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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tailored to a T / While history is tellin' you / The same old thing

Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"All through the Night" disambiguation: --Cyndi Lauper, written by Jules Shear --Ella Fitzgerald (and others), written by Cole Porter --Lou Reed, written by Lou and Don Cherry --Peter, Paul and Mary (and others, including Jane Siberry), adapted from the traditional Welsh "Ar Hyd y Nos"

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Claude on #YayoiKusama: A wild, deliberately absurd guess: somewhere in the billions — say, roughly 3 to 5 billion dots over her career.

Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Claude tells me that William Vollmann has written 18,000–20,000 pages.

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🤡 houseof1000cowsarejustfoods 🤡 @cowsarejustfood.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

what's everyone's favourite jon spencer exhortation? i particularly enjoy 'a roy rogers roast beef-ah sandwich!' on big road youtu.be/IVcur-HDOfY?...

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Big Road

YouTube video by Shove Records

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the 90s.

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

She my baby, she all right / Keep me fairly warm at night Yo La Tengo + Robyn Hitchcock youtu.be/nv5C4fJC5Qw?... #SoftBoys

ROBYN HITCHCOCK & YO LA TENGO - "Wey Wey Hep Uh Hole" (Soft Boys cover) 9/29/17

YouTube video by gridlifeTV

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

In honor of the #RollingStones interpreting #AmyWinehouse on their new album, here's my ever-expanding Men Covering Women playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/03K...

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Men Covering Women

Playlist · OtisBlue · 107 items · 2 saves

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

When I told my friends … they would say: “Letta who?” I would answer, “Ask your maid.” daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2015/06/lett...

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Letta Mbulu’s In the Music...

How apartheid, exile and America helped shape a classic LP

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Ibeyi (left) is a French musical duo consisting of twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz. Isaya (right) is a French musical duo consisting of twin sisters Caroline and Jessica. Got it?

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

One of my favorite words. Just yesterday I learned it comes from the Hebrew word yobhel, "ram’s horn." open.spotify.com/playlist/4mS...

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Blue Jubilee

Playlist · OtisBlue · 69 items

Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

YouTube commenter: "If writing this song was the only thing Herb did in his career, he'd [be] counted among the greats." youtu.be/fOjcoCAFTho?...

Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen - Wait a Minute [Live at WAMU's Bluegrass Country]

YouTube video by Bluegrass Country Radio

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

@jgrossnas.bsky.social has been publishing Perfect Sound Forever since the year In Utero came out. #LifetimeAchievement

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

#TedTurner, character in Percival Everett's "I Am Not Sidney Poitier" (2009), dies at 87

Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

"The likely impacts of high levels of heating include the inundation of major cities, the closure of the human climate niche (the conditions that sustain human life) across large parts of the globe, the collapse of the global food system..."

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Megan Carolan @megancarolan.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

“I’ve had them ask me, ‘Are you my grandma?’” she said. “And I’ll say, ‘I can be your school grandma.’ It’s such a privilege to know them and to be known by them.”😭 hechingerreport.org/tapping-reti...

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Child care centers tap retirees to fill staffing gaps

‘School grandmas’ help fill the gaps in a child care workforce facing perennial shortages.

Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

How to listen to her all day long open.spotify.com/playlist/3xe...

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EmmyBlue

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

The Gospel Queen of the Brazos Bottom Star Route

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Celebrating intergenerational connection this week with @bellabromberg.bsky.social and other talented young writers. aginginamerica.news

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Aging in America News

Care | Workforce | Solutions

Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Which only proves it's impossible to take a bad photograph of this man

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

"This is one of the most powerful immersive works of music I’ve ever heard, and feels almost as inexhaustible as the natural forces it aims to channel." @tedgioia.bsky.social on #JohnLutherAdams's Become Ocean open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia... cc @blueridgegurl.bsky.social

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My Favorite Music for Meditation

Ten hours of trance-inducing music

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Everyone should listen to #NeilYoung's 35-minute aural collage "Arc" (1991) once, but not more than that.

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Congratulations on episode 200!

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Mark Swartz @swartzmark.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

"First Song," composed by #CharlieHaden, lyrics by #AbbeyLincoln Elina Duni - vocals Rob Luft - guitar Matthieu Michel - flugelhorn Patrice Moret - double-bass Viktor Filipovski - drums @joshhaden.bsky.social youtu.be/SoksVe0tZeY?...

Elina Duni & Rob Luft Band - First Song

YouTube video by Elina Duni