Radiohead? I keed I liked Darklands. Automatic was their pop garbage disc. Then Honey's Dead went back to the original formula and Stoned & Dethroned was acoustic and surprisingly good
The opposite was the Mekons. They started as a bog standard punk band. By the time of Rock and Roll and I [heart] Mekons they were just magical. At their peak they were never popular enough to sell out the smallest clubs and now they've sadly been lost to the sands of time and shitty algorithms.
Venues. A while back I attended a Bonobo set at this place. Russell Industrial Center. I've passed by it on the freeway many times. Not a bad space. Anyway, Bonobo came on at midnight. Which made me realize the following: I cannot do midnight shows as much as I used to. I still had fun. And I also love that there were food trucks there.
Don’t know if I’d call where they went pop garbage, but Gang of Four comes to mind, their first album is miles better than something like “I Love a Man in Uniform.”
This was a minor radio hit in the early eighties, and the first song I ever heard by them. Loved it for its witty, sarcastic lyrics and mixed vocals. It lacked the punk punch of Damaged Goods but was a brilliant song imo.
I think I've told this story here before but I'm pretty sure Gang Of Four are responsible for millions of deaths. I saw them in early March of 2020 here in Woodstock. They had just gotten off a plane from China. The guitarist looked like microwaved death. In fact they cancelled their scheduled show in New York the next night and he died a few weeks later. Draw your own conclusions.
A guy I worked with was on tour in Europe from mid-Jan thru Feb, and came back crazy sick. There obviously weren't tests up by the time, but he clearly had covid. We still call him patient zero. But in all honesty, the virus was likely spread long before March lock downs.
If Trump and his idiots had any imagination or intelligence they would have used this when they were telling stories about Kung Flu and how China was creating it in a lab.
Dayum. Not like he started an insurrection or droned fishing boats or something United States district judge has sentenced Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, a member of 1990s hip-hop group the Fugees, to 14 years in prison for illegally funnelling millions of dollars in foreign contributions to former US President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. Michel declined to address the court before Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly sentenced him on Thursday. The trial in Washington, DC, included testimony from former Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio. https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/...-years-in-prison-over-illegal-obama-donations
If he had been funneling contributions to the Bankruptcy King instead he'd already be on his way to getting a pardon.
His Primal Scream work is noteable, too. A couple of live cuts And this one is a bit faster than the studio version
Still could get one if he set aside enough of the boodle to meet the price. The pardon exchange is color blind, unlike the travel bureau...
Ezra Klein interviews Patti Smith A lot of insight into Smith. Poetry is an art form that 100% eludes me. I’ve long felt I was missing something, like being colorblind. I feel that even more now. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/...unlocked_article_code=1.208.TJeM.Wl2bpiqMXG5c