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Found Objects

Print a Book - By Heinz Kurth of Children's University fame.
1 hour ago
A Year In The Country

Audio Albion – Further Wanderings Amongst the Airwaves, the Ether and Elsewhere… - A selection of further broadcasts, reviews etc of the Audio Albion album… First up Audio Albion was reviewed by Mark Roland in issue 42 of Electronic Sound...
4 hours ago
Lost Turntable

Japanese Electro-Jazz for Dangerous Days - I’ve been buying a lot of extremely out-there records lately, so many that I put together a whole blog post about them over at Mostly-Retro. It didn’t feel...
13 hours ago
森と記録の音楽

[209] Ssaliva - Unplugged Vol. 1 - Label: Jj funhouse Catalog#: JJ016 Format: CD, Album Country: Belgium Released: 2018 1 Backfire 1:53 2 Ever Since 1:54 3 Fall W Me 1:40 4 Fin2feather 2:15...
16 hours ago
Tim Worthington's Newsround

Looks Unfamiliar #23: Ros Ballinger – I Can’t Remember If It Was The First Leg Or The Second Leg - *Looks Unfamiliar 23: Ros Ballinger* *Looks Unfamiliar* is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about s...
19 hours ago
We Are the Mutants

“There Is No Advantage to Thinking”: Leon Festinger’s ‘When Prophecy Fails’ - By *Daniel Cecil* Once people believe something, they want to keep believing it, even if they are presented with incontrovertible evidence that their belie...
21 hours ago
Sounding Out!

My Music and My Message is Powerful: It Shouldn’t be Florence Price or “Nothing” - Flashback to the second day of the recent Gender Diversity in Music Making Conference in Melbourne, Australia (6-8 July 2018). In a few hours, I will perfo...
22 hours ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

Boxing Clever: Seijun Rising: The Youth Movies (Seijun Suzuki: The Early Years,Vol # 1) - (This is a new thing where I’m going to look collectively at the films included on some box sets I’ve recently been working my way through.) I can’t be t...
1 day ago
GreilMarcus.net | Writings by (and about) Greil Marcus

“Desert Island Bootleg” - Q: What’s your favorite live Dylan concert bootleg? A: I could go on for days… All this and moremoremore in Ask Greil Advertisements
1 day ago
KID SHIRT - Blog

SLOW DEATH OF A LABEL - It's been a while coming. I'm sad.Seriously considering binning the blog too. (I don't have the time / energy to make it into something good.) I mean, real...
2 days ago
Portals of London

Faraway islands (part 1): The Stockwell Bus Garage Manifestation - In a shady corner pub along the South Lambeth Road, large open windows bring a warm, welcome breeze. Jason Allen, who has just cycled from the Brixton prim...
3 days ago
Jason Phereus,

- ...which doesn't mean you know that in the here and now I am not delirious with hope and admiration in the muted ways I can allow myself to be... hard not ...
3 days ago
East of Borneo

First release poster for Fred Halsted’s LA Plays Itself, 1972 - The first auteur of gay hardcore, Fred Halsted blurred the distinction between pornography and experimental film. Released at exactly the moment when porno...
3 days ago
Cut and Run

11 July 2018 – Sphagnum Explorations – #010 - Contemporary Selections by Alex Muir
4 days ago
It's Full of Stars

P&M - And here are Phil & Mal in action:
4 days ago
The Hum Blog

bradford bailey (of the hum) live set on dublab radio, 05-27-18 - These last months have been a rough run. Imagined and presumed futures collapsing. Lost love. Friendships failing. Isolation, exhaustion, and feelings of r...
5 days ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

Forcefeel- Digital/Save the Bunnies - Digital by Forcefeel New two song single with a Joy Division cover putting the digital into "Digital"
6 days ago
joy of speed

Style Council - Long Hot Summer (Club Version) -
1 week ago
Disposable Everything

For the Institute of Welsh Affairs: Eight Weeks That Transformed British Politics - Of all the strategists, ideologues and ‘outriders’ involved in Labour’s 2017 UK General Election campaign, you could be forgiven for being unaware of the c...
1 week ago
cardrossmaniac2

Giallo & The Movie Posts - Six or seven years ago I explored Giallo movies beyond what I'd discovered in the 90s ie. Dario Argento videos and stuff that would screen on SBS TV. I u...
1 week ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

BERNARD PARMEGIANI ‎– L'ŒUVRE MUSICALE EN 12 CD (INA-GRM ‎– INA G 6000/11, 12 × CD, COMPILATION, BOXSET, 2008) (MP3 320) - *DEDICADO A JAVIER PIÑANGO* *Como soy conocedor de la filia del amigo JAVIER PIÑANGO por BERNARD PARMEGIANI, al que todos los días le dedica un café y ...
1 week ago
blog to the oldskool

Radio Show Archive 24.06.18 - Sunday, 24th of June we had another edition of the BTTO Radio Show, blessings to everyone who tuned in and joined the chat. Tim took the first hour and w...
2 weeks ago
Rockets & Rayguns

slow-glider:cocteau twins, 1983 by martin whitehead - slow-glider: cocteau twins, 1983 by martin whitehead
2 weeks ago
➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣

➤ Silver fox Martin Kemp gives Piers Morgan a huggy hug for heaping on the flattery - ◼ AN INNOCENT BREAKFAST TV APPEARANCE to promote Martin Kemp’s new role in a West End musical erupted into a physical love-in yesterday morning. Actor and ...
2 weeks ago
....:::::....:::::Heronbone:::...::::..

- *The reward for abstaining is revoked for indulging. The punishment for withholding is lifted followi...
2 weeks ago
The Pinocchio Theory

Sweet Dreams by Tricia Sullivan - I loved SWEET DREAMS, Tricia Sullivan’s most recent science fiction novel, published last year. I am not sure I can give as good an account of it as I woul...
2 weeks ago
God Is No Longer A Dj

The Hidden Worlds: Inside the album - “ … when I’m creating music, I mostly envision different worlds. Once you stick with astronomy and the mysteries of the universe, there’s no turning back, ...
3 weeks 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
3 weeks ago
it's her factory

Some Notes on “Cosmic Thing” & Why It Is ‘Important’ - These are really just notes, jotting down some ideas I had in the car yesterday for future reference. There’s a book project in here somewhere. Most writ...
3 weeks ago
streams of expression

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

INTERVIEW: Julian Cope - Polymath pioneer of ‘Frazzle Rock’, this bovine lover of cows waxes lyrical and cynical and pulls no punches in a … Continue reading →
4 weeks 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...
4 weeks ago
History is made at night

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

Vision FM – Dudley - Vision FM began test transmissions in April 2006 on 103.5FM for 2 weeks before going off air, to return on a full Sunday rota on 101.8FM a few weeks late...
5 weeks ago
The Women's Liberation Music Archive

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

Datacide at the London Radical Bookfair 02-06-2018 - Datacide again took part in the London Radical Bookfair on June 2nd, taking place at Goldsmiths University. For more pics on the Alliance of Radical Books...
1 month ago
thebluemoment.com

A period of silence . . . - To all those who’ve read The Blue Moment over the past five and a half years, I’d like to say thank you for your interest and your comments. I started ...
1 month ago
Rave Archive UK »

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

Can ‘Research’ Drive ‘Development’? - Some time ago now I wrote a post which raised some questions about how the decision of the UK government to redirect a large slice of ‘development aid’-rel...
1 month ago
A Scarlet Tracery

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

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

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

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

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

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

SLEEPER / ED MELLNIK (1980)Music by Roger Luther - *SLEEPER / ED MELLNIK (1980)* Music by Roger Luther
3 months ago
davidtoop

FOLD - Nine people sitting on the basement floor folding paper into origami birds, four microphones hanging from the ceiling, a loudspeaker pair at each end of th...
3 months ago
Southern Discomfort

h-h-h-Hanif’s half hour - Now # It quickly becomes apparent that nothing is going to materialise. Once the interview request, itself fielded, to be … Continue reading →
3 months ago
Miraculous Agitations – Daniel R Wilson

‘Picasso 1932’ @ The Tate Modern – Audio Guide - The headphone audio guide at the Tate Modern’s new exhibition, Picasso 1932: Love, Fame & Tragedy plays host to a medley of new original musical pieces I c...
4 months ago
WOEBOT

Woebot 2.0 - Well that was fun! Henceforth this blog will be open as a holding page and to sustain links from Mixcloud. In due course I'll collect the pieces I wrote h...
4 months ago
The Work Trials

Everything Everything release new EP - *Multi-genre indie pioneers Everything Everything have released a brand new EP to coincide with their coming UK tour. The A Deeper Sea EP consists of new s...
4 months ago
Musical Urbanism |

urban lift-off amid the rural amenity economy: riverfront cities and the “Brooklynization” of the Hudson Valley - A paper presented at the “Small Cities in the 21st Century” mini-conference, in the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore, Maryland...
4 months ago
F.U.N.K (Neil Kulkarni)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cargo Culting - Christopher D'Archangelo, *Post No Art* (c. 1975) as seen at documenta 14, Kassel, Germany. via Thierry Geoffrey Various graffiti, Athens, Gree...
9 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...
1 year ago
The M.O.P. Radionic Workshop

