@Bartees_Strange We saw you first when you opened for Lucy Dacus in Portland, and you absolutely killed it. She was great, too, but we knew she would be. We went home mostly talking about how great your set was.
@annkpowers@HexPositive Hanging out with friends one summer night home from college. 1988 maybe? Mike had the jean jacket. Hooman was wearing the hat. We thought, You know what we could do?... I grabbed a tank top from my dresser. Vitz just needed to unbutton his shirt. #bored#young#goofingaround
@JulieIsLoud 100% agree. I'm hoping that someone takes over the space and continues to book acts there. It's one of the city's iconic venues. The list of great shows I've seen there is long.
@BeschlossDC I was 11, watching MNF with my dad. After the announcement, I went up to my big sister’s room—she had a record player and must have been out. I shut the door, sat on the floor by the turntable, and listened to the White Album.
Over at Sheepscot Creative, we’re on Spotify now. Because I’m obsessed with music discovery. New songs and old songs, but new to me. Here’s a 90-minute cassette side’s worth of favorites released so far in 2022. Some probably new to you, too. https://t.co/BMMfxg35Hq
Today is Bruce Springsteen's birthday and there are not many artists who mean more to me than Bruce Springsteen. I've talked and written endlessly about this, but here's a thread of performances I love a lot.
Is there an annual award for best personal essay in audio format? This might win. I’m bowled over by how artful @newsmanual is in choosing and arranging calls and dialogue. How efficiently he distills an overwhelming exercise into something deep and real. https://t.co/HEauE85zT9
Astonishing photographs. For the added sense of scale and vitality that inserting a human figure brings but also their composition and color. https://t.co/A775csFbtM
Am losing track of how many times I’ve thought, Great song, who is this?—and then realized it’s yet another track from the Celeste album. https://t.co/6UveizYRcG