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When the night falls, my lonely heart calls. #quarantunes

Had some help from my buddy @username_final.final_final on this one, as well as some last-minute EQ magic from @larrylegend. 🙌🏻

They just wanna. #quarantunes

Some girls like to buy new shoes and others like driving trucks and wearing tattoos. There’s only one thing they all like a bunch. Girls, they wanna have lunch. Girls just wanna have lunch. #quarantunes

the no fear t-shirt people have moved on to fortune cookies

@manorastroman_official still kicks ass, even if @market.hotel’s sightlines do not.

If you know a better live band than the Sadies, you live a life of riches.

Finally found a copy of the book from Sol LeWitt’s original 1974 Incomplete Open Cubes exhibition that cost less than my rent!

There are many reasons I’m trying to become a homeowner this year, but it’s mostly so I never have to use one of these ever again.

A cozy night in with Raymond Chandler.

Sometimes I really miss making stupid movies over sleepless weekends with my friends. /cc @iancorey @jasonsantamaria @joel_haddock @mSutters @skycommando

I was feeling like a slug earlier and the devil on one shoulder told me to skip this show. But the angel an the other shoulder was like, “This excellent band traveled all the way from Busan to play their music for you. Are you really going to deprive them of even one smiling face to greet them?” Thanks, angel.

Didn’t listen to a ton of music this year, but my top artists are dominated by women and vagina slang, so 👍🏻

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Previous legs of Slayer’s sprawling farewell tour included support from Lamb of God, Anthrax, Behemoth, Testament, Napalm Death, Obituary, Amon Amarth, and Cannibal Corpse, none of whom could entice me to drag my ass into a cavernous arena or amphitheater. And the last time I saw Slayer turned out to be the last ever appearance of the original lineup, shortly before the untimely death of Jeff Hanneman and the departure of Dave Lombardo, which seemed… See more →

Sorry, folks, I messed up the math so I deleted this tweet. It’s actually .7%. Still a lousy showing, but not as bad as I made it out to be.

Great to catch up with some Kansas City @usairguitar buddies swinging through Brooklyn tonight!

For most of their existence, and especially since the market for recorded music collapsed, the Misfits have been more of a fashion brand than anything, their logo adorning virtually any object that could conceivably accessorize with a shade of Manic Panic or a pair of Doc Martens. The unlikelihood of a proper Misfits reunion stemmed from the decades-long feud between founding members Glenn Danzig and Jerry Only over how those sweet merch profits should be… See more →

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This is about the zillionth time I’ve seen @lowtheband and I think the first time I’ve seen them play “Do You Know How to Waltz?” What a gift. My favorite moment of 2019 so far.

Y’all, I had the best night catching up and talking accessibility with my bff @goodwitch.

The books I read this summer.

novel idea putting a wedding photo in a frame that was obviously made for goatse

When my friend Alex from my Harmonix days announced on Twitter that his first show playing drums for the NYHC band None Above All was coming up, I thought it would be fun to surprise him, see him do his thing, and catch up a bit. And it was! His band was on first and I figured I’d split when they were done. But as soon as I got there, the room’s overwhelming majority of… See more →

I know it’s punk rock and it’s the late show and everything, but this isn’t someone’s basement. A 30-minute set from the headliner? Weak.

Teenagers have shown us on many occasions that they’re capable of making fresh, exhilarating music, but that music is usually rooted firmly in an existing paradigm: hip-hop, punk, etc. Teenagers are students and students are formalists. One of the most striking things about Black Midi’s fresh, exhilarating, teenage music is its lack of an obvious reference point. It is at times reminiscent of Slint and their math rock descendants, and the funk-tinged post punk of… See more →

I like Uranium Club so very much, and I was fully prepared to travel to see them (after I learned to speak the incantation that makes their sporadic, unadvertised tour dates appear momentarily in hexadecimal at the bottom of a beer bottle), but then they just showed up in my backyard.

I hadn’t been to Brooklyn Bazaar before, so I wasn’t quite prepared for its ballroom’s 250 capacity, which held about triple the amount of… See more →

Fun fact: 25 years ago today, I met @Metallica. tinnitus.robweychert.com/1994/06/14/met…

Oh, just reading The New York Times in my web browser.

Y’all. Look at this llama. flickr.com/photos/cogdog/…

Reich Richter Pärt is a pair of collaborations between the American composer Steve Reich, the German painter Gerhard Richter, and the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. I’m an admirer of all three men, so this event was a no-brainer for me, and since I knew Frank would be into it too, I invited him along as a belated birthday gift.

The first performance pairs Pärt’s 2014 choral piece, Drei Hirtenkinder aus Fátima, with wallpapers and tapestries… See more →

Added a U.S. map to Tinnitus Tracker. As well as being an overview, it’s something I aim to fill in more. tinnitus.robweychert.com/state/

Made improvements to Tinnitus Tracker’s dynamic color schemes (blog post coming soon) and added much-needed texture. tinnitus.robweychert.com

There were definitely more men in their 50s at this show than I expected to see!

I went partly because I enjoy Colleen’s records and partly as something of a recon mission: As I’m focusing more on making music again, singing and playing power chords live over canned backing tracks is an approachable performance goal, and I wanted to see how well a pro could make it work. Colleen’s biggest strength is her songwriting, and… See more →

Back on the horse. My thanks to Ronnie James Dio for powering me through the last half mile.

Broke my glasses just before having headshots taken. Did the shoot without glasses, drew them on later with SVG, and randomized the colors.