My Top 5 Songs of the Week (2024 Week 14):
https://youtu.be/U2xh4-Swzp8
1. The Black Keys – "On The Game". The Keys hit the sweet spot for the third time with another track from their latest LP Ohio Players. Guest Noel Gallagher helps turn the track into a late-'60s Beatles-into-early-'70s ex-Beatles-flavored anthem. #music

If I were the Mole People, I'd send my armies to attack the surface world today, while the humans are all looking up at the eclipse. Just sayin'.

I have an idea for a 1920s-style cartoon in which there's an assembly line where a bunch of cats are fed shovelsful of tobacco and then poop out perfectly rolled cigars, which we later see being smoked by wealthy dogs wearing top hats, monocles, etc. while everyone around them reacts in disgust.

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https://youtu.be/_QyvC3MkrAg
5. Holiday Ghosts – "Energy". Falmouth, UK band with a song one could easily mistake for a lost '80s college rock track by The Feelies or Pylon, right down to being inspired by an obscure early Devo track. #music

https://youtu.be/RUxTydBtuSc
4. DIIV – "Everyone Out". Druggy, languorous and hazy slowcore from Brooklyn quartet DIIV, reminiscent of Low and Spiritualized. #music

https://youtu.be/if2juwy6T70
3. Blondshell featuring Bully – "Docket". Two of indie music's leading young lights pair their amazing voices on this intense self-examination set to a hooky, grunge-tinged '90s rock sound. #music

https://youtu.be/6X5U6Pp7u2w
2. Persimmon – "True Crime". New Zealand indie pop band Persimmon mine Go-Betweens-like vocals but lean more heavily on jangle-pop guitars on this timely track about the podcast genre everyone's obsessed with these days. #music

My Top 5 Songs of the Week (2024 Week 13):
https://youtu.be/V5AkcxtHnwU
1. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings – "Don't Wanna Lose You". Tragically, we did lose Sharon Jones to cancer in 2016, but now Daptone Records has unearthed this stunning outtake from her final album. Less about mimicking the sound of classic soul than giving it new life in the moment. #music

https://youtu.be/Q_ly6F5gttE
Seth Meyers takes a hilarious peek at recent developments under the rock that is Trump's failing mind.

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https://youtu.be/g9eXgt7h_NA
5. Elbow – "Things I've Been Telling Myself for Years" Dark, proggy, almost Bowie-esque slowburner from Manchester rockers. #music

https://youtu.be/tF0bfZ6qLak
4. Lenny Kravitz – "Human". The super mod Kravitz is back with this track, which takes a '70s soft-rock backing, soups it up with Depeche Mode percussion and Lenny's hip rebel vocal and somehow makes it cool. #music

https://youtu.be/2lcFSS7b5nc
3. Travis – "Gaslight" . Veteran Scottish post-Britpop band comes up with this jangly, hooky, horn-peppered tale of psychological manipulation. #music

https://youtu.be/0jbI2wNBWqw
2. ionnalee – "Innocence of Sound". Swedish art-popper rolls out a postpunk/synthpop gem reminiscent of Kate Bush, The Human League and Eurythmics. #music

My Top 5 Songs of the Week (2024 Week 12):
https://youtu.be/aezstCBHOPQ
1. Hozier – "Too Sweet". My 19-year-old turned me on to Irish superstar Hozier, and what can I say, the kid nailed it. On this song, the Black Keys-like bass builds tension through the verses that the choruses release before setting you up for another round. #music

Alien Buddha Zine #61 (April 2024) is now out and contains a 7-page excerpt from Hypnopompic Diaries, my full-length book which is also out now from AlienBuddha Press. Check 'em both out on Amazon. #poetry

Try to make it through Christopher Walken’s scenes in Dune Part Two without giggling at his Shatneristic speech rhythms challenge.

http://www.rulrul.4mg.com/ I'm pleased to announce that another of my hypnopompic diary poems is now posted in the new issue of First Literary Review - East. This one is a direct translation of a dream I experienced. My thanks to the editors, Cindy Hochman and Karen Neuberg. #poetry

My best of 2024 (so far) playlist is updated regularly and can be found here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDJeO4dNUaIn2mN9hFpBK1szGAA07d8pq&si=ZVqklnxTIwkgAQKq
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