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

Have-a-go zeroes, Brexit dreamers and a tribune emerges: the 2017 General Election - ‘He would probably have to move to Downing Street. He says: “I am very happy where I live. Others may wish me to move. I did not become leader of the Lab...
1 year ago
Found Objects

About The Author # 2. -
1 year ago
The Compleat Blogger

University Challenge and Diversity - Another year, another rip-roaring University Challenge final, a fitting reward for those who endured the gruelling winter of repechages and qualification q...
1 year ago
INTO THE SWAMP

Trel Itz A Hit 225 - Da Drip (internetz, 2017)Trel/Biggz is a... - Trel Itz A Hit 225 - Da Drip (internetz, 2017) Trel/Biggz is a producer from Baton Rouge, best known for last year’s ‘Cross Me’, a bouncy piece of steel ...
1 year ago
Cottage Of Electric Hell !

Picnic At Hanging Rock - 1975 - I'm sure Peter Weir's spellbinding 1975 masterpiece, *Picnic At Hanging Rock*, needs little introduction here. With it's ethereal, otherworldly atmospher...
1 year ago
faces on posters too many choices

- No point in this not being publicly available is there? Especially as setting it up in Blog format was a bit of a labour of love. Apologies for dead links ...
1 year ago
...and what will be left of them?

- No point in this not being publicly available is there? Especially as setting it up in Blog format was a bit of a labour of love. Apologies for dead links ...
1 year ago
Boring Old Books

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Photo -
2 years ago
up close and personal

The future then -
2 years ago
Writing Through the Fog

Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
2 years ago
vexations

A radical alien would not belong to the set of beings whose agency can – in Davidsons metaphor – be... - A radical alien would not belong to the set of beings whose agency can – in Davidsons metaphor – be triangulated by reference to a common world. Its agen...
2 years ago
A CARELESS MAN'S CAREFUL DAUGHTER

Fast methods to improve battery life in your mobile - Battery life gets worse as cellphones get better. It is a basic fact of possession that is smart-phone. However, you can find easy things you can do to m...
2 years ago
Vexed at the Earth

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

PIN (1988) - One of the best ventriloquism films I've seen. The wonderful thing about it is how PIN's voice is only validated as being a ventriloquised voice of ano...
2 years ago
Resolution Way/Eminent Domain

Eminent Domain: Barrow - Barrow is seated at his desk gazing out across the city, the day dissolving, night settling in soft, sooty layers, blunting the edges of the vast concrete...
2 years ago
Acousmata

My book “Instruments for New Music”– the project largely... - My book “Instruments for New Music”– the project largely responsible for the death of Acousmata– came out in November 2015. A history of experimental sou...
2 years ago
THE SIXTH EAR.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reasons to be Drakeful: Wizkid – Ojuelegba - Wizkid – Ojuelegba (2014) In an ironically very Drake-like way, I’ve tussled with my feelings towards the Canadian child actor turned childish rapper for t...
3 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 ...
3 years ago
_* _+ // /// ///////// Picnoleptics

Chronopoetics of the Wendelstein cave at Wendelstein Höhlenmediale 2015 - Chronopoetics of the Wendelstein cave / Chronopoetik der Wendelsteinhöhle" "Zeit - Moment – Ewigkeit" - Wendelstein Höhlenmediale 2015, Bayrischzell, DE 2...
3 years ago
Tower of Sleep

3 Tips to Improve Your Email Marketing Effectiveness - Knowing how to hire the right digital marketing agency will help turn your Internet marketing into a profit-producing tool. When your email is first open...
3 years ago
the spectral dimension

The Isle is full of Noises - Easy Sunday morning viewing. Lots of rippling nature scenes between people talking about pagan gods, skulls, shape-shifting animals, Halloween fires. ...
3 years ago
Social Dead Zone

Welcome to Hollingsville - Welcome to Hollingsville: Foreword to Ken Hollings’ Bright LabyrinthOut of nowhere, I began to...
3 years ago
| Archive of Undercurrents, the magazine of radical science and alternative technology, 1972 – 1984.

UC44 – UC63 Contents on one page - There is no index for these issues. Instead, here are all the contents pages assembled into a single page, which may be searched by Cntrl/Command-F: _____...
3 years ago
Experimental Music on Children's TV

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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etc home | The History Project

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CIRCULATION ZERO

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Dream Transmissions

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DJ Food

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Ego Death and Self-Control Cybernetics

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slouching toward babylon

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The Mire

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its her factory / its her duty

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Benny Brassic | Mixcloud

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

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Creel Pone on YouTube

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ecstatic apophenia

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Content warning

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Wounds of Class

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

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futureproofing

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Sunday, April 11, 2010

BLOG ARCHIVE

BLOGS AND SITES I LIKE