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A Year In The Country

Strawberry Fields and Wreckers – The Countryside and Coastal Hinterland as Emotional Edgeland: Chapter 50 Book Images - “The plot of Frances Lea’s 2012 film Strawberry Fields involves a young-ish postwoman who is possibly running away from the loss of her mother and her over...
9 hours ago
thebluemoment.com

Poem: Listening to Miss Peggy Lee - When Peggy Lee recorded “The Folks Who Live on the Hill” in 1957, the song — with music by Jerome Kern and words by Oscar Hammerstein II — was already 20 y...
16 hours ago
We Are the Mutants

Platform of Dreams: A Lonely Kid Covets G.I. Joe’s U.S.S. ‘Flagg’ - "Unwrapping" the G.I. Joe U.S.S. *Flagg* aircraft carrier playset that Kelly put under the (virtual) tree for me this Christmas is a bittersweet reminder o...
18 hours ago
Airport Through The Trees

Dark Premonition - Socialism is the new indie rock.
1 day ago
Mark Richardson

My Year in Spotify Listening - Like a lot of people I checked out the Spotify year-end summary thingy, and since Spotify is only a certain percentage of my listening, the results were ...
1 day ago
Sounding Out!

The Top Ten Sounding Out! Posts of 2018! - For your end-of-the year reading pleasure, here are the Top Ten Posts of 2018 (according to views as of 12/4/18). Visit this brilliance today–and often!–an...
1 day ago
xenogothic

“Capitalism is the End of the World” — Mark Fisher Memorial Lecture 2019 - The 2019 Mark Fisher Memorial Lecture has been announced and it is to be given by Jodi Dean! I’m very excited about this, having spent a fair bit of time w...
1 day ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

HEINER GOEBBELS & ALFRED HARTH - FRANKFURT-PEKING (RISKANT ‎– 4011, VINYL LP, 1984) (FLAC) - *Otra muestra de lo que sabían hacer GOEBBELS & HARTH cuando mezclaban su free-jazz con los instrumentos electrónicos, las grabaciones de campo y los tra...
2 days ago
cardrossmaniac2

More On Movies X - *The Undertaker *aka* Death Merchant (1988/2010/2016)* Can I say *Joe Spinell* gets more demented than usual? Probably not after *Maniac (**1980)*. He's a...
2 days ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

R.I.P. Pete Shelley -
3 days ago
Ace Linguist

Update - December 7, 2018 - 17008 words for NaNoWriMo! And that's not even counting the entire article I apparently lost! Bring on the confetti! Retrospective I wrote about Cardi B...
4 days ago
ActionTimeVision | Broke the yolk, no joke

“I’m on my own now, you’ve gone and left me … - I bet you don’t know, how you’ve upset me” Advertisements
5 days ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

Ah, The Internet. - I’m sorry folks – just a quick “house-keeping” post to formally apologise to any readers of this blog who have been kind enough to post comments on this bl...
5 days ago
Datacide

next:now – Strategies to Resample the Future - „Once upon a time, pop‘s metabolism buzzed with dynamic energy, creating the surging-in-to-the-future feel of periods like the psychedelic sixties, the po...
6 days ago
It's Full of Stars

Ro Land - Exploring Roland's SRV2000 stereo reverb and SDE1000 mono digital delay, with a Jupiter 6
1 week ago
it's her factory

From the truth of sex to the truth of gender - This is me throwing a brand new idea out there to see if it works. It’s not fully developed and lacks references, but I just wanted to toss it out into the...
1 week ago
Pop Theory

New Book by Matt Hannah: Direction and Socio-Spatial Theory - The latest edition to the Place, Space and Politics monograph series is now available, Matt Hannah’s Direction and Socio-spatial Theory: A Political Econom...
1 week ago
Tim Worthington's Newsround

Can’t Help Thinking About Christmas - *Can’t Help Thinking About Christmas* is a special stocking-filling companion to the year’s best-selling book about obscure radio shows and films nobody...
1 week ago
Portals of London

Echoes in the dark: The Thames Tunnel Phantom - Gaze into the darkness between Rotherhithe and Wapping, and you might just catch a glimpse of the past. Beneath the river, pale arches flicker in the gla...
1 week ago
The Pirate Archive

Centre Radio – Nottingham - Centre Radio were one of Nottingham’s more mainstream stations. They were first heard in 1989 on 105.7 FM. Early broadcasts were on Sunday afternoons fro...
1 week ago
Lost Turntable

Five songs by the greatest band in history - Foxy Shazam Born To The Devil Sky In A Room Drain You I’ll Be Home Soon Mother Earth Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow If you’re reading this close to its orig...
1 week ago
blog to the oldskool

Radio Show Archive 25.11.18 - Sunday, 25th November we had another edition of the BTTO Radio Show, blessings to everybody who tuned in and participated in chat. Last Sunday was a bit ca...
1 week ago
森と記録の音楽

[230] Arsenal - Arsenal-5 - Label: Мелодия Catalog#: C60 31573 000 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: USSR Released: 1991 DISCOGS A1 Голубоглазый Блюз / Blue Eyed Blues 6:21 A2 Вос...
1 week ago
Found Objects

how's your father -
1 week ago
Rave Archive UK »

Dreamscape 6 – The Sanctuary, Milton Keynes – 28.05.93 - Dreamscape 6 – The Sanctuary, Milton Keynes – 28.05.93 G.E. Real – Dreamscape 6 – The Sanctuary, Milton Keynes – 28.05.93 Download/Play LTJ Bukum – Dream...
2 weeks ago
The Pinocchio Theory

New Suns (speculative fiction anthology) - New Suns is a forthcoming speculative fiction anthology edited by the great Nisi Shawl. I was able to acquire and read an advance copy, thanks to Netgalley...
2 weeks ago
History is made at night

Walking in the swarm of stars - I've long been interested in dreams and visions of flight and space, something I experimented with a bit during the fantastic voyage of the Association of ...
2 weeks ago
Rockets & Rayguns

John Cage.John Foxx. - John Cage. John Foxx.
2 weeks ago
➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣

➤ Magical glimpses into the unreal world of pop photographer Peter Ashworth - ◼ PETER ASHWORTH’S PIONEERING IMAGES detonate a superlative flashback to the vibrant 1980s music scene with his Mavericks exhibition of magically unreal, s...
3 weeks ago
Cut and Run

November 14, 2018 – Brain Dance - Brain Dance Practitioners: RiDylan (left) Hitori Tori (Right), Photo: Brady Marks A deep dive into Brain Dance, a genre with various interpretations; IDM u...
3 weeks ago
The Vigilant Citizen

Something is Terribly Wrong With Céline Dion’s “Genderless” Clothing Line - Céline Dion is the face of a new "genderless" fashion brand for babies named CELINUNUNU. Everything about it is wrong and creepy. Here's a look at the di...
3 weeks ago
East of Borneo

At Cal State Long Beach, lauren woods pauses “American MONUMENT” as protest over the firing of the museum’s director - “The Sunday opening of artist lauren woods’ “American Monument” at the University Art Museum at Cal State Long Beach was meant to protest police violence a...
3 weeks ago
More Dark Than Shark

Brian Eno Updates • November 11, 2018 - *IN THIS UPDATE:* Devo; Talking Heads; *No New York*; David Bowie; Jon Hassell; U2's The Edge; *Me And Earl And The Dying Girl*; Conny Plank; *In C Mali*...
4 weeks 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...
4 weeks ago
God Is No Longer A Dj

Tracks I Wish I’d Written (issue #14): Klute – We Control The Vertical - “… a touching piece of graffiti appeared on a wall during the gig – a vertical line, a horizontal line and then the two conjoined – we control the vertical...
4 weeks ago
A Scarlet Tracery

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4 weeks ago
Binary Heap

Roland “A Foundation For Electronic Music” Series (1979) - A Foundation For Electronic Music (PDF) Practical Synthesis For Electronic Music Vol 1 (PDF) Practical Synthesis For Electronic Music Volume 2 (PDF) Mult...
5 weeks ago
Dream Transmissions

New blog - Hey old readers, I'll be blogging here now: Embedded
5 weeks ago
joy of speed

can't find my way home -
1 month ago
I•HATE•THIS•FILM

Video October. Capricorn Asunder Gallery, September 29 – October... - Video October. Capricorn Asunder Gallery, September 29 – October 31, 1976. Forgot to post these scans for like the last five Octobers.
1 month ago
The Women's Liberation Music Archive

5 Days Until FiLiA Feminist Conference! - Book your FiLiA 2018 tickets now FiLiA 2018 is just one week away. There is still time to buy your ticket, but some workshops are already fully booked so w...
1 month ago
Prole Sector

TSVI: Inner Worlds (Nervous Horizon) - “Tribal”… you know the schtick. All the arguments against cultural appropriation, ‘exoticism’, ‘beat trafficking’, some even say ‘colonialism’, it’s still ...
1 month ago
Boring Old Books

The Design and Placing of High Quality Concrete -
2 months ago
RESIDUAL NOISE

Spaces of Conspiracy - Particular spaces generate particular events. Spaces gain significance from the happenings they harbour, but there are also set of invisible vectors that a...
2 months ago
The Pink Temple

- the door to the teenage bedroom is always closed as it is the first space we learn to expand into. within those limits we extend consciousness beyond the s...
2 months ago
Jason Phereus,

Charles Aznavour - I drink (Je bois) -
2 months ago
streams of expression

"A Skeptic's Affirmation" - Notes on Some Recent Work by Alli Warren - Based in the Bay Area for years, a co-editor of the Poetic Labor Project, Alli Warren is also -- more importantly -- and for my money -- one of the best A...
2 months ago
leaving earth

RAVE ALBUMS 1991-1992 - Ever since I almost entirely missed it (I only really got into techno and rave in 1992-1993), I've been fascinated by the short period of time – at most 19...
2 months ago
Disposable Everything

For Nation.Cymru:Anti-Welsh bigotry isn’t just symbolic: it’s a crisis of British capitalism - It’s been almost impossible to ignore the recent rise of anti-Welsh bigotry in the UK’s popular consciousness. It’s detectable as a ‘structure of feeling’ ...
3 months 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.
3 months ago
F.U.N.K (Neil Kulkarni)

Agen Tasly Calsium Plus di Jakarta - *TASLY CALSIUM PLUS**Agar tulang anda lebih sehat* Tasly Calcium Plus isi 100 kapsul Kalsium berperan vital dalam kehidupan kita dan merupakan elemen ese...
3 months ago
The Hum Blog

on dust-to-digital’s incredible collections, voices of mississippi: artists and musicians documented by william ferris, and listen all around: the golden age of central and east african music - The time has passed with the blink of an eye, but 15 years ago witnessed a quite rumbling within the musical landscape – the first sprouting of the broad a...
4 months ago
darkmatter Journal » | darkmatter Journal

England and the World Cup 2018 – a darkmatter conversation -
4 months 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 [...]
4 months ago
....:::::....:::::Heronbone:::...::::..

- *The reward for abstaining is revoked for indulging. The punishment for withholding is lifted followi...
5 months 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
5 months 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...
5 months 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...
8 months 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 →
8 months 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...
9 months 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...
9 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...
9 months ago
The New Inquiry - Marginal Utility

Save the World - How *Star Wars* films thematize their own irrelevance
11 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...
11 months ago
WOEBOT

Reggae Playlists - *S90* Blue Boot : Eric Donaldson Ghost Dance : Prince Buster Jack Of My Trade : Sir Lord Comic Preacher Man : The Stingers Chi Chi Bud : Max Romeo Them A Fi...
11 months ago
Critical-Theory.com

7 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in November, 2017 - Books by Negri, Adorno and more.
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 of...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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
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
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 ...
2 years 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: ...
2 years 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 years ago
Internal exile

Photo -
2 years ago
up close and personal

The future then -
2 years ago
Writing Through the Fog

Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
2 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...
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 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.
3 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...
3 years ago
SIGNS FICTION

- Signs Fiction has moved! Thanks for the ongoing support!
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 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
GreilMarcus.net | Writings by (and about) Greil Marcus

Little Richard From A to Zeeza (12/84) - Punching buttons on the car radio not long ago, I lucked into the opening piano notes of Little Richards “Good Golly Miss Molly.” It was more than a surpri...
3 years ago
Experimental Music on Children's TV

Sound JumbleSarah & Duck - Sound Jumble Sarah & Duck
4 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...
4 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...
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 years ago
Ghosts in the TV

Louis Reith - Louis Reith
4 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
6 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...
7 years ago
Velvet Coalmine

The Last of Barat’s Privateers: a Dirty Pretty Things retrospective - I never had especially high hopes for Dirty Pretty Things, and not just because they chose to operate with a bassist called Didz. Carl Barat’s self-destruc...
9 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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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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Docklands Light Musicway - Home

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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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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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Thursday, January 29, 2009

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