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Found Objects

National Instructional Television Center - "Signs of the Times" (1971) - (via The Hauntological Society) At first, this seemed too good to be true - like it actually might be an incredibly well-made contemporary artifact. Bu...
1 hour ago
streams of expression

Unit Structures: The Art of Cecil Taylor (A Report) - *Unit Structures: The Art of Cecil Taylor October 23-26, 2019The Graduate Center, CUNY and Brooklyn College* Cecil Taylor is often...
3 hours ago
The Vigilant Citizen

Dwyane Wade’s 12-Year-Old Transgender Child and the Media Tour “Promoting” Her - Ex-NBA star Dyane Wade went on several TV shows to talk about his son who now identifies as a young lady named Zaya. Here's how this media tour is part o...
5 hours ago
lunarlodge

Nothing Shocking: was side-chain compression the sound of the decade? - In the absence of big stories — that shock of the new — where else might we look to answer the questions of how music characterises our times?
5 hours ago
We Are the Mutants

Remembrance of Ramps Past: Hot Wheels Service Center Playset, 1979 - A couple of years ago I posted an image on Twitter of the Hot Wheels Service Center Sto & Go playset seen above and got to feeling unexpectedly emotional (...
6 hours ago
WARREN ELLIS LTD

25feb20 - Quick carb stop while also getting a two mile walk in. Inbox is some terrible number, I have phone interviews for the show scheduled and have to get two sc...
8 hours ago
It starts with a birthstone...

1980 Singles - # 47 John Lennon - It would be churlish of me to do this countdown of singles of 1980 without mention of this man Because this single came out right towards the end of the ...
14 hours ago
xenogothic

XG on DEATH // SENTENCE - Many, many thanks to Gareth and Langdon from DEATH // SENTENCE for inviting me onto their podcast to talk about Mark Fisher and my forthcoming book Egress:...
1 day ago
Real Life

Fair Warning - Since the advent of AI, there have been coherent critiques of its fundamentally conservative nature and implementation, notably from apostate computer scie...
1 day ago
Sounding Out!

Black Excellence on the Airwaves: Nora Holt and the American Negro Artist Program - —Co-authored by Chelsea Daniel and Samantha Ege— Nora Holt (c.1885 – 1974) was a leading voice in Black America’s classical music scene. Her activities as ...
1 day ago
Portals of London

North Circular spiral: The Andromeda Room - *Madeline Lee’s older brother Max disappeared from their teenage home 22 year’s ago, an unsolved family tragedy. Until now Madeline has kept secret the s...
1 day ago
Lost Turntable

Blue Monday ’95 for 2020 - In news that will upset nearly no one, here’s another quick and dirty New Order post. New Order Blue Monday (Hardfloor Remix) Blue Monday (Manuella mix) Bl...
1 day ago
The Pirate Archive

Farpoint – Dudley - Now, Farpoint is an odd one. When a station comes on, and you’re involved in pirate radio, you’ll generally have an idea about who is behind it and rough...
2 days ago
GreilMarcus.net | Writings by (and about) Greil Marcus

Upcoming Appearance: Milan, Feb 28 - Talk with Greil Marcus 28 February 2020, 7 PM “Music and politics, that’s really all there is to talk about,” Simon Frith once said. Greil Marcus started w...
3 days ago
Ace Linguist

The sCreen's sPell - February hasn’t been an easy month for me, and it’s looking increasingly unlikely I’ll make a major post by the end of the month. But to avoid letting t...
4 days ago
thebluemoment.com

Jon Christensen 1943-2020 - On two occasions I was fortunate enough to be in very close proximity to the playing of the Norwegian drummer Jon Christensen, who has died at the age of 7...
4 days ago
Airport Through The Trees

More Nada - I really want to write again, but I don't know how. I had, for no particular reason, a really, really, dark day today. I mean, bad bad. I was trying to con...
4 days ago
Cut and Run

Field Recordings: Storms River Mouth - Recordings and influences from my travels to Copenhagen and around Cape Town weave into this weeks Soundscape Show. Track List: Acid Arab – Gul l’Abi (feat...
4 days ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

Deathblog: José Mojica Marins (1936 – 2020) - And so, we bid farewell to José Mojica Marins, aka Zé do Caixão, aka Coffin Joe, who departed this life aged 83 on February 19th in São Paulo, presumabl...
5 days ago
BLDGBLOG

Dimming to Explode - [Image: Betelgeuse, before dimming; photo by ESO, M. Montargès et al, via NASA.] There are many interesting things about the dimming of Betelgeuse, a giant...
6 days ago
History is made at night

Poll Tax Archive (6): Barnet and Edgware Hospital Workers against the Poll Tax - Here is an example of some workplace organising against the poll tax in the NHS. 'Edgware Nurses Against Poll Tax' - I believe this was taken at a picket o...
6 days ago
A Scarlet Tracery

