Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.

Sad news indeed. Rest in peace.

New work for a project. @ignorethatdoor.bsky.social

Happy Holidays everyone, however you choose to celebrate. If you hear the strained notes of a poorly belted 'Rocking Carol' by New Order, pay it no mind. Overindulging in food can do strange things to me.

Choice cuts from 2025 are handpicked for your listening pleasure on this week’s We Have a Technical!

Holiday themed skull bowl. 10H x 11w x 12L in centimetres. Giant Arm Dual Colour Silk PLA Roughly 28 hour print.

Closing out our Year End week, we look back at our favourite releases of the year as well as some honourable mentions! www.idieyoudie.com/2025/12/19/w...

While I was for sure set on the top pick (and was wrong, it was number two!), the top five this year would be welcome additions to anyone’s collection.

The ID:UD Top 25 continues!

All thew love! Showers of it. Oodles even. All well deserved.

The best albums of 2025, according to me. amodelofcontrol.com/countdown/23...

Day one of the ID:UD Top 25!

Post your Lock Screen

One of my annual highlights is reading (and subsequently listening to the addendums to), the ID:UD end of year coverage. You deserve joy too so I would humbly suggest you partake in its benevolent majesty.

Pre holiday cut as an unnecessarily dramatic photo.

For the final Observer of the year, we look at new releases by Statiqbloom, and dormnt. www.idieyoudie.com/2025/12/12/o...

WHaT this week focuses on two new releases by long-time acts who have also had rather long periods of dormancy. One is archival material and very much looking back while the other begs asking what a band’s place is within their genre thirty years after their last album.

Saw a lot of live music this year (mostly due to my partner Shannon), and as many are want to do, like to reflect on what the year was like soundtrack wise. Here's a list of songs released over the year that I thought particularly great. Albums to follow, unless I forget or get side-tracked.

Seeming's fourth album of post-everything electronic songcraft is about the world, and how we move through it. www.idieyoudie.com/2025/12/10/s...

Exclusive made for last Saturday's All Queer Holiday Bazaar in London, Ontario. It was a nightmare getting printed due to the company being negligent for the first time in the last two years of using them, but they came out well. #art #Frankenstein

It’s always nice to hear something new from Das Ich.

The first 25 selections from Synthpop Fanatic's annual 100 Best Synthpop Songs are availble now, check it out!

Preorder for new shirts is still up and orders will be put in this week Order on the Feral Crone Bandcamp feralcronerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/omnipo...

Classic and more recent acts are wonderfully represented in this weeks ID:UD Tracks post.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

Seeming: The World our 4th LP This record was hard to make. It wriggled, bit, shapeshifted, ran away from home, yelped from bad dreams, scared off friends and family, and refused to play nice. But kicking and screaming, it is born today. Welcome to the World. seeming.bandcamp.com/album/the-wo...

1/ It's Bandcamp Friday again, and while I haven't compiled my list of favourites from 2025, the 2024 edition is available here:

This is so far beyond my field of knowledge. I do know someone must put shows together and there must be a lot of work involved but given this insightful interview, I'm amazed at how many balls need to be kept in the air for anything to be pulled off successfully. The lord's work, honestly.

This was interesting...

X Marks The Pedwalk's long-running second act firmly shifts into pure synthpop territory with the charming "Insomnia". www.idieyoudie.com/2025/12/03/x...

Black Dahlia's weirdo artpop sound comes into its own on their excellent new LP. www.idieyoudie.com/2025/12/02/b...

December Tracks Post!

Aw hells yeah. Time for some post millennium dance floor bangers! (To be honest, I've only heard about three songs from this record as I'd more or less phased out of this kind of sound in my diet by 2003, but they were all dance floor bangers so I'm sticking with my claim).

Good Morning. Here's some Akira Yamaoka with the always wonderful Interlace to get your day started. I love this song.

It's that time of year where, much like indulging in warm blankets or comfort food, I revisit some favourite books. My love for warm blankets and comfort food is static, but my thoughts on books change as I do, so: Flowers for Algernon Picture of Dorian Gray Frankenstein; done early due to the film

Two albums I'm incredibly fond of are taken up and pored over in the latest edition of We Have a Technical...

“Absence” 11x17 glossy prints I’ll have for sale at the Holiday Bazaar on December 6th in London, Ontario.

Calgary's Wants has new wave charm to spare on their debut LP. www.idieyoudie.com/2025/11/26/w...

Streetpunk and synthpop blend into massive anthems on the latest from Edmonton’s Home Front. www.idieyoudie.com/2025/11/25/h...

Watched Together. Wasn't for me. The story seemed to be simply a notion and only alluded to while the two stars' unsubtle codependency was awful to watch. Franco is such a blank slate nothing while Brie is just unpleasant and selfish. Any point being made was lost in the clumsiness of its telling

NTRSN? I did not have that on my bingo card. Then again, if Pygmy Children and cut/rate/box have new work out, why not?

Ladies and Gentlemen, get ready for a hard left. #RadioFreeAnarchists Ep 6.1 Re/Born is here! @zeroillustration.bsky.social @alyankovic.bsky.social @x-never-marks.bsky.social @willgarcia820.bsky.social @vampfreaks.com @peoplepowerunited.bsky.social archive.org/details/rfa-...

If you’re in the London, Ontario area on December 6th, I’ll be selling Zero Illustration Art and merchandise at the 2nd Annual Wortley Pride Holiday Bazaar! Stop by and say hi!

Capsule reviews of new records by Automelodi and SNAKEATSNAKE.

Rest well, Mathias Knopp.

So sad to hear this; all the best to his family and loved ones.

The venerable and beloved Pick Five returns to WHaT this week, this time featuring side projects. Who will be included? Tune in to find out (my money’s on Corrections House and Sightless Pit. This should also explain why I don’t win many bets).

@lanadelrabies.bsky.social's visceral and personal approach to death industrial continues to expand its sonic and thematic range.