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It starts with a birthstone...

Best Ever Albums - 2,000 - 1,001 - 1,387 Stereolab - Transient, Random Noise Bursts With Announcements - The 2026 World Cup is due to start in twenty minutes. Mexico versus South Africa. I will watch it. But first I will listen to this. I have changed whe...
14 hours ago
Hate Meditations

Beats and yelling shorts, 11th June 26 - Fournier: DemoOut 22nd May on Caligari Records Angular, tangential death metal chases the dragon of compositional unity meshed with explicit complexity in ...
19 hours ago
Tribune

Towards a Psychic Militancy - Leftists have long worried that psychoanalysis is reconciling people to conditions that they might instead resist. But what if we seized psychoanalytic kno...
23 hours ago
Electronic Sound

‘Leev Ur Mynd’ Larry Heard - Zipping through time and space, Kris Needs continues his adventures in sound. This month: Larry Heard’s new album ‘Leev Ur Mynd’
23 hours ago
Feuilleton (John Coulthart)

Hello Dali! revisited - After mentioning Salvador Dalí in the previous post, here’s the man himself in a UK TV profile from 1973. I wouldn’t usually return to something like this ...
1 day ago
The Nerd Reich

Friday: Nerd Reich Live Chat w/ Dave Karpf - This Friday (June 12) at 1 p.m. Pacific (4 p.m. Eastern) join Dr. Dave Karpf and me for a live discussion of the latest developments with tech fascism. I...
1 day ago
Phil Gyford’s website: Everything

[Link] Dan Fixes Coin-Ops: "It's 1998, you make a website …" - Retro Social - Entertaining thread about making early websites. (via Pete Ashton)
2 days ago
thebluemoment.com

The mundane and the sublime - It’s hard to imagine a Beach Boys fan — a real Beach Boys fan, that is — who doesn’t have a warm place in his or her heart for 15 Big Ones and The Beach Bo...
2 days ago
Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations

Book Review: Clifford D. Simak’s The Worlds of Clifford Simak (1960) - 3.25/5 (collated rating: Above Average) At this point in my reading adventure, I approach Clifford D. Simak’s science fiction with a clear intention to exp...
3 days ago
Some Private Diagonal

#43 The Enduring Fascination of Richard Nixon - *This is a longer version of an article that originally appeared in The Critic.
3 days ago
torpedo the ark

Notes on Mark Fisher's Flatline Constructs (2025): Introduction and Chapter One - (Zer0 Books, 2025) [a] Cover design by Rebecca Wright / charcoalstudio.co.uk Reimagined by Stephen Alexander (2026) *'The more artificial you can make it,...
3 days ago
Blue Labyrinths

“The Question Concerning Technology Is Political”: Lou Manuel Arsenault on Aztec Cosmotechnic - Following the publication of his acclaimed book Of Enemies and Venison: First Materials for an Aztec Cosmotechnic, Matt and Alessandro Continue reading →
4 days ago
Wyrd Britain

The Eye - [image: Wyrd Britain reviews 'The Eye' from the TV series, 'Shadows'.] The final episode of series 2 of the children's spooky anthology show Shadows, writ...
4 days ago
Wormwoodiana

Ritual & Chivalry: Peter Vansittart's 'The Lost Lands' - In a copy of Peter Vansittart’s The Lost Lands (1964), loosely enclosed, there is a letter from the historian Peter Green: “I read you novel in TS [typ...
5 days ago
The Ethan Hein Blog

Podcast episode on songs vs grooves - I don’t know whether this is my best podcast episode, but it is definitely my most podcast episode. It covers the Beatles, James Brown, Parliament, Michael...
1 week ago
We Are the Mutants

Seas of Blood, Rains of Fire: The Post-Apocalyptic Worlds of Early ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ - By *Michael Grasso* A couple of years ago, a canny and intelligent friend referred to the *Advanced Dungeons & Dragons* setting of the *Forgotten Realms* a...
1 week ago
Beat Connection (Michaelangelo Matos)

BC182 - Interview: Barry Walters (June 2026) - Opening up with the author of ‘Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000’
1 week ago
streams of expression

what is left if we aren't the world - * Reproducing here liner notes to a new CD r**eleased by Edition Wandelweiser Records **containing realisations of **Emmanuelle Waeckerlé’**s score *what...
1 week ago
ooh! directory of blogs

Abominations - “Where I interview independent artists and occasionally opine on topics related to music.” By Marc Schuster. 🇺🇸 Started in 2009. Average 65 words.
1 week ago
Sounding Out!

Sounding Out! Unplugged: “Power in Listening” (August 2026) - Hello listeners + readers! We usually take July as a BYE month to celebrate our yearly blog-o-versary, but this year, we are going bigger! Team SO! is paus...
1 week ago
The Decadence Project

Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Theory Is Misguided - But it's nothing Satan can’t fix
1 week ago
Ace Linguist

"The moon is beautiful, isn't it?" - An odd translation myth - While watching a video, I encountered this anecdote: When the novelist Soseki Natsume (1867–1916) was an English teacher, one of his students translated ...
1 week ago
The Neglected Books Page

Publishing Pilgrimage - About a year ago, I became a publisher. It was an act of desperation. Back in March 2016, as part of my second year of reading exclusively the work of negl...
1 week ago
A Year In The Country

Tales of Unease – The Old Banger: Conjuring Half-Hour Worlds of Unsettling Tension and Intrigue / A Warning to Take Care - Tales of Unease (1970) is an anthology drama series that was broadcast by ITV for just one series of seven episodes, each of which was directed and written...
1 week ago
➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣

2026 ➤ Seven definitive books about the 80s subcultural revolution in the UK - ❚ All you need to know about the New Romantics revolution of the 1980s is covered in each of these books which is definitive in its own way. . . * 78-87 LO...
1 week ago
History is made at night

France: resistance steps up to criminalisation of free parties - Protests are taking place throughout France against a proposed new law targeting free parties. Thousands took part in a demonstration in Montpellier yest...
1 week ago
it's her factory

The 2026 Inhailer Indie 500 - The 2026 Indie 500 was this past weekend, and it’s time for my analysis of the countdown. Perhaps it is unsurprising that a radio station broadcasting from...
2 weeks ago
Nick Coleman

So, little man, what did you do in the war? A guide to Sunday lunch with the Great Generation - There is art and there is war art, which seems to play by different rules. An exhibition at the Imperial War Museum is attempting to show us what those rul...
2 weeks ago
Completely Different (Matthew Miles Goodrich)

It’s…industrialized thinking - The mass production of thoughts leads us to falling into manholes
2 weeks ago
The Haunted Generation

Electronic Sound – Reviews (Issue 123) - “The TV channel of an elsewhere, transmitted by a ghost frequency”. That’s Alessio Bosco’s own description of his 30 Door Key project, and this ripping col...
2 weeks ago
Sick Veg (Matthew Ingram)

Knepp - I drove down to Knepp yesterday with my friend Mags. The weather was stunning. We had a tour around the walled garden but the highlight for me was ...
2 weeks ago
Found Objects

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - Absolutely *fascinating* current affairs programme from 1972 looking at advice columnists - Dr Stephen Black talks to Marjorie Proops of the *Daily Mi...
3 weeks ago
For Your Pleasure

Luật Chơi Tiến Lên Miền Nam Giúp Nắm Chắc 99% Cơ Hội Thắng - Luật chơi Tiến lên miền Nam luôn thu hút cộng đồng nhờ yếu tố may mắn và chiến lược. Để nắm vững, bạn cần hiểu rõ quy tắc cơ bản từ giá trị tay bài cho đ...
3 weeks ago
Hollow Earth (Matthew Ingram)

16 Greatest Hits - Recently I wrote a post about the English Animation which inspired me to become an animator, and in the introduction I shared some of the animations I ha...
3 weeks ago
Beauty Blew a Fuse

Breathing Smog: Thoughts on Early Bill Callahan - This past weekend Julie and I saw Bill Callahan in Kingston, NY.
3 weeks ago
L. S. Trackhead

T R U X I N B I T S - The first s/t is the narrow mezzanine where they first appear with a woody click, semi-conscioulsy farming the first milk stems of making. The second side’...
3 weeks ago
Abundant Living

Rock Music Gets Good Enough Again in The Tens (Thanks to Nuke York, etc. No Thanks to Mac DeMarco et al.) - *The* 250 Rock and Roll and Folk Albums of the 21st Century So Far. Part Three. 2011-2015 *For rock and folk music exclusively, the first half of the 20...
3 weeks ago
The Pinocchio Theory

Ray Nayler, Palaces of the Crow - Ray Nayler has been writing some of the most interesting science fiction of the past four years or so. I wrote about his first novel, The Mountain in the S...
5 weeks ago
Lost Turntable

Go “Bananas” for These Japanese Donkey Kong Tunes - One of these days I’m going to update my utterly massive guide to record stores in Tokyo and put it up on this site. That guide is a decade out of date. It...
1 month ago
Datacide

Datacide – Most read articles and most viewed videos of 2025 - Our yearly run-down of the most read articles on the datacide site as well as the most watched videos on the Noise & Politics YouTube channel. This was 2...
1 month ago
joy of speed

B.E.R. - The Night Begins to Shine - B.E.R. is a 'band' in the sense that a random group of studio musicians can be a 'band.' In 2005, a dude named Carl Burnett was assigned the task to come...
1 month ago
Infinite Speeds

Clair-Obscur - On musical obscurity and the art of disappearance
1 month ago
Jason Phereus,

An extract from a long(ish) conversation with Claude and its poetic resolution - Yes. This is a real and important asymmetry, and I shouldn't elide it just because the previous moves have been pulling toward symmetry. You are continuo...
1 month ago
RESIDUAL NOISE

Go Back to the House - *At work in the corridors* *Splatterhouse* is a horror-themed video game released by the Japanese developer Namco in 1988 and later ported to the home ...
2 months ago
WOEBOT

Tubular Bells - I wholeheartedly recommend this documentary from 2014 which I stumbled across on YouTube. A diehard classical music aficionado, "Tubular Bells" (1973)...
2 months ago
The Pirate Archive

Fantasy FM – London - Fantasy FM started broadcasting from North London in August 1989 on 98.6 FM. They played Acid, Rave & Hardcore music, all of which was massive at the time,...
2 months ago
East of Borneo

The Savage Eye (1959) dir. by Ben Maddow, Signey Meyers & Joseph Strick - THE SAVAGE EYE a film by BEN MADDOW, SIDNEY MEYERS & JOSEPH STRICK. 1959. USA. 68 min. A recent divorcée wanders around LA in this lesser-known and biting ...
2 months ago
BLDGBLOG

Contextual Collapse - In an otherwise unpromisingly-titled article—“Could the US really release more of its strategic oil reserves?”—the Financial Times points out a surprising ...
2 months ago
Municipal Dreams

The Kingswood Estate, West Dulwich II: ‘Something of a Paradox’ - In last week’s post, we examined both the opposition to the London County Council’s new Kingswood Estate in West Dulwich … Continue reading →
2 months ago
The Work Trials

CULTURAL FORCES #1: OJ BORG INTERVIEW - *OJ Borg is a broadcasting genius, a wonderful friend to me, one of the nicest 'famouses' you're ever likely to encounter and addictive late-night Ra...
2 months ago
The New Vulgate

TEST TRASH - *Quarry Pond, Naperville, Ill.* Photograph by Joe Carducci ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ...
4 months ago
A Shiver in the Archives

G.K. Chesterton on Fairy Tales and Modern Novels - "Can you not see that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but that this everlasting fiction about modern life is in its nat...
4 months ago
The Women's Liberation Music Archive

February 2026: the Women’s Liberation Music Archive at the Queer Britain Museum - We’re very pleased that WLMA features in a new exhibition which opened this month at the Queer Britain Museum. Our display features some of the feminist mu...
4 months ago
GreilMarcus.net | Writings by (and about) Greil Marcus

Mystery Train 50th Anniversary Celebration (March 7, Oakland) - From Greil Marcus’s Letter in the Ether: On Saturday, March 7, I’ll be in conversation with Daveed Diggs for an event organized by the Bay Area Book Festiv...
4 months ago
64 Quartets

9(a). Buzzcocks 1 (/) - The Ohs “Well, for a start, they’re oh-ohs, not whoa-whoas,” Pete Shelley once said. Touring the US, he’d hear the audience botch the singalong parts. A fe...
4 months ago
God Is No Longer A Dj

Liner Notes on 2025 – Part I (All That Glitters) - It’s that time again for the blog’s traditional annual round-ups. Yet another year has been graced with an abundance of fantastic music. For the first part...
4 months ago
Pushing Ahead of the Dame

Blackstar (★) - But, lo, as you would quaffoff his fraudstuff and sink teeth through that pyth of a flowerwhite bodey behold of him as behemoth for he is noewhemoe. Finich...
5 months ago
More Dark Than Shark

MORE DARK THAN SHARK - Updates: January 4, 2026 -
5 months ago
Kieran Press-Reynolds genreologist at large

The top 50 songs of 2025 - My brain got so blurbed to oblivion this year that I was about to skip doing a proper year end list, but this in-between week has given me a little moment ...
5 months ago
Musical Urbanism |

down and out in 1980s San Francisco: Roddy Bottum’s The Royal We - A personal journey through the post-punk, pre-email milieu of Frightwig and Survival Research Laboratories, when the city’s civil libertarian ethos mixed w...
5 months ago
In Sheeps Clothing

Record Stores We Love: Philadelphia Music / Beautiful World Syndicate (Philadelphia) - Step into one of the largest and most beloved online record shops in the world… While the defending champion Philadelphia Eagles continue their playoff run...
5 months ago
Sonic Truth

Tunes for darkening times - Have a little listen to this: lots of favourite beatless/dark/ambient/instrumental/neoclassical/analogue synth from purchases over past five years or so. t...
6 months ago
Ericland

Climbing Over Cardboard - I have an online interview to do for a Swedish magazine. The first question is: *how has 2025 been for you?* I still haven’t done the interview. I wrote ...
6 months ago
Backlisted

253. Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon - Writer and critic Matthew De Abaitua joins Andy, Una and Nicky to discuss *Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future* (1930), the astounding...
6 months ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

TANGERINE DREAM - ZEIT (OHR– OMM 2/56021, 2 X VINYL LP, 1972) (FLAC/WAV) - *En este 2025 que estamos concluyendo, se conmemoran 53 años de la grabación y edición del disco ZEIT de TANGERINE DREAM, un album que se convirtió, con ...
6 months ago
davidtoop

Soundbody workshop - “Rice paper possesses a materiality of emptiness and absence. Its surface does not shine, and it is as soft as silk. When folded, it hardly makes a noise, ...
7 months ago
Miraculous Agitations – Daniel R Wilson

New book: To Farse All Things by William English & Sandra Cross - A new book by William English and Sandra Cross will be published this month: ‘To Farse All Things’. Its title means “to mix together”. The book ‘farses’ to...
8 months ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

NEW ZINES LAUNCH. - Dear friends, followers and anyone else who is still reading this blog after many months of inactivity - I am writing today to let you know that, after a...
8 months ago
Eliminated for Reasons of Space

Shrooms With a View (From the Stump) - Kind of got carried away wordcountwise in the previous post, so I’ll try to be more concise this time. That one dealt with what I’m pretty sure were fungi ...
9 months ago
Aloysius

burrowing (slight return) - a common way of framing creative pursuits in our culture goes like this: whether or not anyone else likes what you’re doing is ultimately irrelevant. the...
10 months ago
Pop Theory

Clive Barnett, 1968-2021 - The personal website of Prof. Clive Barnett, who sadly and unexpectedly passed away in December 2021 is being maintained by colleagues to enable ongoing ac...
1 year ago
Rockets & Rayguns

A little slide that @rocketsandrayguns and I put together, after Dedra’s lessons in clean desk… - hangingfire: [image: A Powerpoint slide of "Password Best Practices and Guidelines", including tips like "Create a Strong Password", "Never Reuse a Passw...
1 year ago
The Generalist

- Dear Friends, I'm raising £1,800 to fund an exhibition for Greenpeace in Lewes! Your support will help bring this project to life and raise vital awar...
1 year ago
8Sided Blog

Encounters with Dave Allen - First Encounter, Manhattan, 1991 CMJ Music Festival: My status as a college radio music director was an excuse for attending, but I was also looking for op...
1 year ago
Slow Motion

This is a preview of next year - On the Discogs entry for the After Shock label, it still lists a couple of phone numbers you might use to contact the label. Putting your mobile on the lab...
1 year ago
Relative Nostalgia

Unpopular Film/TV I Unironically Like - Media that I subjectively enjoy.
1 year ago
New Critique

[Review] The Year in Books 2024 – James McLoughlin - 'Once again, reading kept me going this year. I started the year recovering from an operation and seeking somewhere new to live. I was then made redundant ...
1 year ago
blog to the oldskool

Oral-X – Tribal Zone EP - I’ve got some spare time over the Holidays, so I figure it might be nice to post up a few releases that don’t have audio on the net anywhere. With this kin...
1 year ago
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Hidden Depths - One of the most powerful shifts in Silent Hill 2 occurs somewhere past the halfway point. It follows the Historical Society, a dilapidated old museum, to w...
1 year ago
Rave Archive UK »

World Dance – Lydd Airport – 5.2.94 - World Dance – Lydd Airport – 5.2.94 DJ Food Junkie – World Dance – Lydd Airport – 5.2.94 Download DJ Slipmatt w/ MC GQ – […]
1 year ago
Suspended Reason

Will Nature Always Win? - “Only a fool swallows myths,” reads a protester’s sign, near Westminster, morn. “Keep the story of England alive,” counters a Parliament plaque, mere paces...
1 year ago
xenogothic

Narcisisme subversiu - Diuen que el narcisisme és un dels grans mals del nostre temps, especialment alimentat per les xarxes socials. Però, i si el narcisisme fos una eina per ad...
1 year ago
I Understand

No more days // 2009 - 2013 - Part II: the beginning of the end + ambient grime noir, endless rainfall & the 2009 - 2013 after dark inspirations ov the new Stonecirclesampler album
1 year ago
Dan Fox

Issue 39: Partial Views of an Interior - Remembering Marc Camille Chaimowicz, 1946-2024
2 years ago
tis.so

Magic rites in the lore of economics - by SQCU In the folklore of the men who call themselves economists there is a story of a magic ritual. In this ritual, when two men meet in body, they mee...
2 years ago
Tank Magazine Podcast

We read de Beauvoir's “The Second Sex” so you don't have to - “Love is impossible as long as it is attached to physical, emotional and economic safety...” In this week's TANK Podcast, Caroline Issa decodes Simone de...
2 years 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 years 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
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
3 years ago
lunarlodge

Autumn Serenade - Notes on Janet Werner, Backxwash, This is not a Scarf, a loving tribute to Boris Brott, &+
3 years 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
3 years 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 ...
3 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 years ago
Hyperstition Arrays

Protected: Hardt and Negri’s Optimism and Subjectivity - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
4 years ago
Oliver Craner

