Michaelangelo Matos

He did it in St. Paul and did it in Rhode Island too (scroll down), per this report. www.robertchristgau.com/xg/rock/wood...

This is my official position on all events until further notice.

Michaelangelo Matos's 2005 Mixtape ('Seattle Weekly,' December 2005) - YouTube

Mix: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

WA027 - Michaelangelo Matos’s 2005 Mix CD (‘Seattle Weekly,’ December 2025) Looking and listening back, with a little wincing

Twenty-one years ago, I made a mix CD to commemorate 2005's music for Seattle Weekly, where I was music editor. I put what I wrote back up for paying subscribers. michaelangelo.substack.com/p/wa027-mich...

oh no <runs and hides>

I saw it in the theater and cannot wait to see it again.

NOOOOOOOO!

Quote from Washington Times editorial board "[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

Clout-Chasing DJs Are Faking Co-Signs by Dubbing Over Crowd Videos. Will Labels Bite? Clout-chasing EDM DJs are dubbing their tracks over festival crowd videos to fake major DJ support. deadmau5 and the Chainsmokers weigh in.

The rise of the DJ clout deepfake, because dance music isn't in enough trouble. My newest is up at Rolling Stone.
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Attn @futureofmusic.bsky.social

‘The Godfather Of Punk:' Jonathan Richman, A Roadrunner For Over Half A Century Keeps On - Pollstar News One could say Jonathan Richman marches to the beat of his own drummer, and for the past 30-some odd years keeping that beat is his constant partner Tommy

POLLSTAR: To what do you attribute your longevity? In many ways, you seem like an eternal adolescent.
JONATHAN RICHMAN: Me, young? If so, perhaps gratitude for life itself comes into play.
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Gallego: "Young American men and women are dying because of these idiots"

Attn @djmag.com, @residentadvisor.bsky.social, @mixmag.net

This is far and away the bleakest chapter in US press history in many decades. Ellison, Bezos, Weiss, Sulzberger to varying degrees have destroyed corporate media as a check on power, and become an arm of the state.

No amount of scorn is sufficient.

Come for the horrible trend, stay for the depressing forecast of things to come!

Clout-Chasing DJs Are Faking Co-Signs by Dubbing Over Crowd Videos. Will Labels Bite? Clout-chasing EDM DJs are dubbing their tracks over festival crowd videos to fake major DJ support. deadmau5 and the Chainsmokers weigh in.

The rise of the DJ clout deepfake, because dance music isn't in enough trouble. My newest is up at Rolling Stone.
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Have airstrikes by a hostile foreign country ever produced this outcome? The reactionary centrist blob keeps pretending this is part of a duly considered long-term strategy from Trump but that is not how he operates and even if it was, this is a dumb strategy.

Photo of the band the Suburbs around a motorcycle.

“Twin Cities' groups such as The Suburbs are receiving national attention”

rage bands like the Trashmen and Castaways, guitar wiz Leo Kottke. pop singer Michael Johnson dance-oriented and Lipps, Inc. Prince. and Yet, Carson feels Minneapolis is in a strong position to make its presence felt in new-wave music. He cites the strong connection be tween the new-wave scene and the arts and academic communities in the Twin Cities. "There's a nice guerrilla mentality about what they're doing." he said. "And everyone involved is, Tairly serious. People are not doing it to be trendy or chic." What will it take to land Minne- apolis on the musical map? A manufactured image would only seem contrived and artificial. Let the grooves speak for them-selves. The abundant talent simply has to be captured on vinyl; then the performers and record companies have to ambitiously and aggressively promote their wares. (Reliance on local distribution giants Pickwick International and Lieberman Enterprises is not enough.) And New York, the media capital of the world, is a good place to start. It's where Austin's Joe "King" Carrasco and Georgia's Brains and B-52s established themselves before winning the rest of the new-wave world. "Out-of-town bands have an allure for writers here." Schwartz said. "They provide freshness, certain kind of naivete and a lack of pretension." POP MUSINGS: Ex-Minneapoli-tan Steve Almaas of the Crackers is interested in getting Curtiss A to record in a Winston-Salem, N.C., studio where the Crackers have worked.

