This week I learned about Miss Mei who seems super fun, and I also learned on #ChartChat that it’s time for me to listen to “Frampton Comes Aliv, an album I only know from it being confiscated from Tommy by Hedwig in the 2001 film “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”.
Substack is awful, they are a Nazi platform
8 LPs I’ve Been Digging Released in 2026’s First 3 Mos:
Dry Cleaning - Secret Love
Xiu Xiu - XMFX
Jill Scott - 2 Whom This May Concern
Cootie Catcher - Something We All Got
Mitski - Nothing’s About 2 Happen 2 Me
Bill Callahan - My Days of 58
Heavenly - Highway 2 Heavenly
Abi Reimold - Picking Stones
Just picked up Existential Bread by Jim Franks at the library:
Episode 430 is up! Andy speaks with Miss Mei about Music Only I Care About with Miss Mei, which can be heard on the Sheena's Jungle Room stream via WFMU. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines (@therachel.bsky.social) celebrates the 50th anniversary of Frampton Comes Alive. @wfmu.bsky.social
I’m considering launching a subscription newsletter. Which is the preferred platform: Substack or Ghost?
I have such a hard time watching anything on Netflix. It all looks so cheap & plasticky. The background is always blurry. There’s always a haze around the lighting. Compare the screenshots from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood to Stranger Things below. I’m not crazy! Netflix’s programming looks shitty.
