Honored to be a guest DJ on Noel Brass Jr.'s Jazz Theater show May 11 (1am-3am, KEXP 90.3 FM Seattle, 92.7 FM Bay Area; stream live at kexp.org, where it's archived for 2 weeks).

Taurus musicians starting 5 might be the best: James Brown, Iggy Pop, Brian Eno, Stevie Wonder, Robert Fripp.

Deep bench, too: Duke Ellington, Michael Karoli, Billy Cobham, David Byrne, Pete Townshend, Cher, Mike Oldfield, Lætitia Sadier, Ghostface Killah, Bob Seger.

If he had expired while reading the Bible, I would have believed in ALL of the gøds. Alas...

I would say the incredible run starts with 1980's Dirty Mind. Maybe you had to be a teenager, as I was, when that album dropped.

This is like the 9th time I've written about Sunn O))), so I sense that this blurb in The Stranger may be my final say about 'em—unless something drastic changes. They play in Seattle April 24.

The Beat Goes On and On and On, by Golomb 6 track album

I don't hear much straight-up indie rock that moves me anymore, but this Golomb EP with a Laraaji collab and a Sonic Boom remix hits.

golomb.bandcamp.com/album/the-be...

let's make a cultural value judgment: palantir are a bunch of execrable fascist shitheads and their ideas go against the basis of every civilized country on earth, from which they should be extirpated like the intellectual cancer they are

i support whichever candidate will vow to eradicate palantir and its owners

At the game I just attended, I was thinking I'd rather see 10 bunts than 10 homers. Way more exciting, tbh.

There's nothing more boring in baseball than a strikeout, of which there's a preponderance in MLB now. Son of a pitch! (Even this pun is a whiff.)

Shit, I was just grateful whenever any batter put the ball in play.

I rarely go to MLB games, but I attended Seattle vs Texas on Friday and was shocked by how many batters weren't even hitting their goddamn weight. Must be utterly humiliating to have your huge smiling face on the scoreboard next to a .107 batting average.

FAILURE, whose groundbreaking 1996 opus Fantastic Planet reaches its 30 year milestone.”
Look, I was there when this album was released. Yeah, it's pretty good, but the ground back then remained thoroughly unbroken.

There's some not uninteresting variation from song to song. Delete the mush-mouthed vox and the record improves by 67% (that applies to most rock bands). Overall, more engrossing than the National and Greta Van Fleet. 2/2

Listened to Geese's Getting Killed for the first time—hey, I was trying to stay pure. Oh well. “Trinidad” is the closest a popular group has sounded to U.S. Maple in a minute. “100 Horses” got the “Sing A Simple Song” funk. “Bow Down” bears similarities to post-Damo Can. 1/2

The best way to consume the printed word is via books, newspapers, and magazines. How's that for BASIC?

A series of posts from journalist Mark Chadbourn reporting on the acceptance speech of Péter Magyar after Hungarian elections: Péter Magyar: "Our country wants to live again. It wants to be a European country again." Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 24m Magyar's speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: "He's basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired." •.. Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 22m He's announced that Hungary will join the European Prosecution Office so anyone in the country can be charged. Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 21m Magyar: "No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions." ... Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 20m Magyar says he's starting work with the EU and NATO immediately. "The EU doesn't have to worry anymore."

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.

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Anybody like take-no-prisoners, 140+bpm Swedish techno? This 4-track 12" is top of the line in that style.
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"Help enhance AI-generated drafts into polished content," eh? Sounds very fulfilling and not at all soul-eroding. Glad I can see retirement on the horizon.

The fitness center next to a Five Guys? That's synergy, baby!

Guys if melania were implicated in an international conspiracy of systematic sexual assault and pedophilia ring I’m pretty sure brett ratner would have mentioned it in the documentary

Not on my copy.

The Qobuz algo yielded Bill Laswell's remix of Miles' “He Loved Him Madly” from Panthalassa, AFTER Cabaret Voltaire's Red Mecca. I'm not complaining at all, but that's kind of odd.

I expect some “OK Boomer” blowback for this, but it was genuinely refreshing to hear in my local market the Doors' “Waiting For The Sun” segue into CCR's “Pagan Baby,” when it easily could've been Proud Mary Lighting My Fire for the zillionth time.

One of the great paradoxes is how good it feels to say/write “I am incandescent with rage.”

Party of Special Things to Do YouTube video by The White Stripes - Topic

I'm not a big White Stripes fan, but surprisingly, they do my fave Don Van Vliet & The Magic Band cover.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHre...

Hot Head, by Orcutt Shelley Miller 2 track album

No Captain Beefheart cover has ever surpassed the original, including this one by Orcutt Shelley Miller (w/ David Yow on vox), but it's never not interesting to hear these homages.
orcuttshelleymiller.bandcamp.com/album/hot-head

Yeah, I'm the guy pointing out every instance of people misspelling Popol Vuh—including Soul Jazz Records on their own hype sticker.

Slint were not only a great band; they also were masters of SEO long before the internet as we now know it even existed.

Finding errors on them is a perverse source of pleasure. I'll never forget the store that had an Agitation Free CD filed under "MALESCH."