Lenore Appelhans

And more summer concerts: Haim at Merriweather and Hozier at Jiffy Lube Live with @laurashovan.bsky.social

I was multiplying 3 x 7 🤣

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More summer concerts: Lord Huron at Merriweather, Billy Idol at Merriweather with @laurashovan.bsky.social

July Concerts: The Gaslight Anthem and Counting Crows at Merriweather (MD) and Jimmy Eat World and The Offspring at Jiffy Lube Live (VA).

June concerts: Phish in Pittsburgh and Car Seat Headrest at The Anthem DC.

@timmiller.bsky.social were you at Car Seat Headrest in DC last night or do you have a doppelgänger?

The Samples at Rams Head Annapolis and Bloc Party at the Anthem.

Catching up on concerts: Saint Motel at 9:30 Club and Deep Sea Diver at the Atlantis.

Sharon Van Etten at 9:30 Club last night!! 💕

Also a pic of us and @laurashovan.bsky.social at the Nick Cave show Monday night!

Emmy says hi from her throne!

Moved everything off the floor to vacuum and Emmy decided she liked the new placement of her heated bed … until the vacuum came out.

I’ll be in Baltimore too! I saw on FB.

First concert of the year: Stars at the 9:30 Club DC. Feb 8th. “When there’s nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire.”

Oooh … where? When? They put on a great show!

Black cat sits possessively on white coat.

Guess the coat belongs to Sammy now.

A lego build with Darth Vader and 3 cats and 1 dog sitting around a table.

My husband is building Lando’s cloud palace and I’m making sure Darth Vader has plenty of pet friends!

Happy 17th birthday, Emmy kitty!

6 years without Mike. Almost made it through this tough day. Lit my candles and listened to my Good Grief playlist.

Today would be my mom’s 76th birthday and I got a long, comforting visit from a cardinal (the bird, not the catholic kind).

And for the finale: Not Like Us by Kendrick Lamar is the dissiest of diss tracks, catchy and brutally amusing. #bestsongsof2024

Bonus for today is a third song from Taylor Swift, who dominated my top 100 with 20 different tracks. Is that embarrassing?! Song is Clara Bow, which made my top 5, in fact, in number of listens. #bestsongsof2024

Sturgill Simpson has a voice with so much character, I can’t stop listening. If the Sun Never Rises Again is a stellar track off his latest outing, under the Johnny Blue Skies moniker. If you don’t know Simpson, also check out Turtles All the Way Down from 2014. #bestsongsof2024

Bonus for today is the third cut from Vampire Weekend: Prep-School Gangsters. Didn’t I warn you that I’m obsessed with this album? #bestsongsof2024

Disintegration by The Cure is one of my all-time favorite albums, and their new song, A Fragile Thing, feels like it could exist right there with it on that exalted plane. #bestsongsof2024

CHVRCHES is one of my favorite bands, so I’m happy to report that I’m enjoying Lauren Mayberry’s poppier solo debut, especially Something in the Air. #bestsongsof2024

Starburned and Unkissed by Caroline Polachek has her essential DNA while still encapsulating the eerie disconnected feeling of watching the hbo max movie I Saw the TV Glow. Bonus: Sunset, a top fave from last year. #bestsongsof2024

Gotta go with a second stellar track from Future Islands: The Tower. The passion comes through so vividly here. #bestsongsof2024

I’ll admit it took me a few listens, but I’m now totally grooving to the sweet Remi Wolf track Soup. I think of it as the female answer to The National’s genius Slow Show. #bestsongsof2024