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Last Saturday night’s show was killer. MØ was her usual badass self.

This song killing everyone as always!!

#MØ #MeøwTour

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Music that’s soundtracking this past week:

• Alvvays, “Antisocialites” – “Party Police” never left my playlists so I was surprised & delighted when the new album dropped.
• Kllo – I’m way late to the game hearing this band, & there’s a new album, Backwater,  coming next month which has me excited.
• The National – Excited for the new LP coming in a few days, so TROUBLE WILL FIND ME has come back into heavy rotation. Heavy.
• SAFIA – Internal – This one takes a little while to sink its hooks into you, but “Over You” will make your body move like a premium Chef Faker Jam.
• Maya Jane Coles – Take Flight – Its hard to explain, but the old-school vibe of this one struck a chord with me immediately — maybe its just playing off of my love for Garbage, Portishead, Massive Attack, & the xx — but regardless: All the things.

More later.

This past weekend I was waiting in the car for my son, & it was late & dark & I picked the corner of the parking lot that was darkest. I sat in the car listening to music & began to leaf through a book of CDs that had gone unused for so long that they did indeed feel like relics. There was an un-labeled disc there among the Laurie Berkner (you know, for the kids!), the ‘July Jams’ mix, & the various Johnny Cash compilations.

So I slipped it into the player — then instantly felt a mixture of curiosity (I couldn’t remember the name of this band!) & nostalgia (I realized I had listened to this so many times — especially as I built a large set of bookcases for our house in Oregon — but that was about 10 years ago), & delight (this was still good).

Its a luxury to have time…. to (eventually) remember the songs & albums & bands, to sit quietly in the dark & think about all the things, & then enough still to move on…let it all be forgotten…& then bring it back again.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWYCJ0JpotM

Soundtracking my day with ‘Seafaring’ by Last Days:

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Glenn Greenwald: “Trump’s Muslim Ban is Culmination of War on Terror Mentality but Still Uniquely Shameful”

“And the reason Trump is able so easily to tap into a groundswell of anti-Muslim fears and bigotry is because they have been cultivated for 16 years as the central fuel driving the War on Terror. There are factions on both the center-left and right that are primarily devoted to demonizing Muslims and Islam.”

Your daily dose of the obvious, yet regrettably-needing-to-be-pointed-out….