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6 hours ago
It starts with a birthstone...

500 Greatest Albums of the 2000's # 446 Roots Manuva - Awfully Deep -
8 hours ago
torpedo the ark

That Time I Met Mr Pickle ... - I. One of my favourite scenes in *The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle* (1980) is the closing animated sequence in which McLaren and his motley crew are a...
8 hours ago
Wormwoodiana

Enter Blowfish: 'Rain Before Seven' by Christopher Buckley - Christopher Buckley’s Rain Before Seven (1947) is a classic country house murder mystery with marginally uncanny elements. It is set in Shropshire: the n...
8 hours ago
Tribune

The Labour Suspensions Are Abnormal and Immoral - Between 1968 and 2024, not a single Labour MP had the whip withdrawn for voting against their own party. In the past year alone, that number has risen to...
9 hours ago
A Year In The Country

A Year In The Country Artwork Archive 29 -
23 hours ago
Eliminated for Reasons of Space

A Load of Records Off My Back - “I’ve given up trying to sell CDs. I’m just gonna hold onto them for about a decade, until the big CD Revival heats up, and then sell the whole collection ...
23 hours ago
In Sheeps Clothing

Past, Present, Future: A Post-Punk Dub Listening Party - Join us for a listening party dedicated to Post-Punk Dub on Tuesday, July 22nd at Zizou in Lincoln Heights. In 1977, Bob Marley released the iconic “Punky ...
1 day ago
Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations

Adventures in Science Fiction Cover Art: The Flowering Bodies of Attilio Uzzo - If you’ve ever browsed through an Italian SF catalogue, the name that springs out immediately is the fantastic Dutch painter Karel Thole (1914-2000). Thole...
1 day ago
it's her factory

Good Vibes Only – Latest Introduction - This week the Duke UP faculty board approved the final manuscript of Good Vibes Only: Phenomenology, Algorithms, and Politics of Legitimation for publicati...
2 days ago
The Nerd Reich

‘Too much wealth creates insanity’: Trump, Tech, and the Nerd Reich - Gil Duran speaks to San Francisco Commonwealth Club on Trump, Tech and the Nerd Reich billionaires who want to replace democracy
2 days ago
Feuilleton (John Coulthart)

Albrecht Dürer’s Apocalypse - Revelation of St. John. In Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson’s Illuminatus! trilogy, John of Patmos, the author of the Book of Revelation, is referred to...
2 days ago
The Decadence Project

2025: Entering the Next American Epoch - A new way to look at the American project as we move into the age of AI
2 days ago
Ace Linguist

The Stylistics of ChatGPT - Pretty much everyone who has used ChatGPT for an extended period of time has noticed that it has a particular way of writing. One major paper released re...
3 days ago
thebluemoment.com

Café Society in wartime - ` I imagine I picked up a copy of Life magazine’s edition of October 16, 1944 from a flea market many years ago because its cover featured the 20-year-old ...
3 days ago
The Haunted Generation

Electronic Sound – Reviews (Issue 113) - From ominous, thunder-filled skies, through the black rain of the North York Moors, comes a voice to rattle the bones. Monastic, despairing, its meaning ha...
3 days ago
Municipal Dreams

A History of Council Housing in Rochdale: Part II, from 1945 to 1966 - Although Rochdale had built on a large scale in the interwar period, as we saw in last week’s post, and … Continue reading →
3 days ago
Sounding Out!

“Keep it Weird”: Listening with Jonathan Sterne (1970-2025) - Dr. Jonathan Sterne passed away earlier this year. He was, in many ways, a model scholar and colleague. The intellectual ferment of the field now called “s...
4 days ago
Wyrd Britain

NEWS: A Year In The Country publish new collection, 'Other Worlds' - Our friend Stephen Prince over at the fabulous 'A Year In The Country' has just announced the latest of his collections. Stephen's books are always a f...
6 days ago
The Neglected Books Page

The Longest Novel Ever Written? - Thirteen million words. Over forty years’ work. Millions of readers. It’s been called the longest novel ever written. And you’ve never heard of it or its a...
1 week ago
Electronic Sound

No Fireman’s Pole - More musings from Fat Roland. On his mind this month (as far as we can tell): Office Work
1 week ago
Musical Urbanism |

from regional neighbor to lifestyle colony? how the New York Times reports on the Hudson Valley, 2002-2022 - In 2019, I posted on this blog about how the New York Times has written about places, people, issues, and changes in the Hudson Valley since the new millen...
1 week ago
Hate Meditations

