My cousin’s band Chalk Teeth just dropped a new single.

It’s an entrancing and unique concoction that touches on elements of dark wave, synth punk, shoegaze, early electronic dance music and krautrock, all while leading with vocals in the Polish language.

I’m very proud, even though I had nothing to do with it (other than somewhat genetically). Check it out! 🎵

I bought every studio Fugazi album on Bandcamp, along with the new Albini Sessions. No regrets. 🎵

My cousins released their first single with their new band. Chalk Teeth Make A Striking Debut With Their Brooding Dark Wave Single ‘Struck’. Dark dance-y synth. Get movin. 🎵

I saw LCD Soundsystem over the weekend. What a great show. First time seeing them. They’re a band I’ve had on my list to dig into, and never did. This is that push. 🎵

Gentle reminder that Black Sabbath’s Sabotage album cover was itself the victim of sabotage.

The designers “carried on with the shoot, explaining they would superimpose the images at a later stage and that it would look great, to be honest. The session was unbelievably rushed, and the outcome was far from what had been originally envisaged.”

Those were their street clothes. 🎵 🤘

I’ve been listening to Something To Consume by Die Spitz. Heavy, young band with tons of energy and solid songs. Caught on to them after being recommended their KEXP performance. The vibe between the gals is so infectious and genuine. 🎵

I saw John Carpenter at the knockdown center last night. Really fun show, and we were on the street before 10:30pm! ❤️🎵👴

I’ve been digging into some new music this month. And by new music, I mean there’s also a bunch of stuff from a few years ago, and some of that is incredibly generous with the word …

Today, I learned that Shania Twain and Mutt Lange’s relationship was even wilder than I thought.

[They announced their breakup] after Lange had an affair with Twain’s then-best friend and secretary Marie-Anne Thiébaud, with whom he reportedly continued the relationship and moved to Switzerland.[7] Lange and Twain divorced in June 2010. On 1 January 2011, Twain married Frédéric Thiébaud, the former husband of Marie-Anne.

Where’s the Netflix documentary? 🎵

Another excuse to continue not listening to KISS. 🇺🇸🎵

Trump inducting KISS, Sylvester Stallone & more into 2025 Kennedy Center Honors (which he’s hosting)

RIP Ozzy Osbourne. He was such an important musician in my life. Lots of folks knew him as a piece of pop culture, but he was a force. Here he is performing War Pigs with Black Sabbath in 1971. 🎵

Stumbled across the obscure proto-metal band Sir Lord Baltimore in the Dopes to Infinity Wikipedia entry. Good stuff! I especially liked their first album. Loud Wire wrote a piece on their interesting story.

Since their inception, Sir Lord Baltimore were told they were five or 10 years ahead of their time. That’s great for establishing a legacy, but terrible for paying bills.

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Just received these in the mail. Keeping my record collection unhinged. 🎵

I was up past my bedtime last night seeing my cousin’s band, Chalk Teeth. 🎵

I picked up “Dopes to Infinity”, but turns out, I didn’t. I’m still in. 🎵

My recent Discogs haul. 🎵

I started getting into The Dandy Warhols. The name really annoys me, but …The Dandy Warhols Come Down is great. 🎵

Andrew Sacher wrote a beautiful elegy for Brian Wilson on Brooklyn Vegan. RIP. 🎵

Brian resonates so much with indie/alternative/underground musicians because, no matter how famous The Beach Boys are, being a Brian Wilson fan means you’re in on one of the most profound secrets in all of pop music history.

Correction: five days ago, I got French metal band Animalize confused with their album title. The band name is Animalize, and the album is called Verminator, not the other way around.

This brought to you by the department of corrections no one complained about.

Everyone needs to reckon with how badass The Commodores looked.

Been grooving to Animalize’s new album Verminator. They’re like if ‘80 glam and thrash metal got in a car crash in France. 🎵

I snagged Head Of The Love Club, an EP by up and coming British pop singer Gretel Hänlyn, on the strength of Drive. Nothing else on the record comes close to that one for me, but there’s a lot of promise. She’s one to keep an eye on. 🎵

I bought electronic music pioneer Susan Ciani’s 1982 album Seven Waves. Truly staggering atmospheric work. 🎵

I’ve listened to a lot of Jello Biafra & The Melvin’s side project collaboration Never Breathe What You Can’t See from 2006. It’s the angry, well wrought crush punk we need now. 🎵

I bought Fear - The Ultimate Anthology, by Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin. Cool re-recorded versions of a bunch of classic horror movies either Claudio or the original Goblin scored, and mostly Argento joints. Cool stuff! 🍿🎵