Dick media moves, newly-discovered recordings and don’t say post-rock + this day in history w/”Alice’s Restaurant” closes for good and our song of the day by Iyah May on your #MorningMonarchy for December 5, 2025.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: FDA Confirms COVID Vax Killed Children + Hot Soup & Rage Bait
https://x.com/shartstorm8d8/status/1996763402350612730
Support Clyde Lewis’s Medical Recovery
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-clyde-lewiss-medical-recovery
Video: FUNKMASTER FLEX FINALLY SPEAKS ON DIDDY (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jRFSWnodM7E
Funkmaster Flex Announces Final Radio Show at Hot 97: ‘All Things Come to an End’; The radio staple hosted the first hip-hop show at the station in 1992. (Aug. 28, 2025)
https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/funkmaster-flex-leaving-hot-97-final-show-1236054285/
Funkmaster Flex Doesn’t Think Cassie Is a ‘Victim’ After Diddy Verdict: ‘Diddy Made Bad Choices & You Made Bad Choices’; The radio personality had a lot to say, including calling the case a “witch hunt.” (Jul. 2, 2025)
https://www.billboard.com/business/legal/funkmaster-flex-diddy-verdict-cassie-victim-1236013198/
Cleveland Guardians pitchers indicted for scheme to rig bets on pitches thrown; Two Cleveland Guardians pitchers, Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz, were indicted on Sunday for their part in a sports betting and money laundering conspiracy. (Nov. 9, 2025)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/09/cleveland-guardians-pitchers-indicted-gambling.html
Canada: ‘Inconvenient Indian’ author Thomas King says he is not Indigenous; King has announced a genealogist working with the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds found no evidence of Cherokee ancestry in his family lineage
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/25/canadian-author-thomas-king-not-indigenous-cherokee-inconvenient-indian
Haunted Natalie Wood artifacts come to life on anniversary of her suspicious drowning: ‘There is something the public don’t know’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15325407/natalie-wood-death-robert-wagner-zak-bagans.html // https://archive.is/eMtna
⚡️ Was Zelensky almost assassinated? The president narrowly avoided a drone attack
https://x.com/nexta_tv/status/1996626603938386203
Tucker Carlson loses it at MAGA student who asked him question about his dad: ‘I’m gonna have to kick your a**’; Tucker Carlson made aggressive comments to a student who accused his father of being in the CIA during a Turning Point USA event (Oct. 22, 2025)
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/tucker-carlson-father-cia-tpusa-question-b2850332.html
Video: Tucker Carlson fumes when a college student brings up his father’s CIA connection (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4oZyEhN2-GQ
Spoon – “Car Radio” (Audio)
‘A Series Of Sneaks’
Elektra – Apr. 28, 1998
*Spoon – “Car Radio” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9yyffTy5uo // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Series_of_Sneaks // Despite being overlooked critically and commercially upon its release, the album has since attained cult status. On its initial release in April 1998, the album did not sell as well as the Elektra had hoped, and by January 1999 it was already an out of print, deleted release. Regarding the record’s lack of success, Britt Daniel remarked in 2019: “I remember we sold 1,200 copies [of ‘Girls Can Tell’] in the first week, which was almost as much as we had sold of all of ‘A Series of Sneaks’.”*
Another blow to Portland: Nordstrom Rack in downtown, which has been operating since 1986, has announced it will be shutting down. It operates out of a large building taking up a city block in the center of downtown. Routine theft and homelessness issues are likely behind the closure.
https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1995925624016556356
Portland Art Museum expansion includes a bike path going through it
https://bikeportland.org/2025/11/21/video-portland-art-museum-expansion-includes-a-bike-path-going-through-it-398261
Concert venue groundbreaking takes place at Lloyd Center’s former Nordstrom location
https://www.koin.com/news/portland/monqui-presents-venue-breaks-ground-at-lloyd-centers-former-nordstrom-location/
Iggy Azalea Says She Has ‘No Interest’ in Returning to Music; The update from the “Fancy” rapper came via Instagram on Friday (Nov. 28).
https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/iggy-azalea-wont-return-to-music-1236124839/
Pop star Sabrina Carpenter tells White House to stop using her music
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/pop-star-sabrina-carpenter-tells-white-house-stop-using-her-music-2025-12-02/
Video: Sabrina Carpenter debuts a new hockey Juno position at night two of #TorontoShortnSweet
https://x.com/SabrinaTourInfo/status/1988449263236587610
‘Shakespeare in Love’ and ‘Empire of the Sun’ Legend Dead at 88: RIP to Tom Stoppard
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/family/shakespeare-in-love-and-empire-of-the-sun-legend-dead-at-88-rip-to-tom-stoppard/ar-AA1RqSLD
DC Comics Confirms They Are Bringing Back Vertigo Imprint; DC Comics Confirms They Are Bringing Back Their Vertigo Imprint, just announced at New York Comic Con… and by Bleeding Cool a year ago.
