Thank you so much, Criterion @criterion.bsky.social for the closet visit- it was an honor!

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Such an amazing jazz noir film and fabulous Miles Davis score. youtu.be/8Z-TI8fv4Rs?... #ElevatorToTheGallows #jazz #film #noir #nowwatching #cinema #FilmNoir #nowplaying #MilesDavis #jazzsky #filmsky #musicsky

The Journal of Perpetual Motion: St Paul, Chicago, Toronto and beyond... I had no idea that my teenage dream of becoming a touring musician with a guitar around my neck would become an enduring reality.

The Journal of Perpetual Motion: St Paul, Chicago, Toronto and beyond...

I had no idea that my teenage dream of becoming a touring musician with a guitar around my neck would become an enduring reality!

My latest tour update is on Substack: robynhitchcock.substack.com/p/the-journa...

Trump Trackdown YouTube video by Gregg Oppenheimer

I TAKE NO CREDIT FOR THIS POST. This is all the doing of my friend and CO .

IF you have 20 mins watch this and be amazed as to how prophetic it was WAY BACK THEN UNTIL NOW . And the main character is TRUMP.

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Zürich Is Stained YouTube video by Pavement - Topic

The conjurer's trick of Pavement's 'Slanted & Enchanted' is the illusion that songs so great were arrived at by accident rather than Malkmus's Stalin-esque 50-year-plan for world domination. As he concedes on 'Zurich Is Stained': "You think it's easy/ but your wrong". www.youtube.com/watch?v=x74e...

Tonight!

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Fairhope protester acquitted of charges after inflatable costume arrest during anti-Trump rally Renea Gamble, 62, was cleared of all charges Wednesday after her arrest at a "No Kings" protest drew national attention and raised First Amendment questions.

Wearing a penis costume to a No Kings rally is a 1st Amendment right. Alabama’s efforts to prosecute were firmly rejected today. www.al.com/news/2026/04...

Baby elephant holds the caretakers hand while it falls asleep. 😴

#ChurchOfRockAndRoll #107 Johnny Thunders

Doom & Gloom From The Tomb Television - CBGB, New York City, April 16, 1976 In the spring of 1976, the Patti Smith Group was riding high on Horses, touring relentlessly across North America, spreading the NYC punk gospel far...

50 years ago tonight — Television tries to tell a vision at CBGB. Tune in.

Twisted Teens:: S/T & Blame The Clown

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CPN Hollywell has a voice like a cat’s tongue, raspy but soft, with the rough-edged blues-i-ness of Greg Cartwright, the anthemic rock burr of Royal Headache’s Shogun Wall, the frenetic garage energies of Thee Retail Simps

Mickey & The Soul Generation - Give Everybody Some (LP) (Iron)

i was trying to write about the rock hall & went back to read what i wrote in previous years & " the fact that the MC5 were not first-ballot hall of famers completely disqualifies the entire body as a body of governance as to what is rock, what is influential, what is important, and what matters."

Kim Morgan’s Closet Picks YouTube video by CRITERION

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Had a wonderful time at Frontera Fest tonight doing a live episode of my podcast Known Associates with the utterly magnetic Amanda Petrusich. Now I'm headed to see Ryan Davis And His Roadhouse band at the historic Kessler Theater. For my money Frontera is the best arts festival going. Thanks to SwR.

Swampland YouTube video by The Scientists - Topic

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You knew this was coming. 🤣

MUSIC FROM TOMORROW'S WORLD Sun Ra and his Arkestra Chicago 1960

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A lesser known Sun Ra collection, first released in 2002. Phil Cohran is on half the tracks.

Incoming: Dusted writers flag the records they’re excited about for spring Everything blows, but there's a new Styrofoam Winos album this June, so hang in there. Who needs another “Best Albums of Spring” feature? Maybe you do. Other publications that preview upcoming...

“Who needs another “Best Albums of Spring” feature? Maybe you do.” Dusted writers anticipate the sounds of spring. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/8128871...

True Two Hit Wonders Plenty of artists over the years have had exactly two hits.

Lots of artists have had exactly 2 hits. But to be a true “2-Hit Wonder," you need to be a 1-hit wonder twice — with, let’s say, at least 5 years between your only 2 songs on, let’s say, the U.S. pop top 30, with no others near that. Here are 12 acts that pulled it off. (If you know more, say so!)

Photo of American author William S. Burroughs taken by artist Brion Gysin in Paris in 1959. Burroughs is lighting a cigarette in front of a DANGER sign. The background is a wooden fence near the "Beat Hotel" on rue Gît-le-Cœur in Paris, where Burroughs lived and worked.

❝𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙞𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙭 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙖𝙞𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙧.❞‬—William S. Burroughs

Remembering Austin musician Jon Dee Graham, who died at 67 Graham, who died Friday, began his music career when he left his studies at the University of Texas to join the Skunks, where he opened for bands like the Clash and the Ramones.

The hole left in Austin music by this man’s passing will be enormous. Another musician gone too soon. Sending much love to his family and making myself a little John Dee playlist today.

5x5 grid of 25 album covers, see link in post for full track list

New episode now archived @wfmu.bsky.social

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Laundry as art

[📸 Helga Stentzel]

Alice Augusta Ball found the cure for leprosy at 23.

She died in a mysterious lab accident at 24.

Arthur Dean stole her research, stole it and renamed it from "The Ball Method" to "The Dean Method."

It took 90 years before her original research papers were found and she got the credit due to her.

52 years ago on March 27, 1974, 'The Rockford Files" starring James Garner premiered as a TV movie on NBC.

Bloomdido is a jazz standard written by Charlie Parker. The track was originally recorded in June 1950 and was released on the 1952 album Bird and Diz.

Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie - Bloomdido (1950) youtu.be/lGxajV75VvM?...

Charlie Parker - saxophone
Dizzy Gillespie - trumpet
Curley Russell - bass
Buddy Rich - drums
Thelonious Monk - piano

Cover art by David Stone Martin

Flannery O'Connor with a few of her beloved peacocks

She was BOTD in 1925

I bet those peacocks had some cool ass Southern Gothic names