- I talked to Dan Lopatin & wrote about his soundtrack for the Safdie Brothers’ Uncut Gems in the new issue of The Wire.
1 week ago
Hyperstition Arrays

Capitalist Realism 10 Years On - This weekend I had the pleasure of attending and presenting a paper at a conference at the University of Huddersfield on Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism i...
1 week ago
cardrossmaniac2

More On Movies XXVIII - *The Villainess *aka* 악녀 (2017)* It's funny that *Parasite (2019)* was a major cross over hit with western audiences because this film ticks all the right...
1 week ago
Miraculous Agitations – Daniel R Wilson

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

Retro-cuties – airbrushing the 50s into the 1970s - [image: cutie 7.jpg] A significant trend during the early 1970s in the cover design for reissued 1950s recordings was to wrap them in a vibrant cartoon sl...
1 week ago
I•HATE•THIS•FILM

conception (excerpt) - conception (excerpt)
1 week ago
➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣

2020 ➤ “Every hat is opening night” – Stephen Jones 40 years on - The decorated British milliner Stephen Jones has created headgear for everyone from Princess Diana to Rihanna, collaborated with some of fashion’s greatest...
1 week ago
Trevor Barre

Mike Barnes’ “A New Day Yesterday”; Part Two - My overall feeling about Mike Barnes’ massive book on *soi-disant* ‘progressive music’ from the (very) late 60s and the first few years of the 70s is tha...
1 week ago
Disposable Everything

Solving problems the Welsh way - So, after a year of chaos and misery for workers in Gwent, there is some suggestion that perhaps removing the tolls from the Severn Bridges was a terrible ...
1 week ago
A Year In The Country

The Corn Mother Novella and The Corn Mother: Night Wraiths Album – Released 16th March 2020 - The novella and CDs will be available to order on 16th March 2020 at our Artifacts Shop and Bandcamp site. The novella will also be available to order on t...
1 week ago
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Upstairs/Downstairs – Cinema and Class War Today - Recently, there seems to have been an explosion of films implicitly or explicitly about class divisions becoming a popular concern. This years best picture...
1 week ago
Musical Urbanism |

M+M – “Only You” b/w “Watching the Boys Fall Down” (WAKE 18) - “Only You” b/w “Watching the Boys Fall Down” Current/RCA Records WAKE 18 (Canada) Released in March or 1987 Produced by David Lord, Mark Gane and Martha Jo...
2 weeks ago
darkmatter Journal » | darkmatter Journal

The clamour of nationalism: Race and nation in twenty-first-century Britain by Sivamohan Valluvan - The successful upsurge of nationalism across Europe is unnerving, to say the least. The Clamour of Nationalism’s achievement is not in its desire to explai...
2 weeks ago
God Is No Longer A Dj

Tracks I Wish I’d Written (issue #18): Calibre – Hypnotise - “A song for a life I left behind” When I started the ‘Tracks I Wish I’d Written’ series six years ago, I had an abstract vision in mind: to hand-pick, docu...
2 weeks ago
The Priapean Logs

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

Hekate & Praxis present Datacide 18 release event in London -
2 weeks ago
It's Full of Stars

Toucan - Here are two little sketches on the Modcan, I like this system very much
2 weeks ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

Cover version - For whatever reason at some point I started taking inventory of the cover versions of "classic rock" band songs that were actually worthwhile. Not sure why...
2 weeks ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

LILIENTAL - LILIENTAL (Brain ‎– 0060.117, VINYL LP, 1978) (FLAC) - *DEDICADO A OSCAR MARISCAL* *Agradecerle al amigo y seguidor OSCAR MARISCAL que me haya alegrado esta tarde de miércoles, en la que mientras mi compañer...
2 weeks ago
Pop Theory

Must We Mean What We Do? Further Thoughts on Affect Theory - The second of two pieces I have written in appreciation, shall we say, of Ruth Leys’ book The Ascent of Affect, is now available online at the History of H...
3 weeks ago
More Dark Than Shark

Brian Eno Updates • January 1, 2020 -
4 weeks ago
Modernism Unbound

Tunes 2011-2019, by Burial - Dubstep / Hyperdub / December 6, 2019 – Reviewed by Jon Lindblom Tunes 2011 to 2019 by Burial As the title indicates, Tunes 2011-2019 is a massive compilat...
4 weeks ago
Jason Phereus,

eminent domain or..look what you could've won! -
4 weeks ago
Groupname for Grapejuice

Snatches of the Everlasting Gospel 3 - [image: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wDHwibB09NY/WdCNVsNOiQI/AAAAAAAAOJg/7WvgoInG-00fL-bG2sCNLuVFu7mfd__eQCLcBGAs/s1600/B_Osma_145v.jpg] *The Albigensian co...
5 weeks ago
The Pinocchio Theory

