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Rob Miller

@millerscave.bsky.social
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www.robmillerwriting.com Author. Cofounder Bloodshot Records. DJ at Miller’s Cave. Exploring the murky recesses of roots music: Streaming at radioharborcountry.org Sat: 4 to 5 PM & Sun: 9 to 10pm (Eastern) Chicago via Detroit

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 1h
5 Common Myths about Book Bans
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 22h
Having trouble deciding which books to buy from Amazon during Prime Days? Try this: None, then go support an independent bookstore instead. 😌
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 10h
25 pieces too many?
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 15h
One of the most insightful writers about this corner of the music world that I've come across in awhile....
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 15h
A-fucking-men. I guess my full throated agreement of this is why they never liked me or my label much.
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He is the least stressed person because he's never had to fly coach on this own airline. I invite him, anytime, to sit next to me (6') in row 37E and tell me he is comfortable and stress free.
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The sort of thing I would do if I were a billionaire. Which, probably and sadly, is exactly why I am not a billionaire.
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I guess I'm more of an Eeyore...
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Evan Johns. IYKYK. What a monster.
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Exactly. The low-info voters will be expecting the S.S. American Titanic to do an abrupt 180 turn in a matter of weeks. When it doesn't happen, they will turn on the Ds. Hell, they may not even wait until they actually take office.
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I know. In a way, it's disappointing. If I had thought about him and Hastert still being alive all those years, I could have been wishing upon them painful rectal sores and unreachable itchings. Seems like they got off easy by dribbling out of existence like they did.
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Saw more than one of those shows....
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Forgot he was alive. I hope his final days were a non-stop horrorshow of psychic visitations from his victims. I hope he was whimpering, pleading for the mercy and empathy he denied others.
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Albert (the t is silent) Potato tips it...
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Whelp, that's a wrap. The world is now so freaking upside down that I now find myself in the position of applauding something Don Henley is doing.
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
same family? LD was the best.
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dude hit 573 home runs, right-handed, in a nacho helmet, and they get action shot of him popping up to shallow left...
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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
gosh there is so much great music out right now. here's a little bandcamp friday survey of mostly new stuff, out from behind the paywall because we want you to get money to artists! www.dontrocktheinbox.com/put-a-record...
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Put A Record On: Bandcamp Friday Edition
Taking down the paywall this week to just share a bunch of new, great music that you can buy — it's Bandcamp Friday, which means that every cent you spend goes directly to the artists (instead of Band...
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My morning pep talk to myself at least 3 days a week.
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just finished this interesting history of local, legendary loonies by fellow #michigannotableauthor #evelynsterne. Added bonus: considerable amounts of #baseball coverage. I guess a cult that embraces a solid game of pepper can't be all bad, right? #booksky📚 #writing #reading #michiganhistory
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If only Democratic leadership had 1/10th of his courage or moral clarity. If only my Illinois Senators had.... If only my House Representative @quigley.house.gov .....
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
dailyillini.com/buzz-stories... Lovely little review of the talk in Champaign last weekend at the #pygmalionfest w/fellow traveler/indie labeller Matt Lunsford of @polyvinyl.bsky.social @illinoispress.bsky.social #booksky📚 #musicbooks #musichistory #insurgentcountry #rosebowltavern #urbana
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Rob Miller discusses independent music industry at PYGMALION Day 4 - The Daily Illini
Rob Miller, a Chicago-based independent music publisher, sat down for a Q&A with Matt Lunsford during Day 4 of PYGMALION at Rose Bowl Tavern.
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ah....more fire and piss and vinegar from my hard-chargin' Senator....way to rise to the moment Dick.
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As a Chicagoan, he may be the one "Democrat" that could lose the state of Illinois. He is despised that much.
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Was saying this just the other day to someone.
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Good luck tomorrow, old buddy. My mother adored you and we wanted that 2012 World Series so badly before she passed. #detroittigers #baseball #detroitbaseball #justinverlander
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Not holding my breath. They will use any whiff of "a blue wave" as a sign to keep on keeping on.
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The General In His Labyrinth" Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
No "Better Call Saul?" (Which, for my money, was better than BB)
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Looking at my list of "People I REALLY Look Forward to Never Hearing From Again One Day," obviously the Orange Mussolini is at the top, but this guy, well pass his "sell by" date, is in the Top 10.
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That he shouldn't have had the shrimp salad at Hooter's from 11:15-11:45 earlier that morning?
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hey, I think that guy also just fixed my furnace!
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
1 of my fave things about watching #filmnoir movies from the 50s, is seeing unexpected appearances by people I came to know later via childhood TV. I mean, who knew that Darren's hapless boss Larry Tate on #bewitched played a lecherous scumbag in "Sweet Smell of Success" w/Tony Curtis? #oldmovies
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
They are probably easily spotted walking around downtown condo complexes or lakefront towers---there the ones with brown noses.
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy 44th anniversary to this show in #detroit. No algorithm could have prepared me for what I walked into that night. There are a handful of shows I would love to re-experience in full sensory verisimilitude. This is one of them. #badbrains #negativeapproach #hardcoreflyers #punkhistory
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Who are these 800 people that showed up to listen to this? What's wrong with them?
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cheesy. But I can't help loving it. Nose, toes, Elvis, pelvis....
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The "Shut up and Play" crowd are a tiresome bunch. And I'm sure they possess the most boring record collections
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
God, I wish you were wrong about this.
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
thisispygmalion.com/rob-miller/ Reminder for the Champaign/Urbana area Sunday @ 4pm at the famed #rosebowltavern, I'll be in convo w/ Matt Lunsford from @polyvinyl.bsky.social Label founder/owner to label founder/owner. A different twist I'm excited about. #pygmalion @illinoispress.bsky.social
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The Hours Are Long But the Pay is Low" Spotted in the wild at McNally Jackson books in NYC by my eagle-eyed editor @marthabayne.bsky.social Now, don't hurt yourselves rushing on over there to snap it up. @millerscave.bsky.social @illinoispress.bsky.social #booksky📚 #alternativecountry
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Look at this demented cutie I saw on the door of the #nashville #publiclibrary.
A crazed looking momma possum with 4 babies on her back, in bronze, on a door panel.
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The people who adhere to the "Shut up and Play" ethos must have incredibly boring record collections.
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I devote a whole chapter in my new book on the idiocy of the "Shut Up and Play" crowd, and how boring their record collections must be.
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ways to help authors you love: - Review their books. - Share their posts. - Tell people about their books. - Learn the true name of the universe and manipulate it to make their book a bestseller. - Get your library to order in their books. - Ask local events to book them for appearances.
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Go River!!!
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Where's your Senator, btw? Or is that not thing anymore?
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Who's filming this and why aren't they intervening? Assuming the dog will take care of business?
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Tubers
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Rob Miller @millerscave.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Elvis & Costello
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