Lars Gotrich
@totalvibration.bsky.social
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’m loving the new Cryptid Summer album “Where The Earth Has Teeth”. Thanks for putting it on my radar @totalvibration.bsky.social !
Goth-tinged postpunk at its finest.
cryptidsummer.bandcamp.com/album/where-...
#musicsky
Goth-tinged postpunk at its finest.
cryptidsummer.bandcamp.com/album/where-...
#musicsky
Where The Earth Has Teeth, by Cryptid Summer
9 track album
cryptidsummer.bandcamp.com
February 15, 2026 at 7:59 PM
I’m loving the new Cryptid Summer album “Where The Earth Has Teeth”. Thanks for putting it on my radar @totalvibration.bsky.social !
Goth-tinged postpunk at its finest.
cryptidsummer.bandcamp.com/album/where-...
#musicsky
Goth-tinged postpunk at its finest.
cryptidsummer.bandcamp.com/album/where-...
#musicsky
![Valentines card with a picture of the ridiculous black metal band Immortal. Text reads: BABE, OUR LOVE IS [Immortal logo]. Bottom text: TO FROM](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:b357xisqi6sufq2zow2s5cc3/bafkreiaazqcmtbbwg5ot26dawit2rzrhfer5pc4h32mkqz4w2m57hcjlku@jpeg)
The Best Bread for Toast & Jam
shitty white bread >>>> literally any other bread
shitty white bread >>>> literally any other bread
February 14, 2026 at 1:37 PM
The Best Bread for Toast & Jam
shitty white bread >>>> literally any other bread
shitty white bread >>>> literally any other bread
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hey hey, are you having a great friday?
February 13, 2026 at 9:35 PM
hey hey, are you having a great friday?
There's a new Jill Scott album out now — really looking forward to spending time with one of the all-time greats. (NPR Music has something special for y'all on Monday 😉)
Here are a few more albums I'm spinning today! 🧵
Here are a few more albums I'm spinning today! 🧵
February 13, 2026 at 2:40 PM
There's a new Jill Scott album out now — really looking forward to spending time with one of the all-time greats. (NPR Music has something special for y'all on Monday 😉)
Here are a few more albums I'm spinning today! 🧵
Here are a few more albums I'm spinning today! 🧵
Superior Viaduct really coming for my wallet.
Flipper.
Julius Hemphill.
Noah Howard.
Luciano Cilio. *
*OK, I already own a copy of 'Dialoghi Del Presente,' but I can't recommend this relatively unknown masterpiece enough.
www.superiorviaduct.com/collections/...
Flipper.
Julius Hemphill.
Noah Howard.
Luciano Cilio. *
*OK, I already own a copy of 'Dialoghi Del Presente,' but I can't recommend this relatively unknown masterpiece enough.
www.superiorviaduct.com/collections/...
Upcoming - Superior Viaduct
www.superiorviaduct.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Superior Viaduct really coming for my wallet.
Flipper.
Julius Hemphill.
Noah Howard.
Luciano Cilio. *
*OK, I already own a copy of 'Dialoghi Del Presente,' but I can't recommend this relatively unknown masterpiece enough.
www.superiorviaduct.com/collections/...
Flipper.
Julius Hemphill.
Noah Howard.
Luciano Cilio. *
*OK, I already own a copy of 'Dialoghi Del Presente,' but I can't recommend this relatively unknown masterpiece enough.
www.superiorviaduct.com/collections/...
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a reminder that DC remains under occupation
"At least one member of the U.S. Marshals Service shot and killed a person in Northeast D.C.’s Mayfair neighborhood Wednesday afternoon, a law enforcement source told WTOP."
wtop.com/dc/2026/02/u...
wtop.com/dc/2026/02/u...
Member of US Marshals Service shoots, kills person in DC’s Mayfair neighborhood - WTOP News
Members of the U.S. Marshals Service shot and killed a person Wednesday afternoon in Northeast D.C.’s Mayfair neighborhood, a law enforcement source told WTOP.
wtop.com
February 12, 2026 at 4:00 PM
a reminder that DC remains under occupation
Sarah McLachlan: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:37 PM
morning skramz letterstoyouscreamo.bandcamp.com/album/maybe-...
