blissblog: mouth music #21

BLOGS AND SITES I LIKE

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Best Ever Albums - Top 1,000 Albums # 547 Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R -
2 minutes ago
The Pinocchio Theory

Grant Morrison, LUDA - I have followed Grant Morrison’s work, on and off, for something like three decades now – ever since Kathy Acker told me I had to read him. Morrison’s run ...
5 hours ago
The Ethan Hein Blog

Bach’s Lute Suite in G minor - I don’t get a lot of music-related correspondence on LinkedIn, so I was surprised when a stranger wrote me a very nice message there about my deep dive int...
5 hours ago
Tribune

Inside Amazon’s Wildcat Strikes - Faced with a financial squeeze from every side, Amazon worker Chris*, from Doncaster, recently had to go onto a debt management plan. His child maintenan...
12 hours ago
Hate Meditations

Beats and yelling from: DeathSlaughter, Adaestuo, Insurgency - DeathSlaughter: Passing Through the Valley of SodomitesOut 3rd August on Cianeto Discos/Timeworn Records Viscus primordial beginnings give rise to rich sym...
13 hours ago
Wormwoodiana

The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Follies and Grottoes -
13 hours ago
it's her factory

How to write an effective peer review report (for humanities & social sciences) - Peer reviewing is a common and essential part of everyday scholarly labor. But like many day-to-day academic activities, graduate programs rarely teach stu...
15 hours ago
xenogothic

A Conversation between Mother and Son - After graduating from university in 2013, I moved back home. When mam moved home from the hospital, I was newly fixated on my parents’ relationship. My dad...
18 hours ago
Wyrd Britain

The Ghost Slayers: Thrilling Tales of Occult Detection - [image: Wyrd Britain reviews 'The Ghost Slayers: Thrilling Tales of Occult Detection' edited by Mike Ashley from the British Library Tales of the Weird.]...
19 hours ago
dennis cooper

Things made by people who say things like, “As it would be weird and most likely illegal for me to marry the dead James Dean, I decided I would have to worship him instead.” * - * (restored) “Don’t judge me.” The contents of the bedroom where Michael Jackson died are now on display at an auction house in Beverly Hills — and thoug...
21 hours ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

KLAUS SCHULZE LIVE CONCERTS - KLAUS SCHULZE & ARTHUR BROWN - COLOGNE STADTHALLE, GERMANY (11 10 79) (MP3 320) - *DOWNLOAD*
1 day ago
Real Life

Dreaming in Color - Satoshi Kon's movies, which paralleled the rise of social media, explore the surreal meeting of interiority and public life
1 day ago
Jason Phereus,

I appear to have got to the age of 52 without ever hearing this until five minutes ago. -
2 days ago
Blog - Peter Stanfield

Iggy and the Stooges at Max's – Rock Scene Reports - With the New York Dolls on the cover, *Rock Scene* (March 1974) ran large with the Stooges’ Max’s Kansas City gigs on July 30–31st and August 6–7th, 1973...
2 days ago
Tank Magazine Podcast

Thuận and Trà My Hickin read from Chinatown - Thuận and Trà My Hickin read from Thuận's novel *Chinatown*, in a translation by Nguyễn An Lý. Thuận reads in Vietnamese and Trà My in English, providing...
2 days ago
Municipal Dreams

Carpenders Park and South Oxhey: a Tale of Two Estates, Part 2 - I’m pleased to feature the second of two guest posts by Dr Jill Stewart. Jill has worked in housing for … Continue reading →
2 days ago
Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations

Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCV (William Golding, John Wyndham, Mervyn Peake, Joan D. Vinge, Ralph Blum, and an anthology) - Which books/covers/authors intrigue you? Which have you read? Disliked? Enjoyed? 1. 5 Tales From Tomorrow, ed. T. E. Dikty (1957) From the back cover: “THE...
3 days ago
cardrossmaniac2

Kano - I'm ready - Future electro from 1980 by Kano. For a start that bass....then the vocal science....the untreated vocal melodies are like something Ariel Pink was influ...
3 days ago
Trevor Barre

Lightning Bolt at The Scala - So, to The Scala last Thursday to see Lightning Bolt, supported by the archly-named Sly & The Family Drone. The latter were neither especially droney or ...
4 days ago
History is made at night

'Riot in Whitehall': London Miners Strike Demo 1985 - In February 1985 the miners strike in Britain was in its last few weeks. A highly organised state sponsored strike breaking operation was having an effec...
4 days ago
Eliminated for Reasons of Space

Things I Said on August 14 - 2017: Avoided facebook all weekend. Just signed on and got depressed again (for more than one reason.) Not gonna stick around, I don’t think. But seriously...
5 days ago
Modernism Unbound

The Long Count, by Debit - Ambient, Drone / Modern Love / February 17, 2022 – Reviewed by Jon Lindblom DEBIT · The Long Count I think about all this stuff. Like, were their instrumen...
6 days ago
lunarlodge

Beetle in the Anthill - Notes on DD, T. Gowdy, Caterina Barbieri, Bienoise, and Kristin Oppenheim
1 week ago
The Generalist

STRANGE ATTRACTOR PRESS: OBSOLETE SPELLS and CITY OF THE BEAST/ THE LIVES OF VICTOR NEUBURG AND ALEISTER CROWLEY - The Strange Attractor Press is an independent publishing house founded in 2003, based in London and run by Mark Pilkington and Jamie Sutcliffe. The Ge...
1 week ago
GreilMarcus.net | Writings by (and about) Greil Marcus

“Critical aim remains sharp…” More Real Life Rock reviewed in ‘The Current’ (8/5/22) - “Marcus refuses to lay all his cards on the table. He does not write catalog copy. He wants to leave you with an impression, not a description—his impressi...
1 week ago
Datacide

EVERYTHING ELSE IS EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS Book Back in Stock! - Available again! EVERYTHING ELSE IS EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS is a 364-page A4-size tome collecting the complete editions of datacide issues The post EVERYTHIN...
1 week ago
Sounding Out!

The Sound of What Becomes Possible: Language Politics and Jesse Chun’s 술래 SULLAE (2020) - “To this day I think about all the strange words I missed out on, all the losses I’m still carrying from faraway…I still think of the time when I spoke one...
1 week ago
A Year In The Country

Oss Oss Wee Oss, Joining the Dance Far Away from the City and a Freak Zone Transmission… - Writer and presenter Stuart Maconie recently Tweeted about discovering Alan Lomax’s 1953 film Oss Oss Wee Oss, a documentary which focuses on the ‘Obby ‘Os...
2 weeks ago
thebluemoment.com

The last of AMM - It seemed fitting that the final performance of AMM, the pioneering London-based improvising ensemble, should have featured two of the musicians who starte...
2 weeks ago
Ace Linguist

Ace Linguist Interview on BBC Oxfordshire - I got the chance to be interviewed by Tom of BBC Oxford a week ago, and I wanted to share the conversation with you all! The topic at hand is mondegreens...
3 weeks ago
New Critique

[Poetry] — Christopher Linforth - "Questions should be avoided/about the terms of the will/and whether cremation or internment/is the preferred state for his body./Unless, of course, he was...
3 weeks ago
8Sided Blog

Colorfully Aligned - I was pretty excited to see Chrome featured on Bandcamp Daily. The piece is an excellent overview of the pioneering San Francisco duo, revealing more than ...
3 weeks ago
Found Objects

"I hesitate to mention this distasteful subject" -
3 weeks ago
Suspended Reason

Strategic Conceptualization - When consequences are the result of categorization, people will perform categories to attain their desired consequences. Categories carry with them a mix o...
1 month ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

Revisiting ‘The Damned’ (1962) - literally. - * Black leather, black leather, crash crash crash… * When I began this blog way back in 2009, one of the first films I felt compelled to review was Joseph...
1 month ago
We Are the Mutants

Pop Culture Jam: The Mainstream Subversion of Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel - By *Andy Prisbylla* The subversive paradox created when Max Headroom turned pitchman for corporate cola is just one of many in the career of Rocky Morton a...
1 month ago
Chart Music podcast (David Stubbs, Neil Kulkarni, Simon Price, Taylor Parkes, Al Needham et al)

