mark j. marraccini
@marramark.com
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wrote abt madonna: album.ink/MadonnaVrgn
wrote abt taylor: album.ink/tswift1989
help my altadena next door neighbors who also lost their home: https://gofund.me/fbd826b5
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ex: mtv news, vh1, fuse
wrote abt madonna: album.ink/MadonnaVrgn
wrote abt taylor: album.ink/tswift1989
help my altadena next door neighbors who also lost their home: https://gofund.me/fbd826b5
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mark j. marraccini
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· Oct 8
Today marks 9 months since the Eaton Fire and now I have to make an inventory of my big CD collection that burned.
Impossible to list them all but I’m a music nerd with a bunch of photos and videos of them on my phone. I’m gonna start posting them here as a kind of memorial for all of my CDs.
🧵 ⬇️
Impossible to list them all but I’m a music nerd with a bunch of photos and videos of them on my phone. I’m gonna start posting them here as a kind of memorial for all of my CDs.
🧵 ⬇️
Björk’s Homogenic is a stellar Sunday morning album
November 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Björk’s Homogenic is a stellar Sunday morning album
Reposted by mark j. marraccini
I spent many memorable days with Lady Gaga in 2009 and 2011 for two RS cover stories. In between, “a lifetime of stuff” happened, as she puts it – and we finally got a chance to talk about all of it. Here’s my new Rolling Stone cover story, featuring Lady Gaga.
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
How Lady Gaga Found Herself Again: 'I Feel Lucky to Be Alive'
How Lady Gaga returned from the brink, found love, and made one of her greatest albums with 'Mayhem.'
www.rollingstone.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I spent many memorable days with Lady Gaga in 2009 and 2011 for two RS cover stories. In between, “a lifetime of stuff” happened, as she puts it – and we finally got a chance to talk about all of it. Here’s my new Rolling Stone cover story, featuring Lady Gaga.
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
The first episode of Real Housewives of Melbourne is a 53-minute SNL skit
November 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The first episode of Real Housewives of Melbourne is a 53-minute SNL skit
Team Madonna could learn A LOT from how Pet Shop Boys creatively and continually merchandise and market not only their lengthy canon but their entire 40+ year career.
Pet Shop Boys Volume — Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys today announce the forthcoming publication of Volume, a 592-page hardback book published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the release of their 1986 debut album, “Please”. The boo...
www.petshopboys.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Team Madonna could learn A LOT from how Pet Shop Boys creatively and continually merchandise and market not only their lengthy canon but their entire 40+ year career.
Anyone else clock Frankie Knuckles in Robyn’s “Dopamine”?
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Anyone else clock Frankie Knuckles in Robyn’s “Dopamine”?
Just rewatched one of the greatest episodes ever made in the history of television.
November 9, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just rewatched one of the greatest episodes ever made in the history of television.
Really need Hex Hector to do an 11:15 long Momentous Club Mix of this Baxter Dury song
Schadenfreude by Baxter Dury on Apple Music
Song · 2025 · Duration 3:30
music.apple.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Really need Hex Hector to do an 11:15 long Momentous Club Mix of this Baxter Dury song
35 years ago today in its October 27, 1990 issue, Billboard changed its “Hot Black Singles” and “Top Black Albums” chart titles to “Hot R&B Singles” and “Top R&B Albums”
October 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
35 years ago today in its October 27, 1990 issue, Billboard changed its “Hot Black Singles” and “Top Black Albums” chart titles to “Hot R&B Singles” and “Top R&B Albums”
Just last night I was talking about how much I loved the “Live It Up” needle drop from this album in episode 3 of the new Martin Scorsese doc series.
They could have gone with “Rapture” to soundtrack a storytelling shift into the ‘80s but chose this deep cut instead. Taste!
They could have gone with “Rapture” to soundtrack a storytelling shift into the ‘80s but chose this deep cut instead. Taste!
Albumism's @marramark.com includes Blondie's 'Autoamerican' (1980) as one of his favorite albums of all time—is it one of your favorites too? | Explore his full list + all of our writers' favorites here: album.ink/MJMarraccini25
October 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Just last night I was talking about how much I loved the “Live It Up” needle drop from this album in episode 3 of the new Martin Scorsese doc series.
They could have gone with “Rapture” to soundtrack a storytelling shift into the ‘80s but chose this deep cut instead. Taste!
They could have gone with “Rapture” to soundtrack a storytelling shift into the ‘80s but chose this deep cut instead. Taste!
Hearing a lot of early U2 pulsing in this song from Brandi Carlile’s new album.
Church & State by Brandi Carlile on Apple Music
Song · 2025 · Duration 4:18
music.apple.com
October 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Hearing a lot of early U2 pulsing in this song from Brandi Carlile’s new album.
After spinning the new Lily Allen album the first 20 seconds of her and David Harbour’s AD visit plays very different! youtu.be/zEXXe9Ef_R8?...
Inside David Harbour & Lily Allen's Brooklyn Townhouse | Open Door | Architectural Digest
YouTube video by Architectural Digest
youtu.be
October 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
After spinning the new Lily Allen album the first 20 seconds of her and David Harbour’s AD visit plays very different! youtu.be/zEXXe9Ef_R8?...
