Or a glimpse into post-entertainment society (it's not pretty)

They did it for 40 years—so why did they stop?

A few minutes after yesterday’s post I learned the sad news about Christine McVie. So the request I had just made for well…requests... became a bit moot. It appears a lot of us had the same thought. I promise I’ll pick something else from the request pile in the future. But for now, since I couldn’t decide on which song to pay tribute to Christine with, I’m including a few.

+ Photos of the Hot Sun Cool Shroud DIY cover art station

At the airport pasting a picture

Where I was, where I am and The Third Man

My longest running bandmate, Jon Rauhouse, has been told he is no longer terminal with cancer. Jon hates to admit it, but he has a very positive core. In fact, he is one of the best humans I have ever known. He and Jen are my chosen family. Even hopped up on steroids he is magnificent.

I was just thinking about how I hadn’t seen a monarch butterfly even though the milkweed is in full flower and the delicate, lean-stemmed Queen Anne’s Lace has turned all the grass into one huge carpet of bouquet. Just as this thought materialized in my mind a monarch floated up in front of the porch. What a relief! At least one thing is right with the world!

There is a kindness that dwells deep down in things; it presides everywhere, often in the places we least expect. - John O’Donohue I went to the woods with my two dogs yesterday. I had been feeling the weight of troubled times. I don’t think I’m alone in sensing the dark shadows of unkindness framing the world like an old style vignetted photo. I go …

Like Molly Brown

Hello, from the other side

I read a few of them!

And I recorded it. Here's "Sailor's Song."

Part Ten: East into the west

Why I can't let go of "Into The Wild", and why perhaps you can't, either.

After thoroughly decimating the combover and stupid electric car quotient at GM HQ in Detroit, it was time (after a fine prime rib dinner the night before) to jet over to set things right, after ten years of idiocy, at Holden.

1997-03-31, Memorial Stadium, St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada

1985-07-25, First International Poetry Festival, Moscow, USSR

a.k.a. Having spent 2023 doubling down on the ridiculousness of 2022, the genre currently sits in a rather uninspiring place.

a.k.a. Examining the pandemic's impact on dance music, plus a round-up of the latest electronic music news and a fresh crop of new track recommendations.

Two and a half years after the release of Glow On, Brendan Yates reflects on an intense period of change, adaptation, and growth—all while protecting his sensitivity against the harsh glare.

The best new hardcore and community-made music, updated monthly for Anti-Matter.

It’s official. We are in the studio

Featuring an early demo and a recording of me coming up with the bass part with my mouth…

Behind Every Successful Woman are Two Men... Enough Said.

Maybe not my specialty, but I'm pretty good up to 12

let them make their mistakes

Repairing misremembered objects

I am posting this because people have asked me to. Emily Rose Marcus was born on December 10, 1969, in Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley. It was a forceps delivery, and she came out with bruises on her face, yet she lived her life as a woman who prized beauty—in fashion, her own sense of style, furniture, art. Following her beloved uncle Dr. William E. Bernstein, she chose a death with dignity, and died on January 31, 2023, in her apartment in Oakland, where she had lived since 2007, after more than two years fighting against a terminal diagnosis of appendiceal cancer she had received in September 2020. Our hearts are broken.

September 2000

26 February, 2021.

Good morning,

An essay about the darkest days of my creative life.

Gwen Stefani did a lot of things during her LAMB era that I'm sure you'd LIKE to forget about...sadly I won't let you!!!

Listen to Roger Nichols's long-awaited "Second Arrangement" cassette

Drummer Chris Parker talks about his pressure-packed "Time Out of Mind" session, missing the cut on 'Gaucho,' and redemption on 'Kamakiriad'

Good morning.

Good morning.

Thoughts on forgetting, plus new albums by Not Not Fun, Kevin Richard Martin, and K. Freund

New music from Antonina Nowacka, Elori Saxl, Alien D, and more

It might be him. It could be me. Maybe it's you, too.

Hitting the road, but leaving you with the goods

On Weathervanes, death, love and listening like a mother

Yes, we heard the anthem. But hear us out.

S/O to DeWhatitdo for the ask. A quick conversation on how to find your own sound. Enjoy.

Sidechain weekly nerdery

so far it doesn't hurt

Grand openings, overrated closure and love’s long tail

I’ve accepted a job teaching songwriting at The New School (and I’m terrified)