Hope everyone's having a pleasant taint of 2025. mattdemello.bandcamp.com/track/nobody...

a little more on one of my favored analogies youtu.be/Msz2daPeTyg

Not Somali.

Guys, I think I hate the Cameron Winter album.

THE PERENNIAL SOUND LIVE AT WFMU @wfmu.bsky.social perennialtheband.bandcamp.com/album/the-pe...

The Better Beatles - Penny Lane [Electronic Wave Punk] (1981) https://redd.it/6l00vp https://youtu.be/7g-Dr1Xhk8A

nu-ludditism is the future of american politics and a perfect horseshoe

Remembering the great polymath Alisdair Gray, who we lost this day, 2019.

Did I mention my wife and I are expecting?

More like Max Benis.

HALLELUJAH!! Their attempt to brainwash the country into a Christofascist cult is backfiring. ‘The U.S. is undergoing its fastest religious shift in modern history, marked by a rapid increase in the religiously unaffiliated and numerous church closures nationwide.’ www.axios.com/2025/12/26/g...

Listening to Physical Graffiti after Christmas to check in with my 17yo self.

New MF music video

Rewatching Heated Rivalry again and episode 5 really is everything

I have so many incredibly inappropriate responses to this which are all big black songs

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains. Hard mode? Not MBV, Elephant 6-connected, Flaming Lips, or Radiohead.

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains

Anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention could see that was happening.

The real revolution in Bob Dylan going electric at Newport in 1965 had to do with the length of his live shows. With the wood stove-powered Dylan, the coal fired Dylan, or the Dylan run on leaded gasoline, concerts could go only 20 minutes before the coughing drowned him out.

Make a Bond movie academic: "The World is Not Enough: A PhD dissertation on the avarice of billionaires and the socio economic divide causing a fracture in democratic processes”

my friend (a good looking bald man) has an 11 year old son and one day a bunch of us were having lunch together and the kid proposed a ‘hairline contest’ for the sole purpose of making fun of his bald father

My four favorites from May 2025. Let me know which one of these you like the best. . *All SOLD

'Guest spots from Björk and Yves Tumour only add to the considerable power of ‘Berghain’, contrasting not only that classical elegance but juxtaposing with one another' Rosalía - ‘Berghain’ feat. Björk & Yves Tumor is No 1 in The Quietus Tracks of the Year 2025 buff.ly/9dtflPo

Watch The Idea, the First Animated Film to Deal with Big, Philosophical Ideas (1932)

Songs for a lonely Christmas. Support on Bandcamp. Stream wherever. Thanks! platinummax.bandcamp.com/album/season...

On first watch I thought it was a little plodding. On the second watch, Glen Close really brought her A-game.

Here have a free copy: www.getmusic.fm/r/matt-demel...

The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford Coppola (1993)

Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.

Discover the First Depiction of Santa Claus (and Its Origins in Civil War Propaganda)

Let me pair this up with a song www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdVN... bsky.app/profile/mora...

Warm yourself by the virtual fireplace in this cosy 16-color EGA #Christmas scene. No MS-DOS or floppy 💾 drive required. Thanks to software preservation, it's still crackling on the Internet Archive. ✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️ archive.org/details/sier...

“It is proper, constitutional, and legal for a federal grand jury to indict a sitting president for serious criminal acts that are... contrary to, the president’s official duties. In this country, no one... is above the law.” --Kenneth Starr (May 13, 1998) www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/u...

Matt DeMello - Confetti in a Coalmine @themattsdemello.bsky.social "irreverence, absolute disdain, and jaunty theatrics" #bandcampcodes #progpop #genrejumping #songcycle #music getmusic.fm/l/1DuAsi

Hi. Here’s a whole rock opera about Rudolph assassinating Santa and leading a communist revolution against the North Pole in the War on Christmas. mattdemello.bandcamp.com/album/cassan...

28+ hour Christmas Playlist for you Apple users. Don’t mind the last 45 minutes, trying to work in some last minute additions. music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

How I’m showing up to the BlueSky Christmas party.

one of my deep seated convictions is that NEW JACK CITY deserves a full restoration, criterion release and like, 5000 word essay

You love EPCOT? Well, Disney Theme Parks is now announcing CECOT! Take a tour through the most exotic penal systems imaginable...

Every advent season, I remember the wonderful work we did with the Advent Aspects project and how we raised quite a bit of money for a great cause. The 2020 ambient/vaporwave Twitter-Discord scene wasn't entirely a dream: salierirecords.bandcamp.com/album/advent...

Last Christmas I gave you my heart The very next day Kali ma shakti de

Insane how a 1960 epic like Spartacus is a 3h15m movie complete with an overture and intermission, when that's your average runtime for a Marvel movie when the producers know people are actually going to see it.

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

This holiday season, tell a friend about Labrador. labradortunes.bandcamp.com/album/my-ver...

Parents everywhere are terrified that their teens’ sudden need to download the forbidden 60 minutes story is a gateway drug to wanting even more news

The Rats - 19783 [Portland, Oregon, USA - Punk, Punk Rock] (1979) https://redd.it/k7vro6 https://youtu.be/YuwFUVM2s4M

Ivan, my dear friend and Hydrogen Trees collaborator, has put up the full length video version of Secret Arcade on youtube. He made a video for every song on the bloody album! Beautifully layered collages of Scarborough, stop-motion weirdness and seaside dismay: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW-d...

Some of these might still be good for a free download of the album Secret Arcade. If you like music to sound like a roughhewn collage of tattered home recordings then check it out: thehydrogentrees.bandcamp.com/album/secret...