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Lars Gotrich

@totalvibration

Series editor for Tiny Desk at NPR Music. World's Okayist Guitarist. #FreeDC. Mixtapes, tea and whatnot: https://www.vikingschoice.org

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I think I'm gonna start a Ducktales-themed punk band and call it Hüsker Hüey, Düey and Lüey.

10.03.2026 13:58 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Fugue Gnawed from the Scabbed God Cerebrum, by Onchocerciasis Esophagogastroduodenoscopy 11 track album

morning slamz

stillbirthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fugue-...

10.03.2026 13:42 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

🫠

10.03.2026 13:41 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

HBD!

07.03.2026 13:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh hey you’re on here!

07.03.2026 02:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Unfortunately, all of this is feeding into my Timmy Chalamet Sucks Actually take.

07.03.2026 02:36 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nice!

07.03.2026 00:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Golden Brown’s Whisker Fatigue on vinyl

Golden Brown’s Whisker Fatigue on vinyl

If you play this @goldenbrownmusic.bsky.social LP at 45 rpm, it turns into a drippy funk-psych dance party. Highly recommend the alternate speed (and the regular one, too).

07.03.2026 00:22 👍 36 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 1

I mean, that's the History of Christian Rock.

But then again, that's the history of most music.

CCM was guilty of not only being behind the times but also stripping the source to sheen.

Thankfully, underground Christian punk (mostly) knew better, studied the source, made it their own.

06.03.2026 21:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Live From NPR's Tiny Desk Orchid Vinyl LP This intimate recording of Goo Goo Dolls performing Live From NPR’s Tiny Desk is pressed on limited-edition Orchid Vinyl. This collection captures the band’s performance of two of their enduring hits ...

Oh, hey, Goo Goo Dolls' Tiny Desk is coming to vinyl! My name is gonna be on a Goo Goo Dolls record. The 12-year-old Lars who bought 'Boy Named Goo' on CD doesn't understand the previous two sentences.

googoodolls.warnerrecords.com/products/liv...

06.03.2026 20:58 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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vikingschoice - I never thought I'd hear Steve Albini's Fugazi album Plus new music by TAKAAT, Bad Operation, Ted Leo, Anna Ferrer and Marisa Anderson

Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions made me wanna finish up the new Viking's Choice mixtape.

So, yeah, there's the Washington Monument, plus new music by TAKAAT, Marisa Anderson, Bad Operation, Les Rallizes Dénudés, Anna Ferrer.

www.buymusic.club/list/vikings...

06.03.2026 19:55 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think I'm gonna start a geometry-themed death metal band and call it Morbid Angle.

06.03.2026 18:30 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 5 📌 0
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The Pollutant, by Ninety Pound Wuss track by Ninety Pound Wuss

Speaking of, Ninety Pound Wuss cleaned up and remixed this hidden track from 'Where Meager Die of Self-Interest' and, well, it's definitely Most Fugazi that NPW ever got. RIPS.

ninetypoundwuss.bandcamp.com/track/the-po...

06.03.2026 15:24 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

🚨🚨🚨

06.03.2026 15:20 👍 215 🔁 23 💬 8 📌 0
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Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi 12 track album

Stop literally everything.

Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time.

fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

06.03.2026 14:56 👍 1371 🔁 503 💬 34 📌 136

Got the kid to bed early and watched a 90-minute ‘90s revenge thriller (Double Jeopardy) all before 10 p.m. Just a resounding success. I feel so alive.

06.03.2026 03:19 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A) This is perhaps The Most Youth Group Activity
B) I somehow believe it

05.03.2026 20:11 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trash pandas and ranch just make sense.

05.03.2026 20:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Tiny Desk Radio: Yo Gabba GabbaLand!, 31 Minutos, Sesame Street Look for Tiny Desk Radio on your local NPR station.

Hey, it's my birthday on Sunday. If your local NPR station carries Tiny Desk Radio, consider it a gift to me if you'd listen (most stations air TDR on the weekend). I wrote this upcoming episode; it features the voice of my 7-year-old daughter. It's cute as hell.

www.npr.org/2026/03/05/g...

05.03.2026 20:03 👍 34 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

I probably would.

05.03.2026 20:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Sixpence None The Richer - Love - Monterrey México
Sixpence None The Richer - Love - Monterrey México YouTube video by Pablo Bazan

I didn’t know that I needed Sixpence None the Richer’s “Love” with “Cherub Rock” riffs, but here we are. This rules.

youtu.be/-r5Ddt38nFQ?...

04.03.2026 22:15 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Madi Diaz - "Think Of Me" (Full Album Stream)
Madi Diaz - "Think Of Me" (Full Album Stream) YouTube video by Madi Diaz

Oh, Madi Diaz writes SONGS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hlrk...

04.03.2026 15:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You’re trapped in the last TV show you watched.

Where are you?

04.03.2026 14:59 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 2

lol I knew about this interview a month or so ago... funny that it's just now making the rounds.

Eh, it's Billy being Billy, my favorite blowhard.

03.03.2026 21:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Blog - 9:30 Club MxPx

OK, who's gonna go to the punk rawk show with me? www.930.com/e/mxpx/

03.03.2026 18:01 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I am scared to google man cereal for what it will do my internet

03.03.2026 14:51 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Critical Distance, by Art Sorority 2 track album

I still remember when @artsorority.bsky.social texted me to say he wanted to work with Snow Ellet on some songs. What a pair! These are those, and they are so good.

artsorority.bandcamp.com/album/critic...

03.03.2026 14:47 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Aw thanks so much. We're always cookin'.

And this isn't secret, but maybe not widespread knowledge: The artist and label decided when/if to put their Tiny Desk on vinyl or streaming services (after it lives on our youtube for a few months first).

03.03.2026 14:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I am so sorry to point this out to @titonka.bsky.social

03.03.2026 14:20 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We definitely have a few go-to musicians that we recommend when the artist needs a band (and isn't used to having one).

03.03.2026 14:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0