Love it when attendees show up at my book store events sporting vintage #bloodshotrecords gear. This loon showed up in #kalamazoo a couple weeks back at the great This Is A Bookstore Bring it on! @illinoispress.bsky.social #chicagomusichistory #booksky📚 #authorevents

And an essay of mine is in it!!! #booksky📚 @illinoispress.bsky.social

Anne Trubek@atrubek.bsky.social · 2d ago

We’re starting the rollout for this book of bangers (about bangers) so heads up music journalists, vinyl collectors, and dads:

Thanks muchly for the kind words. Hope the remaining chapters resonate as well. To others who feel like enriching their vacations w/ my @illinoispress.bsky.social book, I remain happy, for a small fee, to accompany you on your trip & read the book TO you. Especially if you're going to Sardinia.

Jim Watson@jimboses.bsky.social · 3d ago

The first 5 chapters absolutely spoke to me and how I found music that resonated with me in high school and was exposed to much more (in my case) in college. Zoomed through these first 5 on day 1 of vacation. Thank you @millerscave.bsky.social 🙏

Like the man says.... #booksky📚 #musicbooks #chicagomusichistory

Michael McFaul@mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 4d ago

Heading to a bookstore this weekend? Support a non-fiction author! Buy a book—any book—and tell me which one you chose!

New podcast: Graham Parker @thegrahamparker.bsky.social in conversation. From Howlin' Wind to today, we packed more than 50 years of music, songwriting and stories into less than two hours thestrangebrew.co.uk/graham-parke...

Graham Parker - In Conversation - The Strange Brew

Graham Parker interview: Nick Lowe producing Howlin' Wind, Bob Dylan telling him that he loved 'Don't Ask Me Questions.' Breaking up the Rumour, the accidental reunion, and being getting cast in Judd ...

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Online music streaming service: "We have a billion songs!" Me: "Awesome! I want to hear a song released on July 27, 1997" Online service: "No. You can't search by date" Me: "Oh, ok then I want <song title> by <artist>" Online service: "Here's 300 popular recommendations unrelated to your query"

THIS SATURDAY at 4PM. Replay at 6pm Sunday Streaming at nolaradionow.com We talk about my book, NOLA, & the DJ just shared w/me the music being featured. It'll be a hoot, and/or a gas! Laissez les bon temps roulez! @illinoispress.bsky.social #booksky📚 #rootsradio #musicbooks #altcountry

@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social

Rob Miller@millerscave.bsky.social · last wk.

Finished last night. Answers the question that we all intuitively know the answer to, but can't articulate the reasoning. So many sentences stopped me in my tracks. Solid thumbs up. #booksky📚 #robertmacfarlane #rivers #reading #books #nature

Finished last night. Answers the question that we all intuitively know the answer to, but can't articulate the reasoning. So many sentences stopped me in my tracks. Solid thumbs up. #booksky📚 #robertmacfarlane #rivers #reading #books #nature

Sinead O'Connor died three years ago yesterday; the paperback of our book, NOTHING COMPARES TO HER: WHAT SINEAD O'CONNOR MEANS TO US, drops in August. A few of the essays in the book are linked in the Substack post, below, including work by Neko Case, Megan Stielstra, and Rayne Fisher-Quann.

No Other Troy

Three years after her death, Sinéad O'Connor is more powerful than ever

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Oof. I had a bad case of berry speckles once. Took weeks to clear up.

Discontinued Foods!@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 2w ago

Punch-Flavored Mixed Beary Teddy Grahams (2002-2002): Fruit punch-flavored Teddy Graham cookies, complete with "berry" speckles.

Music nerds! Join me tmrw at 4pm EDT for Miller's Cave on WRHC-FM or sttreaming at www.radioharborcountry.org Digging into the weird underbelly of roots music. Got @calexicoband.bsky.social #wandajackson #aretha #otisredding Tiny Topsy & more. The Cure for the Common Radio! #rootsradio

Same thing happened to me last weekend at the Detroit Festival of Books. Totally agree with you.

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2w ago

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

32nd anniversary of storied #chicago club #loungeax giving an untested and unheard of label their 1st ever showcase celebrating their 1st ever release. Image appears in full cover in my book (link in bio). Artwork by Mike Werner

Saw him AT LEAST 20 times, and he never failed to go beyond "entertaining" and reach "astounding"

Terry Buckalew@terrybuckalew.bsky.social · 2w ago

Sleepy LaBeef’s birthday (July 20, 1935 at Smackover, Arkansas). Here’s his version of “Tore Up” set to footage from the 1968 film “The Exotic Ones” featuring Sleepy as a marijuana-crazed monster who preys on strippers(!). youtu.be/gHS0YQmYkLU?...

