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Jason Steven Murphy

@skfl.bsky.social
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Shenanigans, tomfoolery, hijinks - I'm up for all of it.

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Marc Masters 🌵 @marcissist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Really excellent Mascis/Dino Jr profile by Grayson. pitchfork.com/story/how-di...
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How Dinosaur Jr. Learned to Tolerate One Another, Kind Of
For 40 years, J Mascis has quietly led his incredibly loud band into the annals of indie rock. But during his annual vacation in Cape Cod, he opened up about almost everything: interpersonal dynamics,...
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Marc Masters 🌵 @marcissist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There's something kind of awesome about this, from @craigsj.bsky.social's interview with Chuck Klosterman www.vulture.com/article/chuc...
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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Farewell Peter Max, whose work could induce acid trips without even the slightest chemical alteration. The Hilda Af Klimt of album art. Rest in color.
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Hollywood Steve Huey @hollywoodsteve.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Merriam-Webster's dictionary defines yacht rock as..." we are officially official
Screenshot of Merriam-Webster Instagram post reading: "Yacht rock (noun): SOFT ROCK, especially: a style of soft rock music originating in the 1970s and 1980s." Footer: "New words & definitions 2026." Instagram caption from Merriam-Webster account: "New words just dropped"
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The first official release from Bob Dylan’s upcoming 1976 Rolling Thunder box set is an epic version of Going, Going, Gone. The song appeared on Planet Waves two years earlier and this live take from Fort Worth, Texas, expands on the original’s softer sound. 🧵
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?
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The Beatles banned segregated audiences, contract shows
The Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows.
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Jason Steven Murphy @skfl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A great interview related to an underrated and seriously fantastic Dylan album.
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Jason Steven Murphy @skfl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Anyone looking for the Kindercore Records Single of the Month club set from 2000? I have one up on eBay - tons of rare Elephant 6-related and indie rock tracks in the mix. www.ebay.com/itm/12806573...
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Kindercore Records Single of the Month ten 7-inch vinyl lot indie rock twee rare | eBay
Here's the line-up Why is there only ten releases if there are 12 months?. You gotta ask Kindercore that one. January 2000: My First Keyboard / Marshmallow Coast. There's a little dust on the vinyl, but no marks or scratches, and the paper inlays are all in great shape (as you can see from the photo).
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Tyler Wilcox @tylerwilcox.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I wrote this for "Love and Theft"'s 20th anniversary ... I think I still agree with most of it five years later?
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"Love And Theft" Turns 20
“I contain multitudes,” Bob Dylan proclaimed at the start of his 2020 album Rough And Rowdy Ways. It’s a line that virtually only he and the poet he borrowed it from — Walt Whitman — could get away wi...
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Jason Steven Murphy @skfl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
So much unreal good music to be had here - dig in
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Jason Steven Murphy @skfl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Yep, that's fairly spot on.
My Dialect Map results
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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I spent 2 weeks in Vegas contemplating the '95 Source Awards as Chekhov's Gun, haunted by gruesome autopsy photos & the still-breathing ghosts of Suge and Puff & trying not to go insane from the conspiracy theories. This is the story of 2Pac's murder trial www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-...
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Tupac’s Murder Finally Has a Guilty Verdict. But the Mystery Isn’t Over
After 30 years of botched police work, gangland betrayals and conspiracy theories, a Las Vegas jury convicted Duane "Keffe D" Davis of Hip Hop's most haunting killing. THR's Jeff Weiss spent two weeks...
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Alex Segura @alexsegura.com · 01/09/2026
I've read a TON of Spidey stories in my life, and I think my favorite - and the one that's impacted me the most, in terms of bringing joy as a reader and an influence on me as a writer is "The Child Within" by @jmdematteis.bsky.social and the legendary Sal Buscema.
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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
An interview with the best jazz harpist alive, Brandee Younger, about her favorite compositions from Alice Coltrane and Dorothy Ashby – and one from Younger's latest gem, "Gadabout Season." By @agspinelli.bsky.social #HarpHive unite. www.powmag.net/p/brandee-yo...
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Brandee Younger On Alice Coltrane, Dorothy Ashby, and the Harp Songs That Made Her
The Long Island native breaks down the recordings that taught her the craft.
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Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New on @dc.com, one of my favorite pieces I have ever written: ranking how bad every major crisis was in the history of Gotham City, from the perspective of an average life long Gotham citizen.
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The Biggest Disasters in Gotham City (and Some That Weren’t So Bad) | DC
All those terrifying events that hit Gotham City? Some of them were a big deal, certainly. But most others? Not even worth writing to Blüdhaven about.
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
hey hey, it's the deadcast season finale! @sg-marshall.bsky.social & i hit merriweather post pavilion ’85, hanging with newly-sprouted heads @lidders.bsky.social, @xianlandia.com (who also saw trey anastasio play a princeton acid test that spring), & nick paumgarten. www.dead.net/deadcast/sum...
The Grateful Dead perform at Merriweather Post Pavilion
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Jason Steven Murphy @skfl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
What an actor - what a human.
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Jason Steven Murphy @skfl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Glorious.
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Jason Steven Murphy @skfl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP to a real one. The books she and her foundation sent to my daughter and zillions of other kids were a key part of her childhood - plus Dolly's songs have and will continue to be heard for generations.
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Ray Padgett @raypadgett.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My latest "Venue Spotlight" looks at every time Bob Dylan has played the iconic Royal Albert Hall—from 1965 all the way up to 2024. John Lennon tells Dylan, “Maybe they didn’t get it. It’s the price of being ahead of your time.” Dylan: “Maybe, but I’m only twenty minutes ahead, so I won’t get far.”
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Bob Dylan at the Royal Albert Hall, 1965-2024
George Harrison: "The people who walked out must have been idiots"
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Jason Steven Murphy @skfl.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Huh - I wonder what has happened since this change was implemented.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The aesthetics of 50’s Hollywood musicals were just a joy.
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Jason Steven Murphy @skfl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I question choosing to eat that the place on the right.
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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
An interview with Michael Hampton, aka Kidd Funkadelic, about joining the band in 1975 at 17 after covering "Maggot Brain" at a house party in Cleveland, playing on classic tracks like "Flash Light" and "Knee Deep," and his new album "King Kong." By @jackriedy.com www.powmag.net/p/michael-ha...
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“I Don’t Think I Knew What The Word ‘Intimidating’ Was”: An Interview With Michael Hampton aka Kidd Funkadelic
The funk legend speaks to POW about an illustrious career on stage and behind the scenes.
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The old internet @theoldinternet.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
44 years ago today, the first CD was produced. What is the first CD you owned?
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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It's been 30 years since 2Pac was killed. The investigation has long been fraught with conspiracy, false leads and bizarre twists. Today in Las Vegas Keffe D, uncle of the alleged shooter, goes on trial for murder. This is the story of how it all went down. www.powmag.net/p/the-inside...
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The Inside Story of How 2Pac's Murder Was Finally Brought to Trial
Reporting from Las Vegas, Jeff Weiss speaks to attorneys and other key players in Keffe D's "bizarre" case.
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
An impromptu performance alongside Ramblin' Jack Elliot at a tiny folk cafe in Greenwich Village led to Bob Dylan unveiling one of his greatest outtakes, Abandoned Love. Read my revisit to Dylan's 1975 set at The Other End. Link 👇
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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Grimace in sunglasses looking cool as the other side of the pillow is poised at the open door of what looks like a corvette-like kit car. Xe(Grimace is non binary) has a full purple shake that rests on the roof of the sports car. There is a purple gel over the image. A low mist clings to the ground. Is this a dream? Or has this mythical badass been conjured? The song “I need a hero” is most likely blazing on xir am/fm radio.
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Jason Steven Murphy @skfl.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Worth a read.
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The 59 Seconds That Nobody Has Been Able to Explain for 59 Years
I’ve watched the Patterson-Gimlin film maybe thirty times in the past two weeks.
