More like 14,000 Inch Nails, amirite?

The first song on their third album is actually one of their best! But it is kinda eerie how closely they followed the Oasis "first two albums = great / third album = uh oh / everything after = who cares" template.

Man Scouts [insert Obi-Wan "noa that is a name I haven't heard in a long time" meme here]

Rush were a band before Neil Peart and it appears like they will be a band once again after. mailchi.mp/livenation/p...

Cool to see that Malkmus brought out the Ace Frehley smoke guitar for this show

At a wedding and “Shake It Off” just half-cleared the dancefloor, people hate Life of a Showgirl just that much

At the other place: open.spotify.com/playlist/6PB...

There’s a fun berserker cover of “Come Together” on the new Snõõper album and it’s been added to my playlist of punky Fab Four makeovers: music.apple.com/ca/playlist/...

This week in the stübermania newsletter: a very 1999 conversation with Gabby Glaser of Luscious Jackson about Rudy Giuliani, The Phantom Menace, smoking in clubs, Gap commericals, and being the only band to play Lollapalooza and Lilith Fair: stubermania.substack.com/p/a-conversa...

This week in the stübermania newsletter: a very 1999 conversation with Gabby Glaser of Luscious Jackson about Rudy Giuliani, The Phantom Menace, smoking in clubs, Gap commericals, and being the only band to play Lollapalooza and Lilith Fair: stubermania.substack.com/p/a-conversa...

You love to see it!

Congratulations!

Gus Englehorn put out one of my favourite albums of 2025 (The Hornbook on Secret City), so I’m grateful he made the trip from Hawaii to Hamilton to spread his acidic garage-pop gospel last night at Ooey Gooey’s. Look out for his next album—produced by Butthole Surfers’ Paul Leary!—in early 2026.

STEP! RIGHT! UP!

Big week for concert announcements in #hamont!
open.substack.com/pub/hamontli...

Even Wordle is riding the Getting Killed hype train

Hopefully they could accommodate PRML SCRM doing a full run-through of XTRMNTR

Nature is healing

Metric could headline a music festival where all the other artists comprise a Wordle-like list of attempts to spell Metric.

HBO’s Task caption team operating on a strict “first lyric is the song title” policy

Turn and strange the face

Happy New Neko Case Album Day to those who celebrate! This week's stübermania newsletter features our 2013 chat about getting your first tattoo in your 40s, joining Twitter (when it was fun), payphone nostalgia, and the mundanity of mourning: stubermania.substack.com/p/a-conversa...

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

It’s something so real