EPISODE 213 / TOP 200 TAPES OF 2025 we made a list of the year's best tapes with the help from @strategictaper.bsky.social, Drongo Tapes, Ephem Aural, @mrshafshr.bsky.social, @TabsOutArchive, Orb Tapes, and @larrywish.bandcamp.com Check it out tabsout.com?p=30218 Alert us of mistakes by midnight!

New Tomestoner 😱😱😱😱 alexhoman.bandcamp.com/album/iii-th...

EPISODE 212 💥 is the new GIANT CLAW his best yet?! 💥 does chi-town super group BYSH please you!? 💥 what does the WRONG SIDE of a Tiger 2-XL tape sound like?? 💥 why does the wolf howl for BLACKBRAID?? 💥 what are YOL and STORYTELLER talking about?? FIND OUT! tabsout.com or places where podcasts live

NEW TAPE DROP!!! The first release on BLACK PYLON, a new cassette label from Lee Thompson & Nicholas Langley, is SAFE ZONE by Dogs Versus Shadows. Expect DREAMSTATE INDUSTRIAL AUDIO

Holy crap shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/autech...

2025 music format ranking: 1 Bootleg cassettes 2 Radio 3 Supermarket 4 Person with loud phone on bus 5 Illegal downloads 6 Tapes 7 Passing car blasting music 8 CDr 9 Vinyls 10 Talented bird 11 VHS 12 MP3 13 Minidisc 14 LPs 15 CDs 16 Hold music 17 The gym 18 FLAC 19 Records 20 Streaming

Not a Stone Roses fan, eh Spelling Bee?

First post! We're gearing up to share some exciting new music in the coming months, and we're happy to connect with all the great folks on this platform. Check out the new website: RIP dot com, long live dot org! www.lightenupsounds.org

Episode 211 ⚡ classic SONIC YOUTH 🤖 a tape meant to be played in a 90's robot toy 🥴 @hyphyskazerbox.bsky.social goes ultra mode 💨 a generation joint from SIR TAD ☎️ a call to THE GATE's hotline + new jams ➕ hawsh noish, @jollies.bsky.social, Dave Rudder and more! tabsout.com

TROUBLE IN MIND RECORDS: 2009-2025

 BIG SALE happening over at our Bandcamp page. Take a whopping 30% off anything in the webshop using the code: ADIEU 

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“Born Outside My Window (10th Anniversary Edition)” out Friday on @bumpy.bandcamp.com ❣️

This is a rusty-ass episode, but whatever.

Alright, I just left 14 more copies of the tape in the vending machine kiosk at the Kittery rest stop. Sorry to anyone who tried to pick one up recently and couldn't score one.

Can’t wait to see where “Roped Off Is Waiting for Your Challenge!!” lands on this list! 1, probably?

OUT TODAY: new single from Jetski’s upcoming album The Radiant Radish! 🌟🎿 “Bucking Broadway” hits as an epic plunderphonic journey overflowing with intertwined drum patterns, sax bursts, & movie dialogue, like free jazz formed from infinite constituent parts. bottomless zones.

OMG, also this!!

Oh yes, oh my, yes!

Y’all like tapes and field recordings, right? sahelsoundscompilations.bandcamp.com/album/field-...

Finally, Orange Milk is here! bsky.app/profile/oran...

EPISODE 209 We got mentioned in another book and someone made us a fan IG account. So we must be very smart and very very funny! To celebrate we played tapes by Jair-Rohm Parker Wells, Toxic Chicken, Unholy Altar, Ouroborean Piss, Liz Meredith, Bridges of Konigsberg, Degraved, & more tabsout.com

Dang, @dasroyalarctic.bsky.social ! Gorgeous as always. Video directed by my little league teammate @thejohnisjohn.bsky.social . Record out on @centripetalforce.bsky.social

I'm excited to announce 'Save The Waves: People for Public Media' — a 19-track benefit comp curated in support of PBS. Out June 27 (Digital + Cassette). Pre-order now & get 2 tracks instantly All proceeds to PBS. seawindofbattery.bandcamp.com/album/save-t...

Continuing.

Doing the repress thing up in here. @billorcutt.bsky.social / Fake Estates.

