Picked up an old NME in a record shop in Brussels today. Quite a prescient quote from Alan Vega.

Somehow, I've come this far but never seen this Altered Images video before. #NonMore80s youtu.be/ua5nrSlNSAc?...

The Advert for Suicide's album 'Suicide' in Sounds 1st, July 1978. @syntheticdreamspod.bsky.social

Whenever I have a day off work, it's like there's a record shop magnet in my brain.

Often post this on #BourdainDay. Advice I continue to heed, in spite of it all. Here's to one of the good ones. #JustKeepWriting

Happy #BourdainDay - a day he would have probably hated. But hope he’s having a good one, whenever he is 🤍

Also, June 25 is #BourdainDay - greetings to all who mark it ☕ - same day Blade Runner was first released plus it's George Orwell's birthday today. What a day.

Will be very interested to see what this article turns up.

“Tom would buy a lot of records not because he loved the music, but he liked to hear how the guitars were recorded… He was obsessive about sound quality and how things were recorded.” www.discogs.com/digs/feature...

When did post-punk begin? It's all kicking off. www.reddit.com/r/postpunk/c...

Tofu says it's hot.

Happy 10 years of Brexit 💃💃💃

Surprised to see an E.A.R. record on display in the "vinyls" section at FNAC in Brussels today.

Such a great news photo. By @nathanhoward.bsky.social at Reuters. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

"I think the world would be better off without the damn phone. AI is killing me, you know. Do I fear for the future of music? I fear for the future of everything. They don’t know what the hell it does, so now we all dangle and wait." www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

Another from the 'wow, that's what I call music packaging' series, from the brilliant Betty Hammerschlag. "a custom-cased SD card nestled within a transparent cassette shell, preserved alongside dried 🥀rose petals from my backyard." bettyhammerschlag.bandcamp.com/album/never-...

And this, from the lovely Santos of Scent of Green Papaya foodblog fame.

Trawling my Flickr faves for an image to use for a work presentation. Came across the birth of Twitter. www.flickr.com/photos/jackd...

A previous owner of my copy of Ulysses started off with impressive marginalia that gradually withers to nothing by page 150 of this 767-page endurance test. Page 150 is still further than I've ever reached. Today is #BloomsDay.

"There are other pros to being a debut novelist at 51. I sometimes see writers my age fret about whether their new work is overshadowed by their early literary promise. I have no such worries." www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

Shove that in your chatgpt and smoke it.

Vigorous nodding along to Taylor Parkes in this old and very good @sleafordmods.bsky.social interview. thequietus.com/interviews/s...

Nice day for a flea market.

Old Saw play live in Burlington on June 24. www.helloburlingtonvt.com/event/old-sa...

The Velvet Underground performing at Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, California, May 1966. youtu.be/GBj98vrvrwY?...

Can't argue with any of that, apart from that opening line. "Few albums of the late 1970s and early 1980s have held up as well as those by Talking Heads" Marquee Moon, Another Green World, The Raincoats, Joy Division, PiL, etc. etc.. etc

Went on a mammoth LP buying spree at the weekend with a friend I had not seen since Kigali days. Was drawn to this. Apart from the hits, I've never really listened to Japan. Seems I was missing out.

Fabulous look back. What a time and what a place to eat.

There's a record shop in Brussels that sells old copies of the NME. The computer ads are quite mind-blowing. A top of the range PC in 1983 had 42k of RAM. The ad reads, "The power you need for the most sophisticated applications"

Please play this amazing game

Sadly, I'm not rich enough, but these do sound very, very good. www.flareaudio.com/en-eu/collec...

Lived right behind this building in '97. Shame it is no more :/ www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfu... #Hanoi

New to me, enjoying this. intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/sponta...

Halfway through this and I don't think it's going to turn out well for the air stewardess. It's not quite up there with Points and Lines and Inspector Imanishi, but if you're on the lookout for an old style, slowburner, then Twilight in Musashino by Seicho Matsumoto might work for you.

Tsuioku by Tokyo Bedroom Orchestra tybo.bandcamp.com/album/tsuioku

Hot, hot, hot day at Brussels flea market today.

flea market table

Intriguing possible #bandcampfriday thing. "Series of 19 hand-assembled objects. Each contains an original collage, a botanical fragment, and a hand-stamped card with access to the full recording (31:36). Housed in a flat, transparent found container." oejerum.bandcamp.com/album/arkiv-...

Terry Riley Dream Music : Keyboard Study #2, 1967 In Aspen n°9, The Psychedelic Issue, Ed. Angus MacLise & Hetty MacLise, 1971

Brussels record fair today.

Underground Brussels

Another in a list of artists stepping outside packaging norms. A cassette of Rejoining by Thomas Bush with "Handcraft Sleeve, Screen Print on Cork" kashual.bandcamp.com/album/rejoin...

Comments are mostly all 💣🤯🧨

Amen to this.

This LP by Naujawanan Baidar arrived yesterday. Quite honestly, if I close my eyes, I could be sitting in the backroom of a pub in Rugby, circa 1986. And that’s the highest of compliments. Discovered via @aquariumdrunkard.com radiokhiyaban.bandcamp.com/track/asir-e...

BBC's Witness History looks at Anthony Bourdain's essay Don't Eat Before Reading This. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

One of the most important sociological studies of our time: documenting the cat ladders of Switzerland brigitteschuster.com/swiss-cat-la...

BODY SOUND, the first LP by Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, and Macie Stewart, arrived today. Listened through three times | energetic, yet calming, follows a full LP cycle with a real beginning, middle and ending. Love how the drones, tape loops, clinks and clanks, all meld with some chance stuff too.

Was discussing the first UK TV progs to use text under the screen during broadcast. Remembered Network 7 and... ooh... ahh... did I really used to like this show? youtu.be/8IXCQwXLWCk?...