Also: a lot of posts about meat. A LOT.

"I don't like to bring politics into baseball But I think Mamdani has to fuck Mr Met's wife."

Let's check in on Mets reddit to see how everybody's...oh...oh dear...

"American Pie" means more to me than any song has ever meant to anybody reading this. I am absolutely not kidding. That said...I don't need to hear it again. I'm good for now, thank you. When I hear it in public, I deeply resent it.

The recent Boards of Canada promo build-up already feels a little anticlimactic to me because they're returning again to so many familiar motifs, but I'm tickled the nerds found a little sample from the Elegants' "Little Star" in the VCS release. C'mon, say it with me now: AWWWW.

Cosigning all of this.

My message to the youth is that the past will always be dumber, cheaper, and meaner than you want to think. My message to my generational peers is that the past will always be dumber, cheaper, and meaner than you'll want to remember.

David Bowie as Pontius Pilate in last temptation of Christ

On this Easter weekend let us not forget the greatest Pontius Pilate of all time

People, I gasped.

New York or Nowhere merch is for liars only.

I mean, I treat nearly all of my records as essentially worthless to anyone who isn't me, I'm not interested in their value on the resale market, or to posterity...but my MoFi Ultradisc pressing of *Thriller* will never even leave the box it was shipped in. I know some of you understand.

Or maybe it's truer to say that where MoFi used to cater to audiophiles, today they cater more to collectors who want beloved records in ritzy formats. LIKE ME.

Not only that, the people buying the Stooges and P-funk discs are often ALSO the market for Steely Dan and Fleetwood Mac—hell, MoFi is currently releasing new iterations of the latter's records. The record collectors (and critics?) have won.

The first releases by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab were audiophile releases of stuff by the Beatles, Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, Alan Parsons, etc. Today?

Back on multiple bullshits.

Model/Actriz - Cinderella (Official Music Video) YouTube video by ModelActrizVEVO

I'm a year late to this, but this feels like the sound of NOW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=37pt...

To be clear, my perspective is that Latin music has been a crucial element in the sound of rock-based music since the beginning (Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Ray Charles, Phil Spector, Brill Building pop, etc.), but this has been ridiculously underacknowledged, even now.

But as popular and ever-present as Latin music is and has been, yet marquee (white) American and British rock musicians have historically been quiet about citing Latin sounds that speak to them, at least compared to what's inspired them in the blues, jazz, country, soul, reggae, etc.

And here are the liner notes, in backwards Tumblr order: unbreakabletrust.tumblr.com/tagged/1950

Hello! Here's the Mixcloud version of the Spotify tracklist. You may want to skip my spoken-word intro in the first mix; it's there to work around Mixcloud's copyright restrictions.

www.mixcloud.com/epicharmus/p...

I'm the child of a '70s-'80s country-music fan and standing-on-the-verge-of-getting-it-disco sound of Sturgill's album is so comfortably familiar. (LOL of course the second song mightaswell be Skynyrd doing "New Rose.")

Record Store Day: capitalism found a way to make the cut-out bin expensive.

The co-founder of Buzzfeed once filmed an interview with me at my workplace in the World Trade Center, and later my pathetic attempts at skateboarding during my lunch hour.

I will not elaborate.

Half-listening, I thought at first it was about a dying gambler who just wants to live long enough to see the Indianapolis Colts play again, a decent enough idea for a song.

"We walked out through the dew dappled brambles" is a touch precious but the narrator's response to "Have you been drinking?" is a thing of deadpan maniac beauty.

Let Me See The Colts YouTube video by Smog - Topic

The drumming on this is scarcely believable, fill after fill after fill.

That has to be it...but lots of more esoteric possibilities came to mind first, and that kinda bothers me. ("Maybe there was there a UK vogue for salsa from this era that I don't know about?")

After a half-century (and then some), why is piano-plus-solo-vocals still such a standard for evoking seriousness and sincerity in even the chartiest of chart-pop? (And why is it so identified with women?)

Undertheorized topics in rock & roll history:

Why did SO MUCH American and British rock circa 1970 start using Latin percussion elements? (Santana is a huge part of it, sure, but the trend predates them eg "Sympathy for the Devil.")

The video for Bill Callahan's "Lonely City" strikes me as basically correct.

Not Fade Away (with Tom Constanten) [1] [Live at Fillmore East, New York City, April 1971] YouTube video by Grateful Dead - Topic

No day shall erase you from the memory of time.

Incomprehensible Omissions (my bad):

Longtime Companion
Weekend at Bernie's