Bob and Doug McKenzie on SCTV in the early 1980s 🇨🇦

happy 37 year anniversary to this insanity

Celebrating 19 years of @eddievedder's debut solo album, Into the Wild. “Guaranteed,” live from Water on the Road.

The movie soundtrack for Singles was released on this day in 1992

Holy shit. 🤣

Just glad the GTA VI reveal has overtaken the bullshit in the world on this app

31 years ago today, Pearl Jam (minus Ed) was backing @Neilyoung in Austria. These sets would mostly be the last of the excellent 'Mirror Ball' tracks live. Here's a total standout version of a total standout song. #tfh "I'm the Ocean," August 18, 1995: youtu.be/mt98mHPI4mo?is=c7Ae…

DAZED AND CONFUSED (1993) has the kind of soundtrack that makes you wish you were cruising around Texas in 1976 with the windows down. Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, ZZ Top, Foghat… every song feels like it was already waiting for these kids.

“Got sucked into a video game.” “Which one?” “TRON.” An all-time deep cut that completely flies over the table. Jeff Bridges makes it land perfectly.

Just 100 days left until GTA 6!

“Sultans of Swing” is the debut single from Dire Straits’ 1978 self-titled debut album. Written by Mark Knopfler, the rootsy rock classic introduced the band's distinctive sound, reaching #4 on the Billboard Hot 100, #8 on the UK Singles Chart, and the Top 10 in several other countries. Knopfler's clean, fingerpicked guitar style quickly became one of the most recognizable sounds in rock music. The song was inspired by a real, modest jazz band performing in a nearly empty pub in Deptford, London. When the singer announced they were the "Sultans of Swing," Mark Knopfler found the contrast between the gritty pub setting and the grandiose name too good to ignore, inspiring an affectionate tribute to musicians who play purely for the love of music. Before becoming a global hit, the original demo was famously recorded for just £12.50, and after receiving airplay on BBC Radio London, it attracted the attention of several major record labels, eventually leading to the band's recording contract with Vertigo Records. Its guitar solo has since been frequently ranked among the greatest of all time, helping establish Dire Straits as one of the most influential guitar-driven bands of the late 1970s.

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Glen Hansard, Irish musician globally known for the movie Once and his music with The Frames, The Swell Season and his own solo output, has died at the age of 56 from a motorcycle crash, The Irish Times reports. Rest in peace. 💔 spinmagazine.com/2026/07/gle…

I was at this one

Michael Jordan earned the nickname "Air Jordan" after his iconic performance in the 1988 NBA Slam Dunk Contest

A great way to see Van Gogh's "Starry Night" is to stare at the center of the spiral for 20 seconds and then look at the painting. Why Starry Night was so famous: bit.ly/49VNzyl

Happy Friday

Jim Morrison casually predicting the future of music in 1969.

Kids today won't know how hard this intro goes

"Black Hole Sun" is from Soundgarden's 1994 album Superunknown. Written by Chris Cornell in about 15 minutes after mishearing a phrase on a TV news report, it peaked at #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and #2 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, becoming the band's signature song. The surreal music video, directed by Howard Greenhalgh, won the 1995 MTV Video Music Award for Best Metal/Hard Rock Video and earned a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance. Its distorted suburban imagery and unsettling visuals helped make it one of the most iconicvideos of the 90s.