As Bar Harbor and nearby towns try to adjust to ever-increasing tourist traffic, the number of monthly visits to Acadia National Park has topped 800,000 for the first time ever.
Ozzy Osbourne, the people’s Prince of Darkness, took heavy metal into the light
"People might think of their music as quite difficult or atonal, but I just think it’s really, really beautiful. Very melodic, full of tunes and incredible rhythms."
Jack Barnett of #TheseNewPuritans on Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Doc At The Radar Station
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Less a #MusicChallenge than a 'music thing', but please join me in helping turn Bluesky nicely GBV-y during July with #JulydedByVoices!
Feel free to pick from their countless million-selling chart-toppers, or perhaps dig out something a bit deep cuttier with a weird title - there must be a few...
In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world.
Counterpoint: now listening to an anarchic and human (always live) new-to-me version of “Wilderness of False Flowers” www.lesrallizesdenudes-official.com/en/informati...
I’m worried about @ibogost.bsky.social and also he’s not wrong. see also @lizpelly.bsky.social’s _Mood Machine_
Kids today! But the kids are all 37
An arguably important read for anyone even adjacent to higher ed academics at the moment. @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
while carry the zero is their *best* song, my favorite is car
In the 1980s scratch-and-sniff stickers were a technology of equal interest, and with a seemingly equally unbounded future, as computers.
Probably something off Earth 2 or The Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull
The owners of the Congress Street building say the theater has several years left on its lease and they'd like to see it operating there well into the future.
How different is what accomplished historian Steven Johnson is described as doing in this piece from what this Twitter troll (below) describes? What are the affordances we give different people when they utilize this technology? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...
How I find and listen to music in 2025:
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“So it was like, okay, how can we figure out a way to capitalize on these user habits while also making the major labels happy? Which is not the same thing as figuring out [how to] use technology to make it easier for people to support artists,… the people whose work they are listening to.”
On Dada Drummer Almanach, a conversation with Liz Pelly @lizpelly.bsky.social dadadrummer.substack.com/p/music-is-t...
Join us Sunday at Space in Portland ME
it's not that subcultures don't exist, it's that their definitions have changed. the kids want hip-hop, noise, and breakcore all on a single bill and the DJ is going to play nu-metal in between sets and it will be socially cohesive if you can get off your high horse.
When I talk about the appeal of gravel riding in my area, this is something I always mention. There are so many incredible places in my area that you will never see from a car. I think people feel differently about our open spaces when they see how interconnected they are via bike.
The very best thing about having one of those big CD binders back in the day is that you could just give it to someone to look through like “here is my whole personality for you to browse”
Happy release day to 'Dan's Boogie' by Destroyer! 🎉
Stream wherever you get your music, or pick up a physical copy in the Merge store today!
Find it all (including a CD/LP superbundle that includes a unique signed print) at the link in our bio ✨
Now playing: Spiderland. 34 years old today. 🕷
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"This is my favorite Velvet Underground record. I can listen and see myself lying on my bed when I’m a teenager and experiencing heartbreaks for the first time."
Tyler Hyde of Black Country, New Road on #TheVelvetUnderground - The Velvet Underground
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I don’t know how today went. I’m not even supposed to comment on it. I was busy. Today I produced a Tiny Desk, talked to students interested in the music industry, edited a script and attended a taping. I do the work. I want to do the work.
Breathe, right?
I love @cathyndavidson.bsky.social so much and I have for the whole time I’ve been in higher education. Even in this expanding difficult moment, she reminds us of all the ways that it’s about students; always, first, and forever. #UPCEA
Save the Date!
The Maine Woods Rambler is returning to Appalachian Mountain Club's Medawisla Lodge in the heart of Maine’s 100-Mile Wilderness the weekend of September 26-28, 2025!
www.bikemaine.org/the-maine-wo...
