Hester Pangs

TRANSMISSION 2 The signal grows stronger. A second wave of artists joins Emissions from the Monolith 10 — October 8–11, 2026 at Westside Bowl in Youngstown, Ohio. Newly revealed: Cavity Edhochuli Great Falls High Desert Queen Horseburner Howling Giant Kowloon Walled City Lake Lake Rwake Shun Thunderchief Today Is The Day Winds of Neptune These bands join the previously announced: Deadbird Disengage Generation of Vipers Rebreather Solace Stinking Lizaveta Sunrot Telekinetic Yeti The Brought Low Weedeater

a good fest announcement got even better. Looking forward to seeing some friends this fall.

my mom's brothers couldn't get christened at the Slovak parish and were sent to the Irish one a few blocks up the street for that.

Reminded of this wondrously droll bit from the main text of Polish history.

it's like in my top ten all time favorite songs.

This is literally a sermon millions of progressive Christians across denominations hear regularly.

Every day, I am reminded that nobody knows we exist, so I'm delighted to see the media actually listening for once.

Love to get lectured by someone who's responsible for our electric bills soaring because of a gigantic bribery scandal he's involved in, and who's never eaten out of a dumpster.

Much less trying to get a family's worth of that food home on the bus or a wagon that's barely held together, they'll never know.

I can't imagine any of these guys sitting in line for an hour and a half at a food pantry to pick up a bunch of canned green beans and hoping maybe there's some frozen leftover Chik Fil A, I can tell you that.

my conspiracy-addled aunt is posting AI-generated art about how data centers are bad and by this point I've already given up on doing an intervention.

I'd love to see these guys try to live on what I've lived on.

Ekatarina Velika - Nisam mislio na to (Official Audio) YouTube video by Ekatarina Velika Official

I sent this band to an INXS-loving coworker and it came back up on my music today, and it's still incredible to me how much great music came out of the former Yugoslavia in the 1970s and 1980s.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DoS...

"Well at least they're CATHOLIC if they're not POLISH" - every ethnic white in my grandparents' generation in Cleveland.

I was in Scotland visiting a friend in 2015 and I didn't hear a single negative thing about any other people group while I was there except "the bloody English." (I am Scottish/Irish on one side & all Polish & apparently some Jewish on the other) and we all know how that went in both old countries.

it's almost like my fellow believers forget that Jesus said "whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me" and that perfectly fits with what Talarico's saying (and continues to call me out every day).

Bruce Cockburn - Cry Of A Tiny Babe YouTube video by Best Playlists Ever

I'd be lying if Bruce Cockburn's Christmas song about all this didn't hit harder this past holiday season. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRZx...

The Great Beyond YouTube video by R.E.M. - Topic

also I just wanted to sing every Mike Mills harmony because that's always where my vocal timbre has fallen due to years of singing these songs in the car with various ladyfriends and hearing some of the later bangers I never thought I'd hear live was wonderful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lYu...

Felt a huge swell of regional feeling last night singing "Cuyahoga" with my fellow Clevelandians last night. What a great show that made me realize just how many years I've been in love with these songs.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTo3...

I own about 6 Moosewood cookbooks from years of thrifting and non-meat and especially vegan food has improved exponentially.

I ga-ron-tee you that every Jane and John Average who has ascended to a higher level of (here I refer to Kohlbergian) moral development in America without being born rich has done it in spite of, not because of, this being a good place where values thrive.

that version of 'Airwaves Dream' on that comp is so great too. I just had to rebuy this because my old copy I bought in school was all skippy.

We can figure something out. I still have a CD burner on my work computer and I never dumped my CD collection.

A friend of a friend had an extra ticket and hooked me up last night and it was SO SO GOOD.

J Church - (Don't Go Back to) Rockville YouTube video by wildweaselslayer

I love this one and have it on both that Jawbox comp and the original comp that also has J Church doing "Don't Go Back to Rockville" (RIP Parma Heights Goodwill, you hooked me up so many times). www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir6T...

just imagining Cleveland doing this with literally any freighter that goes up the Cuyahoga.

The Light YouTube video by Love & Rockets - Topic

I picked up this CD for a few bucks two weekends ago and gosh I love me some dirgey psych goth stuff.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MikG...

there's going to be so many middle-aged people with glasses ( I am including myself)

This is the way a lot of us would like to think we would respond to hostile questions in a Congressional hearing, but its rare to see a witness just turn the tables on a Senator like this.

Tyrants are invincible until they suddenly and extremely aren’t, for evidence of my claim may I refer you to literally all of human history

I think this might be the boyfriend's dream job especially if he could have a boat dog.

Using a old repurposed WW2 Minesweeper as an Icebreaker in Boston Harbor YouTube video by Life On The Coast: Explore, Dive, Eat, Learn

did you see that video of the minesweeper breaking ice in the Boston Harbor? www.youtube.com/shorts/GQroM...