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Frank Kogan
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Fan of MC Pipokinha; currently thinking about how the Chad Mitchell Trio foreshadow both punk rock and adult contemporary music. The people united will never be defeated.
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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · Dec 30
Made this Korean hip-hop playlist to put what I intend to write about XG in perspective. Am ignorant so would like your input on what *you* would put on such a list – obv I veer idol pop more than hip-hop per se, and count non-Koreans like XG, Jay Park. Chronological.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Enchanted Propaganda (Korean hip-hop and hip-hop adjacent) - YouTube
I’m incredibly ignorant (e.g. no Epik High), this is concentrated 2010-13, obv I know more about Korean idol than Korean hip-hop, Ash-B should be on this but...
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koganbot.bsky.social
DJ Danz "Without Me (Budots Dance Remix)" (2025). What it says on the tin. Attn @fireh9lly.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I1N...
Dj Danz - Without Me ( Budots Dance Remix )
YouTube video by DJ DANZ
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November 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
koganbot.bsky.social
DJ Bedbugs "Aaron's Party Rocking" (2012). With DJ Bedbugs back on the radar, I thought I'd embed this classic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=td8f...
November 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
koganbot.bsky.social
I once contributed to Amnesty International by putting cash in an envelope without adding a return address.
November 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
koganbot.bsky.social
Good news in Aurora, where I live, as several Repubs pushing idea that Venezuelans are gang members & criminals get voted off city council. Bad news down in Littleton, tho, as voters make it harder to build more living units, i.e., for poor people to find housing.
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/04/e...
Progressive candidates lead in all Aurora council races, Littleton anti-dense housing measure leads
Aurora’s council races were among metro Denver’s most notable contests and ballot measures in the off-year election.
www.denverpost.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
koganbot.bsky.social
I know I've already done this, but since I've already downloaded the picture I might as well repeat.
Orange band* across the top that says "Duophonic" in black letters w/ sideways double arrows in the middle of the o's. Beneath that "KINGSTON TRIO ENCORES" in red letters and beneath that "enhanced for stereo phonographs" (green letters except "stereo" is red, beneath that, photos of two previous album covers "...from the 'Hungry i'" and "The Kingston Trio" and I'm too lazey to describe them, then underneath that 12 song titles in columns of three each. *A "band" in the sense of a broad line or material (like a headband) as opposed to, say, a group of people engaged in a common purpose, such as musicians or thieves.
November 2, 2025 at 11:03 PM
koganbot.bsky.social
ATTN: @jelbugle.bsky.social This was the first I'd even heard *of* Poison, afaik, unless Chuck had mentioned them in a letter. Piece also gives brief thumbs up to GN'R about 10 mos. before they went commercially boffo.
chuckeddytor.bsky.social Chuck Eddy @chuckeddytor.bsky.social · 21d
3 of the 5 albums focused on here made it into my infamous metal book Stairway to Hell a few years later, which means plenty of the writing did too. But not all of it — including, I’m fairly certain, the battle of bands between Mötley Crüe and Pussy Galore. Not to mention the headline for the ages.
False Metal Roundup, 1987
Three of the five albums focused on here made it into my allegedly infamous metal book Stairway to Hell a few years later, which means plenty of the writing did, as well.
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November 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
koganbot.bsky.social
Andre Sennwald's review of *The First World War* from 1934, what looks to be a fascinating rethinking of the war using old photoreels. Note the film's date: 1934, and the film's title, the assumption being there's more to come. Need NYT subscription for link.
timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...
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November 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
koganbot.bsky.social
DJ Yuzak's the guy who produced the "Ritmadinho do Mario" track I threw at the Jukebox last year. This year he's found the pizzicato preset on his combo etch-a-sketch and training-wheel keyboard set and deploys it on his album for its lightness & sense of spontaneity.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unak...
FAIXA 12 - MONTAGEM EU VOU QUE VOU - ÁLBUM BEBETO e ROMÁRIO
YouTube video by DJ YUZAK
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November 1, 2025 at 9:27 PM
koganbot.bsky.social
Ashley Monroe does good things aesthetically that I'm mostly bad at understanding. She uses reverb, washes, haze in a way that doesn't feel eerie or haunted, is more the opposite: she has timing, presence, like she exists several meters to the side of everyone else.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg86...
Ashley Monroe - The Touch (feat. Marty Stuart) [Official Visualizer]
YouTube video by Ashley Monroe
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November 1, 2025 at 6:48 AM
koganbot.bsky.social
Huh?

