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Confessions of a Detroit drummer/multi-instrumentalist. Unsolicited hot takes on avant-garde jazz to pop. A musical whore typing into the void.

Pajama Phantom
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Them Heels
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One of my favorite songs off the new album. This is “Glue”.

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Glue
YouTube video by Pajama Phantom - Topic
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November 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
My new album is out today!

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November 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Release #6 from my Pajama Phantom project is out on Bandcamp! Spotify and everywhere else are coming Saturday!

Instrumental-Funky-Ambient-Interstellar-Doom-Psychedelic-Progressive-Groove-Fusion.

pajamaphantom.bandcamp.com/album/vi

#musicsky
VI, by Pajama Phantom
9 track album
pajamaphantom.bandcamp.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Release #6 from my Pajama Phantom project is out on Bandcamp! Spotify and everywhere else are coming Saturday!

Instrumental-Funky-Ambient-Interstellar-Doom-Psychedelic-Progressive-Groove-Fusion.

pajamaphantom.bandcamp.com/album/vi

#musicsky
VI, by Pajama Phantom
9 track album
pajamaphantom.bandcamp.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
“Disco Pink Lady Lemondade” from Japanese psych-rockers Acid Mothers Temple. Truly tasty.

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Disco Pink Lady Lemonade (Live)
YouTube video by Acid Mothers Temple SWR - Topic
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October 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I first saw Grandaddy 25 years ago. Tonight I get to see them again for the 25th anniversary of “The Sophtware Slump”. Cannot wait!

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Grandaddy - The Crystal Lake (Live Version)
YouTube video by Barba Azul
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October 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Incredible interview with one of my all time musical heroes - Omar Hakim. “Let’s Dance”, “Money for Nothing”, Dream Of The Blue Turtles. Epic dude. Epic drummer.

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Omar Hakim: Drumming with David Bowie, Weather Report, Nile Rodgers, Dire Straits, Miles | Part 1
YouTube video by Go with Elmo Lovano
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August 2, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Aimee Mann calls him "literally the best singer I ever heard", and I couldn't agree more. This long awaited documentary on Jeff Buckley is going to be incredible.
July 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
To count this as an R.E.M. side project is to undersell it. Always lovely to see Peter Buck playing but I don’t recall him doing anything this compelling since the band ended. The secret sauce here is Alain Johannes.

Drink The Sea
“Sacred Tree”

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Sacred Tree
YouTube video by Drink The Sea - Topic
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July 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Absolutely enchanted by this.

Blonde Redhead
Kiss Her Before The Snow Melts (ASMR)

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Blonde Redhead - Kiss Her Before The Snow Melts (ASMR) (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Blonde Redhead
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July 4, 2025 at 12:09 AM
A cross between Khruangbin and Thievery Corporation. From Jakarta, Indonesia, I present to you, Ali.

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Ali - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
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May 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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#MusicChallenge

Week 17 - Sunday morning songs

Kruder & Dorfmeister - Definition
Definition
Provided to YouTube by Rebeat Digital GmbHDefinition · Kruder & DorfmeisterG-Stoned℗ 1994 G-Stone RecordingsComposer: Peter KruderComposer: Richard Dorfmeist...
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April 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM
From 1993, a forgotten modern rock classic.

Adorable
“Homeboy”

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Adorable - Homeboy
YouTube video by logan
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April 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Antoine Fafard, ‘Borromean Odyssey’ (2019), some rather excellent jazz/rock sci-fi here. Wonderful ensemble and some superb playing with Todd Sucherman and Gary Husband adding their talent to this project 😎👌
April 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Benson Boone doing Bohemian Rhapsody with Brian May at Coachella. I’d say it rivals Pink’s version…but then you get Brian May!

And FYI, Queen never performed this fully live that I can tell. The middle section was always tape.

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April 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I’m a sucker for female-led grungy guitar pop.

Momma
“Rodeo”

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Momma - Rodeo (Music Video)
YouTube video by Momma
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April 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I’m a big fan of the unsung heroes of music. From Wham’s Make It Big in 1984, through George Michael’s death in 2016, he relied mostly on ONE guy to hold down the low end.

Deon Estus

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The Amazing Bass Line Hiding In This ICONIC 1984 Song
YouTube video by pdbass
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April 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I’m not sure anyone ever settled the great Toto vs Styx debate from nearly 40 years ago so I’ll step up.

Toto’s best songs are better than the best from Styx.

But Styx had way more cool songs. By a lot.

So it’s a draw. 😜
April 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Wow. Much like the drumeo vids I love so much, here’s the same thing on bass. For this one they get Mohini Dey with a Jamiroquai tune she’s never heard and she just blows the roof off. Ridiculous that she can chart the whole damned thing hearing it once and do THIS?!?! Damn.

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Mohini Dey hears Jamiroquai for the FIRST TIME
YouTube video by Scott's Bass Lessons
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April 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Damn. Love that dude.
RIP to one of rock’s greatest drummers, Clem Burke. Here’s one of his many unforgettable highlights!
Blondie - Dreaming
YouTube video by BlondieVEVO
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April 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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What a bass player, damn. youtu.be/I_QJwR6D9d4?...
Gang Of Four - To Hell With Poverty (Official Live | 1980)
YouTube video by Gang Of Four
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April 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“This is no rock and roll band. It is a unique creative vision of a small isolated group of individuals…Searching for the knowledge that will enable them to improve the quality of their lives and the lives of those around them."

Consolidated
“Consolidated”

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Consolidated Consolidated Anthem
YouTube video by dannyatweirdness
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April 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A lost industrial hip hop masterpiece, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy released their debut in 1992.

Michael Franti’s highly political verses are reminiscent of Gil Scott-Heron, his emphatic baritone recalls his contemporary, Chuck D.

Such a banger.

“Satanic Reverses”
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Satanic Reverses
YouTube video by The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Topic
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April 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Math rock is always kinda masturbatory but when it’s done this well—with a touch of hardcore to boot—I’ll take it. This Estonian band gets it right. Great production. Great players.

Kaschalot
“Elsewhere”

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Elsewhere
YouTube video by Kaschalot - Topic
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April 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Sometimes you just gotta go back to the basics. Pat Metheny’s debut from 1976 has Jaco Pastorius on bass.

This is Jaco as a sideman, perfectly echoing and interacting with Metheny’s silky phrasing. Beautiful work.

“Bright Size Life”
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Bright Size Life
YouTube video by Pat Metheny - Topic
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April 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM