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A Year In The Country

The Quietened Bunker, Waiting for the End of the World, Subterranea Britannica ,Bunker Archaeology and The Delaware Road – Ghosts, Havens and Curious Repurposings Beneath our Feet: Chapter 17 Book Images - “Abandoned and decommissioned bunkers are a subsection of utilitarian brutalist architecture that has come to gain totemic significance and to have a for...
2 hours ago
KID SHIRT - Blog

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6 hours ago
thebluemoment.com

‘Dancing in the Dark’ - One summer night last year a quartet led by the alto saxophonist Martin Speake, with Ethan Iverson on piano, played a version of “Dancing in the Dark” — th...
13 hours ago
GreilMarcus.net | Writings by (and about) Greil Marcus

Real Life Rock Top 10 (4/25/18) - Village Voice, April 25, 2018. Advertisements
21 hours ago
森と記録の音楽

[199] Moments in Love: The History of Chillout Music - 2004年5月に英国営放送BBC Radio 2で放映された、チルアウト・ミュージックの特番「Moments in Love: The History of Chillout Music」。19世紀パリのクラシック音楽から、Brian Enoの環境音楽、70年代の電子音楽とダブ、The OrbやKLFに代...
23 hours ago
Found Objects

zupa pamięci (olstagia polskie) - Polish counterpart to *Look Around You* - well, not exactly (the model perhaps more on the lines of Poland's Communist-era equivalent to *Why Don't You ...
1 day ago
Mark Richardson

I have some news: In the next couple of months, I’ll be stepping down as Executive Editor of... - I have some news: In the next couple of months, I’ll be stepping down as Executive Editor of Pitchfork. This was entirely my decision and it was a diffi...
2 days ago
it's her factory

My Contribution to PopCon Critical Karaoke 2018 - I’m thrilled to participate in this year’s critical karaoke session at PopCon. I’m doing L7’s “Pretend We’re Dead.” I’m publishing my talk here so people c...
2 days ago
Tim Worthington's Newsround

Looks Unfamiliar #19: Jonny Morris - What Was Actually In The Dandy? - *Looks Unfamiliar 19: Jonny Morris* *Looks Unfamiliar* is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about som...
2 days ago
Pop Theory

Thought for the Week - “You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage” Ludwig Witt...
2 days ago
Portals of London

Dark parliaments: The House of Uncommons and The Other Other Place - The recent silencing, for maintenance reasons, of the bell known as Big Ben met a suitably muted response from the nation. A half-hearted effort by a handf...
3 days ago
Sounding Out!

SO! Amplifies: Basilica Hudson’s 24-HOUR DRONE - SO! Amplifies. . .a highly-curated, rolling mini-post series by which we editors hip you to cultural makers and organizations doing work we really really...
3 days ago
Datacide

Unparaphraseable Life – Notes on Third Cinema - [image: Datacide 17] “Cinema is magic in the service of dreams” – Djibril Diop Mambéty When, back in the 1990s, Félix Guattari coined the phrase Post-Media ...
4 days ago
It's Full of Stars

Mod Can Do - I have finally put together my dream Modcan A system. Yes We Modcan!
5 days ago
cardrossmaniac2

RIP Brian Hooper - This might be Brian Hooper's most triumphant moment. One of the best rock bass-lines ever and he wrote it. I was trying to find that footage of him talki...
6 days ago
blog to the oldskool

Radio Show Archive 15.04.18 - Sunday, 15th April we had an awesome prerecorded live back-2-back set, that had Pete play on a controller for the first time. I want to big up everyone who...
1 week ago
Lost Turntable

Moogapalooza – Obscure Moog Covers - A few weeks back I wrote a thing about how dope Moog records are. The response wasn’t just middling, it was negative-middling. So few people read that (eve...
1 week ago
Rockets & Rayguns

Raf Simons X Robert Mapplethorpe - Raf Simons X Robert Mapplethorpe
1 week ago
Jason Phereus,

- Also found myself in the unlikely position of being a big fan of Hieroghlyhphic Being and related work.
1 week ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

Pre-War Thrills: Doctor X (Michael Curtiz, 1932) - *“It’s peculiar that the left deltoid muscle should be missing. *[…] *Gentlemen, it wasn’t *torn* out - this is cannibalism!” * Well, that sure put the c...
1 week ago
streams of expression

