# music friday (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover music friday. Page: Feed: --- ## [Music Friday: "Semi-Charmed Life"](https://plannedob.blogspot.com/2026/08/music-friday-semi-charmed-life.html) _2026-08-21 · Quintilian B. Nasty · Planned Obsolescence_ It's a true sign that the marketers are going after your age group when a song you listened to and liked in your 20s is being used in a commercial. That's the case with Third Eye Blind's "Semi-Charmed Life." ## [New Music Friday: Val Emmich and a Dylan tribute](https://jimtestanj.substack.com/p/new-music-friday-val-emmich-and-a) _2026-08-21 · Constant Listener: Jim Testa · Constant Listener: Jim Testa_ The Bard of Jersey City Heights offers a balm for troubling times, Jem’s roster adds pop to Dylan’s back pages, Danish surf instrumentals, and a new single from MoB’s Roger Miller ## [Musing of the Moment: U.S. Debt, Gas Prices, & Inflation](https://plannedob.blogspot.com/2026/08/musing-of-moment-us-debt-gas-prices.html) _2026-08-20 · Quintilian B. Nasty · Planned Obsolescence_ Here's one of the many gas pumps I visited as we drove back from Victoria, British Columbia after taking our oldest kid there for their start to graduate school. As The New York Times reports that the U.S. is in debt up to $40 trillion dollars, see "U.S. Debt Hits $40 Trillion as America's Borrowing Binge Continues," everyday Americans are getting screwed by sky-high gas prices and inflation.… ## [Hip Hop comes to Hoboken](https://jimtestanj.substack.com/p/hip-hop-comes-to-hoboken) _2026-08-19 · Constant Listener: Jim Testa · Constant Listener: Jim Testa_ The 4th Annual Summer Blockfest brings rap, soul, R&B and a community-oriented festival to Hoboken's Southwest Side ## [Poptimistically Rockist: New tunes from Carly Simon, Dent May, Hovvdy, and soul sisters who will blow you away](https://jimtestanj.substack.com/p/poptimistically-rockist-new-tunes) _2026-08-17 · Constant Listener: Jim Testa · Constant Listener: Jim Testa_ We listen so you don't have to... but these are all worth a listen and then some. ## [Music Friday: "doom"](https://plannedob.blogspot.com/2026/08/i-read-article-about-musical-artist.html) _2026-08-15 · Quintilian B. Nasty · Planned Obsolescence_ I read an article about the musical artist Steve Lacy in The New Yorker and decided to check him out. He was described as someone who mixes hip hop, R&B, and alternative rock, and that mix sounded interesting. Here's "doom" from the his most recent release Oh yeah? ## [XTC's Colin Moulding wants it bad](https://jimtestanj.substack.com/p/xtcs-colin-moulding-wants-it-bad) _2026-08-14 · Constant Listener: Jim Testa · Constant Listener: Jim Testa_ Plus Slop Rock, Bro Country, Dream Pop, and an exquisite new singer/songwriter, ## [August's Punk Rock Scouting Report](https://jimtestanj.substack.com/p/augusts-punk-rock-scouting-report) _2026-08-12 · Constant Listener: Jim Testa · Constant Listener: Jim Testa_ Other music for uplifting gourmandizers: Unicorn Dogs, Reverser, Among Legends, The Sleights, and the Something Ain't Rights ## [Mitch Easter predicts a... reckoning?](https://jimtestanj.substack.com/p/mitch-easter-predicts-a-reckoning) _2026-08-10 · Constant Listener: Jim Testa · Constant Listener: Jim Testa_ Plus new music from Mr. Bunch, Sledding, and Cindy Lawson ## [Music Friday: "Won't You Come Out Tonight"](https://plannedob.blogspot.com/2026/08/music-friday-wont-you-come-out-tonight.html) _2026-08-09 · Quintilian B. Nasty · Planned Obsolescence_ I listened to a lot of SiriusXM's Spectrum a lot over the past week because Mrs. Nasty and I drove out to Victoria, British Columbia to move our eldest daughter there for grad school. This song isn't my favorite on his new album, but it's concise, positive song. ## [Sync Bookmarks Everywhere (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/LEL48kbDy8ye) _2026-08-09 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync keeps folders and toolbar intact across Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. ## [Pearly is victorious; the Underbites snarl; and two pop punk heroes go through the motions](https://jimtestanj.substack.com/p/pearly-is-victorious-the-underbites) _2026-08-05 · Constant Listener: Jim Testa · Constant Listener: Jim Testa_ New singles from Pearly, the