Chart Music #66: March 15th 1990 – De La Stoke - The latest episode of the podcast which asks; has anyone ever lost their virginity while listening to a Jive Bunny record? It’s the long-awaited return of ...
1 month ago
➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣

2022 ➤ Out of chaos comes forth Grace Jones - ■ WHAT AN O-T-T SPECTACLE Grace Jones made of her finale last night as the annual Meltdown Festival’s curator over ten days at London’s Royal Festival Hall...
1 month ago
Pushing Ahead of the Dame

Fifty→ Ziggy ←50 - 1. The first sound that you hear, creeping in via Ken Scott’s faders, is Woody Woodmansey’s kick drum and closed hi-hat, in 3/4 time, with a snare hit (flu...
2 months ago
BLDGBLOG

Potsdamer Sea - [Image: From Kiessling’s Grosser Verkehrs-Plan von Berlin (1920).] It’s funny to be back in Berlin, a city I once thought I’d spend the rest of my life i...
2 months ago
Tim Worthington's Newsround

Top Of The Box Vol. 2 - [image: Top Of The Box Vol. 2 by Tim Worthington - the story behind every album released by BBC Records And Tapes.] From *Play School Play On* to *Russ...
2 months ago
Ericland

Up The Bunting - I had a run-in with a gun person who attempted to explain to me how it all works: *Someone points a gun at you, he’s the bad guy, I’m pointing a gun at h...
2 months ago
Blue Labyrinths

Not All Art is Beautiful (and That’s Good) - Hans Holbein’s portrait The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (from 1521, now in the Basel Kunstmuseum) is, Continue reading →
3 months ago
Lost Turntable

Back from the dead with YMO - Hey, how’s this thing work again? Why the even longer break than usual? Well, the typical “I can’t find anything to share” excuse aside, this year has prov...
3 months ago
God Is No Longer A Dj

Tracks I Wish I’d Written (issue #24): J Majik – Repertoire - “It was a really exciting time for Jungle/DnB. The landscape was so open to experimentation and the mainstream press suddenly seemed more interested in the...
3 months ago
The Astral Plane

‘Astraltopia’ Out Now + Label Shutting Down - As both an amateurish blog launched as a teenager and a slightly more professional record label, The Astral Plane has been the vessel through which I have ...
3 months ago
blog to the oldskool

AV-8 – Pyrogen (Mad Monk Mix) - Been ages, hope everyone is doing OK! Here’s an absolutely mad 1992 tune that showed up in the mail for me recently. Honestly I’m not too phased by weird 9...
4 months ago
Oliver Craner

On Lucio Fulci’s ‘Beatrice Cenci’ - Extravagant characters, wild ambitions and sudden tragedies are built into the map of Rome; the theatrical quality of Roman history is reflected in the the...
4 months ago
(SF) 365

Joker - I’ve been wanting to watch *Joker* since it came out, and the fact that I haven’t reveals to me that, deep down, I knew it would be a bit of a struggle. ...
4 months ago
More Dark Than Shark

MORE DARK THAN SHARK - Updates: April 10, 2022 -
4 months ago
Aloysius

night log #9272 (2:16 to 2:49 am) - now that the snow’s melted i’ve resumed going on late night walks around my neighborhood. for a few days it got really warm (by march in minnesota standar...
4 months ago
Nina Power

Writing Workshop, Norway, May 2022 - Along with Lev Parker (Morbid Books), I’ll be co-running a writing workshop in Norway between May 22nd – 29th. Information here. There are eight places. Th...
4 months ago
WOEBOT

Hip Priest - *Seeking Approval* *Mark E Smith gatekeeper.* The Fall are catnip for people like me who write about music. That’s paradoxical because Mark E. Smith ten...
5 months ago
It's Full of Stars

Visually Audioing -
5 months ago
The New Vulgate

Isuue #159 (March 9, 2022) - *Leroy Johnson, Gun for a Coward (1956)* Photograph by Sherman Clark. Courtesy Marc Wanamaker-Bison Archives / Margaret Herrick Library. --------------...
5 months ago
The Pirate Archive

Rapid Radio – Leeds - In May of 1988, there were rumours of new reggae, soul station starting in Leeds, but it wasn’t until June that the first tests took place for Rapid Radi...
5 months ago
Rave Archive UK »

