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So-called documents = lies. That's the story here.

In Tel Aviv tonight, almost 1,000 people holding photos of Palestinian children killed in Gaza. This specific form of protest is getting bigger every week now. Enough.

Such an extraordinary force, who accomplished so much. The culture's loss, but especially for his loved ones. Sorrow and sympathy.

Anyone who's anyone will be there for this final event in the PMBiP season, with Pete Crighton (he/him) today at 5 pm!

Today in "Crritic!", my tribute to Bruce Cockburn on his 80th. (Esp the Bruce of "Humans.") Plus the gorgeous Sade tribute put out the other week by Joseph Shabason with Dawn Richard, and links to my Morgan Wallen mullings. Link: relinker.app/l/iN_4STc9

Julia, Amy, and I had a great talk on this episode about the current #1 musician in America - both his allure and his odiousness.

As it goes to wide release, reupping my piece on the PAVEMENTS movie: Its creative deconstructions puncture the music-movie bubble & perfectly suit the band - but the fun's a bit spoiled now by the ways po-mo games can recall deepfake disinformation. relinker.app/l/IIbTVsMw

RIP Sly Stone. relinker.app/l/y353vHPg

If there were an afterlife, Pere Ubu's David Thomas would be giving Brian Wilson a big bearhug there right now. Kindred spirits in all kinds of ways, singers of the American geographic unconscious. Sly Stone would be looking on warily. youtube.com/watch?v=pxsqZo…

Late last night I pulled together some circling thoughts about my ghost brother, Brian Wilson. relinker.app/l/429iB90d

Long thread of ppl arguing about an artist many of them admit they’ve never listened to. Check please waiter

"There was, in fact, no looming nuclear-weapons threat from Iran, and no reason for Mr. Trump not to continue talks." Tactics without strategy: How Trump’s weakness and Netanyahu’s self-interest exploded in Iran, by Doug Saunders theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl… #Iran

Great time on CBC's #Commotion this a.m. talkin' Neil Young, Benson Boone, Sabrina Carpenter's LP art, & the death of the Viletones' Steven Leckie w/ Elamin Abdelmahmoud, una rose and c’est la vish. Catch the extended mix on your podcast app later today. cbc.ca/arts/commotion

Today in Slate: I listened to *seven "new" Bruce Springsteen albums in 2025 and feel like I came out ahead. Artists' aging archival projects don't always land so well. But feeling he and I were mutually annoying Trump for all 5 hours of it didn't hurt. relinker.app/l/w4xoYt5G

Today in "Crritic!" I preview the Zula Presents Something Else! creative-music festival in Hamilton by profiling three drummers -- and one very percussive bass player -- who'll be making appearances there this weekend. relinker.app/l/GqcfUggQ

Me today in Slate: HAIM's first album in nearly five years, I QUIT, finds them still too busy processing recent changes to turn out the kinds of bangers we crave - but there are plenty of compensatory pleasures. slate.com/culture/2025/0…

In Slate: On Virgin, Lorde regains her boldness & takes us on a 35-minute bodily trip thru the ongoing fallout of getting famous at 16. Its sound's not a return to Melodrama but an update of Pure Heroine's minimalism - the percussion of repercussions. relinker.app/l/x-9E8uy8