify in a week or so. This Friday is also Bandcamp Friday, just sayin’

MASSIVE FUCKUP: there’s a new 4K streaming restoration of Twin Peaks and in the pilot episode you can see the reflection of a scary-looking crew member in a mirror. how did they screw this up so badly?

My latest for @theseconddisc.bsky.social is a review of the new reissue of Prince's 'Around the World in a Day,' which I can only recommend for completists who can forgive embarrassing audio errors. There are no lights on at that estate, huh

It doesn’t help that the last roots/Americana revival was the confluence of Stomp Clap Hey!, unironic Don Draper hairdos and the 2010s tech boom/gentrification that is punishing us currently for their collective mid-life crises.

One of my big aesthetic realizations over time is that 'roots' is as meaningless/universal a term as you want it to be. My roots are early 80s top 40 radio: synth/UK stuff as it surfaced, Quincy Jones/Michael Jackson, pop metal as it coalesced. The 'old weird America' was learned; it's not my roots.

New great dance music/remixes is teeming. At least every week, I search new arrivals for “house”, “deep house” or “minimal techno” on Bandcamp and Beatport, and there’s also something great.

I don't think it's cluelessness, I think it's how things are. I also listen to new music all the time and I know maybe slightly more than a quarter, and I bet it's a mostly different quarter to what Lee does. But yeah this is the era of abundance. I think the impossibility of keeping up is exciting.

I haven’t been into the Giles Martin era Beatles boxed sets, or saw them as anything more than Steven Wilson cosplay gone mad. I made a promise to not buy any Beatles boxed sets since the 2009 campaign, and - with the sightings of crummy AI tech in the new Anthology reissue - I don’t regret it yet.

Not strictly a Thanksgiving memory but a super memorable week-after-T-Day back-to-office day that still haunts me and also makes me laugh 1/

Would you all like to read a short horror comedy? I knew you would.

Replacing the word “crypto” with “Sampo” in my mind has made this whole subculture a little funnier to tolerate.

I somehow managed to never see the film nor any stills from the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's. You *think* seeing a few stills of Mickey Rooney in the movie will give you an idea without mental scarring, but holy shit, I've been watching Twin Peaks the Return all month and *that* was far far creepier

I might as well throw away my original 90s Beatles Anthology DVD set, as I think I'd have to pay someone to take... wait what's that now?

how many times has the Seattle Times run a "compassion is great, but" editorial arguing for a lack of compassion at this point? we get it, you think homelessness should be illegal, find literally anything else to talk about. (Also, no Seattle neighborhood has been "destroyed," good god.)

I haven’t seen a stranger things episode since the pilot, but people debating a kid would have a Bend Sinister Fall shirt is such a delight that if and when I get Netflix again I’ll give the show another try. “I can believe interdimensional demons, but beggars banquet records swag in rural Indiana?”

The ace card that 21st Century My Bloody Valentine possesses is that no portable recording device is ever truly going to capture the full body experience of a live MBV show. The smartphone live video clips of MBV look and sound like Lynchian clues/nightmares about their live show, and nothing more.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen: Negativland Stevie Wonder Prince Magma Skinny Puppy

It’s hard to find Lights videos on YouTube probably due to the band name, but here’s another great track from 2004.

How great were the Seattle band the Lights? Proudly influenced by the Fall & the Dream Syndicate, they helped pave the way for Protomartyr, who in turn paved the way for all the modern post-punk we have today (in addition to the Fall themselves obviously). All 3 Lights albums are great.

Well hey, @vishkhanna.bsky.social will be the guest on @bestshow4life.bsky.social tonight - the topic is Top 50 Luckiest MFs 9pm EST / 6pm PST

Not strictly a Thanksgiving memory but a super memorable week-after-T-Day back-to-office day that still haunts me and also makes me laugh 1/

RIP Jimmy Cliff. I’m glad he got to enjoy a long life with family. There’s really no bad place to start with his catalog between 1967 and 1978. 1973-1975 is my favorite mini era, which includes the underrated Music Maker / House of Exile from 1974.

A movie that takes place where you’re from

The Beatles’ CD reissues came out in 1987 and, for me, they did help distract from hair metal & late 80s pop, as did noise rock & industrial. But that was me. Ben Sisario did mention he was a rock snob, so different teens will have been snobbish in different ways. I met anti-Beatles snobs then too.

Belated RIP to Mani. I had a listen to the Stone Roses again, and the bass was their secret weapon. His playing was unique, but the inspiration must have been part Cymande, part Dukes of Stratosphear.

At least there’s the 2-CD Deluxe Edition of Prince & the Revolution’s Around the World in a Day. Nothing exclusive here, but many of the extended versions are getting their debut reissue here, including the mighty “She’s Always in My Hair”, “Girl” and “Pop Life”

OTD 1969 James Brown drags his road-weary band into King Studios in Cincinnati to record. Drummer Clyde Stubblefield bangs out a drum pattern Brown crafts into "Funky Drummer." Minor hit but it forms a foundational beat in Hip-Hop. The bldg remains vacant & standing but King left in 1971.

It’s good to see national news here - and specifically *here* - about a Seattle mayor elect that’s actually positive. The last time that happened with a Seattle mayor was with Ed Murray, and um.. yup, let’s never do that again.

Maybe I’m lucky and this just started happening to me later than most But spam txts I get are switching from typical phishing templates to vague probably AI-penned “suicide” txts such as “You never responded. Goodbye forever” or “My pain will finally end. And without your help” Be careful y’all

Social media is a bar with the news on. Countless conversations at the same time from people getting out whatever’s inside them. It’s not a salon, a book club or a bookstore. You might stand up and recite a stirring poem, you might get word out about a book, but people mostly are glad to laugh.