Heat meets Jungle Fever – Hastings Pier – 17.9.99 - Ray Keith w/ IC3 & Skibadee – Heat meets Jungle Fever – Hastings – 17.9.99 Download/Play Andy C & Mampi Swift w/ Remadee, Foxy & Shabba – Heat meets Jungle...
5 months ago
East of Borneo

We Are… Portraits of Metro Riders by Local Artists - Where do you find inspiration on your journey? Celebrating the diversity of Los Angeles County and the community of transit riders, We Are…Portraits of Met...
6 months ago
History's Dumpster

The Garfield Telephone - 1986 ad for the Tyco Garfield Telephone The 1986 Tyco Garfield telephone perhaps would have been another '80s pop culture relic were it not for a phenom...
7 months ago
underscore__

The underscore__ 2021 Reading Roundup - *The reader became the book; and summer night* *Was like the conscious being of the book.* —Wallace Stevens I hold my hands up: in last year’s roundup, r...
7 months ago
streams of expression

Blog Posts in 2021 - Rob Halpern's *Hieroglyphs of the Inverted World* (December 2021) December (Update Post) (December 2021) Ligeti in November (November 2021) "May as well ...
7 months ago
Kieran Press-Reynolds genreologist at large

My Top 20ish Songs of 2021 (Plus 15 HMs) - Here's my top 20ish songs of 2021, plus 15 newly added honorable mentions. Honorable mentions (alphabetical) *67 – “not me mix” I was deep in a SoundCloud ...
7 months ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

Second Look at 2011's Best Music - *2011 ALBUMS REVISITED* Partial originals here 1. Rustie - Glass Swords 2. Destroyer - Kaputt 3. The Weeknd - House of Balloons 4. Grouper - A I A: A...
7 months ago
Musical Urbanism |

favorite music of 2021 - Wasn’t “music to reflect a pandemic” the theme for last year’s end-of-year-lists? 2021 finds us really thick in music that was made in the pandemic. My sel...
7 months ago
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It/Ich/Itch: The Insufficiency of Georges Bataille - “I am only an empty irritation” Georges Bataille, Inner Experience Perhaps, on being confronted with the history of philosophy, it is a reasonable reactio...
7 months ago
The Interregnum Navigation Bureau

Coda - I will now be wrapping up this blog, as I've pretty much said everything I wanted to say. Even when I first started blogging with the "Decades" blogs all t...
8 months ago
A Shiver in the Archives

Poetic Elves in the 1920s - I was discussing "twee" with a friend and remembered a nifty poem I read about thirty-five years ago. Of course I had to go find it, and it's as good as...
8 months ago
davidtoop

Spheric resonances / eggflutes - Last September, when social contact was still a desert landscape, Ecka Mordecai cycled to my home to present me with a gift of eggflutes. To describe them ...
8 months ago
joy of speed

Circuit des Yeux - Dogma -
8 months ago
Blackadelic Pop

- Acclaimed writer Jeffery Renard Allen (Rails Under My Back, Song of the Shank) has launched a new online literary magazine called TaintTaintTaint https://...
8 months ago
The Pink Temple

- Maximum Joy Surn orver crest kill the curdled abortion that one was a mistake. Brighter now and happier cabbie waves cap outside the window wound-down Alri...
9 months ago
Hyperstition Arrays

Protected: Hardt and Negri’s Optimism and Subjectivity - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
9 months ago
Pop Theory

Books I Didn’t Read During Lockdown: III - But we all should…
9 months ago
Airport Through The Trees

In lieu of Twitter part ghzd/fkjw - A doctor refusing to treat a patient who is unvaccinated and a police office shooting someone who is unarmed are doing the same thing.
10 months ago
on the ones

Břetislav Pojar and Miroslav Štěpánek #2: The largely Štěpánek-directed “Hey Mister, Let’s Play!” entries (1966-67) - Watch the films discussed in this article with English subtitles by viewing them on YouTube here! …or, download copies for personal viewing here! When we l...
11 months ago
Cut and Run

Coupling Musical Noise -
11 months ago
The Work Trials

The Podcast! - Okay, so I haven't logged in for ages but just noticed we seem to have been quietly amassing a fair few views over the past few months. I'm not doing the...
1 year ago
Groupname for Grapejuice

