blissblog

very far from grace

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Posted by SIMON REYNOLDS at 8:48 PM

Newer Post Older Post Home

SIMON REYNOLDS: simonreynolds at mindspring dot com twitter: SimonRetromania

View my complete profile

MY OTHER BLOGS

Hardly Baked

Kayn in the brayn - *frozen reeds* release for the first time a 14 hour meisterwork - ‘A Little Electronic Milky Way of Sound’ [recorded 2009]- by *Roland Kayn *as a sixte...
21 hours ago
Energy Flash

Belief it M8 - Belief System by Special Request "*Taking the album’s title into consideration, these three parts seem to represent a sort of holy trinity for the UK hard...
4 days ago
SR Archive

HAUNTOLOGY: the GHOST BOX label (Frieze, 2005) - *HAUNTOLOGY: the GHOST BOX label (original title)* *(published under the Frieze-chosen title of "Spirit of Preservation")* *Frieze, October 2005* *By Simon ...
5 days ago
Retromania

el futuro perdido latinoamericano - One of the highlights of my recent book tour of Argentina was a visit to an exhibition dedicated to the early days of electronica and la música concreta in...
2 weeks ago
Shock and Awe

glam / anti-glam quote (4 of ??) - "Life's a drag when you don't have an identity of your own" - Bubble, a "glamourpod" - a shape-shifting, alien entertainer, - as played by Rihanna (and a s...
3 weeks ago
Faves / Unfaves

FAVE SINGLES and ALBUMS OF 2002 - *FAVE SINGLES OF 2002* *1/ DIZZY RASCAL – “I Love You” (white label)* And this year the criteria are… surprise, surprise, *surprise*. When the bass-blasts...
10 months ago
Retromania - The Footnotes

- I've now added a bunch of bonus material to the footnotes -- FAQ, unFAQ, RetroQuotes, articles pegged to or related to the book, interviews with the author...
4 years ago
Rip It Up and Start Again: the Footnotes

- *GUIDE TO FOOTNOTESwith quick links* (chapter sequence follows UK edition) Prologue: The Unfinished Revolution Chapter 1: Public Image Belongs To Me. Se...
8 years ago

BLOG ARCHIVE

► 2017 (56)
- ► October (6)
- ► September (7)
- ► August (6)
- ► July (4)
- ► June (5)
- ► May (9)
- ► April (5)
- ► March (5)
- ► February (3)
- ► January (6)

► 2016 (107)
- ► December (4)
- ► November (5)
- ► October (4)
- ► September (6)
- ► August (5)
- ► July (6)
- ► June (12)
- ► May (11)
- ► April (8)
- ► March (20)
- ► February (19)
- ► January (7)

► 2015 (154)
- ► December (7)
- ► November (10)
- ► October (13)
- ► September (4)
- ► August (3)
- ► July (19)
- ► June (23)
- ► May (19)
- ► April (12)
- ► March (18)
- ► February (16)
- ► January (10)

► 2014 (110)
- ► December (34)
- ► November (26)
- ► October (5)
- ► September (8)
- ► August (4)
- ► July (7)
- ► June (4)
- ► May (6)
- ► April (6)
- ► March (2)
- ► February (4)
- ► January (4)

► 2013 (99)
- ► December (8)
- ► November (3)
- ► October (5)
- ► September (6)
- ► August (7)
- ► July (9)
- ► June (10)
- ► May (14)
- ► April (8)
- ► March (8)
- ► February (9)
- ► January (12)

► 2012 (168)
- ► December (23)
- ► November (9)
- ► October (4)
- ► September (3)
- ► August (8)
- ► July (18)
- ► June (15)
- ► May (16)
- ► April (18)
- ► March (23)
- ► February (8)
- ► January (23)

► 2011 (257)
- ► December (26)
- ► November (14)
- ► October (24)
- ► September (12)
- ► August (19)
- ► July (10)
- ► June (12)
- ► May (34)
- ► April (14)
- ► March (43)
- ► February (30)
- ► January (19)

▼ 2010 (232)
- ► December (15)
- ► November (45)
- ► October (25)
- ► September (3)
- ► August (8)
- ► July (2)
- ► June (25)
- ► May (12)
- ► April (31)
- ► March (24)
- ▼ February (28)
- ► January (14)

