Jack Byrne
@jackbyrnemusic.bsky.social
Singer/Songwriter, Music Teacher, Comic Book Geek
Pinned
Jack Byrne
@jackbyrnemusic.bsky.social
· Nov 20
Dreams in a Jar/Pantomime (single), by Jack Byrne
2 track album
jackbyrne.bandcamp.com
Bluesky friends! I just dropped a 2-song single over on Bandcamp.
jackbyrne.bandcamp.com/album/dreams...
jackbyrne.bandcamp.com/album/dreams...
I think I’m the only person who doesn’t get the hype around Geese (the band, not the bird).
December 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I think I’m the only person who doesn’t get the hype around Geese (the band, not the bird).
I always love making a year-end list of my favorite new music I got into, and this year I had to make a top 20 instead of a top 10, because there was way too much good stuff. Let me know what your favorite album of the year was!
open.substack.com/pub/dotsandf...
open.substack.com/pub/dotsandf...
Top Twenty Albums of 2025
Counting down my favorite albums of the year
open.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I always love making a year-end list of my favorite new music I got into, and this year I had to make a top 20 instead of a top 10, because there was way too much good stuff. Let me know what your favorite album of the year was!
open.substack.com/pub/dotsandf...
open.substack.com/pub/dotsandf...
Heard some very real and human music this week that gave me hope for the future. Check it out!
dotsandflags.substack.com/p/new-music-...
dotsandflags.substack.com/p/new-music-...
New Music 2025: Anna Tivel, Rosalía, Earl Sweatshirt, and More
Trying to find some realness in today's music
dotsandflags.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Heard some very real and human music this week that gave me hope for the future. Check it out!
dotsandflags.substack.com/p/new-music-...
dotsandflags.substack.com/p/new-music-...
Okay, when walking on to a mostly empty train car, what possesses people to sit DIRECTLY across from someone already sitting, making both of us to have to stare awkwardly to the side or at the floor to avoid direct eye contact, when there are so many empty seats? Straight to jail.
November 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Okay, when walking on to a mostly empty train car, what possesses people to sit DIRECTLY across from someone already sitting, making both of us to have to stare awkwardly to the side or at the floor to avoid direct eye contact, when there are so many empty seats? Straight to jail.
This week’s music recs: dotsandflags.substack.com/p/albums-of-...
Albums of the Week: New Releases
The quest to find all the new music continues.
dotsandflags.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This week’s music recs: dotsandflags.substack.com/p/albums-of-...
Just posted some new covers on my Patreon! I had some fun playing some old school folk stuff, as well as a couple pop tunes I adapted for acoustic guitar, and this classic song by The Cure. I'll be posting one cover a month, and some new original demos as well, so I hope you'll check it out!
November 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Just posted some new covers on my Patreon! I had some fun playing some old school folk stuff, as well as a couple pop tunes I adapted for acoustic guitar, and this classic song by The Cure. I'll be posting one cover a month, and some new original demos as well, so I hope you'll check it out!
Albums of the Week: New Releases
Catching up on some music released this year
open.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This week I listened to albums turning 60 this year. Some great Motown, classic rock, and jazz records were released in 1965.
dotsandflags.substack.com/p/albums-of-...
dotsandflags.substack.com/p/albums-of-...
Albums of the Week: 1965
Albums turning 60 this year
dotsandflags.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This week I listened to albums turning 60 this year. Some great Motown, classic rock, and jazz records were released in 1965.
dotsandflags.substack.com/p/albums-of-...
dotsandflags.substack.com/p/albums-of-...
For this week’s Album-a-Day project I went back 50 years and listened to records from 1975. So much good music that year, from classic rock, to soul, to funk, to jazz.
dotsandflags.substack.com/p/1975-album...
dotsandflags.substack.com/p/1975-album...
Albums of the Week: 1975
50! 50 years old! *kick*
dotsandflags.substack.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
For this week’s Album-a-Day project I went back 50 years and listened to records from 1975. So much good music that year, from classic rock, to soul, to funk, to jazz.
dotsandflags.substack.com/p/1975-album...
dotsandflags.substack.com/p/1975-album...