...maybe someday became today, by letterstoyou
4 track album
letterstoyouscreamo.bandcamp.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:13 PM
morning skramz letterstoyouscreamo.bandcamp.com/album/maybe-...
I think about this photo of Terry Riley (with Burger King bag in hand) and Big Boi all of the time. It reminds me that there is good and imagination and burgers in this world and that makes me happy.
February 11, 2026 at 10:01 PM
I think about this photo of Terry Riley (with Burger King bag in hand) and Big Boi all of the time. It reminds me that there is good and imagination and burgers in this world and that makes me happy.
I have 5 minutes until this meeting, which means I can listen to approximately 2.5 Joyce Manor songs.
February 11, 2026 at 8:56 PM
I have 5 minutes until this meeting, which means I can listen to approximately 2.5 Joyce Manor songs.
Two side-long meditations on the Hardanger fiddle, a folk instrument native to Norway (aka my people ;).
Really looking forward to spending some time with this Zosha Warpeha record.
zosha.bandcamp.com/album/i-grow...
Really looking forward to spending some time with this Zosha Warpeha record.
zosha.bandcamp.com/album/i-grow...
I grow accustomed to the dark, by Zosha Warpeha
3 track album
zosha.bandcamp.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Two side-long meditations on the Hardanger fiddle, a folk instrument native to Norway (aka my people ;).
Really looking forward to spending some time with this Zosha Warpeha record.
zosha.bandcamp.com/album/i-grow...
Really looking forward to spending some time with this Zosha Warpeha record.
zosha.bandcamp.com/album/i-grow...
Y'all thought Ekko Astral was just a noisy punk band... behold, Ekko Astral in its obtuse Talking Heads bag. youtu.be/NLNIO0BRL0c?...
Ekko Astral - "lil xan goes to washington" [Official Music Video]
YouTube video by Ekko Astral
youtu.be
February 11, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Y'all thought Ekko Astral was just a noisy punk band... behold, Ekko Astral in its obtuse Talking Heads bag. youtu.be/NLNIO0BRL0c?...
Hadn't really seen this kind of reporting around Benito Bowl: Getting straight to the heart of Puerto Rico, with the people of Puerto Rico.
www.npr.org/2026/02/09/n...
www.npr.org/2026/02/09/n...
In Puerto Rico, Sunday wasn't about football. It was the Benito Bowl
Bad Bunny's performance at the Super Bowl may have been his biggest audience yet, but for the people he has represented since his start — his fellow Puerto Ricans — it meant something special.
www.npr.org
February 11, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Hadn't really seen this kind of reporting around Benito Bowl: Getting straight to the heart of Puerto Rico, with the people of Puerto Rico.
www.npr.org/2026/02/09/n...
www.npr.org/2026/02/09/n...
“39 degrees? Why, that’s practically shorts weather!”
My brain, clearly a victim of Stockholm syndrome this winter.
My brain, clearly a victim of Stockholm syndrome this winter.
February 11, 2026 at 12:49 PM
“39 degrees? Why, that’s practically shorts weather!”
My brain, clearly a victim of Stockholm syndrome this winter.
My brain, clearly a victim of Stockholm syndrome this winter.
This comes up sometimes!
This was the desk of Bob Boilen, who co-created Tiny Desk series. He retired a few years ago, so now the desk is just the Tiny Desk and nothing else.
(But Bob did work at the desk for many, many years, you know, when there wasn't a concert going on.)
This was the desk of Bob Boilen, who co-created Tiny Desk series. He retired a few years ago, so now the desk is just the Tiny Desk and nothing else.
(But Bob did work at the desk for many, many years, you know, when there wasn't a concert going on.)
i have to ask you, does that desk really belong to someone? i fixate on the phone every time, and wonder if someone actually sits there (i'm not the only one!)
February 10, 2026 at 8:13 PM
This comes up sometimes!
This was the desk of Bob Boilen, who co-created Tiny Desk series. He retired a few years ago, so now the desk is just the Tiny Desk and nothing else.
(But Bob did work at the desk for many, many years, you know, when there wasn't a concert going on.)
This was the desk of Bob Boilen, who co-created Tiny Desk series. He retired a few years ago, so now the desk is just the Tiny Desk and nothing else.
(But Bob did work at the desk for many, many years, you know, when there wasn't a concert going on.)
