Rob Miller
@millerscave.bsky.social
https://www.robmillerwriting.com/ Author. Cofounder Bloodshot Records. DJ at Miller’s Cave. Exploring the murky recesses of roots music: Streaming at radioharborcountry.org Sat: 4 to 5 PM & Sun: 9 to 10pm (Eastern) Chicago via Detroit
Having trouble deciding which books to buy from Amazon during Prime Days? Try this: None, then go support an independent bookstore instead. 😌
One of the most insightful writers about this corner of the music world that I've come across in awhile....
Rachel Cholst@rachelcholst.bsky.social · 2d agoAs a genre, Americana is vulnerable to being ill-defined, vulnerable to those who want to make a quick buck, and – perhaps the most taboo in the entertainment industry – Boomer-coded. Here's how it happened -- new on @RainbowRodeo.bsky.social rainbowrodeomag.com/americana-is...
Whelp, that's a wrap. The world is now so freaking upside down that I now find myself in the position of applauding something Don Henley is doing.
James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · 6d agoDon Henley is a mensch, part 12,946: (Wrote about his environmental projects in our book, and here: fallows.substack.com/p/be-not-sim... ] www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
gosh there is so much great music out right now. here's a little bandcamp friday survey of mostly new stuff, out from behind the paywall because we want you to get money to artists! www.dontrocktheinbox.com/put-a-record...
Put A Record On: Bandcamp Friday Edition
Taking down the paywall this week to just share a bunch of new, great music that you can buy — it's Bandcamp Friday, which means that every cent you spend goes directly to the artists (instead of Band...
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My morning pep talk to myself at least 3 days a week.
Dr Hannah M. Rowland@hannahmrowland.bsky.social · last wk.Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
Just finished this interesting history of local, legendary loonies by fellow #michigannotableauthor #evelynsterne. Added bonus: considerable amounts of #baseball coverage. I guess a cult that embraces a solid game of pepper can't be all bad, right? #booksky📚 #writing #reading #michiganhistory
dailyillini.com/buzz-stories... Lovely little review of the talk in Champaign last weekend at the #pygmalionfest w/fellow traveler/indie labeller Matt Lunsford of @polyvinyl.bsky.social @illinoispress.bsky.social #booksky📚 #musicbooks #musichistory #insurgentcountry #rosebowltavern #urbana
Rob Miller discusses independent music industry at PYGMALION Day 4 - The Daily Illini
Rob Miller, a Chicago-based independent music publisher, sat down for a Q&A with Matt Lunsford during Day 4 of PYGMALION at Rose Bowl Tavern.
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Good luck tomorrow, old buddy. My mother adored you and we wanted that 2012 World Series so badly before she passed. #detroittigers #baseball #detroitbaseball #justinverlander
1 of my fave things about watching #filmnoir movies from the 50s, is seeing unexpected appearances by people I came to know later via childhood TV. I mean, who knew that Darren's hapless boss Larry Tate on #bewitched played a lecherous scumbag in "Sweet Smell of Success" w/Tony Curtis? #oldmovies
Happy 44th anniversary to this show in #detroit. No algorithm could have prepared me for what I walked into that night. There are a handful of shows I would love to re-experience in full sensory verisimilitude. This is one of them. #badbrains #negativeapproach #hardcoreflyers #punkhistory
thisispygmalion.com/rob-miller/ Reminder for the Champaign/Urbana area Sunday @ 4pm at the famed #rosebowltavern, I'll be in convo w/ Matt Lunsford from @polyvinyl.bsky.social Label founder/owner to label founder/owner. A different twist I'm excited about. #pygmalion @illinoispress.bsky.social
"The Hours Are Long But the Pay is Low" Spotted in the wild at McNally Jackson books in NYC by my eagle-eyed editor @marthabayne.bsky.social Now, don't hurt yourselves rushing on over there to snap it up. @millerscave.bsky.social @illinoispress.bsky.social #booksky📚 #alternativecountry
The people who adhere to the "Shut up and Play" ethos must have incredibly boring record collections.
Gillian Martin@gillmartin.bsky.social · 3w agoLaura Kuennsberg on the BBC Politics Show asked whether musicians should speak out on political subjects... Woody Guthrie, ladies & gentlemen:
Ways to help authors you love: - Review their books. - Share their posts. - Tell people about their books. - Learn the true name of the universe and manipulate it to make their book a bestseller. - Get your library to order in their books. - Ask local events to book them for appearances.
Don't miss @millerscave.bsky.social, cofounder of Bloodshot Records and author of THE HOURS ARE LONG, BUT THE PAY IS LOW at Rose Bowl Tavern on Sun, September 27, 2026 at 4pm CT! thisispygmalion.com/rob-miller/
Instead of watching or paying attention to the Nuremberg, TX rally tonight, I went to a theater to see a movie just as alarmingly relevant as it was almost 70 years. All we are missing is a Patricia Neal to tear the mask off the fraud. #andygriffith #vickerstheater #afaceinthecrowd
Watching my twenty-something kids fall in love with CDs and vinyl is something else. "I can listen without paying every month?" "Nobody knows what I put on or when?" They're not being nostalgic. They're discovering, for the first time, that a song can belong to you and only you.
Just finished this great read by @davidmaraniss.bsky.social As a Detroit-born lad, son of a "car guy", & who worked shows down the street from #motown, it was rich w/history & context that were new to me. I had NO idea how close Detroit was to getting the '68 Olympics. #booksky📚 #authors #reading
Yow! I'm feeling a hip break as I type this. It's the 31st anniv. of the 1st Bloodshot guerrilla CMJ BBQ, where we unveiled the #old97s to greater world & met fellow rootspunk loonies like World Famous Blue Jays. Artwork by Mike Werner. @old97.bsky.social @lauracannellmusic.bsky.social
At #americanafest next week in Nashville? I'll be on a couple of panels that will be fun. Especially excited to talk about #justintownesearle & his legacy on his home turf w/ @jonbern.bsky.social C'mon by. @illinoispress.bsky.social #booksky📚 #americana #authors #altcountry #insurgentcountry
Try a little tenderness, people. Otis Redding, born on this day in 1941. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqNc...
Otis Redding "Try A Little Tenderness" Live 1967
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A reminder for Chicago folks coming down to the Printers Row List Fest. We can hang and talk music, you tell me your fave Italian Beef joint, I'll tell you my fave Thai spot, whatever. @illinoispress.bsky.social #booksky📚 #printersrow
University of Illinois Press@illinoispress.bsky.social · last mo.Don't miss @millerscave.bsky.social, author of THE HOURS ARE LONG, BUT THE PAY IS LOW: A Curious Life in Independent Music at Printers Row Lit Fest (Tent E) on Sat, Sept 12, 2026 at 2pm CT! printersrowlitfest.org/schedule-grid/
When a baseball player crosses the plate after hitting a home run, looks up to the sky, and thanks God, it makes you wonder why the same God decided to screw the pitcher.
Great interview with Poison Ivy. "Nobody ever talks to me about music or guitar,” she once said. “I’m the queen of rock ’n’ roll, and for this not to be recognized is pure sexism.” Thanks to @bhtransmissions.bsky.social for the repost, as I've never read this. www.guitarworld.com/features/poi...
Poison Ivy: “It was easier for me to consider playing guitar because I was such a misfit. For me, anything was fair game”
In this previously unpublished interview, the guitarist, songwriter and producer of the Cramps looks back over decades of hoodlum music
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Still got my copy. Bought it at Blackout! Always a big hit when I Dj'd country night at Crash Palace/Delilah's. #loungeax #delilahs #crashpalace #badlivers
Patrick Monaghan@pkmonaghan.bsky.social · last mo.I got Austin’s crazy Bad Livers to do the first 7” for our little Cargo Chicago label, Fist Puppet. It’s a bluegrass punk cover of “Lust for Life,” produced by fellow Austinite Paul Leary of Butthole Surfers, and it still smokes balls. Bad Livers “Lust for Life” youtu.be/SDTDUe_sa14?...
NEWS! I'll be at the Rose Bowl Tavern 9/27 4pm in discussion w/Matt Lunsford (Polyvinyl Records) PYGMALION is an annual multi-day interdisciplinary event in Champaign-Urbana, featuring music, literature, film, comedy, technology, and food. Tix & info here: thisispygmalion.com/rob-miller/ #booksky📚
