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In Sheeps Clothing

Mati Klarwein’ Psychedelic Record Covers Still Dazzle 50 Years Later - A look at the artist who fused sound, sex, spirit, and style across decades of iconic album art. Few album cover artists reward gobbling LSD more than Mat...
3 hours ago
Hate Meditations

Beats and yelling shorts, 14th May 25 - Impious Throne: Suffering Out 11th April on ATMF – De Tenebrarum Principio (originally released in 2024) Despite the brevity of this album, one can’t help ...
3 hours ago
Feuilleton (John Coulthart)

Gahan Wilson’s Diner - Gahan Wilson’s macabre humour has provided stories for film and television on a number of occasions but this very short entry is the only one I’ve seen so ...
3 hours ago
It starts with a birthstone...

250 Albums- An Arbitrary Rumble Through My Record Collection # 230 Oscar Peterson - exclusively for my friends - I just had a rather golden forty five minutes with this album. My work was done by lunchtime and the day was mine. I've just reconnected with someone ...
4 hours ago
Phil Gyford’s website: Everything

Photos from 14 May 2025 - 1 photo.
6 hours ago
Tribune

Britain Must Stop Arms to Israel Now - In nearly four decades of working in international affairs, I have never seen anything like it. By ‘it’, I refer to the size of the gap between what we c...
18 hours ago
Nick Coleman

The death of rock: and it was on my watch! - As ever, the ghastly Semantic Origami is putting himself front and centre in one of the great dramas in our cultural history. How does he do it? Why doesn'...
20 hours ago
The Ethan Hein Blog

William Orbit’s polymetric groove in an All Saints song - MusicRadar asked me to write about “Pure Shores” by All Saints”, which I guess was a bigger deal in the UK than it was here, because I had never heard of i...
1 day ago
torpedo the ark

Queer as Punk - A punk bromance: Sid 💘 Johnny *'Punk is a challenge to reconsider everything you do, think or feel; * *including the ways that you love.' *[1] I. ...
1 day ago
Backlisted

239. The Image of Her by Simone de Beauvoir - To discuss *The Image of Her* (1966) by Simone de Beauvoir we are joined by writer and translator Lauren Elkin, whose previous books include *Flâneuse: ...
1 day ago
thebluemoment.com

Meet the house band - Before the evening show on the first of their two days at Cafe Oto on Saturday, the Necks were announced to the audience as “the house band”. We laughed, a...
2 days ago
Blue Labyrinths

Oceanic Logic: On Vagueness and Mass Nouns - Vagueness and mass nouns have been unconquerable land for the logic founded by Aristotle, mathematized by Boole, and developed by Continue reading →
2 days ago
A Year In The Country

Shadows, Josephine Poole and the Layering of Folklore and Myth: Wyrd Explorations 20 - Shadows was a supernatural and fantasy young adult- orientated British television anthology drama series which featured 20 approximately half-hour long sta...
2 days ago
Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations

Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXLIII (Philip K. Dick, Roger Zelazny, Chuck Rothman, Philip José Farmer, and an anthology on Future Love) - Which books/covers/authors intrigue you? Which have you read? Disliked? Enjoyed? 1. Deus Irae, Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny (1976) From the back cover:...
4 days ago
The Nerd Reich

The Nerd Reich vs. Catholic Right in Trump’s Circle - ‘At some stage a civil war is coming to the Trump movement. And I think Musk and Vance will be on two very different sides of that civil war.’
4 days ago
streams of expression

MaerzMusisk 2025 Report: Part 3 - [*Extended cut of a much shorter review out in The Wire, split into parts for ease of reading. Part 1 is here, Part 2 here.*] *Part 3: Ty Bouque, Laura B...
4 days ago
Eliminated for Reasons of Space

150 Best Albums of 1995 - I can imagine somebody — probably somebody who was just then turning obsessive about music like I myself had 16 years before — remembering 1995 as a long-l...
5 days ago
Wormwoodiana

Decadence in the Cumberland Mountains - A Guest Post by Bill Ectric - Crimes, Criminals, and Characters of the Cumberlands and Southwest Virginia (1970) by Roy L. Sturgill has a Southern Gothic feel from the first page. A mu...
5 days ago
Ace Linguist

Layout Update - Added a new left navigation bar to the layout! This has major articles from the blog over the years. I've organized them based on whether they're part of...
5 days ago
Electronic Sound

The Electronic Sound Seven-Inch Single ES7125 - ES7125 seven-inch features Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke
6 days ago
Wyrd Britain

The Landlady (audio drama) - [image: The Laundry by Roald Dahl] Originally published in the New Yorker magazine and then reprinted in 'Kiss Kiss', Roald Dahl's third short story colle...
1 week ago
The Neglected Books Page

Big Business Girl, by Patricia Reilly (1930) - When Farrar and Rinehart published Big Business Girl in 1930, they credited the book to the anonymous “One of Them” — meaning one of the women in big busin...
1 week ago
The Decadence Project

Off-The-Grid Art Tourism - Salvation Mountain, Art City, and the Future of America’s Off-Grid Art Scene
1 week ago
The Generalist

- Dear Friends, I'm raising £1,800 to fund an exhibition for Greenpeace in Lewes! Your support will help bring this project to life and raise vital awar...
1 week ago
it's her factory

The 2025 Indie 500 - In 1989 modern rock radio station WOXY started its annual countdown of the 500 best modern rock songs in its library. This tradition continues at Cincinnat...
1 week ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

CONRAD SCHNITZLER - CONTEMPORA CON-TINUOUS SERIES - 00 577 - III KUGELN (2008) (FLAC) - *CONRAD SCHNITZLER - 00-577 - III KUGELN* *00:00* *02:04* *04:37* *06:18* *08:25* *10:31* *12:31* *14:20* *16:04* *17:26* *19:19* *21:09* *...
2 weeks ago
joy of speed

John Lennon - Jealous Guy (Elements Mix) - I stumbled on to this guided by some lines of code on the internet -- it's quite mesmerizing. Of course, the piano playing by Nicky Hopkins is pretty, bu...
2 weeks ago
Ericland

On Tour WIth Amy Rigby And Back Home Undismantled - I was worried. I spent most of the previous day getting ready and feeling vaguely resentful because I’ve got better things to do with my life than take o...
2 weeks ago
The Haunted Generation

Drew Mulholland and Elizabethan Tape Loops - Sound obsessive, tape looper extraordinaire, godfather of hauntology, and – most unlikely of all – teen pin-up. For five decades, Drew Mulholland has been ...
2 weeks ago
ooh! directory of blogs

City Infinity – Blog - “Designing for sustainable mobility.” By Mark Philpotts. 🇬🇧 Started in 2017. Average 1,219 words.
3 weeks ago
History is made at night

Trans Liberation demo in London - A huge and inspiring Trans Liberation demonstration in London yesterday, with more than 20,000 people coming together at short notice following the Supre...
3 weeks ago
8Sided Blog

Encounters with Dave Allen - First Encounter, Manhattan, 1991 CMJ Music Festival: My status as a college radio music director was an excuse for attending, but I was also looking for op...
3 weeks ago
Datacide

Burnt Money Weekend - Burnt Money Weekend is the final article from the second print edition of Howard Slater's zine Break/Flow, originally from 1999. The post Burnt Money Wee...
4 weeks ago
The Pinocchio Theory

Donald Trump is not conscious - Donald J. Trump is not conscious. This is my ultimate thesis. That is to say, Trump is what the philosopher David Chalmers calls a “philosophical zombie”, ...
4 weeks ago
Sounding Out!

The Techno-Woman Warrior: K-pop and the Sound of Asian Futurism - I As a ’90s kid, I remember too well us school kids singing and dancing to the songs at the top of the charts on music shows such as Ingigayo (인기가요) and Mu...
5 weeks ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

ACTION WORLD - 29/04/25. - So, I’m unsure whether or not I have any remaining readers who are London-based, but just on the off-chance… I am contributing the above event, taking pla...
5 weeks ago
Municipal Dreams

The Hillcrest Estate, Highgate: ‘of a kind which many well-to-do people would very gladly inhabit’ - I’m very pleased to feature this week a guest by Ray Rogers who ha contributed previously with a fine account … Continue reading →
1 month ago
Beauty Blew a Fuse

Decoding Pearls Before Swine - -... .-.. .- -- . / -- -.-. .-.. ..- .... .- -.
2 months ago
Abundant Living

Other Dead Boys: Notes on David Johansen, New York Dolls, New York in General, Exceptionalism, Punk, Hair Metal, Glam, and the Urge to Make It With Frankenstein - 1. The death of David Johansen, *nurtural* Poindexter, the lead singer of the New York Dolls, was announced in the early hours of March 1st, first by Morr...
2 months ago
Pushing Ahead of the Dame

Do You Remember Yesterday? Young Americans at 50 - It could have been Lulu in Memphis. David Bowie began working with Lulu in the summer of 1973, producing her takes on “The Man Who Sold the World” and “Wat...
2 months ago
Completely Different (Matthew Miles Goodrich)

It’s…tactical fetishism - the plenty and poverty of protest
2 months ago
Some Private Diagonal

#41 Gradually Learning - An interview with The Rockingbirds' Alan Tyler
2 months ago
Slow Motion

This is a preview of next year - On the Discogs entry for the After Shock label, it still lists a couple of phone numbers you might use to contact the label. Putting your mobile on the lab...
3 months ago
Aloysius

elm street tangents - feel like having sus around for commentary drastically changed how i watched this film. movie night at my apartment became a less braindead affair than u...
3 months ago
A Shiver in the Archives

A Lost Charles Williams Poem? - I think I have happened upon a lost Charles Williams poem. At least, after a cursory look in prominent sources on Williams, I find no mention of it. I ...
3 months ago
God Is No Longer A Dj

Liner Notes on 2024 – Part II (Memory Tapes) - “I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not reme...
3 months ago
davidtoop

Pump down the volume - Thundercurrent: a loud, intrusive and continuous audio event whose effect reduces over time to a point of perceived inaudibility, an undercurrent, even tho...
3 months ago
Relative Nostalgia

Unpopular Film/TV I Unironically Like - Media that I subjectively enjoy.
3 months ago
Infinite Speeds

Structure and Stupidity: Talking Music w/ Sunik Kim - A conversation about fascist happy hardcore, player pianos, 90s jungle, computer music, utility techno, and the beauty of musical stupidity
3 months ago
More Dark Than Shark

MORE DARK THAN SHARK - Updates: January 12, 2024 -
4 months ago
Musical Urbanism |

the Paisley Underground: the mythic scene and Los Angeles legacy of the neo-psychedelic 80s - The Los Angeles legacy of the Paisley Underground can be understood through three “L.A. stories”: how it was a scene that was never actually a scene, how i...
4 months ago
New Critique

[Review] The Year in Books 2024 – James McLoughlin - 'Once again, reading kept me going this year. I started the year recovering from an operation and seeking somewhere new to live. I was then made redundant ...
4 months ago
Kieran Press-Reynolds genreologist at large

The top 15 songs of 2024 (+15 honorable mentions) - The countdown is over.
4 months ago
blog to the oldskool

Oral-X – Tribal Zone EP - I’ve got some spare time over the Holidays, so I figure it might be nice to post up a few releases that don’t have audio on the net anywhere. With this kin...
4 months ago
We Are the Mutants

Kool Kelly’s Place: True Confessions of an ’80s Bedroom - By *The Mutants* A few months ago my dad sent me a whole bunch of pictures on a flash drive. This was one of them. It's my bedroom in 1987. I’m 15...
4 months ago
Jason Phereus,

My most listened to artist of 2024 was... - Vampire Weekend. They are never far from my most listened to artists of any given year and this year I mostly listened to them while playing with my son...
5 months ago
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Hidden Depths - One of the most powerful shifts in Silent Hill 2 occurs somewhere past the halfway point. It follows the Historical Society, a dilapidated old museum, to w...
5 months ago
Rave Archive UK »

World Dance – Lydd Airport – 5.2.94 - World Dance – Lydd Airport – 5.2.94 DJ Food Junkie – World Dance – Lydd Airport – 5.2.94 Download DJ Slipmatt w/ MC GQ – […]
5 months ago
Suspended Reason

Habitus of the Damned: Vamp Semiotics - The opening shot of Twilight: a doe’s flank, her tail flicking as Bella—breathing heavy & pre-orgasmic—soliloquizes on self-sacrifice, giving her life up f...
5 months ago
GreilMarcus.net | Writings by (and about) Greil Marcus

David Thomson interviews Greil Marcus - British film critic David Thomson interviews Greil Marcus on the occasion of his recent book, Why I Write. Courtesy of Yale University Press.
6 months ago
Found Objects

P for Paladin - *Paladin* - second only to *Picador* as a publisher's name to set the arty-intellectual bibliophile's heart a flutter... Radical, ...
6 months ago
Oliver Craner

Michael Powell and the National Myth - 1980: Exile “I love England,” Michael Powell declared, without shame or inhibition, in the first volume of his autobiography A Life in Movies: I have mirro...
7 months ago
xenogothic

Narcisisme subversiu - Diuen que el narcisisme és un dels grans mals del nostre temps, especialment alimentat per les xarxes socials. Però, i si el narcisisme fos una eina per ad...
7 months ago
East of Borneo

Jerome Caja, Drag Queen and Visual Artist - Marc Geller, Portrait of Jerome Caja, 1991. Courtesy of the artist. Jerome Caja was an American mixed-media painter and Queercore performance artist in S...
8 months ago
I Understand

No more days // 2009 - 2013 - Part II: the beginning of the end + ambient grime noir, endless rainfall & the 2009 - 2013 after dark inspirations ov the new Stonecirclesampler album
9 months ago
For Your Pleasure

Lô xiên 2 ăn bao nhiêu? Tính xiên 2 theo các đài chuẩn nhất - Lô xiên 2 ăn bao nhiêu và đây có phải là một hình thức chơi tốt hay không? Tất cả những thắc mắc về xiên 2 sẽ được giải quyết trong bài viết này. xiên 2 ...
9 months ago
The Pirate Archive

Radio Sheila – London - One of the earliest operators in South East London was Radio Atlantic South. They could be heard regularly in the late 1960s. Many of their staff later bro...
10 months ago
BLDGBLOG

Institute for Controlled Speleogenesis - Recently, I’ve been looking back at a collaborative project with John Becker of WROT Studio. The “Institute for Controlled Speleogenesis” (2014) was a fict...
10 months ago
Dan Fox

Issue 39: Partial Views of an Interior - Remembering Marc Camille Chaimowicz, 1946-2024
11 months ago
tis.so

Magic rites in the lore of economics - by SQCU In the folklore of the men who call themselves economists there is a story of a magic ritual. In this ritual, when two men meet in body, they mee...
1 year ago
Tank Magazine Podcast

We read de Beauvoir's “The Second Sex” so you don't have to - “Love is impossible as long as it is attached to physical, emotional and economic safety...” In this week's TANK Podcast, Caroline Issa decodes Simone de...
1 year ago
L. S. Trackhead

Re-Hearing The 90s #1 - Les Savy Fav – The Cat and the Cobra (Frenchkiss, 1999) A band of unbound victims of the everyday, crawling from under slack with grimy bags of surplus ene...
1 year ago
Blog - Peter Stanfield

Its Inmates Absurd: The Velvet Underground at the University of Kent 1971 - “After about the first two years we got talking. . .” – Maureen Tucker on rehearsing with the Velvet Underground As a live proposition, The Velvet Under...
1 year ago
Portals of London

Artistic / Psychic exploration of a house in Stoke Newington - Rotherhithe Archive #0000 A quick note on an artistic addition to the archive. Intrigued by our account of the Stoke NewingtonContinue Reading
1 year ago
Lost Turntable

Non-music from Japan, music from a Japanese band, and horror disco - Oy. Yeah so I hoped to write more in 2023 but that sure as shit didn’t work out huh? So what had happened was my health got worse, my podcast work got more...
1 year ago
Modernism Unbound

On The Historical Avant-Garde - The ambitons of the artists associated with the historical avant-garde remain relevant to this day. In this essay, Jon Lindblom looks closer at Peter Bürge...
1 year ago
It's Full of Stars

Formses - My FORMS series of albums (to be found over on my bandcamp page) takes an idea I first explored on my Twenty Systems album, but develops it into the idea o...
1 year ago
lunarlodge

Autumn Serenade - Notes on Janet Werner, Backxwash, This is not a Scarf, a loving tribute to Boris Brott, &+
2 years ago
Real Life

Who Can It Be Now - On social platforms, the "fluid self" is not a rejection of personal branding but another manifestation of it
2 years ago
Trevor Barre

Lightning Bolt at The Scala - So, to The Scala last Thursday to see Lightning Bolt, supported by the archly-named Sly & The Family Drone. The latter were neither especially droney or ...
2 years ago
__underscore

The underscore__ 2021 Reading Roundup - *The reader became the book; and summer night* *Was like the conscious being of the book.* —Wallace Stevens I hold my hands up: in last year’s roundup, r...
3 years ago
underscore__

The underscore__ 2021 Reading Roundup - *The reader became the book; and summer night* *Was like the conscious being of the book.* —Wallace Stevens I hold my hands up: in last year’s roundup, r...
3 years ago
The Interregnum Navigation Bureau

Coda - I will now be wrapping up this blog, as I've pretty much said everything I wanted to say. Even when I first started blogging with the "Decades" blogs all t...
3 years ago
Hyperstition Arrays

Protected: Hardt and Negri’s Optimism and Subjectivity - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
3 years ago
Pop Theory

Books I Didn’t Read During Lockdown: III - But we all should…
3 years ago
Cut and Run

Coupling Musical Noise -
3 years ago
Velcro City Tourist Board

Solargoth - I keep telling myself I shouldn’t pass public comment on solarpunk, firstly because I haven’t done the reading and legwork, and secondly because I know a f...
3 years ago
music, etc

Books I read in 2020 - [image: image] More than usual, especially between March and September. So there! Isabel Allende, *The House of the Spirits* Nicholson Baker, *The Mezza...
4 years ago
A CARELESS MAN'S CAREFUL DAUGHTER

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4 years ago
Olympic Mess

Reducing the Input: Gaddis and Beckett - Recently read Beckett’s Molloy and, after reading something of Marshall McLuhan’s son, Eric’s, on the role of art in human survival, can’t help but think o...
4 years ago
A Scarlet Tracery

- I interviewed William Basinski for the cover story of the new issue of The Wire.
4 years ago
Tower of Sleep

CVS Learnnet Login Guide - As login over the smartphone makes your work easier and sturdy on the similar time. 5. Hit the login button to get effectively logged in. 5. In case you’...
5 years ago
Blue Lines Revisited

Photo -
5 years ago
Disposable Everything

The reification of Welsh rugby - (Also available to read on Medium) A shiver down the collective spine of the Welsh nation: international rugby (or, one presumes, that which is presented i...
5 years ago
Airport Through The Trees

More Nada - I really want to write again, but I don't know how. I had, for no particular reason, a really, really, dark day today. I mean, bad bad. I was trying to con...
5 years ago
Miraculous Agitations – Daniel R Wilson

Joris Van de Moortel, noise/music chemistry, and The Wire magazine on the artist’s palette - Noise, forever fizzing at the edges of musical vocabulary, forms the topic of an essay I’ve written for Joris Van de Moortel‘s new artist’s book ‘A Dubious...
5 years ago
The Astral Plane

Reassembling the Pulp Doppelgänger - Views of the Baths of Titus, Giovanni Battista Piranesi In part one of this essay, I laid out the disappointing reality of the walking dead or pop modernis...
5 years ago
darkmatter Journal » | darkmatter Journal

The clamour of nationalism: Race and nation in twenty-first-century Britain by Sivamohan Valluvan - The successful upsurge of nationalism across Europe is unnerving, to say the least. The Clamour of Nationalism’s achievement is not in its desire to explai...
5 years ago
The Priapean Logs

Daniel Was Traveling Tonight On A Plane - Danny L. Please can you pick a pre-92 rap album for us to do our listening club to tomorrow night. Thank you very much.
5 years ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

Cover version - For whatever reason at some point I started taking inventory of the cover versions of "classic rock" band songs that were actually worthwhile. Not sure wh...
5 years ago
Groupname for Grapejuice

Snatches of the Everlasting Gospel 3 - [image: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdNcpxZh71l2jCbTs7-nYBJmgvJTJrPf4wq2oyZ_7AbYvqESjZ94wqaJOKAPexY3gBRlHz2aFVqubZU16pxnLZA5...
5 years ago
on the ones

Scattered Impressions of Zagreb Film’s Early Years: Dušan Vukotić, Vatroslav Mimica, Vlado Kristl - Last year marked the 65th anniversary of the founding of Zagreb Film, which for a few decades was home to one of the premiere animation studios on the inte...
5 years ago
(SF) 365

Feel (is a word I can't explain) - So sang Paul Weller on The Style Council's fourth single, A Solid Bond In Your Heart, which had also been considered as The Jam's last single. It's partly ...
5 years ago
森と記録の音楽

[259] va América Invertida - Label: Vampisoul Catalog#: VAMPI205 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: Spain Released: 2019 AMAZON A1 Desencanto - Contraviento A2 Tras Tus Ojos - J...
5 years ago
History's Dumpster

The Last 78 RPM Records - "Gwendolyne" Julio Iglesias (1970, Colombia) Image: Discogs *What was the last 78 RPM record?* I've been asked this question now and then and to be perfe...
5 years ago
Prole Sector

AN-I + Unhuman (L.I.E.S. Records) - More tasty double time pummelling lashed up with some cat o’ nine tails screamo and freestyle noise – not quite speedcore, thankfully.
5 years ago
64 Quartets

3. The Jamies - DISCOGRAPHY SOURCES PLAYLIST When I was eleven or so, I would fall asleep with the radio on. This was a gun...
5 years ago
marathonpacks

Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9 - Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9
5 years ago
The Hum Blog

outside the reed syndicate - A brain melting mashup of Tony Conrad and Faust’s Outside The Dream Syndicate (1973) and Terry Riley’s Reed Streams (1967), from (and by) The Hum. (Headp...
5 years ago
RESIDUAL NOISE

The Bad Trip - *‘A history that makes perfect sense when the sky is **falling down.’ – **The Sunday Times* Very happy to announce here the publication of *The Bad T...
5 years ago
I•HATE•THIS•FILM

THE LONE BREAKER / Steve Beck (1985) - *THE LONE BREAKER* / Steve Beck (1985)
5 years ago
The Work Trials

INTERVIEW: Caroline Sullivan - *Caroline Sullivan is a pop critic of several decades standing who has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, Melody Maker to name but a few. Havi...
5 years ago
Rockets & Rayguns

hangingfire: Of all of my efforts in Janky Joke Photoshop, I... - hangingfire: Of all of my efforts in Janky Joke Photoshop, I feel that this is one of my better ones.
6 years ago
The Women's Liberation Music Archive

‘Freedom of movement is essential for musicians’ – opera singer told to change pro-EU dress! - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/26/opera-singer-asked-to-change-pro-eu-dress-for-london-concert “It’s a difficult time for the musical communi...
6 years ago
Sonic Truth

Stop playing the reality management game - A pleasure to have been able to add my voice to the appraisals of the K-Punk collected works, in the FT, and here belatedly is the link. Non-subscribers sh...
6 years ago
INTO THE SWAMP

The Singles Jukebox » Britney Spears: A Mid-Career Retrospective - The Singles Jukebox » Britney Spears: A Mid-Career Retrospective: *“Sllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaave….!” she sings, purrs, drawls — all at the one time — making sure...
6 years ago
The Pink Temple

- I don’t want to tell you how to write a poem, there are an infinite number of ways to write a poem, I want to teach you how to be poets, to initiate you i...
6 years ago
Tim Worthington's Newsround

Box Set: Loungecore - *A collection of some of my recent features on mid to late nineties loungey indie dance music...* It looks as though some of you aren't aware that I no...
6 years ago
Velvet Coalmine

Good-bye to All That. - As you may have assumed already, I’m formally retiring this blog. It’s been good, helpful and cathartic to write, and my thanks to you if you’ve ever read,...
6 years ago
Mark Richardson

- Hello—my name is Mark Richardson and I’m a writer and editor. You may remember me from when I was the Editor-in-Chief and Executive Editor of the online mu...
6 years ago
ActionTimeVision | Broke the yolk, no joke

Songs Morrissey should cover#14 - [image: Morrissey1]
6 years ago
ecstatic apophenia

De Origine Draconum III: Wyrmling - *“With a terrible singleness of concentration he achieved the union of his new skin with his body, preventing rejection. No corner of his body was left to...
6 years ago
Dream Transmissions

New blog - Hey old readers, I'll be blogging here now: Embedded
6 years ago
THE SIXTH EAR.

https://raglani.bandcamp.com/album/extinctions Raglani... - https://raglani.bandcamp.com/album/extinctions Raglani Extinctions released today on Ketu and Bandcamp.
6 years ago
Boring Old Books

Modern Practical Building Volume 1 - Caxton Publishing Company Limited. New and revised edition, 1950. Note: scans of photographs...
6 years ago
F.U.N.K (Neil Kulkarni)

Tasly Phytosoy Margarita Plus - *Tasly Phytosoy Margarita Plus * Tasly Phytosoy Margarita Plus Menambahkan unsur yin, supaya bisa lebih cantik dan sehat Wanita memiliki silkus biologi...
6 years ago
KID SHIRT - Blog

//ENDS HERE - Something new, I think. No idea what. Or when.Time to rest those old bones. Be well, be safe, all.//ENDS HERE [...]
6 years ago
IX Tab

Disco Medusae - The new IX Tab album Disco Medusae is available for pre-order now at the bandcamp page for a measly virtue payment of £4.23
6 years ago
Soundboy

I’ve moved this blog to ianhogarth.com - Shout out to my Tumblr/RSS reader peoples. New blog is here: https://www.ianhogarth.com/blog/ New post on the geopolitics of AI just up: https://www.ian...
6 years ago
....:::::....:::::Heronbone:::...::::..

- pearlescent sky and the tiny lights punching holes in the mist. pigeon feathers purple and silver-grey. poised between moments. time stock still. perception ...
7 years ago
Binary Heap

Interactive Musical Hexagons - A two-dimensional spatial arrangement of the chromatic musical notes Web Site
7 years ago
The New Vulgate

Issue #154 (January 14, 2018) - *Libby Flats, Snowy Range* Photograph by Joe Carducci ------------------------------ ------------------------------ *Selling Postcards of t...
7 years ago
Sounds of the Dawn

Sounds of the Dawn Guest Host Northern Ashram NTS Radio December 9th 2017 - Tracklist East – Lélegzet Barry Cleveland – Abrasax Renato Anselmi – Mercato Fenicio Ron Boots – Breath The Living Air Francis Moneyman – Getting Ready Jea...
7 years ago
Critical-Theory.com

7 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in November, 2017 - Books by Negri, Adorno and more.
7 years ago
The Night Mail

no.7// The Blue Rose: TV as Performance Art - *This is one of my ten short essays about *Twin Peaks* Season 3. Click this link to read my introduction to this series.* If there’s a true precursor to ...
7 years ago
The Empty Page

Terry Wogan, Tom Petty and What Middle Aged Men Are Really Talking About When They Talk About The Beatles - Classic rock should be a retrospective classification. Something bestowed on rock that has through whatever process attained classic status. Yet some art...
7 years ago
Southern Discomfort

Samira Ahmed: Blade Runner meets The Good Life - Broadcasting House. You know the one, near the Church, back of Oxford Circus, Orwell did a stint there. Room … Continue reading →
7 years ago
Amodern

Greetings - This is my first post The post Greetings appeared first on Amodern.
7 years ago
Another Nickel In The Machine

The Prince of Wales Theatre, Dickie Henderson and the Ross Sisters - When the last chord of ‘Twist and Shout’ came to an end, the Beatles grouped together at the front of the Prince of Wales Theatre stage. The blue curtain s...
7 years ago
Our God is Speed

Because - Honestly, back in the days when Julian Cope's *Krautrocksampler* doc became the Young Person's Guide to Same, I took issue with the author's assertion t...
7 years ago
leaving earth

hidden reflections of a dysfunctional world - If a golden age of musical originality and innovation happens and no one builds a movement and narrative around it, did it actually create anything new? D...
7 years ago
The New Inquiry - Marginal Utility

Everything in Its Place - To live your best life in the moment, replace things with carefully staged images
7 years ago
The M.O.P. Radionic Workshop

Summer Shuffle – 16 June 2017 -
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Found Objects

About The Author # 2. -
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The Compleat Blogger

University Challenge and Diversity - Another year, another rip-roaring University Challenge final, a fitting reward for those who endured the gruelling winter of repechages and qualification q...
8 years ago
Blackadelic Pop

Smile - Yesterday (3/17/2017) was the birthday of one of my favorite singers Nat King Cole. Recently, while writing a long short story about an aspiring model c...
8 years ago
Rouge's Foam

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Ghosts in the TV

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8 years ago
Mutant Technology

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8 years ago
Chart Music podcast (David Stubbs, Neil Kulkarni, Simon Price, Taylor Parkes, Al Needham et al)

Chart Music #1: July 14th 1977 – Like Punk Hadn’t Really Happened Just Yet - The debut of the podcast that takes a random episode of Top Of The Pops and breaks it down to its very last compound. It’s the Summer of ’77, and the Sex P...
8 years ago
An Idiot's Guide to Dreaming

Valerie - Not that one. Here's Thighpaulsandra, whose Golden Communion record is starting to worm its way into my life. This one, goes all over the place and through...
8 years ago
Speculative past

bottaslicious: motorsportsisterhood: Emma Kimiläinen... - bottaslicious: motorsportsisterhood: Emma Kimiläinen appreciation post (because the only result for her on Tumblr was a single shot of her car) f...
8 years ago
Phil Zone

- This is advance notice that I'm going to be killing off this blog in the next month or so, mainly because I'm trying to wean myself off being continually p...
8 years ago
Internal exile

Photo -
8 years ago
Writing Through the Fog

Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
8 years ago
Interstice(ssg)

Bunker mix - I’ve posted this on social media, but just realised I forgot to share it here too… I recently recorded a mix for The Bunker podcast out of New York. This i...
8 years ago
Drumtrip

8205 Recordings 003 – Lopez / Syuss and Reality - Pete from one of our favourite blogs (and part inspiration for Drumtrip itself) blog to the oldskool is now taking orders for his 8205 Recordings label’s...
9 years ago
highfunctioninghuman | The blog of Robin Carmody. Liberal humanist, reformed ex-Stalinist and former anti-anti-anti-Semite, melancholy Europhile and romantic-ruralist socialist. Londoner by birth, Kentish Man by upbringing, Portlander by adoption. "More like Roy Harper than Fairport Convention" – Simon Reynolds, 2003. May be the horsiest Leftie in the Anglosphere, but there are many horsier ones beyond.

Anti-Semitism: a mea culpa - I must, I fear, express and explain my guilt over all this. I wish I were not guilty, but I know I am. And that guilt is over the fact that, by about 2002 ...
9 years ago
vexations

A radical alien would not belong to the set of beings whose agency can – in Davidsons metaphor – be... - A radical alien would not belong to the set of beings whose agency can – in Davidsons metaphor – be triangulated by reference to a common world. Its agen...
9 years ago
ZONE OF THE FREE

Free Romanian Teknival 2016 - THE ROOTS - Free Romanian Teknival - 12.08 - 23.08.2016 Open invitation for all sound systems, arts and public! Sound systems and performers, who w...
9 years ago
...and what will be left of them?

Stoopid bass - and this and this of course
9 years ago
up close and personal

Somethin' Here -
9 years ago
faces on posters too many choices

Crank - bass = discipline two very different tracks, but the bass has the same kind of propulsive quality in each
9 years ago
Vexed at the Earth

And hoy them doon the pit of hell - Seething with cold hate, Louisa Jo Killen.
9 years ago
WOEBOT

London's Dreaming Mix - I know, I thought, I'll make a Hardcore mix. All my own personal favourite tracks. No, wait a second. What about four mixes? 92. 93. 94. 95-96. Then, h...
9 years ago
Resolution Way/Eminent Domain

Eminent Domain: Barrow - Barrow is seated at his desk gazing out across the city, the day dissolving, night settling in soft, sooty layers, blunting the edges of the vast concrete...
9 years ago
Acousmata

My book “Instruments for New Music”– the project largely... - My book “Instruments for New Music”– the project largely responsible for the death of Acousmata– came out in November 2015. A history of experimental sou...
9 years ago
the hauntological society

mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur - *There is nothing to see.* Please go here: http://thehauntologicalsociety.tumblr.com/
9 years ago
The Inkbottle

The End of 2015, the End of The Inkbottle - As this year comes to a close, I am also going to bring this blog to a close. It’s basically been closed for a while, since I’ve not posted much here over...
9 years ago
Cottage Of Electric Hell !

The Seventh Cyrkle - My best wishes of the season, from deep within the sheer terror of Pendle Witch Country. As I sit by the fire this evening and celebrate *Hallowe'en*, I wi...
9 years ago
Mounds and Circles

Face Fuzz - Racial stereotypes and highly flammable unnatural fibres. Blackpool, 2015.
9 years ago
noir realism

H.P. Lovecraft: Quote of the Day! - “Now all my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests are emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmo...
9 years ago
SIGNS FICTION

- Signs Fiction has moved! Thanks for the ongoing support!
9 years ago
Island of Terror

What We Call The Most - 'Look, Mary, no hands!' There's no question in my mind that *Cliff Richard *has made a lot of good records, but very few of them have the immediate dance ...
9 years ago
Joy Press

The Exquisite Corpses of "Six Feet Under" - Feature on the visual poetry of "Six Feet Under" by Joy PressVillage Voice If you'd asked me what I thought of *Six Feet Under* last year, I would have ...
9 years ago
Spectres of Mark

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9 years ago
k-punk

Track listing for “Look what fear’s done to my body” - Track listing for “Look what fear’s done to my body”: “King of Sorrow (Cottonbelly Remix” – Sade “Too Much On My Mind” – The Kinks “Sittin’ Here” – Dizzee ...
9 years ago
Dirtnap

Reasons to be Drakeful: Wizkid – Ojuelegba - Wizkid – Ojuelegba (2014) In an ironically very Drake-like way, I’ve tussled with my feelings towards the Canadian child actor turned childish rapper for t...
9 years ago
Rouge's Foam

I don’t say a lot on social media. I don’t know who my audience is. Recently, much of it... - I don’t say a lot on social media. I don’t know who my audience is. Recently, much of it has been people from the online networks of underground music I ...
9 years ago
Vocalities

Book Launch: Eleni Ikoniadou's The Rhythmic Event — Showroom - ELENI IKONIADOU's THE RHYTHMIC EVENT BOOK LAUNCH at THE SHOWROOM on THURSDAY 25 JUNE '15 18h30-21h30 • An event & discussion to celebrate th...
9 years ago
The Fantastic Hope

BARGAIN-BIN NAIRN: MY LONDON TOP 10 - I'll be leaving London in a few weeks to return to the Motherland (Newcastle), so thought I'd compile a LONDON TOP 10 based on my nearly four years in the...
9 years ago
A Window on the World

