the vampire lestat review embargo is up so I can finally publicly brag that I have seen the first three episodes x

new wire!!! i tested richard dawson for this issue's invisible jukebox! feat. stories about emailing mike patton, the velvet underground going to the tip, getting life advice from big finnish men + more! i also review releases from shane embury, lolina + neon crabs, a goth comp + a queercore book!

I wrote about fanzines for my latest @lwlies.com letter!! feat. a selection of my very fav film zines, and a plea to make your own fanzine and experience true joy and human connection: mailchi.mp/tcolondon/lw...

friends feared she'd written about going to hardcore: aprylhm.substack.com/p/35-old-man...

luv going to @gavia.bsky.social house bc you’ll hear phrases like ‘this is where we keep our unusual jugs’ and ‘would you like a regular glass or a star trek glass’ then someone will tell you in detail about the logistics of cooling systems on a ship (just went over to watch a hockey game)

This is my good friend @msclairebiddles.bsky.social's experience every day

My lovely pals at @omipalonepress.bsky.social are letting me pop some stuff on their table at zine fest over the weekend! I should be mulling about on the Saturday so give me a shout if your there 😊

went to see doja cat for le guardian last night and she was fantastic — somehow a super slick bandleader and an unhinged scene kid simultaneously, like 80s prince x new jack swing x courtney love www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

stuff I’ve seen for work that sucked aside, dandy warhols supporting david bowie in 2002 — they’ve got a couple of good songs but it’s all in the production so live they were absolutely garbage, looked like they stank in a white people with dreadlocks way, then david bowie played right after them

checking to see what’s on at my preferred experimental music venues when I’m in london for harry styles next month and pleased to announce I will be doing the maggie nicols vocal workshop/harry double

It's Glasgow Zine Fair this weekend (and Glasgow Zine Fest all week)! I'm tabling on Saturday 23rd (only). I'll have poetry comics, zines, non-fiction comics, pop culture riso prints, badges, and that heady mix of excitement and social anxiety. glasgowzinelibrary.com/zinefair

This time next week, I’ll be setting up for my first Glasgow Zine Fest in… over a decade?! Where did that time go?! Extremely excited to be tabling with @wraithlands.bsky.social - and next door to the one and only @omipalonepress.bsky.social too!

i will have two new zines at our table this weekend and i am djing at the opening party on friday night at mono come one come all x

All of culture is converging on the personalised [YOUR CHILD’S NAME] picture book

The Quietus is 90% funded by subscribers, and we need another 500 this spring to help us fight the AI-pocalypse – with this in mind, there's a huge sale on our top tier subscriptions. If you like what we do, here's how you can help: thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

pls watch this perfect film before it leaves criterion channel in two weeks!!!! www.criterionchannel.com/leaving-may-...

A wee reminder that 404 Ink ebooks will be unavailable to buy after the end of May. So if you want to snap up a bagain you don't have long. Lots of great books, and also me. Twice! Small Town Joy: www.404ink.com/store/p/smal... Carrie Kills a Man: www.404ink.com/store/p/carr...

Putting it in my will that my family has to have this post engraved on my tombstone:

strong impulse to write a fanfic that’s a rewrite of the david foster wallace harpers magazine cruise ship essay if he was stuck on the hantavirus cruise ship

Huge congratulations to Iris Duane and Q Manivannan, soon to become Scotland's first ever trans and non-binary MSPs 👏🏻👏🏾👏🏼🏳️‍⚧️💪🏼 #ScottishGreens #ScottishElection2026 #ScottishElections #ScottishParliament #scottishpolitics

super furry animals at the barrowlands tonight let's fucking go

toot toot new wire! from moi: an interview with EGG MEAT about melding music and poetry; reviews of new releases from LINTD and devin townsend; reviews of reissues from scritti politti (one of my all time fav albums) and brion gysin (not good sorry king). buy a magazine!!!!!!

it's bob dylan–isis day www.youtube.com/watch?v=INil...

yes! we recorded it today actually! upcoming eps are Lee Cronin's The Mummy, followed by Mother Mary and The Devil Wears Prada 2.

back my bestie's book!!!!!!!!

