Alex Rawls
@alexrawls.bsky.social
New Orleans-based journalist & podcaster covering music & culture. I can be found at MySpiltMilk.com and TwelveSongsOfChristmas.com
Am I understanding Rubio correctly & Trump plans to passive/aggressively control Venezuela, not telling it what to do but blocking oil exports until it does the “right” thing?
January 4, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Am I understanding Rubio correctly & Trump plans to passive/aggressively control Venezuela, not telling it what to do but blocking oil exports until it does the “right” thing?
This email from Bari Weiss couldn't sound more condescending. It's like she's never actually been in a newsroom, covered the news, or watched any TV shows or movies about newsrooms or people covering the news.
December 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This email from Bari Weiss couldn't sound more condescending. It's like she's never actually been in a newsroom, covered the news, or watched any TV shows or movies about newsrooms or people covering the news.
Tired of Mariah, Wham!, Brenda Lee, etc.? Here's my #ChristmasMusic playlist - 100 percent listenable but definitely not overplayed. www.mixcloud.com/MySpiltMilk/... @knpknpknpknp.bsky.social @blackmarketdub.bsky.social @coleminerecords.bsky.social
The Twelve Songs of Christmas' Christmas Mix 2025
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from My Spilt Milk. Thanks for being a listener, a friend, or someone who helps make the show happen whether behind or on the mic. I'm proud of the podcast and to be...
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December 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Tired of Mariah, Wham!, Brenda Lee, etc.? Here's my #ChristmasMusic playlist - 100 percent listenable but definitely not overplayed. www.mixcloud.com/MySpiltMilk/... @knpknpknpknp.bsky.social @blackmarketdub.bsky.social @coleminerecords.bsky.social
My 2025 Xmas song: “Breaking a Sweat for Christmas”
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
My 2025 Xmas song: “Breaking a Sweat for Christmas”
Tis the season for my Twelve Songs of Christmas podcast, this week with comic artist #PeterBagge, indie pop artist #Hibou and singer/pilot/psychotherapist #JudyWhitmore, who flies the flag for old school Christmas music. #ChristmasMusic twelvesongsofchristmas.podbean.com/e/the-2025-c...
The 2025 Christmas Party | Twelve Songs of Christmas
Season eight ends with what I hope will be a tradition--a Christmas party, with a few guests and a lot of music.
This week's guests include comic artist Peter Bagge, singer Judy Whitmore, and indie r...
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December 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Tis the season for my Twelve Songs of Christmas podcast, this week with comic artist #PeterBagge, indie pop artist #Hibou and singer/pilot/psychotherapist #JudyWhitmore, who flies the flag for old school Christmas music. #ChristmasMusic twelvesongsofchristmas.podbean.com/e/the-2025-c...
Tis the season for conversations about #xmasmusic. Chris from #Sloan on how a band grows up, becoming a cult band, and their Christmas music. www.twelvesongsofchristmas.com/content/sloan
Sloan — Twelve Songs of Christmas
Chris Murphy of the great Canadian indie rock band Sloan visited the Christmas music podcast to talk about their new album, "Based on a Best Seller," and their Christmas music. We learn how Perry Como...
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December 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Tis the season for conversations about #xmasmusic. Chris from #Sloan on how a band grows up, becoming a cult band, and their Christmas music. www.twelvesongsofchristmas.com/content/sloan
Tis the season. Fans of #YachtRock will want to hear guitar hero #SteveLukather on Eddie Van Halen, Sammy Davis Jr, Ringo and #ChristmasMusic when we talk about his 2003 album "Santamental." Here or wherever your get yr podcasts. www.twelvesongsofchristmas.com/content/stev...
Steve Lukather's "Santamental" (an encore presentation) — Twelve Songs of Christmas
In an encore presentation from 2021, guitarist Steve Lukather visits the Christmas music podcast to talk about his Christmas album, "Santamental," and his experiences with Ringo Starr, Alex Van Halen,...
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December 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Tis the season. Fans of #YachtRock will want to hear guitar hero #SteveLukather on Eddie Van Halen, Sammy Davis Jr, Ringo and #ChristmasMusic when we talk about his 2003 album "Santamental." Here or wherever your get yr podcasts. www.twelvesongsofchristmas.com/content/stev...
Tis the season for more talk about #ChristmasMusic. This week, Roland Gift, Americana lifers #OldCrowMedicineShow and Lorin from #TheKlezmatics visit the pod to talk about their new holiday music. www.twelvesongsofchristmas.com/content/rola...
Roland Gift, Old Crow Medicine Show, and The Klezmatics — Twelve Songs of Christmas
Fine Young Cannibals' Roland Gift, Old Crow Medicine Show's Ketch and Morgan, and The Klezmatics' Lorin Sklamberg visit the Christmas music podcast to talk about their new music for the holidays.
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December 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Tis the season for more talk about #ChristmasMusic. This week, Roland Gift, Americana lifers #OldCrowMedicineShow and Lorin from #TheKlezmatics visit the pod to talk about their new holiday music. www.twelvesongsofchristmas.com/content/rola...
Tis the season for more conversations about #ChristmasMusic. Last season I talked to #MidgeUre about "Do They Know it's Christmas" 40 years later. www.twelvesongsofchristmas.com/content/do-t...
"Do They Know it's Christmas" at 40 with Midge Ure — Twelve Songs of Christmas
Midge Ure of The Rich Kids, Ultravox and Visage visits the Christmas music podcast to talk about his new "Live at the Royal Albert Hall 04.10.23," touring, the Blitz scene, and "Do They Know it's Chri...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Tis the season for more conversations about #ChristmasMusic. Last season I talked to #MidgeUre about "Do They Know it's Christmas" 40 years later. www.twelvesongsofchristmas.com/content/do-t...
Tis the season for conversations about #ChristmasMusic. This week on "Twelve Songs of Christmas," I talk to #WilliamShatner, #JaneMonheit and retro soul singer #KellyFinnigan. Three fun, very different conversations!
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William Shatner, Jane Monheit, and Kelly Finnigan — Twelve Songs of Christmas
As the Christmas season sets in, jazz vocalist Jane Monheit, soul singer Kelly Finnigan, and actor William Shatner visit the Christmas music podcast, which also features new music by indie artists Sar...
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December 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Tis the season for conversations about #ChristmasMusic. This week on "Twelve Songs of Christmas," I talk to #WilliamShatner, #JaneMonheit and retro soul singer #KellyFinnigan. Three fun, very different conversations!
@janemonheit.bsky.social @janemonheitfans.bsky.social
@janemonheit.bsky.social @janemonheitfans.bsky.social
I want “narco-terrorists” to wrap my Xmas gifts for shipping. They were so blown up that Hegseth thought there was nothing to see, but the “drugs” were so watertight, flame resistant and bombproof that Cotton saw the survivors gathering them up.
December 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I want “narco-terrorists” to wrap my Xmas gifts for shipping. They were so blown up that Hegseth thought there was nothing to see, but the “drugs” were so watertight, flame resistant and bombproof that Cotton saw the survivors gathering them up.
I love that the #DriveByTruckers & #JasonIsbell used their time on Colbert to play “Hell No I Ain’t Happy.” It needs to said every day of this presidency, ideally fueled by 3 electric guitars every time.
December 3, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I love that the #DriveByTruckers & #JasonIsbell used their time on Colbert to play “Hell No I Ain’t Happy.” It needs to said every day of this presidency, ideally fueled by 3 electric guitars every time.
Tis the season for a conversation about #ChristmasMusic with Kristian Noel Pedersen, one of the OGs of Xmas indie rock. @knpknpknpknp.bsky.social www.twelvesongsofchristmas.com/content/kris...
Kristian Noel Pedersen — Twelve Songs of Christmas
Canada's Kristian Noel Pedersen has made a career of Christmas music. He stopped by the Christmas music podcast to talk about how it went from a joke to a productive career.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Tis the season for a conversation about #ChristmasMusic with Kristian Noel Pedersen, one of the OGs of Xmas indie rock. @knpknpknpknp.bsky.social www.twelvesongsofchristmas.com/content/kris...
Tis the season for my conversation w #BlackMarketDub on dub #ChristmasMusic on their “Black Market Christmas.” www.twelvesongsofchristmas.com/content/dub-...
Dub Reggae for Christmas with Black Market Dub — Twelve Songs of Christmas
Nate and Brandon of Black Market Dub talk about their introduction to dub, their their dub remixes of classic rock, and their Christmas album "A Black Market Christmas."
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November 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Tis the season for my conversation w #BlackMarketDub on dub #ChristmasMusic on their “Black Market Christmas.” www.twelvesongsofchristmas.com/content/dub-...
This would have prompted the spittake of all spittakes.
November 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This would have prompted the spittake of all spittakes.
A good start to the #ChristmasMusic season: the 1st 2 songs I hear in a Paris Baguette are Amanda Shires’ “Real Tree for Christmas” and Connie Francis’ “Baby’s First Christmas.”
November 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A good start to the #ChristmasMusic season: the 1st 2 songs I hear in a Paris Baguette are Amanda Shires’ “Real Tree for Christmas” and Connie Francis’ “Baby’s First Christmas.”
The #ChristmasMusic podcast remembers #BrianWilson this week w Probyn Gregory on Brian onstage & in the studio in the 2000s. Good stuff for Brian fans.
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Remembering Brian Wilson Pt. 2: "What I Really Want for Christmas" — Twelve Songs of Christmas
Multi-instrumentalist Probyn Gregory from Brian Wilson's touring and recording band during the last decades of his life visits the Christmas music podcast to talk about performing and recording with t...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The #ChristmasMusic podcast remembers #BrianWilson this week w Probyn Gregory on Brian onstage & in the studio in the 2000s. Good stuff for Brian fans.
www.twelvesongsofchristmas.com/content/reme...
www.twelvesongsofchristmas.com/content/reme...
AI and I are not going to get along. I hate the passive voice summaries of email messages generated by Apple’s mail app.
November 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
AI and I are not going to get along. I hate the passive voice summaries of email messages generated by Apple’s mail app.
Funky songs with cool -often retro- textures make my day. Versions of #XmasSongs like that make me even happier, whether they're actually old or made to sound that way. This week's episode features #ShawnLee talking about the influence of samples & #librarymusic. www.podbean.com/ew/pb-kmkqi-...
A Ping Pong Kung Fu Christmas with Shawn Lee
Producer and multi-instrumentalist Shawn Lee has a history of making recordings that hover uncertainly in time. Sounds from different eras and genres come together in his music to sound like lost, reg...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Funky songs with cool -often retro- textures make my day. Versions of #XmasSongs like that make me even happier, whether they're actually old or made to sound that way. This week's episode features #ShawnLee talking about the influence of samples & #librarymusic. www.podbean.com/ew/pb-kmkqi-...
"We've taken a 'really unique action' and made your life worse. We'll make it even worse if we have to if that what it takes to make you realize that the Democrats are at fault."
Sean Duffy calls his move to cancel flights as "really unique action"
November 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
"We've taken a 'really unique action' and made your life worse. We'll make it even worse if we have to if that what it takes to make you realize that the Democrats are at fault."
Think you're safe from AI in your musical subculture? DJ #HunterKing recounts his efforts to find the source of AI-generated surf music released under the names of existing groups.
AI Used to Create Faux Surf Under Real Bands' Names — My Spilt Milk
Surf music DJ Hunter King enlists the surf community to help him track down the entity behind a series of AI-generated surf albums released under the names of existing bands.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Think you're safe from AI in your musical subculture? DJ #HunterKing recounts his efforts to find the source of AI-generated surf music released under the names of existing groups.
Trying to decide what to do tonight or this weekend in #NewOrleans? condensedmilk.substack.com/p/condensed-...
Condensed Milk: October 31, 2025
Big Thief, Quintron, Acid Mothers Temple, Day of the Dead, Lil WeezyAna, Matt Maltese
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October 31, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Trying to decide what to do tonight or this weekend in #NewOrleans? condensedmilk.substack.com/p/condensed-...
Need a spacer? Try this: How does someone make indie #ChristmasMusic the focus of their musical output? You don't need a holiday to be engaged by #KristianNoelPedersen's body of work or our conversation about it. @knpknpknpknp.bsky.social www.twelvesongsofchristmas.com/content/kris...
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October 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Need a spacer? Try this: How does someone make indie #ChristmasMusic the focus of their musical output? You don't need a holiday to be engaged by #KristianNoelPedersen's body of work or our conversation about it. @knpknpknpknp.bsky.social www.twelvesongsofchristmas.com/content/kris...
New Orleans' #LPO has broadened its outreach by partnering with indie artists including rapper #AlfredBanks (Oct 29), #LilliLewis (Nov 19) and DJ #MannieFresh (Nov 21). I dug into that relationship in this month's @antigravitymag.bsky.social & as usual, Lilli had cool insights.
MY SPILT MILK - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
The LPO Goes Indie City orchestras across America share a problem. People think classical music is a good thing, but that doesn’t mean they’ll pay to see it in the numbers orchestras need. They hope t...
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October 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
New Orleans' #LPO has broadened its outreach by partnering with indie artists including rapper #AlfredBanks (Oct 29), #LilliLewis (Nov 19) and DJ #MannieFresh (Nov 21). I dug into that relationship in this month's @antigravitymag.bsky.social & as usual, Lilli had cool insights.