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BLOGS AND SITES I LIKE

cardrossmaniac2

the counts - pack of lies - *The Counts - Pack Of Lies (1971)* This shit is just pure peak funk. The rhythm track here is off the fucking chain. The whole band is on fire though. Pro...
2 hours ago
Tribune

Anti-Apartheid’s International Militants - For three decades, Ronnie Kasrils engaged in a transnational crusade to bring about the destruction of apartheid in South Africa. A founder member of uMk...
5 hours ago
Hate Meditations

Beats and yelling shorts, 1st October 23 - Tideless: Eye of WaterOut 15th September on Chaos Records For all my love of black metal, there’s no denying the many negatives it brought to metal’s evolu...
6 hours ago
It starts with a birthstone...

Mojo Collection - The Ultimate Music Companion # 427 Run DMC - Raising Hell -
8 hours ago
Wyrd Britain

Never the Bride (radio play) - [image: Wyrd Britain reviews the BBC Radio 7 radio play 'Never The Bride' written by Paul Magrs.] To date Paul Magrs has written nine novels featuring the d...
8 hours ago
xenogothic

Oneohtrix Point Never Again - In my teenage bedroom, I had a PC in one corner, on which I listened to all of my music. Two speakers sat on either side of the monitor. The wiring was bad...
13 hours ago
Ace Linguist

No post this month - Sorry, but no post for September! Life is crazy...
14 hours ago
8Sided Blog

A Mess of Headaches - I have nothing that coherent (i.e., reassuring) to say about Songtradr’s acquisition of Bandcamp. There’s an opinion that Songtradr appears to be a better ...
1 day ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

Horror Express 2023:All Aboard! - *“It would be logical to suppose that troubled art is born out of troubled times. But it would be wrong to be that systematic about it, for what period of...
1 day ago
Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations

Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCCXXV (Walter Tevis, Katherine MacLean, Michael Frayn, and Jeffrey A. Carver) - My rough start to the semester proves hard to dispel. I’ll get back to my regular programming soon–I promise. In the meantime, I’ve collected some goodies!...
1 day ago
➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣

2023 ➤ Witnessing the performance of Gambon’s life as his tribute to Pinter - ❚ MICHAEL GAMBON WAS UNDOUBTEDLY Britain’s greatest living actor for much of his career and remained so until his death this week. So, indeed, Harold Pinte...
1 day ago
Wormwoodiana

Authors Take Sides on Spiritualism - 'Metropolitan' 1920 - A Guest Post by Bill Ectric -
1 day ago
Datacide

Datacide Nineteen Coming Out in October 2023 - Datacide Nineteen is at the printers and will be out shortly! Pandemic, war, inflation, apocalyptic scenarios about climate change and The post Datacide N...
2 days ago
Electronic Sound

Video premiere: Halina Rice – ‘New Basis’ - ES Session alumnus releases new EP
2 days ago
BLDGBLOG

Agency of the Subsurface - [Image: The Heathen Gate at Carnuntum, outside Vienna; photo by Geoff Manaugh.] Last summer, a geophysicist at the University of Vienna named Immo Trinks p...
2 days ago
The Ethan Hein Blog

Polymeter vs polyrhythm - As I continue to build groove pedagogy resources, I want to clear up some persistent confusion about polymeter and polyrhythm. If you don’t feel like readi...
3 days ago
thebluemoment.com

Miles à l’Olympia - Miles Davis arrived in Paris on the morning of November 30, 1957 for a tour booked by a local promoter, Marcel Romano. He was met at the airport by the sin...
3 days ago
Tank Magazine Podcast

Smart cookie - "Intelligences tend to have very narrow applications." In this week's TANK podcast, AI researcher Ali Eslami speaks to Caroline Issa on the potentials an...
3 days ago
A Year In The Country

2003: Andrew – The Corn Mother 39/52 - I thought when the internet began to get big that something would turn up. But it didn’t. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve searched for the phrase “The...
3 days ago
ooh! directory of blogs

Grace Kingsley's Hollywood - “One hundred year old news and gossip, compiled by Lisle Foote.” 🇺🇸 Started in 2016. Average 1,491 words.
5 days ago
Dan Fox

Issue 31: On Repeat - The arc of art
5 days ago
Phil Gyford’s website: Everything

w/e 2023-09-24 - A dog; a passport; technical issues; ‘Drops of God’; season two of ‘Starstruck’; and ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’.
6 days ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

