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BLOGS AND SITES I LIKE

cardrossmaniac2

Robbie Dupree - Hot Rod Hearts - [1980] Roger's previous single *Steal Away* was an American top 10 smash and a number 24 hit here but this follow up didn't even crack the top 40 here in ...
3 minutes ago
The Neglected Books Page

Eight Doorstoppers for #1937Club - Next week, folks around the world will be taking part in a unique collective reading event: #1937Club, the next installment of a semi-annual celebration st...
2 hours ago
torpedo the ark

Fran Lock: In Praise of the Exclamation Mark! - I have to admit, I've never been a big fan of the exclamation point ... It may have a perfectly respectable Latin origin and have been used since th...
9 hours ago
thebluemoment.com

Sounds for summer - Tall enough to be unmissable in any environment, and with a truly remarkable fashion sense, Shabaka Hutchings had presence from day one of his career. To m...
12 hours ago
Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations

What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XI - What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading or planning to read this month. Here’s March’s installment of this column. Before we get to books and birthda...
12 hours ago
It starts with a birthstone...

Mojo Collection - The Ultimate Music Companion # 582 Cut Chemist & DJ Shadow - Brainfreeze -
15 hours ago
Feuilleton (John Coulthart)

Art on film: Crack-Up - Continuing an occasional series about artworks in feature films. The Dark Corner (1946) was the subject of the last entry which ended with the words “I’ve ...
15 hours ago
Electronic Sound

Alex From Tokyo - Alex From Tokyo recalls the changing music scenes of 1980s and 90s Japan and their totemic influence on his career as a producer, DJ and label head
15 hours ago
Wormwoodiana

Music and Metaphysics: 'The Trend' by William Arkwright -
1 day ago
Phil Gyford’s website: Everything

w/e 2024-04-14 - ‘Ripley’ and ‘Secret City’ season one.
1 day ago
New Critique

[Fiction] Let Sleeping Dogs Lie — Jake Trelease - "I count meself lucky. Me disposition allows is to laugh at how the landscape colours me illusions of life and me place within it. How I use them to interp...
1 day ago
Tribune

Praising Culture Doesn’t Pay the Bills - Liverpool is, in many ways, an archetypal ‘post-industrial’ city. Following the decline of its historic docks and manufacturing industries at the end of ...
2 days ago
xenogothic

A Primer on Utopian Philosophy at the Lubber Fiend - On Saturday 27th April at 2pm, I will be chatting to Jon Greenaway at the Lubber Fiend in Newcastle upon Tyne, all about his new book, A Primer on Utopian ...
3 days ago
Slow Motion

Five things about [Ahmed] - [Ahmed] – the quartet of Antonin Gerbal, Joel Grip, Pat Thomas and Seymour Wright – have become a monster group in a live setting. For their current London...
3 days ago
Hate Meditations

The noise diaries III - Monstrosity are one of bands I turn to when craving death metal in trope form, expertly crafted but delivered in the most general sense, free of idiosyncra...
3 days ago
The Ethan Hein Blog

Identifying tritone substitutions - This is one of those jazz theory ideas that gets explained endlessly online and in texts and is relatively rare in a typical American’s listening experienc...
4 days ago
Eliminated for Reasons of Space

Chicken of the Street - For some reason last week I just suddenly thought of “city chicken” for the first time in four or five decades. And turns out I apparently did not dream it...
4 days ago
Ericland

Remake / Remodel - I would have said *architrave* but no one seems to know the word, so I’ll just say *door trim* instead. The point is, when I fit a new door trim or ar...
5 days ago
Datacide

Almanac for Noise & Politics – Volume One out now as eBook - The Almanac for Noise & Politics Volume One is now available as an eBook for datacide subscribers – and for
6 days ago
Backlisted

209. P.D. James - The Children of Men - Novelist Andrew Hunter Murray and biographer Laura Thompson join us to discuss *The Children of Men* (1992), a dystopian thriller by the late P.D. Jame...
1 week ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

CONRAD SCHNITZLER - CONTEMPORA CONTINUOUS SERIES - SOLO ELECTRIC EFFECT PIANO PIECES - "ELECTRIC PIANO" (1994) (MP3 320) - *Seguimos compartiendo material de la serie "CONTEMPORA CONTUOUS SERIES" de CONRAD SCHNITZLER, este pozo sin fondo de material sonoro del genio alemán que...
1 week ago
it's her factory

