YOU CAN TRUST YOURSELF AND THE FIRST NINETEEN TY SEGALL ALBUMS

GIBBY HAYNES We used to go into the Banshees’ dressing room and take the Gouda off their deli tray so that we could say we stole Siouxsie and the band’s cheese. It’s a pun—the highest form of humor.

The Butthole Surfers are culture

Shamelessly plugging my write up of the Vice posts anniversary (with comments from the original author)

Music Journalism Peaked 10 Years Ago Today With This Article We revisit Timothy Faust's 'I Played ‘The Boys Are Back in Town’ on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out' a decade later and realize why it's perfect.

Shameless @openupandread.com plug (with comments from the original author)

I Played 'The Boys Are Back in Town' on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out The boys were back in town, but I was out of the bar, because they asked me to leave.

on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time

we’ve raised more than 1k for trans rights advocacy and mutual aid from the first ekko live album

& the record isn’t even out yet

grab yr pre order @ the link below

These fuckers see MANLINESS as divine. ~Everyone should aspire to be a man! It's okay for trans men to exist: biological women should covet manliness.~

The rejection of 'manliness' is the ultimate betrayal to them. It's why they seek to humiliate, ostracize and ultimately kill trans women.

The Data Center Transmission Brawls Are Just Getting Started What happens when one of energy’s oldest bottlenecks meets its newest demand driver?

Massive hyperscaler data centers can demand cities worth of power.

I spent the last few weeks trying to understand how the grid will keep up with them. What I learned is that we're all about to fight over that too, very soon.

My latest feature for @heatmap.news

today's NYT Spelling Bee

Harvey Birdman

I wish I still had those FMW VHS tapes of her versus Combat "Mother-In-Law" Toyoda.

All those moments almost lost in time, like blood on barbed wire.

There is no love anymore: the best of the Buzzcocks, etc. What a well-named band. With songs that cut like saws and a sexual ambiguity that occasionally tumesced into statements banned by the BBC for explicitness, Buzzcocks were the horniest of the punk b…

Buzzcocks were the horniest of the punk bands. From “Orgasm Addict” to “Why Can’t I Touch It,” the Bolton quartet wrote songs lamenting the distance between themselves and their objects of desire. Pete Shelley would've celebrated a birthday. wp.me/pzXeC-6Se

A Texas band's grunge classic became an urban legend. They made it all up. "Possum Kingdom" tells the story of a grisly Texas murder. There's just one thing: It's made up.

When I was a kid, "Possum Kingdom" was always on bc it was one of my mom's favorite songs. For @chron.com's series on media that gets the Texas Experience(TM), I wrote about urban legends and having a Young Mom.

Ft. interviews with the Toadies drummer and my Mom!
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How I Stopped Grumbling and Learned To Love Die Spitz

Had the pleasure of chatting with them. They're legit.

I'll keep adding to this playlist, so feel free to drop recs!

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ekko astral is announcing our first live album, recorded on our tour opening for @shitrock.bsky.social.

i wanna briefly say why this record means so much to us.

A band drowned by the flood: The story of 'Ramones' 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.

8 months of work, 7 hours of interviews, 30 pages in the google doc, 17k words, and 4 very long days of editing later… my story on the first ramones album, which turns 50 this month. www.pastemagazine.com/music/ramone...

tom waits remains undefeated in both songs about creepy guys in basements and songs about loving your wife 7:16 PM • 10/9/22 3 Relevant v L7 13 123 1 View activity > The Wreck of the Ella Fitzg...' 10/9/22 § ... What's he building in there? (A china hutch for his wife, whom he loves) 171 8 i

important part of the Tom canon for me

our first full length live album

“fuck this band: live at the chapel”

out april 22 only on @bandcamp.com

all proceeds go to trans rights & mutual aid orgs

pre order link below!

#FTB

BAY RIDGE REPRESENT

algo really wants me to know about these men this week

[📷: Brooklyn Paper, Book Club Chicago]

Mannequin Pussy: Tiny Desk Concert YouTube video by NPR Music

I don't know why Mannequin Pussy isn't bigger than they are, they are totally delightful.

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Everything is so fucking annoying

In between Lena Dunham, Perez Hilton and now, Tawny Lasagna here, the early aughts are trying a comeback. Gross.

How MLP-Music Became the Internet’s Largest Collection of Arabic Music A mind-blowing array of music that spans regional styles.

"MLP-Music has only scratched the surface with its Bandcamp offerings, partly due to the fact that many of the master tapes are missing, so they have to track down source material on vinyl records, compact discs, and cassette."

How MLP-Music Became the Internet’s Largest Collection of Arabic Music:

i picked a nice day to Return To The Music Industry

Update: The forthcoming Tom Waits song is indeed a new collaboration with Massive Attack.

Mother Earth’s Plantasia Warm earth music for plants… and the people who love them

While we’re on the topic of Industry Plants, this one has never sat right with me: