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Thanks for the offers! Brewery recommendations would be great, especially if there are spots that fall outside whatever Google, TripAdvisor, Yelp, etc. cough up. Generally speaking, we love seeing things the locals value – the favorite places that wouldn't show up in a travel guide. I mean, we...

Used Kids to Magnolia Thunderpussy to Lost Weekend is my traditional route.

Oof. My wife and I are making our first trip to the city two weeks from today. This dulls my enthusiasm considerably.

Ugh. Had to buy one off Discogs. I spend every Thanksgiving in Columbus, OH, and I've never had a problem finding what I'm looking for, even when I visit the shops later in the day. I'm still sort of shocked at how quickly this one disappeared.

I actually wrote about this in the books thread. This show is based on Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series, which is wonderful. So good, in fact, that I'm staying as far away from the show as possible. I'm not typically the guy who makes comparisons between movies/shows and their source...

Ditto. Their best album since Pop.

Anyone a fan of Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series and super nervous about the Starz adaptation that starts airing this weekend? I love those books so goddamn much I think I'm going to avoid the show. Adapting the first two books in eight episodes? Surely that's a recipe for disaster.

I stupidly avoided Friday Night Lights when it was first on TV. I binged all five seasons in about a month this summer. Even though I wouldn't characterize it as a "light" show, it was a world I didn't want to leave. So many characters were so compelling and relatable that I always hated to turn...

There's a dead zone in the late 2000s / early 2010s where I connected hard with a handful of records but found most everything else pretty underwhelming. 2011 was one of those years. It's also the year my mom died and I got married within six months of each other, so while #1 would have been #1...

Yikes. This just seems like a crazy year to try to do this. I was a junior in high school, I had just discovered indie music, and all this amazing shit was hitting at once. My attempt at a Top 25 (and ranking these was a fool's errand): 1. Ride – Nowhere 2. The Sundays – Reading, Writing, and...

I watched the first episode of Succession yesterday, and you all (y'all?) were right: it's wonderful. Thanks for convincing me to take the plunge!

Thanks, team. I'll give it a try once I finish Broadchurch (which somehow I skipped the first time around despite my wife's infatuation with David Tennant). I think a big part of my resistance to Succession is the fact that our American political reality for at least the last three years could...

Saw them last night in Atlanta (and posted a few pics in the recent shows thread). Fantastic, fantastic show. 27 songs, 2 encores, and the new ones had a scrappier edge that sounded great mixed in with the standards. The crowd was one of the most enthusiastic I've seen in my ten years here, and...

More Sleater-Kinney pics. They blew the roof off the place in Atlanta last night. What a gift to still have them around.

Vol. 134 of Piper's Listening Post.

Anyone want to convince me Succession is worth my time? I know how good the reviews have been, but after two seasons of Big Little Lies I think I'm done with rich white people behaving badly.

Recently finished Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. It was the first of his books I've read, despite having heard his name for years. This is my story (taken from my GoodReads review): My first experience reading Murakami, it'd be stupid for me to say, "This isn't very good," but...

The Jonathan Fire*Eater reissue is the only thing that piques my interest. But since it's an RSD First release I can just wait a couple weeks and pay, like, $20 less.

I update my list every two months. Here's where it was at the end of August. I suspect the end of October will see some substantial shifts with the release of new ones from Nick Cave, Elbow, Wilco, et. al. 1. Fontaines D.C. – Dogrel 2. Charly Bliss – Young Enough 3. Kate Tempest – The Book of...

Hey, team. I posted intermittently on the old VMP forum, dropped my subscription in May 2018 after several months of having no interest in the ROTM (and also after selling a bunch of previous ROTMs that I never listened to), and I'm now making my triumphant return (for now) thanks to Songs for...