“…And Not Goodbye”: Cecil Taylor (Part 1) - Cecil Taylor died last week, at the age of 89. I think a lot of people had been preparing for this moment for some time, the occasional appearances and c...
2 weeks ago
Airport Through The Trees

Random, Late Night Thought - As far as I am aware, there is no conception of meritocracy that can account for the conscientious objector.
2 weeks ago
I•HATE•THIS•FILM

SLEEPER / ED MELLNIK (1980)Music by Roger Luther - *SLEEPER / ED MELLNIK (1980)* Music by Roger Luther
2 weeks ago
The Pirate Archive

Rave FM – Nottingham - Rave FM were first heard in 1990, broadcasting Rave music to Nottingham. They broadcast from flats in Radford and also the Lenton area of Nottingham, amo...
3 weeks ago
The Hum Blog

on the reissue of four seminal lps from dharma, via souffle continu - For years, on regular trips to Paris, I would make my way to the 11th arrondissement, passing the gates of Cimetière du Père Lachaise, moving toward the re...
3 weeks ago
East of Borneo

Quick EoB Tutorial: How to Add to the Archive - A quick intro to the East of Borneo archive and how you can add to it!
3 weeks ago
A Scarlet Tracery

- I wrote a thread the other week noting a few things about Chapo & Shuja Haider’s analysis of Jordan Peterson (see also Shuja’s very rigorous Viewpoint piec...
3 weeks ago
Disposable Everything

For New Socialist: Detoxifying Welsh Labour - For the first time in living memory, the opportunity to build a mass socialist movement within the UK feels possible, and it could even be on the cusp of o...
3 weeks ago
God Is No Longer A Dj

On Reflection: Six Years Of Blogging - “What came first, the music or the obsession?” This coming month is the sixth year anniversary since the blog went officially online. Three years ago I sha...
4 weeks ago
Prole Sector

Vofa (Sawf & ANFS) – PI05 - Very big tunes forthcoming on Pi Electronics. Do not miss. Advertisements
4 weeks ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

EDUARDO POLONIO - OBRAS ELECTROACÚSTICAS 1969-1998 (Not On Label, Eduardo Polonio Self-Released, 5 × CDr, Compilation, 1998) (FLAC) - *Creo que hay que hacer justicia con EDUARDO POLONIO y qué mejor lugar que éste, vuestro blog, dedicado a los pioneros del medio musical electrónico. Lo ...
4 weeks ago
davidtoop

FOLD - Nine people sitting on the basement floor folding paper into origami birds, four microphones hanging from the ceiling, a loudspeaker pair at each end of th...
4 weeks ago
Southern Discomfort

h-h-h-Hanif’s half hour - Now # It quickly becomes apparent that nothing is going to materialise. Once the interview request, itself fielded, to be … Continue reading →
4 weeks ago
ActionTimeVision | Broke the yolk, no joke

ALBUM REVIEW: Band of Gold – Where is the magic - http://www.music-news.com/review/UK/13142/Album/Band-of-Gold Nostalgia is what it used to be. The magic is here. Norway’s Nina Mortvedt and Nikolai Hængsle...
4 weeks ago
Velvet Coalmine

Stuff I’ve done lately. - For New Humanist: The End of Work as We Know It? The gig economy, history, automation, grassroots workers’ organization and other possible responses to lat...
5 weeks ago
History is made at night

Nightclubs - from 'the aristocracy of the fabulous' to money/sex machines (McKenzie Wark) - ‘Once upon a time New York nightclubs catered to the aristocracy of the fabulous, to those with the looks, the style, or the connections to gain admittance...
5 weeks ago
Cut and Run

7th Mar 2018 – Sphagnum Explorations – #007 -
1 month ago
joy of speed

Lindsey Buckingham - Trouble - I was a big Fleetwood Mac since I was a child, mostly due to the ubiquity of *Rumours* in our house. If there had been a favorite album of mine as a young ...
1 month ago
Miraculous Agitations – Daniel R Wilson

‘Picasso 1932’ @ The Tate Modern – Audio Guide - The headphone audio guide at the Tate Modern’s new exhibition, Picasso 1932: Love, Fame & Tragedy plays host to a medley of new original musical pieces I c...
1 month ago
The Women's Liberation Music Archive

International Women’s Day 2018 - Live and broadcast musical events for IWD 2018 include: Special Late Junction session on Radio 3: Verity Sharp with an International Women’s Day show https...
1 month ago
WOEBOT

