When I saw them at the Orpheum in Boston back in 2005, they played “Hurt” mid-set and right in the middle of it a guy behind me screamed “Yankees suck!”
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When I saw them at the Orpheum in Boston back in 2005, they played “Hurt” mid-set and right in the middle of it a guy behind me screamed “Yankees suck!”
Consistency is the key!
Consistently impressed by how low this idiotic editorial board sinks.
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
I don’t think they’ll have the stamina to get beyond Wrigleyville
there’s just gonna be lots of dudes struggling to walk under the weight of all their military gear, loitering outside the wrigleyville small cheval
Protect Sidekicks
dammit
Take it from me: The best way to show X critics that BlueSky has the juice is to click on this link to the Alabama Reflector 10,000 times. alabamareflector.com
[sweating profusely] did you know Midlake bassist Paul Alexander plays on St. Vincent’s Actor and Thao & the Get Down Stay Down’s We the Common
Cream?
just learned travis barker hosts a touring 5k run and i don’t know what to do with this info
Yep! IG also came in handy, but I noticed the fundraiser got more traction here than anywhere else.
“Blueskyism” helped me raise $30k to keep the alt-weekly that employs me from shuttering. I shared the link to our fundraiser here more than anywhere else.
I’m just surprised Ben didn’t squeeze in a reference to his time at Buzzfeed
It's clear that printing and distribution of my publication TASKS FOR THE NATIONAL GUARD IN CHICAGO is going to disrupt my life at a time when I have no time, so here are files you can print from. It's a double-sided 8.5 x 11" sheet of paper. Please do not edit the text. Have fun!
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
If you saw my earlier posts with this same intro header, Tasks for the National Guard in Chicago, they have become the latest Public Collectors zine. I finished it this morning. It's a single folded sheet and I made 425 copies. Get one free on 8/31, 11-6 at the Hairpin Arts Center, at #ZineMercado
been wondering about this myself
and another one
supporting independent lefty media and leftist journalists is the only way we counteract the flood of garbage spewing from the right, center, and pseudo-left. it sucks we don’t have access to those unlimited money fountains, but we still gotta keep going
gwar in empire records
The Cool Kids in Widows
"Israel is engaging in the deadliest and most deliberate effort to kill and silence journalists that the Committee to Protect Journalists has ever documented." cpj.org/full-coverag...
As a federal operation looms, Chicago's mayor signed an executive order looking to safeguard the city. “Unfortunately we do not have the luxury of time. We have received credible reports that we have days, not weeks, before our city sees some kind of militarized activity by the federal government.”
[arctic explorer voice] i’m descending nina protocol’s #cloudrock iceberg
the reason he posts like trump is because he is like trump
“song of the summer” debates are just third-quarter “best of the year” lists
she looks nothing like him
I'll be in conversation with my old friend and QANU/PB/Elusive bandmate @chrisrichards.bsky.social about my new book on DC punk fanzines, "Keep Your Ear to the Ground," on Saturday, October 11 at 3pm in MLK Library's New Books Area (corner of 9th and G in NW DC). Part of Black Eyes' festival!
Last year, I wrote for @them.us about how far-right politicians and pundits keep spreading misinformation that mass shooters are trans — or that in the exceedingly rare chance that they are, the violence was motivated by gender affirming care. It's horrifyingly relevant after this week.
NYC clubbing friends, do not miss out on tomorrow night's 'TRiP Magazeen 1992-1994' release party at Public Records! Peter Wohelski, DJ Three, DB, and Bruce Tantum will be there, among others. The book is a treasure chest. michaelangelo.substack.com/p/bc136-five...
The editorial board is nothing if not reliably idiotic
Yep it’s going strong!
Throwback to a few weeks ago chicagoreader.com/music/concer...
“Concerts are having a moment,” says the board for a daily paper in the city with one of the largest collection of independent music venues in the country. Clowns, top to bottom.
A poorly written editorial that’s a great example of how little the Trib editorial board cares about culture beyond its capacity to enrich those eager to overcharge tourists via increasingly expensive big-tent shows. This isn’t for Oasis fans, but for the people ripping them off.
JD Vance asking to be invited into a city feels really on the nose after Sinners
Also TV on the Radio at a couple different points: from the front of the crowd on a Carson Daly Show taping in 2004 (the guests were Vivica A. Fox and, uh, the Apprentice host) and at the Paradise on the Cookie Mountain tour (they did two encores and performed “Ambulance”)
Hey I wrote this
Yep!
Saba, Noname, and Smino at Township, which held maybe 100. The Hotelier and Oso Oso at Township Waxahatchee solo in a basement… next to Township All those early Angel Olsen shows Algernon at Strangelight A bunch of small college shows I helped throw (Dirty Projectors, Antlers, Girl Talk, etc)
[looking through marketplace for childproofing gear] my baby needs the original thirsty whale sign
One extremely powerful political current that cuts across parties is the desire of the comfortable to minimize the importance of issues that they may be ideologically against but which they don't believe will impact their own lives.
