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Cover of Around Grapefruit, the 1968 debut LP from Brit psych act Grapefruit. Illustration is of the members’ faces surrounding a half of a grapefruit, which is crazy

#NowPlaying The debut 1968 LP from short-lived British psych pop band Grapefruit, which was signed to the Beatles’ Apple Publishing. Heady, dramatic nuggets here, with loads of mellotron and multipart harmonies. Inconsistent but fun for fans of the Move, the Hollies, the Zombies etc. #np

Jack Chambers’ Milestones

Fave Miles bio*

* not strictly a bio, but does a brilliant job of telling life story via recording dates.

Custom-designed built-in shelving lines the rooms in music critic John Rockwell's home, a loft in NYC's SoHo neighborhood. Photo: Francisco Rosario/DDreps

The SoHo loft that music critic John Rockwell moved into in 1978 features a wealth of built-in shelving custom-designed to hold his monster collection of CDs, records, and books—the space is now for sale www.curbed.com/article/soho...

Seymour Chwast's At War with War review — Dominic Umile The graphic design legend chronicles 5,000 years of the world's wars in new illustrated book

Push Pin Studios cofounder Chwast has long been creating bold antiwar imagery. Wrote about his book of drawings and woodcuts called At War with War back in 2017 www.dominicumile.com/blog/seymour...

Hayes reacts to Kristi Noem firing: ‘Spectacular and humiliating’ Podcast Episode · All In with Chris Hayes · March 6 · 42m

Kristi Noem "made it 14 months (in her role), almost exactly as long as Cricket, the dear departed dog she bragged about shooting in her memoir" — @allinwithchris.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Very late to this episode of the Deadcast, and psyched to hear it. Larry is a treasure and maybe one of the most interesting people we know. Kudos @bourgwick.bsky.social for putting in the work, as always www.dead.net/deadcast/blu...

Nas' "N.Y. State of Mind" | One Song Podcast | Full Episode YouTube video by One Song Podcast

Absolutely meticulous sample-by-sample dissection of Nas's 1994 masterpiece "N. Y. State of Mind" youtu.be/BOXFjb44gg8?...

“Who among us,” am I right? She deserves an eternity of vicious medieval plagues, but this still isn’t as bad as abruptly being laid off via Google Meet

That's such a real "thing" here, purposely excluding context. It's wild

i really need everyone posting screenshots of news to CITE WHERE IT'S FROM OK? there's too much disinfo and AI gloop out there not to CITE WHERE YOUR SCREENSHOTTED INFORMATION IS COMING FROM. even in a follow up post directly after ur screenshot. it is easy. please. thank you.

Missed this great summer 2025 post on early hip hop flyers/Bronx parties/the roots of rapping www.thehenryford.org/collections/...

ALBUM OF THE WEEK: 'Tragic Magic' by Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore

The friends and tourmates recorded the LP at the Philharmonie de Paris using a combination of acoustic and electronic instrumentation plus ethereal vocal layers.

@infinemusic.bsky.social
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Very cloudy with a one thousand percent chance of engagement farming. Like every three posts or so

This is AI in a nutshell: Somebody gets rich while the masses are rendered stupid

Seymour Chwast's War Is Good Business, Invest Your Son antiwar poster (1968, mixed media). It draws on the kind of imagery and typefaces used in circus advertisements but is inclusive of a popular peace slogan of the era

While End Bad Breath is a nightmarish sendup of a stars-and-stripes-clad Uncle Sam—sporting a mouthful of American military jets bombing a village in Vietnam—Seymour Chwast's War Is Good Business, Invest Your Son poster draws on circus advertisements and employs a popular peace slogan of the era

Yes, That Mancini’s: How a Legendary St. Paul Steakhouse Raised $35K for the Resistance - Racket ‘The Gathering for Good’ brought the West 7th neighborhood together.

For @racketmn.com, I wrote about The Gathering for Good, the huge fundraiser Mancini's Char House & Lounge--yes, that one--held two weeks ago for ICE victims in St. Paul's West 7th neighborhood. One of my best, huge thanks to everyone involved.
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NOEM: I would disagree with the judge

CROCKETT: I'm sure you would, but can you tell me whether or not you have a law degree?

NOEM: A what?