Beats and yelling: Warmoon Lord - Sacrosanct DemonopathyOut 16th May on Werewolf Records Reminiscent of Gnipahålan for its filling and oftentimes recklessly dense concoction of Nordic black...
1 week ago
BLDGBLOG

Architectural Dressage - You’ve likely already seen the large complex of buildings in Shanghai that was picked up as a single block and walked to an adjacent site by a phalanx of m...
1 week ago
Backlisted

243. Angel by Elizabeth Taylor - *Angel* (1957) by the English writer Elizabeth Taylor, is the subject of this special episode - and, as you'll hear, the next episode of Locklisted too....
1 week ago
Nick Coleman

Lessons in life — with John Lee Hooker - Has your woman ever put you in a trick bag? Have you ever been stripped naked? No? Well, like me, you have much to learn. And now I am more of a man and le...
1 week ago
The Pinocchio Theory

Joan Slonczewski, MINDS IN TRANSIT - Joan Slonczewski is both a microbiologist (she is co-author of one of the standard textbooks in the field) and a science fiction writer. Her latest sf nove...
2 weeks ago
Completely Different (Matthew Miles Goodrich)

It’s…the politics of no translation - when you're running for mayor, intelligibility > intersectionality
2 weeks ago
Jason Phereus,

Unexpected visit from the Muse this morning... - You’re in the foxhole, once you have had kids. Before you could be blithe about death, Your own, other's- affect some posture of Cynicism or indiff...
2 weeks ago
History is made at night

Anarchist dances in London 1890s-1910s - Some anarchist social events in London area from 1890s - 1910s 1891 - Concert and Ball at the Commonweal Club, 273 Hackney Road, E2 1898 - Soiree and dan...
2 weeks ago
The Ethan Hein Blog

Aretha Franklin and Art Garfunkel on the pod - The podcast format doesn’t allow my to show notation like my blog post on the subject does, but it does allow me to overlay Aretha and Art Garfunkel with t...
4 weeks ago
More Dark Than Shark

MORE DARK THAN SHARK - Updates: June 18, 2025 -
4 weeks ago
Ericland

Broccoli - my first greenhouse, adventures outside the recording studio... - I grew some purple sprouting brocolli. I’ve never grown anything you could eat, apart from a pot of supermarket basil once that sat on the window sill an...
4 weeks ago
streams of expression

Louis Moholo-Moholo: The Quality of Truth - I come home to find out that Louis Moholo-Moholo died, this Friday 13th, listen to recordings of what I guess was his last band, with Alex Hawkins on pia...
4 weeks ago
The New Vulgate

Issue #163 (June 13, 2025) - *Snowy Range, Wyoming* Photograph by Joe Carducci ------------------------------ ------------------------------ *Reaction Shots* Joe Carducci...
5 weeks ago
Pop Theory

Clive Barnett, 1968-2021 - The personal website of Prof. Clive Barnett, who sadly and unexpectedly passed away in December 2021 is being maintained by colleagues to enable ongoing ac...
5 weeks ago
Abundant Living

Punk & Metal & Country & Western Civilization Roundup - *Records!* This week, I will be fifty years old. Or, as I like to think of it, “eleven years till Steve Albini time.” Existentialism feels particularly gro...
5 weeks ago
Pushing Ahead of the Dame

Rebel Rebel: A New Version - Presenting: The second edition of Rebel Rebel: The Songs of David Bowie, 1963-1976, which will go on sale on Tuesday, 8 July 2025, and which can be pre-ord...
1 month ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

KRAFTWERK - LIVE BREMEN 25 06 1971 - ORIGINAL RADIO BROADCAST (FLAC) - En 1971, RALF HUTTER abandona el grupo, ese es un dato que muy poco trascendió a los medios de la época y que muchos seguidores de KRAFTWERK desconocen....
1 month ago
➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣

2025 ➤ Here’s an extravaganza of a show to confirm the Blitz Kids’ place in history - ❚ A HANDFUL OF EVER-STYLISH CLUBLAND STARS stepped forward this week to help London’s Design Museum to announce its autumn exhibition titled Blitz: the clu...
1 month ago
Infinite Speeds

