Glad someone finally commented on the horseshit Mortal Mirror review that Pitchfork still has on their website.

RIP to hundreds of Iranians and one American vacation

The dark irony of the British empire being so reliant on the Maxim machine gun to solve their colonial wars that they had a little song about it, and then basically ignoring them for the bayonet charge and cavalry and leading to monstrosities like the first day of the Somme.

The norms were occasionally solving crimes between between faking terror plots. He’s removed the first part to get a private jet to go to sporting events.

The norms were occasionally solving crimes between between faking terror plots. He’s removed the first part to get a private jet to go to sporting events.

Influential albums cont. Channels 3+4 - s/t(2003)

Influential albums cont. Red Krayola - The Parable of Arable Land(1967) and God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It(1968) in the wonderful and terrible twofer format I first found them in.

In good news Trump this weekend looks like a gas station hotdog that fell off the spinner…but in bad news he’s kind of looked like that for a year or so.

And meanwhile another modern approach to the slasher lurches nearer: youtu.be/1nnW2jBOZEs?...

Jane Schoenbrun confronts the myth of the slasher: youtu.be/MA5NqUMEdbI?...

Oops they meant to kidnap Ali Khamenei and never mention it again.

These recent Marielle V Jakobsons solo works are good ambient/minimimalism/modern composition/drone works with a warm approach informed by the natural world.

Influential albums cont. Pauline Anna Strom – Trans​-​Millenia Music(2017)

Wow! I’m glad I got to see both Dear Nora and Aislers Set back in the day but this will be fun for those who didn’t get that chance!

Influential albums cont. Tony Conrad and Faust - Outside the Dream Syndicate(1973)

Phew and Danielle de Picciotto - Paper Masks I usually grab everything Phew does, so I grabbed this without knowing her collaborator, but it’s an ominous fractured electronic landscape that sounds like a series of final radio transmissions from some apocalypse.

Influential albums cont. Joanna Brouk - Hearing Music (2016)

Kevin Drumm - OG23 Another murky dive into alien depths.

I guess the speech didn’t turn things around. Also the legacy media has joined every else in calling him a pedo.

Aggressively minimal show this week with John Cale, Rhys Chatham, Pelt, and Tony Conrad and Faust: xray.fm/broadcasts/6...

Influential albums cont. Kevin Drumm - Sheer Hellish Miasma (2002)

I feel like this post only exists to be a guaranteed ratio on social media as some kind of engagement strategy.

Legacy media trying to trot out their usual coverage of the State of the Union expectations is incredibly embarrassing. No one is buying it anymore.

Influential albums cont. Glenn Branca - Symphony No. 3 (Gloria) (Music For The First 127 Intervals Of The Harmonic Series)(1983)

Ana Roxanne This was such a great debut, playful, cosmic, and surreal. Excited for the new one.

Neptune Towers, Fenriz of Darkthrone going wild with solo synths. Some lump it in with dungeon synth but that’s not really accurate, more avant-garde/cosmic in the style of seventies classics by Jarre, Froese, and Shulze.

As the east coast and Midwest get pummeled with winter weather it’s maybe hard to notice the massive disaster of the west getting almost no winter weather at all. Also a personal bummer for me as I love a little snow more than anything.

Influential albums cont. Microwaves - System 2(2002)

They really are great. I love their different approaches to their instruments(they both play guitar and drums on different songs ), one chaotic and one precise (but with the more despairing vocals). Excited that they are working on a new album: youtu.be/_wDG2-cmtG4?...

So a U.S. backed effort by the Mexican army to decapitate the Jalisco New Generation Cartel has apparently gone a little pear shaped and unleashed narco terror across the country.

Kevin Drumm - Inexplicable Hours All of his work sounds like alien field recordings, aural horror movies, or the dreams of industrial equipment. Recommended!

20 years of food.

Influential albums cont. Sonny(and Linda) Sharrock - Black Woman(1969?1970?)

Influential albums cont Curse of the Birthmark - tour cdr 2002(later reissued by Daft Alliance on vinyl)

If Trump was a normal politician and the GOP a normal political party the SCOTUS nuking of the tariffs would be a secret gift…but they are neither of those things.

Influential albums cont. Gate - The Dew Line(1994)

Orcas - How to color a thousand mistakes A more recent album by the ambient/art pop duo that I’m finally getting around to. I adore their first two.

On learning that Ghislaine Maxwell gave a TED Talk, I’m pondering who is actually the worst person who’s given one?

Influential albums cont. JD Emmanuel - Wizards (1982)

I guess there’s going to be some consequences…just not over here.

Isobel Pines - Fables Wintry minimalism/ambient/field recordings/chamber pieces from a woman who seems to live in the snow. On Kranky.

Orcas - Yearling Second album of swooning eighties style ambient art pop from this duo, like Tears for Fears trying on David Sylvian’s sound.

Orcas Ambient art pop duo by the creators of A Sight Below and Benoît Pioulard that sound a little like a lost contemporary of David Sylvian, Talk Talk, and Eno.

Too bad those “I Survived” books seem to have one author and aren’t like the 33 1/3 books where we get to pick our favorite disasters and write them up.

Too bad those “I Survived” books seem to have one author and aren’t like the 33 1/3 books where we get to pick our favorite disasters and write them up.

I had this tinge of jealousy of Yellow Swans, since we were all friends from the same town and time, went to the same shows and parties, hung out at each other’s houses, but they quickly became the most widely known outside of Portland.

Paying tribute to my great friend Gabriel Mindel this week who needs our help and support right now with an hour of his solo work and the great Yellow Swans: xray.fm/broadcasts/6...

Influential albums cont. Deerhoof - The Man, the King, the Girl(1997)

Every time Donner Pass makes the news it reminds of the time I drove through it in a blizzard and it was the most terrifying night of my life.