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Friday 5x5: some actual concerts in town this week

Wishy - Nature's Pill
Greg Freeman - All Set the Bone
Emily A. Sprague - Cyano
dead pioneers - Wagon Burner
Dev Lemons - hunting what we already killed
Holidays in United States - How to Count to Five
Smidley - Murphy Horse
The Honest Heart Collective - Sheer WIll
Lily Seabird - Lightspheres on Their Way
Wild Pink - Still Coming Down
dead pioneers - PO$T AMERICAN
The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
dead pioneers - s/t
Kodaline - We Were Only Young
The Killers - Sam's Town
Wednesday - Bleeds
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Julia Jacklin - The Gem
P.E.S.T. - EP 4
The Beths - Straight Line Was A Lie
Beach House - s/t
The Honest Heart Collective - More Harm
Alex Lahey - Garage Sale
P.E.S.T. - EP 2
P.E.S.T. - EP 3

jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

1) Boys and Girls in America 2) The Crane Wife 3) Sam's Town 4) Beach House s/t Could swap 2&3 on a different day but 1&4 are definitely in those spots

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 01/07/2023

Wait Miles Wood got how many years?

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I rarely start new shows as is but I fall off watching things very quickly: when season 3 came out I was interviewed by the Toronto Star as 'area House of Cards fan' or something to that effect, I never finished season 4 let alone anything post-Spacey.

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Shows on this list I have seen every episode of: 1) Game of Thrones 2) Survivor* Have seen an episode of is probably half or more, at least a season ~10-15 * you didn't watch the recap episodes either

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Friday 5x5: finally finished the best albums of the 21st century list I was working through in time for Treble to start a series of 10 new lists of the best albums of the 21st century (www.treblezine.com/the-best-mus...)

Carly Rae Jepsen - Day and Night
beabadoobee - Pylon
Slow Pulp - Melodie
Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee
Mount Eerie - Night Palace
Ratboys - The Window
This Is Lorelei - The Singer in My Band
Neil Young - Second Song
Perennial - Modernism
scarves - Strays Forever
Wild Pink - Still Coming Down
Phoebe Bridgers - Lost Weekend
Helado Negro - Far In
Kevin Morby - Little Wide Open
Alvvays - Blue Rev
Mitski - Be The Cowboy
Slayyyter - WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA
Modest Mouse - An Eraser and A Maze
Orville Peck - Mule
Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
Tove Lo - ESTRUS
Angine de Poitrine - Vol.II
Big Thief - U.F.O.F.
CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe
Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So do we still get the snap election called this week?

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The best bandcamp scene reports are either ones where you have most of the context or none at all. This falls into the former category and is quite good as always: daily.bandcamp.com/lists/atlant...

daily.bandcamp.com

A Brief History of Atlantic Canada’s Guitar Pop Explosions

Canada’s four Atlantic provinces punch above their weight when it comes to producing guitar pop.

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

According to the data, after speed cameras were removed in Toronto: - The share of drivers going 46+ in a 30 zone rose 510%. - The share of drivers going 66+ in a 50 zone rose 580% For reference: someone hit by a car going 40 km/h has a 70% survival rate, while someone hit by a car going 60 has 5%

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Look at this photo. Look at where children leaving school have to enter from a blind high-fenced area into the crosswalk. Now look at the top speed cars were doing here when there were speed cameras. Now keep in mind that dangerous speeding has QUADRUPLED where speed cameras were removed.

A crosswalk at Humber Boulevard and Louvain Street is partially obstructed by fencing over a covered waterway, making it difficult to see pedestrians emerging from the fencing. A speed camera nearby was removed in November.

Lance McMillan Toronto Star
The speed camera was located by the TTC stop directly across from the school, steps away from the end of the crosswalk, where the boy was hit. In the 10-month period it was in place, the top speed ticketed was 107 km/h. Among the top 10 were two drivers ticketed for travelling at 82 km/h. The limit in the school zone is 40 km/h.

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Had also never heard much about them but last week I was in PEI and a cafe/store had an entire section dedicated to them

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Student body at Laurier was like a third small town SWO so I knew people who did them for most of my twenties exclusively from there, otherwise would have been huh?

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Friday 5x5:

$Phoebe Bridgers - Lost Weekend Wild Pink - Still Coming Down Citizen - Halcyon Blues Westside Cowboy - It Goes On Squirrel Flower - Say a Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American Cornelius - Refractions Citizen - Youth Hotline TNT - Cartwheel Hotline TNT - Trilogy Julia Holter - Material Pasion Pit - Manners Anxious - Bambi Anxious - Little Green House Citizen - Manifesto for the New Patriot Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight Rtaboys - Singin' to an Empty Chair Bat for Lashes - Two Suns Citizen - Life In Your Glass World Deerhunter - Weird Era Cont Citizen - As You Please Dinosaur Jr. - Farm Hotline TNT - Nineteen In Love Hotline TNT - Raspberry Moon Lambchop - Punching the Clown$

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Friday 5x5: mostly last week's releases or two concerts this week