My body is a melody - On Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the phenomenology of musical experience, style as existence, and the body as a "strange signifying machine"
2 months ago
The Pirate Archive

Flex FM – Ipswich - Flex FM broadcast programmes for the Afro-Caribbean community in Ipswich. If anyone has any more information on this station please contact The Pirate Arch...
2 months ago
Rockets & Rayguns

A little slide that @rocketsandrayguns and I put together, after Dedra’s lessons in clean desk… - hangingfire: [image: A Powerpoint slide of "Password Best Practices and Guidelines", including tips like "Create a Strong Password", "Never Reuse a Passw...
2 months ago
Blue Labyrinths

Oceanic Logic: On Vagueness and Mass Nouns - Vagueness and mass nouns have been unconquerable land for the logic founded by Aristotle, mathematized by Boole, and developed by Continue reading →
2 months ago
The Generalist

- Dear Friends, I'm raising £1,800 to fund an exhibition for Greenpeace in Lewes! Your support will help bring this project to life and raise vital awar...
2 months ago
joy of speed

John Lennon - Jealous Guy (Elements Mix) - I stumbled on to this guided by some lines of code on the internet -- it's quite mesmerizing. Of course, the piano playing by Nicky Hopkins is pretty, bu...
2 months ago
ooh! directory of blogs

City Infinity – Blog - “Designing for sustainable mobility.” By Mark Philpotts. 🇬🇧 Started in 2017. Average 1,219 words.
2 months ago
8Sided Blog

Encounters with Dave Allen - First Encounter, Manhattan, 1991 CMJ Music Festival: My status as a college radio music director was an excuse for attending, but I was also looking for op...
3 months ago
Datacide

Burnt Money Weekend - Burnt Money Weekend is the final article from the second print edition of Howard Slater's zine Break/Flow, originally from 1999. The post Burnt Money Wee...
3 months ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

ACTION WORLD - 29/04/25. - So, I’m unsure whether or not I have any remaining readers who are London-based, but just on the off-chance… I am contributing the above event, taking pla...
3 months ago
Beauty Blew a Fuse

Decoding Pearls Before Swine - -... .-.. .- -- . / -- -.-. .-.. ..- .... .- -.
4 months ago
Some Private Diagonal

#41 Gradually Learning - An interview with The Rockingbirds' Alan Tyler
4 months ago
Slow Motion

This is a preview of next year - On the Discogs entry for the After Shock label, it still lists a couple of phone numbers you might use to contact the label. Putting your mobile on the lab...
5 months ago
Aloysius

elm street tangents - feel like having sus around for commentary drastically changed how i watched this film. movie night at my apartment became a less braindead affair than u...
5 months ago
A Shiver in the Archives

A Lost Charles Williams Poem? - I think I have happened upon a lost Charles Williams poem. At least, after a cursory look in prominent sources on Williams, I find no mention of it. I ...
5 months ago
God Is No Longer A Dj

Liner Notes on 2024 – Part II (Memory Tapes) - “I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not reme...
5 months ago
davidtoop

Pump down the volume - Thundercurrent: a loud, intrusive and continuous audio event whose effect reduces over time to a point of perceived inaudibility, an undercurrent, even tho...
5 months ago
Relative Nostalgia

Unpopular Film/TV I Unironically Like - Media that I subjectively enjoy.
5 months ago
New Critique

[Review] The Year in Books 2024 – James McLoughlin - 'Once again, reading kept me going this year. I started the year recovering from an operation and seeking somewhere new to live. I was then made redundant ...
6 months ago
Kieran Press-Reynolds genreologist at large

The top 15 songs of 2024 (+15 honorable mentions) - The countdown is over.
6 months ago
blog to the oldskool

Oral-X – Tribal Zone EP - I’ve got some spare time over the Holidays, so I figure it might be nice to post up a few releases that don’t have audio on the net anywhere. With this kin...
6 months ago
We Are the Mutants

Kool Kelly’s Place: True Confessions of an ’80s Bedroom - By *The Mutants* A few months ago my dad sent me a whole bunch of pictures on a flash drive. This was one of them. It's my bedroom in 1987. I’m 15...
7 months ago
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Hidden Depths - One of the most powerful shifts in Silent Hill 2 occurs somewhere past the halfway point. It follows the Historical Society, a dilapidated old museum, to w...
7 months ago
Rave Archive UK »

