With album No. 43 dropping next month, I put together a guide to Guided by Voices for @bandcamp.com Daily, featuring input from @sad13.horse, Good Flying Birds, @ratboysband.bsky.social, Kiwi Jr., @weirdnightmare.bsky.social and 2nd Grade: daily.bandcamp.com/lists/guided...
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Today on Commotion, we had @stevenhyden.bsky.social + @porican.bsky.social on to talk about Geesegate:
With album No. 43 dropping next month, I put together a guide to Guided by Voices for @bandcamp.com Daily, featuring input from @sad13.horse, Good Flying Birds, @ratboysband.bsky.social, Kiwi Jr., @weirdnightmare.bsky.social and 2nd Grade: daily.bandcamp.com/lists/guided...
This week in the stübermania newsletter: a 2006-era chat with Mission of Burma's Clint Conley about post-punk revivalism and Nancy Reagan's head; plus: notes on new music from Kurt Vile, Allison Russell, Bedouine, Hirokia Tanaka, Tiga, and more! stubermania.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
For today's @bandcamp.com Daily round-up of Essential Releases, I wrote about a new compilation commemorating Boston punk pioneers La Peste, who only lasted long enough to release one official single, but had so many other killer cuts in the vaults: daily.bandcamp.com/essential-re...
The “Vampire”/“Long Island City” mash-up at next year’s Coachella is going to be wild
My favourite Geese song is the one where Cameron keeps screaming “THERE’S A BOT IN MY COMMENTS!”
Congratulations to Oasis on their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. Here's what Liam had to say about the place when I interviewed him in 2000: stubermania.substack.com/i/148465092/...
Quartiles putting it out to the universe
The Pope CANNOT be allowed to develop nuclear weapons.
Forget the KISS Kasket, I want the Iggy Poppin’ Coffin
This week in stübermania: a 2006 chat with Greg Dulli about guns, Yacht Rock, and Katrina, plus notes on new tunes from Jack White, Population II, New Pornographers, my new favourite Mexican Krautrock band and more! open.substack.com/pub/stuberma...
Bieber’s Coachella stage set going for that “Genius Bar in the middle of a soap dish” look
The Strokes are now as deep into their career as The Rolling Stones were circa Steel Wheels #couchella
Watching Geese play “Getting Killed” while my laundry is Getting Folded #couchella
Gonna tell my grandkids this was Angine de Poitrine #coachella
This Coachella livestream is wild
Unbelievable… you’re doing this right here, right now?
The “hello Newman” of PR pitches
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They are exactly the American Oasis -- the first 2.5 albums are great, the rest can be cherrypicked for a decent playlist. But isn't "Bad Decisions" more of a "Dancing With Myself" rip?
This week in the stübermania newsletter: my 2006-era conversation with Greg Dulli about working in New Orleans post-Katrina, loving Yacht Rock (the show, not the genre), and getting into the gun club (the place, not the band) stubermania.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
I also can't remember an instance of a band that's headlining its own clubs shows also opening for a bigger headliner in the same town in the same week... but I guess those ADP Mod Club shows are so sold out, it's like, why the fuck not?
Arthritic levels of air-shredding to be had!
Jack White + Angine de Poitrine together at RBC Amphitheatre is like dad-rock Christmas in the summer
I think he might've been wearing that same outfit to Jan. 6.
Live footage of Trump negotiating with Iran: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLuZ...