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Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label) @burningambulance.bsky.social · 4h

I never want to listen to any of the bands featured in PEACEMAKER *except in the context of the show*, because the absurd over-the-top emotionalism of hair metal power ballads works perfectly when reflected in John Cena's ham sculpture of a face. (He deserves an Emmy for this show.)

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Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label) @burningambulance.bsky.social · 9h

You know that interstate crime spree you've had your eye on?

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 10h

About a quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing to upward of 40% in the largest FBI field offices, according to The Washington Post. Agents have been pulled from investigations into cybercrime, drug trafficking, terrorism, counterintelligence and more.

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Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label) @burningambulance.bsky.social · 14h

I found this paean to Chris Brown interesting, because I don't know any of the songs mentioned. I live in a universe parallel to the one where Chris Brown is a huge star. And I'm OK with that.
www.vulture.com/article/the-...

The Uncanceling of Chris Brown

The singer claims he’s been overlooked, but his blockbuster stadium tour suggests otherwise.

www.vulture.com

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Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label) @burningambulance.bsky.social · 1d

Editors are not saints. I’ve had some great ones, and I’ve had some who’ve inserted factual errors into my copy.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label) @burningambulance.bsky.social · 1d

Follow-up: Plant's got a good voice, as does Suzi Dian, who sings with him on most of the album, but this is the kind of pseudo-folk music that you hear on prestige TV series about Appalachian crime families. Not one song lingered afterward.

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Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label) @burningambulance.bsky.social · 1d

Gonna listen to the new Robert Plant album and see if I remember having done so afterward.

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Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label) @burningambulance.bsky.social · 1d

Listening to three newly reissued albums by dancehall vocalist Wayne Smith, all produced by King Jammy; contemplating an essay.

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Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label) @burningambulance.bsky.social · 1d

I don't understand who you people thought Bill Burr was before this. The man's entire comic persona is "ignorant shouty asshole" and you thought because he said two things you agreed with, 20+ years into his career, that he was One Of The Good Ones?
variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Bill Burr Slams Riyadh Comedy Festival Backlash as ‘Bulls—‘ and Roasts Critics: ‘I Don’t Give a F— What These Phony F—ing People Are Saying’

Bill Burr says he does not care if performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival ruins his career and continues to defend performing in Saudi Arabia.

variety.com

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Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label) @burningambulance.bsky.social · 1d

"Who writes great lyrics" depends on what you're looking for in a song. Depending on the day I might nominate Tom Waits, LL Cool J, Lana Del Rey, or a dozen other people. But I prefer instrumental music.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 4d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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I.A. Freeman @iza3800.bsky.social · 1d

Into a space of suspension.

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Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label) @burningambulance.bsky.social · 1d

Watched this last night after first seeing it on VHS 30+ years ago. It really is primo 80s Carpenter, meaning some of the best American horror ever made, and Keith Gordon is amazing in it; in the movie's second half, he reminds me of the returned soldier (Richard Backus) in DEATHDREAM.

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 4d

The John Carpenter movie Christine is on HBO Max. The print looks like it was scrubbed against a cheese shredder. But it's properly letterboxed, and there are no ads. Hallelujah.

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Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label) @burningambulance.bsky.social · 2d

Also: number of musicians (and instruments played) on cover does not match actual personnel on album.

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Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label) @burningambulance.bsky.social · 2d

Written with a flame thrower. Well worth a read.

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 2d

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label) @burningambulance.bsky.social · 2d

Been seriously considering setting a Gmail filter for "FYC". (I thought I had one set for "Grammy" but I guess not.)

Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 2d

me: *receives endless amounts of promo emails this week in For Your Consideration mode urging me to vote for this musician or that in the next Grammy awards*

also me: "...did...I become a Grammy voter and nobody told me?"

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Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label) @burningambulance.bsky.social · 2d

Trumpeter, painter, composer, educator and musical conceptualist Bill Dixon's centennial was this past Sunday. I wrote about his art and legacy in today's newsletter. Read, share, subscribe!
burningambulance.substack.com/p/bill-dixon...

Bill Dixon @ 100

Lessons in self-determination

burningambulance.substack.com

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Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label) @burningambulance.bsky.social · 2d

I love writing for @thewiremagazine.bsky.social because they're the only magazine that would let me start a review of the new Sanguisugabogg album with "The late Tony Oxley would have loved brutal death metal."

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Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label) @burningambulance.bsky.social · 3d

Got this Pharoah Sanders double live CD in the mail today. Shit is WILD. It begins with a nine-minute *pipe organ* jam.
elementalmusicrecords.bandcamp.com/album/pharoa...

Pharoah Sanders - Love Is Here: The Complete Paris 1975 ORTF Recordings

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Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label) @burningambulance.bsky.social · 3d

Saw Laibach there with @iza3800.bsky.social in 1992.

Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 3d

Memories, For Sale Or Lease. Tonight, 20th Street and 6th Avenue.

The deconsecrated church that once housed a club called Limelight.

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Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label) @burningambulance.bsky.social · 3d

Just read a newsletter that has me wondering if I should feel personally attacked.
1) The title is "Don't Ask [question that formed the title of my most recent article]"
2) There's a line in it that plays on the concept of "ugly beauty"
3) The writer knows I subscribe. What to think? What to do?

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Nick J Mascis @bridgemusicbunker.bsky.social · 3d

Inside of you are two wolves (free jazz and fusion jazz)

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Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label) @burningambulance.bsky.social · 3d

When writing about "influencers" popular with young men, journalists should consider including their ages.
Andrew Schulz is 41.
Theo Von is 45.
Joe Rogan is 58.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 3d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label) @burningambulance.bsky.social · 3d

"Read more about Taylor Swift from The New Yorker"

NO THANK YOU

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Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label) @burningambulance.bsky.social · 3d

I haven't thought about Frankie Palmeri or Emmure in a long time, but I interviewed him for Alternative Press once during his/their moment of relevance. Am I surprised that he's a MAGA chud now? Not a bit.
www.elienis.com/emmure-death...

Emmure, deathcore extremism, and hitting the edgelord dead-end

Why Emmure -- nihilistic, violent, extreme -- are the 21st century's most prescient band.

www.elienis.com

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Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label) @burningambulance.bsky.social · 3d

People always read excerpts from Orwell at "banned books" events. How come nobody ever takes the podium and reads the bit from Naked Lunch about hanged men blowing loads?

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