🎸To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the official release of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco are releasing a deluxe version with 11 LPs, a CD and a book covering the original album, alternative takes, instrumentals, and an entire live show recording. That’s a lot of music! And spendy! I am kind of with Stereogum commentator Bargain Basement Batman: please release a new pressing of the original album!
Author: Joe Mahoney
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🚲 Adam Sklar’s Supersomething popped up on The Radavist this week and I have never been more enamoured of a bicycle. I’m not a huge stickler for rules, but maybe there is something to the twelfth entry in the Velominati’s comprehensive list:
The correct number of bikes to own is
n+1
.While the minimum number of bikes one should own is three, the correct number isn+1
, wheren
is the number of bikes currently owned. This equation may also be re-written ass-1
, wheres
is the number of bikes owned that would result in separation from your partner.
🧑🏽🎨 Steal Like An Artist is ten years old and still on point. I encourage all the new devs at my work to dig into all Austin Kleon’s books
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🚲 Another week, another video that levels up my bike maintenance skills:
🎮 This weekend my daughter and I blitzed through a lot of puzzles and finally finished Double Fine’s Broken Age. Perhaps it’s worth watching the making-of series again?
🏃🏽♀️There’s no way I could have seen this totally predictable injury coming
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🎵 Ted Gioia: What is the oldest music company?
🥇 Valerie Adams retired this week. Talk about being the greatest of all time, look at 2006-2012 on the Halberg Awards. A genuine inspiration.
🐴 The trailer for Slow Horses landed this week. If you find yourself at a lose end for ten days or so I can’t think of a better series of novels to dive into than Mick Herron’s Slough House books, upon which the telly program is based.
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🥁 Last week I bought an old favourite on vinyl: Rabbit Fur Coat by Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins. It is a perfect album. The high point for me is when the drums kick in during the second half of Born Secular. Sublime.
🚵♀️Don’t you love it when you want to learn how to prevent your bike’s disk brake from rubbing and the first tip in the first video in the search results sorts you out completely?
🦃 Birdle is a daily quiz about birds in and around New Zealand, made by Simon Carryer. My best score is 8/10. If you like the bird on Morning Report you will probably enjoy this one
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🥣 Spoons Lucifer On The Sofa lived up to the hype. That cover of Smog’s Held outdoes the original.
🎸 Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours has been on the UK charts for 926 weeks and regularly outsells most other popular artists.
📕 I finished Kirsten McDougall’s She’s a Killer this week, just as a new printing hit the shops. This excerpt on The Spinoff is a perfect taster.
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🧈This week I learned about Well Fired Rolls and tandsmør, one of those non-english words that you immediately adopt when you hear it
🥁 Big Thief’s new album is 20 songs long and has a silly name but, man, is it good! Even the potato song is good.
🍗 I just finished season two of The Leftovers and I have been blown away by how they used music throughout the season.
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🎺RNZ’s Music 101 on Aotearoa’s complicated relationship with UB40
🚀 Why is Chewbacca’s name Chewbacca when he can’t pronounce it himself?
👜Amoeba Records What’s In My Bag interview with Katie & Alison Crutchfield
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Midnight Special on the Hauraki Rail Trail
I posted on r/surlybikefans about my bike and a recent family cycle trip along the Hauraki Rail Trail.
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