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Pop Theory

Learning from other regions: new book on climate change initiatives in Cape Town - Here are details of a new book, co-edited by my friend and sometime co-author Di Scott, elaborating on collaborative urban policy initiatives to address cl...
56 minutes ago
It starts with a birthstone...

English Weather - # 16 Matching Mole -
3 hours ago
A Year In The Country

The Nightmare Man Part 1 – Cold War Paranoia, The Island as Restorative Balm and Unsettling “Other”: Wanderings 42/52 - The Nightmare Man is a British science fiction horror tinged four part mini-series originally broadcast in 1981, adapted from David Wiltshire’s 1978 novel ...
10 hours ago
WARREN ELLIS LTD

13oct19 -
17 hours ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

Nippon Horrors / October Horrors 2019 # 7: Unbalanced Horror Theatre: A Mummy’s Love (Seijun Suzuki, 1973) - Sometimes, it’s difficult to know where to even start with these things. So, let’s try this. The narrative that has developed around the late Seijun Suzuk...
18 hours ago
cardrossmaniac2

More On Movies - XXII - *RECENTLY RE/WATCHED* *The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three (1974)* What can I say? It's one of the best crime action thrillers of all time innit? Four men ...
23 hours ago
xenogothic

In The Tall Grass - I enjoyed the new Netflix horror film In the Tall Grass, watched in chunks over the last week, despite all its flaws. I live for Netflix in October. And ot...
1 day ago
thebluemoment.com

Seeing ‘Western Stars’ - “This is my 19th album,” Bruce Springsteen says towards the beginning of the film Western Stars, “and I’m still writing songs about cars.” But then he excu...
1 day ago
History's Dumpster

Hospital Radio - Image: Sheffield Hospital Radio It was an American idea that became a British institution that is almost completely unheard of in America. And one of ...
2 days ago
森と記録の音楽

[247] Ernest Hood - Neighborhoods - ライナーノーツを担当させていただいたアーネスト・フッドのアルバム「ネイバーフッズ」の日本国内仕様CDが本日10月11日に発売になりました。アーネスト・フッドは米オレゴン州ポートランド生まれの音楽家。元々はジャズ・ギタリストとしてチャーリー・バーネット楽団などのメンバーとして活動されていましたが、20代後半に病...
2 days ago
(SF) 365

What is at stake? - Some time ago, I was talking to a colleague in Creative Writing about a particular type of fantasy or science fiction that was a kind of fantasia, where m...
3 days ago
Real Life

Look for America - How land became scenery
3 days ago
We Are the Mutants

“Stoned at Shadow Lake”: The Journals of Heron Stone, 1977 - Shrunk now to an almost infinitesimally small dot in the rear-view mirror, 1977 continues to cast a strange shadow over our times. Perhaps one of what my c...
3 days ago
Ace Linguist

The deed is done - Some good news first - Ace Linguist has been approved for ads, which will hopefully help offset some of the hosting costs! And perhaps in the future, it ...
4 days ago
The Vigilant Citizen

The Actual Reason Why “Joker” was Bashed by Mass Media - Although "Joker" was praised by most "serious" movie critics, mass media sources bashed the movie in all ways possible, even deeming it "dangerous". Is i...
5 days ago
Portals of London

Whispering wires: The Holborn Telephone Exchange Crisis - 268-270 High Holborn is an unassuming building, ignored by countless Londoners since it was built almost a century ago. Few, hurrying past in the 1920s a...
5 days ago
Sounding Out!

Mingus and the Chill of Death - In his autobiography, Beneath the Underdog, jazz musician Charles Mingus recounts his hatred of being ignored during his bass solos. When it was finally hi...
6 days ago
A Scarlet Tracery

riot - Everyone’s saying it: hellword 2019 baby. Insert Ric Flair woo here. The signifiers leap to the front of every hot take: Trump, Bolsanaro’s happy blaze in ...
1 week ago
Lost Turntable

Techno Bagpipe Style - I know I said that I was going to post some Canadian disco, but in a decision that will disappoint absolutely no one, I changed my mind and will instead sh...
1 week ago
it's her factory

Post-Probabilist Neoliberalisms, Orientation, & Sexuality - This is all very much at the work-in-progress stage, but I think I’m onto something here. This is the background theoretical stuff informing my recent Real...
1 week ago
I•HATE•THIS•FILM

Plastic Moonrise - Papier Mâché (ERR REC, 2019)A short film... - Plastic Moonrise - Papier Mâché (ERR REC, 2019) A short film edited by Tom Gagnaire with footage shot by Catherine Norris (flmed in Malvern UK 2019) & To...
1 week ago
Disposable Everything

On the renaming of the National Assembly - “ The Welsh Government wants to give the National Assembly for Wales a new bilingual name instead of a Welsh-only moniker.” This shouldn’t be what ‘bilingu...
1 week ago
Airport Through The Trees

Note On The Death Of Religion - I was about to console myself with the thought that there must be a special place in hell for those who arrange their books by color of spine until I reali...
2 weeks ago
The Hum Blog

five video documents from the archives of rip hayman, and on recital’s dreams of india & china - RIP Hayman, photographed by Robert Masotti (1980) The history of avant-garde and experimental music is tangled mess. Names, places, and actions rise to sur...
2 weeks ago
Cut and Run

Rave Against Renovictions - Bringing the perspective of the Cultural Organizers, Helena’s first solo show listens in on the Chip Wilson – Rave Against the Renovictions protest. Featur...
2 weeks ago
blog to the oldskool

Audio Sculpture – U & Me - It’s been a while, so here’s another obscurity which doesn’t have audio up on youtube right now and which I’ve never seen anyone talk about. Tim and I have...
2 weeks ago
Jason Phereus,

unexpected... -
2 weeks ago
Prole Sector

J Sparrow: #000000365 / Dark365 (Deep Medi Musik) - “…a carefully curated body of work showcasing the breadth of his production skill.” (Deep Medi Musik) It’s the “carefully curated” that makes me weary – fo...
3 weeks ago
East of Borneo

A Rediscovered Archive from California in the Seventies - Michael Jang, a San Francisco based photographer, grew up in Northern California and spent much of his high school years putting on psychedelic light shows...
3 weeks ago
More Dark Than Shark

Brian Eno Updates • September 13, 2019 -
3 weeks ago
GreilMarcus.net | Writings by (and about) Greil Marcus

Bruce Conner: The Gnostic Strain (12/92) - Bruce Conner, the sculptor, filmmaker, photographer, graphic artist, etc., has been making engraving collages off and on for more than 30 years, but lately...
3 weeks ago
It's Full of Stars

Ciani in the Car - Heard this on the radio yesterday. Not often the word BUCHLA comes up when I'm listening in the car to a random program. I'm putting it up here for post...
3 weeks ago
The Pinocchio Theory

Annalee Newitz, The Future of Another Timeline - Annalee Newitz’s new science fiction novel, THE FUTURE OF ANOTHER TIMELINE, is about to be published – it comes out on September 24. Here is my review. I g...
3 weeks ago
Datacide

Datacide presentation & bar sounds by Lynx, Psychic Defence, CF in Bologna 19-09-2019 - Incontro con Christoph Fringeli della redazione di DATACIDE, rivista che esplora le implicazioni sociali del souno del dancefloor e il binomio noise & pol...
3 weeks ago
marathonpacks

Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9 - Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9
3 weeks ago
Trevor Barre

Oxymorons - what’s in a name? - A brief one this time. I meant at append this to the piece on Eric Random, but ran out of time and space, Whilst typing out the band name Manicured Nois...
4 weeks ago
Nina Power

Targeted, harassed and falsely labelled a fascist - Please donate/share/link if you feel so inclined.
4 weeks ago
Modernism Unbound

Everybody in the Place, by Jeremy Deller - Documentary / Frieze, Gucci / July 6, 2018 – Reviewed by Jon Lindblom Jeremy Deller’s documentary Everybody in the Place: An Incomplete History of Britain ...
4 weeks ago
The Pirate Archive

Shetland Island Broadcasting Company – SIBC – Shetlands - Although born on the Shetland Isles, Ian Anderson started his broadcasting career on Radio Caroline in 1974, before moving onto other offshore stations R...
5 weeks ago
streams of expression

Taylor / Weatherly - I've not been posting much actual *writing* here for a while, but some things that I've been working on for a while have appeared elsewhere. Firstly, a pi...
5 weeks ago
God Is No Longer A Dj

Killer Smile (The sequel I never thought I’d write) - “The name Killer Smile just seemed to fit with our vision of the label, a multi-genre label putting out dancefloor tracks built around killer breaks and ba...
1 month ago
Found Objects

Fraser Range & Sea Devils - I recently had the very good fortune to bump into and chat with BBC Radio Tees Bob Fisher (Fortean Times, Haunted Generation) at the Delaware Road Ritual ...
1 month ago
64 Quartets

2(b). The Breeders - DISCOGRAPHY SOURCES PLAYLIST (+) Dudes to the back: The Breeders play for Snub TV while making Pod in Edinburgh, January 1...
1 month 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 Tr...
1 month ago
Miraculous Agitations – Daniel R Wilson

The Wire #427 – A Short History of Explosives in Music – ‘Bomb Culture’ - In contrast to The Wire‘s Minimalism special last year, this month’s issue is themed around ‘excess’. I contribute a short history of the use of explosives...
1 month ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

Long-Running Bands That Are Still Together - Thinking of what the best long-running to-date still together bands are. For me, there's an easy top 5: Stereolab Wire Yo La Tengo Low Liars — The Parabo...
1 month ago
History is made at night

Blinded by the Light - memories of 1980s Luton racism and job cuts - I enjoyed 'Blinded by The Light', Gurinder Chadha's movie based on Sarfraz Manzoor’s ‘Greetings from Bury Park: Race, Religion, Rock'n'Roll’ - his book abo...
1 month 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. Having...
2 months ago
Musical Urbanism |

the shape of the Vassar College music scene: guest blog by Nicole Lipman - [Nicole Lipman has been my undergraduate research assistant for three years and has helped me immeasurably by transcribing interviews, scanning and indexin...
2 months ago
joy of speed

Love Scene (Version 7) - A previously unreleased take from the soundtrack to *Zabriskie Point* (1970).
3 months ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

VARIOUS - BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP A RETROSPECTIVE (The Grey Area ‎– phonic3cd, BBC Music ‎– phonic3cd, 2XCD, 2008) (MP3 160 / FLAC) - *DEDICADO A JESÚS BROTONS* *BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP - A RETROSPECTIVE es un album esencial en un sitio web como éste. Presenta el trabajo del muy perdid...
3 months ago
Critical-Theory.com

Listen: Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism - Is capitalism bad for your sex life?
3 months ago
Velvet Coalmine

Review: Education, Education, Education - As I’m always interested in changing retrospectives on the 90s, I was interested to see Bristol-based theatre company The Wardrobe Ensemble’s play Educatio...
3 months 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.
5 months ago
The Pink Temple

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5 months ago
Tim Worthington's Newsround

The Larks Ascending - *The Larks Ascending* is a complete guide to comedy, humour and downright oddness on BBC Radio 3, from Kenneth Williams’ archival documentaries about str...
6 months 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 months 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 months 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...
7 months ago
Rave Archive UK »

Helter Skelter ‘Energy 97’ - Helter Skelter ‘Energy 97’ – Western aerodrome, Northampton – 9.8.97 Kenny Ken – Helter Skelter ‘Energy 97 Download/Play Mickey Finn – Helter Skelter ‘Ener...
7 months 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...
7 months ago
darkmatter Journal » | darkmatter Journal

Two and a Thousand Tiny Races in Sonya Lindfors’s Dance Performance ‘Noble Savage’ - In Finland, professional dancers have been almost exclusively white. Because of this, Sonya Lindfors’s *Noble Savage *(2016), which is themed around blac...
8 months ago
ActionTimeVision | Broke the yolk, no joke

Songs Morrissey should cover#14 - Advertisements
9 months 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...
11 months 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...
11 months ago
Dream Transmissions

New blog - Hey old readers, I'll be blogging here now: Embedded
11 months ago
Boring Old Books

The Design and Placing of High Quality Concrete -
1 year 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...
1 year 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.
1 year 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...
1 year 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 [...]
1 year ago
....:::::....:::::Heronbone:::...::::..

- *The reward for abstaining is revoked for indulging. The punishment for withholding is lifted followi...
1 year 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
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 →
1 year ago
The New Inquiry - Marginal Utility

Save the World - How *Star Wars* films thematize their own irrelevance
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
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
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
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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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 ...
2 years 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...
2 years ago
Found Objects

About The Author # 2. -
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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 ...
2 years 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 ...
2 years 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 ...
2 years ago
Ghosts in the TV

trefoiled: Blocked Ascension - Carlyn Wutkee, 2011. Paper,... - trefoiled: *Blocked Ascension* - Carlyn Wutkee, 2011. Paper, gluestick.
2 years 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: ...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 years ago
Internal exile

Photo -
3 years ago
up close and personal

The future then -
3 years ago
Writing Through the Fog

Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
3 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...
3 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 top 10 phones under 10000. However, you can find easy things y...
3 years ago
Vexed at the Earth

And hoy them doon the pit of hell - Seething with cold hate, Louisa Jo Killen.
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
4 years ago
SIGNS FICTION

- Signs Fiction has moved! Thanks for the ongoing support!
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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. ...
4 years ago
Social Dead Zone

Welcome to Hollingsville - Welcome to Hollingsville: Foreword to Ken Hollings’ Bright LabyrinthOut of nowhere, I began to...
4 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: _____...
4 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...
5 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...
5 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 ...
5 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...
5 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 ...
5 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...
5 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 ...
5 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...
5 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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....
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
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➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣

2012 ➤ Boy George reunites with Culture Club for New Year’s Eve — and a new album - ➢ Click the pic to view video interview with Culture Club on Sunrise, the breakfast show at Sydney’s Seven Television station ❚ HERE’S A PICTURE MANY SAID ...
7 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...
8 years ago
Sound & Society - A music criticism blog

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etc home | The History Project

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Noughties blog

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Epsilonia/Radio Libertaire - Home | Facebook

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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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