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BLOGS AND SITES I LIKE

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Covers # 167 Das Racist - Not sure whether this qualifies as a cover or a set of samples. I leave that kind of thing to the kids. Anyhow, I like it. I imagine Jim would too.
45 minutes ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

Pulp Non-Fiction: The Satan Seller by Mike Warnke (Logos Books, 1972) - Naturally the ‘Pulp Non-Fiction’ header on this post should be read with heavy inverted commas, as I suspect that this particular volume rarely ventures w...
18 hours ago
xenogothic

Untitled #26 -
20 hours ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

CONRAD SCHNITZLER - 00/534 (CONTEMPORA CON-TINOUS SERIES 00/534, SOLO RYHTMICS, "MANN AUF TREPPE", CD ALBUM, 26.6.08 (WAV) - *DOWNLOAD*
1 day ago
Tribune

Art School Confidential - Around a century ago, two schools of art and architecture were founded in the aftermath of war and revolution. In Germany, Walter Gropius’s Bauhaus provi...
1 day ago
➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣

2021 ➤ Who can identify the face in this Bowie painting up for auction next week? - ❚ A PAINTING BY SUPERSTAR DAVID BOWIE was found last summer in a thrift store for household goods and bought for just five dollars. It’s now up for auction...
1 day ago
BLDGBLOG

The Terrestrial Status of Boston - The terrestrial status of Boston is an unexpectedly fascinating topic. A city built on land rescued from the sea, it is not only unusually at risk from sea...
1 day ago
We Are the Mutants

Rise of the Smog God: Ecological Apocalypse in ‘Godzilla vs. Hedorah’ - By *Alex Adams* Many of the fifteen Shōwa films are rich with social commentary and formal and stylistic innovations. Perhaps the boldest of them all---and...
1 day ago
Hate Meditations

I like the beats and I like the yelling: Tristwood, The Illusion of Dawn, Passeisme - Tristwood: Dystopia et Disturbia (18th June 2021. Originally released as a digital album in 2010) The third album from this Austrian industrial-cum-grindco...
1 day ago
Pop Theory

Book Launch: Housing in the Margins - I’m slowly catching-up with things I’ve missed over the last weird year-or-so, including the publication of books by people I used to know… Below are detai...
1 day ago
Real Life

Name of the Game - "Influencer” and “creator” aren’t really different jobs, but the opposition of the two terms helps structure a variety of hierarchies: Less experienced or ...
2 days ago
Velcro City Tourist Board

Solargoth - I keep telling myself I shouldn’t pass public comment on solarpunk, firstly because I haven’t done the reading and legwork, and secondly because I know a f...
2 days ago
A Year In The Country

The Straight Story – A Gently Lynchian View of Journeying Through a Near Mythical Landscape: Wanderings 13/26 - The Straight Story (1999) is a road movie with a difference; based on a true story from 1994 it is set in Midwestern American and focuses on Alvin Straight...
3 days ago
thebluemoment.com

The way of the flowers - A year and a half before his death in 2015 at the age of 75, the pianist Masabumi Kikuchi entered a recording studio for the last time. At the behest of th...
3 days ago
Wyrd Britain

Feet Foremost - [image: Wyrd Britain reviews Shades of Darkness Feet Foremost.] 'Shades of Darkness' was a mid 1980s series for Granada TV that presented adaptations of u...
3 days ago
Blue Labyrinths

In Defense of Gay Assimilation - So-called queer studies is no stranger to provocative titles. I might be better off defending a more modest program of Continue reading →
3 days ago
cardrossmaniac2

Illustrated Man (Mini-LP) 1984 - *GREAT MISSES OF THE 80S* How on EARTH this has passed me by until just recently is astonishing. For a start legendary keyboardist *Roger Mason* is in th...
5 days ago
Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations

Book Review: First Step Outward, ed. Robert Hoskins (1969) (Asimov, Silverberg, Sturgeon, Heinlein, et al.) - 3.25/5 (collated rating: Vaguely Good) Published a few months before the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, Robert Hoskins’ anthology First Step Outward (1969)...
5 days ago
Eliminated for Reasons of Space

150 Best Albums of 1979 - I was working in a Fotomat booth in the middle of a parking lot outside a strip mall (“shopping centers” I guess they were called more often then) on Orcha...
5 days ago
Trevor Barre

The ‘Cost’ of Academic Books. Part Two.I have had occasion to discuss, both in my own... - The ‘Cost’ of Academic Books. Part Two. I have had occasion to discuss, both in my own books and within these blogs, the issue of 'academicisation’, 'histo...
1 week ago
streams of expression

Recent Writing (June) - Not posted much on this blog of late, but a fair bit of other writing elsewhere, of which a digest follows... Over the past month I've been work...
1 week ago
Sounding Out!

