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Dave of the former Dave’s Records in Chicago. Now retired and doing Grampa stuff
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#ColorTheMusic #MusicChallenge June 21 newsletter.colorphilia.com/the-color-ba... youtu.be/0h86S5fN9pQ?...

42 years ago Minor Threat at 9.30 Club, Washington DC, June 1983. Minor Threat - 9.30 Club -June 1983 - (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone #punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #straightedge #minorthreat #IanMacKaye #history #punkrockhistory

I’m sure the Trump Administration will be canceling all grants to the University of Florida because of their failure to combat anti-Semitism. Any day now. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

The Sum Total of Human Knowledge, Corrected, by Me, the Guy With the Good Opinions

Brian Eno's floppy disk album Generative Music 1 cdm.link/generative-m...

Remembering this great tweet on the Summer Solstice

Piping-plover-watching paparazzi

We ❤️ @jessicatarlov.bsky.social

He didn’t like the answers it was giving, so he’s starting over.

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The White House Rose Garden Before Trump. -Vs- Today.

Wrigley Field welcomes back Sammy Sosa for the first time in 21 years…

It was fitting that Ken Griffey Jr. joined the 500-home run club on Father’s Day. Senior was watching from the front row as The Kid launched his milestone homer #OTD in 2004. ow.ly/iRAh50WcSeh

Don Grady had a four-piece combo band called 'Don Grady's Greefs.' He displays a badge as Chief Greef. (May 17, 1966)

45 years ago today!

#MusicChallenge #JuneGloom 6/20 The Kinks ~ God's Children Didn't Know My first pick was already taken... youtu.be/OSciUplVZrA?...

No wonder there are so many Cardinals fans at today’s doubleheader on the South Side.

Mark you calendars, THE 70MM FILM FESTIVAL returns August 8th-21st! For every 100 Likes this post gets, we'll reveal 1 film in the lineup.

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Here’s a review I wrote of all XTC records : they’re all great . Perfect pop songs .

This was the Rivoli in NYC. 50 years ago this AM I was in a car with the nervous director of “Jaws” and Albert Brooks heading over there. The director wondered whether there’d be a line. There was. It went around the corner and far beyond. He really hadn’t known this could happen. What a day!

🎶Eartha Kitt🎶 #actress #art #artist #film #movie #music #nowplaying #photography #singer

Space Ghost's first cameo in the Brak Show episode "The New Brak" R.I.P. George Lowe

After 450 million years of evolutionary history, shark populations are collapsing, and more than a third of shark species and their relatives face extinction. Now scientists are trying to use the lure of “Jaws” to advance shark conservation efforts.

Geezer and I on our way to the stage 🎸 Photo by Mark Weiss, ca. 1970s

#BOTD 1928. Remembering Jazz Multi-Instrumentalist, Composer, and Bandleader Eric Dolphy. (d.1964) #Jazzsky

‘Tonight’s The Night,’ the final album in Neil Young’s classic “ditch trilogy,” was released 50 years ago today

(from a post by Miriam Linna)

My challenge for the American news media: Make peace seem as interesting as war.

Brian Eno, Venice, Italy, 2007 by Guido Harari

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two weeks ago Thin Lizzy's lost first Peel Session surfaced on YouTube. not on the Peel Sessions disc. maybe it had been bootlegged elsewhere, I'd never heard it and it is stunning. here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkRj...

The subway is not scary. Literal children ride it millions of times every day. Fascists and bigots lie about it constantly and have for years because they’re trying to destroy NYC and our subway, and most things wrong with the subway can be traced to their attacks resulting in its underfunding.

Remembering Nick Drake who was born on this day in 1948.

Exactly. Please put the montage together @thedailyshow.com.

“A lot of people out there hurting, and it really scares me.” - Brian Wilson’s highly relevant lyric.

Clarence Clemons, gone 14 years ago today. “Standing next to Clarence was like standing next to the baddest ass on the planet,” Springsteen wrote. “Together, we told an older, richer story about the possibilities of friendship that transcended those I’d written in my songs.” #RIP

When you’re six and already conducting household performance reviews. Dad really should’ve read the fine print in the parenting contract. #CalvinandHobbes40 #KidCEO

Seems like a lot of people probably don’t even realize this happened. nypost.com/2024/11/25/u...

#ColorTheMusic Day 19 Blue Red And Grey - The Who youtu.be/GCycKHeNnBQ?...

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Ringo Starr labels Roger Daltrey ‘that little man’ after son’s sacking from the Who

#MusicLingo #MusicChallenge 19: Acoustic/Unplugged I’m One - Pete Townshend youtu.be/dssTMapz9UM?...

“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.” ~Jack Kerouac

a legend for launching al alone, but he did so much more

Ah not Lou Christie. One of those voices that you instantly recognise even if you don’t know the song. This is his laudable entry into the canon of Not Quite Northern Soul which is perhaps my favourite genre youtu.be/YGvu-2qkYD4?...

Willie Mays (1954) Photo: Dean Loomis / Smithsonian Institution