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Reading ‘Capital’... in this economy?

Attempting to read Volume One of Marx’s magnum opus in the calendar year.

Jan 24, 2026 07:22 PM

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   I received my signed vinyl copy of Ratboys’ Singing’ To An Empty Chair today, a few days early from the album’s Feb. 6 release.

   I played it through once this afternoon, and found it to be another solid collaboration between the band and producer Chris Walla. The songwriting on here is much more vulnerable, and the album is not lacking in guitar pyrotechnics. Ratboys have longed called their sound “post country” and this one may lean a bit more to the country side of things than previous alt rock outings. I’m looking forward to spending more time with the record this winter, and seeing the group live later in March.

   A few recent reviews, interviews and features:

   1. The Line of Best Fit
   2. Pitchfork
   3. Riff Magazine
   4. Slant Magazine

   Feb 2, 2026 09:55 PM

2. Bookmarked Purveyors of Packaging.

   We’re two Midwest design junkies with a mission to save the best of retro packaging before it is lost forever. But we had been doing it long before we started this website. Now our mission is focused on photographing, archiving and sharing our treasures with fellow appreciators.

   Via SimpleBits

   Jan 26, 2026 08:57 PM

3. Bookmarked Bandcamp Fridays Return in 2026.

   There will be eight more Bandcamp Fridays (all revenue goes to artists and labels) in 2026:

   • February 6
   • March 6
   • May 1
   • August 7
   • September 4
   • October 2
   • November 6
   • December 4

   Jan 22, 2026 01:39 AM

4. I recently finished reading The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman, a memoir in essays by Niko Stratis. A good book, particularly if you are someone who thinks about recorded music/popular music a lot. The author gave an interview with Xtra magazine about the book on its release last year. I have been thinking about this excerpt from that interview, in which she’s responding to a question on masculinity:

   Men don’t have to think about community a lot, right? Because every community they feel belongs to them. And I think that is a damaging thing. Men need to start to consider the spaces that they’re in a lot more and be thinking, “Whose community is this and how do I honour that; how do I help preserve it; how do I help look after it in a way that doesn’t centre me?”

   Jan 19, 2026 06:19 PM

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