Listening in Plain Sight: The Enduring Influence of U.S. Air Guitar - The mention of “air guitar” might conjure images of the Bill and Ted series. Or Risky Business. Or maybe even Joe Cocker at Woodstock. You might think of a...
1 week ago
I•HATE•THIS•FILM

A magical substance flows into me / Jumana Manna (2015)from the... - *A magical substance flows into me* / Jumana Manna (2015) from the latest Another Screen free streaming programme by Another Gaze journ...
1 week ago
The Interregnum Navigation Bureau

An Occult Investigation Into Joy Division - Part 1 - *"A sense of fear and oppression is very characteristic of occult attack, and one of the surest signs that herald it. It is extemely rare for an attack to...
1 week ago
blog to the oldskool

Natural Progression – What’s Your Name - Sorry, very little motivation to post individual tunes here anymore. Same reasons as stated before: facebook replacing blogs, all sorts of random obscuriti...
2 weeks ago
Portals of London

Sky-borne lights: The South Dulwich Woods Beacon - Allotment owners are well-known guardians of city space. They have good reason to be protective. Land given over to thisContinue Reading
2 weeks ago
GreilMarcus.net | Writings by (and about) Greil Marcus

On Ed Ward (‘Perfect Sound Forever’/June 2021) - “I remember visiting [Ed] in Berlin where he had gone because there was the promise of a new magazine that was being started. People wanted him to be if no...
2 weeks ago
It's Full of Stars

TEMB - Two VCOs (258) are cross modulated to produce an evolving sequence of clocks, not just random because the interactive nature of the cross modulation creat...
2 weeks ago
Found Objects

The Festival of Britain (Guide) - Also on Found Objects More Festival Of Britain
2 weeks ago
Blog - Peter Stanfield

Indicator Columbia Noir #3: Johnny O'Clock - What’s In A Name? [image: noir 1.jpg] Very proud to have contributed a short piece on a firm noir favorite, *Johnny O’Clock*, for the new Indicator Columb...
2 weeks ago
Nina Power

Ivan Illich: Course Starting in July - I’m teaching an 8-week course on the work of Ivan Illich, covering all of his major works on tools, schools, medicine, gender, literacy and other important...
3 weeks ago
Municipal Dreams

Book Review: Tjerk Ruimschotel, ‘Architectural Guide London’ - Tjerk Ruimschotel, Architectural Guide London (DOM Publishers, 2021) Firstly, an apology: new posts have been pretty sparse recently. Firstly, for … Conti...
3 weeks ago
Pushing Ahead of the Dame

Jerusalem - Jerusalem. One day he was a respected young songwriter, the next he was this thing, The Voice of a Generation. The Man With All the Answers…People were at ...
3 weeks ago
Cut and Run

RE:COMP – The Voice - Music for unaccompanied voice(s). Tracklist: Hockets for Two Voices – Meara O’ReillyKatajjaq Singing Game – Field Recording Nunavut 1978Akazéhé Vocal Greet...
3 weeks ago
Jason Phereus,

Exorbitant Sufficiency - The Acid Communist (!) has put up a reading of my Exorbitant Sufficiency piece from a few years ago on what looks like becoming a very interesting youtube ...
4 weeks ago
A Shiver in the Archives

A Rider Ghost Annual - G.F. Marson—more fully Gerald Francis Marson (1884-1969)—was a British clergyman who published a small number of books. His first two were in a series of...
4 weeks ago
Datacide

Nomex: A Life in Full Frequency - When selecting an alias for his artistic persona, Paul Kidd chose the name of the flame resistant material, Nomex. A protective shield suggesting indestr...
4 weeks ago
8Sided Blog

