Daniel Bass

@amaramarasingam.bsky.social at Queens University in Ontario has worked extensively on online radicalization and conspiracy theories

My fave albums of 2025: Horsegirl - Phonetics On and On, Lucy Dacus - Forever is a Feeling, Bomba Estereo & Rawayana - Astropical, Snocaps - Snocaps, Wednesday - Bleeds, Turnstile - Never Enough, Tamino - Every Dawn's a Mountain, Wet Leg - Moisturizer, The Beths - Straight Line Was a Lie. Rock on!!

I love this new show and your conversations (and snippets of mentioned songs) but could you play more of the song in question, or perhaps, like Song Exploder, playing it in its entirety at the end?

Happy New Year! May 5786 be a year of sweetness and love for you all, as a shield against a world filled with so much anger and hate

Although it’s an hour down the road, Ithaqueers offers community and resources www.instagram.com/ithaqueers?i...

Federal Grants for Area Studies and Foreign Language at Risk Expected funding for National Resource Centers, which are dedicated to language and area studies education, never came through this summer. Experts worry this could spell disaster for the already-stru...

A fuller explanation of this tragedy is at www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

All had self-titled songs on self-titled albums

I love The Jam but “A Town Called Malice” has been on too many soundtracks

We Were Promised Jetpacks

We were promised jetpacks, yet all we got was Scottish indie band We Were Promised Jetpacks wewerepromisedjetpacks.bandcamp.com/music

Walt Mink - Free To Be You And Me (B-Side to "Pink Moon") YouTube video by Fastnbulbous

Take my hand, come with me… youtu.be/4yOv1neLL-E?...

I finished it last night and saw them as co-protagonists, since they alternated chapters, and they helped each other on their respective journeys. It’s a wonderful book in so many ways.

Will it be released as a podcast as well?

Only grant holders and managers got this email. Not even current FLAS fellows

As someone whose job it is to manage IFLE-funded NRC and FLAS grants, I can unfortunately attest this is all happening. It is still unclear if the grants will continue without any staff at Dept of Education to oversee them.

Chris Murphy Emerges as a Clear Voice for Democrats Countering Trump (Gift Article) The third-term senator from Connecticut is eschewing caution and throwing out the traditional political playbook as he seeks a broader audience for his critiques of the president and his agenda.

Proud of my senator Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social for fighting the good fight www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

My top albums of 2024: Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Past is Still Alive, Khruangbin - A La Sala, Glass Beans - Mahal, M. J. Lenderman - Manning Fireworks, Thee Marloes - Perak, Reyna Tropical - Malaria, Kiran Ahluwalia - Comfort Food, Mary Timony - Untaming the Tiger & Varijashree Venugopal - Vari

Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, '8 Days (Of Hanukkah)' (Tiny Desk Version) YouTube video by NPR Music

Happy Hanukah! Wishing everyone 8 days (and more!) of love, joy, peace & happiness. youtu.be/PSzo2bbvnTQ?...

Covers of new albums by Varijashree Venugopal, Glass Beams, Kiran Ahluwalia, Arun Ramamurty Trio, Twin Court, Ganavya, Arivu, Arooj Aftab, and Peter Cat Recording Co.

Interested in new South Asian fusion music? Tune in to my Best of 2024 show tonight on “Monsoon Radio” 7:00-9:00pm EST on WRFI 88.1 FM in central New York, streaming & archived at www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms...

The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me was the best book I read all year, and won the Nebula too. Amazing speculative fiction about revolution, false prophets, and real ones