► 2009 (239)
- ► December (25)
- ► November (18)
- ► October (15)
- ► September (26)
- ► August (15)
- ► July (10)
- ► June (21)
- ► May (17)
- ► April (13)
- ► March (13)
- ► February (23)
- ► January (43)

► 2008 (135)
- ► December (11)
- ► November (3)
- ► October (4)
- ► September (10)
- ► August (14)
- ► July (9)
- ► June (23)
- ► May (24)
- ► April (17)
- ► March (12)
- ► February (5)
- ► January (3)

► 2007 (181)
- ► December (9)
- ► November (5)
- ► October (12)
- ► September (14)
- ► August (31)
- ► July (15)
- ► June (17)
- ► May (10)
- ► April (11)
- ► March (17)
- ► February (18)
- ► January (22)

► 2006 (225)
- ► December (18)
- ► November (32)
- ► October (14)
- ► September (6)
- ► August (14)
- ► July (14)
- ► June (33)
- ► May (26)
- ► April (7)
- ► March (25)
- ► February (17)
- ► January (19)

► 2005 (186)
- ► December (25)
- ► November (21)
- ► October (17)
- ► September (12)
- ► August (9)
- ► July (11)
- ► June (23)
- ► May (9)
- ► April (6)
- ► March (16)
- ► February (14)
- ► January (23)

► 2004 (222)
- ► December (20)
- ► November (6)
- ► October (5)
- ► September (11)
- ► August (44)
- ► July (30)
- ► June (11)
- ► May (10)
- ► April (18)
- ► March (25)
- ► February (33)
- ► January (9)

► 2003 (214)
- ► December (7)
- ► November (7)
- ► October (33)
- ► September (35)
- ► August (36)
- ► July (7)
- ► June (13)
- ► May (23)
- ► April (14)
- ► March (19)
- ► February (7)
- ► January (13)

► 2002 (31)
- ► December (11)
- ► November (15)
- ► October (5)

BLOGS AND SITES I LIKE

Lost Turntable

I’ll Go To Work By Dolphin - I get to go to work tomorrow in a typhoon. How’s your weekend? Gary Numan We Need It Anthem These tracks were on CD at some point, they were included on th...
1 hour ago
WOEBOT

Anthems for the Nation of Luobaniya mp3 blog - The vogue for mp3 blogs has waned in recent years but I'm sure it will be looked back upon in the future as a cultural efflorescence. It's a shame Google...
2 hours ago
thebluemoment.com

‘Astral Weeks’ in Camden Town - If your name isn’t Van Morrison, it takes some kind of courage to tackle Astral Weeks, one of the sacred texts of the late ’60s. No one has ever really exp...
5 hours ago
Jason Phereus,

what the eighties mean to me - Amazing mix from matt woebot.
6 hours ago
it's her factory

SPEP 2017 Talk: Philosophies or Phonographies?: on the political stakes of theorizing about and through “music” - Here is the full text of my talk for the 2017 SPEP meeting. I’ve printed the introduction below. Traditionally, in Anglo-American and Continental philosoph...
1 day ago
ActionTimeVision | Broke the yolk, no joke

E.P. REVIEW: American Anymen – Flag Burner - Notions of nationhood have long been wrapped up in emotions of neighbourhood. Samuel ‘Call me Doctor’ Johnson immortally uttered the … Continue reading →
1 day ago
blog to the oldskool

Blog To The Oldskool Radio Show 15.10.2017 Archive - Sunday 15th October we had another edition of the BTTO Radio Show, blessings to everyone who listened in and participated in chat. We had almost everybody ...
1 day ago
cardrossmaniac2

Super Slimey - Future & Young Thug - This actually has me excited about music in 2017. I hope it lives up to at least half of it's potential. I love this years records from The Residents, La...
1 day ago
A Year In The Country

Ocular Signals #42/52a: Image P/2a - File under: A Year In The Country Ocular Explorations The post Ocular Signals #42/52a: Image P/2a appeared first on A Year In The Country.
1 day ago
GreilMarcus.net | Writings by (and about) Greil Marcus

The Man on the Left: Rick Danko – 1943-1999 (01/20/00) - The best words on Rick Danko were written thirty-four years ago, almost to the day he died, by the late Rolling Stone co-founder, Ralph J. Gleason. Bob Dyl...
1 day ago
KID SHIRT - Blog

BLADE RUNNER 2049 - Went to see Blade Runner 2049.Worst, most overly-compressed and mega-intrusive 'sound-track' ever. Dreadful sound design. Rumbling sub-bass drones and shri...
1 day ago
....:::::....:::::Heronbone:::...::::..

- Don’t stare! Not At but between!
2 days ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

Deathblog: Umberto Lenzi (1931 – 2017) - Sadly I don’t have the capacity today to pay appropriate tribute to the man who, in a weird sort of way, feels like the quintessential Italian b-movie an...
2 days ago
Prole Sector

The Final Boxed Show - Farewell Boxed then. Almost no chat, just tune after tune throw down. And a couple of real stand outs to my ears (mainly from Boylan if I’m not mistaken?)....
2 days ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

Visible Cloaks & Brenna Murphy- "Permutate Lex" -
2 days ago
Found Objects

True Detective (September 1959) -
2 days ago
Sounds of the Dawn

Sounds of the Dawn NTS Radio October 14th 2017 - <iframe width=”100%” height=”400″ src=”https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?light=1&feed=%2FNTSRadio%2Fsounds-of-the-dawn-14th-october-2017%2F” framebor...
3 days ago
Rockets & Rayguns

Polish space stamps. from here:... - Polish space stamps. from here: https://www.presentandcorrect.com/collections/ephemera
3 days ago
The Work Trials

LICHFIELD INTERROGATES: Sean Bw Parker - *Sean Bw Parker is a writer and musician who has released several solo albums as well as collaborative works and albums by others via his label, Seraglio P...
4 days ago
森と記録の音楽

[155] Kevin Braheny Fortune - Lullaby for the Hearts of Space - Label: Hearts Of Space Records Catalog#: 2-HOS-11431 Format: CD, Album Country: US Released: 2017 DISCOGS 1 Lullaby For The Hearts Of Space 35:24 2 After ...
4 days ago
Sounding Out!

Gender and the First Sound Films in 1930s Bombay - Our listening practices are discursively constructed. In the sonic landscape of India, in particular, the way in which we listen and what we hear is ofte...
5 days ago
streams of expression

New from MATERIALS: Bonney and Marriott - Two new books now available from Materials: GHOSTS by Sean Bonney and DUPPIES by D.S. Marriott. “We were talking about prophecy, about defeat and war, a...
1 week ago
The Hum Blog

on invenciones. la otra vanguardia musical en latinoamérica 1976-1988, munster records’ incredible compilation of latin-american underground music, assembled by luis alvarado - Various Artists – Invenciones. La otra vanguardia musical en Latinoamérica 1976-1988 (2017) Within the culture of recorded music, conversations largely rev...
1 week ago
It's Full of Stars

Summation Operation - My new Korg Sigma, a totally bonkers and short-lived mono synth from 1979. I wanted to try sequencing it, and as I don't have an appropriate Hz-to-Volt an...
1 week 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 ...
1 week ago
God Is No Longer A Dj

Savage Times: Inside Modern Urban Jazz - “… when I refer to the music now as d&b, I never really considered it much then. I know that may sound strange, but I think we always operated as outsiders...
1 week ago
East of Borneo

The Experimental Impulse - Presented as part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time (PST) project to document and understand the history of art and design in Southern California, The E...
1 week ago
Pop Theory

The Priority of Injustice - So, finally, the book that I have been writing, on and off, for the last four years, The Priority of Injustice, has been published – or at least, it’s real...
2 weeks ago
Tim Worthington's Newsround

The Big Newsround Roundup Collected Comics Bound Volume Bonanza (*Ask Your Newsagent If Space Spinner Is Missing) - I don't know, you wait ages for a new article by me, and then six come along all at once! In case you'd missed the poster campaign, the skywriters flying...
2 weeks ago
The Pinocchio Theory

Ken MacLeod – The Corporation Wars - Ken MacLeod’s Corporation Wars trilogy — which I just finished reading (the final volume came out this past week) — does well what MacLeod usually does wel...
2 weeks ago
The Pirate Archive

