Rock music is like jazz now in that it is a niche thing mostly liked by old people and nerds. Kids these days want to be Youtube influencers, not play in a mouldy old band. They want to watch five second video clips of people screaming and tipping custard on their head. Jan Wenner, the billionaire ...

Dig the music, but the lyrics and vocals feel a little forced (? if that's the right term). It’s growing on me. I like the lyrics from the song Pamela - it took a few spins until I realized it’s written from the perspective of Pamela Voorhees in Friday the 13th, going on a murder rampage after her ...

Appendix Out - Scottish folk psychedelic band.
The album The Rye Bears a Poison - likely reference to the ergot fungus that grows on rye from which lsd is synthesized

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wvXclLwBU7g Sounds very close to the experience of taking psychedelics - I would argue that a lot of what gets classified as psych music refers mostly to fairly standard pop songs from the 60s. As much as I like some Syd Barrett, a lot of his music doesn’t sound very ps...

https://breevanreyk.bandcamp.com/album/superclusters Bree Van Reyk - Superclusters clangorous and silvery percussion wedded with stunningly dreamy post-rock passages. the second movement of "II" gets me right where I long to be. RIYL: avant garde percussion, crotales, Dirty Three Very nic...

The Christian Right (neither as far as I can see)

First day in San Francisco, my girlfriend is looking on in horror at the uncountable numbers of homeless people accumulating in the streets like so much trash, many of them clearly with severe mental health issues. We meet a filthy lady with no teeth and a small container full of pink baby rats. &q...

Ahem, not Denver, CO voters. Not Fort Collins, or Greeley, or Boulder. Oh yes I know. And not Chicago voters. And not Austin voters. Not Athens voters, or Atlanta or Charlotte or Birmingham or Minneapolis or New Orleans or Baltimore or St Louis voters. Not urban voters, generally. Not college-educa...

Abso fucking lootly. When the evangelical rape cops come around, can we defend ourselves armed only with our lofty principles? I often think of why it’s advised to bring bear spray instead of a firearm when camping or hiking in grizzly country (aside from the welfare of the animals, who have done n...