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Holy Crap That's Ugly

I couldn't imagine having 25 new records to recommend. Seems like I'd have to buy hundreds to find that many good ones.

So, let's do five!

• LCD Soundsystem - american dream. Easily my favorite of their records. Though, in truth, it's not extremely different from the others. It just does everything I like about them a bit better.
  
  other voices

• Replacements - For Sale: Live At Maxwell's 1986. A 31 year old live recording of a sloppy self-destructive band at their peak is still better than 95% of the new stuff I've heard this year.
  
  Color Me Impressed (Live at Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ, 2/4/86)

• R. Ring - Ignite The Rest. Fans of The Breeders' noisy twisted lo-fi rock will love this. Kelley Deal is the lead guitar player in the Breeders and her voice sounds just like her twin sister Kim's. And she brings that same combo of glass-eyed bliss and giddy menace that The Breeders are known for. R. Ring is actually a duo, but the Dealness dominates.
  
  R Ring - "Cutter" (Official Video)

• Spoon - Hot Thoughts. It's a good record (though I still can't listen to the title song). It's not my favorite Spoon record. It's not my least favorite Spoon record, either. I enjoy it but I'm having a hard time coming to terms with this glittery electronic Spoon.
  
  Spoon - Do I Have to Talk You Into It (Official Video)

• Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent. Harsh and raw with that early 90s post-Sonic Youth vibe: delicate dissonance and grinding guitars. Sounds like The National having a really angry day.
  
  The Chuckler

I could mention David Rawlings' new record, or Kendrick, or St. Vincent. But I won't.

You?

Employees at the EPA headquarters in Washington, DC, discovered that sewage was literally spewing out of the water fountains, E&E News reports. They got an email at about 9 AM letting them know that there was a "water line back up" causing an "issue" with the fountains. According to the folks inside, "issue" was an understatement.

"A sewer problem at EPA HQ has resulted in poop exploding out of water fountains," Dan Becker, director of the Safe Climate Campaign, told E&E.

The poopsplosion pictured apparently detonated outside the EPA's Office of Policy, in a hallway nearby EPA administrator Scott Pruitt's office, Mashable reports. According to E&E News, a few other water fountains overflowed on the same floor, and the odor from the black sludge wafted into nearby offices. The whole thing might have caught some unsuspecting employees off guard, but according to one former agency official, the water fountains at EPA HQ have always been a little suspect.

Is there an award for Best Real Life Metaphor ?

Fuck "Agile"

Good news everybody!

The FCC has just decided that American companies can treat the internet like a ...

The world hums. It shivers endlessly.

It's a low, ceaseless droning of unclear origin that rolls imperceptibly beneath our feet, impossible to hear with human ears. A researcher once described it to HuffPost as the sound of static on an old TV, slowed down 10,000 times.

It's comforting to think of Earth as solid and immovable, but that's false. The world is vibrating, stretching and compressing. We're shaking right along with it.

“The earth is ringing like a bell all the time,” said Spahr Webb, a seismologist at Columbia University.

The hum is everywhere. Its ultralow frequencies have been recorded in Antarctica and Algeria, and — as announced this week by the American Geophysical Union — on the floor of the Indian Ocean. We still don't know what causes it. Some have theorized that it's the echo of colliding ocean waves, or the movements of the atmosphere, or vibrations born of sea and sky alike.

But if we could hear this music more clearly, scientists around the world say, it could reveal deep secrets about the earth beneath us, or even teach us to map out alien planets.

And the hum is getting clearer all the time.

Hmmm

...to this barrel of scum.

The nomination of Brett Talley, the Justice Department official in line for a lifetime judicial appointment, “will not be moving forward,” a Trump administration official told NPR Wednesday.

Talley had been rated “unanimously unqualified” for the post by the American Bar Association this year after an evaluation that questioned his experience. Talley had never argued a case, or even a motion, in federal court, he testified.

Good job AL. You didn't elect a scumbag!

I just have a feeling.

[And I can't believe this song hasn't been included in every political blog for the last 5 weeks.]