I haven't listened to it in an age but I thought _Scandal Controvery and Romance_ was a great sort of trashy Ramones-y girl-group descendant. Not on streaming services. Poof, gone.

Sire Records man Richard Gottehrer produced the Prissteens album, _Scandal Controvery and Romance_. The hope was the Prissteens would be the next Go-Gos or Blondie. I think it kinda tanked.

I don't miss many bars but I really miss that bar.

The Prissteens - (I'd Go The) Whole Wide World (Wreckless Eric Cover) YouTube video by CoverVerse

And the Prissteens version of "Whole Wide World," also on the jukebox, because the Hound was their manager. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX1p...

Whole Wide World YouTube video by theshinyegg

Such a killer-- youtu.be/cUFL8WSxTgY?...

For some reason, first spring heat always reminds me of listening to Wilco and Wreckless Eric on the jukebox at Lakeside Lounge in the late '90s.

Cool record.

Jazz Realities w/ Scott McDowell #7 Scott McDowell headed to Japan recently, took in a number of shows, which he WhatsApp'd clips of to NQRA live in the moment, which was frankly jealousy-inducing, and also brought back a stack of recor...

Jazz Realities No. 7…Music from Kyoto/Osaka and songs I heard in Kyoto: Keizo Noburi/Kazuo Matsushita, Katsura Mouri, 金属太古 & Sandersonia, Hijokaidan, Mirrors, Wynton Kelly Trio, Stan Getz, Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans, Gato Barbieri, Charlie Parker & more. www.mixcloud.com/NQRA/jazz-re...

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Doom & Gloom From The Tomb Fairport Convention - The Roxy, West Hollywood, California, April 24, 1989 Friends, the blog known as Doom & Gloom from the Tomb turns 17 years old today. Did I know on that fateful day back in March....

Friends, the blog known as Doom & Gloom from the Tomb turns 17 years old today. Let's celebrate with something radically irrelevant.

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“We’re Trying to Save Your Ass!” Sun Ra / Nuclear War Mega Mix (1982-1988)

🚨FIVE HOURS OF NOTHING BUT NUCLEAR WAR!🚨

Sat, Feb 28, 7-Midnight (ET) @wfmu.bsky.social

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Loose memory popped into my head today. I remember when a dude in my poetry seminar in college submitted lyrics to Common's "I Used to Love H. E. R." as his own poem and the whole class workshopped it for two hours.

I know! I couldn’t resist.

New substack waxing about one of my favorite recordings in all of history. open.substack.com/pub/jazzreal...

Good Ol' Marble Sheep Plus, a 3-hour Marble Sheep tape of blown-out Japanese psych, cosmic love chants, and post-Dead MIDI jams.

New post: Good Ol' Marble Sheep + a 3-hour Marble Sheep tape of blown-out Japanese psych, cosmic love chants, and post-Dead MIDI jams. jazzrealities.substack.com/p/good-ol-ma...

Ho-uh ho-uh ho-uh

blown out cell phone photo of person walking in overlit urban canyon of christmas trees

i was so bloody excited to surf the winter airwaves & have my first full @wfmu.bsky.social fill-in slot since september that i didn't play (much) holiday music last night, but still tried to stay seasonally, uh, vibrational. archive/playlist: wfmu.org/playlists/JJ...

Just watched Licorice Pizza for the first time. What a wonderful flick.

I don’t know that I would categorize Sun Bear as such, but wonderful music.

Need a miracle? In this economy?

Absolutely love a good James rant.

I loved his reply! And he told me you're probably sick of hearing him go on and on about adjacent jazz topics 😅 😂

Gorp Jazz and the Rise of SML "That granola and Birkenstock aura."

Thank you @longrally.bsky.social for landing on the SML descriptor my brain has been struggling to find: "gorp jazz"

😱 amazing, never knew there was a private press version

Yeah @amnazz.bsky.social 🔥

Gorp Jazz and the Rise of SML "That granola and Birkenstock aura."

Gorp Jazz and the Rise of SML + A Gorp Jazz Primer jazzrealities.substack.com/p/gorp-jazz-...

Jazz Realities w/ Scott McDowell #5 Arguably the best thing to come out of New Jersey since Wayne Shorter (in our opinion, like), Scott McDowell brings you an hour of jamfoolery from across the stylistic spectrum with a unifying thread ...

Jazz Realities No. 5 on NQRA @nqra.bsky.social : f/ Brother Wallace, Agnes Martian, Good Flying Birds, Sharp Pins, Neil Young, Harry Christelis, TLDR & Peter Knight, Yusef Mumin, SML, The Early, Things of this Nature, Kalia Vandever, Mark Fell & Pat Thomas. Listen: www.mixcloud.com/NQRA/jazz-re...

It’s kind of impossible to keep up. So much music!

I don’t think I’ll truly ever understand those people who “prioritize sleep.”

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dub: a step by step guide, by dennis matumbi/bovell, december '77, via this wonderful stack of '70s reggae/dub coverage posted by @simonreynolds.bsky.social: musicpresspantheon.blogspot.com/2025/09/soun...