Equal Parts Confusion and Admiration - [image: From the Notebook - 2021may17] Tyler Mahan Coe has finally launched the long-awaited second season of his podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones. If you’re...
4 weeks ago
Suspended Reason

Is strategic interaction Machiavellian? - One objection I’ve come across in arguing for a strategic view of human interaction is that “humans aren’t so Machiavellian.” My understanding of this obje...
5 weeks ago
Lost Turntable

Remixes of dubious origin - Obligatory Cinema Oblivia plug. Many new episodes since my last post, including an episode with Alex Navarro, formerly (sadface) of Giant Bomb! Check it ou...
5 weeks ago
lunarlodge

Play Recent X Repeater Radio - I’m thrilled to announce that Play Recent, my Cult Montreal column, will now be a monthly radio show as well, on Repeater’s new broadcasting arm. Listen to...
5 weeks ago
History is made at night

The Hunger Strike, the Irish War and an English Town: Luton 1980-81 - The 1981 Irish Hunger Strike started in the H Blocks of the Maze prison (also known as Long Kesh) in March and finished seven months later following the ...
1 month ago
Ericland

Lew Lewis 1953 - 2021 - The following piece isn't meant as an obituary or a tribute, it’s a piece about Lew Lewis, about my intersection with Lew, and about the times in general...
1 month ago
Ace Linguist

Dialect Dissection: Indie Voice/Cursive Singing - The Definitive Post - Language in music does not just reflect spoken speech, but actually creates new forms that exist mostly in music. One of the most well-known examples of...
1 month ago
God Is No Longer A Dj

Tracks I Wish I’d Written (issue #22): Spirit – Life Goes On - We would talk for hours on the phone, him asking me questions, sharing ideas and tips. Soon we were both releasing music for Tom from Redeye’s labels ‘Deep...
1 month ago
For Your Pleasure

A Song For Europe - A Song for Europe (Ferry/Mackay), 1973A Song for Europe, lyric ‘Stranded’ moved us into different territory.Phil Manzanera In early Fall 1973, just before ...
1 month ago
Tank Magazine Podcast

In conversation with Susan Ploetz - In conversation with Susan Ploetz Susan Ploetz is an artist-researcher working with somatics, simulation and live-action role play (LARP). In Ploetz’s si...
1 month ago
History's Dumpster

Dick Tracy Wrist Radio (1947) - The Dick Tracy Wrist Radio was a crystal radio, powered by nothing by AM radio waves, an aerial and grounding wire connected to a grounded piece of metal...
1 month ago
New Critique

[Essay] Tom Whyman and the Philosophy of Hope — Josh Mcloughlin - "Whyman replaces Benjamin’s pessimism with realism whilst adopting Adorno’s ‘standpoint of redemption’ to radically critique the present, situating hope fi...
1 month ago
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Based on a True Story: Horror and the Theatre of the Real - Horror, as I’ve established previously, rests on a knife edge. It attempts to address an object it cannot, evokes a beyond it cannot access, and insodoing ...
1 month ago
The Pinocchio Theory

Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland - Here is my review of Rivers Solomon’s new novel, Sorrowland. The book will be published on May 4th. I received an advance copy, courtesy of NetGalley, in r...
1 month ago
joy of speed

Stereo Dancer - Absolute Reason -
1 month ago
WOEBOT

Forms -
2 months ago
RESIDUAL NOISE

Dark Matter - *Some notes on **Jake Fior’s new novel,* Through a Looking Glass Darkly* (2020)*. In 2011 rare book dealer Jake Fior made a startling discovery. He ca...
2 months ago
__underscore

Common Folk - People wearing ornaments and fancy clothes, carrying weapons, drinking a lot and eating a lot, having a lot of things, a lot of money: shameless thieves. S...
2 months ago
64 Quartets

6. The Bangles - DISCOGRAPHY SOURCES PLAY LIST Late August 1989: Susanna Hoffs sits in a hotel room in Kansas City, doing a phone interview. Her band, which got a #1 hit ea...
2 months ago
Musical Urbanism |

a Hudson Valley tourist town faces the pandemic: the second Rhinebeck small business survey - For a second time, I was asked to analyze the data from an online questionnaire distributed to small businesses in Rhinebeck, New York. Created by the loca...
3 months ago
The Women's Liberation Music Archive

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

TRIBUTE TO LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI - Just heard that Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died at the age of 101. One of the greatest of the Beat poets, creator and custodian of the City Lights boo...
3 months ago
Hyperstition Arrays

Lines of Flight: Possibilities and Organisation - "There are two ways of rejecting the revolution. The first is to refuse to see it where it exists; the second is to see it where it manifestly will not occ...
4 months ago
Groupname for Grapejuice

'Moments of visionary enthusiasm' -- Eight questions for Znore - [image: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VtEi_fRC0Kw/UlbGD2jf5YI/AAAAAAAAAJE/-kUSaxt6XPU/s1600/portinari_shepards.jpg] [*The following was first published on ...
4 months ago
East of Borneo

Portraying Political Ideology and Hippiedom in 1968 Los Angeles: I love you, Alice B. Toklas - By 1968, the movie I love you, Alice B. Toklas (ILYABT), co-written by the ingenious Paul Mazursky, would singularly aim to define the hippie movement alon...
4 months ago
The Pirate Archive

Radio Avalon – Glastonbury Festival - Radio Avalon was the official radio for the Glastonbury festival. They were first heard at the 1983 festival, broadcasting for about a week around the ti...
4 months ago
Airport Through The Trees

Headlinez - CNN today:Democrats Unveil Impeachment ChargeMillions Left Without Paid Sick Leave After Congress Let Pandemic Benefit ExpirePriorities, huh?
5 months ago
Modernism Unbound

Top Ten Albums of 2020 - Somewhat belated, Jon Lindblom lists his top ten records of 2020. 10. Kamixlo – Cicatriz (PAN) Cicatriz by Kamixlo Another great addition to the still grow...
5 months ago
Aloysius

review of aphex twin - syro that i wrote in 2016 lol - Just about everything Richard made/released in the 2000s can be counted among his best work, and Syro is quite possibly the best of it all. Many reviews...
5 months 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 months ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

No One Man Should Do All These Lists: 10 Year Vintage best of 2010 - * 40 Long-Form Streams, Music Blog RARs, or Album-format Releases* *1. Various - Bang and Works Volume 1* *2. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Tod...
5 months ago
on the ones

Břetislav Pojar and Miroslav Štěpánek #1: Pojar’s “Hey Mister, Let’s Play!” entries (1965) - Watch the films discussed in this article with English subtitles on YouTube! …or, download files of them for personal viewing here! In the years since I in...
5 months ago
A CARELESS MAN'S CAREFUL DAUGHTER

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5 months ago
(SF) 365

Chess Dreams - 'Let's play'Beth Harmon is a chess player, one of the greatest ever to have lived. She is doubly orphaned', losing two mothers; she is addicted to tranqu...
6 months ago
Tim Worthington's Newsround

Big John Little John - [image: Big John Little John (NBC, 1976)] *Big John Little John*, a 1976 American body-swap sitcom about a middle-aged man who stumbled across the Fount...
7 months 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...
7 months ago
A Scarlet Tracery

- I interviewed William Basinski for the cover story of the new issue of The Wire.
8 months ago
it's her factory

Solfeggio Frequencies: hey music theorists, I did the math (and whooo is it weird) - I have a piece coming out in Real Life about pseudoscientific wellness trends like solfeggio frequencies. In researching that piece I did the math to figur...
8 months ago
Blackadelic Pop

Pittsburgh On My Mind (Top 5) - Recently I wrote an essay titled "Summer Mother" for Longreads about the last summer I spent with my Aunt Ricky in Pittsburgh in 1977. https://longreads....
8 months ago
ActionTimeVision | Broke the yolk, no joke

Separated at (still)birth #1 -
8 months ago
Rave Archive UK »

Yaman Studio Mixes ‘Bailey & Bukem’ - ‘LTJ Bukem – Techno 01 – Yaman Studio Mix – 1991’ Download/Play ‘DJ Bailey – Techno 02 – Yaman Studio Mix – 1992’ Download/Play LTJ Bukem – Hardcore Vol 1 ...
8 months ago
Miraculous Agitations – Daniel R Wilson

