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The Return of Moses Guest - Houston Press Moses Guest, still together years later, will be performing at Heights Theater this coming weekend.

This is welcome news. Now where's the Banana Blender Surprise reunion we also require?

What’s the Matter With Texas A&M? Five presidents in five years. Firings of “woke” professors. Crackdowns on Plato. Inside state leaders’ efforts to remake a great university.

Exceptional words over at @texasmonthly.bsky.social today. Worth a read, maybe especially for those of us who are not Aggies.

Spotify and the three main major record labels sue Anna's Archive for $13trillion for "brazen theft of millions of files containing nearly all of the world’s commercial sound recordings" Spotify and three major record labels have sued Anna's Archive for $13trillion, alleging that the platform scraped 86million music files.

LOL

YouTube video by Joyful Noise Recordings Daniel Johnston - True Love Will Find You In The End (Official Music Video)

Daniel Johnston would've been sixty-five today.

Man, that Bee Gees cover is so bad. But I’ll give them a pass because their “everybody’s got something to hide except me and my monkey“ was so good.

YouTube video by David Stollak 217. Has Success Spoiled The Grateful Dead

Fare thee well, Bobby.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l3G...

Dude. Extra dry cider. Why do we even have this when we could liquefy cardboard and drink that instead?

A screenshot of a music streaming interface for the self-titled album "Purple Mountains" by Purple Mountains. On the left is the album cover, featuring a 3x3 grid of lo-fi photos including dogs, a sunset, a fireplace, and a cemetery. To the right, the album title and artist name are displayed in bold text, followed by genre, release year (2019), and a brief editorial description mentioning David Berman.

Sounds like 2026 to me.

Could they make Dick Clark’s name smaller on this mic flag?

Texas music icon Joe Ely, who had a deep impact on Austin scene, dead at 78 Texas country music legend Joe Ely has passed away at 78. The singer announced his Parkinson's disease and Lewy Body Dementia diagnosis in September.

Farewell, Joe Ely. What a legacy. www.statesman.com/entertainmen...

Gary 'Mani' Mounfield of Stone Roses dead at 63 - latest tributes The musician rose to fame with the Stone Roses in the 1980s

Darn. Those bass lines were the thing that made this band special. RIP.

Map of the City by Royal Trux on Apple Music Song · 1995 · Duration 3:58

You can listen to Royal Trux on Apple Music, but not JFA. What gives? music.apple.com/us/song/map-... Music licensing is weird.

Surprise! The first Bob Dylan soundboards in 16 years. The Outlaw Tour has never sounded better.

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Houston Astros player Zach Cole is shown at bat wearing a navy helmet and gray jersey. The broadcast graphic notes he is the 5th player in MLB history to record 3 hits, 1 home run, and 4 RBIs in his debut. The scoreboard shows the Astros leading the Braves 11–1 in the 7th inning.

Are you kidding me?

Red, white, and FIRE

Overscrolling is the dumbest default Photoshop setting. Who wants this?

A semi-truck trailer displays the slogan “Nuclear You Can Trust™” in large, colorful text. To the left, the trailer bears the old Enron logo—infamously associated with corporate fraud. The juxtaposition creates a stark, ironic message, likely intended as satire.

Just around the corner from my house. What fresh hell is this?

Beautiful clip of Brian Wilson and George Martin discussing ‘God Only Knows’. I love Brian’s enthusiasm when he thinks George is making the song better. ‘I can’t believe this is happening!’ (via @doule_tom on the bird site)

YouTube video by John Philbin Grateful Dead - "Estimated Prophet/Eyes Of The World" (Frost Amphitheatre, 5/10/86)

Don't ever let 'em tell you the 80s sucked. Lazy Saturday afternoon vibes from a hometown show, close to forty years ago.

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The image is the album cover for Live at the Greek by Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes. It features a black and white design with two black crows facing opposite directions, a star above them, and the word “Zoso” below. The ornate border surrounds the text and artwork, creating a vintage aesthetic.

Revisiting this one on the release of its expanded edition. It's still shocking how out of his league Chris Robinson sounds while interpreting the Zeppelin catalogue. The band sounds great, as usual, but CR doesn't have the range or timbre to do these songs justice. A huge waste of time.

RIP David Johansen. This is rock n roll.

Watch Livestream of In Memory of Dickey Betts on 02-28-2025 In Memory of Dickey Betts streaming on 02-28-2025 at Macon City Auditorium, Macon GA. Listen to live concerts at nugs.net or download our mobile music app nugs.net

From ABB: If you can't make tonight's concert in memory of Dickey Betts in Macon, you can watch a free livestream on nugs.net!

I never thought I’d see a writer contrast Phish ticket sales with One Direction’s as a reason for why they aren’t successful or deserving of a HOF nod. But here we are.

Tepper: School vouchers could do real harm to TXHSFB How Texas’ proposed school voucher program could affect the Friday night lights that bring our communities together.

In rural Texas, public schools are more than places of learning—they’re community hubs. They host football games, scout meetings, fitness classes, public forums. They unite small towns far beyond the classroom. Vouchers threaten this role, weakening the institutions that keep communities connected.

Jack White Has A Message For Ticket Buyers Who Feel Entitled To Extra Long Sets Last year, after releasing his latest album No Name, Jack White told fans that he’d be announcing shows only days in advance. Then he went ahead and announced a proper tour with plenty of advance noti...

Jack White has a message for ticket buyers who feel entitled to extra long sets

The image is a black-and-white photograph showing John Lennon lying on the floor in a recording studio with a microphone positioned near his mouth. He appears relaxed, with one arm resting on his chest. Around him, there are cables, teacups, and recording equipment. The caption humorously suggests that Lennon was “so stoned” that he recorded Abbey Road while lying down. The image has a vintage feel, likely taken during The Beatles’ Abbey Road sessions.

Peter Brown probably doesn't get enough credit for brushing aside his close relationship with the Beatles to write a crude memoir that focused on sex, tension and conflict instead of carefully exploring every note of Strawberry Fields Take 26.

YouTube video by Bob Dylan - Topic Forever Young (Demo Version)

Feels like dark times are coming. Keep your loved ones close. And if the lights do go out, just remember that we don't need electricity to have hope and to share love.

The image shows a vinyl record album cover for Quah by Jorma Kaukonen. The cover features a black-and-white close-up portrait of Kaukonen, with his face centered and slightly shadowed. The album is part of the “Best Buy Series,” as indicated by a logo in the upper right corner. The RCA logo and catalog number “YL 13747 STEREO” are in the upper left corner. The artist’s name, “Jorma Kaukonen,” and album title, “Quah,” are printed in bold white letters in the lower right corner. The album is displayed among a collection of other records on a shelf.

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