Snap! Crackle! Pop!

Working from home and not reading the news. Also my letter carrier dropped off the heaviness yesterday.

Daru Jones percussion on the new Jack White is just ferocious. This record is dope. Samples, guest Q-Tip, he even gets into some dub elements. Punchy.

Thematic. The song that broke up the band. Still brilliant all these years later.

@mikewolfson @Rivian A guy at work bought one a couple weeks ago. I like the lights. The rest .... meh

@mikewolfson It was pretty sketchy in the 90's, roaches, crime, pinball. It was on Colfax and Downing. Smiley's was the name of the laundromat on the first floor. Open all night kinda joint.

A nod to Smiley's in this article, it's been vacant since 2017 and now it's gone. My father lived in this building in the 1960s and I played pinball at Smiley's in the 90s here. denverite.com/2022/04/14/smi…

the new Jack White record got here Saturday but I just now got to put it on. Fierce. Fantastic packaging and inserts as well, as usual for Third Man. #thirdman

Best album cover? Grinderman on red wax infused with glitter

@ReidyChiureidy yeah I know Pylon - REM covered "Crazy" which Pylon originally did. But that's about all I know of them

@AaronX Have you ever listened to Pylon? They’re from Georgia and influenced REM and others. Didn’t last really long but good stuff.

Old REM never gets old with me. Nostalgic? sure, but so fucking good regardless - youtube.com/watch?v=-sqpF-…

I don't drink soda anymore just fizzy water but man I love product and packaging so I had to get me some Pepsi Nitro. Pours like a Guinness and it tastes pretty good. I'll let you know if the walls start melting, gimmee about an hour.

Third Man doing another vault release from SLEEP. Yet another alt version of Dopesmoker and some unreleased studio tracks and posters. Do I need this? probably not, so yeah I'll order it. thirdmanstore.com/products/vault…

This is not good work music, it's an instructional record on how to play the bongos.

Work from home Wednesday

new Fontaines D.C. single dropped and it's fantastic. youtube.com/watch?v=E4qy_X…

@IceHensley It's so good, I am confident you would LOVE this band. Truly great stuff, everything of theirs I highly recommend. More info here - coleminerecords.com/collections/sf…

Mailman just got here. New heater from the Sure Fire Soul Ensemble. Spinning now, first 750 on smoky red wax. From Colemine Records - they do a fantastic job with packaging and their bands, just top notch stuff. Shop Colemine. #colemineRecords #sureFireSoulEnsemble

@JohnReidy303 so weird right? I had never heard or even considered that?

Chatting with a friend the other night about this one. He pronounced the title like the last pitcher in a baseball game. Uh, whut tha? I've always pronounced it like the opposite of "near".

These guys just kill it with every record. Great repop from Suicide Squeeze Records. 500 on piss splatter vinyl. #coathangers