Category: Music

New songs by Billy Bragg, Bruce Springsteen, and Lady Gaga supporting the people of Minnesota

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapoliswww.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW…

— Billy Bragg (@billybragg.bsky.social) 2026-01-26T22:42:27.311Z

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.Stay free

— Bruce Springsteen (@brucespringsteen.net) 2026-01-28T17:02:08.994Z

Lady Gaga has put out a gorgeous anthem for Minneapolis.youtu.be/e3o5FIXoK84?…

— Dee Chan (@deechan17.bsky.social) 2026-01-29T19:16:37.891Z

“It’s ok to judge and have some hate for people / if you base it on their ethics and not their ethnicity.”youtu.be/sU6s6VEJxrU?…

— David M. Perry (@lollardfish.bsky.social) 2026-02-01T19:21:55.556Z

Posts on Bob Weir

I really like Bob Weir’s’ solo album Ace (1972). It’s a lot like Grateful Dead albums from that time but a lot livelier.

Netflix has a good biography of Weir.

Rest easy, Bob Weir 💛

— Rolling Stone (@rollingstone.com) 2026-01-11T02:12:11.812Z

Bob Dylan writing about Bob Weir in The Philosophy of Modern Song

— Ray Padgett (@raypadgett.bsky.social) 2026-01-11T00:34:46.684Z

The Empire State Building honors Bob Weir.

— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@nothoodlum.bsky.social) 2026-01-11T02:13:04.635Z

A documentary worth the watch. The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob WeirI see it's streaming on Netflix. Not sure where else.www.imdb.com/title/tt3692…

— (@zzorgon.bsky.social) 2026-01-11T00:37:07.025Z

What to make of Lynyrd Skynyrd?

I didn’t like Lynyrd Skynyrd back in the 1970s. Their use of the Confederate flag really turned me off (and still does).

However, I reassessed them in the 2010s, thanks to a series of great reissues (with bonus tracks and notes) of their outstanding albums. The music is great. I still don’t know what to think overall.

Lynyrd Skynyrd: Inside the Band’s Complicated History With the South

50 years since the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Gordon Lightfoot wrote a song about it.

Fifty years ago today, Nov. 10, 1975, the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald, laden with 26,000 tons of iron ore, sank in an unseasonably early storm on Lake Superior (Gitche Gumee, in Chippewa). All 29 men on board were lost. Two weeks later, Gordon Lightfoot read a Newsweek article about the disaster

— M🍁tthew Hay Br🏈wn (@matthewhaybrown.bsky.social) 2025-11-10T14:46:27.984Z

Here is the Newsweek magazine article that led to the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," marked up to show key passages that Lightfoot borrowed. Short thread at quoted post. Thanks to @bikeguy.bsky.social for reminding me about this. #EdmundFitzgerald50

— Chris Steller (@chrissteller.bsky.social) 2025-11-09T18:59:38.697Z