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Marie (same one) @marieberd.bsky.social · 1d

Kaleb’s Los Angeles memorial will be held this Thursday afternoon. If you cared about him and would like to send flowers or well wishes, DM me for delivery instructions etc

Marie (same one) @marieberd.bsky.social · 11d

my husband @kalebhorton.bsky.social hated the phrase “passed away” and had nothing but scorn for softening euphemisms in general. he was a firm believer in the comedy rule of threes, but only if the third thing can hit as a surprise. and he just died

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Andy Zax @andyzax.bsky.social · 1d

The version of Shaker Loops on this album is the only piece by Adams that’s ever done anything for me.

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Andy Zax @andyzax.bsky.social · 1d

I can count the good things that have come from social media in the last dozen years on maybe three fingers, and Justin and @dicknixon.bsky.social are two of them.

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

Justin is one of our great living writers. I don't say that lightly. I am not nice enough to pay a false compliment, even to a good friend. His work as @dicknixon.bsky.social has been transformative to me, and takes such dedication and talent I can hardly fathom it.

Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 1d

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Andy Zax @andyzax.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed.

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Andy Zax @andyzax.bsky.social · 5d

Have you tried buying any records from the UK recently?

Andy Zax @andyzax.bsky.social · 5d

The Black Magic Woman album from a year earlier is really good, too.

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Andy Zax @andyzax.bsky.social · 5d

This fall: action wears a Homburg!

Programme 4 @programme4.tv · 5d

Coming up on Programme 4: Gary Brooker (Procol Harum) is BROOKER

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Andy Zax @andyzax.bsky.social · 5d

Probably just coincidental, though it’s certainly possible that Lowther heard Unhalfbricking at some point.

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Andy Zax @andyzax.bsky.social · 5d

A dreamy electric Brit-jazz LP from 1970 that’s in desperate need of a reissue. Henry Lowther was (and still is) a virtuoso trumpeter/violinist, who played Woodstock as a member of the luckless Keef Hartley Band. Next time I DJ out, I’m playing “Trav’lling Song” into Fairport’s “A Sailor’s Life.”

Henry Lowther Band, Child Song (Deram, 1970)

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Andy Zax @andyzax.bsky.social · 6d

I still use the built-like-a-tank external CD drive I bought in 2006 or so, when having such a thing was a luxury and not a necessity. It’s the size of a copy of Gravity’s Rainbow, made mostly of metal, and weighs five pounds. I ripped a 20 CD boxed set with it just yesterday.

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Andy Zax @andyzax.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve done it too. My verbatim response to Kaleb’s text was: “It operates at about the level of me in 9th grade writing a book report about something I hadn’t read based entirely upon the back cover copy. (Which is to say: useless.)”

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Andy Zax @andyzax.bsky.social · 9d

While going through text messages from Kaleb—insert an image of Charlie Brown saying “sigh” here—I found this, from about a year ago. The point he was making applies to all of us.

I occasionally check in with Al, not just because there's filthy gig money in Al training but also to see where the tech is at, and ask it to write an essay about California by me and the results are always so bad, so unfixable, so obviously counterfeit, that it gives me motivation to write again. It just reminds me l'm the only entity that does what I do. Never mind getting more validation than that, it tells me l'm not a statistic.

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social · 9d

A farewell to my friend, Kaleb Horton, a great writer who died unexpectedly this past weekend.

Kaleb Horton RIP

A farewell to my friend Kaleb Horton, a great writer who died unexpectedly this past weekend.

sterlewine.substack.com

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Andy Zax @andyzax.bsky.social · 9d

While going through text messages from Kaleb—insert an image of Charlie Brown saying “sigh” here—I found this, from about a year ago. The point he was making applies to all of us.

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Andy Zax @andyzax.bsky.social · 10d

I wouldn’t have understood this as a teenager, but recent losses have convinced me that, metaphorically speaking, you’re a lot better off trying to have Bob Seger’s career than Ian Curtis’s.

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Andy Zax @andyzax.bsky.social · 10d

In reality, it was probably more like he’d never _knowingly_ heard a Chili Peppers song—he would have been maybe three years old when “Under The Bridge” was a radio hit—but close enough.

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Andy Zax @andyzax.bsky.social · 11d

A few months ago, I found a t-shirt I bought at a Dylan/Petty concert I took my grandmother to in 1986. I felt certain that the only person capable of appreciating its talismanic qualities was Kaleb, so I gave it to him and he was delighted (or he pretended to be). Anyway: I miss him.

None-more-80s Dylan/Petty t-shirt, 1986 (front)

None-more-80s Dylan/Petty t-shirt, 1986 (back)

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Andy Zax @andyzax.bsky.social · 11d

The photo was taken in SV about five weeks _after_ A&Co.

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Andy Zax @andyzax.bsky.social · 11d

“I’ve seen so much more F Troop than a normal person should see.”

—Kaleb Horton

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Andy Zax @andyzax.bsky.social · 12d

I never saw the Cramps live, but in 2001 the American Cinematheque in Hollywood screened a new print of Robot Monster—and Lux & Ivy sat next to me. A life highlight.

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Andy Zax @andyzax.bsky.social · 17d

An eloquent requiem for a psychedelic warlord who has disappeared in smoke.

editaurus @davesegal.bsky.social · 18d

Shiver-inducing tribute to the late John Whitson, who ran the legendary Holy Mountain label, by Al Cisneros, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Ben Chasny, and Matthew Tobias.

theholymountainorchestra.bandcamp.com/track/song-f...

Song for JW, by The Holy Mountain Orchestra

track by The Holy Mountain Orchestra

theholymountainorchestra.bandcamp.com

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Andy Zax @andyzax.bsky.social · 18d

I've always assumed that it was Saville's homage to Hipgnosis's sleeve for Elegy by The Nice.

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Andy Zax @andyzax.bsky.social · 19d

Looking from a Hilltop (Megamix)

YouTube video by Section 25 - Topic

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Andy Zax @andyzax.bsky.social · 19d

This arrived just in time for #CDfriday. If you’ve never experienced “Looking From A Hilltop (Megamix)”—the best thing Factory ever released that wasn’t by Joy Division or New Order—I would implore you to drop whatever you’re doing for the next eight minutes and listen to it.

Section 25, From The Hip (Redux Edition) [Factory Benelux, 1984/2025]

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Andy Zax @andyzax.bsky.social · 19d

It might only be the seventh or eighth greatest at this point.
#nowplaying

Earth Opera, The Great American Eagle Tragedy (Elektra, 1969)

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