Charles Soule, ANYONE - Charles Soule’s recent science fiction novel Anyone was published in 2019, but I only got around to reading it in early 2020. If I had read it in time, I w...
1 month ago
森と記録の音楽

final entry - *森と記録の音楽* 2007-2019 当ブログの更新を休止することにいたしました。ここに引っ越してから8年、長い間チェックしてくださった皆さまに心から感謝いたします。またきっとどこかで。 I have decided to take a break from updating this blog. s...
1 month ago
blog to the oldskool

2019 Round Up - HAPPY NEW YEAR to all you lovely people who tune in and support us! First of all a special shout out to Steffi for requesting I do this multiple times. ...
1 month ago
(SF) 365

Feel (is a word I can't explain) - So sang Paul Weller on The Style Council's fourth single, A Solid Bond In Your Heart, which had also been considered as The Jam's last single. It's partly ...
2 months ago
Nina Power

Election 2019 Eve - [This text was written the night of 11th December 2019] Mood in advance of tomorrow – judgement in Alfie’s case expected, general election, forecast rain –...
2 months ago
it's her factory

On the “Blue Monday” WONDER WOMAN 84 trailer - The new trailer for Wonder Woman 84 is soundtracked to New Order’s “Blue Monday.” Originally released in 1983, the song sonically sets the film in its epon...
2 months ago
Binary Heap

A Philosophonics of Space: Sound, Futurity and the End of the World (PDF) -
2 months ago
History's Dumpster

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

Silver Waves – Tunnelling (Portals Editions) - Abstract, delicate, yet quite wrenching and abyssal at the same time. This one goes deep. Caving…
2 months ago
Rockets & Rayguns

407 Proxy Authentication Required - hangingfire: SO THERE’S NO SHORTAGE OF THINGS TO UNPACK ABOUT *MR. ROBOT* 4.07 but I wanted to talk about the paintings (prints) in Krista’s apartment. ...
3 months ago
64 Quartets

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

emanation, as if by a charm: Ami Yamasaki - Surprise is a dubious pleasure, cultivated in the search for musical forms that take the listener into realms of impossible/imaginary. Then suddenly, after...
3 months ago
WOEBOT

The Bumper Book of Woe - Hello Woebles! I've only gone and done it again! Here is the sequel to 2013's "The Big Book of Woe," my latest collection of writing on music, "The Bumpe...
3 months ago
East of Borneo

The Digger Archives - The Digger Archives is an ongoing Web project to preserve and present the history of the anarchist guerrilla street theater group that challenged the emerg...
3 months 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...
4 months ago
marathonpacks

Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9 - Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9
5 months 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...
5 months 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...
6 months ago
joy of speed

Love Scene (Version 7) - A previously unreleased take from the soundtrack to *Zabriskie Point* (1970).
7 months ago
Critical-Theory.com

Listen: Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism - Is capitalism bad for your sex life?
8 months ago
The Pink Temple

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10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
11 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...
11 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...
11 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...
1 year ago
ActionTimeVision | Broke the yolk, no joke

Songs Morrissey should cover#14 - Advertisements
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Dream Transmissions

New blog - Hey old readers, I'll be blogging here now: Embedded
1 year 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
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
2 years ago
Sounds of the Dawn

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

Critical Perspectives on Critical Perspectives on Waluigi - The Empty Page Radical Publishing House is not so much an organisation or a company but an idea. Whilst having only published three analyses to date, the l...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years ago
highfunctioninghuman | The blog of Robin Carmody. Liberal humanist, reformed ex-Stalinist and former anti-anti-anti-Semite, melancholy Europhile and romantic-ruralist socialist. Londoner by birth, Kentish Man by upbringing, Portlander by adoption. "More like Roy Harper than Fairport Convention" – Simon Reynolds, 2003. May be the horsiest Leftie in the Anglosphere, but there are many horsier ones beyond.

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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
3 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 ...
3 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 ...
3 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 ...
3 years ago
Ghosts in the TV

trefoiled: Blocked Ascension - Carlyn Wutkee, 2011. Paper,... - trefoiled: *Blocked Ascension* - Carlyn Wutkee, 2011. Paper, gluestick.
3 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 ...
3 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 years ago
Mounds and Circles

Face Fuzz - Racial stereotypes and highly flammable unnatural fibres. Blackpool, 2015.
4 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
_* _+ // /// ///////// 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. ...
5 years ago
Social Dead Zone

Welcome to Hollingsville - Welcome to Hollingsville: Foreword to Ken Hollings’ Bright LabyrinthOut of nowhere, I began to...
5 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: _____...
5 years ago
Experimental Music on Children's TV

Sound JumbleSarah & Duck - Sound Jumble Sarah & Duck
5 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
Rouge's Foam

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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 ...
6 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...
6 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 ...
6 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...
6 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 years ago
Velvet Coalmine

On liking American Psycho, slight return. - Written for Bad Reputation. The last time I wrote that yes, I did like American Psycho, and no, that wasn’t because I’d only seen the film, I was pleasantl...
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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slouching toward babylon

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Ego Death and Self-Control Cybernetics

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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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