Taylor Swift’s New Grief-Vibes Playlists Turn Her Old Albums Into The Musical Equivalent of Securitized Assets - In early April 2024, Taylor Swift released five Apple Music playlists that reorder her old work into five vibes, each based on one of the stereotypical “st...
1 week ago
➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣

2024 ➤ Ahaaaah! 25-year-old stage musical Mamma Mia! confirms ABBA’s genius - ❚ WHETHER YOU LIKE ABBA’s SONGS or not, the scale of the West-End musical MAMMA MIA!’s success is staggering. Over 25 years it has been seen by 70 million ...
1 week ago
A Year In The Country

Arboreal Explorations 07 -
1 week ago
A Shiver in the Archives

Ray Bradbury on Tolkien and C.S. Lewis - In 2023, Jonathan R. Eller edited and published a thick volume *Remembrance: Selected Correspondence of Ray Bradbury*, which I'm just getting around to r...
1 week ago
ooh! directory of blogs

Stop Ironing Shirts - “Retired at 36 from a corporate career through frugality and career advancement.” 🇺🇸 Started in 2017. Average 43 words.
1 week ago
History is made at night

Shocking Pink and other feminist zines: an interview with Katy Watson - *The 'Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990' exhibition at Tate Britain (2024) included a great collection of zines and printed ephemera fr...
1 week ago
East of Borneo

Oceanwide Towers Concrete Poetry - In mid-January 2024 a growing number of graffiti artists began working on an abandoned apartment tower complex in downtown Los Angeles. The complex, Oceanw...
1 week ago
Municipal Dreams

Kielder Village, Northumberland: Thomas Sharp and a ‘harbinger of a rural revolution’? - Kielder in Northumberland, population 194, is by most accounts the most remote village in England. The nearest cash machine is … Continue reading →
2 weeks ago
Blue Labyrinths

Reflections on the Death of Music Journalism - News of the mass of layoffs by Condé Nast, as well as discourse on the decline of music journalism and Continue reading →
2 weeks ago
Tank Magazine Podcast

Dream baby dream - “It's possible to be a feminist and a Freudian...” In this week's TANK Podcast, Holly Stevenson and Rosie Gibbens discuss Hans Richter's seminal surreali...
2 weeks ago
Ace Linguist

March Update, plus a book - Things are, hopefully, looking a little better. Some lessons learned from the past year are to not take on very large projects, as cool as they would be....
2 weeks ago
streams of expression

Pollini - Maurizio Pollini has passed: one of the final survivors of a generation of musicians for whom music and political radicalism were not alien to each other, ...
3 weeks ago
The Generalist

THE BLUES: ROBERT JOHNSON - I'm deep into the history of the blues starting with the short life of Robert Johnson whose 29 recorded songs are considered the greatest blues tracks ev...
3 weeks ago
8Sided Blog

A Degree of Randomness: A Conversation With Joseph Branciforte - In an extensive interview, Joseph Branciforte discusses LP2, his remarkable album with vocalist Theo Bleckmann, how a pleasing result always beats out crea...
3 weeks ago
Wyrd Britain

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood - [image: Wyrd Britain reviews the documentary 'Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood'.] Made in 1987 a long time after the studio's heyday this is an affec...
3 weeks ago
Beauty Blew a Fuse

David Berman + Joni Mitchell + Lyrics + Meaning - half-formed thoughts on how we interpret songs and who they belong to
3 weeks ago
Sounding Out!

Rhetoric After Sound: Stories of Encountering “The Hum” Phenomenon - .. “So I have heard The Hum… The rest of what I’m about to tell you is beyond reasoning, and understanding.” Here, in a Reddit post, Michael A. Sweeney pre...
5 weeks ago
The New Vulgate

162 BACKUP w/POEM > LOOKS GOOD - *Quarry Pond, Naperville* Photograph by Joe Carducci ------------------------------ ------------------------------ *Cincinnati* Violet Mon...
1 month ago
Dan Fox

Issue 37: Something to Live For - Edward George and the strangeness of Billy Strayhorn
1 month ago
joy of speed

The Stylistics - Sing Baby Sing - On May 22, 1975, I was definitely glued to TV. It was a Thursday night and *Top of the Pops* was on British TV. I was an impressionable nine-year old, but...
1 month ago
Abundant Living

