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The Building Is a Hostage
Read more . . . →The Kennedy Center has been closed since July. The National Symphony Orchestra is scattered across six venues in the DC suburbs because its home is shuttered for a renovation that Congress approved $257 million to pay for. And this week, Trump said the renovation won’t happen unless the courts let him carve his name into the building. When a judge blocked the inscription for the second time, calling the board’s efforts “linguistic gymnastics,” Trump was photographed with a poster reading “Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED” and told reporters the place could be “ripped down” if he doesn’t get “recognition.” Congress funded the...
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Fish Go Deep & Tracey K X Shy FX - The Cure & The Cause
Shy FX rebuilds Fish Go Deep and Tracey K's classic The Cure & The Cause and somehow doesn't ruin it. A real conversation between eras.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Carbon Neutral
Read more . . . →One sapling, one private jet. The math checks out if you skip the math. He drove to the tarmac, put on gloves, and planted a tree that will take forty years to absorb what the jet behind him burns in a single flight. The photo goes straight into the annual report under “environmental stewardship.” The sapling will be dead by the next shareholder meeting because nobody budgeted for watering it. The offset certificate is framed on the wall next to the boarding pass for Davos, and the planet moved zero degrees in either direction. Planting one tree next to a...
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DJ Kuba, Neitan, Beat & Encore & CERES - I Like The Bass
I Like The Bass is exactly what it sounds like: a huge, dumb bass-house battering ram. Never at home. Every time at a festival.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Nobody Leaves the Table
Read more . . . →Donald Trump signed an order yesterday to strip all Canadian-origin goods from federal procurement, $280 billion in contracts, because Canada had the nerve to launch a Buy Canadian policy after he tariffed them. The same day, he told reporters that if the European Union goes ahead with its plan to make Canada an associate member, he’d consider it a “hostile act” and hit Europe with tariffs too. Read that again. He’s kicking Canada off his shelves and threatening to punish anyone who puts them on theirs. This is the trade-policy version of the guy who dumps you and then shows...
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Denis Sulta & Capri - Push The Tempo (Extended Mix)
Denis Sulta and Capri's Push The Tempo breaks down to one chord for sixteen bars and you'd follow it anywhere. Glasgow house with a grin.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Bipartisan Handshake
Read more . . . →Reached across the aisle. The aisle was a mirror. An oil painting of a man shaking hands with his own reflection, hung in the kind of marble hallway where nothing useful has happened in decades. The flag tie and the gilt frame tell you everything about who paid for the mirror. He ran on bipartisanship and found the one partner who never pushes back. Somewhere a constituent is on hold while their representative closes the most productive meeting of his career. The handshake looks firm. He’s had practice.
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Albi - Dancing With Your Ghost
Albi's dance remake of Dancing With Your Ghost is festival-shaped and buffed to nothing. Fine for the car, gone by next week.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Acyan & IKU - ONE TWO
Acyan and IKU turn 'one, two' into a percussion instrument and warp trap into something meaner. Too loud and weird to ignore.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Unglued, TJB & Esther Durin - Heaven
Unglued, TJB and Esther Durin's Heaven earns its emotion instead of faking it. Festival-huge, headphone-worthy, held up both ways.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
