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Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music out August 19, 2025 on Repeater Books / shipley.al@gmail.com http://westernblot.bandcamp.com

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it's honestly so funny to go to a pitchfork review now and see the score blurred out like it's the review's genitals

02.02.2026 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
narrowcast: Monthly Report: January 2026 Albums

Monthly Report: January Albums - Zach Bryan, Nomad War Machine & Susan Alcorn, Peaer, Courtney Marie Andrews, Roc Marciano, Ari Lennox, The Soft Pink Truth, etc.
narrowcast.blogspot.com/2026/02/mont...

02.02.2026 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

one thing that feels good as hell is typing "apple tv" and then remembering the stupid "+" doesn't go at the end anymore. this could be you too, disney+ and paramount+ and amc+ and mgm+, think about it.

02.02.2026 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

yeah i can't get on board with that, didn't care for "perfect illusion" at all personally

02.02.2026 04:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

thus me saying it's my paranoid belief

02.02.2026 04:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

i listened to bad bunny all day today, he really did his thing on that album

02.02.2026 04:42 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it's probably for the best that the grammys are leaving cbs, i feel like bari weiss would find a way to fuck them up

02.02.2026 04:39 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

i love the sounwave/jack antonoff friendship, i hope they do another red hearse album or something that sounds like that

02.02.2026 04:18 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

pras is having a ball watching this on his jail phone

02.02.2026 03:59 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

i'll never not enjoy "war pigs," that's just one of the greatest songs of all time

02.02.2026 03:48 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

i don't like the way they shoot the In Memoriam segment now all zoomed out with the words on the stage so you can barely read the text

02.02.2026 03:43 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the annoying thing about lola young getting love at the grammys is that she already released a really good album after the one with "messy" on it and america ignored it

02.02.2026 03:37 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

'10 billion streams' sounds like a low estimate for pharrell's career. he's got 3 billion just off "happy" and "get lucky."

02.02.2026 03:29 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

they don't just say "trevor noah won't host the grammys next year," they keep saying this is his last time EVER, at midnight he's banned for life

02.02.2026 03:08 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

typo of the day: "Guns N' Rises"

02.02.2026 03:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

either this is the worst song on bruno's album or he's about to drop an absolute turd

02.02.2026 02:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

people accepting treating "abracadabra" like a smash hit worthy of record of the year/song of the year when "judas" flopped 15 years ago is an example of seeing standards get lowered in real time

02.02.2026 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

saw someone say they want Jelly Roll to put the weight back on and that's just evil, that man was 500 pounds and he made changes to his life so that he can live long enough to see his children grow up

02.02.2026 01:06 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i've thought a lot about how tom arnold was the 3rd name on the call sheet for what was at the time the most expensive movie ever made

01.02.2026 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

bsky.app/profile/alsh...

01.02.2026 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it's nice that people are excited about a new t.i. song but he literally never stopped making songs of that caliber, all through the 2010s and early 2020s when people lost interest in him.

01.02.2026 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

my least favorite new TV shows of January - The Beauty, Harlan Coben's Run Away, Coldwater

01.02.2026 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

my favorite new TV shows of January - Wonder Man, Ponies, Bookish, Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!, Best Medicine, Steal, Land of Sin, His & Hers, Agatha Christie's Seven Dials, Memory of a Killer, Silent Truth, Love Through A Prism, Planet Earth: Kingdom

01.02.2026 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

kind of poignant how The Turtles broke up after making an album called Turtle Soup

01.02.2026 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Pusha T

31.01.2026 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

we already have four movies about each member of The Beatles: The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, and The Matrix Resurrections

31.01.2026 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

popping up in the epstein files 48 hours before you're due to hit the red carpet with 5 grammy nominations is fucking insane

31.01.2026 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

movie theater marquee: MELANIA IS COMING

donald trump: that doesn't sound like her at all

31.01.2026 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

my 10-year-old: "I honestly don't know what day of the week it is. is it Thriday?"

31.01.2026 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

in this day and age, we talk a lot about "the pedophile island," so consider using the portmanteau "pedophisland" to save some time

31.01.2026 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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