Henry Kaiser – It’s a Wonderful Life (1984) (AVANT GARDE PROJECT 134, FLAC) - Henry Kaiser (nacido en 1952) es un guitarrista y compositor vanguardista estadounidense, a menudo contado entre la nueva generación de improvisadores, q...
1 week ago
GreilMarcus.net | Writings by (and about) Greil Marcus

“Why I write” (9/20/2023) - On September 20, Greil Marcus delivered the annual Windham-Campbell Lecture “Why I Write.” Greil is introduced by Daphne Brooks, the William R. Kenan, Jr. ...
1 week ago
Blog - Peter Stanfield

In the Shadow of Centre Point – Peter Watts' History of Denmark Street - Never mind that the subject fascinates, I’d have bought Peter Watts’ *Denmark Street*: *London’s Street of Sound* for its jacket alone, which pictures A...
1 week ago
History is made at night

Sheffield Gramophone Shops - Sucker for old gramophone record sleeves, advertising the shops they were bought in. I found these examples in a Peckham charity shop, both of them from ...
1 week ago
A Shiver in the Archives

Finding E.R. Eddison in an Unexpected Place - Chance brought me to view a copy of an anthology *Great Stories of Sport *(1931), edited by Thomas Moult. Scanning the contents I was surprised to see E.R...
2 weeks ago
Eliminated for Reasons of Space

The Möbius Strip Left - Has anybody written and/or published a book yet about (or maybe even called?) The Horseshoe Liberals: How the Far Left Curves Around to the Right, with cha...
2 weeks ago
Modernism Unbound

On The Historical Avant-Garde - The ambitons of the artists associated with the historical avant-garde remain relevant to this day. In this essay, Jon Lindblom looks closer at Peter Bürge...
2 weeks ago
New Critique

[Poetry] — Kenn Taylor - "It must have been made worse though,/having to fight your way through/those corridors clogged with/bullshitters and grifters/with the same depth as the mi...
2 weeks ago
Blue Labyrinths

Arabic Hauntology: The Sound of Habibi Funk Records - The twenty-third album by Habibi Funk Records was released on the 14th of July 2023. But it may as well Continue reading →
2 weeks ago
Sounding Out!

Echoes in Transit: Loudly Waiting at the Paso del Norte Border Region - This series listens to the political, gendered, queer(ed), racial engagements and class entanglements involved in proclaiming out loud: La-TIN-x. ChI-ca-NA...
2 weeks ago
streams of expression

News of News of News of News - Some recent writing: --On Krzysztof Penderecki for Bachtrack. --On Don Cherry and Peter Brötzmann's work with children fo...
3 weeks ago
Found Objects

Wireless World Part 2 - Back in 2019 I posted a number of pages/ads from the 1962 publication Wireless world back then I had every intention of putting more pages from Wireless ...
3 weeks ago
Chart Music podcast (David Stubbs, Neil Kulkarni, Simon Price, Taylor Parkes, Al Needham et al)

Chart Music #72: October 3rd 1985 – Rod Vicious - The latest episode of the podcast which asks; so how do you set fire to a trophy? Like a man in a cage, we find ourselves trapped in the mid-Eighties, impr...
5 weeks ago
Abundant Living

Geese, Rhys, Warp, and Retirement - Welcome to the newest Abundant Living! I’ve been too busy working on new demos for Telematics and Publicist UK (and occasionally fetching fruit snacks fo...
5 weeks ago
Oliver Craner

Ann Clwyd, 1937-2023 - Ann Clwyd was a whip’s nightmare: a campaigning politician prepared to put principle ahead of party discipline, she was sacked from shadow cabinet position...
5 weeks ago
The Pinocchio Theory

THE BLUE BEAUTIFUL WORLD, by Karen Lord - Karen Lord’s novel The Blue Beautiful World (to be published on August 29, 2023; I got to read an advance copy through Netgalley) is the third in her “Cygn...
1 month ago
Aloysius

the limits of musical perception, american vs. european style - *An Archetypal Dyad * This clip of Foucault and Chomsky is a good reference point for an issue I've been thinking about lately. I guess you could call it...
1 month ago
Groupname for Grapejuice

Strange and Blessed Fire 5: Mothernaked - *While Pico and Patrizzi might differ on Aristotle, their philosophies incurred the common fate of condemnation by the Church. Yet neither was intention...
1 month ago
Pushing Ahead of the Dame

