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OBVIOUSLY I updated my Madonna playlist this morning with I Feel So Free. Links below! Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/0Jb... Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... Youtube: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Nice sonic callbacks to Future Lovers in Madonna’s I Feel So Free. Even the lyrics about creating a new persona are a reference to the message in FL. Effective tethering to the vibe of COADF without being overtly referential. Chills!

My thoughts on Madonna’s Confessions II cover… and what some of the subject matter on the album may lean into.

Here's a video from November where a DJ dropped that spoken word snippet "Oh by the way it all started like this" right before Lil Louis's "French Kiss" … the same snippet we hear in the preview for Madonna's "I Feel So Free". Anyone know where this spoken word is from?

Blake Watt's long-awaited Family Stereo debut album dropping in July on the same label as Father John Misty, Midlake and Beach House feels very very right.

Family Stereo signs to Bella Union and announces debut album, The Thread

Family Stereo, the recording alias of singer-songwriter Blake Watt, has announced his signing to Bella Union, his upcoming debut album, The Thread, and shared lead single, "Fault Lines".

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Big day today! For over a year I’ve been working on this John Travolta film “Propeller One-Way Night Coach” as an EP and one of its two editors… plus a bunch of other bts roles but that’s indie film! We’re so proud of it and it’s PREMIERING AT CANNES 😱 Drops globally on Apple TV 5/29!

Cannes to World Premiere John Travolta’s Directorial Debut ‘Propeller One-Way Night Coach’

The feature, an adaptation of a 1997 book written and illustrated by the star, will premiere in the Cannes Premiere Selection ahead of its Apple TV debut in late May.

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40!!! And forever iconic.

Our season premiere of FOX Reality Check with superstar Kalen Allen @thekalenallen.bsky.social just dropped on YouTube. Watch and send to your friends and situationships! ⬇️

Fear Factor’s Jayleen Was Getting Played By Rob? + A Scary Near Death Experience | Reality Check

YouTube video by Reality Club

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Sometimes you stumble upon an album you immediately want to frame.

Looking For Mr. Goodbar soundtrack with Diane Keaton on the cover

Picked up some CDs this week as I continue building a new collection after the fire last year. I never say “rebuilding” bc tbh so many I lost were either rare or I didn’t have catalogued so I’ll never be able to fully replace them. Still incredibly angry about that… and also all the vinyl I lost.

CDs: Trance Nation America, Thievery Corporation, Whitney Houston, Liza Minnelli, Cher, Dirty Vegas, Madonna, Janet Jackson and Enya

Ok PCD I see the vision…

First new album purchase of 2026: hemlocke springs

hemlocke springs CD album ‘The Apple Tree Under The Sea’

To celebrate Sarah McLachlan’s Tiny Desk today (finally!) shout out if you BOUGHT her new album last year 💁🏻‍♂️

Sarah McLachlan’s ‘Better Broken’ CD album. And a lot of Everything But the Girl CDs.

Picked up a few more CDs lately as I build a new collection after the fire: EBTG, Deep Dish, Mariah Carey, Cher, Thievery Corporation, William Orbit, The Style Council, Mandalay, Ben Watt, Sasha & John Digweed… Some of these you can’t get on streaming but physical media lasts forever 💿

CDs by EBTG, Deep Dish, Mariah Carey, Cher, Thievery Corporation, Natalie Merchant, William Orbit,The Style Council, Mandalay, Tori Amos

CDs by Pet Shop Boys, William Orbit, Billie Myers, Ben Watt, Sasha & John Digweed, Groove Armada’s stellar ‘Back to Mine’ installment

Janet Jackson’s ‘Control’ is 40 today. 40!!! I was 16 when she dropped this and it immediately became one of several pop albums - along with Madonna, Duran Duran and others - that laid the bedrock to my pop music taste that’s forever in overdrive today. 🧵1/4

Happy for Durand Bernarr’s Grammy win for ‘BLOOM’. Much deserved! Overqualified” is in my weekly playlist for next week ⬇️

10 SONGS 2.2.26

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Slowly rebuilding my dance CD collection. Been hunting for this Deep Dish album and finally got my hands on it at Amoeba Hollywood this week. Richard Morel is all over this, Lem Springsteen (Ultra Naté’s “Free”) and BT play on it and it’s got one of my all time fave dance tracks… 1/2 ⬇️

Deep Dish ‘Junk Science’ CD album from 1998

Inside tray of Deep Dish ‘Junk Science’ CD album from 1998

Lol’ng at the whiplash of my Heavy Rotation on Apple Music

Apple Music Heavy Rotation: The Destruction of the Cult of the Sun and Barbra Streisand

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call your senators and leave a message today. here’s how ➡️➡️➡️

find your senators’ numbers at senate.gov. look at the upper right corner for how :)

Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [CITY, ZIP].

[IF CALLING SENATE]: I’m calling to ask that [REP/SEN NAME] push to defund ICE by opposing any appropriations bill that maintains ICE funding and supporting legislation that claws back the $75 billion ICE slush fund created by H.R. 1 last year. This lawless agency is violently attacking and killing immigrants and citizens around the country and must be defunded and dissolved for good.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

IF LEAVING VOICEMAIL: Please leave your full street address to ensure your call is tallied.

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This week Defected Records dropped a 2+ hour long 2011 mix by the late Frankie Knuckles exclusively on Apple Music. It was supposed to be a Digital / CD / Vinyl release but his health wasn’t well at the time (we lost him in 2014). LEGEND.

Defected presents Frankie Knuckles In The House (DJ Mix) by Frankie Knuckles on Apple Music

Album · 2026 · 26 Songs

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Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Some of you won’t understand and (pats you on the head) that’s okay.

Julia and Suzanne Sugarbaker are a dialectic

Albumism@albumism.com · 7mo ago

Congrats! And TY to EIC Justin for letting me go (very) long on Madonna, Taylor Swift, EBTG, Mariah Carey’s ‘Glitter’, Tanya Tucker, Whitney Houston and more…

Albumism was born 10 years ago in January 2016 as a global platform & community dedicated to celebrating albums past, present and future. THANK YOU to all of the artists, readers & writers who have proven—as Prince once famously declared—that ALBUMS STILL MATTER and will for a mighty long time.

Nothing will make me walk out of a record store faster than if they don’t put prices on their CDs and instead want you to bring your selections to the counter so they can tell you the prices.