Mopar Stars - Official Researchers of the NJ Devil
Michigander - Over Before You Know It
Opus Kink - The Sweet Goodbye
Various Artists - Sounds of Malawi Vol. 1
Feli Colina - la otra mejilla
Francisca Valenzuela - MALDITA
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Broken Social Scene - s/t
Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I
Guns N' Roses - Appetitte for Destruction
Mallory Hawk - Chinook
Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion II
Arca - XXXXX
Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy
Public Emeny - Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black
avemaria - Kuidas vabaneda üleliigsetest hammastest
Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
Stars - Nightsongs
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Guns N' Roses - The Spaghetti Incident
Metric - Art of Doubt
Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War
Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
Ariana Grande - petal

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Finally caught my spreadsheet back up. Other than Decembers (when I almost exclusively listen to music from year-end lists), my previous single-month high for new albums in a month was 66. This doesn't include the 10 artists' full discographies I listened to before seeing them in concert either

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Friday 5x5: Finished the Treble list of best albums of 2026 so far (www.treblezine.com/the-48-best-...)

Various Artists - Sounds of Malawi, Vol. 1
Sofie Birch - Bivabippabualukka
Ian Sweet - Shiverstruck
Josaleigh Pollett - If I Let It Quiet
Nick Hakim- I Can See
Charli XCX - Music, Fashion, Film
Alex Cameron - Late to Set
The Strokes - Reality Awaits
The Menzingers - Everything I Ever Saw
Jill Scott - To Whom This May Concern
Nia Archives - Emotional Junglist
Shania Twain - Little Miss Twain
Visible Cloaks - Paradessence
Cheekface - Podium
Feist - The Reminder
Kavinsky - OutRun
Poison Ruïn - Hymns From the Hills
Shit Present - What Still Gets Me
Thank You, I'm Sorry - Growing In Strange Places
Wesley Joseph - Forever Ends Someday
Feist - Metals
Feist - Multitudes
Hammok - When Does This Place Become Our Scene
Harriet Tubman - Electrical Field of Love
Kavinsky - Reborn

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The Ringer has always been continuity Grantland but it's a shameful choice to continue the worst of Grantland's history in reporting on trans issues while clearly not understanding them

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Really like 7 of them including multiple i'd put on my own list and 1 I have never listened to an album by so I guess I'm changing that tonight

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

In times of council chaos actual votes are as representative of the personal as the political. Voting with RHJ often is going to be a red flag but voting against him not necessarily a green one.

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A thing I am mindful of for the Kamloops municipal election is that I have no idea how to evaluate incumbent councillors. In the Rob Ford days, I would default to Ford Nation Voting %. In hindsight that would have led me to vote for Ana Bailão if I'd moved to Davenport in 2014 instead of 2015:

docs.google.com

Toronto City Council Scorecard, Updated September 19, 2018

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The album cover featuring QR codes for his app that rewarded you with crypto if you hosted/played pick up sports games through it but no longer exists as far as I can tell is a highlight

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

But there was at least potential there, as unrealized as it may have been (in both careers). His dad/uncle/cousin all had Juno noms in their own musical careers!

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I have listened to some bad music over the years based on sports connections - looking at you, Josh Ho-Sang's 2024 album about retiring from hockey to become a crypto entrepreneur - but this is going too far

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Lucky guess on where a notable point in Chile would be saved me www.maptap.gg July 23 100🎯 100🎯 99🎯 100🎯 95🏅 Final score: 983

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The input is the problem not the rules, but there's an easy way to fix this - if I switch the feed from firehose to including all posts from a list of accounts and hashtags from every account, it should speed up a lot. I don't really have that list ready to go, but that's the rate-limiter here

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

We had essentially the same day www.maptap.gg July 20 93🏆 99🎯 97🔥 100🎯 100🎯 Final score: 986

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Friday 5x5: 100% of albums here are either 2026 releases or albums from an artist* (or their other projects) I either saw in concert this week or will see this weekend

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Have been to other shows where people passed out for other reasons (someone in the crowd needed Narcan during a Soul Glo set in 2024) but that's not so much an inexperience with concerts issue

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

They're popular with younger audiences than shows I usually go to and both were shows with large GA sections and bad weather (VERY hot+outdoor show for PB, terrible air quality last night) where people line up hours in advance to get to the front/don't appropriately hydrate

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Someone just sent me this photo from Chicago, unbelieveable

Album cover photo of the Marina apartments in Chicago for Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot CD

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Having now seen all three members of boygenius play solo shows, # of times per concert they had to stop mid-song due to a crowd member passing out: Phoebe Bridgers 4 Lucy Dacus 2 Julien Baker 0

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Almost time to blast Los Campesinos!, as is tradition

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

You are also allowed to bring one sealed plastic water bottle in, would recommend

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This post was mostly to share Quebecois Microtonal Polkaroo Experience though

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jordan @jdepstein.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I'm hoping the existence of a separate headline show means that the crowd at the Amp will be relatively normal tonight but given Montréal jazzfest I'm not sure that's realistic. Could see half the crowd leave after they open, anything's possible

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ace @aceanbender.com · 13/07/2026

that’s a keeper

a tsn quote-graphic showing toronto tempo player marina mabrey:

*DEEP BREATH* I AM WORKING ON NOT BEING RAGE BAITED.
MARINA MABREY ON TENSIONS RISING IN THE FOURTH QUARTER VS. LIBERTY

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