Underbites, and a split EP from the Queers and Teenage Bottlerocket ## [Tim Sommer's Back Pages](https://jimtestanj.substack.com/p/tim-sommers-back-pages) _2026-08-03 · Constant Listener: Jim Testa · Constant Listener: Jim Testa_ A peripatetic life is recalled through essays while exploring the Kingdom of Outsiders. ## [Music Friday: "Breathe"](https://plannedob.blogspot.com/2026/07/music-friday-breathe.html) _2026-07-31 · Quintilian B. Nasty · Planned Obsolescence_ For whatever reason, videos of this band playing this song have found their way into my TikTok feed. I remember hearing this song at parties in the 90s. It's hard not liking this song. ## [Random Notes from a Crank](https://plannedob.blogspot.com/2026/07/random-notes-from-crank_0712086224.html) _2026-07-30 · Quintilian B. Nasty · Planned Obsolescence_ Here are some factoids from the past few Harper's Indexes: Estimated capital investment to create one permanent job in a U.S. data center: $52,000,000 To create one permanent job in any other sector of the U.S. economy: $322,000 Estimated number of public comments submitted to the Trump Administration on its White House ballroom proposal: 32,000 Percentage of those comments that were positive: 1… ## [Thank You](https://jimtestanj.substack.com/p/thank-you) _2026-07-29 · Constant Listener: Jim Testa · Constant Listener: Jim Testa_ I'll be on the mend for a bit ## [Stroke(s) of genius? Or just surprisingly good?](https://jimtestanj.substack.com/p/strokes-of-genius-or-just-surprisingly) _2026-07-28 · Constant Listener: Jim Testa · Constant Listener: Jim Testa_ Reality awaits the Strokes, Jack White has the Blues, and Madonna's back on track ## [Urinetown: The Musical -- Last Call!](https://jimtestanj.substack.com/p/urinetown-the-musical-last-call) _2026-07-26 · Constant Listener: Jim Testa · Constant Listener: Jim Testa_ Sunday, July 26 at 3 pm is your last chance to catch this show ## [Music Friday: "Masks Off"](https://plannedob.blogspot.com/2026/07/music-friday-masks-off.html) _2026-07-25 · Quintilian B. Nasty · Planned Obsolescence_ Jesse Welles came out with a new album recently. I've been enjoying it. Here's the album's title track. ## [New Music Friday: Sylvan Esso, In Color, Boy Harsher, Saint Clair, Ash Leone](https://jesse.id/blog/new-music-friday-sylvan-esso-in-color-boy-harsher-saint-clair-ash-leone) _2026-07-24 · Jesse.ID — Blog_ I’ve been going with three artists on the Fridays I remember to post new music so far, but there are five fresh tracks that I was into this week. One of my favorite groups, Sylvan Esso, powered by one of my favorite music producers — Nick Sanborn — dropped a new track this week. Sounds \[…\] ## [Musing of the Moment: World Cup Final from a Spurs Perspective](https://plannedob.blogspot.com/2026/07/musing-of-moment-world-cup-final-from.html) _2026-07-19 · Quintilian B. Nasty · Planned Obsolescence_ from The Athletic Spain dominated the match and held Argentina to zero shots on goal. Heck, Argentina only mounted a mere three shots to Spain's twenty, eleven of which were on target. Spain had plenty of chances, and the Spaniards were the clearly superior squad. For how much footballing talent that country has, I'm surprised this win is only their second World Cup. From a Tottenham Hotspur… ## [One Cloud, Every AI Layer (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Z261GHYNVtj0) _2026-07-19 · **Sponsored**_ Run agents, inference, and infrastructure on one stack — economics improve as you scale. ## [Music Friday: "Wonderwall"](https://plannedob.blogspot.com/2026/07/music-friday-wonderwall.html) _2026-07-18 · Quintilian B. Nasty · Planned Obsolescence_ I'm posting in regret of England's terrible loss to Argentina in the World Cup. ## [Random Notes from a Crank](https://plannedob.blogspot.com/2026/07/random-notes-from-crank_052728566.html) _2026-07-14 · Quintilian B. Nasty · Planned Obsolescence_ In anticipation of the Argentina vs. England World Cup match, here's the Encyclopedia Brittanica entry on the Falklands War . For Father's Day I got this away England kit. Mrs. Nasty got it from OkayJersey , which has great prices. I'm thinking about getting the Tottenham away kit for this upcoming season, and I like last season's home kit for Roma. The BBC has a good article about the failure