Ned Raggett
@nedraggett.bsky.social
Hi! I write about music at various spots (@thequietus.com, @thewiremagazine.bsky.social, Shfl and my Patreon, also in the past @allmusic.com, @pitchfork.com, @bandcamp.com etc. etc.). Plus podcasting about #Tolkien with friends at @bythebywater.bsky.social
Gonna challenge @quartzcity.bsky.social and @highway62.bsky.social to make the spacerock album with this as a cover. Or at least design that cover.
Lee Billings@leebillings.bsky.social · 1h agoNow on @sciam.bsky.social: Behold! These are the sharpest images of the sun's surface ever obtained, and they reveal something *wild*: never-before-seen whirlpools of plasma called Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities that are fundamental to solar energy flow. www.scientificamerican.com/article/spec...
Now on @sciam.bsky.social: Behold! These are the sharpest images of the sun's surface ever obtained, and they reveal something *wild*: never-before-seen whirlpools of plasma called Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities that are fundamental to solar energy flow. www.scientificamerican.com/article/spec...
Spectacular images reveal never-before-seen whirlpools on the sun
Strange whirlpools of plasma seen in the sharpest images ever captured of our star help explain the deep origins of Earth-threatening space weather and more
scientificamerican.com
Reminded of when Eddie Vedder thanked Pearl Jam's openers the Buzzcocks by saying "If it weren't for them, we'd probably sound like Good Charlotte."
bart@bartsmith.bsky.social · 4h ago"The Madden brothers aka Good Charlotte fired almost everyone from REVOLVER Magazine, BrooklynVegan, and Alternative Press"
Just to make the point abundantly clear, Chris Wallace is now a paid advisor to an investment firm that has a large stake in Paramount and a vested interest in getting the Warner Bros. merger over the line. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Chris Wallace: States Are Playing Politics With the Law to Block Paramount’s Warner Bros. Deal
"I don’t believe government should use its powers to determine who owns a news platform or to control how that outlet reports the news," writes the former Fox and CNN anchor, who is now a paid advisor...
hollywoodreporter.com
Tired: the Good Charlotte brothers, who founded Veeps in the first place and are part of all this fuckery. Wired: the Tokio Hotel brothers, who moved to LA and since have had a Netflix reality series about how one of them lives his best gay lifestyle 24/7, because why not. Three seasons now!
Watch Kaulitz & Kaulitz | Netflix Official Site
Twin brothers and superstars Tom and Bill Kaulitz offer a glimpse into their private lives in LA and Germany in this funny and intimate reality series.
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Leor Galil@imleor.bsky.social · 2h ago“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”
From the Archives: On the anti-psychiatry movement, which can be too quick to dismiss the efficacy of drugs and too eager to get in bed with groups like Scientologists.
The Anti-Antidepressant Syndicate | Jess McAllen
Why would Scientology, a religion with a gospel of self-improvement and wealth accumulation, get involved in debates over mental health?
thebaffler.com
While we’re here, here’s some of my recent writing about Live Nation
As Chicago’s biggest music festival, shouldn’t Lollapalooza do more to serve the city’s people? - Chicago Reader
Lollapalooza is among the many festivals organized by Austin-based promoter C3 Presents, and C3 Presents is owned by Live Nation, the largest multinational corporation in the concert business.
chicagoreader.com
Tapping the sign again that politics is not a spectrum. Left/Right is a metaphor based on an 18th century French seating chart.
vortex_egg@vortexegg.com · 56m agoAn interesting thing about this is there is a real rift between far-right fascism and technofascism. This article describes long-time fascists who are rallying against data centers, and meanwhile I’ve met plenty of committed antifascists now throwing in with tech b/c they feel empowered by LLMs.
I'm planning a cold fusion-powered time machine
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 4h ago$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
Live Nation cutting down Brooklyn Vegan is crazy because Brooklyn Vegan is one of the few ways I learn about Live Nation-promoted shows
the metal injection and metal sucks and revolver and brooklyn vegan and alt press and such layoffs following acquisition by music industry entities specifically <<<<
"Veeps was founded by Good Charlotte’s Billy and Joel Madden and has operated for many years as a ticketed livestream platform."
Leor Galil@imleor.bsky.social · 2h ago“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”
Going through the discogs of old, old labels that have long since departed and stumbled on Moteer again. Used to love their stuff, always bought whatever they put out, but somehow missed this Stereolab-esque band Minmum Chips they had 20ish years ago: minimumchips.bandcamp.com/album/kitche...
Kitchen Tea Thankyou, by Minimum Chips
12 track album
minimumchips.bandcamp.com
I’ve been screening our documentary with organizing communities in the South. So far, the organizers mention data centers first at every single event. From racial justice orgs to old school activists who don’t usually think about tech policy. This has legs.
a touch of good news. reissues of some the best music ever made: store.beggarsbanquetrecords.com/pages/artist...
The Go-Betweens
The Go-Betweens are one of the most beloved and influential Australian groups of all-time and were the quintessential cult band. Throughout their hugely acclaimed career they sustained an unparalleled...
store.beggarsbanquetrecords.com
AI can’t fix a shitty partner www.patreon.com/LyzLenz/post... @lyz.bsky.social links back to the Silicon Valley "an Uber for [Everything I Would Otherwise Expect a Woman to Do for Me] and put this with @katemanne.bsky.social 's on sycophant culture yesterday and I am tired
AI can’t fix a shitty partner | Men Yell at Me
Every year, before the school year starts, I take a full day to make sure all the sports, music, and academic calendars are properly put int
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"There’s a real irony buried in all this AI slop: one AI-surveillance company’s search engine is quietly manufacturing an excuse to destroy another AI-surveillance company’s product. If that doesn’t sum up the current state of the AI-obsessed tech industry, nothing will."
jon christian@jonchristian.net · 3h agoincredible futurism.com/artificial-i...
The Seattle library levy is on track to pass with 80% voting yes. The Seattle Times came out against it and was resoundingly ignored. Seattle voters want nice things and are willing to pay for them.
So far, voters overwhelmingly approve Seattle library levy
A property tax levy to fund the city's public library system over the next seven years is solidly ahead after the first release of vote totals Tuesday evening.
seattletimes.com
Waking up to Sharia Law in NYC is crazy. Knicks won, crime is down, 2,000 toddlers are going to school for free, parents got “date night” with nyc babysitters, they’re building housing on city land, small businesses are saving money and selling ice cream. Its sunny out i should go get one.
bad lieutenant becoming a franchise only helmed by weirdo auteurs is so funny
IndieWire@indiewire.com · 2d agoTakashi Miike's latest film will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival before Neon releases it stateside.
i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
Kicking the tires of the horse rortovator, goddamn this thing needs new tie rods
"Garage revivalists have 'projected a certain idealism onto the original bands', but ? and the Mysterians came as close as anyone to that ideal: young and unpolished, the DIY product of a hyper-local music community, yet full of wide-eyed pop ambition."
'A hypnotic effect that fills you with joy': The incredible story of 96 Tears, the US's unlikeliest one-hit wonder
In 1966, a Mexican-American teen band made one of the great smash-hit singles and helped invent garage rock, a genre that has inspired artists for decades.
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BIG PLOT TWIST in TX: Tarrant County's GOP officials, faced with intense public outrage about huge cuts to the battleground county's polling locations in November, have decided to delay their final vote on the plan so more polling places can be added
Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · 2d agoThey're probably hoping you won't hear about this. But tomorrow in TX, Tarrant County officials meet to vote on a GOP plan to cut almost HALF of Election Day voting locations, plus 8 early voting locations, some of them on campuses. Not hard to guess why. fortworthreport.org/2026/07/30/t...
...well, nobody would know except for the noises he apparently would make behind said hypothetical sheet.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 19h agoOh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
Even if they do eventually close, the Ellisons are looking at paying at least a billion dollars in ticking fees.
That is much closer to what the AGs wanted as opposed to Paramount’s request for a November trial date. It also places the Ellisons perilous close to the June must-close date. If this has to go through appeals following a bad ruling for Paramount, you could see Warner just demand its $7b kill fee.
George Pearkes@peark.es · 21h agothat's a long time to carry the deal financing huh *JUDGE SETS PARAMOUNT-WARNER BROS. MERGER TRIAL FOR MARCH 2027
