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Jake-o-lantern @gloriousnoise.bsky.social · 30m

Listening to mixtapes I made 30+ years ago and it’s so clear I was warning my my girlfriend that I was shitty but here we we are 30-whatever years later and we’re still together. So who the fuck knows?

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Please Call Me, Baby

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Jake-o-lantern @gloriousnoise.bsky.social · 38m

@tbquirk.bsky.social I’m a little wine drunk right now but “You could power a city with this” is a perfect opening line. “I am useless. I am a mess.” Such a perfect encapsulation of young love. I put “Crush Story” on a mixtape for a girl 30+ years ago and we’re still married.

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Jake-o-lantern @gloriousnoise.bsky.social · 1h

Return of the Rentals is a perfect album.

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Annie Zaleski @anniezaleski.bsky.social · 5h

Bravo Neko Case.

Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 6h

Neko Case ends Tennessee show early after venue refuses to remove armed security guard

Neko Case Ends Tennessee Show Early After Venue Refuses To Remove Armed Guard

Neko Case played a show Thursday night at the Caverns in the tiny Tennessee town of Pelham — or at least she started to, before walking off stage after her first few songs. The reason for her departur...

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Jake-o-lantern @gloriousnoise.bsky.social · 8h

“Actually Romantic” is way better if you can pretend to imagine it’s about an actual beef as opposed to the willful misreading of an innocuous Charli song.

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DJ Mike V @djmikev.bsky.social · 9h

John Prine - Angel from Montgomery

John Prine was born today in 1946! We lost him early in the pandemic. RIP. This might be his most well known and most covered song.

#JohnPrine #MusicBirthday #MusicSky #AngelFromMontgomery

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John Prine Angel From Montgomery

YouTube video by Caper2U

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Jake-o-lantern @gloriousnoise.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah I’m super excited to see this!

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Jake-o-lantern @gloriousnoise.bsky.social · 14h

Premiering tonight on PBS, "King of Them All: The Story of King Records." From James Brown’s soul to the Stanley Brothers’ bluegrass, King Records shaped genres that still echo today.

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King of Them All: The Story of King Records | PBS

The untold story of King Records, the underdog label that transformed American music and culture.

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Jake-o-lantern @gloriousnoise.bsky.social · 14h

Love this!

Chuck Eddy @chuckeddytor.bsky.social · 14h

Explored earliest writing about reggae and adjacent genres in the NY Times, including one notable (and racist) clip from 1885 containing a word not seen in the paper again for another 85 years. Then went on to trace discussion through 1973 and beyond: Ska, dub, lover's rock, toasting, dancehall...

Reggae Tings an' New York Times

First there’s the question of spelling.

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Jake-o-lantern @gloriousnoise.bsky.social · 14h

In conclusion, ha ha, Johnny Cash was always cool but went through several phases where the majority of the population didn’t realize it.

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 21h

the frog suit is available on amazon and it says "unlimited weight and waist circumference" amzn.to/4q934KE

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Jake-o-lantern @gloriousnoise.bsky.social · 14h

Oh for sure. My crew was fully into the whole Sun Studios scene, San Quentin, etc., and were fully primed for American. That he was singing Waits and Danzig and Cohen made it even better. Plus the whole Viper Room connection? (But of course like all rock snobs, I thought we were unique, ha ha.)

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 1d

The Beatles ~ I Feel Fine
(Live on Blackpool Night Out: ABC Theatre Blackpool, 1965)
#JohnLennon #BOTD #TheBeatles #MusicSky

May be my favorite Beatles song. Can it be 1965 again?
Thanks Mr. Lennon😎

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The Beatles - I Feel Fine (Blackpool Night Out ABC Theatre Blackpool - Live)

YouTube video by Agustín Emanuel González

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Ray Padgett @raypadgett.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Hearts of Fire day to those who celebrate! I talked to Beau Hill, Music Director of the movie and producer of the soundtrack, about months of chaos working on Bob Dylan's infamous flop

And I got an answer to the question we've all been asking: How much did Bob really know about Ratt?

Producer Beau Hill on Chaos and Confusion Making Bob Dylan's 'Hearts of Fire'

"Let's see if Bob can remember his instructions from fifteen seconds ago"

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Jake-o-lantern @gloriousnoise.bsky.social · 1d

I saw him at an outdoor concert in East Lansing a year after American Recordings came out and his audience was still mostly old people and he didn’t play anything from his new album. Maybe “Delia.” It seems like it took until “Hurt” on American IV before young people caught on to his coolness.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Dolly Parton Shares Video Confirming Sister A Shit-Stirring Bitch https://theonion.com/dolly-parton-shares-video-confirming-sister-a-shit-stirring-bitch/

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Jake-o-lantern @gloriousnoise.bsky.social · 1d

I was talking about the Chicago NASCAR race to a bartender this summer who was saying that maybe it’s a good thing because it brings in a lot of different people who’ve only heard bad things about Chicago and maybe they’ll see that it’s actually really nice and not a war-ravaged hellhole. I dunno.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

Some stories about my friend Kaleb, on the occasion of his funeral:

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IT'S JUST DIFFERENT VALLEYS, THAT'S ALL

Kaleb Horton has departed this life, and for those left behind there is nothing that reconciles any part of what’s happened with what should’ve happened. He had a family, grieving now. He had friends,...

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 1d

As I’ve noted via various reposts on here, Kaleb Horton has a memorial today down in SoCal; I regret for various reasons I could not attend. I think of him today, once more. This piece from earlier this year gained much attention after he died. It’s worth your time. Best to all attending.

2025, So Far

I wish I had a time machine so I could go back in time and talk to my dad in 1988, just before I was born, and tell him what it’s like to live in the future. I’d tell him all the amazing things that a...

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MOJO Magazine @mojomagazine.bsky.social · 1d

“Nebraska doesn’t sound like anything from that time…”

Speaking in the latest issue of MOJO – available to order now - Bruce Springsteen discusses the soon-to-be-released ‘Electric Nebraska’ sessions, the enduring magic of his original 1982 masterpiece and more:

Bruce Springsteen: “Nebraska doesn’t sound like anything from that time…”

Bruce Springsteen speaks exclusively to MOJO about the fabled ‘Electric Nebraska’ sessions, and the enduring magic of his original 1982 masterpiece.

www.mojo4music.com

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Jake-o-lantern @gloriousnoise.bsky.social · 1d

Totally agree with this and it annoys the shit out of me, ha ha.

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Jake-o-lantern @gloriousnoise.bsky.social · 1d

From the sublime to the ridiculous.

A close-up of a pink vinyl record on a turntable. In the blurred background, part of an artistic image with the text "THE LIFE OF A" is visible, along with a stylized figure. (It’s Taylor Swift, of course.)

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Jake-o-lantern @gloriousnoise.bsky.social · 1d

Tom Waits just shared a sad and beautiful new version of “Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen).”

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Tom Waits - "Tom Traubert's Blues" (Live on The Human Factor)

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Tankboy @tankboy.bsky.social · 1d

It's challenging to sort through the flood of activity in Chicago, so if you're looking for rapid, on-the-ground, fact-checked reporting I STRONGLY recommend reading—and subscribing to—@blockclubchi.bsky.social. They've consistently been reliable, digestible, and comprehensive.

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Block Club Chicago

Block Club Chicago is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to delivering reliable, nonpartisan and essential coverage of Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods.

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Jake-o-lantern @gloriousnoise.bsky.social · 1d

@keithcaulfield.bsky.social Hi Keith! I know that weekly album sales first dipped below 5 million in the week ending May 30, 2010, and below 4 million in the week ending Aug. 24, 2014, but when did they fall below 3 million? Some time between 2015 and 2019 but when? Thanks.