The Goop Hits The Grinch: Music Journalism May Have to Write Its Own Obituary For Free - At the end of January, overnight, with only eight years of buildup, Pitchfork went from being “The Most Trusted Voice in Music” to being as trusted as a ...
1 month ago
We Are the Mutants

Truckin’ for Souls: Explo ’72 and the Jesus Revolution - By *Michael Grasso* Near the end of Richard Nixon's first term, the forces of conservatism and reaction were in the ascendancy in America. This public resu...
1 month ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

New Movies Round Up # 2:Horror. - *Sea Fever * (Neasa Hardiman, 2019) As far as niche sub-genres go, sea-bound eco/survival horror is generally a good bet, and this modest, primarily Irish...
1 month ago
Infinite Speeds

Marco Carola's Miraculous Years - On the rise and fall of the late 90s' most consistent techno producer
2 months ago
Blog - Peter Stanfield

Its Inmates Absurd: The Velvet Underground at the University of Kent 1971 - “After about the first two years we got talking. . .” – Maureen Tucker on rehearsing with the Velvet Underground As a live proposition, The Velvet Under...
2 months ago
God Is No Longer A Dj

Liner Notes on 2023 – Part II (Dimmed Lights, Drawn Blinds) - This is the second part of the extended ‘Liner Notes on 2023’ feature exploring a wide array of styles, themes and motifs; from contemporary classical, amb...
2 months ago
Suspended Reason

An Ecosystem of Effects - Let us posit a simplification, which will hopefully seem less arbitrary and less reductive as we further describe it. The simplification is this: that the ...
2 months ago
Chart Music podcast (David Stubbs, Neil Kulkarni, Simon Price, Taylor Parkes, Al Needham et al)

Chart Music #73: March 4th 1993 – Frank Bald - The latest episode of the podcast which asks; do we really have to hug? And rub-a-dub? The Chart Music time sofa descends upon March of 1993, Pop-Crazed Yo...
3 months ago
More Dark Than Shark

MORE DARK THAN SHARK - Updates: January 2, 2024 -
3 months ago
Miraculous Agitations – Daniel R Wilson

New books: Strange Attractor Journal V + Radio Art Zone - It’d be remiss to end 2023 without mentioning two extraordinary new books: Radio Art Zone and Strange Attractor Journal Five (more details on the main blog...
3 months ago
Musical Urbanism |

favorite music of 2023 - 2023 saw my continuing drift toward esoteric sounds validated by no less than André 3000, who released his album of flute-based ambient soundtracks only si...
3 months ago
Kieran Press-Reynolds genreologist at large

My top 10ish songs of 2023 (plus 20 honorable mentions) - IT’S TIME!!!!! Here’s the whole list, plus 20 of the most unhinged honorable mentions I could think of, and 10 honorable-honorable mentions… I need to rest...
3 months ago
BLDGBLOG

The Reaction Area - “Enigmatic chemical reactions” have broken out underground inside two Los Angeles-area landfills, according to the L.A. Times. These “highly unusual reacti...
3 months ago
Found Objects

The Pathos of Obsolete Reference Books - The library at the academic institute where I work part-time recently had a massive chuck-out. Scanning the tomes strewn across the tables, I was struck...
3 months ago
Sonic Truth

Yes sir, I can [still] bloggee - Just a proof of function post really, after years of hiatus, but here's a few vids and pics of the cracking second night of the Another Subculture 10th cel...
4 months ago
Portals of London

Artistic / Psychic exploration of a house in Stoke Newington - Rotherhithe Archive #0000 A quick note on an artistic addition to the archive. Intrigued by our account of the Stoke NewingtonContinue Reading
4 months ago
Nina Power

From Cliché to the World - The future turned out to be…well what exactly? Having imagined everything from off-world mining to governments run by horses, it turns out that we’d rather...
4 months ago
Oliver Craner

Saddam and his Enemies II - Review of Melvyn P. Leffler, Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq (Oxford University Press, 2023) 9/11 transformed the calcu...
4 months ago
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Cut to Black - “Death is both a limit – and, simultaneously, on the level of design, not an end but a way for the text to be” Eugenie Brinkema – Life-Destroying Diagrams ...
4 months ago
davidtoop

moreskinsound: manifesto - Movement is friction. A large dry leaf skitters along the pavement, sounding movement, high, scratch, stutter. An animal way to enter space, leaving behind...
5 months ago
The Pinocchio Theory

