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Al Shipley
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Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music out August 19, 2025 on Repeater Books / [email protected] http://westernblot.bandcamp.com
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 8d
TV Diary - The Lowdown, House of Guinness, Wayward, Black Rabbit, Hotel Costiera, The Rainmaker, Invasion, Haunted Hotel, Knights of Guinevere, etc.
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narrowcast: TV Diary
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 12h
typo of the day: "pandeomic"
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 14h
i messed up the autofill fields when i was paying a parking ticket and got my name and the make and model of my car scrambled together, and that is how i got an email addressing me as 'Alexander TOYOT'
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 14h
Movie Diary - Highest 2 Lowest, The Lost Bus, Damsel, The Woman in the Yard, Pavements, The Bad Guys 2, Wicked, The Black Phone, Devo, Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery,
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narrowcast: Movie Diary
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 17h
shit. d'angelo!? shit.
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 18h
for the first time in my life i have multiple credit cards and i hate it so much, just in terms of remembering when the different monthly payments are due
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 18h
it's pretty low on the list of issues now but kanye was always waaay too into rapping the word 'dyke'
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 19h
witnessing David Foster Wallace's career in real time was really something. Incarnations of Burned Children was first published in an issue of Esquire with Debra Messing on the cover.
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 19h
i did a new interview about Tough Breaks with John's Music Blog:
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INTERVIEW: AL SHIPLEY
THE AUTHOR OF A NEW BOOK ABOUT BALTIMORE CLUB
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 19h
at least in dc they do
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 19h
still continually getting the band Black Eyes confused with both Black Lips and Wolf Eyes
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 20h
i love that producers have gotten really shameless with imitating early 2000s neptunes beats lately
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Jay Worthy & Leven Kali - Open Minded (Official Visualizer)
YouTube video by LNDN DRGS
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 1d
i barely slept last night, but let's see if i can go to bed early tonight, i feel slightly broken and unable to sleep but hopefully that will pass sooner than later
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 1d
this was on wtmd and i got so upset when i realized what they were singing
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Sponge Bob Square Pants
YouTube video by Black Lodge - Topic
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 1d
baltimore billboards are so annoying
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 1d
i haaaaaate that r&b stations play this stupid blend instead of the album version of "yukon"
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Justin Bieber, LoveRance - Yukon X Up (TikTok Mashup) [Lyrics]
YouTube video by Blissful Mind
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 1d
I interviewed Ryan and Sean of Yellowcard for a Spin piece about their new album Better Days, their first #1 radio hit, and collaborating with Travis Barker and Avril Lavigne:
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Yellowcard’s Best Days are Happening Right Now
“It’s so rad to be on this wave again,” says Yellowcard frontman Ryan Key. “What are the odds of catching this wave twice in your life,
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 1d
every actor should get to do what Michelle Williams did when making their worst film: turn to the camera and say "hey, I'm sorry about [title of film]"
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 1d
really one of my favorite moments as a music writer, hearing a new song at midnight and thinking: "this is definitely going straight to number one, and i may the only journalist who's in touch with the guy whose voice is looped on this 80 times." hit T on Facebook, got him on the phone the next day.
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tombreihan.bsky.social @tombreihan.bsky.social · 1d
Number Ones on a 10.
The Number Ones: Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP”
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat:...
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 1d
mj lenderman, i call him "grandson volt"
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 1d
of course Stitches and Forgiato Blow have a song together
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 1d
it's quaint to think there was a time when crazy face tattoos were unusual enough to make a rapper famous. remember Stitches?
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 1d
sadly i'm nostalgic for bad mixtape photoshop now that we're in the age of bad mixtape ai
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 2d
fabolous is underrated but trying to put him over lil wayne is Not The Way
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 2d
it's pretty funny that jay electronica waited until 2025 to release so much music where he brags about being friends with diddy
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