Pre-Electronic & Post-Electronic Music in Electronic Sound #68, and Prehistoric Microtonal Scales in The Silo - This month’s Electronic Sound magazine contains my feature titled ‘Parallel Worlds’ examining worlds beyond electronic sound, into pre-electronic and post-...
9 months ago
The Astral Plane

The Soul of the Creative: Free Labor and the Psychopolitics of Control - Fernand Léger, The Builders We are living in an era of smoothness. Smooth movies, smooth design and smooth digital infrastructure form an unblemished carap...
9 months ago
The Pink Temple

- Pastiche dawn swells to crescendo of startled bird cry in the quick embers of ulterior reward. Has it come to this? The breathless cadence twining anti-c...
9 months ago
INTO THE SWAMP

COSIMA - Interview, March 2020. - *Back in March, I interviewed Cosima for a fashion website’s summer campaign. Then, y’know, a pandemic kicked off. Then, y’know, I got fired from said fa...
11 months ago
davidtoop

on&on&on&on: Daniel Blumberg - “And now he was playing, alas, the piano,” the first sentence of Robert Walser’s short prose text written in 1925, “making it sound like a deep and intimat...
11 months ago
森と記録の音楽

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

Issue #157 (April 20, 2020) - *Carillon along the DuPage River, Naperville, Ill.* Photograph by Joe Carducci ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ...
1 year ago
The Work Trials

THINKPIECE #2: A Room Without A Roof? The Ten Most-Played Songs of the Past Decade - On Bank Holiday Monday which was strangely like every other day off of recent times, my favourite disc jockey Scott Mills popped up on Radio 2 to reveal ...
1 year 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’...
1 year ago
The Hum Blog

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

Photo -
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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.
1 year ago
Binary Heap

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

Silver Waves – Tunnelling (Portals Editions) - Abstract, delicate, yet quite wrenching and abyssal at the same time. This one goes deep. Caving…
1 year ago
Rockets & Rayguns

407 Proxy Authentication Required - hangingfire: SO THERE’S NO SHORTAGE OF THINGS TO UNPACK ABOUT *MR. ROBOT* 4.07 but I wanted to talk about the paintings (prints) in Krista’s apartment. ...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
marathonpacks

Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9 - Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9
1 year ago
Critical-Theory.com

Listen: Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism - Is capitalism bad for your sex life?
1 year ago
Sonic Truth

Stop playing the reality management game - A pleasure to have been able to add my voice to the appraisals of the K-Punk collected works, in the FT, and here belatedly is the link. Non-subscribers sh...
2 years ago
Mark Richardson

- Hello—my name is Mark Richardson and I’m a writer and editor. You may remember me from when I was the Editor-in-Chief and Executive Editor of the online mu...
2 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...
2 years ago
Dream Transmissions

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

The Design and Placing of High Quality Concrete -
2 years ago
leaving earth

RAVE ALBUMS 1991-1992 - Ever since I almost entirely missed it (I only really got into techno and rave in 1992-1993), I've been fascinated by the short period of time – at most 19...
2 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.
2 years ago
F.U.N.K (Neil Kulkarni)

Agen Tasly Calsium Plus di Jakarta - *TASLY CALSIUM PLUS**Agar tulang anda lebih sehat* Tasly Calcium Plus isi 100 kapsul Kalsium berperan vital dalam kehidupan kita dan merupakan elemen ese...
2 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 [...]
2 years ago
....:::::....:::::Heronbone:::...::::..