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
STOP! You must be SUPER-ONLINE to proceed! #EventsDearBoy 1. FINAL CRISIS (2008, DC) Final Crisis is my favourite event. There are many excellent reasons for saying it isn't the *best*, but it's the one that most fulfils the promise of my first, Secret Wars: an epic story only an event could tell
"Your name's not down, you're not coming in": FINAL CRISIS 4 sees DARKSEID looking like a lairy middle aged boxer glowing with evil blue energy and with pink omega symbols on his fists, which he is pushing together
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
newly surfaced photo is maybe the clearest shot i've seen of owsley's original PA, from its final ride in vancouver, 60 years ago last week, very much resembling a proto-wall of sound. looks like it's got a reel-to-reel built right into the amp-line, just to the right of (i think) garcia?
Jerry Garcia adjusts knob on ornate PA set-up with empty venue floor
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angela hudson jones @angelahudsonjones.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
www.classicfm.com/composers/ca...
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A 639-year-long John Cage organ piece just changed chord, for the first time in two years
Watch a moment of music history – on Monday a single chord changed in an iconic piece of 20th-century music which ends in the year 2640.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Simpsons meme: we’ve tried nothing, and we’re all out of ideas
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Ray Padgett @raypadgett.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Wrote about Tom Waits for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Bonus: This is the first time hi-res video of his duet with Neil Young has ever circulated! (The version on YouTube for years looks like it was filmed on a flip phone)
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When Tom Waits Came Out of Concert Retirement at the Rock Hall
“They say that I have no hits and I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.”
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Chris Barrus @quartzcity.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
30yrs later I still don’t like busting omertà on my time in above-ground music industry. It’s great when Chuck Berry wants to meet the office and Reba McEntire wants to buy you all great champagne. Terrible when a great artist is a better jackass. The point is, do I ever have a Boy George story.
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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Great Batman covers.
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Jason Steven Murphy @skfl.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Great interview about a book worth reading!
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It's not a disagreement about politics. Itr's a morality/decency thing.
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Tyler Wilcox @tylerwilcox.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
What the world needs now, is EVOL, sweet EVOL. Check out a high-quality / high-fidelity Sonic Youth show from just about 40 years ago in Washington, DC.
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Doom & Gloom From The Tomb
Sonic Youth - Complex, Washington, DC, July 25, 1986 What the world needs now, is EVOL, sweet EVOL. Right? Just about 40 years ago, Sonic Youth was touring all over in support of their classic third.....
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Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The 1987 wedding of Peter Parker & Mary Jane Watson features work by legendary artist John Romita Sr. and his son, John Romita Jr., who would soon become legendary in his own right. It thus offers an opportunity to compare the Romitas’ contributions to the look & legacy of #SpiderMan. 1/13
The cover of Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21, depicting Peter Parker and Mary Jane in their wedding finery, smiling broadly, drawn by John Romita Sr., and the the closing splash page of Amazing Spider-Man #290, drawn by John Romita Jr., in which Peter Parker asks Mary Jane to marry him.
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 21/07/2026
the most realistic scene in Jurassic Park is when two scientists make a questionable decision — traveling to an undisclosed location with a strange man — on the promise of three years of modest funding
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sam @samthielman.com · 16/07/2026
can't believe Marvel has fired its first Japanese EIC to replace him with a white man
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Great job 👏
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Dead Studies @deadstudies.heads.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026
Pleased to share a new unheard tape from 1970! deadessays.blogspot.com/2026/07/may…
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Jason Steven Murphy @skfl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I have been enjoying this newsletter recently - perhaps you will as well.
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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 09/07/2026
At @comicsjournal.bsky.social I reconsidered the life, the legend, and the largeness of Marvel Comics' Jim Shooter. I'm proud of this one, and I hope you like it. www.tcj.com/rr-jim-shoot...
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R&R — Jim Shooter Agonistes: A reconsideration of the editor and writer's legacy - The Comics Journal
Zach Rabiroff argues that the great artistic work of Jim Shooter’s life was Jim Shooter’s life.
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QueenCityJamz @queencityjamz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Leon Russell Palace Theater Albany, NY MAR 1980 #marqueespotting
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