Dang, what did Hamnet do to some people? You'd think that movie kicked their dog, the way some people talk about it.

Monolith, one of my favorite low-fi, high-concept horrors, has just dropped on Shudder. Watch it with your headphones on. www.austinchronicle.com/screens/sxsw...

Forgive me if i'm mistaken, doesn't the President of the United States need Congress' approval to start a war? Pretty sure i saw that written somewhere.

From the euphoric synthpop of hemlock springs to the thoughtful art pop of Nathan Fake and Apparat to gnarly techno workouts from Quiet Husband, Kavari, and Picture, i write about some of February's best electronic music for @popmatters.com. www.popmatters.com/best-electro... #techno #ambient

Reflections on Week 1 of the 100 Days Project, talking about showing up and doing the work even when you don't wanna, and the challenge on working on a project while the world seemingly burns. open.substack.com/pub/hauntolo...

🎧 Album of the Day 331 V/A - Classical Music of Iran, Vol. 1: Dastgah System Thinking of our friends and family in Iran this evening listening to these tranquil, magical recordings. Hoping everybody stays safe. open.spotify.com/album/4VckFb... #albumoftheday #musicsky #musicchallenge #Iran

Gotta love having a president who will start a war to distract from bad ratings.

🎧 Album of the Day 330 Eliane Radigue - Songs of Milarepa The lives and times of Milarepa, the murderer turned Buddhist saint, over 2 hours of some of the heaviest holy minimalism you'll ever hear. open.spotify.com/album/0pGs09... #albumoftheday #musicsky #ambient #drone

🎧 Album of the Day 329 Popol Vuh - In der Garten Pharaoh "You can practically smell the dust, the black mold, the ozone and the arcing electricity. open.spotify.com/album/3Gy1uw... #albumoftheday #musicsky #hauntology #ambient #the100dayproject

🎧 Album of the Day 328 Agustin Pereyra Lucena Quartet - La Rana Best of 1980 88/1000 Brazilian bossa nova from an Argentinian. Soft and tender with saudade yet fiery, explosive, and full of joy. Glorious! open.spotify.com/album/0TJseB... #albumoftheday #musicsky #musicchallenge #80smusic

Kicking off Day 1 of The 100 Day Project with a post on my new travel SubStack, The 9th House, talking about a moment of serendipity while exploring the Columbia River Gorge yesterday. the9thhouse.substack.com/p/twin-peaks #100DayProject #Travel

🎧 Album of the Day 327 Bones - Saturn "rolling up my diamond bones" Hard glinting cloud rap from 2013, emerging squinting from witch house's sulfurous cloud. Goes hard, goes soft, goes bright, goes dark. thatkidmusic.bandcamp.com/album/saturn #albumoftheday #musicsky #saturn

🎧 Album of the Day 326 Rod Modell - Grotto of the Sun One of a pair of ambient techno electroacoustic albums, Grotto of the Sun shines through the murk like sunlight through a fogbank. silentes.bandcamp.com/album/grotto... #albumoftheday #musicsky #ambienttechno

Deepchord's Rod Modell with two new albums, out today boomkat.com/artists/rod-...

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🎧 Album of the Day 325 Phew and Danielle de Picciotto – Paper Masks Haunting, witchy electroacoustic electronics create an itchy, surreal backdrop for some otherworldly vocals. open.spotify.com/album/5jc6r4... #albumoftheday #musicsky #ambient

January reads!

My sci-fi/dark fantasy short story collections NO CASTLES and STRONGER THAN SWORDS are free for download now, for a week. Get some near-future weirdness, quiet terror, haunted battlefields, and isolated ennui;

🚨 hey hi hello! I posted another stack of music reviews for you, we’ve got lots of death metal alongside indie rock and minimal techno outliers. check it out won’t you? thediscovertab.substack.com/p/while-the-...

Welcome to The Year of the Fire Horse. Shaping up to be yet another intense year. hauntologynow.substack.com/p/the-zodiac...

Watching Ginger Snaps with my bestie. Perfect way to spend a birthday!

🎧 Album of the Day 324 Alice Costelloe - Move On With The Year Pretty drifty dream pop from the great-great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud. A little bit Stereolab, a lil Broadcast, a titch Beach House. Light and fresh and lovely. open.spotify.com/album/5JMt8g... #albumoftheday #musicsky

“The gorgeous, soaring vocals are more than enough to make V one of this year’s most ecstatic listens so far.” @popmatters.com

🎧 Album of the Day 323 Patty Griffin - Seeing Red Shortly after establishing herself as one of the leading folk acts of the '90s, Patty Griffin returned with a rocking, rollicking, hard-hitting country rock record. open.spotify.com/album/7GWcXB... #musicsky #albumoftheday #musicchallenge

No new pictures... Where are you mentally?

🎧 Album of the Day 322 Terry Lyne Carington - The Mosaic Project Sublime Big Band Soul Jazz from an all female band, playing everything from soprano sax to flugelhorn & bass clarinet. A smooth & joyful noise. open.spotify.com/album/04Qp7y... #albumoftheday #musicsky #musicchallenge#jazzsky

Happy birthday, James Joyce 🥂🍀

Happy Black History Month!

