music Celebrate Valentine's Day with this playlist of love songs that other songwriters wish they wrote Thom Dunn

music Music: "Teardrops," Womack and Womack (1988) Jason Weisberger

We Are Little Zombies is a treat for eyes and ears Mark Frauenfelder

music This ska-jazz cover of the Animal Crossing: New Horizons theme is everything Rusty Blazenhoff

music New Adam Schlesinger tribute album features covers by Rachel Bloom, Charly Bliss, Sarah Silverman, Nada Surf, and many many more Thom Dunn

Gadgets Your Google Home Mini can go completely mobile with this handy battery base Boing Boing's Shop

poetry Beat poet Michael McClure, RIP David Pescovitz

art These cool prints are made from the soundwaves of songs, and the sales help COVID-19 charities Thom Dunn

Spoken Word with Electronics How "Marijuana, the Devil's Flower" may have sounded like in 1951, as heard on Shortwave Radio, inside a Bomb Shelter Ethan Persoff

COVID-19 Tom Waits pens touching letter to beloved, eccentric music producer, Hal Willner Gareth Branwyn

music This livestream of The Tallest Man On Earth performing "The Wild Hunt" is utterly delightful Thom Dunn

music Shut-in sounds: 33 of the best industrial albums Gareth Branwyn

singer/songwriter A delightful cover of "I Saw A Tiger," the insane country anthem from "Tiger King" Thom Dunn

music John Lennon called this song "one of the greatest strange records" David Pescovitz

obits Kenny Rogers, 1938–2020 Rob Beschizza

music Rediscovering the lost art of deep listening to music Gareth Branwyn

pop music The enduring beauty of Jimmy Webb's "Wichita Lineman" and one of the greatest musical couplets ever written Gareth Branwyn

new wave Why Yoko Ono once performed backup vocals for "Rock Lobster" onstage with The B-52's Rusty Blazenhoff

music This cool online radio station lets you listen to popular songs from any decade and country from 1900 to now Mark Frauenfelder

music San Francisco Bay Area tonight and 2/21: David J (Bauhaus and Love and Rockets) solo shows David Pescovitz