"Shout out also to Tiny Desk series editor Lars Gotrich, a nice guy and a great music writer who has a most excellent name. Lars Got Rich. Fucking sick. If that was my name, you couldn't tell me shit."
You can't tell me shit. (Thanks, @tombreihan.bsky.social 🙌)
You can't tell me shit. (Thanks, @tombreihan.bsky.social 🙌)
Geese's Tiny Desk Concert is really good
Geese's Tiny Desk Concert Is Really Good: Watch
An Australian TikToker recently ran into Geese frontman Cameron Winter at an airport, and they had a little impromptu interview. When asked what was next for Geese, Winter said, “We go deeper into the...
stereogum.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:00 PM
"Shout out also to Tiny Desk series editor Lars Gotrich, a nice guy and a great music writer who has a most excellent name. Lars Got Rich. Fucking sick. If that was my name, you couldn't tell me shit."
You can't tell me shit. (Thanks, @tombreihan.bsky.social 🙌)
You can't tell me shit. (Thanks, @tombreihan.bsky.social 🙌)
This is good.
February 9, 2026 at 11:51 PM
This is good.
I think I'm gonna start an ocean-themed metalcore band and call it Poisson the Whale.
February 9, 2026 at 9:58 PM
I think I'm gonna start an ocean-themed metalcore band and call it Poisson the Whale.
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The star filled his set with hits and familiar images from home, but also expanded his lens to make an argument about the place of Puerto Rico within a larger American context. n.pr/4kt17WQ
Bad Bunny makes Puerto Rico the home team in a vivid Super Bowl halftime show
The star filled his set with hits and familiar images from home, but also expanded his lens to make an argument about the place of Puerto Rico within a larger American context.
n.pr
February 9, 2026 at 3:22 PM
The star filled his set with hits and familiar images from home, but also expanded his lens to make an argument about the place of Puerto Rico within a larger American context. n.pr/4kt17WQ
morning bloops keithfullertonwhitman.bandcamp.com/track/260203...
260203-1 (Morning), by Keith Fullerton Whitman
from the album bowd·ler·ize
keithfullertonwhitman.bandcamp.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:18 PM
morning bloops keithfullertonwhitman.bandcamp.com/track/260203...
I’m at the hardcore show. You’re watching the Bad Bunny Bowl. We are not the same, but that’s cool.
February 9, 2026 at 2:15 AM
I’m at the hardcore show. You’re watching the Bad Bunny Bowl. We are not the same, but that’s cool.
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There is an effort underway by some of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the US to deprive Washington of any culture that does not fit their narrow, cruel, and incorrect view of what the arts should be. This week they struck a powerful blow that should not be forgotten—or forgiven.
If it clarifies what was lost this week:
Philip Kennicott and Monica Hesse remain as arts critics at The Washington Post
Eliminated:
art critic
arts editor
arts/film editor
classical critic
pop critic
television critic
theater critic
all editors/reporters in Book World including two book critics
Philip Kennicott and Monica Hesse remain as arts critics at The Washington Post
Eliminated:
art critic
arts editor
arts/film editor
classical critic
pop critic
television critic
theater critic
all editors/reporters in Book World including two book critics
February 7, 2026 at 10:02 PM
There is an effort underway by some of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the US to deprive Washington of any culture that does not fit their narrow, cruel, and incorrect view of what the arts should be. This week they struck a powerful blow that should not be forgotten—or forgiven.
It is a good discography.
I am in a band called Fuubutsushi. People are always like "huh?" and then I say "Foo Butt Sushi" and they nod like they understood it the second time. Anyway, we just put our whole discography on bandcamp.
www.fuubutsushi.bandcamp.com
www.fuubutsushi.bandcamp.com
Fuubutsushi
Fuubutsushi is a quartet featuring Patrick Shiroishi, Chris Jusell, Chaz Prymek, and Matthew Sage.
www.fuubutsushi.bandcamp.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:25 PM
It is a good discography.
These rip, @tedleo.bsky.social! Simply the best to do it. tedleo.bandcamp.com/album/februa...
FEBRUARY 2026 DOUBLE A SIDE, by Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
2 track album
tedleo.bandcamp.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:55 PM
These rip, @tedleo.bsky.social! Simply the best to do it. tedleo.bandcamp.com/album/februa...