Here in Tokyo, I listen to WFMU's eclectic programming online. Fave DJs include Suzy Hotrod, Paul Bruno (@unblinkingear.bsky.social), Evan "Funk" Davies (@efd.bsky.social) & Todd-o-phonic Todd. Jesse's 2012 book "Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo & the Rise of Indie Rock" may be trickier to find. wfmu.org
Same energy.
Oh don’t worry. There’s an endless supply of incompetent, dead-eyed sycophants in this administration to humiliate.
Gives “Oh, Streetcar!” vibes.
Two major problems with our society:
1) People doing zero due diligence on whose messages they are amplifying. Political memes are propaganda, full stop
2) Shitposting and politics should not be mingling. The ultimate shitposter is currently commander in chief, if you haven’t noticed.
This thing where we are expected to do background checks on people before doing a QT is so tiresome. Shit posters on here don’t have time for that. A QT is not an endorsement of the OP’s entire body of work! Most normal people do not know off hand who the Nazis are.
This is one of my pettier impulses but I want the record to reflect just how often this motherfucker said that Kamala Harris was the pro-war candidate in 2024.
One day, the Tik Tokers are going to discover 80s R.E.M. and the world will be a better place.
The McDonalds thing is like the LEAST objectionable aspect of Trump's persona and it's weird that people fixate on it when the man is an ejudicated rapist.
Punk pasts exposed! Whether they be respected alt-rockers, early-MTV dandies or metal meatheads, many name musicians spent their formative years dodging gobs and mastering the three chord downstroke. And we’ve got 31 songs worth of evidence to prove it!
My 2026 @wfmu.bsky.social marathon premium is here and it’s a good un, if I do say so myself!
Aint Bin To No Music School: Punk Rock Skeletons in the Closet of Stars from the 1980s and 90s
Nice to know that some people are still eating paint chips around here
this meet me in the bathroom sequel is terrible
There really are THAT MANY completely worthless subhumanoids out there in GarbageLand who genuinely thought there was a great big "I Can Say R*t*rd In The Breakroom Again" switch waiting to get thrown and that was the beginning and end of "Great Again."
Just "War on Christmas" politics for assholes
Mine is either Ingrid Michaelson or one of the Impractical Jokers so it could be worse.
If you’ve followed video game culture if even slightly over the past few years, this will elicit the most world weary “no shit” imaginable.
Analysis:
Starship Troopers is a fun time at the movies but anyone looking for a political or social message will be left wanting as at no point do the characters turn to the audience and say “it is wrong to Starship Trooper someone”
No Kings includes Draft Kings
They probably realized they are more powerful than Trump.
The second one is ridiculous and a completely different tone but it’s fun. Kind like “Return of the Living Dead” compared to “Night of…” but actually the same director.
man if i got beaten up by a bunch of random emo teens in Buda, Texas I think I'd never leave my house again
"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
I’m normally up for roasting Tom but to do so (even facetiously) on a platform he isn’t on feels a little unfair.
You know what they say. Find a lady who’s Salieri in streets and Mozart in the sheets.
A who’s who of who gives a shit?
Did this alleged punk band say anything about ICE or our country’s impending totalitarianism? Or did they leave that to Billie Eilish and Bad Bunny?
Nice story.
(Anyone who watched Headbanger’s Ball in the early 90s will know the next line.)
This is right. The White House keeps looking for the “Kneel Before Zod” button — and seems completely shut off to evidence that there isn’t one.
