Nabil Ayers

Host of Identified podcast. Author: "My Life in the Sunshine" @Beggarsgroup @valleyofsearch

[Nabil Ayers @nabilayers]

Hard to believe that this CBS Saturday Morning piece ran 2 years ago today. So many great things happened as a result. I’ll probably re-post every year.

Full 7m piece here:

https://t.co/dZj93C3CmI

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The Lounge Lizards “Voice of Chunk” live on Night Music in 1989

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Working on a new season of my podcast Identified with Seun Kuti

[Nabil Ayers @nabilayers]

New Substack post about the fear and fun of reading in front of an audience
https://t.co/LjKs5FSs4O

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Black Sabbath in Paris 1970

[Nabil Ayers @nabilayers]

Doing a short reading Friday night in Brooklyn and talking to Adam Voith about his excellent new book. DM for details.

[Alan Braufman @AlanBraufman]

Incredible to see this display at the Austin record store End of an Ear. !! I’ll be hanging out at the store signing records at 4pm on Oct 11. Then I’ll play Monks in Austin on Oct 13. Come say hey!

[Nabil Ayers @nabilayers]

Scorpions “The Sails of Charon” on German TV in 1978

[Nabil Ayers @nabilayers]

Reading something new and discussing Adam Voith’s great new book at a house show in Brooklyn next week. DM for address.

[Nabil Ayers @nabilayers]

Stevie Wonder “Contusion” on German TV in 1974… 2+ years before it appeared on the album that turned 50 today

[James Gunn @JamesGunn]

How I discovered one of my favorite artists, the extraordinary Nouela TWICE!

https://t.co/7h5RAiFBsV

[Pitchfork @pitchfork]

Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life turns 50 today

Read our Perfect 10 review: https://t.co/9AnxiDOSRY

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

“Songs In The Key Of Life” by Stevie Wonder turns 50 years today.

[Nabil Ayers @nabilayers]

3/ We sold the store in 2016, and I'm thrilled it's still there, doing well, and smells the same whenever I visit. The further away it gets, the more I realize how lucky we were to do something cool in that time and place.

[Nabil Ayers @nabilayers]

1/ Jason and I opened Sonic Boom Records in Seattle 29 years ago today. Looking back, it's wild that a city that already had 20-ish record stores could sustain a 21st.

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2/ It worked because we were 25, each paid $300 rent, and Seattle had an incredible community of bands, fans, labels, radio stations, newspapers, and small businesses that supported one another. Few cities like that exist anymore.

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Throwback to celebrate 35 years of Nevermind today

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I’ve never been able to put into words how much this Nirvana show fucked me up. But for @RollingStone, I tried. https://t.co/s0bKJlWtHj

[Alan Braufman @AlanBraufman]

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As I have written before, I grew up in a house in which jazz was always playing; I was very lucky. My first favorites, at age 9, were the MJQ, Duke, Sonny Stitt and, I remember, really liking a Paul Horn album...

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Stanley Clarke and George Duke having serious fun in 1981

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35 years ago Phil Ek and I were at the same Nirvana show. We talked about it and played bootleg singles for an hour on Mixcloud.

https://t.co/WGBGOkXwn7

#nirvana #90smusic #grunge #seattle

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For @stereogum I wrote about seeing Nirvana play a packed record show the week before Nevermind

https://t.co/kJHa9NpioJ