of… ## [How I Use AI and How I Don’t Use AI](https://jesse.id/blog/how-i-use-ai-and-how-i-dont-use-ai) _2026-07-14 · Jesse.ID — Blog_ How I don’t use AI I don’t use generative AI to write prose or lyrics. I don’t use it to write blog posts. I don’t use it to write e-mails for me, outside of the occasional auto-complete of what I was going to say anyway. I don’t use it to create music. I don’t use \[…\] ## [Music Friday: "Dollar General"](https://plannedob.blogspot.com/2026/07/music-friday-dollar-general.html) _2026-07-10 · Quintilian B. Nasty · Planned Obsolescence_ The new album by American Aquarium comes out swinging with its opening track "Dollar General." "Greatest trick ever played was taking our voice and giving us two sides in the illusion of choice. It ain't left versus right. It's bottom versus top. Until we figure it out, this ain't gonna stop." The album is titled New Ways to Lose . ## [New Music Friday: Wishy, Slow Joy, Dev Lemons](https://jesse.id/blog/new-music-friday-wishy-slow-joy-dev-lemons) _2026-07-10 · Jesse.ID — Blog_ This week, I have three tracks from YouTube. One a track by a brand new band to me named Wishy, a 5 piece band from Indianapolis — a good rec from friend Christian. The other two are from Slow Joy and Dev Lemons. I’ve been listening to them for awhile so I’m always happy to \[…\] ## [Random Notes from a Crank](https://plannedob.blogspot.com/2026/07/this-political-cartoon-by-jeff-stahler.html) _2026-07-09 · Quintilian B. Nasty · Planned Obsolescence_ This political cartoon by Jeff Stahler is a good summation of this presidential administration, especially with the answer of "disaster." GoComics.com The only time I've listened to Olivia Rodrigo's music is when she was on Saturday Night Live , but I'm heartened by her all-women musical festival that will give all of its profits to Planned Parenthood: "Olivia Rodrigo Stands against Trump as She… ## [Defining My Own Reality](https://jesse.id/blog/defining-my-own-reality) _2026-06-28 · Jesse.ID — Blog_ I’ve been having deep discussions with friends of late, and in one of them, I said that I am slowly coming to the realization that anyone, at any time, can just create their own version of reality and their version of it can spread to envelop the world depending on how many people believe them. \[…\] ## [New Music Friday: A.G. Sully, Emma Ogier, Jessie Mazin](https://jesse.id/blog/new-music-a-g-sully-emma-ogier) _2026-06-27 · Jesse.ID — Blog_ My Instagram Reels algorithm served me up a couple of Nashville singer-songwriters on what I assume is the come up. Who knows in the current music landscape? Both have two very DIY looking videos that have garnered many plays from me over the past few weeks. A.G. Sully has a trip-hoppy sound straight out of \[…\] ## [OG Internet Music Revisited](https://jesse.id/blog/og-internet-music-revisited) _2026-06-25 · Jesse.ID — Blog_ I am in my 40’s now and I’ve not only been on the Internet since 1995, but chronically online for the entire time. The Internet is at the center of nearly everything in my life, including music, but I have been obsessed with music for much longer than the Internet was available to me. The \[…\] ## [Using Karabiner-Elements For Sudo Authentication via 1Password](https://jesse.id/blog/using-karabiner-elements-for-sudo-authentication-via-1password) _2026-02-18 · Jesse.ID — Blog_ Karabiner-Elements is an incredible free tool for customizing your keyboard, mouse, and other input devices on macOS. Its most powerful feature is the ability to create complex modification (macro) scripts that can perform a variety of actions when a key — or a combination of keys — are pressed. I’m going to share the scripts \[…\] ## [Stay updated on your professional world (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Cv94wymrNBb5) _2026-02-18 · **Sponsored**_ Keep in touch with people you know, build your career. ## [Switching from MacOS to Windows](https://jesse.id/blog/switching-from-macos-to-windows) _2025-06-22 · Jesse.ID — Blog_ I’ve been alive for 43 years at this point and I have been using a Microsoft operating system as my daily driver for the last 37 years, starting with MS-DOS running on a Commodore Colt PC in 1988. I have used every version of Windows from 3.0 in 1990 up until Windows 11 in 2025, \[…\]