And like that the band This Line have produced a remix of my composition UFO. Take a listen on @bandcamp.com, it's pretty great. Good to have something new from This Line as well as it has been a number of years. #ufo #newmusic #abstractart #remix americanresiduerecords.bandcamp.com/track/ufo-so...

It's been a long time since I've released standalone music. But, today brought something unexpected and new. Take a listen at @bandcamp.com #ufo #newmusic #abstractart americanresiduerecords.bandcamp.com/track/ufo

A close listen to the history and evolution of the radio documentary feature, a hybrid form which can sometimes appear closer to music or poetry than to news reporting... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00c7fd0

"Everything we've been doing for the past 30 years was a kind of warm-up for the moment we're in." Jeffrey Goldberg interviews the Dropkick Murphys front man Ken Casey about punk, politics, and Donald Trump:

At the heart of what we do remains a belief in radio's imaginative possibilities - audio that can reconfigure the world around us & sink into our dreams. Dip into our archive of nearly 900 audio docs here www.fallingtree.co.uk/our-archive/

35 yrs ago, Gremlins 2: The New Batch completely destroyed my brain in the best possible way. So, in honor of its anniversary today, I thought I’d celebrate this underappreciated gem of a sequel: thehorrorchick.substack.com/p/35-years-l... Please check it out & shares/subs are appreciated! 🖤

I know it sounds weird but you should continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/go-to-a-st...

governance based on fantasy is always bad governance.

“Yet, though the rise of video rentals shrank the public space of movies by keeping more viewers at home, the video store arguably expanded the public space of movies by its ubiquity, covering the commercial landscape much more densely than movie theatres did.”

"Television was born without a conscience." — Norman Corwin

there are more of us than there are of them. way, way more.

On the anniversary of D-Day, let’s remember - but not simplify - poet-soldier, ‘war hero’, ‘angry young man’ Keith Douglas. Killed in action 3 days after landing on Gold Beach in the first wave. This was made with @seanstreet.bsky.social 20yrs ago … soundcloud.com/fallingtreep...

Meet the remarkable New York City council member who sponsored and passed a resolution in support of the Living Wage for Musicians Act. Solidarity! @umaw.bsky.social @shahanafrombk.bsky.social

“Much of the federal infrastructure that supports domestic violence programs is damaged or gone,” writes the professor Rachel Louise Snyder.

“‘Listening to a series I’d recorded, I heard my character say a line – but it wasn’t my voice” If you follow me, and you’re a manager, and you have been a party to Gen AI slop replacing humans, I have a question: how do you live with yourself?

“Screen Slate is doing the work—passionately, shaggily, without reservation or anxiety about audience and advertising. In fact, there is no on-site advertising, no paywall, and there never will be.”

“In a world where we’re constantly reminded that physical media is dead — that the future is just algorithms stomping our faces, forever — the fact that the Criterion Closet has gone viral suggests that all is not lost.” @bilgeebiri.bsky.social

“A riveting, profoundly rewarding listen… @joedunthorne.bsky.social is a captivating storyteller” A great review of Half-Life by @patricianicol.bsky.social in today’s @thetimes.com! www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ

I remember this – hit me like a ton of bricks I didn’t know you could do this in a newspaper comic Felt like I was watching a Hal Ashby movie

In honor of Lincoln Center doing a weeklong dive into Jordan Peele's US, here's the Black Man Talk Steven Boone and I did on US when it came out. If you liked the SINNERS talk I did with @812filmreviews.com, you'll enjoy this. bigmediavandal.blogspot.com/2019/04/blac...

Kids, Grandpa Tobias is here to tell you about a time when lining up to see 35mm prints was called “going to the movies.”

finally some good news www.404media.co/the-universe...

"We no longer look to the skies and expect to see giant balloons the length of a stadium, but shaped like suppositories, carrying people to and fro." Featuring a 100-year-old fix for Newark International Airport? continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/hell-yeah-...

“The good ideas are the ones you don’t see coming.” One of the most inspiring and affirming interviews I’ve read in a long time: @lydrummet.bsky.social interviews Warren Ellis. Amazing work, Peter. seismograf.org/artikel/dark...

This Wed 5/14: @airmedia.bsky.social's Virtual Water Cooler for Audio Producers. Meet us there! airmedia.org/jobs/trainin... #podcasting #audio

An essay about Scott Walker’s “late style” dadadrummer.substack.com/p/isolation-...

I am positive that the folks who follow me already know this, but if you see a person being kidnapped off the street, put your body in the way. Record it and get in the way.

"Alice Chamber, who, after three vaginal births, can no longer hiccup without wetting her pants, and who will be honored for her sacrifice with eggs benedict and a necklace made from rigatoni."

Still so proud of this show.

"The Tower of Babel rose and fell, the Nile flooded, Rome burned, ferocious Huns galloped in no particular direction across the steppes–and in the background the hands of an immense, transparent clock spun round." Not a fun read but useful for anyone in DC now. www.themodernnovel.org/europe/europ...

European multinationals need to start supporting non-profit, fact-based media in the US now with their ad dollars. And Spotify? Spotify needs to pay reparations. Yeah I said it. continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/the-lighth...

Thanks for this write-up @niemanstoryboard.org

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In honor of my upcoming newsletter post, new subscribers* will get a personalized stock photo of a microphone doing nothing! *offer applies to any subscriber or really anyone at all around here. continuous-wave.beehiiv.com

Soon would be a great time for the few who made millions in podcasting to announce large gifts to their local public radio stations.

Tonight in BBC Radio 4’s Illuminated, Saba Husain receives an unexpected - and life-changing - box. It contains ‘the life’ of their mum, who they have never met. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Producer: Christina Hardinge Co-creator: Saba Husain Sound Design & Music composition: Noémie Ducimetière

Tim Eriksen takes us into the hair-raising sound of shape note singing in this weekend’s Heart and Soul on the BBC World Service… Listen to Our Sacred Harp - produced by Sarah Cuddon www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

Krapp’s Last Tape review – Gary Oldman’s arresting one-man Beckett is a startling piece of theatre

Me on Independent Bookstore Day

Shout outs to some of my faves: Malaprop Books in Asheville, NC Harvard Bookstore and Million Year Picnic in Cambridge, MA Eliot Bay Books in Seattle Powells World of Books (the GOAT) in PDX