Slaughter Commissions: Crime Films and the Italian Crisis - Review of the Arrow Films box set Years of Lead: Five Classic Italian Crime Thrillers, 1973-1977 (Mario Imperoli, Like Rabid Dogs; Vittorio Salerno, Savage...
4 years ago
Cut and Run

Coupling Musical Noise -
4 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...
4 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...
5 years ago
A CARELESS MAN'S CAREFUL DAUGHTER

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5 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...
5 years ago
A Scarlet Tracery

- I interviewed William Basinski for the cover story of the new issue of The Wire.
5 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’...
6 years ago
Blue Lines Revisited

Photo -
6 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...
6 years 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...
6 years ago
The Astral Plane

Reassembling the Pulp Doppelgänger - Views of the Baths of Titus, Giovanni Battista Piranesi In part one of this essay, I laid out the disappointing reality of the walking dead or pop modernis...
6 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...
6 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.
6 years 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 wh...
6 years ago
Groupname for Grapejuice

Snatches of the Everlasting Gospel 3 - [image: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdNcpxZh71l2jCbTs7-nYBJmgvJTJrPf4wq2oyZ_7AbYvqESjZ94wqaJOKAPexY3gBRlHz2aFVqubZU16pxnLZA5...
6 years ago
on the ones

Scattered Impressions of Zagreb Film’s Early Years: Dušan Vukotić, Vatroslav Mimica, Vlado Kristl - Last year marked the 65th anniversary of the founding of Zagreb Film, which for a few decades was home to one of the premiere animation studios on the inte...
6 years 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 ...
6 years 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 perfe...
6 years ago
Prole Sector

AN-I + Unhuman (L.I.E.S. Records) - More tasty double time pummelling lashed up with some cat o’ nine tails screamo and freestyle noise – not quite speedcore, thankfully.
6 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...
6 years ago
marathonpacks

Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9 - Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9
6 years ago
The Hum Blog

outside the reed syndicate - A brain melting mashup of Tony Conrad and Faust’s Outside The Dream Syndicate (1973) and Terry Riley’s Reed Streams (1967), from (and by) The Hum. (Headp...
6 years ago
INTO THE SWAMP

The Singles Jukebox » Britney Spears: A Mid-Career Retrospective - The Singles Jukebox » Britney Spears: A Mid-Career Retrospective: *“Sllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaave….!” she sings, purrs, drawls — all at the one time — making sure...
7 years ago
The Pink Temple

- I don’t want to tell you how to write a poem, there are an infinite number of ways to write a poem, I want to teach you how to be poets, to initiate you i...
7 years ago
Tim Worthington's Newsround

Box Set: Loungecore - *A collection of some of my recent features on mid to late nineties loungey indie dance music...* It looks as though some of you aren't aware that I no...
7 years ago
Velvet Coalmine

Good-bye to All That. - As you may have assumed already, I’m formally retiring this blog. It’s been good, helpful and cathartic to write, and my thanks to you if you’ve ever read,...
7 years ago
Mark Richardson

Hello. - I’m a freelance writer and editor and I also work on various projects related to music, streaming media, record culture, and curation. My main writing gig ...
7 years ago
ActionTimeVision | Broke the yolk, no joke

Songs Morrissey should cover#14 - [image: Morrissey1]
7 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...
7 years ago
Dream Transmissions

New blog - Hey old readers, I'll be blogging here now: Embedded
7 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.
7 years ago
Boring Old Books

Modern Practical Building Volume 1 - Caxton Publishing Company Limited. New and revised edition, 1950. Note: scans of photographs...
7 years ago
F.U.N.K (Neil Kulkarni)

Tasly Phytosoy Margarita Plus - *Tasly Phytosoy Margarita Plus * Tasly Phytosoy Margarita Plus Menambahkan unsur yin, supaya bisa lebih cantik dan sehat Wanita memiliki silkus biologi...
7 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 [...]
7 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
7 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...
7 years ago
....:::::....:::::Heronbone:::...::::..

