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Been a lot of talk here about "punk" lately, which we've been staying out of, bc we don't really fit in that world. But we are bringing some "punk" to Elyria, OH, in about 3 weeks; doing a show there, supported by 2 different punk bands of friends: HAMS + Lorain Skum. That'll have to do.

youtu.beJohnnie Frierson - Miracles [US, Raw Gospel/Soul] (1970)

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The guitar chording in this hits so nice. 🤌🤌🤌

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Johnnie Frierson - Miracles [US, Raw Gospel/Soul] (1970) https://redd.it/oagaxz https://youtu.be/eALEn9wCtPA

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Rebecca Thompson 🦋

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(1969) They met and formed the band at an art school in Walthamstow, England. This is the A side to their only single. #MusicSky youtu.be/5Zt3_ZaB_VE?...

youtu.beMandrake Paddle Steamer - Strange Walking Man(1969)YouTube video by PSYCHIE60S

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rauðvik / blávik (they/þau) 💛🤍💜🖤

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raudvik.bandcamp.comCassini-Huygens, by rauðvik3 track album

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Big Stir Records

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A glowing review from the Retro Action column by Jim Kaz in New Noise Magazine, covering the album "It's All Good, Sugar..." by The Greenberry Woods (out now: orcd.co/greenberrywo...). Read more (including nods for The Spongetones and Strawberry Alarm Clock)!👇 newnoisemagazine.com/columns/retr... 🎸

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XCSB Cleveland

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XCSB DJs will be turning up the spooky music vibes, Wednesday, October 28 from 6-8 pm @noclasscle.bsky.social, 11213 Detroit Ave. Featuring DJ Cousin Bobby, DJ Belladonna & DJ Jerry, plus a costume contest & prizes! Join us for a frightfully good time! 21+ only! Donations accepted for XCSB.

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Stackerlee- Dave Van Ronk (1962) [folk] https://redd.it/11hib44 https://youtu.be/nRNSlE5Wq3M

youtu.beStackerlee- Dave Van Ronk (1962) [folk]

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Kel in the U.S.A.

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Here's part 1 of the show. youtu.be/-Lvljji-l08?... 75 years of Latin Music in #Lorain #LorainOhio #latinmusic #LiveMusic #SupportLiveMusic #MusicSky

youtu.be75 Years Of Latin Music In Lorain (Part 1)YouTube video by Arroyo, Kel Arroyo

Watching the Browns.

nascar.comSammy Smith wins chaotic Truck Series race at Talladega in overtimeSammy Smith won the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Talladega Superspeedway in overtime after a hectic race in The Chase.

Just watched the highlights of this race on the #NASCAR channel on YouTube. It's a wild one; with some narrow escapes + some very brutal...not-escapes. Finish was wild, too; but also cleanly fought among 4 (!) drivers. Well worth a watch.

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Sammy Smith wins chaotic Truck Series race at Talladega in overtime #NASCAR #PowerRankings #XfinitySeries #TruckSeries #AutoCup #KyleLarson #KyleBusch #ChaseElliott #KevinHarvick #BubbaWallace #TylerReddick #Playoffs www.nascar.com/news-media/2...

The article tap-dances around why (of course). The ODP statewide is an ineffectual mess; + its branch in Greater CLE is an old political "machine" with 60% of its parts stripped out + junked. When ordinary ppl have no effective "voice" in a party anymore, they just stop showing up for it.

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Ohio Democrats have long had a voter-turnout challenge in Greater Cleveland https://mrf.lu/2H5ks

youtu.beChairmen of the Board - Finder's Keeper's [US Funk/Soul] (1973)

Hi, shag is doing his "side job" tonight, working with The Rick Ray Band playing Rick's unique brand of psychedelic prog, at the Maple Grove Tavern in Maple Hts. OH, just south of Cleveland. 10 bucks cheap, just like our shows; they play late so stop by if you're rolling out tonight.

