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Producer, NPR Music. Editor, Tiny Desk and Tiny Desk Radio. Mixtapes, tea and whatnot: https://www.vikingschoice.org/
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submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

I’m at a point in my life where I still don’t like ska, but love the rudeboys, rudegirls and gender neutral rudepersons who do. Skank on, y’all. (Shout out to Five Iron Frenzy, the only ska band I ever loved.)

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Love to drop off bags of band t-shirts at the thrift store in hopes that I make some young punk or metalhead’s day. Screw outrageously overpriced, capitalist resale of culture.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Neighborhood block party count: 4 hot dogs 3 Modelos 2 bounce houses 1 popsicle So many cute kids

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

“Today, the threat is to birthright citizenship. Tomorrow, a different administration may try to seize firearms from lawabiding citizens or prevent people of certain faiths from gathering to worship.” “Rather than stand firm, the Court gives way,” she wrote. https://trib.al/GaP26Gk

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

hey hey, are you having a great friday?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

What a complicated dude. Roger Martinez founded one of the wildest thrash metal bands, Christian or not. 'Human Sacrifice' RIPS. Then he did a 180 on Christianity, threatened to release a Satanic metal album, went full-on conspiracy theorist. You can imagine what happened from there.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Dear Billy Corgan, I've been looking forward to the Machina box set for a while. This looks nice, but damn dude, I don't need all of that vinyl. Just gimme the CD version. We exist. madamezuzus.com/products/pre...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Ida forever. youtu.be/6pYWcC8tFwY?...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Architectural Digest x Tiny Desk (Sadly, AD did not want to hear BTS on GWAR) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka1D...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Luiza Brina, who made my favorite album of 2024 (Prece), is taking advantage of her short time in America. New York and Asheville peeps, please go! (Asheville peeps especially will want to be there for the special guest ;)

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

This year's hot new color palette: muddy blue!

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

ISO 10-15 minute kid-friendly podcast for sleepy time. My 6-year-old likes Animal Stories for Kids and Tales from the Lilypad, but we’ve gone through every episode. In addition to reading books together, she likes to doze off to the dulcet tones of someone other than me ;)

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

My neighbor Rick, a retired Army mechanic I love to shoot the shit with, asked me the other day, “You got that Electric Mud?” “Yeah, I got that Electric Mud.” God, this record is gnarly. It’s gonna be a Hot Mud Summer for me.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Appropriations Committee pushed back against the Trump administration's bid to rescind federal funding for public broadcasting and international aid programs.

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

Has there ever been a go-go cover of Fugazi’s “Sweet and Low”? I hear it so clearly in my head.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Living Colour, y'all. The realest. To see Vernon Reid shred up close was honestly one of the most joyous Tiny Desk experiences I've ever had. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzAI...

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

This movie contains Goo Goo Dolls' third best soundtrack appearance. 3. "Lazy Eye" in Batman & Robin 2. "Long Way Down" in Twister 1. "Iris" because come on

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

album cover of the year imo draugveil.bandcamp.com/album/cruel-...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

“As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it’s a question of living one’s life in a drastically different way.” — Dorothy Day

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

We used to be a proper country with era-defining emo comps.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

sweepee at the punk rock show

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

oh he's cookin

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

girlslivingoutsidesocietysshit.bandcamp.com/track/give-v...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

news outlets, because i am ALREADY seeing this, i am begging and pleading with you: do not say the SCOTUS decision on trans care only impacts “some treatments” because reporting this is endorsing conversion therapy. sincerely, a veteran policy journalist & trans woman ❤️

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

JUST IN: The Supreme Court upholds Tennessee law that bars gender-affirming care for minors.

submitted 12 days ago • 46 comments

It is with extreme pleasure I present this guide to the upcoming Bruce Springsteen box set, TRACKS Ii: THE LOST ALBUMS, over at NPR Music: www.npr.org/2025/06/17/n...

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

morning morning dream-pop anomaliaediciones.bandcamp.com/album/las-ho...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I object on aesthetic and maybe quasi-moral grounds to language like “devout” and “deeply religious” in this context. If his fanaticism adhered to a different faith, he’d get “fanatic,” “extremist,” “zealot” etc. Perverting the Cross to commit murder exempts you from “devout”

submitted 14 days ago • 30 comments

Normally, you can’t hear the National Mall’s 4th of July fireworks out where we live. Too many parties and people to cut through. It’s quite remarkable, really, for a city that really isn’t that big. I heard every. single. firework. tonight to close out the military parade.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

submitted 16 days ago • 1087 comments

History says so much about the present.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I was meeting a friend at Malcom X park and gave Kal Penn the nod; he nodded back. I was obsessed with the Harold & Kumar movies at the time. (This was when he was working for Obama, I think?)

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments