I am very pleased to announce that Phil King/@junkshopper's 'Lush: A Far From Home Movie', is now on YouTube for all to see. I very much enjoyed appearing with Phil last year at various events, at home abroad, discussing the film with him and the audience. www.youtube.com/watchv=ow3jE...

Happy 20th anniversary to the Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal, in which the company secretly installed software to hide DRM technology on CD buyers’ PCs. XCP was a security risk that led to public outcry, class action lawsuits, and, 20 years ago today, a recall of dozens of album titles.

Reznor '85 youtu.be/yJYBx5NJULY?...

Oh wow.. in Japan Patti Smith's album "Horses" was known by the alternate kanji title of MARE. Make of that what you will.

"Planning for perfection is a valid strategy— allowing room for the unplanned is crucial, keeps me on my toes. The whole idea of mistakes should not be a sure thing. There is a surety in insecurity that benefits from the role of inaccuracy and what that means." Three Questions With John Cale:

So cool! Prince *loved* libraries. For example, this is one donation he made from his charity a few days after 9/11 to save the Louisville Free Public Library, the first library in the community to serve African Americans.

In this week’s curated collection of punk rock, alt rock and indie music news and writing: Ian MacKaye and Henry Rollins, Silversun Pickups, Radiohead, Jimmy Eat World, Home Front and more. tangleofwires.substack.com/p/weekly-dig... #punk #PunkRock #AltRock #AlternativeRock #indie #IndieMusic

In this week’s curated collection of punk rock, alt rock and indie music news and writing: Ian MacKaye and Henry Rollins, Silversun Pickups, Radiohead, Jimmy Eat World, Home Front and more. tangleofwires.substack.com/p/weekly-dig... #punk #PunkRock #AltRock #AlternativeRock #indie #IndieMusic

Some kind of fun: Hüsker Dü’s generational blues daily.bandcamp.com/features/hus...

Henry Rollins, Ray Barbee, Jeff Ament and more www.brooklynvegan.com/new-skateboa...

Houston psych-funk trio Khruangbin Surprise-Release New Album The Universe Smiles Upon You II pitchfork.com/news/khruang...

Ticket Du Ride...

The story of how a dilapidated Hammond Organ and the Shipping Forecast gave Blur the perfect ending to a perfect album. timworthington.org/2024/07/10/l...

Maxïmo on 20 years of A Certain Trigger and ‘indie sleaze’: “I was an idiot! But that’s part of life” www.nme.com/news/music/m...

Watch Radiohead play their first show in seven years (setlist, video) www.brooklynvegan.com/watch-radioh...

Sugar, The Loud Family, Juliana Hatfield, R.E.M.? I would download all of these if I hadn't owned them on CD for decades. (Not a Pearl Jam fan.) From @fluxblog.bsky.social: fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-5...

Spoke to Home Front about their killer new album (out next week), digging out of snowbanks, The Jam, local flavors of punk and more

Silversun Pickups announce new album and unveil its first single 'The Wreckage' consequence.net/2025/11/silv...

World’s first museum of youth culture set to open in London next year share.google/RIbFhzvzBHB8...

They didn't capture the garish, motion sickness inducing camera work, but still, an interesting idea: Robbie Williams travels back in time to perform on The Word for new ‘Pretty Face’ video www.nme.com/news/music/w...

From David Bowie to Helen Love, Panic Shack to Angel Du$t, and beyond... tangleofwires.substack.com/p/playlist-d...

Dave Navarro looks back on “backlash” to replacing John Frusciante in Red Hot Chili Peppers and the “disconnect” he felt from the band www.nme.com/news/music/d...

The Cure reveal concert film, Show of a Lost World thequietus.com/news/the-cur...

‘I took mushrooms before my audition’: Smiths drummer Mike Joyce on wild gigs, Marr’s jim-jams and Morrissey’s genius www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

Incredible as it may seem, today is the birthday of TWO men who each invented a musical instrument that was named after them by adding "phone" to the end of their name. John Philip Sousa (1854-1932): the Sousaphone Adolphe Sax (1814-1894): the Saxophone #musicsky #conicindence #synchronicity

From David Bowie to Helen Love, Panic Shack to Angel Du$t, and beyond... tangleofwires.substack.com/p/playlist-d...

Melissa Auf der Maur to release memoir www.punknews.org/article/8688... #AltRock

Chatting with Brian Baker (Bad Religion, Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, so many more) about his new photography book, The Road dyingscene.com/ds-interview... #punkrock

OK, for the first time in a long while, let’s get this LlSTENlNG PARTY under way We Are Love by the charlatans Press play, drop the needle on the record, throw the streaming switch. Go!

Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil to write Life story www.spin.com/2025/10/soun...

Watch Foo Fighters cover Minor Threat’s “I Don’t Wanna Hear It” at intimate pop-up show www.brooklynvegan.com/watch-foo-fi...

Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye have made a new record together www.brooklynvegan.com/henry-rollin... #punksky

“Henry Rollins and Ian Mackaye Join Forces for New Project” It’s gotta be opening a Häagen-Daz

On this day 40 years ago, the band wrote 'Swan Swan H' while stuck aboard their broken-down bus in Wyoming. "We were there from like three in the morning to six in the evening. We wrote a bunch of stuff, but ‘Swan Swan H’ was the only one that actually survived." - Peter

Deftones, Geese, Pulp and Turnstile among BBC Radio 6 Music's Artists of the Year 2025 www.europesays.com/ie/160271/

ah great Primal Scream are back.

Listening to one of my few* Indian classical music albums and going delightfully out of my head to Shivkumar Sharma's santoor playing. *The others are almost certainly Ravi Shankar ones

Lankum cover The Specials' 'Ghost Town' on new single louderthanwar.com/lankum-annou...

Ratboys announce new LP Singin’ to an Empty Chair, share 'Anywhere' www.brooklynvegan.com/ratboys-anno...

BBC Sounds launch The Rise & Fall Of Sex Pistols podcast www.thepunksite.com/news/bbc-sou...

Tomorrow!

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner reviews punk & and hardcore for October thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Watch Wet Leg’s radiant cover of Empire Of The Sun’s ‘Walking On A Dream’ www.nme.com/news/music/w...

An analysis of Lightheaded's evolving jangle-pop aesthetic bigtakeover.com/interviews/a...

David Bowie documentary coming to Channel 4 about his final decade share.google/R43dBSq8D3Ey...

Newly posted on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=reN6... The Replacements live at Bogart's Cincinnati, 14th September 1987, covertly shot on a camcorder, which was not an easy mission back in 1987. Taken from archive D1611

The Damned announce covers album in tribute to late founding guitarist Brian James consequence.net/2025/10/the-...

R.E.M.’s Mike Mills shares new Drivin N Cryin cover, joins new supergroup Howl Owl Howl www.stereogum.com/2327756/r-e-...