My first letter for @lwlies.com newsletter is out today! I wrote about the way fandoms define pop stars and vice versa – why MOTHER MARY gets this wrong, and why films like ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU and (of course) VELVET GOLDMINE get it right. read it + sign up! 🧑‍🎤💫 mailchi.mp/tcolondon/at...

my mum's favourite REM song! when i was a teen we had a tape with reveal on one side and automatic for the people on the other that we played to death in the car. reveal has so many beautiful moments imo

🥰 🥰 🥰 I am very tired but VERY excited to get this out in the world. A million thank yous to @bookshop.bsky.social & @lincodega.com for all their work getting this off the ground.

For this month's bonus episode on Patreon, Gav and I talked about season 2 of The Pitt and its sophomore slump: the issues with Robby, sloppy/rushed writing, increasingly dicey racial dynamics, and more. Listen below! www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-...

seminal dudes rock text just dropped

claire........ please never change 💖

how i feel after watching ten werner herzog documentaries over the past four days

i made a new zine about the (many) similarities between david foster wallace's postmodern classic infinite jest and queer hockey series heated rivalry – my two primary obsessions of the past few months. i made stickers too! available here if you are the same kind of insane as me: fwyl.bigcartel.com

Battling mods, private electric chairs, brand new species and true-life hunk Brion James glide between the silver flicker of the movie screen. Here's the deliberately forgotten, the shunned, the banned. A zine of disreputable reviews of disreputable films by Douglas Noble. stripforme.bigcartel.com

Get on this, comics dudes and Woolfites (?) @julesscheele.bsky.social is a living legend and I can’t think of a better match of style, subject, experience and conviction than this ❤️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/ave...

dream big!!

rly enjoyed discussing an all-time fav on this week's pod, especially learning about aspects of the film's backstory that i didn't know about! includes shout-outs to the tartan asia extreme dvd label and underseen banger SERIES 7: THE CONTENDERS

seal –kiss from a rose

By my reckoning we need approx 7 more backers to hit our target for Orlando by @julesscheele.bsky.social. Can you help us get this done today??? www.kickstarter.com/projects/ave...

It’s so frustrating. A lot of celebrity “interviews” are just influencers desperate to “hang out” with famous people they idolize. They rarely even ask questions, to say nothing of questions pertinent to anyone but themselves or stans. It’s a real loss for culture.

geese the very definition of music that is none of my business

Our profile on Harry Styles and why he'll be a great Meltdown curator now comes with a playlist to introduce you to his work Become a Quietus Subscriber Plus tier member to access this plus many other wonderful perks: buff.ly/nFUaCkP

v excited to have co-programmed this year's glasgow zine fest taking place 19-24 may! workshops, talks, physical media swap, niche interests powerpoint party(!) hosted by @gavia.bsky.social...i've been tabling at GZF since the first edition so this was a dream job www.glasgowzinelibrary.com/zinefest

Imagine being a punk or an activist and not using your local public library on the reg. How embarrassing for you.

🚨 I'm currently open for illustration work! Finished a couple of big projects and now have a semi-free schedule for a few weeks. If you're an AD, please get in touch! 🎨 My portfolio: tomhumberstone.com 🧵 But I'm going to post some work below too... I love illustrating pop culture:

"Me and who"-ing every video or photo I see of Trent Reznor and Mariqueen Maandig onstage together at Coachella.

Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉

An eerie little lost classic by the wonderful Billy Mackenzie ❤️

This has been going on for some time — and it's helping destroy actual journalism.

listening to tears for fears on the train thinking about when I went to see them live and the guy in front of me shazammed ‘everybody wants to rule the world’