- pearlescent sky and the tiny lights punching holes in the mist. pigeon feathers purple and silver-grey. poised between moments. time stock still. perception ...
8 years ago
Binary Heap

Interactive Musical Hexagons - A two-dimensional spatial arrangement of the chromatic musical notes Web Site
8 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...
8 years ago
Critical-Theory.com

7 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in November, 2017 - Books by Negri, Adorno and more.
8 years ago
The Night Mail

no.7// The Blue Rose: TV as Performance Art - *This is one of my ten short essays about *Twin Peaks* Season 3. Click this link to read my introduction to this series.* If there’s a true precursor to ...
8 years ago
The Empty Page

Terry Wogan, Tom Petty and What Middle Aged Men Are Really Talking About When They Talk About The Beatles - Classic rock should be a retrospective classification. Something bestowed on rock that has through whatever process attained classic status. Yet some art...
8 years ago
Southern Discomfort

Samira Ahmed: Blade Runner meets The Good Life - Broadcasting House. You know the one, near the Church, back of Oxford Circus, Orwell did a stint there. Room … Continue reading →
8 years ago
Another Nickel In The Machine

The Prince of Wales Theatre, Dickie Henderson and the Ross Sisters - When the last chord of ‘Twist and Shout’ came to an end, the Beatles grouped together at the front of the Prince of Wales Theatre stage. The blue curtain s...
8 years ago
Our God is Speed

Because - Honestly, back in the days when Julian Cope's *Krautrocksampler* doc became the Young Person's Guide to Same, I took issue with the author's assertion t...
8 years ago
leaving earth

hidden reflections of a dysfunctional world - If a golden age of musical originality and innovation happens and no one builds a movement and narrative around it, did it actually create anything new? D...
8 years ago
The New Inquiry - Marginal Utility

Everything in Its Place - To live your best life in the moment, replace things with carefully staged images
8 years ago
The M.O.P. Radionic Workshop

Summer Shuffle – 16 June 2017 -
9 years ago
Found Objects

About The Author # 2. -
9 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...
9 years ago
Blackadelic Pop

Smile - Yesterday (3/17/2017) was the birthday of one of my favorite singers Nat King Cole. Recently, while writing a long short story about an aspiring model c...
9 years ago
Rouge's Foam

Negativity, Not Pessimism! (RIP Mark Fisher) - I was so shocked and upset to learn of Mark Fisher's death yesterday. For me, Mark was both an idol and, as time passed, someone I was always pleased and...
9 years ago
Ghosts in the TV

Photo -
9 years ago
Mutant Technology

Elektronik – Soundtracks & other oddities by Marc Dauncey - I’m pleased to present my latest mix, Elektronik. A project to compile some of the most powerful synthesised music ever made – from the ultra minimal elect...
9 years ago
Chart Music podcast (David Stubbs, Neil Kulkarni, Simon Price, Taylor Parkes, Al Needham et al)

Chart Music #1: July 14th 1977 – Like Punk Hadn’t Really Happened Just Yet - The debut of the podcast that takes a random episode of Top Of The Pops and breaks it down to its very last compound. It’s the Summer of ’77, and the Sex P...
9 years ago
An Idiot's Guide to Dreaming

Valerie - Not that one. Here's Thighpaulsandra, whose Golden Communion record is starting to worm its way into my life. This one, goes all over the place and through...
9 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...
9 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...
9 years ago
Internal exile

Photo -
9 years ago
Writing Through the Fog

Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
10 years ago
Interstice(ssg)

Bunker mix - I’ve posted this on social media, but just realised I forgot to share it here too… I recently recorded a mix for The Bunker podcast out of New York. This i...
10 years ago
Drumtrip

8205 Recordings 003 – Lopez / Syuss and Reality - Pete from one of our favourite blogs (and part inspiration for Drumtrip itself) blog to the oldskool is now taking orders for his 8205 Recordings label’s...
10 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.

