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It’s black history month. Support your black friends and learn the origin of like every American popular musical genre everrr.
Once I’m done with the 40 + genres, we’re diving into the diasporaaaa.
And then at some point I’m talking cash shit about the summer of love and what was cooler than stinky trust fund kids…I mean hippies in San Francisco... I’ll give you some hints, same time period but across the bridge in Oakland. There’s also 1980s Washington DC, fuck it even 1960s Detroit.
I just really fucking hate the Grateful Dead fans. Sorry. Not sorry.
Perfect listening for cleaning the house and doing art projects.
Tell a friend.
Feb 2, 2024
Related Recs
Especially the early episodes w/ the songs integrated into the episode.
Host and a special guest go through the history of a band from growing up through their breakup and what they are doing now with in-depth analysis of it. Episodes are usually 3+ hrs.
Drove up to MassMOCA area from Boston a couple years ago and crushed the episode on Dave Matthews Band. I’m linking the one on Fugazi which I listened on a drive to IKEA a couple years ago. I listen to bands I’m already into or ones that I’m interested in learning more about.
Jun 4, 2024
I’m working on a podcast about the 1990s for work and went full method so been listening to a lot of ‘90s music which led me to this podcast.
The host Rob Harvilla goes on a seemingly unrelated tangent for the first like 15-20 minutes of the episode but always connects it back to the main song/artist in a fun and interesting way. So far I’ve listened to the eps about Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Hole (on an early 90s alt rock kick lol) and they've all been excellent! Planning to listen to many more.
Jan 27, 2025
Two academics discuss dance music and counterculture in their very academic way! They’re so knowledgeable about music history and I love the Way they contextualize their discussions.
You’ll also come away with some great tracks.
It’s very episodic- you can jump around and pick a topic that interests you if you don’t want to listen to the entire series, but it might be a good idea to at least start with the Welcome episode if you aren’t familiar with David Mancuso’s The Loft party, as that will be referenced often.
Mar 5, 2024
Top Recs from @paydayl0an
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Carmelize the damn onions in butter and beef broth.
Low heat, 45 fuckin minutes. I’m not playin w you.
Use gruyere cheese
Make a compound butter with my girlies: thyme and rosemary and their dude garlic.
Slather that butter on two pieces of sourdough. Both sides, I shouldn’t even have to tell you this.
Cook up some bacon!!!
Add a tomato.
If you’re feeling froggy…truffle powder.
Get to work.
Jan 25, 2024
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The price of cured salmon is as bad as gas. Let’s do it for cheap and w our own flavor profiles.
It’s like really fucking easy and no work at all.
1 slab of salmon (skin on or off who cares)
Equal parts sea salt and brown sugar 1:1 ratio is important you can choose how much you wanna mix up.
An assortment of herbs.
I like to use the following:
Cayenne pepper
Fresh ground rosemary
Fresh ground thyme
Garlic powder
Black pepper
Truffle salt
Crushed red peppers
Zest of a lemon
Zest of two limes
Zest of three clementines
Cinnamon
Allspice
If you decide to keep the skin on your salmon, score the skin. This means cut long slits diagonally in the skin so that the pink meat is exposed. Don’t cut so deep that you open the other side.
Mix ALL your herbs together In your salt:sugar ratio
TASTE YOUR BLEND BEFORE IT GOES ON YOUR SALMON.
IS IT MISSING SOMETHING?
IS IT JUST RIGHT?
ARE THE HERBS POPPIN?
Ok good.
Now you’re gonna rinse that salmon slab in water and pat her dry.
Two paths here:
1. You’re gonna place that salmon on a piece of plastic wrap that is on a cookie sheet.
You’re going to start covering your slab in your seasoning mix, pretend like you’re at the beach and you’re covering up your sibling in sand.
Once that side is covered you’re gonna flip her over and do the other side and then you’re going to wrap that mf in that plastic wrap nice and tight so that NO seasoning or salmon is leaking out.
2. You’re gonna grab a large freezer ziploc bag and put your salmon in it. From there, you will be pouring your seasoning mixture in the freezer bag covering the entire piece of fish until you can’t see it anymore.
Keep that cookie sheet handy still Bc that ziploc bag is going right on that sheet.
After you’ve chosen your path, you will place the cookie sheet in your fridge w a heavy cutting board on top, pressing the salmon.
If you need more weight I recommend adding some canned goods on top or more veggies that are in the fridge (maybe a Tupperware container too)
Sit in your fridge for AT LEAST 24 hours. If you do this before bed, flip the salmon over the next morning and let cure for like another 8 hours.
When that 24 hours is up, there will be liquid, that’s normal.
Scrape all that seasoning off, scrape as much as YOU want off. This is your recipe, babe.
Slice up and enjoy w a bagel, on deviled eggs, a piece of avo toast like…whatEVER the heart desires.
Please keep in mind that the longer you cure the more jerky like it will become. This means super TOUGH and SALTY.
If you had skin on your salmon, slice that off and use it however you want. I like to cut it in longer strips, put it over the stove till it gets semi crispy and wrap it around rice. It’s ok if there’s still some salmon meat attached. That adds to the flavor.
Happy cooking, you just saved about 30 bucks and you can have lox for more than two bagels ❤️
Jan 22, 2024
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I think that might be my secret to “success”
My Success today is doing laundry and drafting emails 🫢
Might fuck around and clean a bathroom or write a few paragraphs for a short story.
Jan 23, 2024