From this morning. Blue Sky Chicagoans might be as intrigued as I am,
Bruce Adams
@bruceadams.bsky.social
bruce-adams.com Author "You're With Stupid: kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music" / higher ed comms / formerly w/kranky, touch & go records / Michigan Wolverines / Syracuse Orange / New York Football Giants / orange tabby cats
The proprietor of the new Durable Oxide label has an established record of good taste. The debut album by Latest Fad is highly recommended. Electronic Tone for Now People.
Pedro the Lion 7/18/26 Champaign, IL. They played “Modesto” and I was happy.
Last night‘s dream: a Marvel comics series comes out. Dracula uses enhanced hypnotic power to convince the world. He is good…
All right, all right enough of your high-powered marketing campaign, I’ll go!
Sharing this in memory of someone who forgot more about rock & roll than I will ever know. And who beat me to work every Monday morning.
Patrick Monaghan@pkmonaghan.bsky.social · 2mo agoAh damn, my old buddy, coworker, and bandmate, Chris Jern. Hardcore music nerd. RIP friend.
Good news from an old and valued associate who’s starting a new venture www.instagram.com/p/DZrMnX7lG1...
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“We’re all the same in our Cadillac cars.” Rest Triumphant, James Blood Ulmer
Debut issue of Record Review Haiku found at Parasol Records in Urbana, Illinois.
In this house, we believe that Blue Jays can be lonely. And that a lonely Blue Jay makes a heartrending plaintive cry. And that other Blue Jays caw from a distance, letting the lonely bird know it is not alone.
How lucky for those of us clustered around the Great Lakes!
sleepy neighbor@bgutzeit.bsky.social · 3mo agoTV POW :: SUMMER 2026 TOUR (coming to a Midwest town near you)
Slightly increase a band: Bachman, Bachman & Bachman-Turner Overdrive
@utexaspress Summer Book Sale includes “You’re with Stupid”!
University of Texas Press@utexaspress.bsky.social · 3mo agoSummer Book Sale is live! ☀️📚 Save on new and classic titles from University of Texas Press across Nature, food, $25 and under, and more until July 31st, 2026! Browse the summer sale: utpress.utexas.edu/s...
Which did nothing to deter White House correspondents, Journalism School deans and assorted hangers-on from partying with Trump, Hegseth & company.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press@rcfp.org · 3mo ago"It’s a scary time for reporters." For #WorldPressFreedomDay, @rcfp.org spoke to journalists who said the recent FBI raid on a Washington Post reporter's home is hurting their ability to get important stories to the public.
Absolutely essential.
@bugpressure.bsky.social · 3mo agoIf you are looking for an ambient, beatless album to categorically zone out to this weekend, clamp on your headphones, and take a deep trip to drone heaven/hell... 😉 Kevin Richard Martin 'Blue Loops' dropped yesterday : kevinrichardmartin.bandcamp.com/album/blue-l...
Pedro The Lion, Champaign IL April 29. David Bazan appeared unperturbed by NY Times living songwriter listings.
Mr. Simpson knows an overlooked gem when he hears one.
J Simpson@forestpunk.bsky.social · 3mo ago🎧 Album of the Day 351 Philosopher's Stone - Preparation Solo record from Amp's Gareth Mitchell on Chicago's @krankyltd.bsky.social is a delicious gauzy, ethereal mix or ambient rock and drone. Music for portal hopping. open.spotify.com/album/6DT8Qc... #albumoftheday #musicsky #musicchallenge
Even The Guardian gets into the “but now it happened to me” game. Here’s a news tip: there shouldn’t be a WHC dinner. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
I’ve covered Trump for a decade. At the White House correspondents’ dinner, darkness came viscerally close
Men in tuxedos and women in dresses dove under tables, like a scene from a dozen Hollywood movies, but now it was happening to me
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Going forward, I have decided that anytime someone asks me about Aadam Jacobs, I will tell them about Malachi Ritscher.