Woebot 2.0 - Well that was fun! Henceforth this blog will be open as a holding page and to sustain links from Mixcloud. In due course I'll collect the pieces I wrote h...
1 month ago
The Pinocchio Theory

Monster Portraits (Del Samatar and Sofia Samatar) - Sofia Samatar is one of the most interesting of the new(er) generation of writers of speculative fiction. Her two novels, A STRANGER IN OLONDRIA and THE WI...
1 month ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

Shadow Worlds and Stimulacrums - Shadow World by Lana Del Rabies Inspired By True Story by M.E.S.H.
1 month ago
The Work Trials

Everything Everything release new EP - *Multi-genre indie pioneers Everything Everything have released a brand new EP to coincide with their coming UK tour. The A Deeper Sea EP consists of new s...
1 month ago
....:::::....:::::Heronbone:::...::::..

- Interference. the signal snarled in noise/and the message fractured/balkanised/in bits- can only now be decrypted by those who already KNOW////- PINK NOISE...
2 months ago
Musical Urbanism |

urban lift-off amid the rural amenity economy: riverfront cities and the “Brooklynization” of the Hudson Valley - A paper presented at the “Small Cities in the 21st Century” mini-conference, in the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore, Maryland...
2 months ago
More Dark Than Shark

Brian Eno Updates • February 1, 2018 - *IN THIS UPDATE:* John Cale: Caged Heat; Devo: *Q: Are We Not Men? A: We are Devo!*; John Cage; Talking Heads: *Fear Of Music*; The Story Of Roxy Music; ...
2 months ago
F.U.N.K (Neil Kulkarni)

BLATTARIA - BLATTARIA (Fallen Empire Records) - It doesn't help that whenever I hear double-kick drums I remember how ridiculous this looks from BEHIND a stage, where the drummers' legs always remind...
2 months ago
Binary Heap

Interactive Musical Hexagons - A two-dimensional spatial arrangement of the chromatic musical notes Web Site Advertisements
2 months ago
darkmatter Journal » | darkmatter Journal

Reggie Yates, and the Jewish Religious Fundamentalist ‘Get out of Jail Card’ on Racism? - “*This doesn’t mean that we are anti-Jews or anti-Semitic—we’re anti-exploitation.” **Malcolm X*[1] The Ghanaian-British TV presenter Reggie Yates has j...
3 months ago
The New Inquiry - Marginal Utility

Save the World - How *Star Wars* films thematize their own irrelevance
3 months ago
leaving earth

a futile resistance? - Some time ago Simon Reynolds did a quite long (especially with the endless youtube clips) piece in response to the last one I wrote, with some interesting ...
3 months 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...
4 months ago
Critical-Theory.com

7 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in November, 2017 - Books by Negri, Adorno and more.
4 months ago
RESIDUAL NOISE

The Enormous Room - [image: Image result for altered states] *Recently I took part in the Anglia Ruskin conference, **J. G. Ballard and the Sciences**. Organised by Jeanette B...
4 months ago
Mutant Technology

Dj Deadtrax “Gabber house” – an exploration of European hardcore rave - “The Mover is dark because it’s set in the phuture of mankind. I can’t possibly justify seeing a happy end to this stupid human drama. Darkness is not myst...
4 months ago
The Night Mail

no.8// Twin Peaks the Musical! - *This is one of my ten short essays about *Twin Peaks *Season 3. Click this link to read my introduction to this series.* At the Roadhouse, every night is...
4 months ago
Rave Archive UK »

Dreamscape 5 ‘Creation of a Nation’ – 18.12.92 - Dreamscape 5 ‘Creation of a Nation’ – 18.12.92 Carl Cox – Dreamscape 5 ‘Creation of a Nation’ – 18.12.92 Download/Play Top Buzz – Dreamscape 5 ‘Creation of...
4 months ago
(SF) 365

Afterwords - Afterwords from B4 films on Vimeo. The connection between science fiction and (eerie) landscape is one that my colleague Bruce Bennett and I were keen to i...
4 months 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.