Top of the Pops (BBC-1, 01/05/1980) - (TX: BBC-4, 22/05/2015) Imagine a universe where scantily-clad, objectified and anonymised women strut about mechanistically to daintily piano-led jazz-f...
9 years ago
the spectral dimension

The Isle is full of Noises - Easy Sunday morning viewing. Lots of rippling nature scenes between people talking about pagan gods, skulls, shape-shifting animals, Halloween fires. ...
10 years ago
Social Dead Zone

Welcome to Hollingsville - Welcome to Hollingsville: Foreword to Ken Hollings’ Bright LabyrinthOut of nowhere, I began to...
10 years ago
_* _+ // /// ///////// Picnoleptics

FEMEA 06.02.15 @UdK Berlin - FEMEA Festival - Feminism, Experimental Media and Electronic Arts A one-day event exploring gender (in)equality...
10 years ago
| Archive of Undercurrents, the magazine of radical science and alternative technology, 1972 – 1984.

UC02 Summer 1972 - Open link to Issuu in a new window ______________________________________________________________________ Undercurrents 02 Summer 1972: Contents 1 Front co...
10 years ago
Experimental Music on Children's TV

Sound JumbleSarah & Duck - Sound Jumble Sarah & Duck
10 years ago
Zone Styx Travelcard

- Thinking about that line in Simon Reynolds' Kate Bush piece about her not quite being cool... That's how I remember it, although I'm roughly a year younger...
10 years ago
pretty fantasmagorical

Century Falls - Do you hear that? That faint chiming sound in the distance, just detectable over the howl of the wind? Kind of melancholy… ethereal… vaguely threatening? Y...
10 years ago
croydon municipal

The making of How We Used To Live - Like most good stories, this one starts in a pub. For over a decade my band, Saint Etienne, has worked with director Paul Kelly on various short films and ...
10 years ago
From a High Horse

Can we get a Janelle Monáe/St. Vincent collaboration already? - I think it’s high time for these two like-minded performers to make the ultimate funky fembot album I saw Annie Clark live in concert for the first time th...
10 years ago
Beyond The Wychelm

The Future Is Not What It Used To Be - In September 2013, my husband and I were lucky enough to attend Salvage: A Hacker Farm Field Trip in rural Somerset, where we enjoyed live performances by ...
11 years ago
Urban Trawl

Poundbury's Hidden Reverse - (the below is a review spiked by a prominent architecture monthly, apparently because they'd already published a lot of criticism of the author in questio...
11 years ago
Musings of a socialist Japanologist

2013 in Music - Pt. 2 - *Pt. 2 We Going Tech* Right at the tail end of 2012, a thread was started on the music forum I frequent, dissensus, calling for a discussion on "Shuffling ...
11 years ago
bourgeoiseaux

ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2013 - It's been ages since I've posted anything, mainly because of an increasingly busy life, but, as Ian Malcolm said, life finds a way. I don't have time for s...
11 years ago
Hardcore Phonography

kadrey: There’s a secret library in the New York City subway... - kadrey: *There’s a secret library in the New York City subway * “…The underground branch lives outside the turnstiles at the 51st Street 6 stop, and it...
11 years ago
Cathode Haze

Rewind - Over at AUFS, Adam Kotsko names the problem with the “recap” as a form of TV criticism. (Incidentally Adam, if you’re ever looking for somewhere to blog ab...
11 years ago
The Tory Imagination

In The Money - 'He then spent two years as a banker at Robert Fleming before following the family tradition by entering Panmure Gordon; he became a partner before the age...
11 years ago
NewNewMusicalExpress

New Beatles Grammar Compilation / November 2026 - The Beatles are to release the forth in their 'English Grammar best of the Beatles series', with a new compilation album entitled *The 'Do Not' Contraction...
12 years ago
k-punk

Three events this week ... - 1. Wednesday, 13 March at Waterstone's Trafalgar Square: Capitalist Realism: What is it and how to fight it With Mark Fisher, Peter Fleming and Alex Niven....
12 years ago
heroasides

How to. - A quick note on the text. To read sequentially just click "earlier posts" at the bottom of each page or work down the list of posts from Intro. The posts a...
12 years ago
Sea Songs

On Swansea City and England - I wish there could be an English Swansea City - a club simultaneously rooted in its community and traditions, outside the control of plutocrats *and *consc...
12 years ago
Mark Fisher ReBlog

“You won’t be able to stop yourself, you might as well enjoy it”: eXistenZ and noncognitive labour - (Originally published in Film Quarterly) [image: image] “Can what is playing you make it to level 2?” asked Nick Land in his landmark 1994 on cyber-theo...
12 years ago
The painted wrd

Till the World Ends - If the world is in fact ending at some point today, then now is as good a time as any to talk about guilty pleasures. Thus, in the spirit of pre-apocalypti...
12 years ago
holding out for a hero

Intro - In an interview in early 2012, doom-mongering Swiss Hedge Fund manager Marc Faber cast a jaundiced European eye back over the last thirty years and constr...
12 years ago
➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣

2010 ➤ Lady Gaga spices up i-D’s 30th birthday - ❚ A LIGHTNING-FAST PHOTOSHOOT with Lady Gaga (above) was previewed before Christmas at Showstudio, the showcase website directed since 2000 by Nick Knight....
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