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-comics-confirms-they-are-bringing-back-vertigo-imprint/
DC Comics Vertigo February 2026 Solicits Bring Back The Iconic Imprint
https://comicbookclublive.com/2025/11/21/dc-comics-vertigo-february-2026-solicits-bring-back-the-iconic-imprint/
Netflix, Comcast and Paramount Submit Warner Bros. Discovery Bids; The outcome of the sale could alter the trajectory of the entertainment business.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/business/media/warner-discovery-bids-paramount-netflix-comcast.html // https://archive.is/89cmI
The world’s first vinyl record created using coal dust.
https://smebulletin.com/the-worlds-first-vinyl-record-created-using-coal-dust/
Newly discovered early recordings capture Bad Brains, live at The Bayou
https://wtop.com/local/2025/11/newly-discovered-early-recordings-capture-bad-brains-live-at-the-bayou/
Video: Newly discovered Bad Brains recording to be released | NBC4 Washington (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfKVxeYrc0Q
Bad Brains – “Leaving Babylon” (DJ Spooky Version // Audio)
‘Live Without Dead Time’
Adbusters #47 – May/June 2003
*Bad Brains – “Leaving Babylon” (DJ Spooky Version) ANOTHER MONARCHY EXCLUSIVE! // https://musicbrainz.org/release/3c4601bd-5eca-4c05-9d70-74929527bd48 // https://rateyourmusic.com/release/djmix/dj-spooky/adbusters-live-without-dead-time-1/ // Adbusters CD, mixed by Dj Spooky that subliminal kid, was distributed in Adbusters magazine, issue #47. I guess this is pretty cult, Wikipedia doesn’t even know about it. We got it from the Adbusters issue, I’m pretty sure.*
#MagazineTime: Tortoise – ‘Touch’ Review: Post-rock pioneers return
https://www.mojo4music.com/articles/new-music/tortoise-touch-review/
#MagazineTime/Video: The return of the post-rock pioneers: Tortoise – Touch Vinyl Review (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PorQg26BZbY
#MagazineTime: Tortoise – “Rated OG” (Inst. Vinyl // Audio)
‘Touch’
International Anthem / Nonesuch Records – October 24, 2025
*Tortoise – “Rated OG” (Inst. Vinyl) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQbFKKZiQT8 // https://open.spotify.com/track/1JCjZfYMTbs96etJBeZQSK // https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/touch // Another cut from ‘Touch,’ the pretty fantastic just-released album by Chicago post-rock band, Tortoise. Available now via International Anthem / Nonesuch Records.*
December 2015 – Page 3 – Media Monarchy
https://mediamonarchy.com/2015/12/page/3/
Flashback: @PumpUpThaVolume: Episode185 – High Rise (Dec. 5, 2015)
https://mediamonarchy.com/putv185/
#MorningMonarchy: December 5, 2017 – Voyager 1 Spacecraft Thrusters Fired Up For First Time Since 1980
https://mediamonarchy.com/20171205morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: December 5, 2017 ♬ AIR & Ed Lover
https://mediamonarchy.com/20171205pumpupthavolume/
#MorningMonarchy: December 5, 2018 – Women place slices of Chorizo sausage inside ballots to protest against corrupt politicians at a polling station in Ronda during Andalusia’s regional election // Far-right wins seats in Andalusia parliament in first for post-Franco Spain
https://mediamonarchy.com/20181205morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: December 5, 2018 ♬ Beans On Toast – “Alexa” & Robbie Fulks – “Fuck This Town”
https://mediamonarchy.com/20181205pumpupthavolume/
#MorningMonarchy: December 5, 2019 – Three people dead, including gunman, in shooting at Pearl Harbor
https://mediamonarchy.com/20191205morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: December 5, 2019 ♬ Anton Karas & Alexandre Desplat
https://mediamonarchy.com/20191205pumpupthavolume/
#NewWorldNextWeek: Artificial Wombs to Make Women Obsolete + Power of Siberia & Chinese Fondleslabs
https://mediamonarchy.com/nwnw394-video/ // https://mediamonarchy.com/nwnw394-audio/
#MorningMonarchy: December 5, 2023 – What are the implications of Israel’s reported use of AI in Gaza war?
https://mediamonarchy.com/20231205morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: December 5, 2023 ♬ Republica & Mort Garson
https://mediamonarchy.com/20231205pumpupthavolume/
#ThisDayInHistory/#MorningMonarchy: December 5, 2024 – The real Alice of Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant” dies at 83 (Audio)
https://mediamonarchy.com/20241205morningmonarchy/ // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an8LEmxnK2A
#PumpUpThaVolume: December 5, 2024 ♬ ZZ Top & Femi Kuti
https://mediamonarchy.com/20241205pumpupthavolume/
#PumpUpThaVolume/#NewMusicFriday: #December5/#BandcampFriday w/Khruangbin, live Depeche Mode, Ronnie D’Addario x The Lemon Twigs, live Olivia Rodrigo, live Nick Cave, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Zac Brown, Jessie J, Sad Snack, The Sha La Das + Reissues/previously unreleased live shows from Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Yusef Lateef ♬
https://www.allmusic.com/newreleases/20251205
#PumpUpThaVolume/#TruthMusic: Iyah May – “Good Citizen” (Audio)
Digital Single
YouTube – Dec. 4, 2025
*#PumpUpThaVolume/#TruthMusic: Iyah May – “Good Citizen” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41SawyuIyYg // so They killed Charlie/and They killed Marley/both the kennedys and marilyn/they Killed Dianna/And They killed Jackson/we are their legacy/this is their anthem/Stay silent, stay violent/Stay plugged in and divided*