Jason Steven Murphy

Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵

“Green Lantern/Green Arrow" by Dennis O'Neil with pencils by Neal Adams, comprises 14 issues of the regular “Green Lantern” series. Published from 1970-72, this storyline is highly ambitious, deeply flawed, and endlessly interesting, both on its own merits and as a piece of comics history. 1/10

An interview with legendary hip-hop archivist & "Video Music Box" host Ralph McDaniels about discovering hip-hop in the park in the mid-70s, meeting a pre-"Brown Sugar" D'Angelo, directing the "It Ain't Hard To Tell" video, the future of archiving & more. By DJ Short www.powmag.net/p/ralph-mcda...

The definitive Kurtis Blow interview – including the time Betty Shabazz saved his life @paulxt.bsky.social spoke to hip-hop's first solo star about his early days in Harlem, his first raps, becoming the house DJ at Smalls Paradise & how he became a licensed minister www.powmag.net/p/kurtis-blo...

NEW CANARY ALBUM Over 2 hours of the 1952 recordings by the 45-member gamelan and dance ensemble that appeared in London and across the U.S. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/baline...

HAPPY 45TH BIRTHDAY DARE

Meet Jonah Hex, a disfigured gunfighter who is hired to stop a gang from terrorizing Paradise Corners, a small western farm town. Upon completing his task, he contemplates buying a farm there and settling down, but the men who hired the cold-blooded killer Jonah want him to move along.

The first one is great and sold out quick - so hop to it if you want one (I ordered mine!).

Dad Calling    Just To Say He Loves King Crimson https://theonion.com/dad-calling-just-to-say-he-loves-king-crimson/

(5/X) Thirty years from now, people will read that Trump started and lost a war in Iran for no reason, helped a Russian dictator kill Ukrainians, posted snuff films on social media, ran a multi-billion dollar crypto scam, and had his own personal army roaming the streets killing with impunity...

QUESTION OF THE DAY: This sounds like a joke question, but it isn’t. If it doesn’t apply to you, fine. But it’s a serious question with different levels of meaning. And I am genuinely curious. When did you first realize you were weird?

To celebrate Wu-Tang's Rock & Roll HOF induction, Staten Island's baseball team threw a "Shaolin Night." @nitishpahwa.com rode the ferry out to get quizzed on Wu trivia, procure a RZA bobblehead, and watch the rechristened Shaolin FerryHawks beat the York Revolution. www.powmag.net/p/wu-tang-go...

NEW CANARY ALBUM canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/raga-c...

NEW CANARY ALBUM canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/rudra-...

This is glorious.

Researching LOUD AND CLEAR, I encountered Ken “Goldfinger” Connell—and filed him away. What I found on returning is a story about the death of an old America and how descendants of an infamous drug smuggler are reconciling with the past. Read now on @playboy.com: www.playboy.com/read/celebri...

Farewell Peter Max, whose work could induce acid trips without even the slightest chemical alteration. The Hilda Af Klimt of album art. Rest in color.

"Merriam-Webster's dictionary defines yacht rock as..." we are officially official

The first official release from Bob Dylan’s upcoming 1976 Rolling Thunder box set is an epic version of Going, Going, Gone. The song appeared on Planet Waves two years earlier and this live take from Fort Worth, Texas, expands on the original’s softer sound. 🧵

You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?

A great interview related to an underrated and seriously fantastic Dylan album.

Anyone looking for the Kindercore Records Single of the Month club set from 2000? I have one up on eBay - tons of rare Elephant 6-related and indie rock tracks in the mix. www.ebay.com/itm/12806573...

I wrote this for "Love and Theft"'s 20th anniversary ... I think I still agree with most of it five years later?

So much unreal good music to be had here - dig in

Yep, that's fairly spot on.

I spent 2 weeks in Vegas contemplating the '95 Source Awards as Chekhov's Gun, haunted by gruesome autopsy photos & the still-breathing ghosts of Suge and Puff & trying not to go insane from the conspiracy theories. This is the story of 2Pac's murder trial www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-...

I've read a TON of Spidey stories in my life, and I think my favorite - and the one that's impacted me the most, in terms of bringing joy as a reader and an influence on me as a writer is "The Child Within" by @jmdematteis.bsky.social and the legendary Sal Buscema.

An interview with the best jazz harpist alive, Brandee Younger, about her favorite compositions from Alice Coltrane and Dorothy Ashby – and one from Younger's latest gem, "Gadabout Season." By @agspinelli.bsky.social #HarpHive unite. www.powmag.net/p/brandee-yo...

New on @dc.com, one of my favorite pieces I have ever written: ranking how bad every major crisis was in the history of Gotham City, from the perspective of an average life long Gotham citizen.

We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: https://gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)

hey hey, it's the deadcast season finale! @sg-marshall.bsky.social & i hit merriweather post pavilion ’85, hanging with newly-sprouted heads @lidders.bsky.social, @xianlandia.com (who also saw trey anastasio play a princeton acid test that spring), & nick paumgarten. www.dead.net/deadcast/sum...

What an actor - what a human.

Glorious.

RIP to a real one. The books she and her foundation sent to my daughter and zillions of other kids were a key part of her childhood - plus Dolly's songs have and will continue to be heard for generations.

My latest "Venue Spotlight" looks at every time Bob Dylan has played the iconic Royal Albert Hall—from 1965 all the way up to 2024. John Lennon tells Dylan, “Maybe they didn’t get it. It’s the price of being ahead of your time.” Dylan: “Maybe, but I’m only twenty minutes ahead, so I won’t get far.”

Huh - I wonder what has happened since this change was implemented.

The aesthetics of 50’s Hollywood musicals were just a joy.

I question choosing to eat that the place on the right.

An interview with Michael Hampton, aka Kidd Funkadelic, about joining the band in 1975 at 17 after covering "Maggot Brain" at a house party in Cleveland, playing on classic tracks like "Flash Light" and "Knee Deep," and his new album "King Kong." By @jackriedy.com www.powmag.net/p/michael-ha...

44 years ago today, the first CD was produced. What is the first CD you owned?

It's been 30 years since 2Pac was killed. The investigation has long been fraught with conspiracy, false leads and bizarre twists. Today in Las Vegas Keffe D, uncle of the alleged shooter, goes on trial for murder. This is the story of how it all went down. www.powmag.net/p/the-inside...

An impromptu performance alongside Ramblin' Jack Elliot at a tiny folk cafe in Greenwich Village led to Bob Dylan unveiling one of his greatest outtakes, Abandoned Love. Read my revisit to Dylan's 1975 set at The Other End. Link 👇

Worth a read.