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Al Shipley

@alshipley.bsky.social
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Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music out now from Repeater Books / shipley.al@gmail.com / repeaterbooks.com/product/tough-bre… / westernblot.bandcamp.com

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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 1h
my response would be different if it happened again, but kelly clarkson can have one karen meltdown on the house as a treat, she made "since u been gone"
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 3h
sometimes an artist puts the same song on two consecutive albums and you're like "well i get that, that's a killer song" www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDG5...
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Rockets
YouTube video by Cat Power - Topic
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 15h
the scariest part of watching carrie for the first time is "holy shit travolta's in this?"
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 15h
who up selecting ambient works
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 15h
typo of the day: "slaly" instead of "sally"
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 16h
also why does shane gillis have three musketeers facial hair now, who told him that was a look he could pull off
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 21h
The Strokes did their thing on Is Ts It
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 22h
getting posthumous John Prine and Todd Snider albums in the same week really feels like a blessing
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 22h
does airbnb mean "air bed and air breakfast" or "air bed and breakfast"
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 22h
She is notable for providing the end credit music of both of Rob Zombie's Halloween films and for being part of the "singer-songwriter trend" of women nurturing folk music's rebirth.[2] #WikipediaSentences
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 22h
sb can mean super bowl, skateboarding, soulja boy...not somebody
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 23h
saw a couple tweets where the word 'somebody' was abbreviated as 'sb' -- acronyms really fell off, the fuck is going on
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"face STUPID" is such a funny way to open a pretty r&b jam
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
it doesn't take much to upset chuds, they're very sensitive
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"cope" is a really useful word now, if someone says it you immediately know you can ignore every other thing they say
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
after four days of being called the r-word and the f-slur literally hundreds of times by shane gillis fans, i'm just so shocked that he went on tv and said some asinine bullshit
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
solos should be ugly sometimes and i fuck with this
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
wtmd playing blur and i keep rolling down the window to yell PARKLIFE
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
what i think of when i remember there's a rapper named 1900Rugrat
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
how are the people who hated birdman but forced themselves to join team digger doing
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
typo of the day: "satursag" instead of "saturday"
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
lungfish "tick tock" on wtmd...god bless saturday afternoons with dave z
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Evil Dead Burn and Talk To Me...i don't appreciate directors using horror movies to inundate you with shitty rap music from their home countries
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
had a bad phone signal at work last night and got really good at the chrome browser dinosaur game
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
i just heard the voice that cruise does in digger for the first time...lmao c'mon
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Zac Shipley @zacshipley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New episode with @alshipley.bsky.social ! Total Ship Show is on Youtube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. linktr.ee/totalshipshow
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
the new episode of Total Ship Show with @zacshipley.bsky.social is out now. I talked about spending a day on the set of a movie that's out in theaters in a couple weeks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB9e... open.spotify.com/episode/4NbP...
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Total Ship Show 5: Secrets and Teleprompters
YouTube video by Zac Shipley - Milwaukee
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
what's the worst thing that ever happened, to you personally or in general, on your birthday? I'll start, I was born on January 6th
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
some days my personal challenge to myself is, i'm gonna finish a piece today before i have to leave the house. might be this larger piece or i might settle for a smaller article, but something's gonna get done.
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
i hate remembering another errand i can run while i'm out running a quick errand. this is becoming a whole production, i should be back home by now!!
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
someone should pull a stunt like Phil Collins at Live Aid where they host SNL UK, then take a flight to New York and host the original SNL the same night
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I interviewed James McAvoy for Spin about his directorial debut that's in theaters this weekend, California Schemin': www.spinmagazine.com/2026/10/jame...
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James McAvoy’s ‘California Schemin’’ Is a Different Kind of Hip-Hop Biopic - SPIN
James McAvoy is stepping into the director's chair with California Schemin'. Learn about his exciting career transition.
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
typo of the day: "foward"
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
i saw a grown man wearing a canadian tuxedo with mickey mouse's face on the back of his jean jacket. worst of all, he was totally pulling off the fit.
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ugh yeah
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I wrote about "Red Shoes by the Drugstore" by Tom Waits for my Spin column Deep Cut Friday this week: www.spinmagazine.com/2026/10/deep...
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Deep Cut Friday: “Red Shoes by the Drugstore” by Tom Waits - SPIN
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series.Tom Waits opened his 1978
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
typo of the day: "sceen" instead of "seen"
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
of course drake gave the bonus track stimulus to habibti when maid of honour is the album that actually deserves a boost
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i knew Ryan Phillippe was washed, but i didn't realize he was 'joining the cast of 9-1-1: Nashville' washed
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i've used the same little sony voice recorder for interviews for like 20 years. recently, for the first time, i accidentally just left it on after the interview was done, so i have a 3-hour field recording of my living room.
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Live For Live Music has a new column called This Week In Live Music History, my first piece is about two semi-secret October 1989 shows that the Grateful Dead played in Virginia as 'Formerly the Warlocks': liveforlivemusic.com/features/on-...
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This Week In Live Music History: The Grateful Dead Play Hampton Incognito In 1989
As the Grateful Dead grew in popularity in the late 1980s, the band played Hampton Coliseum in disguise under their old name, The Warlocks.
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
are these midweek predictions usually accurate? whenever i see them i just think 'this person is probably bullshitting'
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
weird al yankovic has been pacing in front of a dry erase board that says "chewin' breakfast" for the past 6 months
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
someone should ask trump point blank if he's a crook, just so we have him on record saying the nixon line
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
typo of the day: "yein" instead of "twin"
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Haha
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the Jay-Z In 8 finale should be Rick playing "Bitches & Sisters" and asking an extremely nervous Jay why the song was removed from BP2 on Tidal for a couple years
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i like the kirk franklin/glo rilla song, but if there's a hell i'm going so it doesn't matter what i think
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
listening to the tinashe album like "these songs sound great just as they are, i hope nobody speeds any of them up in a damn tiktok"
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
TV Diary - War, East of Eden, American Hostage, Coven Academy, A Different World, Bite Size Terror, Line of Fire, Best Medicine, Scrubs, etc. narrowcast.blogspot.com/2026/10/tv-d...
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