Feeling old because the “new wave of SoundCloud ‘indie rock’” strikes me as the latest evolution of hyperpop, just with different tags
Hmm it appears there’s nothing there oh well
(Sighs) making room for another small cheval
They’re a real impressive band, I’m not sure who else could pull off what they do on the new record
I wrote about Beach Bunny, Chicago’s abundant rock scenes, and the wrong way to write about Chicago rock in the 2020s (with a reference to the worst hyped up local band I’ve come across in about a decade)
Depressing that this drum circle has been boxed out of its longtime home even before you get to the reason why: the Park District is “piloting an improved parking system” that’s an Ai parking app.
the Chicago influencer who keeps showing up in my feed made a video about a “bookstore hidden in plain sight” that “tons of people recommended,” words mean nothing (it’s After-Words lol)
Wow
Rfk jr over here like
Abdallah Alattar is a famous Gaza journalist with 1.9 million followers on insta- he only links to this GFM for fundraising and does not have a stripe connected
Look at Friedland's face when Torres "rejects the notion" of Israel having the policy of killing civilians seeking aid.
[a day late] idk I don’t see Taylor Swift as an English teacher, more like a guidance counselor
Every time I hear a kid talk about how they practiced for the mass shooting that eventually came, I think it's a searing indictment of our country's failure to actually give a shit about the safety of kids.
Check this shit out motherfucker *embargoes own country*
I think the latter!
As the eldest son in a middle-class Jewish family who grew up to be a music critic, I obviously have feelings about the character who is the eldest son in a middle-class Jewish family who grows up to be a music critic
Digging this!
I’ll be discussing this story on RESET (@wbez.org) w/ @sashaannsimons.bsky.social at noon!
New Sharp Pins album coming out in November
Trump doing this "bad Jew"="Palestinian" bit over and over again is a form of priming. It establishes a frame that draws on both antisemitism and anti-Palestinian racism at the same time.. His audience can then start blending those antisemitic and anti-Arab narratives into a conspiracy smoothie
New Gossip Wolf: @blindequation.bsky.social on their new album, Bladee, cybergrind, and more! Posthardcore group Laliberté (ex-Ira Glass) drop their debut! Fantasma Negra headline a mini dreampop fest! And much more!
Really I think the fact that Isaac Chotiner calls you at all is at this point a searing indictment of your moral character
To listen to? Is this man talking about podcasts or is he reading actual reviews, because…
Yep otherwise good news!
Statement from the Reader union
we know CPD have already assisted ICE on the ground here of their own volition, but this is good to have on the books regardless
dear lord
also! the 50th anniversary of HORSES is approaching. i wrote a book! i am available!
It’s still there chicagoreader.com/community-ca...
I’m not crying you’re crying
Theo = 💯 correct. We’re losing our songbook keepers and it scares the hell out of me. Lee had no reason to be humble and he was. I worked in an office with him for a time and you’d never know that you were 4 feet from a mind that held the musical equivalent of the Library at Alexandria.
If you've spent time with me lately and I've seemed a little erratic, perhaps short on sleep, well, this is why! For several weeks, the Reader was either gonna get bought or shut down, and we didn't know which. Needless to say, I am glad the paper will live to fight another day!
I wrote about Bleary Eyed for the Reader
More details here
Hardly dorky! I am still foggy on this myself, since I’m so removed from that process.
It’s an acquisition
Some professional news
Haaretz Today | Targeting Truth: Israel's Killing of Gazan Journalists in Nasser Hospital Is No 'Mishap' www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.
what I’m also saying is if any troops post up at the bean I wonder if Adamn will troll em
Chicago rapper Adamn Killa has built up quite a following on TikTok and IG this year in part through trolling random strangers and cops by dancing—he got dozens of folks to protest outside the Bape store on Oak Street this weekend
From my Gossip Wolf column hooked to a fundraiser for Lee earlier this year chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...
RIP Chicago DJ Lee Collins, who Theo Parrish called one of the three best DJs in the world ra.co/news/83447
That’s right
I think a major factor in so many people being kind of blasé or in denial about ~all this~ is that they’ve been waiting to be given some sort of paternal-ish permission to start freaking out. So, here ya go. Here’s the permission.
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Performative small cheval contest send post
Wowow
apart from electing a black president nothing has driven more Americans irrevocably insane than the requirement that they participate in the collective good
The small cheval way
I’m sorry how did we get to “these smol restaurants are actually good, don’t let the square footage fool you into thinking otherwise”
This discussion also omits a crucial component to being able to make ends meet pursuing criticism in this environment: branding. To make it in whatever is left of this field also requires making yourself a celebrity / public figure.
they’re kooks alright