Anti-Semitism: a mea culpa - I must, I fear, express and explain my guilt over all this. I wish I were not guilty, but I know I am. And that guilt is over the fact that, by about 2002 ...
10 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...
10 years ago
ZONE OF THE FREE

Free Romanian Teknival 2016 - THE ROOTS - Free Romanian Teknival - 12.08 - 23.08.2016 Open invitation for all sound systems, arts and public! Sound systems and performers, who w...
10 years ago
...and what will be left of them?

Stoopid bass - and this and this of course
10 years ago
up close and personal

Somethin' Here -
10 years ago
faces on posters too many choices

Crank - bass = discipline two very different tracks, but the bass has the same kind of propulsive quality in each
10 years ago
Vexed at the Earth

And hoy them doon the pit of hell - Seething with cold hate, Louisa Jo Killen.
10 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...
10 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...
10 years ago
the hauntological society

mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur - *There is nothing to see.* Please go here: http://thehauntologicalsociety.tumblr.com/
10 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...
10 years ago
Cottage Of Electric Hell !

The Seventh Cyrkle - My best wishes of the season, from deep within the sheer terror of Pendle Witch Country. As I sit by the fire this evening and celebrate *Hallowe'en*, I wi...
10 years ago
Mounds and Circles

Face Fuzz - Racial stereotypes and highly flammable unnatural fibres. Blackpool, 2015.
10 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...
10 years ago
SIGNS FICTION

- Signs Fiction has moved! Thanks for the ongoing support!
10 years ago
Island of Terror

What We Call The Most - 'Look, Mary, no hands!' There's no question in my mind that *Cliff Richard *has made a lot of good records, but very few of them have the immediate dance ...
10 years ago
Joy Press

The Exquisite Corpses of "Six Feet Under" - Feature on the visual poetry of "Six Feet Under" by Joy PressVillage Voice If you'd asked me what I thought of *Six Feet Under* last year, I would have ...
10 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...
10 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 ...
10 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 ...
10 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...
10 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 ...
10 years ago
Vocalities

Book Launch: Eleni Ikoniadou's The Rhythmic Event — Showroom - ELENI IKONIADOU's THE RHYTHMIC EVENT BOOK LAUNCH at THE SHOWROOM on THURSDAY 25 JUNE '15 18h30-21h30 • An event & discussion to celebrate th...
10 years ago
The Fantastic Hope

BARGAIN-BIN NAIRN: MY LONDON TOP 10 - I'll be leaving London in a few weeks to return to the Motherland (Newcastle), so thought I'd compile a LONDON TOP 10 based on my nearly four years in the...
10 years ago
A Window on the World

Top of the Pops (BBC-1, 01/05/1980) - (TX: BBC-4, 22/05/2015) Imagine a universe where scantily-clad, objectified and anonymised women strut about mechanistically to daintily piano-led jazz-f...
11 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. ...
11 years ago
Social Dead Zone

Welcome to Hollingsville - Welcome to Hollingsville: Foreword to Ken Hollings’ Bright LabyrinthOut of nowhere, I began to...
11 years ago
_* _+ // /// ///////// Picnoleptics

FEMEA 06.02.15 @UdK Berlin - FEMEA Festival - Feminism, Experimental Media and Electronic Arts A one-day event exploring gender (in)equality...
11 years ago
| Archive of Undercurrents, the magazine of radical science and alternative technology, 1972 – 1984.

UC02 Summer 1972 - Open link to Issuu in a new window ______________________________________________________________________ Undercurrents 02 Summer 1972: Contents 1 Front co...
11 years ago
Experimental Music on Children's TV

Sound JumbleSarah & Duck - Sound Jumble Sarah & Duck
11 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...
11 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...
11 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 ...
11 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...
11 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 ...
12 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...
12 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 ...
12 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...
12 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...
12 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...
12 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...
12 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...
13 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....
13 years ago
K-punk at Abstract Dynamics

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....
13 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...
13 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...
13 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...
13 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...
13 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...
13 years ago
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its her factory / its her duty

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