blissblog

very far from grace

Thursday, December 08, 2011

Retro-Xmas

Posted by SIMON REYNOLDS at 4:17 PM

Newer Post Older Post Home

SIMON REYNOLDS: simonreynolds at mindspring dot com twitter: SimonRetromania

View my complete profile

MY OTHER BLOGS

Hardly Baked

a load of schütze - he do have a way with a title, that Paul
1 day ago
Energy Flash

when you need to feel love - *jongaliss* relick on the next EP is even more flustered-frantic and treble-hissy, but sans the wicked bassdrop and the "jongaliss" and that whiske...
2 days ago
SR Archive

Lo Five / Patterned Air Recordings - *Lo Five* *When It’s Time To Let Go* *Patterned Air Recordings CD/DL* *The Wire, April 2017* *by Simon Reynolds* Perhaps the uncanny persistence of haun...
5 days ago
Shock and Awe

- Here's the text of a chat I had with Todd L. Burns of Red Bull Music Academy about glam rock + art-pop, from the Seventies to the 21st Century.
2 weeks ago
Retromania

ReFound Objects - *Found Objects* returns from the dead!
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...
7 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 (35)
- ► July (2)
- ► 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

Found Objects

Days Of Thrills & Adventure - From the book Days Of Thrills & Adventure found at a boot sale some years ago - the story of adventure and sc-fi serials of the 30's, 40's and 50's.
3 hours ago
thebluemoment.com

The return of Tony Kinsey - After six months off with an injury, the distinguished drummer Tony Kinsey returned to action last night, setting up his kit at the Clock House in Teddingt...
20 hours ago
KID SHIRT - Blog

SEMIOLOGY GETS AROUND - [...]
1 day ago
It's Full of Stars

Out Of The Box - I love it when something just works, right OOTB. For example, I just bought this Kenton CV to MIDI converter. I took it out of the box, plugged CV and Gat...
1 day ago
....:::::....:::::Heronbone:::...::::..

- Scree Circle/this shoddy crop of grifters/guffawing/ and grasping/all handshakes and back-claps/ Yellow teeth in red faces/grinning glazed hams/ Graft for ...
1 day ago
A Year In The Country

Ocular Signals #29/52a: Image C/2a - File under: A Year In The Country Ocular Explorations The post Ocular Signals #29/52a: Image C/2a appeared first on A Year In The Country.
1 day ago
davidtoop

the sweat of toads - “I was in search of something – a small detail which I remembered with special intensity as part of my vision.” George Eliot: The Lifted Veil (1859) The ...
2 days ago
Tim Worthington's Newsround

Looks Unfamiliar #8: Jem Roberts - ET Is A Definite Thing - *Looks Unfamiliar 8 - Jem Roberts* Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some ...
3 days ago
GreilMarcus.net | Writings by (and about) Greil Marcus

Real Life Rock Top 10 (07/18/17) - From the latest installment of RLR: Village Voice, July 18, 2017
3 days ago
Musical Urbanism |

tuff Marian: sociological fiction and other people’s pictures - One of my most exciting and challenging writing assignments is now available. I was asked to write 150-200 words of text to accompany a photo featured in O...
3 days ago
East of Borneo

Excavation of Chavez Ravine, 1960 - Excavation of land at Chavez Ravine for future Dodger Stadium, June 15, 1960, from the USC Digital Library Los Angeles Examiner Collection
3 days ago
Sounds of the Dawn

Tides of Time – A Sunmoonstar Mix for Sounds of the Dawn - Tracklist Ivy Meadows – Aquari Claude Larson – Software Industry Joanna Brouk – Playing in The Water Kazumi Watanabe – Rain Hiroyuki Namba – Ohtori Time Ri...
3 days ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

PIERRE HENRY: MIX PIERRE HENRY 01.0 (4xCD BOX SET COMPILATION - PHILIPS 1999) (MP3 320) - *DEDICADO A MI GRAN AMIGO JUAN BERMÚDEZ* *Seguimos consiguiendo material sonoro de PIERRE HENRY y seguimos con esta serie inicada por PHILIPS titulada MI...
4 days ago
Pop Theory

Resilience and Design - Here are details of a Forum on the theme of Resilience and Design, edited by Rob Cowley, in the journal Resilience. As well as an introduction by Rob, it c...
4 days ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

Deathblog: George A. Romero (1940 – 2017) - Like most people reading this I’m sure, I was saddened to wake up this Monday morning to the news that George Romero has passed away. Turning on the radio...
5 days ago
Sounding Out!

If You Can Hear My Voice: A Beginner’s Guide to Teaching - Here at Sounding Out! we like to celebrate World Listening Day (July 18) with a blog series. This year, we bring your attention to the role of listening wh...
5 days ago
cardrossmaniac2

Twin Peaks: The Songs So Far... - So nearly every episode of the new season of *Twin Peaks* has featured a song played live in the Bang Bang bar for the final credits sequence. *Chromatic...
6 days ago
WOEBOT

Missing Nude Photo - "Hi I recently (1 day ago sold by huge mistake my husbands twelve inch record call rhythm to rhythm nude photos with a sillouette of naked women back to...
6 days ago
History is made at night

The Dance Floor is Packed with Stories - 'Feels and Flows' by Paul Maheke at Tate Britain in London is essentially a recreation of aspects of a nightclub space within the gallery, developed in re...
6 days ago
Rockets & Rayguns

Maryanne Amacher. - Maryanne Amacher.
6 days ago
Lost Turntable

Japanese Jazz-Funk-Fusion for Hangovers - I’m wicked hungover and have to be at work in three hours. Let’s chill out. Yukata Mogi Die Deustche Ideologie Flight Information Near Miss Telstar (Single...
1 week 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 week 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...
1 week ago
The Hum Blog

on the long overdue reissue of pep llopis’ stunning poiemusia la nau dels argonautes, by freedom to spend - Pep Llopis – Poiemusia La Nau Dels Argonautes (1987 / 2017) Record collecting is among the most misunderstood practices within the contemporary culture lan...
1 week ago
Jason Phereus,

Honestly..... - I think Novara media generally and, especially over the course of the recent election, Aaron Bastani's tireless commitment to getting out into the mainstre...
1 week ago
Disposable Everything

Joydah -
1 week ago
Sonic Truth

Only missing the Vicks - A school hall in deepest Kent, late Saturday night. Pounding beats and unbridled dancing in a sweatbox. Yes, the Rave for Refugees fundraiser threw 80 or s...
1 week ago
The Pirate Archive

Fusion FM - Fusion FM broadcast to The Black Country on 90.2 FM. They featured a few people who had been involved in Explosion FM, although Fusion had a more dance m...
1 week 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 →
2 weeks ago
it's her factory

revised intro for my chapter on new materialism - Back in 2014 I started working on this book chapter about feminist new materialism. I was trying to figure out what’s at stake in new materialist theorists...
2 weeks ago
➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣

2017 ➤ So who can fill Tony Hadley’s big Ballet shoes? - ◼ AFTER YEARS OF HINTING that his career as Spandau Ballet’s frontman was over, both during and after two world tours – all of his bombshells reported here...
2 weeks ago
joy of speed

From the heartland.... - John [Cougar] Mellencamp - "Between A Laugh And A Tear" From the album *Scarecrow* (1985), the transition album between John Cougar and John Mellencamp. An...
2 weeks ago
Critical-Theory.com

5 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in June, 2017 - Books on nostalgia, anarchism and more.
2 weeks ago
RESIDUAL NOISE

Sorceress - *Anita Pallenberg* The film-maker handed me a photograph. “Do you know who that is?” I did, but I knew the film-maker well enough to say “No”. “Anita...
2 weeks ago
Prole Sector

Sound of Planet Rome - Props to Energy Flash and cohort for digging out a fine long read on the early ’90s Roman techno scene, (I would never have found that myself). All the hea...
3 weeks 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 weeks ago
A Scarlet Tracery

- I wrote a review of John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea show at the Arnolfini, that’s in the new number of Dandelion.
3 weeks ago
The Women's Liberation Music Archive

Hear Her Singing - A message from Women For Refugee Women: “Hear her singing The women we work with at Women for Refugee Women have been through so much. Many of them have su...
4 weeks ago
I•HATE•THIS•FILM

HOMEWORK / Abbas Kiarostami (1989, Iran) - *HOMEWORK* / Abbas Kiarostami (1989, Iran)
4 weeks ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

RIP Prodigy -
4 weeks ago
blog to the oldskool

BTTO Radio Archives April – June 2017 - Well… it’s been a while!!! I got busy, first with work, then a UK trip (including a fun set at Rupture). I realized I haven’t really been posting sets here...
4 weeks ago
F.U.N.K (Neil Kulkarni)

RIP PRODIGY: 'THE INFAMOUS' ALBUM REVIEW, JULY 1st, 1995, MELODY MAKER. -
4 weeks ago
More Dark Than Shark

Brian Eno Updates • June 15, 2017 - *IN THIS UPDATE:* Bryan Ferry; Robert Fripp; Talking Heads: *Fear Of Music*; David Bowie; Brian Eno: *Eno Box II - Vocals*; Brian Eno's *Reflection*; Jon...
5 weeks 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 ...
5 weeks 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
5 weeks ago
Velvet Coalmine

A pessimist is never disappointed - Having been wrong about the Brexit vote, and then wrong about Trump, I went into last week’s election with a sense of optimism that I knew full well verged...
5 weeks ago
ActionTimeVision | Broke the yolk, no joke

ALBUM REVIEW: Dengue Fever: Dengue Fever/Escape from the Dragon House - http://www.music-news.com/review/UK/12573/Album/Dengue-Fever Consisting of a heady brew of infectious psyche-diaspora rock of filtered histories and channe...
1 month ago
streams of expression

New from MATERIALS: Prynne & Kruk - A sequence of ten poems by J.H. Prynne. “Oh strike the light, float the boat, for sake of common peril they are fallen away as gathered up in sight of lame...
2 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...
2 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...
2 months ago
Found Objects

About The Author # 2. -
2 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 - ...
2 months ago
leaving earth

poststep still standing - At the end of 2015 it seemed like the golden age of poststep was fading fast, so it was quite a surprise that 2016 turned out to be one of the best postste...
3 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...
3 months ago
The Pinocchio Theory

Jeff VanderMeer’s BORNE - Borne is Jeff VanderMeer’s first new novel since his Southern Reach trilogy. I was stunned by reading it, and I am not sure that I can really do it justice...
3 months ago
The Work Trials

LICHFIELD INTERROGATES: Ten Years of Future of the Left with Falco - *Future of the Left are my favourite contemporary rock band still making utterly vital music today, so it was an absolute delight to find that Falco had a...
3 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 ...
3 months ago
Our God is Speed

La Trahison des Clercs, ed. #115 - There are a number of reasons that my interest in following the present art world has flagged to almost complete indifference these past several years....
4 months ago
God Is No Longer A Dj

Postcards from the Fjords – Nord Label - “Electronic music is art, not just entertainment” – Simon Viehoff, Nord Label founder Nord Label is a small independent electronic music record label, base...
5 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...
5 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 ...
5 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 ...
5 months ago
Boring Old Books

The Craft of Model Making - Thomas Bayley, The Dryad Press, Leicester
5 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...
6 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 ...
6 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...
6 months ago
Ghosts in the TV

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

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...
7 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...
7 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....
7 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 ...
8 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 ...
8 months ago
Rave Archive UK »

Dreamscape 3 ‘Absolutely No Compromise ‘ – The Sanctuary – 10.4.92 - Dreamscape 3 ‘Absolutely No Compromise ‘ – The Sanctuary – 10.4.92 Carl Cox – Dreamscape 3 – 10.4.92 Download/Play Top Buzz- Dreamscape 3 ‘Absolutely No C...
9 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...
9 months 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...
11 months 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: ...
11 months 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...
11 months 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...
11 months 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
Another Nickel In The Machine

“Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics’ – The Book! - It’s been a long time coming, for which I apologise, but the book of this website is published on the 15th November. Years ago I started this site, initial...
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...
1 year ago
SIGNS FICTION

- Signs Fiction has moved! Thanks for the ongoing support!
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
2 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...
2 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 ...
2 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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.