I was 16 when "Krush Groove" came out so obvi I keep a copy of the soundtrack album in my office. Back then you couldn't peel Sheila E.'s 'Romance 1600' album out of my hands.
October 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I was 16 when "Krush Groove" came out so obvi I keep a copy of the soundtrack album in my office. Back then you couldn't peel Sheila E.'s 'Romance 1600' album out of my hands.
There's been a lot of posts celebrating the 30th anniversary of the UK release of Todd Terry's Everything But The Girl "Missing" remix on October 16th.
Important to remember that the remix was not commissioned in 1995, it was done in 1994. Billboard wrote about it in December of that year.
Important to remember that the remix was not commissioned in 1995, it was done in 1994. Billboard wrote about it in December of that year.
October 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
There's been a lot of posts celebrating the 30th anniversary of the UK release of Todd Terry's Everything But The Girl "Missing" remix on October 16th.
Important to remember that the remix was not commissioned in 1995, it was done in 1994. Billboard wrote about it in December of that year.
Important to remember that the remix was not commissioned in 1995, it was done in 1994. Billboard wrote about it in December of that year.
Even though Apple Music's UI is clunky AF I'm glad I stopped streaming music on Spotify in January.
A Spotify spokesperson has reportedly defended its decision to allow US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recruitment advertisements to run on the streaming platform
djmag.com/news/spotify...
djmag.com/news/spotify...
Spotify defends running ICE recruitment ads about “dangerous illegals” as part of US government campaign
The Stockholm-based streaming giant said the ICE ads, which contain fearmongering references to "dangerous illegals", do not violate policy
djmag.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Even though Apple Music's UI is clunky AF I'm glad I stopped streaming music on Spotify in January.
Madonna spotted at Miya Thai restaurant in Altadena on Sunday
October 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Madonna spotted at Miya Thai restaurant in Altadena on Sunday
Reposted by mark j. marraccini
See the issue is that Trump ran on releasing on the Epstein files, and Bondi said she had them sitting on her desk ready to go, and then Elon Musk tweeted that Trump was in them and they were suddenly deemed a hoax and Ghislaine was moved to a spa prison, so you can understand the fresh intrigue
Mike Johnson: "Suddenly now, they've somehow convinced themselves that the Epstein files will be damaging to President Trump and Republicans in some way that they've imagined, and so they feign outrage."
October 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
See the issue is that Trump ran on releasing on the Epstein files, and Bondi said she had them sitting on her desk ready to go, and then Elon Musk tweeted that Trump was in them and they were suddenly deemed a hoax and Ghislaine was moved to a spa prison, so you can understand the fresh intrigue
Happy birthday to Madonna’s ‘Erotica’. An album so good I keep a cassette copy on my dresser.
October 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Happy birthday to Madonna’s ‘Erotica’. An album so good I keep a cassette copy on my dresser.
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only....
October 20, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only....
Having a moment again with Billie Myers’ ‘Vertigo’ album from 2000. I’ve always felt this album was 4 or 5 years too late.
October 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Having a moment again with Billie Myers’ ‘Vertigo’ album from 2000. I’ve always felt this album was 4 or 5 years too late.
Reposted by mark j. marraccini
When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points
October 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points
D'Angelo's 3 studio albums are at the top of the week's best sellers list on Discogs
October 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
D'Angelo's 3 studio albums are at the top of the week's best sellers list on Discogs
This convo on Love Is Blind was a horror film
October 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
This convo on Love Is Blind was a horror film
Oh man. Yesterday while watching the trailer for Hulu’s “All’s Fair” I thought “I really hope they cast Diane Keaton as a client”. Such an icon. What a loss for her family and pop culture.
October 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Oh man. Yesterday while watching the trailer for Hulu’s “All’s Fair” I thought “I really hope they cast Diane Keaton as a client”. Such an icon. What a loss for her family and pop culture.
Today marks 9 months since the Eaton Fire and now I have to make an inventory of my big CD collection that burned.
Impossible to list them all but I’m a music nerd with a bunch of photos and videos of them on my phone. I’m gonna start posting them here as a kind of memorial for all of my CDs.
🧵 ⬇️
Impossible to list them all but I’m a music nerd with a bunch of photos and videos of them on my phone. I’m gonna start posting them here as a kind of memorial for all of my CDs.
🧵 ⬇️
October 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Today marks 9 months since the Eaton Fire and now I have to make an inventory of my big CD collection that burned.
Impossible to list them all but I’m a music nerd with a bunch of photos and videos of them on my phone. I’m gonna start posting them here as a kind of memorial for all of my CDs.
🧵 ⬇️
Impossible to list them all but I’m a music nerd with a bunch of photos and videos of them on my phone. I’m gonna start posting them here as a kind of memorial for all of my CDs.
🧵 ⬇️
I don’t really collect 45s but couldn’t resist these Madonna and Teena Marie singles at Arroyo Records in Highland Park today. I absolutely obsessed over both of these songs (and their albums) back in the day. Only 8 bucks!
October 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I don’t really collect 45s but couldn’t resist these Madonna and Teena Marie singles at Arroyo Records in Highland Park today. I absolutely obsessed over both of these songs (and their albums) back in the day. Only 8 bucks!