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Chairmen of the Board - Finder's Keeper's [US Funk/Soul] (1973) https://redd.it/ybvraq https://youtu.be/LmG14CI-Qh8

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Doors In The Labyrinth

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Setlist! SO MUCH CURRENT 93! I hit most of the major albums, and some of the weirder stuff too. Next week, all covers, back to my usual weirdness!

Race schedule's out!!🏁🏁🏁

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Tune In Alert: NASCAR is in Talladega, F1 in COTA, MotoGP in Phillip Island, Australian Supercars in Surfers Paradise. You can also catch the famed Formula Ford Festival all weekend on YouTube, if you're up early enough.

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d.barnette

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It's gonna be pretty hard to beat this drone's car outfit for Best Halloween Costume of 2026...

youtu.beJames Gang - Funk #49YouTube video by Libertine62

Well, there goes the theme song i was gonna suggest: youtu.be/U_qHU_6Ofc0?...

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Williams will name its 2027 Formula 1 car the FW50, skipping the FW49 designation entirely, as part of a year-long programme marking the team’s 50th anniversary. The post Williams reveals plans for major F1 2027 milestone appeared first on Motorsport W…

motorsportweek.comWilliams reveals plans for major F1 2027 milestoneWilliams will name its 2027 Formula 1 car the FW50, skipping the FW49 designation entirely, as part of a year-long

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Mark Dziak

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Marching Band was a big part of my HS life and I enjoyed it. Good thread about the implications of defending music education

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Gonna risk sounding overly earnest + dorky here; but if you have one of these around your area in the US, + you love live music (even the heavy stuff), you'd do well to support shows like this while you can.🧵

medi-nerd.com2026 Brunswick Sound SpectacularFor the third straight year, I will have the pleasure of announcing the 2026 Brunswick Sound Spectacular Ohio Music Education Association (OMEA) marching band competition on Saturday, October 24.

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2026 Brunswick Sound Spectacular For the third straight year, I will have the pleasure of announcing the 2026 Brunswick Sound Spectacular Ohio Music Education Association (OMEA) marching band competition on Saturday, October 24.

In this, the future of rock n' roll bands + marching bands are intertwined, as well as the future of all live music. Your next generation is on those fields, whumping out the Anthem + the "fight songs", + hopefully, catching the bug.

So please consider supporting your local marching bands, while they last. Go to stuff, buy their merch (should they have some), help keep them alive. They're a pipeline we can't afford to lose entirely. Thanks. 🧵

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Anyway, high school marching bands are sort of an endangered species these days; declining enrollments, funding cuts, the increasing fragmentation of schooling in general; + music education in particular, mean fewer kids get their start there than before.

We can already see this through the "drummer shortage" that affects all genres of rock + metal music. Drummers are nearly harder to find than singers now. In 10 years, it may be even harder.

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The marching band was often their first real taste of regular performance, as well as consistent group practice, + many first extracurricular rock bands formed in friend-groups made in the bleachers + on the busses.

Most of those early bands barely survived to graduation, of course; but a few of their members "caught the bug" there, + it never left them. They may have left the trumpet or sousaphone behind, but the identity of "musician" became permanent.

Kevin Gamin@medi-nerd.com

It's a fact not often brought up that a substantial portion of rock + metal bands across all genres have members who started with music as kids in school band. Drummers in particular are often born + raised in those bandrooms, tapping clapped-out snare drums + toms.

psychopete1.substack.comThe MembershipI learned I did not have pet insurance the day our tiny cat chased our elderly dog down a hallway and he bounced down the stairs.

Easy one. 🧀🧀🧀🧀

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social

question for the audience: if you were ultra rich (let’s say $25M), what completely frivolous thing are you buying?

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Psycho Pete

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I learned something that day. Systems rarely collapse when their purpose disappears. The purpose disappears first. The billing continues indefinitely. The Great Extraction doesn't stop until they have it all or we say "no." psychopete1.substack.com/p/the-member...

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Alerts from NWS Cleveland OH (UNOFFICIAL)

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CLE issues STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT TRUMBULLNORTHERN PORTAGE [wind: 50 MPH, hail: 0.00 IN] for Ashtabula Inland, Geauga, Portage, Trumbull [OH] till 8:30 AM EDT at Fri, 1... at Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:49:55 +0000 via IEMbot Additional Details Here.

