Carl Wilson

Love the idea of Reagan's portrait as the gf looking askance.

It's hard to imagine they're not just doing this for pleasure.

I just distinguish between humane, livable apartments and condos that are like overpriced urban-professional veal pens in the sky, which is what it feels like developers were cranking out for a decade and a half here.

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?

We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

Read this review of that book instead: www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

Lol I was just looking up that reference to post!

Fair. This is why I said that I didn't really want to work this out here. I'd need to dig deeper to have a rounded argument. The criticisms just seem exaggeratedly backlashy to me. But I'll leave it there.

I come at it more finding the digital take on the practice of writing topical songs in real time, week to week, structurally interesting. Like Josh Johnson's weekly standup. I haven't noticed JW doing any South Park edgelord stuff, could be wrong. But also not much interested in his albums.

I was disappointed he went on Rogan for sure. I have mixed feelings about him too. Just many of the ways ppl are criticizing him seem ungrounded in any of the specific work, except that one song.

I'm confused by the proposal that this applies to anything except the Kirk song (which was a song written *that day* about not shooting people, basically). But maybe I haven't heard these right wing songs of his.

Let's say this again, for the ones in the back who weren't listening: slate.com/culture/2025...

I disagree - I don't think all the songs are good, some are schticky for sure - but this isn't a productive place to get into it. At some point maybe we'll each write longer things.

You know the song is *against ICE, right?

We're part of that special group of nervous people who are soothed by listening to music that makes other people nervous.

So many overlaps. (I think I'd have to own up to ranking "Angular" first.)

"AI of the Tiger"

F me with a piano roll and a teardrop tattoo.

Later today!

Oh, he was being provocative in a totally Stephin way, and no doubt sincere on a deeper level. Stephin just never lets truth get in the way of a good stance

A certifiably insane thing to say.

What was great about the 1980s was that such bloodyminded refusals were everywhere if you looked. If only more people had looked.

The bright-orange-forward rainbow cover of TeenSet, Teen Fan Magazines, and Rock Journalism: Don't Let the Name Fool You, by Allison Bumsted, with a graphic of a tween in sixties-style hair and jacket.

The cover of Peter Richardson's Brand New Beat: The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone magazine, featuring a black-and-white photo of a man leaning back reading an early tabloid-format issue of Rolling Stone with Neil Young on the cover in a cowboy hat.

Wed Nov 19, 5:30 pm ET, the Popular Music Books online series features Allison Bumstead on teen fan mags' role in early rock journalism & politics, plus Peter Richardson on how Bay Area activism fed into the advent of Rolling Stone. To join us, see here: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

Belated notice that if you were put off by the first episode of Pluribus because it seemed too much like familiar viral apocalypse stuff ... watch the second episode and ye shall be healed

Tidal would be where I'd go

Yeah, I struggle to get Apple Music to do anything. For profesh reasons I have accounts at all four of the biggest streamers (YT, Tid, Spot, AM). I do want to reduce my Spotify dependency. But if I didn't need to share things w/ Apple Music users, I'd drop it immediately.

Much too young, RIP.

YouTube video by The New Yorker When a Crackdown Involving the I.R.A. Backfired, Comically | “The Ban” | The New Yorker Documentary

Great short @newyorker.com doc on the UK "broadcast ban" on Republican voices from Northern Ireland in the 70s-80s. An often absurd parable about the perversity of censorship, w/ an apropos note that the UK govt still uses similar rationales for suppressing dissent today. youtu.be/4EG-4qhre8k?...

Started watching Channel 4's #Trespasses - very good so far but it seems criminal to have a period drama about a forbidden affair, with Gillian Anderson in it, and for Gillian Anderson *not to be the one having the affair.

There are lots of other reasons: the people influenced are often more familiar/commercial than the influencer, and may get credit for what someone else did first (easy case: white rockers vs. black originators). *Or, if you don't get what they're doing, the comparison might help illuminate it.

Congrats @stereogum.com on the relaunch! Chilling line from @scottgum.bsky.social's intro: "Google's pivot to AI search has cut our ad revenue by 70%. Facebook and X's deprioritization of links hurt too, but I can't downplay the brutal impact of AI Overview." Please support music writing, folks.