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KID SHIRT - Blog

ANTHONY BRAXTON: "B-X° / NO-I-47ᴬ (Composition 6g)" - [...]
14 hours ago
Lost Turntable

Happy Dopey Synths - A few year back I first heard the term “synthwave” and kind of scoffed at it. Seemed to me like another made-up genre like “Nu-Rave” and “grindie.” But it ...
19 hours ago
Found Objects

The New Architecture of Europe - Found this superb book at a Car Boot sale recently. Picked it up for the grand sum of 20p. There were many other books (Pelican & Penguin) but the seagull...
2 days ago
cardrossmaniac2

On The UK Prog Tip - *MIRAGE - CAMEL (1974)* I'm no expert on UK prog, I know more about French, Italian, German, Australian and Swedish progressive rock. I've hardly checked ...
2 days ago
A Year In The Country

Image AA/25 - File under: A Year In The Country ocular explorations The post Image AA/25 appeared first on A Year In The Country.
2 days ago
blog to the oldskool

Radio Show Announcement 24.06.18 - This Sunday is another edition of the Blog To The Oldskool Radio Show on Jungletrain. Tim is on first and has plenty of fresh tunes lined up, most won’t ...
2 days ago
Tim Worthington's Newsround

Tim Worthington Presents... Some Stuff About Jazz, Folk, The BBC Radiophonic Workshop And Play Away - Here's a collection of recent highlights from my new website; because if you're reading this, you're probably not reading that. And missing out on the like...
2 days ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

Two-Fisted Tales: The Texts of Festival by Mick Farren (Mayflower, 1973) - Lurking somewhere to the left of Michael Butterworth’s Time of the Hawklords on my bookshelves, we find another example of the surprisingly fertile cross...
2 days ago
streams of expression

SPLINTER Third Issue / Relief Efforts - The third issue of SPLINTER magazine, edited by myself and Gizem Okulu, is here! Featuring work by Brandon Brown, Lee Ann Brown, Jackqueline Frost, Linda K...
3 days ago
ActionTimeVision | Broke the yolk, no joke

INTERVIEW: Julian Cope - Polymath pioneer of ‘Frazzle Rock’, this bovine lover of cows waxes lyrical and cynical and pulls no punches in a … Continue reading →
5 days ago
Sounding Out!

They Can Hear Us: Surveillance and Race in “A Quiet Place” - The family in A Quiet Place (2018) lives a life marked by incessant trauma. Invisible to the hunters who are far more powerful than they are, the family re...
5 days ago
It's Full of Stars

Grid-Of-Synth - Wanderlust - Phew! Just finished the new Blancmange album *Wanderlust* here with Neil Arthur. He took the picture above of me on the Moog through the giant crystal. ...
6 days ago
it's her factory

My Keynote at The Future/Present: Current Practices in Pop Music Studies - I’m giving a keynote talk at The Future/Present: Current Practices in Pop Music Studies in Uppsala on Tuesday. Here’s the text of my talk.
1 week ago
GreilMarcus.net | Writings by (and about) Greil Marcus

The Myth Behind the Truth Behind the Legend: Albert Goldman’s ‘Elvis’ (12/81) - MONEY When Lamar Fike, for many years a member of the Memphis Mafia, Elvis Presley’s stable of paid friends and gofers, decided to sell his story, he spawn...
1 week ago
森と記録の音楽

[206] Sea Horses ‎- Listen - Label: Mandala Recordings Catalog#: CD SH 777 Format: CD, Album Country: UK Released: 1991 DISCOGS 1 Asking Heaven And Heart 4:51 2 Salute To The Sun 6:11...
1 week ago
The Pinocchio Theory

Footnote on Dawkins - An outtake from a work in progress: DNA-centrism, as formulated in Crick’s “central dogma of molecular biology,” may well be mechanistic and reductive in t...
1 week ago
East of Borneo

Roy McMakin, Modern Vase, 2003 - This vase was designed by Roy McMakin and manufactured by Health Ceramics in 2003. The vase was later acquired by the Cooper Hewitt Collection in 2004 as p...
1 week 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 week ago
History is made at night

Dancing London (1902): 'riotous hilarity' and 'rhythmic revolution' - 'Living London: its work and its play, its humour and its pathos, its sights and its scenes,' edited by George Robert Sims, is a remarkable attempt to give...
1 week ago
....:::::....:::::Heronbone:::...::::..

- triumph of the nil. 0. simian imposition. older structural principles, compromises and arrangements. the best that could be done with the resources availabl...
1 week ago
joy of speed

Dreams and False Alarms - I wish that he was here tonight It's so hard to obey His sad request of me to kindly stay away So this is how I hide the hurt As the road leads cursed and ch...
1 week ago
Disposable Everything

For Nation.Cymru: The independence movement can’t afford to be ‘apolitical’ if it wants to create a better Wales - With the appetite for Welsh independence apparently gaining traction, there are growing calls to depoliticise the movement in an effort to broaden the disc...
1 week ago
➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣

2018 ➤ At the seaside Blitz Kids gather to toast unseen photos of their heyday - ➢ CLICK HERE TO VISIT OUR GALLERY AND A REVIEW OF THE EXHIBITION OF UNSEEN B&W BLITZ PIX FROM 1980 +++ ◼ EVERY TUESDAY FOR A YEAR as the 1980s dawned, Stev...
1 week ago
The Pirate Archive

Vision FM – Dudley - Vision FM began test transmissions in April 2006 on 103.5FM for 2 weeks before going off air, to return on a full Sunday rota on 101.8FM a few weeks late...
2 weeks ago
The Hum Blog

on two stunning archival releases by simone forti - Simone Forti – Molimo, Linz, Austria, 1976. Photo by Robert Fleck, courtesy of Simone Forti and The Box LA Gallery There are inevitable periods of upheaval...
2 weeks ago
Cut and Run

May 30th 2018 Interview – Victoria Gibson - Victoria Gibson is integrated media artist whose work is receiving a flurry of attention. Brady Marks talk to her as she prepares for a North American tour...
2 weeks ago
The Women's Liberation Music Archive

Help to fundraise for this important film: Invisible Women: The Story of Two LGBTQ Revolutionaries - A short documentary charting the last 50 years of Manchester’s LGBTQ history through the personal story of two incredible women – feminist lesbian activist...
2 weeks ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

JUAN MANUEL CIDRÓN - SONIDO PARA ACCIONES 2 (EXTRARRADIO ‎– EXT-01, VINYL LP, MP3 192) (1991) - *En 1991, JUANMA CIDRÓN saca la segunda parte de SONIDO PARA ACCIONES, esta vez en el sello EXTRARRADIO. El sonido del disco sigue con la tónica general ...
3 weeks ago
Rockets & Rayguns

vignellicenter: On Manuals Monday we featured the manual is for... - vignellicenter: On Manuals Monday we featured the manual is for Dupont Imaging Systems by Vignelli Associates copyright 1990. Yesterday...
3 weeks ago
Datacide

Datacide at the London Radical Bookfair 02-06-2018 -
3 weeks ago
thebluemoment.com

A period of silence . . . - To all those who’ve read The Blue Moment over the past five and a half years, I’d like to say thank you for your interest and your comments. I started ...
3 weeks ago
Portals of London

Shadows and clocks: Temporal Disturbances at Hornsey Town Hall - Hornsey Town Hall is suspended in time, caught between a vanished past and an uncertain future. Recently, we walked through the revolving doors of this cru...
3 weeks ago
Rave Archive UK »

One Nation ‘Midsummer Ball’ – New London Astoria – 16.7.1994 - One Nation ‘Midsummer Ball’ – New London Astoria – 16.7.1994 Randall – One Nation ‘Midsummer Ball’ – New London Astoria – 16.7.1994 Download/Play Micky F...
3 weeks ago
Pop Theory

Can ‘Research’ Drive ‘Development’? - Some time ago now I wrote a post which raised some questions about how the decision of the UK government to redirect a large slice of ‘development aid’-rel...
3 weeks ago
God Is No Longer A Dj

Tracks I Wish I’d Written (issue #12): Makoto & MC Conrad – Golden Girl - “… definitely there’s something about you…” Throwback to the season 2003-04, a happy and eventful period of my life I reminisce about with bittersweet nost...
3 weeks ago
A Scarlet Tracery

- My piece from a couple of years ago on Musha’s Decoder, originally in the now-folded Highway, is up here. Advertisements
5 weeks ago
Prole Sector

Betek: Discipline (Rotterdam Electronix) - A2. ‘Drivers License’ is the one you want here. A bubbling, acidic, electro slow cooker, brought to the boil for an eventual serving of dark rave, best set...
5 weeks ago
More Dark Than Shark

Brian Eno Updates • May 17, 2018 - *IN THIS UPDATE:* Brian Eno: *Before And After Science*; Brian Eno & David Byrne: *My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts*; Cluster; Robert Fripp; Roxy Music; Pas...
5 weeks ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

Longview - Kucinich 2020 In the far far away time called the naughts, there was an actually existing left but you'd be forgiven for failing to identify it anywhere wi...
1 month ago
Velvet Coalmine

Some forthcoming events I’m doing - Variously on music, politics and history – please come along if you’re interested. Saturday 19th May: @CultishEvents playback of The Holy Bible at which I’...
1 month ago
Jason Phereus,

- I wrote a review of two new books on sci-fi out on Repeater and Golsmiths University Press.
1 month ago
Mark Richardson

I have some news: In the next couple of months, I’ll be stepping down as Executive Editor of... - I have some news: In the next couple of months, I’ll be stepping down as Executive Editor of Pitchfork. This was entirely my decision and it was a diffi...
1 month ago
Airport Through The Trees

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

SLEEPER / ED MELLNIK (1980)Music by Roger Luther - *SLEEPER / ED MELLNIK (1980)* Music by Roger Luther
2 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...
2 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 →
3 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...
3 months ago
WOEBOT

Woebot 2.0 - Well that was fun! Henceforth this blog will be open as a holding page and to sustain links from Mixcloud. In due course I'll collect the pieces I wrote h...
3 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...
3 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...
4 months ago
F.U.N.K (Neil Kulkarni)

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

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

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

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

a futile resistance? - Some time ago Simon Reynolds did a quite long (especially with the endless youtube clips) piece in response to the last one I wrote, with some interesting ...
5 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...
6 months ago
Critical-Theory.com

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

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

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

no.8// Twin Peaks the Musical! - *This is one of my ten short essays about *Twin Peaks *Season 3. Click this link to read my introduction to this series.* At the Roadhouse, every night is...
6 months ago
(SF) 365

Afterwords - Afterwords from B4 films on Vimeo. The connection between science fiction and (eerie) landscape is one that my colleague Bruce Bennett and I were keen to i...
6 months ago
highfunctioninghuman | The blog of Robin Carmody. Liberal humanist, reformed ex-Stalinist and former anti-anti-anti-Semite, melancholy Europhile and romantic-ruralist socialist. Londoner by birth, Kentish Man by upbringing, Portlander by adoption. "More like Roy Harper than Fairport Convention" – Simon Reynolds, 2003. May be the horsiest Leftie in the Anglosphere, but there are many horsier ones beyond.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Photo -
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 SIXTH EAR.

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

The End of 2015, the End of The Inkbottle - As this year comes to a close, I am also going to bring this blog to a close. It’s basically been closed for a while, since I’ve not posted much here over...
2 years ago
Mounds and Circles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chronopoetics of the Wendelstein cave at Wendelstein Höhlenmediale 2015 - Chronopoetics of the Wendelstein cave / Chronopoetik der Wendelsteinhöhle" "Zeit - Moment – Ewigkeit" - Wendelstein Höhlenmediale 2015, Bayrischzell, DE 2...
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
Experimental Music on Children's TV

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Intro - In an interview in early 2012, doom-mongering Swiss Hedge Fund manager Marc Faber cast a jaundiced European eye back over the last thirty years and constr...
5 years ago
the hauntological society

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

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etc home | The History Project

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CIRCULATION ZERO

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Dream Transmissions

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DJ Food

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Ego Death and Self-Control Cybernetics

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slouching toward babylon

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The Mire

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its her factory / its her duty

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Benny Brassic | Mixcloud

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

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Creel Pone on YouTube

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ecstatic apophenia

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Content warning

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Wounds of Class

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

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futureproofing

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Thursday, November 05, 2015

harmonia in my head

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