Rob Duffy
@robduffy.bsky.social
Music, media, tennis, Toronto. 🇨🇦
No one ever actually called it “indie sleaze”.
No one ever actually called it “indie sleaze”.
The Strokes!
September 16, 2025 at 4:45 AM
The Strokes!
This is one of those posts that, if you get it, it just makes you smile with awe and nostalgia.
Revisited Merriweather Post Pavilion tonight and I think @chrisdeville.bsky.social's book should have a greeting card music chip that plays "openupya openupya openupya throat" when you open it.
May 8, 2025 at 5:04 AM
This is one of those posts that, if you get it, it just makes you smile with awe and nostalgia.
I am spending this entire week listening only to Sufjan Stevens. You may ask me anything.
April 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I am spending this entire week listening only to Sufjan Stevens. You may ask me anything.
This is one of the best anecdotes of the entire era they now call “indie sleaze”
March 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This is one of the best anecdotes of the entire era they now call “indie sleaze”
Hear hear!!! And can we also discuss how half-heartedly people clap nowadays? The clapping problem has gotten wayyy worse.
hardly our most pressing issue right now but if you go to a concert simply shut the fuck up while the music is being played
March 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Hear hear!!! And can we also discuss how half-heartedly people clap nowadays? The clapping problem has gotten wayyy worse.
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Hey, I wrote a big big column on one of the greatest bands of all time: The Kinks. If you know them you love them. If you don't know them allow me to share some of the best songs ever written.
uproxx.com/indie/the-ki...
uproxx.com/indie/the-ki...
The Kinks’ Best Songs, Ranked
Uproxx Culture Critic Steven Hyden highlights the best from the beloved quintessential English rock band.
uproxx.com
February 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Hey, I wrote a big big column on one of the greatest bands of all time: The Kinks. If you know them you love them. If you don't know them allow me to share some of the best songs ever written.
uproxx.com/indie/the-ki...
uproxx.com/indie/the-ki...
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It’s a beautiful thing that we have surprise Paul McCartney club shows in 2025. variety.com/2025/music/c...
Paul McCartney Electrifies New York’s 575-Capacity Bowery Ballroom With Career-Spanning Surprise Set: Concert Review
Paul McCartney and his band played an exhilarating 100-minute, career-spanning set Tuesday at a surprise show at New York's intimate Bowery Ballroom
variety.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:37 AM
It’s a beautiful thing that we have surprise Paul McCartney club shows in 2025. variety.com/2025/music/c...
Absolutely unreal! Forever my favourite player. ❤️🎾
January 24, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Absolutely unreal! Forever my favourite player. ❤️🎾
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Hey pals! My 16th original #christmasmusic album is out! Available to stream, and via Bandcamp if you're feeling generous. Sharing it is the most helpful to folks like me, so if you dig it, please consider adding it to your playlists!
#indiechristmas
#originalchristmasmusic
linktr.ee/akkc
#indiechristmas
#originalchristmasmusic
linktr.ee/akkc
December 15, 2024 at 11:19 PM
Hey pals! My 16th original #christmasmusic album is out! Available to stream, and via Bandcamp if you're feeling generous. Sharing it is the most helpful to folks like me, so if you dig it, please consider adding it to your playlists!
#indiechristmas
#originalchristmasmusic
linktr.ee/akkc
#indiechristmas
#originalchristmasmusic
linktr.ee/akkc
Great to see the Album of the Year Spreadsheet back in action! Always a favourite every year.
This is the purpose of the spreadsheet (which I will update later today, promise):
December 3, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Great to see the Album of the Year Spreadsheet back in action! Always a favourite every year.
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs perform "Maps" on Later... with Jools Holland (2003)
November 28, 2024 at 8:42 PM
Yeah Yeah Yeahs perform "Maps" on Later... with Jools Holland (2003)
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Canadians when Americans have Thanksgiving in late November:
a cartoon character says it 's been done while sitting in a car
ALT: a cartoon character says it 's been done while sitting in a car
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Canadians when Americans have Thanksgiving in late November:
Surely this book is also a great gift idea for those of us who witnessed it, and never called it “indie sleaze”. I think I’ll add this to my Xmas list! 🎄🎸
Great gift idea for your young friends who are obsessed with indie sleaze but missed it the first time around: Tod Seelie’s ( @todseelie.bsky.social) BRIGHT NIGHTS, on sale at Strand and online 😇 todseeliephotography.bigcartel.com/product/brig...
November 25, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Surely this book is also a great gift idea for those of us who witnessed it, and never called it “indie sleaze”. I think I’ll add this to my Xmas list! 🎄🎸
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As we (anxiously) await his 2024 Christmas album, longtime fave @knpknpknpknp.bsky.social gives us an early surprise with his take on the Kenny & Dolly '84 classic, ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS, with several musician pals!
Now at @bandcampofficial.bsky.social!
Now at @bandcampofficial.bsky.social!
Once Upon a Christmas, by Kristian Noel Pedersen
10 track album
buff.ly
November 24, 2024 at 11:00 PM
As we (anxiously) await his 2024 Christmas album, longtime fave @knpknpknpknp.bsky.social gives us an early surprise with his take on the Kenny & Dolly '84 classic, ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS, with several musician pals!
Now at @bandcampofficial.bsky.social!
Now at @bandcampofficial.bsky.social!
I am proud to say I like everything about this.
Asking my husband what he thought of The Walkmen’s set, keep in mind he’s never heard of them: “I loved it, punk rock Coldplay’s my new favorite band”
November 24, 2024 at 6:02 AM
I am proud to say I like everything about this.
Sunday thoughts: I will invest in any AI company that can fix autocorrect so it uses apostrophe’s properly.
November 17, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Sunday thoughts: I will invest in any AI company that can fix autocorrect so it uses apostrophe’s properly.
Alright, I’m finally ready for my first post.
Here goes. Ahem….
I have a vitamin deficiency and the only cure is a new Father John Misty album.
Here goes. Ahem….
I have a vitamin deficiency and the only cure is a new Father John Misty album.
November 15, 2024 at 9:33 PM
Alright, I’m finally ready for my first post.
Here goes. Ahem….
I have a vitamin deficiency and the only cure is a new Father John Misty album.
Here goes. Ahem….
I have a vitamin deficiency and the only cure is a new Father John Misty album.