For The Record- 18. November. 2023

We stay up late, we're waiting for the clouds to break.

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Welcome to another edition of For The Record, a good old-fashioned link drop and benefit for paid supporters of On Repeat. If you’re ready to become one, we’d be thrilled to have you!

As a reminder, On Repeat is 100% reader-funded. And as always, there are 7-day trials for anyone looking to test the waters.

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This week, we’ve got news on K-Pop, a milestone anniversary for the Wu-Tang Clan, and a mystery that has baffled music fans for years.

All that and a LOT more (including new releases, tour dates, an MD-11, and Post Malone).

Let’s get to it!

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By the time we meet again, Thanksgiving will have passed, and retail advertising will have hit critical mass. This could easily devolve into a lament about the passing of time or a rant about staging holiday merchandise too early (looking at you, Costco!), but it won’t…at least not yet.

The music world has followed suit, with a few Album of the Year already coming out. It’s wild. I know December is traditionally a slow month for new stuff, but writers still have plenty of time to find something they may have missed!

At any rate, I want to talk about Thanksgiving itself, or rather, how I spend it and why. I try to observe two traditions on T-day. The first (and relevant to On Repeat) will be posted on Thursday. If this is your first Thanksgiving as part of this community, I hope you enjoy it. If not, you probably know what’s coming, but I still hope you enjoy it. Maybe this is a tradition we share? If it is, lemme know when it goes live.

And it’ll go live at the same time as everything else does: 0702 AM Central Time. The reason for the oddly specific time is twofold: one, so I never forget to post, and second, so I can say it goes out “just after seven” (or 8, or…).

I will also be at work when it hits your inbox and having lunch with my coworkers.

This invariably leads to two questions from readers. First: wtf are you doing eating lunch at 7 Am, and second, why are you at work? The first answer is easy. We start at 4 AM, and there is a break in flight activity that makes 7-730 or 730-8 the perfect time. In this case, it’s really no different than any other day. The second question is a little tougher to answer. I get asked every year, and the answer usually ranges from pithy to long-winded. Turns out I’m good at both.

At the risk of over-indexing on the latter, here’s the story: