Marc Masters 🌵
@marcissist
I write about music & my latest book is “High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape” I host the Music Book Podcast. I am a Nationals & D-backs fanatic. DON'T USE AI.
Today on The Music Book Podcast, we talk to @craigrobertson.bsky.social about his great biography of a massively important musician, "Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly," out now in NZ and coming soon in the US on Auckland University Press themusicbookpodcast.buzzsprout.com/2120946/epis...
Mississippi Records is putting out a comp of Portland 80s indie-punk band NEO BOYS including their 1980 7-inch & 1982 12", plus a great booklet w/a new interview and tons of pics and flyers. It's out 7/27 but doesn't seem to be on their site yet, I'll add a link when it appears.
Health Care in the US has gotten so bad that there's only one dentist.
I have become addicted to MLB Big Inning on a level that should concern me but does not at all.
Today on the Music Book Podcast, we talk to @barrywalters.bsky.social about his great new book "Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000," out now on @vikingbooks.bsky.social. (Now with photo!) themusicbookpodcast.buzzsprout.com/2120946/epis...
Next week on The Music Book Podcast, @barrywalters.bsky.social by tells us about his great new book “Might Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000,” out now on Viking.
Ever since my Nationals won the 2019 WS, baseball gods have been kicking their ass. Now they’re finally good again and baseball gods are still kicking their ass.
Apparently the Diamonbacks saw the Mets give up 15 to the Phillies and said, man that's nothing
Favorite album of 2026 so far outofyourheadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dance-...
Who's got some 2026 indie pop records to recommend? My faves lately are recent releases by the Laughing Chimes, the Spatulas, and Touch Girl Apple Blossom.
New episode of The Music Book Podcast, talking with Steve Lowenthal about his great biography “Dance of Death: The Life of John Fahey, American Guitarist,” published in 2014 by Chicago Review Press. themusicbookpodcast.buzzsprout.com/2120946/epis...
A fun game to play is to imagine all the "it"s in Slate headlines refer to the same thing and try to figure out what thing could possibly meet all these criteria.
I did not know until reading @alshipley.bsky.social's movie diary that Terrence Malick is pictured on the back cover of a Carly Simon album!?I? Remember back when there was only the one pic of Malick that everyone used? This one was there the whole time. narrowcast.blogspot.com/2026/05/movi...
I get the logic here, but the problem to me is that, like, how as a batter do you not think this is pretty clearly out of the strike zone? There are just so many of these ridiculously borderline calls that you could totally understand a player being confident about and losing.
Kinda love these promo albums that labels made for radio stations with pre-recorded interviews along with suggested text for the DJ to read. I rarely buy them when I see them but I made an exception for Laurie Anderson. Pretty funny that the suggested way to end is to say "Well, that's it."
They also required everyone after the show to go through that thing they did to Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.