KFM – Stockport - Charles Turner had been involved in the 1970s station Radio Aquarius and Alistair Bates in the early 1980s station RFM. In 1983 they decided to join forc...
2 weeks ago
I•HATE•THIS•FILM

BLADE RUNNER / Phil Hopper, Geoff Alderman (1982)16mm dystopian... - *BLADE RUNNER* / Phil Hopper, Geoff Alderman (1982) 16mm dystopian fever dream based on Burroughs not Dick. Features a live performance by all-female Bos...
3 weeks ago
davidtoop

gone to earth - Maybe a coincidence but during our Sharpen Your Needles event last night (28.09.17) Evan Parker played “Music for Mbale (Ndokpa)”, from The Photographs of ...
3 weeks ago
The Women's Liberation Music Archive

Support freedom of movement for musicians! - The Musician’s Union invites you to sign the Change petition to Support Free Movement for Musicians Post-Brexit: http://chn.ge/2xAIPeX Brexit blues? Listen...
3 weeks ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

RAYMOND SCOTT - MANHATTAN RESEARCH (2xCD - BASTA AUDIO VISUALS - 2000) (FLAC) - *A PETICIÓN DE NUMEROS@S SEGUIDOR@S, REPONGO ESTE MATERIAL, PERO ESTA VEZ EN FORMATO FLAC.* *Para explicaros lo de este material, prefiero remitiros a l...
3 weeks 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...
3 weeks ago
A Scarlet Tracery

- Advertisements
4 weeks ago
➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣

➤ Double drama of the 60s pop dream by Ray Connolly - ◼ HERE ARE TWO RADIO 4 DRAMA TREATS this Saturday 23 Sept and next at 2.30pm – first an adaptation by former Evening Standard pop columnist Ray Connolly of...
4 weeks ago
RESIDUAL NOISE

Kerouac's Ghosts - *Event poster* *Along with comrade Malcolm Guite I've been involved in organising this event featuring the Beat scholar Gerald Nicosia. See below for furt...
4 weeks 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...
4 weeks ago
Velvet Coalmine

Under My Thumb: Songs That Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them - Under My Thumb is a collection of women’s music writing, edited by Eli Davies and me, in which contributors discuss being fans of politically dubious music...
4 weeks ago
Musical Urbanism |

how the Queen Street West scene began, pt. 2: OCA bands - How did a bunch of kids in suburban Thornhill ignite a Toronto music scene and bring new energy to Queen Street West, now a hip urban neighborhood? My last...
5 weeks ago
Critical-Theory.com

5 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in August, 2017 - Agamben, Morton and more.
5 weeks ago
F.U.N.K (Neil Kulkarni)

ACETONE 1992-2001 (Light In The Attic Records) - “*Acetone are one of my all time favorite bands. Their music is still as electrifying and beautiful now as it was back then.*” – Hope Sandoval Acetone w...
1 month ago
joy of speed

A A Bondy - I'm On Fire -
1 month ago
Rave Archive UK »

Telepathy – Skibadees World Cup Blazer – Ministry of Sound – 2002 - Telepathy – Skibadees World Cup Blazer – Ministry of Sound – 03.06.02 Grooverider – Telepathy – 03.06.02 Download/Play Side A Download/Play Side B Twisted...
1 month 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? Di...
2 months ago
History is made at night

Summer Rites 1997: Lesbian and Gay free festival in Brockwell Park - 20 years ago - on 2 August 1997 - the second Summer Rites lesbian and gay free festival was held in Brixton's Brockwell Park. Coming just a few week after ...
2 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...
3 months ago
Rouge's Foam

Study Day: Is There a Musical Avant-Garde Today? - I'm helping to run and speaking at a study day in London next week, 'Is there a Musical Avant-Garde today?' Come along! We're expecting great research and...
3 months ago
Disposable Everything

Joydah -
3 months ago
Southern Discomfort

The Gospel According to Courttia - ‘These are not good times,’ Nile Rogers once wrote about another city in the midst of turmoil. He had … Continue reading →
3 months ago
The New Inquiry - Marginal Utility

Everything in Its Place - To live your best life in the moment, replace things with carefully staged images
3 months ago
More Dark Than Shark