World Dance – Lydd Airport – 5.2.94 - World Dance – Lydd Airport – 5.2.94 DJ Food Junkie – World Dance – Lydd Airport – 5.2.94 Download DJ Slipmatt w/ MC GQ – […]
7 months ago
Suspended Reason

Habitus of the Damned: Vamp Semiotics - The opening shot of Twilight: a doe’s flank, her tail flicking as Bella—breathing heavy & pre-orgasmic—soliloquizes on self-sacrifice, giving her life up f...
8 months ago
GreilMarcus.net | Writings by (and about) Greil Marcus

David Thomson interviews Greil Marcus - British film critic David Thomson interviews Greil Marcus on the occasion of his recent book, Why I Write. Courtesy of Yale University Press.
8 months ago
Found Objects

P for Paladin - *Paladin* - second only to *Picador* as a publisher's name to set the arty-intellectual bibliophile's heart a flutter... Radical, ...
8 months ago
Oliver Craner

Michael Powell and the National Myth - 1980: England “I love England,” Michael Powell declared, without shame or inhibition, in the first volume of his autobiography, A Life in Movies: I have mi...
9 months ago
xenogothic

Narcisisme subversiu - Diuen que el narcisisme és un dels grans mals del nostre temps, especialment alimentat per les xarxes socials. Però, i si el narcisisme fos una eina per ad...
9 months ago
East of Borneo

Jerome Caja, Drag Queen and Visual Artist - Marc Geller, Portrait of Jerome Caja, 1991. Courtesy of the artist. Jerome Caja was an American mixed-media painter and Queercore performance artist in S...
10 months ago
I Understand

No more days // 2009 - 2013 - Part II: the beginning of the end + ambient grime noir, endless rainfall & the 2009 - 2013 after dark inspirations ov the new Stonecirclesampler album
11 months ago
For Your Pleasure

Lô xiên 2 ăn bao nhiêu? Tính xiên 2 theo các đài chuẩn nhất - Lô xiên 2 ăn bao nhiêu và đây có phải là một hình thức chơi tốt hay không? Tất cả những thắc mắc về xiên 2 sẽ được giải quyết trong bài viết này. xiên 2 ...
1 year ago
Dan Fox

Issue 39: Partial Views of an Interior - Remembering Marc Camille Chaimowicz, 1946-2024
1 year ago
tis.so

Magic rites in the lore of economics - by SQCU In the folklore of the men who call themselves economists there is a story of a magic ritual. In this ritual, when two men meet in body, they mee...
1 year ago
Tank Magazine Podcast

We read de Beauvoir's “The Second Sex” so you don't have to - “Love is impossible as long as it is attached to physical, emotional and economic safety...” In this week's TANK Podcast, Caroline Issa decodes Simone de...
1 year ago
L. S. Trackhead

Re-Hearing The 90s #1 - Les Savy Fav – The Cat and the Cobra (Frenchkiss, 1999) A band of unbound victims of the everyday, crawling from under slack with grimy bags of surplus ene...
1 year ago
Blog - Peter Stanfield

Its Inmates Absurd: The Velvet Underground at the University of Kent 1971 - “After about the first two years we got talking. . .” – Maureen Tucker on rehearsing with the Velvet Underground As a live proposition, The Velvet Under...
1 year ago
Portals of London

Artistic / Psychic exploration of a house in Stoke Newington - Rotherhithe Archive #0000 A quick note on an artistic addition to the archive. Intrigued by our account of the Stoke NewingtonContinue Reading
1 year ago
Lost Turntable

Non-music from Japan, music from a Japanese band, and horror disco - Oy. Yeah so I hoped to write more in 2023 but that sure as shit didn’t work out huh? So what had happened was my health got worse, my podcast work got more...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
2 years ago
lunarlodge

Autumn Serenade - Notes on Janet Werner, Backxwash, This is not a Scarf, a loving tribute to Boris Brott, &+
2 years 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
2 years 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 ...
2 years 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...
3 years 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...
3 years 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...
3 years ago
Hyperstition Arrays

Protected: Hardt and Negri’s Optimism and Subjectivity - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
3 years ago
Cut and Run

Coupling Musical Noise -
3 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...
4 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...
4 years ago
A CARELESS MAN'S CAREFUL DAUGHTER

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4 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...
4 years ago
A Scarlet Tracery