How to hate the working classes - In 2001, the year Luke Haines recorded the song after which this post is titled and to which I listened obsessively (“a party of our own”, indeed), I did s...
4 months ago
Drumtrip

Win tickets to LTJ Bukem + Fabio @ O2 Forum Kentish Town, April 2018 - Hi everyone, it’s been a while. I come with gifts (well for two of you at least). The guys at Soundcrash are putting on an event not to be missed: The le...
5 months ago
Another Nickel In The Machine

My New Book – High Buildings, Low Morals - “I don’t know what London’s coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.” ― Noël Coward, Collected Sketches and Lyrics It’s been two years si...
5 months ago
The Fantastic Hope

A BRIEF GUIDE TO BASIL BUNTING'S BRIGGFLATTS FOR FIRST-TIME READERS - *Briggflatts* by Basil Bunting is one of the great poems of the twentieth century, though it has not always occupied a central place in discussions o...
5 months ago
Rouge's Foam

Slides for talk at No! Festival, HKW Berlin - This past weekend I gave a talk about how, why and whether cultural work can refuse the various alienations of modern society / economics, as part of a pa...
5 months ago
Sonic Truth

Cosmic scouse trip - A couple of pictures from my mate Tommy from Psychfest in Liverpool in late September, and a link to my review in the FT (about time I got more stuff done ...
6 months ago
Our God is Speed

Cargo Culting - Christopher D'Archangelo, *Post No Art* (c. 1975) as seen at documenta 14, Kassel, Germany. via Thierry Geoffrey Various graffiti, Athens, Gree...
7 months ago
Blue Lines Revisited

allofthemarvels: From “It Happened at Woodstock!” in My Love... - allofthemarvels: From “It Happened at Woodstock!” in My Love #14, 1971. Probably the most bluntly sexual thing I’ve seen in a Marvel romance comic… anywa...
9 months ago
The M.O.P. Radionic Workshop

Leigh on Sea Folk Festival 2017 - Teleplasmiste will be performing at this year’s Leigh Folk Festival, and also participating in Justin Hopper’s audio-visual feast of music and folklore, I ...
10 months ago
IX Tab

Buy The World Is Not Where We Are on CD - It's on the sidebar and now it's here too. Prices (incl P&P) UK £4.00 GBP Europe £6.00 GBP Rest Of World £7.00 GBP
10 months ago
A Window on the World

Have-a-go zeroes, Brexit dreamers and a tribune emerges: the 2017 General Election - ‘He would probably have to move to Downing Street. He says: “I am very happy where I live. Others may wish me to move. I did not become leader of the Lab...
10 months ago
➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣

➤ When the Blitz Kids blessed Abba and conferred their cult status - ◼ ON THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY of The Sunday Times publishing its encyclopedic Abba-to-Zappa partwork, 1000 Makers of Music, let’s recall the first pop biograph...
11 months ago
Found Objects

About The Author # 2. -
1 year ago
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...
1 year ago
INTO THE SWAMP

Trel Itz A Hit 225 - Da Drip (internetz, 2017)Trel/Biggz is a... - Trel Itz A Hit 225 - Da Drip (internetz, 2017) Trel/Biggz is a producer from Baton Rouge, best known for last year’s ‘Cross Me’, a bouncy piece of steel ...
1 year ago
Cottage Of Electric Hell !

Picnic At Hanging Rock - 1975 - I'm sure Peter Weir's spellbinding 1975 masterpiece, *Picnic At Hanging Rock*, needs little introduction here. With it's ethereal, otherworldly atmospher...
1 year ago
faces on posters too many choices

- No point in this not being publicly available is there? Especially as setting it up in Blog format was a bit of a labour of love. Apologies for dead links ...
1 year ago
...and what will be left of them?

- No point in this not being publicly available is there? Especially as setting it up in Blog format was a bit of a labour of love. Apologies for dead links ...
1 year ago
Boring Old Books

The Craft of Model Making - Thomas Bayley, The Dryad Press, Leicester
1 year ago
Island of Terror

The Bear You Can Wear - I have branched out into making tee shirts with a friend called *Nick* *Taylor*. The first on sale is *Barney, Karate Grizzly*, the first in our *Power ...
1 year ago
Soundboy

My favourite books, films, music and meals of 2016 - For the 5th year running I give you some arbitrary rankings of some media products from 2016. New non-media categories added this year! Books 1. JR 2...
1 year ago
Ghosts in the TV

trefoiled: Blocked Ascension - Carlyn Wutkee, 2011. Paper,... - trefoiled: *Blocked Ascension* - Carlyn Wutkee, 2011. Paper, gluestick.
1 year ago
marathonpacks

pitchfork:From YouTube, to Pandora, to Spotify, streaming music is piloting our listening habits in... - pitchfork: From YouTube, to Pandora, to Spotify, streaming music is piloting our listening habits in fascinating new ways that both upend old hierarchie...
1 year ago
An Idiot's Guide to Dreaming