Brian Eno Updates • June 15, 2017 - *IN THIS UPDATE:* RIP Jaki Liebezit; Brian Eno's John Peel Lecture; Jon Hassell's *City: Works Of Fiction*; Marianne Faithfull; Harmonia: *The Complete W...
4 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 ...
4 months 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 (all incl P&P) UK £8.23 GBP Europe £11.23 GBP Rest of World £13.23 GBP
4 months 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...
4 months ago
Mark Richardson

What do you love about the Empire State building? - I assume this is in reference to the fact that I frequently post photos of the Empire State Building on my Instagram. I will say it’s probably the NYC sy...
5 months ago
(SF) 365

Fantastika (and After) - Having returned home from this year's Fantastika conference, organised by my (now former) PhD student Chuckie Palmer-Patel, I feel tired but invigorated b...
5 months ago
Found Objects

About The Author # 2. -
5 months ago
The Night Mail

10 Records of 2016: Beyoncé's Lemonade - *(An essay about music writing as political praxis)* *Contents:* - Introduction - Let's Talk About Talking About *Lemonade* - I. Authority - II. Decision - ...
5 months 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...
6 months 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 ...
6 months 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...
8 months 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 ...
8 months 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 ...
8 months ago
Boring Old Books

The Craft of Model Making - Thomas Bayley, The Dryad Press, Leicester
8 months ago
darkmatter Journal » | darkmatter Journal

Hope and Resistance in the Age of Donald Trump - Americans have now entered into one of the most sickening and dangerous periods of the 21st century. Trump is not only a twisted caricature of every regist...
8 months 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 ...
9 months ago
Soundboy

My favourite books, films, music and meals of 2016 - For the 5th year running I give you some arbitrary rankings of some media products from 2016. New non-media categories added this year! Books 1. JR 2...
9 months ago
Ghosts in the TV

trefoiled: Blocked Ascension - Carlyn Wutkee, 2011. Paper,... - trefoiled: *Blocked Ascension* - Carlyn Wutkee, 2011. Paper, gluestick.
10 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.

A brief statement - I haven’t paid as much attention as some people have to Murdoch’s latest attempt to take total control of Sky because I do not regard its precise ownership...
10 months 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...
10 months ago
Drumtrip

DJ Crystl Interview – Generator Mag 1995 - Hello there, it’s been a while. Sadly this isnt a triumphant return for Drumtrip, but I had to upload this DJ Crystl that forumite Stringz posted on DOA....
10 months ago
Binary Heap

Bring Da Noise: A Brief Survey of Sound Art – Kenneth Goldsmith - Over the past few years, sound art has been more visible in America. The Whitney has been including it in its Biennials and it even had its own section in ...
11 months 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 ...
11 months 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...
1 year ago
Airport Through The Trees

For No Reason Other Than - Just wanted to remind the handful of people who read this blog and who may have forgotten or even never knew that this record exists and was released in an...
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 -
1 year ago
up close and personal

The future then -
1 year ago
Writing Through the Fog

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

And hoy them doon the pit of hell - Seething with cold hate, Louisa Jo Killen.
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
The Fantastic Hope

PEEP SHOW, AN EPITAPH: OR WHY COMEDY WINS IN THE END - Why Peep Show worked from a writerly, directorial perspective: Take two pretentious middle-class ‘dudes’ with very little intellectual and political aw...
1 year ago
Mounds and Circles

Face Fuzz - Racial stereotypes and highly flammable unnatural fibres. Blackpool, 2015.
1 year 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...
2 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...
2 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. ...
2 years ago
Social Dead Zone

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

Sound JumbleSarah & Duck - Sound Jumble Sarah & Duck
2 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 ...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 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...
4 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....
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
6 years ago
Sound & Society - A music criticism blog

-
etc home | The History Project

-
CIRCULATION ZERO

-
Dream Transmissions

-
DJ Food

-
Ego Death and Self-Control Cybernetics

-
slouching toward babylon

-
The Mire

-
its her factory / its her duty

-
Benny Brassic | Mixcloud

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

-
ecstatic apophenia

-
Wounds of Class

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

-
futureproofing

-

Picture Window theme. Powered by Blogger.