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#ArtistFaveAlbumTrax - #EastBay Indie edition #MusicChallenge Track 4: "Wifi Beach" Brijean (Oakland at the time, but now Los Angeles 😞) from FEELINGS (2021) #electronic #indiepop #disco I always say this album is the musical manifestation of a warm Saturday afternoon with friends at Lake Merritt.

Brijean – Wifi Beach (Official Video)YouTube video by Brijeanyoutu.be

#7DeadlySins #MusicChallenge Day 4 - Envy "Want What You Got," The Beaches

The Beaches - Want What You Got (Lyric Video)YouTube video by TheBeachesVEVOyoutu.be

Covered this in my Regional Transportation class and, yeah, it makes for a good story, but a whole bunch of streetcar lines that GM didn't own also got shut down at roughly the same time, which points to the fact that the companies had simply become unprofitable and couldn't maintain infrastructure.

#7DeadlySins #MusicChallenge Day 3 - Lust "You Lust," The Flaming Lips In the context of the song, it's a lust for success, which is probably more pride or greed, but whatever. It's a good, creepy-ass, 10-minute song.

You LustYouTube video by Release - Topicyoutu.be

#ArtistFaveAlbumTrax - #EastBay Indie edition #MusicChallenge Track 3: "Problem Addict" Once and Future Band (Oakland) from DELETED SCENES (2020) #progrock #psychedelicpop #jazzrock Love the mirrored lyrics about the sailor who lost his way & jailer who lost the key. Good stuff. Well done, O&FB.

ONCE & FUTURE BAND - PROBLEM ADDICT - OFFICIAL VIDEOYouTube video by Once & Future Bandyoutu.be

#ArtistFaveAlbumTrax - East Bay Indie edition #MusicChallenge Track 2: "The Hourglass" Shannon and The Clams (Oakland) from THE MOON IS IN THE WRONG PLACE (2024) #garagepunk #soul #altrock I nominated this for #peoplespop24 and at least a few folks seemed to like it.

The HourglassYouTube video by Shannon & The Clams - Topicyoutu.be

#7DeadlySins #MusicChallenge Day 2 - Greed “Money Makes the Monkey Dance,” Nil Lara

Money Makes The Monkey DanceYouTube video by Nil Lara - Topicyoutu.be

Catching up… #7DeadlySins #MusicChallenge Day 1 - Pride “Pride,” Flock of Dimes 𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘛𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦

PrideYouTube video by Flock of Dimes - Topicyoutu.be

Andrew Bird with the San Francisco Symphony. Magical show. Performed THE MYSTERIOUS PRODUCTION OF EGGS in its entirety. Really really glad we went. The guy has talent!

Joining the party and doing a theme for #ArtistFaveAlbumTrax: East Bay Indie. That means a bunch of obscure SF Bay artists making great music, scraped from the depths of Bandcamp, a habit I got into at the start of the pandemic. Track 1: "No Mutuals," Fake Fruit (Oakland) #postpunk #indierock

Fake Fruit "No Mutuals" Official VideoYouTube video by Rocks In Your Head Recordsyoutu.be

in the spirit of today’s @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social match, what are four albums from 1988 that you’ll defend to the death*?

#readandplay (767) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play🎶 #RIPGlenHansard

I keep hearing AI is “getting better all the time” and also keep reading stories like this, so … uh, which is it?

#5CoverSongsTribute #MusicChallenge Day 5 "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way," Uncle Tupelo feat. Joe Ely (covering Waylon Jennings) A bonus track from ANODYNE'S 2003 reissue, a year after Waylon's death. It also pays tribute to Hank Williams, of course, and guest vocalist Ely left us in 2025.

Uncle Tupelo feat. Joe Ely | Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?YouTube video by Hans Settleryoutu.be

As we pay our final respects to the covered artists during the final day of #5CoverSongsTribute, my co-hosts and I invite you to join us next month for #5CoverSongsOdds. You don't have to be odd to participate (but it helps!), just prep some cover songs that reference odd numbers.

CEQA being used to halt a mixed-income housing development because it's going to block the views of wealthy Marin homeowners?! Quelle surprise! But also: NINE HUNDRED FORTY-FOUR parking spaces for 337 homes?! wtaf

#5CoverSongsTribute #MusicChallenge Day 4 "Well May the World Go," John McCutcheon feat. Hot Rize (covering Pete Seeger) From an entire album of songs by Seeger, whom McCutcheon calls a "friend and mentor." All the more poignant for being a song about your hopes for the world after you're gone.

Well May the World GoYouTube video by John McCutcheon - Topicyoutu.be

Big vindication for my theory that every horse is just a projection of a single horse across infinite probabilities, and some sort of space-time fissure is causing them to appear in our universe as the barriers between quantum realities break down.

What in exactly is the business model for taking a paywalled opinion piece from your own paper, running it through some automated rephrasing software that’s known to introduce errors, and posting it for free with a similar headline But Now With Jargon! ???

#5CoverSongsTribute #MusicChallenge Day 3 "They Don't Know," Lydia Loveless (covering Kirsty MacColl) It's likely that Loveless, like most of us, was more familiar with Tracey Ullman's charting version, but whatever. I am choosing to believe that Loveless was honoring the memory of MacColl.

They Don't KnowYouTube video by Lydia Loveless - Topicyoutu.be