Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin's 'Ghosted III' is an exquisite listen and perhaps their best yet. "All circular grooves and spectral riffs", as I write in my review for @thequietus.com.

'All circular grooves and spectral riffs, with Werliin and Berthling’s pulsing sway providing the motor that anchors and pulls along the broad palette of effervescent sounds Ambarchi extracts from his guitar' #OrenAmbarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin - Ghosted III buff.ly/BFukAwv

To quote Marisa, the wife of #JDTwitch, in her post: "the most meaningful way to honour Keith is to keep playing his music, sharing your memories, and supporting the causes he cared about." In this thread, please find a series of links that will allow you to do just that. Please share widely:

beyond heartbroken xx

Ususret petom izdanju festivala Impronedjeljak / Impromonday koji će se od 22. do 24. rujna održati u Močvari, za Kulturpunkt sam u razgovoru s organizatorom Damirom P. Kafkom pripremio kratki pregled slobodne improvizacije, u svijetu i kod nas.

Jedini tekst na hrvatskom o Kirku, Robinsonu i cijeloj toj situaciji koju vrijedi pročitati napisao je naš @mightbewrong.bsky.social za Novosti.

I wrote about the limbo between beauty and ugliness and the ‘listening in’ explored by Mika Vainio in his final Ø album for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Easily one of my all-time favorite vocalists, and one hell of a great dude. It's going to be an At The Gates discography dive this week, I can already tell. RIP Tomas, and thank you.

For @thequietus.com, I wrote about @marjaahti.bsky.social's new album of delicate yet voluminous electroacoustic explorations (out on @johnchantler.bsky.social's Fönstret). Gorgeous stuff.

Ways to get your own tape label: -Inherit a tape label from your parents -Do a master’s degree in cassette management -Get hired as a head cleaner & work your way up -Get demoted from running a CD label -Find an old tape deck -Buy an existing tape label for 9 billion € -Start a pretend tape label

Speaking of things to cop, this is a great compilation whose proceeds support an essential cause. Feat. Krallice, Genital Shame, Déhà, NŪR...

Cop some of these excellent records that ride the line between free jazz & improv, contemporary classical, and out-there experimentalism before they truly become lost media.

'The marriage of Einstürzende Neubauten's loose industrial clatter with Shapednoise's sense for 3D sound design...the listener is left shellshocked' 'Postulate', the new album by Ukrainian electronic artist Ujif_notfound is given a lead review in the 500th issue of The Wire

Listening to the new Laura Cannell at the office and I feel like I might just drift away.

/// MILIM KASHOT VOL. 6 /// The MILIM KASHOT series is back, supporting the essential work by @wck.org, who are on the frontlines in Gaza and elsewhere in order to provide for those in dire need and under impossible conditions. INFO BELOW machinemusic1981.bandcamp.com/album/milim-...

I'm repeating myself, but support independent journalism that truly cares about music/art instead of giving your money to shady faceless corporations!

The new wild & experimental edition of MetalMatters @popmatters.com is my fave in a while. Feat. Castrator, @gonemage.bsky.social, Kayo Dot (@tobydriver.bsky.social), Mendoza/fluke-mogul/Pérez (@burningambulance.bsky.social), Hexrot, Fell Omen, Wreck and Reference (@theflenser.bsky.social), & more!

The new wild & experimental edition of MetalMatters @popmatters.com is my fave in a while. Feat. Castrator, @gonemage.bsky.social, Kayo Dot (@tobydriver.bsky.social), Mendoza/fluke-mogul/Pérez (@burningambulance.bsky.social), Hexrot, Fell Omen, Wreck and Reference (@theflenser.bsky.social), & more!

MetalMatters: The Best Metal Albums of August 2025 Malthusian focus on death metal, Kayo Dot continue to wander through the cosmos, Catharsis return in fierce fashion, and so much more. READ: tinyurl.com/Metal0825

Argh, that's @spennyt.bsky.social on Collapsing Drums! Apologies. Though @darylworthington.bsky.social's profile on Weston Olencki (who has a stunning new album coming out 19 Sep on @ooutsidetimee.bsky.social) in the new issue is very much worth reading, too!

Apropos of 'clubs' and 'curators', subscribe to @thewiremagazine.bsky.social instead. On top of everything else, each month you get reports on amazing labels in the Unlimited Editions section, like @darylworthington.bsky.social on Collapsing Drums. Support independent journalism not grubby corpos.

43 years, 500 issues of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social. Incredible numbers. Here's to at least that many more! Happy to have a contribution in this celebratory issue. I reviewed the chilling yet sublime new industrial/IDM/noise record by Ukrainian musician Ujif_notfound.

Buy anything you can click on randomly from @room40.bsky.social @hallowground.bsky.social @richardchartier.bsky.social every month, there's your bandcamp club!

This is SO messed up. 🫥 I had a few messages and tags today asking me to clarify my stance on Israel, which was odd as I've been pretty outspoken against genocide and in full support of Palestinian statehood...

Metal sutra u Močvari sa čak 6 (šest) bendova, LOL. Ako idete, vel'ka preporuka za sjajan slovenski eksperimentalni black metal duo Snøgg.

Not to get too LinkedIn on here, but I have some spare freelance capacity this autumn so DM me if you're looking to hire a music writer, copywriter (certified actual human), editor, comms person or ultra-nerdy proofreader. Newsletters, festival brochures, hacking down words to fit, whatever!

Great picks here. Castrator and Abhorrent Expanse are essential. Plus, the Abhorrent Expanse album is a great avant/free improv/dissonant metal segue into Mendoza/fluke-mogul/Pérez (mendozaflukemogulperez.bandcamp.com/album/mama-k...).

Help fund it here: www.thewire.co.uk/subscriptions

support independent leftist music journalism by signing up for my antifascist heavy metal newsletter, Salvo (pretty please) salvo.ghost.io

If you wanna make me nostalgic for the days of cranky negative critics you're gonna have to do better than glorifying Kurt Loder's MTV news segments. (I only read the first paragraph of the New Yorker piece on music criticism).

Danas je dan našeg @osuivac.bsky.social! Čestitajmo mu svi od srca Europski dan sjećanja na žrtve *svih* totalitarnih i autoritarnih režima. (Zna se koji je najgori, though, hehe, wink wink.)

Bill Perrine's book 'Alien Territory' on experimental music from 1970s San Diego is now accompanied by a splendid 4 CD set on @nyahhrecords.bsky.social, feat. both familiar (Harry Partch, Diamanda Galás) and underappreciated composers (David Dunn, Dary John Mizelle). My review for @thequietus.com:

The whole Cabaret Voltaire special is really an excellent read and comes highly recommended. I contribued a piece on the Cabs' influence in 1980s Yugoslavia, which affected both underground and mainstream acts like Borghesia and Laibach.

Such a fun record; low key, intimate musings wrapped in a huge hyperpop/electronica/EBM sound. There's more than a few scorchers on it, too.

I still have hearing damage from that one time Merzbow sat in with the band so it's already like I he's always with me, very small, in my ear.

My god, this album... As if you extracted the scuzziest dub, jungle, and noise layers from The Body, then amplified them tenfold.

This is a really excellent choice of records, notwithstanding one of them being by me. Also, Dale's new album is his best yet and you should check it out - unnverving and hilarious, ferocious and intimate, red-raw drum machines and saucy vocals.

i worked hard on this master so you could safely do drugs to it

My weekly picks now in newsletter form, feat. @olliaarni.bsky.social (@mondoj.bsky.social), Madeleine Cocolas (@room40.bsky.social), Concepción Huerta & Jiyoung Wi, Sunik Kim, and Malthusian (@relapserecords.bsky.social).

My weekly picks now in newsletter form, feat. @olliaarni.bsky.social (@mondoj.bsky.social), Madeleine Cocolas (@room40.bsky.social), Concepción Huerta & Jiyoung Wi, Sunik Kim, and Malthusian (@relapserecords.bsky.social).

check out "Felonius Monk", the first single from "Amasia: Anamibia Session 2", and an excerpt from the 13 minute epic "Luigi Takes a Walk" here. feat: Onaje Allan Gumbs, Casey Benjamin, Pete Cosey, John Medeski, Chris Williams, J.T. Lewis... and me melvin-gibbs.bandcamp.com/album/amasia...

RIP the unstoppable force that was Eddie Palmieri. An academy of music, a combustion engine. Take five minutes out of your human experience to sit with this performance, and consider how many elements are in thrilling convergence.

For the issue's CV special, I wrote about the Cab's influence in 1980s Yugoslavia. I also penned the Avant Rock column (w/ amazing albums by @giantclaw.bsky.social and Marissa Nadler), reviewed new music by Merzbow and Bruch and revisited albums by Flower Travellin' Band and Phew/Kobayashi/Moebius.

For the issue's CV special, I wrote about the Cab's influence in 1980s Yugoslavia. I also penned the Avant Rock column (w/ amazing albums by @giantclaw.bsky.social and Marissa Nadler), reviewed new music by Merzbow and Bruch and revisited albums by Flower Travellin' Band and Phew/Kobayashi/Moebius.

To no one's surprise, the new Sunik Kim album (out today) is absolutely mind-blowing. Two hours of tempo canon explorations. Always the first artist on my mind when the topic of boundary-pushing music comes up.

The quality and consistency of the Lisbon label Príncipe is wild. Case in point, this new DJ Narciso record, but also pretty much everything they've released over the past two years.

As is tradition, Spyros and I selected the best metal albums of July over @popmatters.com. Feat. the amazing prog-rock-meets-NWoBHM of Phantom Spell, Sigh's re-recording of one of their avant black metal masterpieces, the Blood Incantation-esque sophomore album by Haxprocess, and much more!

Oh, look! It's 'Invoking Yell' irl!

One of the best things I've heard this year, a fascinating attempt at envisioning the future – or futures, actually – of pop music, both uncanny and familiar sounding. Go listen & buy: giantclaw.bandcamp.com/album/decade...

'Ozzy Osbourne and his band Black Sabbath pulled off an enormous coup by coming out of poverty and profiting against the odds within a hugely overpowered music industry, despite being endlessly ripped off and almost losing their minds along the way' #OzzyOsbourne Remembered buff.ly/bd88ute