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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Reading Pedro Ferreira’s “The Perfect Theory”—his history of General Relativity—and just learned that the Juilliard Quartet once played in Einstein’s home. How fucking cool is that???

Excerpted text reading “The Juilliard String Quartet once came to play an impromptu concert in his front room.”

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sarah writes provocative music that makes me feel feelings. Get on this, humans.

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Risen local star Shawn Okpebholo wrote us a love letter to #Chicago, and I think you’ll love it. Like any efficacious love letter, this one doesn’t shy away from pain (in this case, the omnipresent police as represented by the garish whistles) youtu.be/LU4y6_b8xs4?...

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City of Big Shoulders by Shawn E. Okpebholo

YouTube video by Chicago Center For Contemporary Composition

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What has two thumbs and just recorded with Verböten’s Jason Narducy at Electrical Audio? Not sure how deep Bluesky goes on punk, but @imleor.bsky.social and @robertloerzel.bsky.social probably know what’s up.

Two middle aged men enjoying each other’s company inside Chicago’s storied Electrical Audio recording studios.

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Do you think Richard Gere ever said, “I Gere-untee it!”? Probably like all the time, right?

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’ve seen Patti Smith many times…and every concert is the best Patti Smith concert I’ve ever seen. #RiotFest2026 @riotfest.bsky.social

Patti Smith on stage with her band on the Rise Stage…reminding us who has the power

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Double finger guns to the artists making fucking art during the downpour @riotfest.bsky.social Day 3. #RiotFest2026

Two artists make fucking art under a tarp as the rain falls

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Kicking off a waterlogged @riotfest.bsky.social Day 3 for me is a band I thought had broken up a while back…but Pretty Girls Make Graves sound fantastic! #RiotFest2026

The band on stage with their name blown up in a pink crimson on the backdrop

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And of course, TOOL was blisteringly, head-fuckingly brilliant tonight. Closing with Aenema was a gift!!! @riotfest.bsky.social #RiotFest2026

3/4 of TOOL lit up red on the Riot Stage

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Weather has moved all the acts up and cancelled others altogether. Good thing The Descendents are sounding on point at the moment… @riotfest.bsky.social #RiotFest2026

Audience walks in the foreground as The Descendents tear it up

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Was despondent at not getting to @riotfest.bsky.social Day 2 in time to see NOBRO…but tears of sadness turned to tears of joy as Melt Banana reminded me that fun music can be, well, fun. @totalvibration.bsky.social you like these two, right?

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And to cap off a totally solid Day 1 @riotfest.bsky.social, the one and only GWAR.

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Santigold pulls the crowd on stage for @riotfest.bsky.social …absolutely the most ebullient and uplifting set of the day! #RiotFest2026

The gorgeous visuals and dancing accompanying Santigold for her phenomenal Riot Fest set

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I swear to gob I’ve waited my entire adult life to see Tricky live. Nostalgia cascades over me in awesome waves… @riotfest.bsky.social #RiotFest2026

Tricky on the Rebel Stage; passersby in the foreground

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Fantastic to finally see Greet Death in the flesh…lush, sweeping songwriting. @riotfest.bsky.social #RiotFest2026

Greet Death on the Radical Stage, with a light sprinkling of rain

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s Sleater-Kinney at the Salt Shed!

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think I’ve finally mastered the art of making certain I can remember the name of the person in question before I say, “I have a friend who ________” This is as consequential as my masters degree.

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

@theebikinikill.bsky.social was an absolutely untethered joy canon tonight @saltshedchicago.bsky.social. This was a bucket-list show for me…

Bikini Kill on stage at the Salt Shed, playing to one of the most conscientious and kind crowds I’ve ever been a part of.

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I like the evergreen specificity of the first two, but the third one feels like it says the most with the least amount of words

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

String quartet, percussion, and synths??? Sign me the fuck up! Hailing from Canada, Flore Laurentienne et al was the other unexpected #Plantasia gem for me this year @gpconservatory.bsky.social

A stage bathed in reds and purples like something captured by the Webb Telescope, especially when framed by the greens amd silvers of the Garfield Park Conservatory greenhouse. Thank you for taking me to outer spacer, Flore!