- *The reward for abstaining is revoked for indulging. The punishment for withholding is lifted followi...
2 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
2 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...
3 years ago
Southern Discomfort

h-h-h-Hanif’s half hour - Now # It quickly becomes apparent that nothing is going to materialise. Once the interview request, itself fielded, to be … Continue reading →
3 years ago
The New Inquiry - Marginal Utility

Save the World - How *Star Wars* films thematize their own irrelevance
3 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...
3 years ago
The Empty Page

Critical Perspectives on Critical Perspectives on Waluigi - The Empty Page Radical Publishing House is not so much an organisation or a company but an idea. Whilst having only published three analyses to date, the l...
3 years ago
Mutant Technology

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

no.8// Twin Peaks the Musical! - *This is one of my ten short essays about *Twin Peaks *Season 3. Click this link to read my introduction to this series.* At the Roadhouse, every night is...
3 years ago
highfunctioninghuman | The blog of Robin Carmody. Liberal humanist, reformed ex-Stalinist and former anti-anti-anti-Semite, melancholy Europhile and romantic-ruralist socialist. Londoner by birth, Kentish Man by upbringing, Portlander by adoption. "More like Roy Harper than Fairport Convention" – Simon Reynolds, 2003. May be the horsiest Leftie in the Anglosphere, but there are many horsier ones beyond.

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

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

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

Slides for talk at No! Festival, HKW Berlin - This past weekend I gave a talk about how, why and whether cultural work can refuse the various alienations of modern society / economics, as part of a pa...
3 years ago
Our God is Speed

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

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

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

About The Author # 2. -
4 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...
4 years ago
Cottage Of Electric Hell !

Picnic At Hanging Rock - 1975 - I'm sure Peter Weir's spellbinding 1975 masterpiece, *Picnic At Hanging Rock*, needs little introduction here. With it's ethereal, otherworldly atmospher...
4 years ago
...and what will be left of them?

- No point in this not being publicly available is there? Especially as setting it up in Blog format was a bit of a labour of love. Apologies for dead links ...
4 years ago
faces on posters too many choices

- No point in this not being publicly available is there? Especially as setting it up in Blog format was a bit of a labour of love. Apologies for dead links ...
4 years ago
Island of Terror

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

trefoiled: Blocked Ascension - Carlyn Wutkee, 2011. Paper,... - trefoiled: *Blocked Ascension* - Carlyn Wutkee, 2011. Paper, gluestick.
4 years ago
An Idiot's Guide to Dreaming

Chicklette - I think it really gripped me when it went black. Then just legs and... I like this. Feels like a tape some kids find and decide to play in the old VCR ...
4 years ago
More Dark Than Shark

FEATURE: Opal Information (Number 25, 1994) - *FEATURE: *Opal Information (Number 25, 1994) Dark Shark@Facebook • Dark Shark@Tumblr • Dark Shark@Twitter
4 years ago
ZONE OF THE FREE

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

MNML SSGS party – Saturday 30 July - On Saturday night we have our next MNML SSGS party at Contact. This time we have invited two internationals who will both be playing in Japan for the first...
4 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...
4 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...
4 years ago
Internal exile

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4 years ago
up close and personal

The future then -
4 years ago
Writing Through the Fog

Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
5 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...
5 years ago
Vexed at the Earth

And hoy them doon the pit of hell - Seething with cold hate, Louisa Jo Killen.
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 years ago
Mounds and Circles

Face Fuzz - Racial stereotypes and highly flammable unnatural fibres. Blackpool, 2015.
5 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...
5 years ago
SIGNS FICTION

- Signs Fiction has moved! Thanks for the ongoing support!
5 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 ...
5 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...
5 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 ...
5 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...
5 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...
6 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. ...
6 years ago
Social Dead Zone

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

Sound JumbleSarah & Duck - Sound Jumble Sarah & Duck
6 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...
6 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...
6 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 ...
6 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...
6 years ago
Rouge's Foam

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7 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 ...
7 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...
7 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 ...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
8 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....
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 years ago
Velvet Coalmine

On liking American Psycho, slight return. - Written for Bad Reputation. The last time I wrote that yes, I did like American Psycho, and no, that wasn’t because I’d only seen the film, I was pleasantl...
8 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...
10 years ago
Sound & Society - A music criticism blog

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etc home | The History Project

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DJ Food

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slouching toward babylon

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its her factory / its her duty

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Creel Pone on YouTube

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Wounds of Class

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Noughties blog

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Epsilonia/Radio Libertaire - Home | Facebook

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CIRCULATION ZERO

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Ego Death and Self-Control Cybernetics

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The Mire

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Docklands Light Musicway - Home

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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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Content warning

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

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futureproofing

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blissblog

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