“What will it take to land Minneapolis on the musical map?”

NEW YORK-"The Suburbs," "NNB." "The Wallets," announce the ads of several rock music clubs. The ads for these popular Minneapolis new-wave bands aren't in Sweet Potato or the Twin Cities Reader. Instead, they're in the Village Voice, New York's fussy arbiter of culture and politics. weekly Aquarian, and the Which features Prince, Minneapolis star-in-the- making, on the cover of its current East Coast entertainment guide. Moreover, urbs, records by Prince and Lipps, the Sub-Inc. were mentioned recently in the nationwide poll of 201 rock critics conducted by the Voice. And the Wallets and Curtiss A were cited by the critics as local bands to keep an eye on. Does this attention that Twin Cities' musical acts are receiving in the trend-setting Big Apple mean Minneapolis has finally found a spot on America's musical map? Yes and no. Because the economy. has forced major record companies to sign fewer new bands and because fewer groups can afford to tour exten-sively, local music scenes have become more important than ever be-fore. "It's gonna happen every- where-Minneapolis just got there early." said Voice music Robert Christgau, editor who calls him- self dean of America's rock critics. "Minneapolis is one of five non-Eastern coastal cities and non-West Coast cities l expect good music from." The Twin Cities did not build its reputation with Eastern critics be- cause of national hits by Lipps, Inc. and Prince, whom Christgau called a "genius who has nothing Minnesota about him." In fact, many critics aren't even aware those acts are based in Minnesota. Rather, came Minneapolis' credibility courtesy of the aggressive and chancy promotions by Walker Art Center's Tim Carr and the reliable recordings of Twin Tone Records. "It all kicked off with M '80 (the international musical festival organized in fall Carr and the 1979 by University of Minne- sota)." said Seth "Andy" Schwartz, editor of the bible, New York Rocker, and a former University of Minnesota Daily critic. "Th…

“Twin Tone seems to be more of a hobby for its principals rather than a full-fledged record company with aggressive marketing and promotion.”

VARIETY Jon Bream The Minneapolis Star Wednesday, March 4, 1981 5B Big Apple polishes Cities' music image

From Jon Bream in the Minneapolis Star on March 4, 1981. “Big Apple polishes Cities' music image”

Have you ever really really led a nation?

US military says three of its troops killed in first Iran operation casualties Three U.S. service members have been killed and another five have been seriously wounded, in the first casualties of the unfolding U.S. operations against Iran, the U.S. military said on Sunday.

Reports indicate at least 100 children have already been killed in strikes on schools. That is unconscionable.

Three U.S. service members are dead as a result of this entirely preventable war of choice.

The blood of these service members, these children, and every civilian rests in Trump’s hands.

I strongly suspect we're going to see A LOT of major productions by acclaimed filmmakers disappear into the IP ether sooner rather than later.

The ice building in the background. In the foreground is a crowd and various protest signs,like your signing bonus can’t repay moral debt

They don’t have a long term plan for Minneapolis much less Iran

I do not like this gen AI
I do not like what it implies
I do not want it in my art
I do not think it makes you smart
I do not want it in my games
I do not like its goals and aims
I do not want it in my books
I do not like the way it looks
I do not like it, I don't care
I do not want it anywhere

Statement on unlawful assembly, arrests at Whipple Building: This morning, our deputies issued dispersal orders at an unlawful assembly outside the Whipple Building after individuals blocked roadways, blocked access to local businesses, dumped glass into the street, and threw rocks, ice chunks and water bottles at law enforcement creating a serious public safety hazard. Arrests are being made. Freedom of speech and peaceful assembly is a right. Endangering the public is not. Unlawful activity including blocking roads, intentionally creating hazards and assaultive behavior will not be tolerated.

From what I saw today firsthand it was the sheriffs today constantly escalating at people protesting peacefully. The sheriffs were masked up like ICE while working hard to agitate and provoke the residents they were sworn to protect, all so they could provide security for ICE who murders people.

Sometimes it's just a percussion-led chant. Sometimes it's wild big-band swing. And that's to say nothing of the near two hours of covers by others that open it.