Chicklette - I think it really gripped me when it went black. Then just legs and... I like this. Feels like a tape some kids find and decide to play in the old VCR ...
1 year ago
ZONE OF THE FREE

BULGARIA TEK 2016 - 26-?.08.16 BeAcH aReA (BG) * BuLgArIatEk 2016 * --- 0pEn t0 aLL aRtIstS aNd SoUnD SyStEmS --- iNfoLiNe: +359 877 280 696 PICTURES LAST YEAR: ...
1 year ago
Interstice(ssg)

MNML SSGS party – Saturday 30 July - On Saturday night we have our next MNML SSGS party at Contact. This time we have invited two internationals who will both be playing in Japan for the first...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Internal exile

Photo -
1 year ago
up close and personal

The future then -
1 year ago
Writing Through the Fog

Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
1 year 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...
2 years ago
A CARELESS MAN'S CAREFUL DAUGHTER

Fast methods to improve battery life in your mobile - Battery life gets worse as cellphones get better. It is a basic fact of possession that is smart-phone. However, you can find easy things you can do to m...
2 years ago
Vexed at the Earth

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

PIN (1988) - One of the best ventriloquism films I've seen. The wonderful thing about it is how PIN's voice is only validated as being a ventriloquised voice of ano...
2 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...
2 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...
2 years ago
THE SIXTH EAR.

Breaking down David Bowie's 'Heroes' - Track-by-track, BBC Arts - BBC - Breaking down David Bowie's 'Heroes' - Track-by-track, BBC Arts - BBC: I would love a track by track treatment in this vein. Wouldn’t we all? Really amazi...
2 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...
2 years ago
Mounds and Circles

Face Fuzz - Racial stereotypes and highly flammable unnatural fibres. Blackpool, 2015.
2 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...
2 years ago
SIGNS FICTION

- Signs Fiction has moved! Thanks for the ongoing support!
2 years ago
Joy Press

"Game of Thrones": An epic with a different ring - *Game of Thrones* premiere feature, Sunday Calendar cover of Los Angeles Times by Joy Press Gargantuan dire wolves, frozen tundras, corrupt royals, brutal ...
2 years ago
Spectres of Mark

Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love: Motown’s MoWest Story1971-1973(Originally published in The... - [image: image] *Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love: Motown’s MoWest Story1971-1973* (Originally published in The Wire) Light In The Attic CD/2XLP In t...
2 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 ...
2 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...
2 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 ...
2 years ago
_* _+ // /// ///////// Picnoleptics

Chronopoetics of the Wendelstein cave at Wendelstein Höhlenmediale 2015 - Chronopoetics of the Wendelstein cave / Chronopoetik der Wendelsteinhöhle" "Zeit - Moment – Ewigkeit" - Wendelstein Höhlenmediale 2015, Bayrischzell, DE 2...
2 years ago
Tower of Sleep

3 Tips to Improve Your Email Marketing Effectiveness - Knowing how to hire the right digital marketing agency will help turn your Internet marketing into a profit-producing tool. When your email is first open...
3 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. ...
3 years ago
Social Dead Zone

Welcome to Hollingsville - Welcome to Hollingsville: Foreword to Ken Hollings’ Bright LabyrinthOut of nowhere, I began to...
3 years ago
| Archive of Undercurrents, the magazine of radical science and alternative technology, 1972 – 1984.

UC44 – UC63 Contents on one page - There is no index for these issues. Instead, here are all the contents pages assembled into a single page, which may be searched by Cntrl/Command-F: _____...
3 years ago
Experimental Music on Children's TV

Sound JumbleSarah & Duck - Sound Jumble Sarah & Duck
3 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...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 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 ...
4 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 question...
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
5 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....
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 years ago
the hauntological society

The films of Stanley Kubrick - *"I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner...
6 years ago
Sound & Society - A music criticism blog

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etc home | The History Project

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CIRCULATION ZERO

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Dream Transmissions

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DJ Food

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Ego Death and Self-Control Cybernetics

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slouching toward babylon

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The Mire

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its her factory / its her duty

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Benny Brassic | Mixcloud

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the answers to the questions of the future lie in the past, or vice-versa

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Creel Pone on YouTube

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ecstatic apophenia

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Content warning

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Wounds of Class

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Woebot's Spotlight page on SoundCloud - Hear the world’s sounds

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futureproofing

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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

BLOG ARCHIVE

BLOGS AND SITES I LIKE