Cory Doctorow, THE LOST CAUSE - Cory Doctorow’s latest science fiction novel, THE LOST CAUSE, is a book about both the politics and the technics of responding to climate change. The novel...
5 months ago
Aloysius

philosophers and sensates - the rift goes as far back as plato rebuking artists for being too focused on appearances in *the republic*. probably much farther. what’s the quest for: ...
5 months ago
GreilMarcus.net | Writings by (and about) Greil Marcus

Podcast: Greil on Harry Smith - From the Whitney Museum of Modern Art: On the occasion of Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith, we spoke to Greil Marcus about the reverb...
5 months ago
on the ones

Břetislav Pojar’s Centennial: “With Head In the Clouds and Feet on the Ground” + Observations on “The Garden” (1974-77), “Dášeňka” (1977-79), the end of Čiklovka, and “Nightangel” (1986) featuring Jan Klos - Today, 7 October 2023, marks exactly 100 years since Czech animation legend Břetislav Pojar was born. Such a momentous occasion deserves to be commemorated...
6 months ago
Modernism Unbound

On The Historical Avant-Garde - The ambitons of the artists associated with the historical avant-garde remain relevant to this day. In this essay, Jon Lindblom looks closer at Peter Bürge...
7 months ago
Jason Phereus,

How Capitalism Ruined Crypto & How to Fix it with Josh Dávila -
7 months ago
Groupname for Grapejuice

Strange and Blessed Fire 5: Mothernaked - *While Pico and Patrizzi might differ on Aristotle, their philosophies incurred the common fate of condemnation by the Church. Yet neither was intention...
8 months ago
The Pirate Archive

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
9 months ago
Rave Archive UK »

One Nation Valentines – Club UN – 10.2.96 - Ray Keith – One Nation Valentines – Club UN – 10.2.96 Download/Play Kenny Ken – One Nation Valentines – Club UN – 10.2.96 Download/Play Dr S Gachet & Randa...
9 months ago
It's Full of Stars

Formses - My FORMS series of albums (to be found over on my bandcamp page) takes an idea I first explored on my Twenty Systems album, but develops it into the idea o...
10 months ago
WOEBOT

Sick Veg - I can hear the grass grow...
1 year ago
History's Dumpster

The Jupiter Ace Computer - The Jupiter ACE computer was a British-designed computer that was released in 1982 by Jupiter Cantab, a company founded by two ex-Sinclair Research ...
1 year ago
The Fantastic Hope

“ABSOLUTELY PLEASANT” - Sublimely spot-on close readings of contemporary music journalism by Neil Kulkarni. In fact, I can see a lot of potential in dissections of this kind: they...
1 year ago
Lost Turntable

Merry Christmas With Double Dragon - Hey this thing still works, cool. Wanted to get one more post out before the year was up. I know that a lot of you who still read this site (thank you) are...
1 year ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

A Second Take on 2012's EEPEEs and ELPEEs - * Best Albums of 2012* 1. Jam City -Classical Curves 2. Death Grips -The Money Store 3. Le1f -Dark York 4. DJ Rashad -Teklife Volume 1: Welcome to the...
1 year ago
lunarlodge

Autumn Serenade - Notes on Janet Werner, Backxwash, This is not a Scarf, a loving tribute to Boris Brott, &+
1 year ago
Real Life

Who Can It Be Now - On social platforms, the "fluid self" is not a rejection of personal branding but another manifestation of it
1 year ago
Trevor Barre

Lightning Bolt at The Scala - So, to The Scala last Thursday to see Lightning Bolt, supported by the archly-named Sly & The Family Drone. The latter were neither especially droney or ...
1 year ago
Tim Worthington's Newsround

Top Of The Box Vol. 2 - [image: Top Of The Box Vol. 2 by Tim Worthington - the story behind every album released by BBC Records And Tapes.] From *Play School Play On* to *Russ...
1 year ago
The Astral Plane

‘Astraltopia’ Out Now + Label Shutting Down - As both an amateurish blog launched as a teenager and a slightly more professional record label, The Astral Plane has been the vessel through which I have ...
1 year ago
blog to the oldskool

AV-8 – Pyrogen (Mad Monk Mix) - Been ages, hope everyone is doing OK! Here’s an absolutely mad 1992 tune that showed up in the mail for me recently. Honestly I’m not too phased by weird 9...
1 year ago
(SF) 365

Joker - I’ve been wanting to watch *Joker* since it came out, and the fact that I haven’t reveals to me that, deep down, I knew it would be a bit of a struggle. ...
2 years ago
underscore__

The underscore__ 2021 Reading Roundup - *The reader became the book; and summer night* *Was like the conscious being of the book.* —Wallace Stevens I hold my hands up: in last year’s roundup, r...
2 years ago
The Interregnum Navigation Bureau

Coda - I will now be wrapping up this blog, as I've pretty much said everything I wanted to say. Even when I first started blogging with the "Decades" blogs all t...
2 years ago
Blackadelic Pop

- Acclaimed writer Jeffery Renard Allen (Rails Under My Back, Song of the Shank) has launched a new online literary magazine called TaintTaintTaint https://...
2 years ago
The Pink Temple

- Maximum Joy Surn orver crest kill the curdled abortion that one was a mistake. Brighter now and happier cabbie waves cap outside the window wound-down Alri...
2 years ago
Hyperstition Arrays

Protected: Hardt and Negri’s Optimism and Subjectivity - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
2 years ago
Pop Theory

Books I Didn’t Read During Lockdown: III - But we all should…
2 years ago
Airport Through The Trees

In lieu of Twitter part ghzd/fkjw - A doctor refusing to treat a patient who is unvaccinated and a police office shooting someone who is unarmed are doing the same thing.
2 years ago
Cut and Run

Coupling Musical Noise -
2 years ago
The Work Trials

The Podcast! - Okay, so I haven't logged in for ages but just noticed we seem to have been quietly amassing a fair few views over the past few months. I'm not doing the...
2 years ago
Velcro City Tourist Board

Solargoth - I keep telling myself I shouldn’t pass public comment on solarpunk, firstly because I haven’t done the reading and legwork, and secondly because I know a f...
2 years ago
I•HATE•THIS•FILM

A magical substance flows into me / Jumana Manna (2015)from the... - *A magical substance flows into me* / Jumana Manna (2015) from the latest Another Screen free streaming programme by Another Gaze journ...
2 years ago
RESIDUAL NOISE

Dark Matter - *Some notes on **Jake Fior’s new novel,* Through a Looking Glass Darkly* (2020)*. In 2011 rare book dealer Jake Fior made a startling discovery. He ca...
3 years ago
The Women's Liberation Music Archive

Some news at the beginning of 2021 - We hope you’re all well and managing the current situation with the help of good music! Apologies if you receive any advertisements in this post – they are...
3 years ago
music, etc

Books I read in 2020 - [image: image] More than usual, especially between March and September. So there! Isabel Allende, *The House of the Spirits* Nicholson Baker, *The Mezza...
3 years ago
A CARELESS MAN'S CAREFUL DAUGHTER

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3 years ago
Olympic Mess

Reducing the Input: Gaddis and Beckett - Recently read Beckett’s Molloy and, after reading something of Marshall McLuhan’s son, Eric’s, on the role of art in human survival, can’t help but think o...
3 years ago
A Scarlet Tracery

- I interviewed William Basinski for the cover story of the new issue of The Wire.
3 years ago
ActionTimeVision | Broke the yolk, no joke

Separated at (still)birth #1 -
3 years ago
INTO THE SWAMP

COSIMA - Interview, March 2020. - *Back in March, I interviewed Cosima for a fashion website’s summer campaign. Then, y’know, a pandemic kicked off. Then, y’know, I got fired from said fa...
3 years ago
森と記録の音楽

Theory Therapy 08: Tomoyuki Fujii - シドニーのオンラインジャーナル「Low End Theorists」のために作ったミックスが公開になりました。Low End Theoristsは、スコットランド出身のGary Hunterとシドニー出身のDaniel Patrinにより今年新たに立ち上げられたプロジェクトで、主にオーストラリアのインディ...
3 years ago
Tower of Sleep

CVS Learnnet Login Guide - As login over the smartphone makes your work easier and sturdy on the similar time. 5. Hit the login button to get effectively logged in. 5. In case you’...
4 years ago
The Hum Blog

A Power Stronger Than Itself: Sounds For Communal Isolation. Vol. Three - Bradford Bailey – Untitled Collage, 2007. I’m writing from a future, just ahead of most. It’s a present, already the past. More than a month into a life ...
4 years ago
Blue Lines Revisited

Photo -
4 years ago
Disposable Everything

The reification of Welsh rugby - (Also available to read on Medium) A shiver down the collective spine of the Welsh nation: international rugby (or, one presumes, that which is presented i...
4 years 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...
4 years 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.
4 years ago
Binary Heap

A Philosophonics of Space: Sound, Futurity and the End of the World (PDF) -
4 years ago
Prole Sector

Silver Waves – Tunnelling (Portals Editions) - Abstract, delicate, yet quite wrenching and abyssal at the same time. This one goes deep. Caving…
4 years 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. ...
4 years ago
Amodern

Construction of Selena Leo Vegas Casino Download World Resort & Casino Commences in Primorye Gambling Zone - Construction of Selena World Resort & Casino Commences in Primorye Gambling Zone Russian casino developer Diamond Fortune Holdings Ltd. announced that co...
4 years ago
marathonpacks

Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9 - Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9
4 years ago
Critical-Theory.com

Listen: Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism - Is capitalism bad for your sex life?
4 years ago
64 Quartets

1. Booker T. and the MG’s - DISCOGRAPHY SOURCES PLAYLIST Njårdhallen, Oslo, Norway; 7 April 1967. It’s the next-to-last night of the Stax/Volt Revue...
4 years 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...
5 years 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...
5 years ago
Dream Transmissions

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

The Design and Placing of High Quality Concrete -
5 years 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...
5 years 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.
5 years 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...
5 years 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 [...]
5 years ago
....:::::....:::::Heronbone:::...::::..

- *The reward for abstaining is revoked for indulging. The punishment for withholding is lifted followi...
5 years ago
IX Tab

Disco Medusae - The new IX Tab album Disco Medusae is available for pre-order now at the bandcamp page for a measly virtue payment of £4.23
5 years ago
Soundboy

I’ve moved this blog to ianhogarth.com - Shout out to my Tumblr/RSS reader peoples. New blog is here: https://www.ianhogarth.com/blog/ New post on the geopolitics of AI just up: https://www.ian...
5 years 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 →
6 years ago
The New Inquiry - Marginal Utility

Save the World - How *Star Wars* films thematize their own irrelevance
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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 ...
6 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...
6 years ago
Found Objects

About The Author # 2. -
6 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...
7 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 atmosphe...
7 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 ...
7 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 ...
7 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 ...
7 years ago
Ghosts in the TV

danismm: Tilsit, Kaliningrad Oblast, (Königsberg) 1926 Neue... - danismm: *Tilsit, Kaliningrad Oblast,* (Königsberg) 1926 Neue Loge. Fabrikstrasse, *arch. Erich Mendelsohn *
7 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 ...
7 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: ...
7 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...
7 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...
7 years ago
For Your Pleasure

2HB - Words Don’t Express My Meaning … 2HB (Ferry), Roxy Music, 1972 I told Mark [Lancaster] I was writing some songs, and he said, “what are they called?” So I ...
7 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...
7 years ago
Internal exile

Photo -
7 years ago
up close and personal

The future then -
7 years ago
Writing Through the Fog

Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
7 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...
8 years ago
Vexed at the Earth

And hoy them doon the pit of hell - Seething with cold hate, Louisa Jo Killen.
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 years ago
Mounds and Circles

Face Fuzz - Racial stereotypes and highly flammable unnatural fibres. Blackpool, 2015.
8 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...
8 years ago
SIGNS FICTION

- Signs Fiction has moved! Thanks for the ongoing support!
8 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 ...
8 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...
8 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 ...
8 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...
8 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 ...
8 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 ...
8 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. ...
9 years ago
Social Dead Zone

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

Sound JumbleSarah & Duck - Sound Jumble Sarah & Duck
9 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...
9 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...
9 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 ...
9 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...
9 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 ...
10 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 questio...
10 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 ...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
11 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....
11 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...
11 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...
11 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...
11 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...
11 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...
11 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...
11 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...
12 years ago
Pushing Ahead of the Dame

Rebel Rebel - Rebel Rebel (original UK single).Rebel Rebel (LP mix)Rebel Rebel (US single, 1974).Rebel Rebel (live, 1974).Rebel Rebel (live, 1976).Rebel Rebel (Musiklade...
13 years ago
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David Stubbs website

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Epsilonia/Radio Libertaire - Home | Facebook

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CIRCULATION ZERO

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Ego Death and Self-Control Cybernetics

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