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You may now consider me a MASSIVE Gwenifer Raymond fan. This Welsh finger-picker left me speechless and is so far the high watermark of #Plantasia at @gpconservatory.bsky.social this year!

Guitarist wearing sunglasses seated while performing with her guitar. The skin-colored material in the background is my melted face.

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hey @jasoncordova.bsky.social any chance you’ll be at Gamehole this year? I’d like to shake your hand for making one of my all-time favorite games, Brindlewood Bay.

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Talk about a phenomenal summer read! Those with a gamer brain will love the visual puzzles within… #uketsu

The electric green cover of Strange Pictures beneath a pair of (holy shit am I actually now requiring) reading glasses

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

🎶YOU’VE MADE…the concierge’s…SHITLIST / SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIT LIST🎶

Facade of the L7 Hotel in downtown Chicago

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hey fellow #gamers, check out my office today. Any #UNDERTALE heads out there?

Middle aged man holds viola and displays his UNDERTALE artist wristband inside Chicago’s historic Auditorium Theater.

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Stoked for this year’s Gamehole Con…but absolutely AMPED that I get to play at @jimzub.com ‘s table! Last time I games with him, I failed EVERY. SINGLE. ROLL.

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Pretty stoked about this week’s used book haul…especially the Edward Gorey

A stack of used books, with titles by Burroughs, Norton, Farmer, Anderson, et al

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

#DollyParton has her own section in my collection… What an unbelievable loss.

Record shelf featuring the Vinyl Me Please releases from Dolly Parton’s catalogue.

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Can attest that Chris is a fantastic GM!

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Last night Grossman Ensemble played to a sold-out crowd at TIME:SPANS and today I’m with my cello homie Julia Henderson…checking out famous toilets or some shit at MOMA.

Two humans with emotional problems stand before the entryway to the Marcel Duchamp exhibit at MOMA.

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Just finished playing the celebration of life for Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Bernard Rands, one of the most erudite and generous musicians I’ve known. Some real gems in my interview with him leading up to his 86th birthday: youtu.be/Somf5cFCHq0?...

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An interview with composer Bernard Rands

YouTube video by Spektral Quartet

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

You and I would have been thick as thieves back in ‘85, Angie Webber of Little Rock, AR…

Library checkout card from the inside cover of my recently acquired copy of “The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.” Apparently Angie was a rare one in Little Rock, AR…

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Next to the birth of my child, swimming (this week) with a tiger shark goes down as the most exhilarating/terrifying thing I’ve ever done…

Off the coast of Honolulu, swimming with a 12ft tiger shark

Face of a 12ft tiger shark…check them peepers

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Just hiking in the middle of a freaking VOLCANO. Don’t even worry about it.

Man in questionable dad hat and his 12yo in the middle of Kilauea Iki (Volcanos National Park)

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I figured it would be heavy, but nothing could have prepared me for the profoundly emotional experience of the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor. There was a time when US leadership had at least a modicum of honor…in high contrast to the fuckwits currently trespassing in the White House.

Selfie with my child inside the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor.

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to wound the autumnal kitty @blurry-line.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

hey just fyi if you don't want to give money to the NYT, there's a Spelling Bee clone here: spellsbee.net And the crosswords are posted free here: nationalpost.com/nyt-puzzle/ And you can play Wordle and Connections without a subscription

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Sorry, I know I’m doing <the thing> but I just wanted to say that #GlenHansard was kind to the musicians he worked with.

Thirty-something violist with Glen Hansard backstage during a show at the Chicago Theater

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Something tells me Apple wasn’t thinking of Manhasset music stands when they added Mag-Safe to the backs of iPads… …or they are geniuses for dissuading me from biting my nails.

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Weird that the producers never monetized a Crimes of the Future protein bar, amirite? Money on the table…

Viggo Mortensen taking his first bite of the plastic candy bars in David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future”

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Downpour at Six Flags…peak dadding

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