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Library worker, researcher and writer about culture from the first third of the 20th century, depressive. https://jonathanbogart.net
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well, chrome took away the extensions that made it usable this morning, so back to firefox i go

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NEW CANARY RELEASE 23 minutes of colloquial Arabic vocal art performed by one of the first Palestinians to have made commercial recordings. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/he-gav...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

going through all five of my youtube profiles telling the algorithm not to show me "breaking" "news"

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“when i say i’m in love you best believe i’m in love l-u-v” mary weiss, david johansen, both gone.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

i have a dozen or so projects lying fallow but for some reason it’s important to my brain that i listen to a bunch of recordings from the first twenty years of commercial recorded music, so i’m mainlining a series of grotesquely racist caricatures almost but not quite drowned out by surface noise

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

been stuck in my head a lot lately youtu.be/dH3GSrCmzC8

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Julio César & Trio Cancioneros del Norte, "Por borracha" (1974, Cuba) sometimes the algorithm throws up things i didn't know i needed to hear youtu.be/_EISZdu-8vU

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My favorite Roberta Flack recording for many years has been this gospel/protest song, in part because it's much more lively than her most famous work, but it's also just an amazing song in its own right. R.I.P. youtu.be/T2uN_nfMEc8?...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

someday I'm going to go in on how "rockist" and "poptimist" is a binary that completely fails to account for how much great music is actually synthesist* *this had origins in a personal joke about how I am a "synthesist" because I like music what's got synths in it but the other definition fits too

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

FLOY JOY FLOY JOY FLOY JOY

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

if it didn’t need to be recharged after twenty minutes my ipad would be the best vertical video device in my home, since it’s too old for updated apps so it still runs 2020 tiktok

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

i don’t know if anything else in the world is capable of generating as much delirious joy as a cbb ep that is zouks, pft and andy daly (yes, i’m fast approaching 50)

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Let's gooooo

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

🫡

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

so uh TCM has a streaming app now and in unrelated news i may be getting back into movies this year

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

reading up on prior form, a.k.a. capitalism is the greatest economic system that has ever been etc.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

the first Latin Invasion record, which all subsequent Anglo crazes, from mambo to cha cha cha to boogaloo to macarena to reggaeton, rest in the shadow of. recorded in New York City.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments