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I was driving through New Jersey and heard a radio station holding a marathon of Duke Ellington recordings in chronological order. I particularly noticed a series of alternate takes of "Creole Rhapsody". [more inside]
posted by acrasis at 7:28 PM PST - 7 comments

Super Marcato Bros. Sound of Play. Rhythm and Pixels. VGMpire. Video Game Groove. Game Audio Podcast. VGM101. A Band of Gamers. VGMbassy. Pixelated Audio. Retro Gaming Boombox. Pixel Beat. WaveBack. Game That Tune. Music Respawn. Sound of Gaming. The Legacy Music Hour Podcast. VGM Tracker.
posted by Fizz at 4:58 PM PST - 3 comments

Nina Renata Aron on Being in Love With an Addict "If there isn’t coffee or milk at home, I simply wait. The day might take on a different shape, a detour to stop at a café or a trip to the market... This isn’t like that. The necessity of getting drugs and the wolfish entitlement to be high arrive anew each morning with the rosy light of daybreak, and he sets about, diversionless, feeding that urge." [more inside]
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 12:59 PM PST - 48 comments

Joel Hodgson has announced via the AV Club that they're doing a special live show of Mystery Science Theater 3000 on May 3 (Sunday) at 6 PM Eastern, over a variety of venues including Twitch, YouTube, Facebook and others, riffing over the Season One episode Moon Zero Two.
posted by JHarris at 12:08 PM PST - 12 comments

What do we want to be to one another? What do we want our society to look like? What are we not paying enough attention to? Where do we want to go next? What should Ireland write on a postcard to itself? [more inside]
posted by stonepharisee at 11:46 AM PST - 2 comments

AI Memes by Imgflip with a stream of Memes generated by the AI meme generator
posted by chavenet at 11:08 AM PST - 46 comments

All 143 Willie Nelson Albums, Ranked. Willie turns 87 today! There'll be a special broadcast on youtube of his 1976 appearance on Austin City Limits -- starts at 4:20 Central, don't forget!
posted by Capt. Renault at 10:09 AM PST - 25 comments

Warp Earth Catalog is a weekly mixtape of ideas to inspire, inform, enable and energize creativity and positivity in a time of global disruption and uncertainty. Based on the classic countercultural guide the Whole Earth Catalog (Internet Archive collection)and its credo of ‘access to tools’, these are tools for strength, awareness and thoughtful entertainment. From wherever in the world we are, let’s support each other, make things and help maintain the ecosystem of independent creativity. The first issue from Warp Records (previously) is available now.
posted by filthy light thief at 9:27 AM PST - 9 comments

Sharing a bed with 3 pugs. (slyt)
posted by bonobothegreat at 9:11 AM PST - 14 comments

"The initial coronavirus outbreaks in New York City emerged at roughly the same time as those in Seattle. But the cities’ experiences with the disease have markedly differed. By the second week of April, Washington State had roughly one recorded fatality per fourteen thousand residents. New York’s rate of death was nearly six times higher. The cities' leaders acted and communicated very differently in the early stages of the pandemic." [more inside]
posted by entropone at 9:08 AM PST - 75 comments

When Mom’s Zoom Meeting Is the One That Has to Wait, New York Times. “It’s like our economy is this house of cards for women and it is just toppling down,” says Cecile Richards, a founder of SuperMajority, a new political organization aimed at energizing female voters. “All of the structural problems that we’ve all known intellectually you can now see in pretty much every woman’s daily life.”
posted by bile and syntax at 8:35 AM PST - 74 comments

1985 was a ridiculously strong year for music releases. April 29, 1985, Eurythmics' fourth album Be Yourself Tonight became a worldwide success [YT album link, 44m] with several hit singles, and moved their sound from synth-pop to rock. Side A: Would I Lie To You? [video], There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart) [video], I Love You Like A Ball And Chain, Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves (with Aretha Franklin) [video] [yes, this video was in 1985] [more inside]
posted by hippybear at 5:58 AM PST - 18 comments

Nannies Tell the Truth About Working During the Coronavirus (SL The Cut) "A lot of nannies from the Caribbean have died. We have a nannies group, and they would post the people. It’s about ten to 15 from the Caribbean. A lot of them had to go into work, and that’s one of the reasons why I think so many of them lost their lives. We know that money is important, but I would have really not gone into work. Because if you have the money and you lose your life, what sense does it make?"
posted by daybeforetheday at 2:50 AM PST - 19 comments

This Killing in the Name cover by audrey will fuck up your day with utter authority-smashing cuteness. Autocrats beware.
posted by Ten Cold Hot Dogs at 2:06 AM PST - 16 comments

"The OJ 287 galaxy hosts one of the largest black holes ever found - over 18 billion times the mass of our Sun. Orbiting this behemoth is another black hole with about 150 million times the Sun's mass. Twice every 12 years, the smaller black hole crashes through the enormous disk of gas surrounding its larger companion, creating a flash of light brighter than a trillion stars - brighter, even, than the entire Milky Way galaxy. The light takes 3.5 billion years to reach Earth." Researchers are able to both predict and see this flash of light (NASA Press Release) (Here’s a video) [more inside]
posted by vacapinta at 1:28 AM PST - 17 comments