- I interviewed William Basinski for the cover story of the new issue of The Wire.
4 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’...
5 years ago
Blue Lines Revisited

Photo -
5 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...
5 years ago
Airport Through The Trees

More Nada - I really want to write again, but I don't know how. I had, for no particular reason, a really, really, dark day today. I mean, bad bad. I was trying to con...
5 years ago
Miraculous Agitations – Daniel R Wilson

Joris Van de Moortel, noise/music chemistry, and The Wire magazine on the artist’s palette - Noise, forever fizzing at the edges of musical vocabulary, forms the topic of an essay I’ve written for Joris Van de Moortel‘s new artist’s book ‘A Dubious...
5 years ago
The Astral Plane

Reassembling the Pulp Doppelgänger - Views of the Baths of Titus, Giovanni Battista Piranesi In part one of this essay, I laid out the disappointing reality of the walking dead or pop modernis...
5 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...
5 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.
5 years ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

Cover version - For whatever reason at some point I started taking inventory of the cover versions of "classic rock" band songs that were actually worthwhile. Not sure wh...
5 years ago
Groupname for Grapejuice

Snatches of the Everlasting Gospel 3 - [image: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdNcpxZh71l2jCbTs7-nYBJmgvJTJrPf4wq2oyZ_7AbYvqESjZ94wqaJOKAPexY3gBRlHz2aFVqubZU16pxnLZA5...
5 years ago
on the ones

Scattered Impressions of Zagreb Film’s Early Years: Dušan Vukotić, Vatroslav Mimica, Vlado Kristl - Last year marked the 65th anniversary of the founding of Zagreb Film, which for a few decades was home to one of the premiere animation studios on the inte...
5 years ago
(SF) 365

Feel (is a word I can't explain) - So sang Paul Weller on The Style Council's fourth single, A Solid Bond In Your Heart, which had also been considered as The Jam's last single. It's partly ...
5 years ago
森と記録の音楽

[259] va América Invertida - Label: Vampisoul Catalog#: VAMPI205 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: Spain Released: 2019 AMAZON A1 Desencanto - Contraviento A2 Tras Tus Ojos - J...
5 years ago
History's Dumpster

The Last 78 RPM Records - "Gwendolyne" Julio Iglesias (1970, Colombia) Image: Discogs *What was the last 78 RPM record?* I've been asked this question now and then and to be perfe...
5 years ago
Prole Sector

AN-I + Unhuman (L.I.E.S. Records) - More tasty double time pummelling lashed up with some cat o’ nine tails screamo and freestyle noise – not quite speedcore, thankfully.
5 years ago
64 Quartets

3. The Jamies - DISCOGRAPHY SOURCES PLAYLIST When I was eleven or so, I would fall asleep with the radio on. This was a gun...
5 years ago
marathonpacks

Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9 - Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9
5 years ago
The Hum Blog

outside the reed syndicate - A brain melting mashup of Tony Conrad and Faust’s Outside The Dream Syndicate (1973) and Terry Riley’s Reed Streams (1967), from (and by) The Hum. (Headp...
5 years ago
RESIDUAL NOISE

The Bad Trip - *‘A history that makes perfect sense when the sky is **falling down.’ – **The Sunday Times* Very happy to announce here the publication of *The Bad T...
5 years ago
I•HATE•THIS•FILM

THE LONE BREAKER / Steve Beck (1985) - *THE LONE BREAKER* / Steve Beck (1985)
5 years ago
The Work Trials

INTERVIEW: Caroline Sullivan - *Caroline Sullivan is a pop critic of several decades standing who has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, Melody Maker to name but a few. Havi...
5 years ago
The Women's Liberation Music Archive

‘Freedom of movement is essential for musicians’ – opera singer told to change pro-EU dress! - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/26/opera-singer-asked-to-change-pro-eu-dress-for-london-concert “It’s a difficult time for the musical communi...
6 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...
6 years ago
INTO THE SWAMP

The Singles Jukebox » Britney Spears: A Mid-Career Retrospective - The Singles Jukebox » Britney Spears: A Mid-Career Retrospective: *“Sllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaave….!” she sings, purrs, drawls — all at the one time — making sure...
6 years ago
The Pink Temple

- I don’t want to tell you how to write a poem, there are an infinite number of ways to write a poem, I want to teach you how to be poets, to initiate you i...
6 years ago
Tim Worthington's Newsround

Box Set: Loungecore - *A collection of some of my recent features on mid to late nineties loungey indie dance music...* It looks as though some of you aren't aware that I no...
6 years ago
Velvet Coalmine

Good-bye to All That. - As you may have assumed already, I’m formally retiring this blog. It’s been good, helpful and cathartic to write, and my thanks to you if you’ve ever read,...
6 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...
6 years ago
ActionTimeVision | Broke the yolk, no joke

Songs Morrissey should cover#14 - [image: Morrissey1]
6 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...
6 years ago
Dream Transmissions

New blog - Hey old readers, I'll be blogging here now: Embedded
6 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.
6 years ago
Boring Old Books

Modern Practical Building Volume 1 - Caxton Publishing Company Limited. New and revised edition, 1950. Note: scans of photographs...
6 years ago
F.U.N.K (Neil Kulkarni)

Tasly Phytosoy Margarita Plus - *Tasly Phytosoy Margarita Plus * Tasly Phytosoy Margarita Plus Menambahkan unsur yin, supaya bisa lebih cantik dan sehat Wanita memiliki silkus biologi...
6 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 [...]
7 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
7 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...
7 years ago
....:::::....:::::Heronbone:::...::::..

- pearlescent sky and the tiny lights punching holes in the mist. pigeon feathers purple and silver-grey. poised between moments. time stock still. perception ...
7 years ago
Binary Heap

Interactive Musical Hexagons - A two-dimensional spatial arrangement of the chromatic musical notes Web Site
7 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...
7 years ago
Critical-Theory.com

7 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in November, 2017 - Books by Negri, Adorno and more.
7 years ago
The Night Mail

no.7// The Blue Rose: TV as Performance Art - *This is one of my ten short essays about *Twin Peaks* Season 3. Click this link to read my introduction to this series.* If there’s a true precursor to ...
7 years ago
The Empty Page

Terry Wogan, Tom Petty and What Middle Aged Men Are Really Talking About When They Talk About The Beatles - Classic rock should be a retrospective classification. Something bestowed on rock that has through whatever process attained classic status. Yet some art...
7 years ago
Southern Discomfort

Samira Ahmed: Blade Runner meets The Good Life - Broadcasting House. You know the one, near the Church, back of Oxford Circus, Orwell did a stint there. Room … Continue reading →
7 years ago
Amodern

Greetings - This is my first post The post Greetings appeared first on Amodern.
7 years ago
Another Nickel In The Machine

The Prince of Wales Theatre, Dickie Henderson and the Ross Sisters - When the last chord of ‘Twist and Shout’ came to an end, the Beatles grouped together at the front of the Prince of Wales Theatre stage. The blue curtain s...
7 years ago
Our God is Speed

Because - Honestly, back in the days when Julian Cope's *Krautrocksampler* doc became the Young Person's Guide to Same, I took issue with the author's assertion t...
7 years ago
leaving earth

hidden reflections of a dysfunctional world - If a golden age of musical originality and innovation happens and no one builds a movement and narrative around it, did it actually create anything new? D...
7 years ago
The New Inquiry - Marginal Utility

Everything in Its Place - To live your best life in the moment, replace things with carefully staged images
8 years ago
The M.O.P. Radionic Workshop

Summer Shuffle – 16 June 2017 -
8 years ago
Found Objects

About The Author # 2. -
8 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...
8 years ago
Blackadelic Pop

Smile - Yesterday (3/17/2017) was the birthday of one of my favorite singers Nat King Cole. Recently, while writing a long short story about an aspiring model c...
8 years ago
Rouge's Foam

Negativity, Not Pessimism! (RIP Mark Fisher) - I was so shocked and upset to learn of Mark Fisher's death yesterday. For me, Mark was both an idol and, as time passed, someone I was always pleased and...
8 years ago
Ghosts in the TV

Photo -
8 years 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...
8 years ago
Chart Music podcast (David Stubbs, Neil Kulkarni, Simon Price, Taylor Parkes, Al Needham et al)

Chart Music #1: July 14th 1977 – Like Punk Hadn’t Really Happened Just Yet - The debut of the podcast that takes a random episode of Top Of The Pops and breaks it down to its very last compound. It’s the Summer of ’77, and the Sex P...
8 years ago
An Idiot's Guide to Dreaming

Valerie - Not that one. Here's Thighpaulsandra, whose Golden Communion record is starting to worm its way into my life. This one, goes all over the place and through...
8 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...
8 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...
9 years ago
Internal exile

Photo -
9 years ago
Writing Through the Fog

Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
9 years ago
Interstice(ssg)

Bunker mix - I’ve posted this on social media, but just realised I forgot to share it here too… I recently recorded a mix for The Bunker podcast out of New York. This i...
9 years ago
Drumtrip

8205 Recordings 003 – Lopez / Syuss and Reality - Pete from one of our favourite blogs (and part inspiration for Drumtrip itself) blog to the oldskool is now taking orders for his 8205 Recordings label’s...
9 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.

