It's going to be one of those days. Take care everyone and stay strong.

periodic reminder that your creative and artistic work has ripple effects beyond your field of view, and that it's good for your soul and happiness, and yes that's important. please keep going, keep making and sharing, especially when it's grim. don't ever stop, we need you

The American state is an endless procession of violence Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Wish I could internalize this

Feel very fortunate to be involved in a scene here in Rock Island that truly feels like it has at the heart of it hanging out and helping people feel comfortable enough to express themselves. Long Live Rozz Tox

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

QUITE the #vinylsanta haul this year! Took this pic before I found a 7" in the package that strikes me like a crust-punk split. STOKED

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.

emmet otter's harsh noise christmas

As told by the late dancer and choreographer Agnes DeMille.

There is a prison of judgment and success-chasing most artists get heaved into at an early age and can take a lifetime to get free from. You gotta understand that the process—not the product!—is the thing. Others are entertained as a byproduct of you attending to rituals you construct for yourself.

You can’t hear the sound in space because it’s a vacuum, but they were able to convert the electromagnetic waves into sound using sonification.

Oh what a good feeling to have #VinylSanta under the tree. @vinylsanta.bsky.social

Do not have children if this is even in your solar system of “how to view the world and raise a human being to adulthood.” Begging you, don’t have kids. This is one of the bleakest things I’ve seen lately (not directly related to actual genocide in Gaza or ICE kidnapping people on the streets).

pals you gotta quit spotify

Going to somewhat go for Two Discourses At Once and say the new @shaneparish.bsky.social is a Christmas Album. shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/autech...

Found myself able to grab some music for Bandcamp Friday. Umulamahri, Nijiumu, The Cosmic Tones Research Trio, Converge, Matchess, We Contain Multitudes, La Téne, France, megabasse, Shane Parish. . Links in comments.

Submitting our wares for your Bandcamp Friday consideration: newstandardsmen.bandcamp.com/album/agains...

Denver's most awesome record store, Wax Trax, has a great new blog post up that is basically a transcription of a zine essay from 1991 about seeing Gwar, along with scans of the photography. Just a fantastic time capsule in every way.

I wrote about listening, thinking, reflection, memory & not “offloading” it all to sp*tify! www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...

i’m so happy for him

Always a joy to be blasted by My Bloody Valentine. Last night was also a tribute to Mani and for @thequietus.com I dug into the idea of extreme noise as a vehicle for calm and tranquility. thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Good luck losing less than an hour to this: a huge archive of logos for government, non-profit, private, military, and even fictional space agencies and companies. [kottke.org]

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you 🫵 are supposed to help people

We are all dead, and we spoiled the world before we died. There is nothing left. Nothing but dreams.

Probably a bad sign to be in NW Illinois and going inside to cool off after moving band equipment on November 14th, right?

So we are going to bring forth a world where anyone who wants to be a lone wolf is welcome to walk into the woods without a single damn thing a global community made for him, and perish howling at the moon. The rest of us will live in a society.

Executive order Congressional decision The working masses Are manipulated

I love Neil Young because he'll make a song where he mumbles "Got mashed potatoes/Ain't got no T-Bone" over three chords for 9 straight minutes and then insist you listen to it on the most high-resolution audiophile equipment possible. Happy 80th, king.

Fun and loud weekend in Iowa City and Davenport. Des Moines this Friday with our pals Sungrave from Denver.

Have wrapped up the first two shows out of three with our pals in Sungrave, who also took this video of us at Trumpet Blossom in Iowa City. Also the first time performing live with the me having the cymbals to play, it is very fun having them. @aseethedoom.bsky.social @thrilljockey.bsky.social

Aseethe set up as a three-piece. @aseethedoom.bsky.social

One of the bands I'm in, Aseethe, became a drum-less three-piece at the end of last year. Since then, we've worked on some collaborations and improv-ed with a couple drummers. Now, we'll have some cymbals and pads on stage with us to tinker with, which we're excited about. @aseethedoom.bsky.social

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

I did this last year and it ruled. Highly recommend joining in.

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

I don't know what will happen in NYC tonight, but I do know that regardless of outcome, any number of public figures, celebrities, politicians and institutions that oppose Mamdani have done so with a level of rhetorical ugliness, racism, and dishonesty that should neither be forgotten nor forgiven.

Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.

IOWA CITY THIS SATURDAY!

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Why I think it's time for some Governors to come up with a plan to decide whether or not constituents and businesses in state should continue paying federal taxes. We may not be able to physically stop Musk, but we have a legal argument that we already paid for shit we are not getting.

¡Chinga La Migra! Chicago street vendors are being targeted by ICE & Border Patrol agents. As a result, many are staying home and not able to work. Preorder and $8 per shirt will go towards the Street Vendors Association of Chicago who offer financial assistance to vendors who stay home.