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See link below for Manson book! American Studies, UMass Boston Current Project- “Boston Sounds, 1974-1999” @fsu_UMB 🇵🇸 Books on Black-Jewish relations (Right to Sing the Blues and Leo Frank), 9/11 and Manson. skyhorsepublishing.com/9781628728941/…
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I know we’re all mad at Thom Yorke but damn: don’t let Billy Bragg off the hook for this

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I just got a shirt that I ordered online and it turns out IRL to look a whole lot like something my very unfashionable father would have worn, so just a heads up that I will be wearing it ironically.

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I swear I did not have advance word about the criminally-leaked Glenn Greenwald video and he is a complex dude whose overall politics escape me, but he is an Anti-Zionist in the streets and whatever he does in the sheets is simply not our business

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I’ve been listening to a beautiful record that was just released today by Ghanian master Gyedu-Blay Ambolley and the groove is so easeful and life-affirming that I forgot for a minute that we live in a fallen world of filth.

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🚨Leela James is coming to Boston in late July!

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Every 10 years or so Van Morrison does this—releases a new song (“Down to Joy” this month) that is just perfect in every way and serves as a reminder that he can do this whenever he wants, but is too much of a curmudgeonly dickwad to let us have the goods.

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There must be some of that colorful British rhyming slang we can use to refer to that Radiohead singer, right? “What did that Bomb Pork say now?”

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Last night I posted a devastating cover of Bruce’s “Atlantic City” and here comes Joni Ernst with another— she really bears down hard on “everything dies, baby that’s a fact” youtu.be/zRBnUhy-nGA

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My favorite busker is the kind of guy you approach and ask if he plays any Charlie Rich and he goes: “I do! Both sides of a great 1962 single of his.” Et voila, the A side

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Going back thru a bunch of zoom recordings and apparently this is the face I tend to have on when I’m trying to look “cool” and “relaxed” before interviewing important Boston musicians

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Just heard Ben Kweller and MJ Lenderman's brand new song "Oh, Dorian" which, on the face of it, is a beautiful song which nicks the melody of a different romance song ("ooo wee ride me high!") in the service of a paean to male friendship: "I can't wait to hang with you again..."

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I don’t think I can explain this well but I think it’s bad to call Zionists “Nazi”: I worry that the reversal it indexes serves to further naturalize the idea that the original crime of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine was a necessary response to the Holocaust.

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Brennen Leigh is a favorite of mine but I don’t know the other two singers on this devastating new version of Bruce’s “Atlantic City”—clearly modeled on Levon’s cover with the Band (right down to the brutal “I’m south of the line” lyric change). youtu.be/zRBnUhy-nGA?...

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Is this “Christian” mezuzah ad supposed to look like the Twin Towers or is that just a happy accident

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Yes please

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Young dude who got my turntable working again told me that he did the troubleshooting by using chatGPT so I am now fully pro-AI.

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Annie is one of the few people out there that I unreservedly trust to help me understand what is going on in K-12 curricula. This is really good.

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