Congrats to Tonal Union (@tonalunion.bsky.social) and Blue Lake, one of the best albums of the year and everyone is talking about it

.Laveda's LOVE, DARLA captures the feeling of transition better than most. Ali Genevich and Jake Brooks discuss the move from Albany to New York City, the slow evolution of playing songs from their new album live, and of course the NYC mayoral race! merrygoroundmagazine.com/interview-lave…

Taylor Swift is a member of the Christmas Adventurers club

Brutal way to lose a Game 1. To be up the way they were throughout, then to have go ahead free throws, not make them, and lose... awful. Hope Thomas is okay but that was rough.

Woman in the Arizona music scene who never knew how to take good promo pictures moved to New York and was just modeling and that kinda checks out.

Cardinals 0-3 since their owner rented their stadium out to host a white nationalist funeral

sigh

There are unfortunately too many music twitter people I’d hope to see get Sean Fennnessey’d into oblivion, but it’ll never happen cause this community is far more accepting of annoying loud mouths and they also wouldn’t want to dance on someone’s grave.

That new single from The Format almost makes you forget about that Cardinals collapse yesterday… almost…

"I definitely think about times when it’s, like, I’m fighting with a client for some tech company that I don’t care about at all, and just think, why? It must be because I love fighting. There’s no other explanation for it." merrygoroundmagazine.com/boys-go-to-jup…

I know someone illegally streaming a game that’s a few seconds behind when I see it, good for you Heidi

I’ll salute the Guns N’ Roses branded Palestinian flag, with lyrics that don’t really apply to the situation, before I would ever salute the American flag.

The thing about THE SMASHING MACHINE is it features a Nala Sinephro score and, well, even if the movie is stunningly unremarkable, that will get you somewhere.

Re-read the Karly piece out loud to my wife and then listened to Maron’s penultimate episode, so things are just going great emotionally for me this morning.

On THE COUNT, songs are shaped from fragmentary phrases, glued together by gasps of yearning and bravado. It and frog, a band's previous '25 release, 1000 VARIATIONS ON THE SAME SONG, establish them as one of the most freewheelin' acts making music today. merrygoroundmagazine.com/with-the-count…

Good chat and one of the best debut albums of the year!