Anti-Semitism: a mea culpa - I must, I fear, express and explain my guilt over all this. I wish I were not guilty, but I know I am. And that guilt is over the fact that, by about 2002 ...
9 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...
9 years ago
ZONE OF THE FREE

Free Romanian Teknival 2016 - THE ROOTS - Free Romanian Teknival - 12.08 - 23.08.2016 Open invitation for all sound systems, arts and public! Sound systems and performers, who w...
9 years ago
...and what will be left of them?

Stoopid bass - and this and this of course
9 years ago
up close and personal

Somethin' Here -
9 years ago
faces on posters too many choices

Crank - bass = discipline two very different tracks, but the bass has the same kind of propulsive quality in each
9 years ago
Vexed at the Earth

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

London's Dreaming Mix - I know, I thought, I'll make a Hardcore mix. All my own personal favourite tracks. No, wait a second. What about four mixes? 92. 93. 94. 95-96. Then, h...
9 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...
9 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...
9 years ago
the hauntological society

mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur - *There is nothing to see.* Please go here: http://thehauntologicalsociety.tumblr.com/
9 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...
9 years ago
Cottage Of Electric Hell !

The Seventh Cyrkle - My best wishes of the season, from deep within the sheer terror of Pendle Witch Country. As I sit by the fire this evening and celebrate *Hallowe'en*, I wi...
9 years ago
Mounds and Circles

Face Fuzz - Racial stereotypes and highly flammable unnatural fibres. Blackpool, 2015.
9 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...
9 years ago
SIGNS FICTION

- Signs Fiction has moved! Thanks for the ongoing support!
9 years ago
Island of Terror

What We Call The Most - 'Look, Mary, no hands!' There's no question in my mind that *Cliff Richard *has made a lot of good records, but very few of them have the immediate dance ...
9 years ago
Joy Press

The Exquisite Corpses of "Six Feet Under" - Feature on the visual poetry of "Six Feet Under" by Joy PressVillage Voice If you'd asked me what I thought of *Six Feet Under* last year, I would have ...
9 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...
9 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 ...
10 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...
10 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 ...
10 years ago
Vocalities

Book Launch: Eleni Ikoniadou's The Rhythmic Event — Showroom - ELENI IKONIADOU's THE RHYTHMIC EVENT BOOK LAUNCH at THE SHOWROOM on THURSDAY 25 JUNE '15 18h30-21h30 • An event & discussion to celebrate th...
10 years ago
The Fantastic Hope

BARGAIN-BIN NAIRN: MY LONDON TOP 10 - I'll be leaving London in a few weeks to return to the Motherland (Newcastle), so thought I'd compile a LONDON TOP 10 based on my nearly four years in the...
10 years ago
A Window on the World

Top of the Pops (BBC-1, 01/05/1980) - (TX: BBC-4, 22/05/2015) Imagine a universe where scantily-clad, objectified and anonymised women strut about mechanistically to daintily piano-led jazz-f...
10 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. ...
10 years ago
Social Dead Zone

Welcome to Hollingsville - Welcome to Hollingsville: Foreword to Ken Hollings’ Bright LabyrinthOut of nowhere, I began to...
10 years ago
_* _+ // /// ///////// Picnoleptics

FEMEA 06.02.15 @UdK Berlin - FEMEA Festival - Feminism, Experimental Media and Electronic Arts A one-day event exploring gender (in)equality...
10 years ago
| Archive of Undercurrents, the magazine of radical science and alternative technology, 1972 – 1984.

UC02 Summer 1972 - Open link to Issuu in a new window ______________________________________________________________________ Undercurrents 02 Summer 1972: Contents 1 Front co...
10 years ago
Experimental Music on Children's TV

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