CROCKETT: A law degree

NOEM: No I do no-

CROCKETT: Okay

‘Paul McCartney: Man on the Run’ Tells One Side of the Story

Caught the Paul McCartney documentary in the theater—it's Wings-heavy, and I have no relationship with that band whatsoever. Grateful for all the Linda footage, selfishly wanted RAM sessions, more post-Beatles insights. But I'd probably watch any Beatles doc project www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/m...

What about la costa in sea isle though? Dare he venture farther I wonder

‘The camera is my weapon of choice’: Gordon Parks’ era-defining shots of segregation – and those who defied it The visionary photographer captured the ugliness of racism in America, as well as the strength and dignity of those who opposed it – from cleaners in the corridors of power to Martin Luther King Jr pr...

It was such a pleasure to interview attorney Bryan Stevenson about the photography of Gordon Parks as he curates a new showing in London.

His vivid and intimate colour images from 1956, showing the daily disgrace of the segregated South, remain extremely pertinent to this day:

QLS Classic: Bob Power Podcast Episode · The Questlove Show · October 17, 2022 · 1h 56m

Questlove to Bob Power, 2016: “I don’t think you realized you were changing lives”

Bob Power: “You know what, man? I wasn’t changing lives. The artists I was working with were changing lives. I was helping them do their thing. And I really believe in that” ❤️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

"I am so creeped out by you and your massage table, Jeff, that I may return with my wife and children if you'll have us!"

End Bad Breath (1967), Seymour Chwast. Printed by Push Pin Studios. Poster depicts a caricature of Uncle Sam, with American jets bombing a Vietnamese village in his mouth.

“What I do hope is to arouse awareness. To expose war’s stupidity. In 5,000 years we haven’t learned anything. We haven’t found a way to avoid destruction and killing. That amazes me.”—Seymour Chwast

Blood moon too! But that’s all the blood I can handle

Bob Power: Hip-Hop Engineering Pioneer | TapeOp #60 Legendary engineer Bob Power reveals mixing secrets behind A Tribe Called Quest, D'Angelo & De La Soul. Essential techniques for hip-hop production, analog warmth & creative collaboration.

Rest in peace, Bob Power — a pioneer in studio engineering, known especially for his work on enduring landmark rap records such as A Tribe Called Quest's Low End Theory. @tapeopmagazine.bsky.social talked to him back in 2007 (the Questlove Supreme ep is must-listen too) tapeop.com/interviews/6...

DJ Andy Smith Tape Digitizing Vol 76 Stretch & Bobbito Hot 97 - New York 1997 Well I decided to digitise my personal tape cassette collection! This is the Stretch & Bobbito radio show on Hot 97 in New York 1997 - I would have been on tour with Portishead at this time and woul...

Portishead's Andy Smith is digitizing his tapes—here's an episode of Stretch & Bobbito, but a later iteration, the Hot 97 era. "I would have been on tour with Portishead at this time and would have recorded this on my Panasonic boombox (with slide out turntable)" www.mixcloud.com/DJAndySmith/...

Large painting wrapping around three walls of a gallery that intersperses images of a military fighter jet with consumer imagery including a girl under a hairdryer, light bulbs, a cake, and spaghetti

Detail of a painting including girl under a hair dryer, light bulbs, nuclear explosion, and parts of a fighter jet

In 1964-65, Pop artist James Rosenquist painted an 86-foot-long depiction of the F-111, one of newest fighter jets at the time, interspersing it with consumer imagery to comment on the military-industrial complex. Now on view at MoMA; might be a good time to revisit it www.moma.org/collection/w...

Trump Says War Could Last Weeks and Offers Contradictory Visions of New Regime

This impossibly flippant, willfully ignorant ogre has led us into war, and for what? No one has any idea, and he has no semblance of an idea as to what comes next. Unhinged www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/u...

pardon my ignorance but has Trump even laid out why he decided to light the Middle East on fire when Iran posed no imminent threat to America?

I thought his whole thing was “America first” or whatever?

We’ve now got dead service members and nobody knows why?

We caught the Michael Shannon/Narducy show in London last year and it was absolutely incredible (this is coming from a guy who by then hadn’t spent much time with the ‘Fables…’ LP—I’ve since rectified that!) ❤️