EPISODE 216 😠 MATT FRANCO 🤡 FAYGOPHILIAC 👄 MMOUTH 🧝 DORIATH 👹 REAPER'S GONG 💀 JAKE ACOSTA 💩 (((((((SHIT))))))) 🌌 HEAVAN THAT BENDS ABOVE 🥅 SKYNET 🐺 PAN AMERIKAN NATIVE FRONT 😖 COLLAPSING www.tabsout.com/episodes/epi...

Oohhh!!

North America, Strategic Tape Reserve audio cassettes are now available at the DNT Distro @dntrecords.bsky.social on your local continent. More affordable shipping and a crazy good selection of other labels and artists. Support your fine local independent mailorder experimental tape distro, please.

Waaaaaaaarp!

So excited for this one! Let’s go, Peter! @awasteofredmeat.bsky.social @tabsout.bsky.social boys, keep your eyes peeled … @jamieorlando.bsky.social

After a decade-long sabbatical, DNT Records returns for our second act! (Act 1: 2005-2015) Today we've relaunched the mailorder distro website, and later this year we'll relaunch the label. Please help us spread the word! DIY/Experimental/Drone/Weird/Psychedelic/Etc dntrecords.com

I’m posting these screenshots from @obviousplant.bsky.social’s presence elsewhere because they’re not posted here. I feel like @strategictaper.bsky.social should do a run of these? Top 10 on the 2026 @tabsout.bsky.social list?

EPISODE 215 🍖 very illegal MEAT PUPPETS bootleg ☎️ a phone call from the NYC Tape Fair ⚖️ the law group of MARCLOID & WOODS 🏊‍♀️ deep dive with ZARANKA 😱 early 00's KAYO DOT track on Hydra Head 👁️ two cuts off new Hooker Vision comp 🤢 his job is TABLE all that and a little bit more @ www.tabsout.com

This is fun. 😊

Summer reading (baseball edition) @justinklugh.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social

In five days, this brand new tape from @angelhair0.bsky.social and I will be released on the fantastic @tracedobjects.bsky.social label. I encourage you to listen to this music when it is made available. I am biased, but I think it is enjoyable.

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 

 troubleinmindrecords.bandcamp.com/merch

“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?