Bill Murphy

#NOKINGS

New York City, NY

NYC at 48th and 7th Ave #NoKings

I’ve heard he was working on a new record with Raphael Saadiq, a team-up which by itself is as tantalizing and poignant as his entire career has been. Just mind-boggling, genre-stretching talent. www.newyorker.com/culture/post...

R&B singer D’Angelo dead at 51 The singer, who was also an acclaimed songwriter, was known for helping create the genre of neo-soul.

Just last night I came across an IG clip of him whipping off an impromptu guitar vamp cover of Funkadelic’s “Soul Mate” 🔥

Incredible talent. I can’t believe he’s gone. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Drake lawsuit against UMG over Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ dismissed by US court - Music Business Worldwide A US federal court has dismissed Drake’s defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group, ruling that Kendrick Lamar’s diss track Not Like Us constitutes protected opinion rather than actionable…

I mean, is anyone really surprised by this? It was frivolous from jump. www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/drake-lawsui...

Jane Goodall: “Do your best while you're still on this beautiful planet Earth…”

“…that I look down upon from where I am now.”

It’s her spiritual closer here that really gets me. Just poignant, poetic and powerful.

Alan J Pakula with Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford on the set of All The President's Men (1976)

I’d always meant to look for a collection of JQ’s Movieline hits but just never got around to it until I picked up Confessions of a Cineplex Heckler last year. Such a great book!

There’s most definitely an audience for a curated retrospective of your work on FFC. I’d buy it in a heartbeat.

Stellar review. I haven’t laughed like that since reading Joe Queenan back in his Movieline prime.

I’ll be there 🙌

Dude come on 🙄 bsky.app/profile/rinc...

Photojournalist Recalls Post-Katrina Gulf Coast, New Orleans Photojournalist David Rae Morris writes that what he saw on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina haunts him to this day.

"I covered the aftermath of Katrina for three years. It was the story of my life, and it fell in my lap. It was one of the most productive periods of my career," David Rae Morris writes.

Well this sucks — but I’ll bet Brent is looking for a jam with Sky Dog right about now. Fly on, brother.

Tim Cook gifts Trump customized Apple glass to celebrate the tech giant's new US investment Tim Cook presented Donald Trump with a special piece of Apple-made glass. Trump gave the tech giant something much better.

“Cook said during Apple’s recent earnings call that the company’s financial hit from tariffs last quarter was $800 million. Apple said those costs are likely to balloon to $1.1 billion in the September quarter.”

🙄

www.businessinsider.com/tim-cook-don...

Terry Reid playing live in January 1970 at the Olympia in Paris.

Ooooh Terry Reid 🙏 youtu.be/Gd-PCLLCy6Q?...

Seeing the NYT Arts & Entertainment Guide stuck in March 2020 lockdown mode is instantly one of the saddest metaphors I can imagine for where we are now.

Spot-on take. As a longtime freelance journo, it’s been oddly disturbing to witness the gradual (inevitable?) disappearance of the “informed review” — plus most of what I’ve written myself (reviews, artist profiles, interviews) is simply gone from the web now. I don’t see any of that changing.

Laying it down together live in 1972:

Chuck Mangione - flugelhorn
Gerry Niewood - sax
Tony Levin - bass
Steve Gadd - drums

Fly on Chuck…you done good.

Dropkick Murphys exit Punk in the Park festival over founder's Trump campaign donations Like most punk bands, Dropkick Murphys identify with the broader left-wing movement, and they haven't been shy about their opposition to Trump.

“The far right ain’t the new punk.” — Ken Casey www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

YouTube video by Sabbath Worship in HD (Master Noise 60fps) Black Sabbath - Live In Belgium Part II (Pop Shop 1970)

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YouTube video by Sabbath Worship in HD (Master Noise 60fps) Black Sabbath - Live in Belgium Part I (Pop Shop 1970)

I still get goosebumps watching this show. It's simply unbelievable that a band can sound this hard and powerful, in 1970 or any other era. www.youtube.com/watch?v=krFW...

The mystery of the missing binder: How a collection of raw Russian intelligence disappeared under Trump A binder containing highly classified information related to Russian election interference went missing at the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, raising alarms among intelligence officials.

Is anyone still at all concerned about this, which is buried somewhere around the 24th paragraph? www.cnn.com/interactive/...

So spineless. So pathetic.

Ozzy Osbourne in London, 1975 📸 Ian Dickson

Fucking legend, and I’ll miss him.

The Pilgrimage to Ozzy Osbourne’s Last Gig

I saw the original Black Sabbath at Ozzfest 2004 after an interview and photo shoot with Geezer Butler — a mind-blowing day I’ll never forget.

This one really puts it all in perspective. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/a...

Michael Madsen in Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs (1991)

Haven’t read Notes to John yet, but I was floored by Dunne’s documentary The Center Will Not Hold. All the protective armor she builds up as a narrator in her books just falls away. It feels like a film only Dunne could have made because I doubt she would have trusted anyone else so completely.

Joan Didion Undone Notes to John, posthumously published journal entries chronicling Didion’s therapy sessions, is a peek into the myths and fears that animated her writing life.

Like a lot of youthful bohemians I tried to read Slouching Towards Bethlehem in high school with the same cold eye that Didion trained on her subjects — but the mystery, wonder and wildness of California always seeped through. And maybe that’s what she intended. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

NYT feature headline: ‘Less Burnout, More Babies': How Conservatives Are Winning Young Women The wellness influencer universe is resonating with people who might not otherwise be drawn to politics.

So liberal 🙄

L.A. Taco has confirmed with the family of 20yr old Adrian Andrew Martinez, who was taken by ICE while working at Walmart in Pico Rivera, is a US citizen who was speaking up for his coworker that was detained. ~ @eltragon.bsky.social