Learning by Listening 9, Dr Peter J Woods, “Learning to Make Noise…” is on this month’s Tabs Out Educational Cassette Symposium. Tune in if you like learning stuff.

They're calling it the least scanned QR code of all time

@panamericanmusic.bsky.social's work always takes time to wash over yrself with; you gotta chew on it, let it gestate. Thus, a season after arriving in April, I got on the electric typewriter for Post-Trash and mulled over the sleights Mark n' Michael bring in tow

we need Patrick Shiroishi on ecm

I want to be able to bail after 11-18 songs

BONUS EPISODE Terry Tapes and Drongo Tapes go head to head in the Tabs Out Weed-Strain-or-Artist-Name 4/20 challenge. Loser gets nothing. Winner goes home with nothing. listen on Bandcamp tabsout.bandcamp.com/track/bonus-...

If I was on the bus for people who hate music and some teenager started playing a song from their phone, I would address them politely, but in a stern tone, explaining "This is the bus for people who hate music. I kindly insist that you turn off that music and listen to the bus with the rest of us."

A David Brooks op-ed where he admits he was wrong about New Blue Sun.

the guy in the snapdragon commercial who uses ai to generate a bedtime story to tell his kids demonstrates that ai is really useful for inventing new and astonishing ways to be a loser

post-trash.com/news/2025/4/... for @post-trash.bsky.social I reflected on just what YHWH Nailgun's 45 Pounds made me think of and where maybe they're headed

this is the mot swag you can have if you get signed to ecm records

Love that Shen Yun commercials are now just political campaign ads that are a tick more uncanny and have notably more dancing.

a cut i still go back to with unkempt frequency is MJ Guider's Viñales, the b-side to her 2021 lathe cut 7". Her usage of electro cowbell/drum, dubby bass n' production, amongst heaping reverb was in brilliant usage to her voice. One which soared and crooned in a manner so hypnotic to the right ears

www.reddit.com/r/indieheads... last month I got back in writer mode for a sec to talk about Spectral Evolution (for r/indieheads AOTY series, my pals), an album I listened to only a few times but was important throughout 2024 in thinking about some music threads that have defined my taste in my 20s

“Europe Endless” by Kraftwerk. I recorded this in my backyard today. Halfway through a bird started cheering me on. That’s why I’m smiling. youtu.be/otxh_Zorwjo?...

Look I agree that Elon Musk appears to be on a lot of drugs every time he appears in public. That's not very interesting to me. I'm more interested in how many drugs he can do at once. I think he could probably do more than anyone ever. I bet he could take way more than the doctors say is safe.

@ghostplanettm.bsky.social and I sat down to chat with @zsennef.bsky.social ! Tune in at KCSB.org this Sunday at 4pm to hear it

And big thanks to @tbdpresents.bsky.social for premiering the video. My new album has an accompanying VHS full of Hi-8 video collages I made set to the music. This video is a clip from that: youtu.be/lTek64pYN58?... @alreadydeadtapes.bsky.social

Lisa Germano and Graeme Naysmith, 1994 🚰 More news next week…

NEED windham hill week at pitchfork

Finally gonna be able to get my first book back out in the world!

'You Can Only Choose One' #cassette @marcissist.bsky.social

I needed a week to meditate away from this! But we did it! We (Mike, Ryan, Jamie, joe b, and ofc dr. peter woods phd) found time to make da 200 + invite old pals in our orbit. Im always amazed at the strength of the labels we follow + what noise peter brings our way. hope u find something tight!

What a beautiful list. And the thing is, they didn't rush to get it out in December even though there's a lot of social pressure and legal obligations and whatnot to do that. But that's when people make mistakes, when they rush. So you can see why we're proud to find STR tapes on that kind of list.

nearly every cassette FS released in 2024 on here, lots of homies on here, lots of things I worked on on here, bless Tabs Out

Honored and delighted to be #8 on the Tabs Out Podcast Top 200 tapes of 2024 with "Figure and Ground!"Massive thanks again to Already Dead Tapes & Records for putting it out, and to Evan Stan Bingus Lacksmer III for the incredible art and encouraging me to reach out to AlreadyDead with the project.

top 2 tapes of the year!!!!! i'm so blown away and honored-thx tabs out 🥹💕

low end activist ‘airdrop’ is #6 on this great list.

