R.I.P. Brian Garrity, Minneapolis rock photographer. His photo book is full of instantly iconic work for Alternative Press, SPIN, and much more. I had the pleasure of talking with him two years ago for @thecurrent.org. www.thecurrent.org/feature/2023...

idea: an all motorik-psych DJ night called Kosmischin' Impossible

there's a ton of great hip-hop this year but in the very specific lane of hesher-punk rap this is that niche's record of the year right here

If you're going to make a game out of something Paul Schrader had a hand in, I'd suggest Blue Collar. Like, have tedious minigames where you work on the factory line and get yelled at by your boss, then a sneaking game for the robbery, then fight your bosses. That's what gamers want.

Just imagine if they woulda kept the original title for "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" - “The Presbyterian Church Wager” Yikes! Here's a pre-release poster for it from 1971.

oh they’re trying to pull the old Inverted TMBG on us youtu.be/mHliXVifhEM

It’s sort of a meditation on the passing on of trauma & how we cling to dysfunctional dynamics for the first 60 minutes, then it’s two elderly men trapped in a shelter over Xmas are hit with paint cans and blow torches while a deadbeat dad goes “YES!” and pump his fist. I’d call it Home Alone Ends.

I know people are using this to freak out about the passage of time and lament that they’re no longer young, but both of these events are still pretty relevant today

wrote about aesop rock’s ‘float,’ the load-bearing piece of his discography and a shining and enduring piece of the experimental 2000s scene

OK, not only did I remember Beck covering it*, I looked it up on YouTube and found someone made a mashup of the two that (mostly) works

back when it came out a lot of critics were upset because people thought he was trying to be (or parody) Prince, but it works a lot better if you imagine it as him tweaking and warping the decadent-weirdo blue-eyed soul tradition of 'Young Americans' and 'Emotional Rescue'

there are probably a few inroads for us Carter Babies (being funny on 'The Simpsons'; his version of "Kiss") but this is my favorite because it's a testament to The Power of Cratedigging for Breaks

Who are they casting as the Jerks

this was a fun one to read in part because the idea of equating Devin the Dude and ZZ Top struck me right in the forebrain

not to dunk on the already Shawn Bradley-caliber posterization of the "Idk why people are tripping over kids not caring about 90s music" post but it does get me wondering (per usual) when we can finally kill the idea of older eras of music having a generational expiration date

this has now become one of the morbidly funniest-in-retrospect endings of the entire New Hollywood era

hbd Neil, you were always ready for this moment

“James, you may be 007 for this world, but the Bonds I’ve met number in the millions. Shall we?” “Lead the way, miss?” “Call me…Multivussy.” “Hmm…” *Drake sings*: How many mes have you seen? How many mes have you known? A thousand men inside your walls…Multivussy! *trumpet squeal* Multivussy!

a fun category -- I'll throw in Black Sabbath's '70 s/t, Kendrick Lamar's 'Section.80', and White Stripes' 'De Stijl'

Every line read from the man here gets increasingly weird and unhinged. You will never believe where it lands.

funny that there's a prompt going around that combines "hey you like music" with "hey you like cars" and I haven't even weighed in yet but anyways, here's an album cover with a motor vehicle on it

“if you believe that shit I bet you also don’t wipe your ass” is one of the clearest and most efficient insults ever posted

bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass

Coming spring 2026, in the @dukepress.bsky.social anthology Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign.

Oh come on, you know him. He's the one who likes all our pretty songs? Sings along? Shoots his gun? Kinda slow on the uptake?

mayor zohran sir please immediately dispatch the boppers, gramercy riffs, turnbull ac's, hi-hats, electric eliminators, rogues, lizzies, orphans, punks and warriors to chicago to join the fight against ice

this just reminds me that one of my most petty "who cares, Nate" lyrical nitpicks is Ghostface mentioning a "booger green '68 Pacer" on "Ghost Deini" when the car didn't debut until '75 (sadly it was discontinued before '81 so no actual model year would fit the meter)

We have the PREDATOR sequel PREDATOR: BADLANDS. Now we just need the BADLANDS sequel BADLANDS: PREDATOR.

Quadrophenia (1979, dir. Franc Roddam)

HELL YES CHICAGO KICKS ASS AND HATERS KICK ROCKS

all this Discourse over Parks & Rec and yet nobody has brought up this deeply embarrassing moment from the show

oh hey, I was just wondering what Poets of Rhythm had been up to earlier this week, so this is way up my alley ("more krauty"? yes pls)

McDonald's will make you fat They serve Cchinges They serve SiCarges They will put chier on you Uncanny McDonald's Uncanny McDonald's Uncanny McDonald's Uncanny McDonald's

It’s where we used to get lied to for months on end that people were clamoring for a collaborative video between Jermaine Jackson and Pia Zadora: youtu.be/aahViYznVTQ?...

I was a synthpop/disco weirdo before I was a city pop weirdo but both sides of that equation agree that this is S-tier

going to a big experimental show at the fancy DIY house

As part of Hilobrow's "Skank Your Enthusiasm" series on ska, I wrote a short piece about my conflicted history with the genre's post-punk revival waves, via Madness's 1979 signature cover of Prince Buster's 1964 "One Step Beyond." www.hilobrow.com/2025/11/04/s...

Rudy Giuliani, desperate for perspective in the face of such loss, asks Siri to play Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. It plays “Big Girls Don’t Cry.”

Cheney's gone, I'm feeling hopeful after last night's elections*, the 'Lowdown' season finale was amazing, and I just beat the Jokerless challenge in Balatro. Might close out tonight listening to the new Danny Brown as the posi vibes coup de grace *well, maybe not MPLS, sorry y'all

The biggest public embarrassment for a Cuomo since "Beverly Hills" was released as a single.

Next Week's New Yorker cover, illustration by Edel Rodriguez.

I really like that someone who clearly *loves* big cities won. I am so tired of Hallmark movie-esque slop being sold to us as the only "real" America.

don’t blame me, I voted for Fania

So much of a fear of newness comes from a fear of social dissolution, that we have to be familiar and recognizable as ourselves lest that weakens the bond: it should be roundly socially acceptable to be transient people moving through the world unfixed by anyone’s perception

48 years to the daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

two of the first things I saw on my TL after waking up way too early: a quote post of this, and the news that Dick Cheney is no longer with us

"when sales control stats I place no faith in the majority": true when Company Flow dropped "Vital Nerve"; true now

I think they pulled it off

R.I.P. Joseph Hunter Byrd Jr., born in #Louisville on December 19, 1937. "In New York, we were all subsumed into a protean energy - less a school of composition than an attitude: we were redefining art itself." Later Byrd formed The United States of America, one of the most psychedelic bands ever.