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derek guy

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As you dabble in this aesthetic, pay attention to how you feel. A lot of clothing ends up in landfills not because they bear some material defect, but because the person didn't feel good in the clothes. Thus, pay attention to what I call "emotional durability." dieworkwear.com/2020/08/01/o...

dieworkwear.comOn Emotional Durability — Die, Workwear!The hottest trend last year wasn’t the oversized puffer jackets, patchwork coats, or resurgence of lowbrow patterns such as tie-dye and leopard prints. Instead, the dominating trend of 2019 was the to...

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Brandy Schillace

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ZOMBIES ARE FOR EVERYONE so join us Oct 22 LIVE (ironic, right?) with @danielkraus.com free to all, live streamed only on @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/dXijCSD...

youtube.comYou won't be able to stomach Daniel Kraus and Partially DevouredYouTube video by Peculiar Book Club

I regret to inform you that the Music Advice Givers have become fragile.

As bands, we tend to develop a thick skin; some people just refuse to be pleased + are happy to tell us so. We accept that most of our efforts get wasted, punted into the void, due to accidents of timing or format or discourse-weather. No use fussin' about it, just learn + go again

Perhaps the Advice Givers could learn a thing like that from their "students", + acknowledge where those folks are really at in 2026. Because it ain't 1983, or 1995, or even 2002. It might even make the Givers happier people, too. 🪔🧵

I regret to inform you that the Music Advice Givers have become fragile.

It's not the intention to send them into paroxysms, there are more direct ways for that one uses when no discussion is worth having. Truth be told, musicians work harder today than they ever did in days of yore, on every aspect of existing in the art today. They have to, to exist at all. And...

...they get less in return for their efforts than ever before. It's just how we live now. The things done + lengths gone to by only the very most ambitious bands in 1985-96, are the minimum to be seen + heard now. Like ducks, even the most serene floating hides a mad paddling beneath the surface.

I regret to inform you that the Music Advice Givers have become fragile.

...they address their own audiences with stereotypes, tales twice-told, overheard from label bosses in 1983. As if anyone could afford to be the stereotypical druggy-lewd menace that was said to be afoot in those days, in this economy. Those days might as well be the Age Of Fishes, compared to now.

Anyway, any amount of pushback on this misalignment, however gently phrased, seems to make them explode with ceramic-landmine intensity; as if one had stolen their shoe-lifts and insulted their cat. Given the predominant demo-derby style of commentary bluntness on apps these days, it's surprising.

I regret to inform you that the Music Advice Givers have become fragile.

There's something about the "lazy entitled musician" trope that they just cannot leave behind; even tho' that species has been functionally extinct since the Year of Exile (2020-21), + critically endangered for at least 15 years before that.

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You'd think they'd know better, interacting as they do (allegedly) with rosters of active, hard-charging artists rolling up ground in an otherwise unfriendly environment on a daily/weekly basis, and yet...

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Wednesday

secondweather.substack.com/p/a-poem-for...

secondweather.substack.comA Poem for the Me that will Someday Be Happily Dead :I don't know how to manage my desire to feel alive.

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XCSB Cleveland

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T minus 1 day! We’re back at Mister Zhang’s tomorrow night for XCSB Offline! Join us for an evening of music and community. Nik Nak and Le Schlippy will be spinning dance, disco and electronic music. Grab a drink, listen to the music and dance! 8P-? $5 suggested donation (proceeds fund XCSB)

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web3 is going just great

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Porsche shuts down its NFT project with the floor price down 96% October 1, 2026 https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=porsche-nft-shutdown

Race schedule's out!!🏁🏁🏁

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Tune In Alert: NASCAR & World Superbike headline a slow weekend, plus Raphael Lessard going for the EuroNASCAR title on REVTV Canada & Verstappen in Portimão GT3 Bit of a sad weekend as well with the final show for the Snowbirds live Fri at 2:00pm on the RCAF Facebook page www.facebook.com/RCAF.ARC