One of the best baseball writers out there. Sorry, did not mean to make this a baseball thread!

Yesssss

Episode 208 🕊️ new MERZBOW 🩸 old CONTROLLED BLEEDING ⚔️ crawl the dungeon with TOMESTONER 👨‍👦‍👦 Mike Watt and Mold Omen collab as MOW 🫧 burst the DOT COM BUBBLE ☢️ double shot of NUCLEAR WAR NOW! @merzbow.net @wattfrompedro.bsky.social @alexhoman.bsky.social @oxenrecords.bsky.social 👉 tabsout.com

Keith!!!! “Pull Me in Dark,” new single, @giantclaw.bsky.social on “Decadent Stress Chamber,” out July 24 on Orange Milk. Preorder! Let’s go!! giantclaw.bandcamp.com/album/decade...

Toxic Chicken, “Buff!” 2025 @ingrownrecords.bsky.social Joyous, wild, synth shit. I mean, look at that cover art.

“No funny stuff.”

This is just a delight by Wilder Nicely, aka Pathtology. pathtology.bandcamp.com/album/reborn...

Episode 207 🪥 NOOTHGRUSH demo craziness 👑 Memories from EMIL BEAULIEAU 😭 WEAKLING black metal scariness 🎸 COSME / POOPY PEEPY rock block 🐉 crawl the dungeon with DESOLATION PLAINS & GUARDIANS OF THE 7TH TOWER 🐉 🛹 OLSON collab tabsout.com

Toadofsky/Hallucinogenic Bulb // Distortion of a Perfect World [split] ( @virtua94.bsky.social , 2024) Released following the passing of Dave Petersen, aka Hallucinogenic Bulb. RIP, Dave…

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-...

Presently listening: Mr. Hideyoshi // Present-Day Megalith // @virtua94.bsky.social // 2021

CHXMERAS // Terminal City // @virtua94.bsky.social // 2024

Welcome @sahelsounds.bsky.social !!! You should all be following. 😎

VA – Golly (JS025) Artists: A—TWEED, AFRICAN GHOST VALLEY, @dahjyn.bsky.social DAHJYN, DRAGON PLANT, MMC ENSEMBLE, NANDEL, NORFIK, NUKE WATCH , RUMORE, SOFT AS SNOW, TOO HANDS, UMBRA Mastering by Pheek Design by One Day Vacation Released October 25, 2024

I can’t wait for this full thing. Be like me and preorder, won’t you?

Presently listening: Megzbow and Vinegar Tom // Field Mulch (Sgarab Tapes, 2024). Not sure where this came from, but I’m pretty sure wherever it is, it’s under water. Also, I believe Megzbow has blocked @tabsout.bsky.social as well.

Presently listening: Necking // Final Embers of Sunlight (Marginal Frequency, 2021). Cacophony blossoms.

Ian MacPhee // Cycles ( @alreadydeadtapes.bsky.social 2025). Love this artist. Ambient soundscapes and field recordings flawlessly stitched together.

Presently listening: Desolation Plains // The Pillars of Ruination (Old Stories, 2025). New dungeon synth jammer!

Presently listening: Seth Graham and Keith @giantclaw.bsky.social Rankin from Orange Milk Records. This tape is bonkers and I love it. Cream Juice // Man Feelings (Orange Milk, 2013)

The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides All I saw was the word penis

“The Failed Larry Wish Show Pilot Episode OST” by @larrywish.bandcamp.com are in! 🥳 Grab yours here: larrywish.bandcamp.com/album/the-fa... 🎶

"Writing a book about cassettes may seem counter intuitive to some, but when it comes to recounting cassette history with a genuine passion, [Marc] Masters really is the master and High Bias is a great and inspiring read."—HIGH BIAS by @marcissist.bsky.social reviewed in @outsideleft.bsky.social

I don’t think these Desolation Plains runs last very long… just ordered mine! With the demo, of course. @tabsout.bsky.social @jamieorlando.bsky.social @ghostplanettm.bsky.social

Red alert! New @ctatsu.bsky.social batch out today! Includes a vinyl OMG! Here is link! ctatsu.bandcamp.com/merch/spring...

Clearly the appearance of @fieldhymns.bsky.social on this platform signals new releases??