matty karas

gimme three hours of andre on flute, meg on drums, spinderella on the decks and cyndi on the mic, and i'll be good. jack will be in an all-analog booth on the side of the stage recording their set direct to lacquer discs

Dropkick Murphys

Warped Tour Long Beach

One reason I regard the Reader + other regional pubs/crits as guiding lights is, as musickers, they hear what's going on locally before anyone else, which young/unestablished artist to consider, and the listing is the natural first piece of coverage, an introduction and an invitation. #LoveThisJob

Absolutely true about @dadastrain.bsky.social, and in fact I make a point of linking and x-reffing Piotr, Jim Macnie, and a couple of others every single week. It’s the same idea as having six or more listings writers and editors at Time Out… no one can know or do it all alone.

a) yes!!!

b) but the attempt to blame the decline of listings on poptimism is weird and waaaay off

c) there are others, in addition to the amazing @nightafternight.bsky.social, doing the crucial work of keeping listings culture alive in nyc. see, for example, the amazing @dadastrain.bsky.social

charlie ❤️❤️❤️

i admit i'm kind of intrigued watching them. but i don't trust myself nearly enough to go thru with it. did your phone(s) survive?

what's with all these characters on "the bear" who use iphones without cases? is that a thing people do?

YouTube video by Pablo Bobadilla BLACK SABBATH - Never Say Die (1978) Top Of The Pops UK TV

fill the world with ozzy and never ever ever say die 🖤🖤🖤

dear @redsox.com: just sayin'...

do not trade that man. use a four-man outfield if you have to!

YouTube video by The Ed Sullivan Show Bo Diddley "Bo Diddley" on The Ed Sullivan Show

Dearest Darlings,

I used to be over there. Now I am here.

there are *six* people on the court whose entire job is making sure neither of these men will have to walk a few feet or bend over to pick up a tennis ball. but they can't find anyone to carry their bags?

still fascinated by this weird quirk of professional tennis as i watch alcaraz and sinner try to navigate corridors and doorways with heavy, oversized bags hanging from both of their shoulders on their way to centre court

(the only bagel that comes close to poppy seed is onion, do not fight me on this, you will lose)

I ranked the NYC mayoral candidates exclusively based on their bagel orders To toast or not to toast? A bagel order can say a lot about a person in New York, and the city’s mayoral candidates aren’t all on the same page.

i am extremely late on this but i have just learned that mamdani is a POPPY SEED GUY. i am henceforth doubling my donations to him. we need this, new york!!!

(but the fuck does he mean he has his orange juice "on the side"? does he think other people pour their OJ on their bagel???)

pouring one out tonite for one for one of the kindest hearts to ever bless the new jersey music scene -- and one of its most adventurous souls and ferocious voices. you were a force for good in the world, tim cronin 💔💔💔

a) jesus fucking christ
b) LOL
c) my old newspaper is very much a shell of itself (hi gannett; fuck you) but publishing this twaddle is an insane new low
d) ick

it's full of holes. the author never talks to the mayor whose belief that "the truth lies in the middle" frames both the story and the headline. he never talks to the management company that let those buildings become hellholes. he uses the right wing denver gazette as a source. etc

and yet, interestingly, you did not write a story about the limitations of identity boxes and how people with overlapping identities wrestle with them. maybe you should write a long editor's note about *that*

(my bibles. the older edition on the left is crucial for looking up artists whose careers are awkwardly spread across two volumes in the newer edition)

share a photo of one or more of your music reference books

don't back down on our love - a quintessential outtake from the years when seemingly every bruce lyric had to have at least one mountain, one river and one valley. bonus points for the cottonwood tree

^^ but then the also kinda bacharachy if i could only be your lover comes up shuffle and that is a *good* vocal performance of a song with a grammatically awkward title (if he could only have had a little help from hal david)

^^ i do however wonder if the boss's own voice is the best voice for all this bacharachy material

dinner at eight - damn, why does that bridge melody sound so familiar? damn it. i know it. i know i know it. but what is it? what is it? what???

reader/listener, it is the bridge of billy joel's a matter of trust

my worlds collide, not for the first time. i am not complaining

"we are waiting any moment now to get the diddy verdicts. the expectations call for him to be innocent and free to continue consuming all the baby oil he wants..."

senator jonathan zizmor!