New this month, Qu1lates -MC ft. MC Morena (prod. 081noBeat) "Bandido Da Quebrada (Remix Brega Funk)." Is a remix that takes rhythmic liberties. From the visual presentation I sense that it's aimed at a funk crowd, not an art crowd.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdly...
BANDIDO DA QUEBRADA - FEAT MC MORENA (REMIX BREGA FUNK)
YouTube video by QU1LATES -MC
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October 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
koganbot.bsky.social
Define your musical taste in eight acts:

Wesley Gonzaga
T-ara
Trick Daddy & Trina
Debbie Deb (Debbie Wesoff-Kowalski, Anne Williams)
The Stooges
The Rolling Stones
Dion & The Belmonts
Louis Armstrong
October 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
koganbot.bsky.social
Not a fruit juice aficionado, so one of these major cultural shifts that I didn't notice when it was happening: When did cranberry juice take over the juice aisle? It hasn't displaced apple juice and grape juice as the major item, but is there competing with them. & combining with all other flavors.
October 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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dubdobdee.bsky.social
thanks to an article i read in rock files abt skinhead fandom, bolan's genre for me will always be "hot goblinism"

(the article was dismissive, which i don't understand given this terrific phrase)
October 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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dubdobdee.bsky.social
i probably would call slade glitter yes (tho maybe just bcz the definition is wagging the dog)

t rex is its own special problem! back in the day tyrannosaurus rex had been an elfin-folk albums band: bolan very consciously re-positioned himself (somewhat earning the disdain of the rock papers)
October 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
koganbot.bsky.social
Question for ‪@andrewhickey.500songs.com‬ and @dubdobdee.bsky.social – what do you make of what Chuck has found here? Before reading I would've said that even in '70s, "glam" is the broader term and the greater usage, tho "glitter" gets extra boost 'cos more Amer. critics hence more Dolls bias.
chuckeddytor.bsky.social Chuck Eddy @chuckeddytor.bsky.social · Oct 17
Google Ngram reveals barely minimal publication of the phrase “glam rock” prior to 1980; “glitter rock” usage exceeding “glam rock” from the late ’60s until mid ’80s; and “glam metal” not appearing at all until late ’80s. NY Times searches pretty much confirm this hunch: No “glam rock” until 1989.
Glitter Rock Beats Glam to the NYTimes
I haven’t held under a microscope all 687 pages of the copy of Simon Reynolds’s 2016 tome Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century that I picked up at th...
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October 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
koganbot.bsky.social
I'd forgotten how *weird* Sade had seemed when I first heard them. ("Them." The band's name is Sade. They're named after their singer. Just like the band Alice Cooper. YES, THEY ARE JUST LIKE ALICE COOPER.) My friend Kevin brought the record over, a new British band. /1
October 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
koganbot.bsky.social
Can my spare, blissful Dimples D nomination, w/ just Marley Marl's scratches and booms supporting her, stand up to Black Uhuru's "Big Spliff" (ft. Robbie Shakespeare's big bass), an excited Dionne Warwick in dance mode, and an equally blissful merengue from Las Chicas del Can? Come vote!
October 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
koganbot.bsky.social
The Joe Flacco trade must be very important, given that the Bengals swapped a 5th-round pick for a 6th-round pick in order to get him. That's why I just spent an hour-and-a-half reading about it.
October 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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koganbot.bsky.social
Fun w/ Dibangu (Francky) vs fun w/ Dvorak (Harrassment). (Incarcerated young man complains to Jessica Fletcher that someone stole his idea for a book; he recounts plot, Jessica says, "But that's The Brothers Karamazov!" "But it was *my* idea to steal it first!") Going w/ Lady Lumps, in a tight one.
October 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
koganbot.bsky.social
And is an early example of NYC freestyle producers taking great wild liberties
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSl9...
October 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
koganbot.bsky.social
Dave @otherdavemoore.com I linked my Duncan J. Watts/cumulative advantage piece here and sort of asked Brad a question.
bradluen.substack.com/p/odds-and-e...
koganbot on Semipop Life
Brad, been meaning to email you a link to my Duncan J. Watts/cumulative advantage piece, so here it is.* I can imagine making an argument *against* Watts's experiment: not against his methodology, but...
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September 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
koganbot.bsky.social
beatsbyhand "Aphotic Zone." Warm, suspenseful South African house, from the recent Stay True Sounds Vol.7 compilation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nc-...
beatsbyhand - Aphotic Zone
YouTube video by Stay True Sounds
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September 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
koganbot.bsky.social
More from the BPHM longlist, Martinique:

Gertrude Seinin "Ti Manmaille" (1985). Wikip "Like the Americans with gospel, Gertrude Seinin introduced a musical style born from the fusion between sacred music and traditional Caribbean music, called 'Creoles Spirituals'"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rBw...
Ti Manmaille
YouTube video by Gertrude Seinin - Topic
www.youtube.com
September 27, 2025 at 4:29 AM
koganbot.bsky.social
From my BPHM longlist, two more from Cameroon:

Tala André Marie "Solam" (1983): Afro roll but w/ a folk-rock strum, yeah yeah yeahs, and a dark chord pattern from the Kinks.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZY7...
andre marie tala --- solam
YouTube video by lek kerdammer
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September 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
koganbot.bsky.social
Would hope that existing Pitchfork readers and Taylor Swift fans (not to mention spectral Pitchfork readers and spectral Taylor Swift fans), if they were to come across something I write/wrote about Taylor, would hear her differently, or anew, or at least be interested enough to rethink.
tomewing.bsky.social Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · Sep 14
For me the reason they should be doing it isn't that existing Pitchfork readers will change their mind about Taylor Swift but that Taylor Swift fans might read it, think this is interesting, and be led to other things. A very slim chance, I'm sure, but worth 1 of 1600 review slots IMO
September 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM