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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 8h

Dan Bejar playing Destroyer songs solo acoustic is so revelatory and awesome, and the setlist isn’t always what you might predict. Highly recommended if this tour passes through your town.

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 9h

Ryley Walker is serving up some fresh tunes with a new (to me) dual laptop and guitar setup.

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 11h

Spending some time with the GOAT.

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Follow-up to this post. Here is a sampling of songs I Shazamed while working a couple of Whole Foods shifts recently. You may know some but how many? What you DON'T hear in big retail: the latest hits by Ella Langley, Morgan Wallen, Ariana, Olivia Dean, Drake, Miley, Taylor, Bruno, Rodrigo, etc etc

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

24 Hour Party People Aftersun Don't Look Now Pink Floyd's The Wall Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I asked Vinyl Mode to recommend me a perfect 90s album not by Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, or Soundgarden and it responded like the computer playing tic tac toe at the end of WarGames. Help!

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Scrolling Instagram fast I thought this was a still from Back to the Future.

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Psychotic Joe Mazzulla quotes on media day is easing the pain of losing Jaylen Brown by at least 1%.

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Doing the autumn rewatch of Over The Garden Wall. I’m glad I’m not a TV critic so I can safely say it’s one of the best shows of the new century.

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I just signed off on a school email with "Freddy's dad" (with a small typo) and gmail suggested "Freddy's Dead". Autocorrect is a Curtis Mayfield fan?

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A few years ago millennials "reclaimed" the likes of Sheryl Crow and Shania Twain, whom they claimed were neglected or misunderstood by Gen X. Now millennials are boasting about their ignorance of today's women country singers. This is a generalization ofc, but still... 🤷‍♂️

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I actually thought everyone heard the Ella Langley Schools Music Project back in the early 00s?

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This week I am going to see Dan Bejar, Ryley Walker, Spencer Krug, and Ringo Starr, which would actually be a pretty solid 21st century Traveling Wilburys.

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll. (I do not know why you would cheat at this) From Wednesday:

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

These songs have all been really good and releasing a new song on each full moon......not a bad gimmick!

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

These are not my favorite albums of the year but they ARE the ones that get me the most excited when songs from them pop up randomly in my 2026 playlist.

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My favorite Stevie Wonder album has changed 100 times but at some point landed on Talking Book and just stayed there.

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I just saw that the Fiery Furnaces are playing a gig with Oneida and Skeletons Big Band next week. Early 00s Greenpoint lfg.

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Eastbound and Down is my favorite TV show of the 21st century. I can't help it; I am but as god made me.

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just saw an attractive woman on the dating app, clicked the bio and it starts with “born a real woman XX”, starting to think I’m fine just being single.

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Even setting aside the three hour concerts and improvised sections and putting your shows on Nugs I don’t think you can call yourself “Johnny Blue Skies and the Dark Clouds” and then get huffy when people call you a jam band.

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Seeing Liz Phair for the first time and loving it. I was not expecting some songs to have some extra mustard - if “Divorce Song” goes type two I will ascend to heaven. (A specific joke for people whose 90s CD collection had a similar Ph_____ section).

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tangential to the Ella Langley stuff: if you get out Shazam while shopping, major retail chains never play the stuff at the top of the charts anymore. It is an endless of stream of likely cheaper "who ARE these guys?" I'm guessing if we're not there yet it will soon be a lot of AI too.

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I keep seeing this sentiment but I nearly have this song memorized without ever intentionally pressing play on it. I've sung along with it and "Be Her" with people I didn't know in public. I guess it depends on what your life looks like!

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Finally getting around to new Carly Rae Jepsen. Why was everything I heard about this album so "meh"? I absolutely love it.

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tweets really don’t get more “Charlie Brown had hoes” than this. Impressive work actually.

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Maybe just me but have you noticed in the last couple of years you started needing a lot more chargers and all of them suck?

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

idk, 25 years is a very long time. Shooting from the hip: Deadwood, Eastbound and Down, Game of Thrones, Lost, Mad Men, On Cinema at the Cinema, One Piece (the anime), Sopranos, Station Eleven, Young/New Pope

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just got to the part in One Piece where they meet Joe Walsh.

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Pink Floyd - The Wall Neil Young - Weld Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love Nirvana - In Utero The Beatles - Red and Blue albums I wish I was cooler. This was right between my big hip-hop years and my jam band years.

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You don’t like lists? How about this list? Blender Feb/March 2002.

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Jerry Seinfeld voice: if they ask if I want a salt rim for my margarita why do they also give me a straw?

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It depends. Would they get to play the Wolverine video game I just bought?

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Would my 18 year old who loves concerts but knows nothing about Sturg enjoy the Johnny Blue Skies tour going around?

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In a waiting room watching Slash play his solo in the November Rain video, with motion smoothing on.

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

No two ways about it: 2016 feels very recent, not ten years ago.

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Seeing Alela Diane, brilliant author of one of my favorite 2026 albums.

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The Monkees is now streaming on Amazon Prime and nobody told me?

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’ve never paid this Neil Young song much mind but it’s hitting me like a truck these days. Not for literal personal reasons per se but few can summon a mood like Neil.

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Give Me Strength

YouTube video by Neil Young - Topic

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On first glance you might think this says “Billy Strings,” but look closer.

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Things I was frightened of as a child: Pinocchio (Disney) Pinocchio (Sesame Street) The woman wailing during the “Mystery“ opening credits A “Faust” puppet show I saw “The Boogeyman“ (Stephen King) “Mirror, Mirror” (Amazing Stories) The album cover of “Wake of the Flood”

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was there: got wook flu at an LCD Soundsystem concert.

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Of all of Phish’s one-off covers this is the one I most wish was not a one-off.

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I keep meaning to rank "divorce albums" someday from the perspective of someone going Through It. But watching LCD Soundsystem play songs from "This is Happening" with my ex wife was a wild ride, I'll tell you that. (I know he's never been divorced and it's not a "divorce album," but it is).

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bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026