Bowie Posthumous: The Idiot, Whyteleafe - Lloyd Cole, “The Idiot” (On Pain, 2023). “We’ll cycle to the discotheque,” Iggy Pop says, a smile cracking across his face, as he and Bowie sit in the limo...
2 months ago
Musical Urbanism |

1000 day album challenge - “Michael Guerrero challenged me to post 1000 albums that influenced my musical tastes. One album cover per day for a thousand days.” A few weeks into the C...
2 months ago
Municipal Dreams

A Joyful Family Home? - On the 9th July, the Sunday Times posted an article in their Style section. Here’s how it was headlined in … Continue reading →
2 months ago
The Pirate Archive

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
2 months ago
The Generalist

MUSIC FROM THE TEMPLE OF LIGHT - This is a truly wonderful album. Joyous. A huge range of wonderful instrumentation. Spiritual. Calming. Healing. I played it to an audience who we...
2 months ago
More Dark Than Shark

Brian Eno is MORE DARK THAN SHARK - Updates: July 13, 2023 -
2 months ago
Rave Archive UK »

One Nation Valentines – Club UN – 10.2.96 - Ray Keith – One Nation Valentines – Club UN – 10.2.96 Download/Play Kenny Ken – One Nation Valentines – Club UN – 10.2.96 Download/Play Dr S Gachet & Randa...
2 months ago
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Fragments on Uncharted and the Last of Us; The Ludonarrative Cut - [Spoilers from any and all of these games; Uncharted 1, 2, 3, The Last of Us, The Last of Us Part 2] The last of us part 2 is a strange and remarkable vide...
3 months ago
We Are the Mutants

RAD, MAD & BAD: The Analog Rebellion of Craig Baldwin and Other Cinema - By *Andy Prisbylla* Under the stewardship of underground filmmaker and curator Craig Baldwin, Other Cinema stands as the vanguard of Baldwin’s personal art...
3 months ago
It's Full of Stars

Formses - My FORMS series of albums (to be found over on my bandcamp page) takes an idea I first explored on my Twenty Systems album, but develops it into the idea o...
3 months ago
God Is No Longer A Dj

Liner Notes on 2022 – Part V (Allusions) - This is the 5th and closing part of the blog’s extended ‘Liner Notes on 2022’ series and I have already made a promise to myself to keep it shorter next ti...
5 months ago
Ericland

An Easter Pilgrimage To Cromer - I think we were on a high security alert. It seems highly likely at JFK on the day a former US president gets arrested on criminal charges. It’s the fir...
5 months ago
WOEBOT

Sick Veg - I can hear the grass grow...
6 months ago
on the ones

Rintarō, “New Moomin” (1972), and the Last Days of Mushi Pro - Last year marked the 50th anniversary of a rather little-known series in Japanese animation history. New Moomin was the second TV anime to be based loosely...
6 months ago
joy of speed

Goanna - Solid Rock - Another 1982 entry, this one from the Australian band Goanna led by the great Shane Howard. A bit ahead of their time in that the subject matter of the s...
6 months ago
History's Dumpster

The Jupiter Ace Computer - The Jupiter ACE computer was a British-designed computer that was released in 1982 by Jupiter Cantab, a company founded by two ex-Sinclair Research ...
6 months ago
Jason Phereus,

Repeater Books Presents 'Tonight It's A World We Bury' with Bill Peel an... -
7 months ago
The Fantastic Hope

“ABSOLUTELY PLEASANT” - Sublimely spot-on close readings of contemporary music journalism by Neil Kulkarni. In fact, I can see a lot of potential in dissections of this kind: they...
7 months ago
Kieran Press-Reynolds genreologist at large

My top 25ish songs of 2022 (plus 20 honorable mentions) - Here are my top 25 songs of 2022 with 20 bonus honorable mentions. I’ve also made Spotify and YouTube playlists. Thanks for reading, hope you find somethin...
9 months ago
East of Borneo

Virginia Dwan, influential L.A. gallerist and risk-taking arts patron, dies - Pioneering art collector and gallery owner Virginia Dwan dies at age 90.
9 months ago
Lost Turntable

Merry Christmas With Double Dragon - Hey this thing still works, cool. Wanted to get one more post out before the year was up. I know that a lot of you who still read this site (thank you) are...
9 months ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