🎧 Album of the Day 321 Minako - MONOCHROME Best of 1980 151/1000 I like this better than i like most City Pop. A lil less manic, a little more elegant and atmospheric. Also like its track titles sound like Library Music. open.spotify.com/album/3jaNik... #albumoftheday #musicsky #citypop

Give me a follow on Bandcamp and grab some cheap (or free) stuff whilst you’re on there. Spread the word for us. Ta. hdrf.bandcamp.com/follow_me

fascists can’t really grasp the power of minimal techno

🎧 Album of the Day 320 Aphrodite's Child - 666 87/1000 Best of 1972 3516/5000 Best Albums 2313/10000 BestEverAlbums Absolute madness this is ranked so high, in a good way! Also, TIL i learned Vangelis was in a witchy prog band! open.spotify.com/album/31u1VE... #albumoftheday #musicsky

🎧 Album of the Day 319 Ella Red - It's Not Real Suffers from a bit of an identity crisis, making Ms. Red sound a bit too much like others to truly inhabit her own sound. Her voice alone is enough to carry this record, though. A fun time! open.spotify.com/album/4Cgtqi... #albumoftheday #musicsky

🎧 Album of the Day 318 Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell Best of 2019 5/1000 561/10000 Greatest Albums of all Time 213/10000 Best Ever Albums Too many thoughts for 300 characters. musicboard.app/jsimpson/rev... #albumoftheday #musicsky #musicchallenge #pop

Madison Beer returns to what she's always done on locket, and that's a good thing! Read my album review on @popmatters.com www.popmatters.com/madison-beer... #musicsky #albumoftheday #albumreview #pop

🎧 Album of the Day 317 Janis Ian - Between the Lines Best of 1975 299/1000 6155/10000 The Greatest Albums of all Time Utterly sublime folk rock sophistipop. Somehow manages to be both earthy AND highly cerebral. open.spotify.com/album/6RjDm4... #albumoftheday #musisky #musicchallenge #70smusic

🎧 Album of the Day 316 Lhase de Sala - La Llorona Best of 1997 80/1000 4556/10000 Greatest Albums of all Time 6166/10000 BestEverAlbums What a truly cosmopolitan record! A Mexican folk record with French arrangements & klezmer elements. open.spotify.com/album/7J8k8Y... #albumoftheday #musicsky

Copy limit? On a book i fucking OWN?!? Goddam, can big tech platforms PLEASE stop being so invasive?

🎧 Album of the Day 315 Blondie - Autoamerican Best of 1980 555/1000 Utterly insane that this isn't ranked higher in 1980. What the heck is wrong with RYM users? A stone cold classic, effortlessly blending punk, new wave & ska. open.spotify.com/album/1VuNXm... #albumoftheday #musicsky #80smusic

🎧 Album of the Day 314 Bonnie Tyler - Goodbye to the Island Been a watery kind of week. Perfect hard/soft rock jams for where the water meets the land. Ms. Tyler will always have one of the best voices in the rock game. open.spotify.com/album/4Ot30E... #musicsky #albumoftheday #musicchallenge

🎧 Album of the Day 313 Seduction - Nothing Matters Without Love Seduction had a massive 3-way hit of r&b, dance music, and pop in 1989, yet it doesn't even crack internet best-of lists. Good New Jack Swing! Underappreciated. open.spotify.com/album/7ruxoz... #musicsky #albumoftheday #80smusic

🎧 Album of the Day 312 Laurie Spiegel - The Expanding Universe Best of 1980 192/1000 Pure Ambient. Spiegel's synth becomes particle physics, heating into neon firmaments of pulsing morse code, cooling into brittle inertness. open.spotify.com/album/1oiMfh... #musicsky #albumoftheday #ambient

Odessa A'zion is so good in Marty Supreme that she brought me back around to I Love L.A.

Has WhatsApp been slow as shit for anyone else since the New Year?

🎧 Album of the Day 311 Elba Ramalho - Capim do Vale Best of 1980 154/1000 What a bizarre, eclectic record! Northeastern Brazilian movie by way of 80s Kate Bush artpop. open.spotify.com/album/1xH1oG... #albumofthday #musicsky #musicchallenge #bestofthe80s

Wait, Pitch Perfect tried to turn ACAPELLA into a Battle of the Sexes? Is this a thing?

🎧 Album of the Day 310 Teena Marie - Irons in the Fire Best of 1980 231/1000 Sultry femme disco funk pop from the Long '70s. Smoky, passionate, sultry, inspired. open.spotify.com/album/126Yg3... #albumoftheday #musicsky #musicchallenge #80smusic

🎧 Album of the Day 309 Joyce Moreno - Feminina Best of 1980 73/1000 6327/10000 Greatest Albums of all Time Truly a joyful noise! Her mixture of bossa nova, samba & MPB is opulent as one of Carmen Miranda's hats, as smooth as soft silk. open.spotify.com/album/7ImYb6... #albumoftheday #musicsky

🎧 Album of the Day 308 Belinda Carlise - Heaven on Earth Best of 1987 576/1000 Come for "Heaven Is a Place on Earth," stay for "Circle In The Sand." open.spotify.com/album/34SBay... #albumoftheday #musicsky #musicchallenge #poptimism