Blazers owner Tom Dundon doesn’t care that others say he’s cheap (Gift Article) When it comes to everything outside the locker room, the Blazers will be cheap. And they won't follow the widely accepted norms of the NBA.

Checking in on the Blazers’ new owner: “I know he doesn’t love Oregon, and is concerned that it is a state that can’t draw free agents. Well, with all due respect, you’re not helping the cause of drawing free agents when you treat everyone like s— there.”

Thrilla Gorilla, the coolest surfing simian from the 80s, ripping a giant bong, with the words DON’T DO DRUGS STAY IN SCHOOL forming the smoke from his prodigious hit. “Just Say No!” adorns the bottom, air quotes and all. Contradictory for sure.

streaming at twitch.tv/djmrmom

Star Trek The Original Series scene. We're in a CORRIDOR! A room door is open, and we see two crewmen spilling out into the hallway in red and blue uniforms. They are otherwise indecipherable tho because they are entirely enveloped in a big cloud of smoke. It's pouring out all around them and into the hallway area, like there's a Phish concert in there. Closed caption reads, "[COUGHING]"

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

What's Good (Week of 4/12/26) Brand new music from yaya bey, Squadda B, T.F & DJ Muggs, Massive Attack & Tom Waits, Blu & Exile, Loraine James, and much more!

New What's Good! New music from yaya bey, Massive Attack & Tom Waits (!!!), Blu & Exile, T.F & DJ Muggs, Flee Lord, Squadda B and a whole lot more. Plus the Bonus Beats section featuring @kissphoria.bsky.social, @rapmusicplugpod.bsky.social, and wave Groove!

blog.djregular.tech/whats-good-w...

Incredible hitter.

this is fucking nuts:

Vonnegut: 1965

whenever people assume I am excited about a movie or show based on something I loved when I was 8 I just think about how weird it would’ve been if my dad got all pumped up about a Howdy Doody movie in 1986

Rocketship, “A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness (30th Anniversary Edition)” A crucial indie pop record gets a deserved second look.

Album Of The Day: Rocketship, "A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness (30th Anniversary Edition)." A crucial indie pop record gets a deserved second look.

Tape 05 YouTube video by Boards of Canada

Anyway, new Boards of Canada track and all.

Yaya Bey, 'Fidelity' Album Review Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

Yaya Bey has a new album out tomorrow, and I reviewed it for Paste:

we just really don't know much and I'd like us to act with that humility more often

when steph plays like this klay should be allowed to suit up for the fourth quarter

not the trans exclusionary express

The Philip Rivers mouth eyes are the cherry on top

Happy World #artday

POW MAG Enters a New Era There once was a time when a magazine could be your life, and there still can be.

In the last decade, the media landscape has become unrecognizable. But POW MAG has weathered the storm and built a space for people who love and care deeply about music.

Today, we're relaunching in our most fully realized form. Please consider a subscription.

www.powmag.net/p/pow-mag-en...

Death Drive for QT A look at the Tarantino ripoffs of yesteryear, Tarantino himself, and why Gen X sold out for Trump.

I heard there was Gen X discourse afoot and I’m here to help
scratchbomb.com/04/2026/deat...

Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

failed to retweet when you posted it, been living in my head since

PopeMobile Gundam

LIGHT THE APARTMENT

Oh god I miss the Rocket soooooo much

I‘m old enough remember how hard we all fought over whether the strokes were an industry plant when Is This It? came out. Fools, we were.

Wake up, babe, we're rehashing the sellout argument again

i do not want to make content. i want to make music and i want to write. i do not want to make content

“I’m so angry I can’t sleep.” Oregon wildfire survivors, reeling from Court of Appeals ruling that would nullify billions in jury awards, take case to Supreme Court: tinyurl.com/4h3dcptm

Earl Sweatshirt, Mike, and Sideshow Are Proving That Rap Doesn’t Need to Have a Chosen One Recent albums from the indie rap heroes gracefully toe the line between humility and divinity

went long on the new Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE, and Sideshow albums in relation to how they subvert hip-hop's chosen one motif--while still outrapping the competition--for @hearingthingsco.bsky.social www.hearingthings.co/earl-sweatsh...

Show promo flyer for the Ghost Tropic radio show. On the top left it says “GHOST TROPIC.” Beneath it says “deep rose.” It has a circular image of a couple of roses in a bush. Over top of the image it says “SUN 04/19,” below that “10-11pm PST,” below that “XRAY FM.” On the bottom left it says XRAY.FM, then below that 107.1 // 91.1 FM PDX,” below that “91.7 FM Nehalem.” At the bottom it says “EVERY FIRST + THIRD SUNDAY AT 10”

A special fund drive edition of Ghost Tropic on @xrayfm.bsky.social this Sunday.