For Pitchfork, I wrote about the new compilation from La Peste, maybe Boston's first punk band. They only released one single in their original incarnation, but had a stockpile of songs, including tracks they recorded with Ric Ocasek:
pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Thanks to @erdanton.bsky.social & @pitchfork.com for this great review of @lapeste76.bsky.social's new compilation!
Rupar's post is from a month ago!
For Pitchfork, I wrote about the new compilation from La Peste, maybe Boston's first punk band. They only released one single in their original incarnation, but had a stockpile of songs, including tracks they recorded with Ric Ocasek:
pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
It's not, at the moment, but I think it's supposed to reopen soon under a new name
Alt-country voice: sounds like the singer is smoking 12 cigarettes while drinking whiskey and holding in a doozy of a fart
Damn I wish I'd thought of that myself!
RIP to the weird moon/boobs sculpture outside the Hungry Ghost. The new owners dismantled and hauled it away.
He's 'bout to find out
Took me forever to get that joke, too, but I maintain it's because the joke is so dumb my brain simply refused to process it
There are an unsettling number calling for the public to be more forgiving of rich, powerful assholes who like raping virgins or whatever
No. 16 is a wild interpretation of Musk/billionaires
PanHalen
Coincidentally, one of my most notable celebrity encounters, with Andy Rooney, involved free bread
This article about restaurant bread, shared by @wordloaf.org, is worth it just for the way Caity Weaver puts celebrity publicists on blast. I've been on the receiving end of "Who else is participating and what have they said" and it is THE WORST
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
New Freak Scene newsletter: Aaron Noble embraces the sound of '90s alt-rock on his latest album, and New Haven's Post-Cupid has blown me away with a song of his new EP:
buttondown.com/freakscene/a...
New Freak Scene newsletter: Aaron Noble embraces the sound of '90s alt-rock on his latest album, and New Haven's Post-Cupid has blown me away with a song of his new EP:
buttondown.com/freakscene/a...
Can confirm
Good lord. New song from Massive Attack with Tom Waits, and it's, well, very pointed:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-57...
BREAKING: A jury finds that Ticketmaster and Live Nation had an anticompetitive monopoly over big concert venues.
Probably wondering why they've pulled way back on Inquisitions
That's an interesting one. I can't see why they'd care
This may well be true elsewhere, but Hampshire closing also means the loss of its excellent Early Learning Center childcare program. Both my kids went there, and it was so much more than daycare
She does give that impression! She seems more equivocal in her substack post about it all
www.wordsfromeliza.com/p/fake-fans
Musicians: anybody had trouble with content restrictions/explicit labeling when submitting your music to a distributor like TuneCore or Distrokid?
Yes, but also Eliza McLamb's dive into what Chaotic Good is doing raises (for me, at least) some troubling questions
It definitely IS part of Connecticut, but after living in other parts of the state for as long as I did, it feels like a different world
Can Stamford really even be considered part of Connecticut?
We're finally back in Western Mass June 24 at Holyoke Media with our friends the amazing Perennial
