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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 4h

Sound Of Lies by The Jayhawks. MOJO were (correctly) pushing it hard: its best track on the cover-mount CD, and a review comparing it to Tonight's The Night. After the perfect pair of opening tracks - the most face-melting ten minutes I'd heard on a non-metal album - I'd found my album of the decade

Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 4h

a poll idea that just popped into my head: since we've collectively been doing 90's nostalgia for awhile as a culture, what's your secret/stealth best 90's album? not something necessarily widely super critically beloved but is nonetheless great and defining for you?

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 4h

"Anyway, I finally unbuttoned my shirt and said ”Look, look, I’m in this band here, you know, I’m in this band, you know, and we’re makin’ a recording, you know, It’s just about New York City, it’s about crime in the streets”; the explanation was going nowhere, but finally, they just kinda let me go

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Rob Tyers @thexclaim6.bsky.social · 9h

A bear spotted in the wild @robpalk.bsky.social

Hofmeister beer mat in the New Clarence, Hull

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 10h

I understood that reference (still got an iplayer tab open from weeks ago to remind me to listen, hope it's still there)

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 10h

Almost bringing to mind Derek Bailey atm! (midway through Rebica)

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 10h

Out & about music on an unseasonably warm afternoon

Album cover of Conception Vessel by Paul Motian [ECM 1028]

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks! Think I have one Potter but forget which

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 11h

Did not know this! Was wondering if I'd actually heard Gilmore prior to this, he's fantastic on it

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 12h

Our criminal institutions are full of little creeps like you who do WRONG THINGS... and many of them were driven to these crimes by a horrible force called MUSIC!

Séamas Aloysius @seamusaloysius.bsky.social · 12h

Today's Amerikkka:
Music is criminal...

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 12h

Also: props to Loveland Music for the absolutely no frills whatever disc design: this is like something I might've typed into a CDR label template in 1999, and I love it

A white CD with black centre-justified text on it, that is all

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 12h

Now: day two with this weird little wonder, in which the guitarist whose name comes first in the credits appears to have taken every opportunity to lay out as much as possible, quite brilliant understatement

CD cover of Murasaki by Jakob Bro, Wadada Leo Smith and Marcus Gilmore [Loveland Music, 2025]

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 13h

Still absolutely loving this one, but it always leaves me wanting more of both the uptempo boppish stuff that I'm less familiar with Muthspiel doing, and the intricate acoustic picking that he's always done so well; almost like I want it to pick a lane, it's so moreish on both counts

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 13h

Oh WOW just looked up that tracklist, bravo lads. One of these days I really need to carve out time and justtake the plunge with their catalogue

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 13h

Now playing

CD cover of Tokyo by Wolfgang Muthspiel with Larry Grenadier and Brian Blade [ECM 2857]

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 16h

The Doctor is coming to Fortnite so you can buy jibbitz for your Pastry

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 16h

Doctor time, let's have a Pastry

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 16h

Barkels of rain
Barkels of tears
Got all them barkels comin' out of my ears

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Sub Pop Records @subpop.bsky.social · 1d

Available NOW on all digital streams, on gold vinyl via Sub Pop Mega Mart, and on clear vinyl via sunn O)))’s online store and on tour! A widely available edition will be out later in 2025. Take a peek at that limited merch while you’re at it-> music.subpop.com/sunn_o_etern...
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