A Second Take on 2012's EEPEEs and ELPEEs - * Best Albums of 2012* 1. Jam City -Classical Curves 2. Death Grips -The Money Store 3. Le1f -Dark York 4. DJ Rashad -Teklife Volume 1: Welcome to the...
9 months ago
Nina Power

Second Wave Feminism Course, London Jan-March 2023 - I’ll be teaching an in-person course at Mary Ward Centre (42 Queen Square) on Friday afternoons 1-3pm from Jan 20th – March 31st 2023. The details and sign...
9 months ago
Suspended Reason

Maq III - Dear X, So the bad news is I have no easy way to explain what I’m working on/have been working on/will be working on for a while. I’ve been asked about the...
10 months ago
lunarlodge

Autumn Serenade - Notes on Janet Werner, Backxwash, This is not a Scarf, a loving tribute to Boris Brott, &+
10 months ago
it's her factory

What 90s alt rock radio, Woodstock 99, and the Telecom Act have to do with contemporary right-wing media - While I have your attention: now that writing is no longer something my day job pays me to do, I’ve decided to keep the newsletter free but set up a Kofi t...
10 months ago
The New Vulgate

Issue #160 (October 3, 2022) - ------------------------------ ------------------------------ *Never Remember* The Democratic Party Storytelling Blues Joe Carducci When ...
11 months ago
Real Life

Who Can It Be Now - On social platforms, the "fluid self" is not a rejection of personal branding but another manifestation of it
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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. ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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://...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Hyperstition Arrays

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

Books I Didn’t Read During Lockdown: III - But we all should…
1 year 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.
1 year ago
Cut and Run

Coupling Musical Noise -
2 years 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...
2 years 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 years 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...
2 years 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 years 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 years 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 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years ago
A CARELESS MAN'S CAREFUL DAUGHTER

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2 years 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...
2 years ago
A Scarlet Tracery

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

Separated at (still)birth #1 -
2 years 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-...
3 years 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...
3 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...
3 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’...
3 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 ...
3 years ago
Blue Lines Revisited

Photo -
3 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...
3 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...
3 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.
3 years ago
Binary Heap

A Philosophonics of Space: Sound, Futurity and the End of the World (PDF) -
3 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…
3 years 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. ...
3 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...
3 years ago
marathonpacks

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

Listen: Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism - Is capitalism bad for your sex life?
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 years ago
Dream Transmissions

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

The Design and Placing of High Quality Concrete -
4 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...
5 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.
5 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...
5 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 [...]
5 years ago
....:::::....:::::Heronbone:::...::::..

- *The reward for abstaining is revoked for indulging. The punishment for withholding is lifted followi...
5 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
5 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...
5 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 →
5 years ago
The New Inquiry - Marginal Utility

Save the World - How *Star Wars* films thematize their own irrelevance
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
6 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 ...
6 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...
6 years ago
Found Objects

About The Author # 2. -
6 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...
6 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 atmosphe...
6 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 ...
6 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 ...
6 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 ...
6 years ago
Ghosts in the TV

danismm: Tilsit, Kaliningrad Oblast, (Königsberg) 1926 Neue... - danismm: *Tilsit, Kaliningrad Oblast,* (Königsberg) 1926 Neue Loge. Fabrikstrasse, *arch. Erich Mendelsohn *
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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 ...
6 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: ...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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 ...
7 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...
7 years ago
Internal exile

Photo -
7 years ago
up close and personal

The future then -
7 years ago
Writing Through the Fog

Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
7 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...
7 years ago
Vexed at the Earth

And hoy them doon the pit of hell - Seething with cold hate, Louisa Jo Killen.
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 years ago
Mounds and Circles

Face Fuzz - Racial stereotypes and highly flammable unnatural fibres. Blackpool, 2015.
7 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...
7 years ago
SIGNS FICTION

- Signs Fiction has moved! Thanks for the ongoing support!
8 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 ...
8 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...
8 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 ...
8 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...
8 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 ...
8 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 ...
8 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. ...
8 years ago
Social Dead Zone

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

Sound JumbleSarah & Duck - Sound Jumble Sarah & Duck
8 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...
9 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...
9 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 ...
9 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...
9 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 ...
9 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 questio...
9 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 ...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
10 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...
10 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....
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
11 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...
12 years ago
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