Nothing makes me feel more disconnected from my peers like witnessing how much people my age love “Mr. Brightside.”
October 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Nothing makes me feel more disconnected from my peers like witnessing how much people my age love “Mr. Brightside.”
Am I the only one who hated the new season of Peacemaker?
October 12, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Am I the only one who hated the new season of Peacemaker?
For the last month or so, I've been trying to listen to an album a day, write a short blurb about it, and once a week I'll round up said blurbs into a blog post. Here's what I was listening to this week:
dotsandflags.substack.com/p/1985-album...
dotsandflags.substack.com/p/1985-album...
Albums of the Week: 1985
Albums turning 40 this year
dotsandflags.substack.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
For the last month or so, I've been trying to listen to an album a day, write a short blurb about it, and once a week I'll round up said blurbs into a blog post. Here's what I was listening to this week:
dotsandflags.substack.com/p/1985-album...
dotsandflags.substack.com/p/1985-album...
Managed to go a full two days without hearing any of the new Taylor Swift stuff before a student requested to learn one of the songs. *sigh* It was nice while it lasted.
October 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Managed to go a full two days without hearing any of the new Taylor Swift stuff before a student requested to learn one of the songs. *sigh* It was nice while it lasted.
I don’t think anyone noticed that I was having one of the worst stomach aches of my life during my 3 hour gig last night and I think I deserve an award for that performance.
October 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I don’t think anyone noticed that I was having one of the worst stomach aches of my life during my 3 hour gig last night and I think I deserve an award for that performance.
This was an instant follow
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This was an instant follow
One of the weird things about experiencing the passing of time is this morning I got pulled over by a cop who was definitely not born yet when I got my license.
October 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
One of the weird things about experiencing the passing of time is this morning I got pulled over by a cop who was definitely not born yet when I got my license.
Rounding up some new releases I think you should check out. What are some of your favorite AOTY so far?
open.substack.com/pub/dotsandf...
open.substack.com/pub/dotsandf...
Albums of the Week: 2025
What I'm listening to this week
open.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Rounding up some new releases I think you should check out. What are some of your favorite AOTY so far?
open.substack.com/pub/dotsandf...
open.substack.com/pub/dotsandf...
Wrote about some records that turn 20 this year. In unrelated news, I can tell it’s going to rain later because my knees hurt.
dotsandflags.substack.com/p/2005-album...
dotsandflags.substack.com/p/2005-album...
2005 Album Throwback: Fall Out Boy, Death Cab for Cutie, Finch, Laura Veirs
This one makes me feel old...
dotsandflags.substack.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Wrote about some records that turn 20 this year. In unrelated news, I can tell it’s going to rain later because my knees hurt.
dotsandflags.substack.com/p/2005-album...
dotsandflags.substack.com/p/2005-album...
If you make American Football inspired music, but don’t live in the midwest, you have to call it sparkling emo.
August 25, 2025 at 3:06 AM
If you make American Football inspired music, but don’t live in the midwest, you have to call it sparkling emo.
I wrote a little about a few albums I’ve been into lately, and breaking free from algorithms.
open.substack.com/pub/dotsandf...
open.substack.com/pub/dotsandf...
New Music: Hannah Cohen, Deafheaven, Sault, Sharon Van Etten
A few albums I have had on repeat lately
open.substack.com
August 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I wrote a little about a few albums I’ve been into lately, and breaking free from algorithms.
open.substack.com/pub/dotsandf...
open.substack.com/pub/dotsandf...
Subscribing to DC Infinite has really put a wrench in my plan to read more novels this year because now I can’t stop reading comics from the 80’s.
August 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Subscribing to DC Infinite has really put a wrench in my plan to read more novels this year because now I can’t stop reading comics from the 80’s.
The new Chevelle record is better than it has any right to be.
August 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The new Chevelle record is better than it has any right to be.
I’ve been on Threads more lately, and I find that app puts me in a terrible mood, yet it’s addicting. What’s Zuck doing over there? Hoping for better vibes here. 👋🏻
August 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I’ve been on Threads more lately, and I find that app puts me in a terrible mood, yet it’s addicting. What’s Zuck doing over there? Hoping for better vibes here. 👋🏻