One Eye Gone Black - [image: https://hips.hearstapps.com/amv-prod-alt.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ATA063020keaton_img01.jpg?crop=1xw:0.6666666666666666xh;cente...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 year 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
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
A CARELESS MAN'S CAREFUL DAUGHTER

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1 year 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...
1 year ago
A Scarlet Tracery

- I interviewed William Basinski for the cover story of the new issue of The Wire.
1 year ago
ActionTimeVision | Broke the yolk, no joke

Separated at (still)birth #1 -
1 year 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-...
1 year 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...
2 years 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...
2 years ago
Tower of Sleep

CVS Learnnet Login Guide - As login over the smartphone makes your work easier and sturdy on the similar time. 5. Hit the login button to get effectively logged in. 5. In case you’...
2 years 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 ...
2 years ago
Blue Lines Revisited

Photo -
2 years ago
Disposable Everything

The reification of Welsh rugby - (Also available to read on Medium) A shiver down the collective spine of the Welsh nation: international rugby (or, one presumes, that which is presented i...
2 years ago
darkmatter Journal » | darkmatter Journal

The clamour of nationalism: Race and nation in twenty-first-century Britain by Sivamohan Valluvan - The successful upsurge of nationalism across Europe is unnerving, to say the least. The Clamour of Nationalism’s achievement is not in its desire to explai...
2 years ago
The Priapean Logs

Daniel Was Traveling Tonight On A Plane - Danny L. Please can you pick a pre-92 rap album for us to do our listening club to tomorrow night. Thank you very much.
2 years ago
Binary Heap

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

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

- 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. ...
2 years ago
Amodern

Construction of Selena Leo Vegas Casino Download World Resort & Casino Commences in Primorye Gambling Zone - Construction of Selena World Resort & Casino Commences in Primorye Gambling Zone Russian casino developer Diamond Fortune Holdings Ltd. announced that co...
2 years ago
marathonpacks

Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9 - Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9
2 years ago
Critical-Theory.com

Listen: Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism - Is capitalism bad for your sex life?
3 years 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 years ago
Dream Transmissions

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

The Design and Placing of High Quality Concrete -
3 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...
3 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.
3 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...
4 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 [...]
4 years ago
....:::::....:::::Heronbone:::...::::..

- *The reward for abstaining is revoked for indulging. The punishment for withholding is lifted followi...
4 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
4 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...
4 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 →
4 years ago
The New Inquiry - Marginal Utility

Save the World - How *Star Wars* films thematize their own irrelevance
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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 ...
5 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...
5 years ago
Found Objects

About The Author # 2. -
5 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...
5 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...
5 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 ...
5 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 ...
5 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 ...
5 years ago
Ghosts in the TV

trefoiled: Blocked Ascension - Carlyn Wutkee, 2011. Paper,... - trefoiled: *Blocked Ascension* - Carlyn Wutkee, 2011. Paper, gluestick.
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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 ...
5 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: ...
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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...
6 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...
6 years ago
For Your Pleasure

2HB - Words Don’t Express My Meaning … 2HB (Ferry), Roxy Music, 1972 I told Mark [Lancaster] I was writing some songs, and he said, “what are they called?” So I ...
6 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...
6 years ago
Internal exile

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6 years ago
up close and personal

The future then -
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Writing Through the Fog

Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
6 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...
6 years ago
Vexed at the Earth

And hoy them doon the pit of hell - Seething with cold hate, Louisa Jo Killen.
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 years ago
Mounds and Circles

Face Fuzz - Racial stereotypes and highly flammable unnatural fibres. Blackpool, 2015.
6 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...
6 years ago
SIGNS FICTION

- Signs Fiction has moved! Thanks for the ongoing support!
6 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 ...
7 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...
7 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 ...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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. ...
7 years ago
Social Dead Zone

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

Sound JumbleSarah & Duck - Sound Jumble Sarah & Duck
7 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...
7 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...
7 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 ...
8 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...
8 years ago
Rouge's Foam

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8 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 ...
8 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...
8 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 ...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
9 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....
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
10 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...
11 years ago
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