My 2026 MICHIGAN NOTABLE BOOK tour ends this week. If you are in the area, would love to see you. Depending on what @craigmaki.bsky.social asks me, it could get weird. Detroit/Ann Arbor music history, the importance of community...we'll hit it all. #booksky📚 #musicbooks #insurgentcountry

the 'authors shouldn't use big words' thing is so antithetical to the way I read. It's a JOY to learn a new word. Isn't it exciting to come away from a book knowing something you didn't?

Hey SE MI!!! Come on by to my FREE public library event in Saline this coming Wednesday. It will be smoke & Taco Bell lettuce free! Interviewing me will be @craigmaki.bsky.social , a fine author himself. The music geekery will be in full flower. #booksky📚 thesuntimesnews.com/bloodshot-re...

Bloodshot Records Co-Founder Brings Indie Music Story to Saline - The Sun Times News

Rob Miller will share how a cocktail-napkin idea became a force in independent music Before Bloodshot Records became an internationally known home for roots music, Americana and alt-country, it began ...

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My interview on WCBN's Living Writers radio program has been archived ICYMI. A good warm up for my events at Saline & Northville Public Libraries next week. See robmillerwriting.com for details sites.lsa.umich.edu/living-write...

You might be wondering how you can support an author when you're short of time, money, energy, etc. But honestly, making your own post about a book helps us! The more people who are talking about a book? Well, that's how buzz begins. You can do that on whatever sites you use.

Lawrence OverpricedTankofGasThanksToGeoPoliticalFuckUppery

kim@kimmymonte.bsky.social · 3w ago

your baseball pitcher name is your grandfather’s first name and the last thing you bought i’ll go first mine’s Dominic Sandals

Am I the only person who hates the word "drizzle?" Especially in regards to food? It is my "moist" (another oft-cited hated word).

Discontinued Foods!@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 3w ago

Oreo Fudge Rings (2008-2013): Thin, crispy, ring-shaped chocolate cookies, covered with a drizzle of white fudge

Regarding what is considered the "classic rock canon", 33% I actively despise, 33% I am utterly indifferent to, & 33% bores me. But once in a while, something in that remaining 1% jumps up & bites me in the ears. The freaking James Gang, mf'ers.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo0v... #classicrock

Support the libraries! Hope to see you here. #booksky📚 #musicbooks

University of Illinois Press@illinoispress.bsky.social · 3w ago

Michigan Notable Books Author Talk with @millerscave.bsky.social, co-founder of Bloodshot Records and author of THE HOURS ARE LONG, BUT THE PAY IS LOW, at Saline District Library on Wed, July 22, 2026 at 6:30pm EDT! Register here: salinelibrary.org/events/#/eve...

If you read my book (& for shame if not...), you'll know what an impact college radio had on me. I returned to the scene of the crime & recorded an interview on #wcbn in Ann Arbor for their Living Writers program. Streaming TODAY at 5pm Eastern. wcbn.org #booksky📚 #detroitmusichistory #altcountry

Now more than ever, we need to support our local libraries. 📕📖📚📔📘📗 #BookSky #books #reading #library

Last night. In "Is A River Alive?" by #robertmacfarlane

Rae Radford@raeradford.bsky.social · 3w ago

When was the last time you did this👇🏼 #BookSky

Michigan Notable Books Author Talk with @millerscave.bsky.social, co-founder of Bloodshot Records and author of THE HOURS ARE LONG, BUT THE PAY IS LOW, at Northville District Library on Tues, July 21, 2026 at 7pm EDT! Register here: northvillelibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/hol...

Four-Song Peel Session of American garage rock band The Detroit Cobras from February 13, 2003. Includes a cover of Nathaniel Mayer's "Village of Love". Length: 17:39. #GarageRock m.youtube.com/watch?v=OYuK...

The Detroit Cobras - Peel Session 2003

YouTube video by Vibracobra23

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Reminder Kazoo area folks. This Thursday. 2 authors, 2 different fields of interest in the creative fields, but the stories are VERY similar: the drive, the obsession, and the commitment to community. @illinoispress.bsky.social @nupress.bsky.social #bookevents #booksky📚 #thisisabookstore

Rob Miller@millerscave.bsky.social · 4w ago

#KALAMAZOO! 1 week from today. Join myself & Maggie as we discuss our new books & life's work to make essential space for story, music, and art. RSVP here: live-bookbug1722461349.pantheonsite.io/event/2026-0... @illinoispress.bsky.social #booksky📚 #bookevents #musicbooks #theaterbooks