You can get all 175 digital releases on the excellent French label Falt for one Euro (though I hope you'll pay more) falt.bandcamp.com/music

EPISODE 204 / TOP 200 TAPES OF 2024 🥳 The dang thing is up. the 200 best cassettes of 2024 in the exact right order. what an accomplishment Episode 204 features pop ins from buds Delaware Dan, Crash Symbols, Strategic Tape Reserve, Scott Scholz, and More Eaze and a bunch of tapes! tabsout.com

This Friday, Discogs is donating their share of profits to help those affected by the LA wildfires. I'm selling my collection in an attempt to help pay the bills for my family since I've been without work or income since early 2021. This Friday would be a great time to pick something up!

"spongebob but with sciatica"

you can only choose 1 earlier this morning, one of the best ebay "job" lots showed up for cassettes. 100 of them. many critical 80s and 90s albums. auction was stopped after ~30 watchers and went to a £320 buy it now that sold in minutes. gobsmacking

you can only choose 1 earlier this morning, one of the best ebay "job" lots showed up for cassettes. 100 of them. many critical 80s and 90s albums. auction was stopped after ~30 watchers and went to a £320 buy it now that sold in minutes. gobsmacking

Here are some of the tapes @tabsout.bsky.social west coast HQ was keeping up with in the garage. WAY more than usual n the rack. thanks for keeping me busy. THE LIST IS COMING!

☃️ EPISODE 203 ☃️ 😘 Ben Dumbauld from the Ephem-Aural label stops by plus! 🪄 Magic From Space plus! 🦛 mike sings a parody song plus! 🎤 Kenny Segal and Pink Navel plus! tapes on @ingrownrecords.bsky.social, Cudighi, @jollies.bsky.social, Rubber City Noise and even more 👉 www.tabsout.com 👈

(Realizing i zoned out for 15 years and have a family now without noticing) (Realizing I never committed my beautiful child's name to memory) You - (forgetting if we have hogs or not but going with my gut feeling) Feed them hogs

I can only tip my cap to Netflix for finding a way to make live sports look and feel exactly as uncanny and washed-out as everything else on Netflix does. Just an unbelievable capacity for making stuff that people like into something cheap and insignificant and half-insulting.

For years, the public has called them "fake artists." But internally at Spotify, the program has a name: Perfect Fit Content. My investigation, and the first look into my book Mood Machine, is the January cover at @harpers.bsky.social. Online now & on newsstands next week harpers.org/archive/2025...

this was an extremely funny list to slap together because by the time i look at the back 11-20 I go "wait wasn't total blue and eric chenaux trio albums chillers? didn't fennesz and dj sprinkles drop last week? should i put an eris drew mix or autechre show?" but 20 is the cap

Beck's "Sex Laws" is playing in ALDI.

NYPD suspects that the killer of United Healthcare's CEO has fled the city, but they are not giving up. 24 hours a day, in precincts all over the city, officers whose heads are the exact size and shape of a Boars Head boiled ham showing each other stuff on their phones and injecting steroids.

For this 🔥 bumper issue, I had the immense pleasure of profiling @strategictaper.bsky.social! I also wrote the Avant Rock EOY column, reviewed new music by Jana Irmert (@fabrique.bsky.social), Bogdan Raczynski (@disciples.bsky.social), and Abdullah Miniawy, and reflected on (cultural) life in 2024.

EPISODE 202 - @gregdavismusic.bsky.social stops by on his way to work - we get to the bottom of @bluetapes.bsky.social - Hal McGee makes Jamie a personalized tape - noise from the Philadelphia Chicken Man - a reissue on @bumpylabel.bsky.social - final tapes from Never Anything Records more!

yaraasmar.bandcamp.com/album/stutte... This had skipped my inbox! Im happy to hear more compositions from Ms. Asmar! really scratching my ecm dino saluzzi itch

getting back to what i do best: paying $0 for Kenny Wheeler on ECM thanks to trades and finding rare $40 john zorn 2xCD for fifty cents in a library bookstore. music is back

the proprietor of this account is also major #CDGANG if that wasn't made clear There is no greater joy than finding Tzadik in the wild for .25 cents at a library bookstore