Gave up on the new Faces Of Death flick. Not great at all.

Hot take: I think sometimes people should say "disillusioned" instead of "blackpilled". Not every phase of your life has to be described in pill form

Cover of my next Patreon zine, at the printers right now...

So high on eyes I almost lost my way.

Here’s a remixed, remastered, corrected and expanded version of a piece I wrote about Blue Öyster Cult’s bizarro concept album Imaginos. With Albert Bouchard’s Imaginos IV on the way it seemed appropriate to dust this down and apply a new lick of paint.

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Every so often I get to think of something that is not awful. I interviewed Henry freaking Rollins about his quest with Ian MacKaye and a few other schemers to revive Vengeance Records, The Cramps’ record label: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Look, this is going to come off as harsh, but an increasingly vast amount of people really need to stop getting on social media and pretending they speak for everyone and know what everyone is thinking.

Things ain’t what they’re supposed to be.

The Invisible College aka The Processed Church.

Listen back to last night's edition of The Wire's weekly radio show, which was hosted by @lucythraves.bsky.social and featured music by Roy Montgomery & Martha Skye Murphy, Space Afrika, Concepción Huerta, Niblock / Hooker / Soldier / First and more www.thewire.co.uk/about/contri...

Fresh prints? Yes. But not of Bel Air. Tickets for the first edition of The Invisible College here: wegottickets.com/f/22399

🎶 I’m no stranger to luuurve 🎶

An evening of uncanny sound & vision in Hastings including a big pharma body horror featuring Harold from Neighbors and live electronic music by @triggerobject.bsky.social via @jjstannard.bsky.social wegottickets.com/f/22399

RIP Bonnie Tyler x Here she is performing a Blue Öyster Cult song co-written by Mott’s Ian Hunter.

Fresh prints? Yes. But not of Bel Air. Tickets for the first edition of The Invisible College here: wegottickets.com/f/22399

Listening to the reissues of Meshuggah’s Destroy Erase Improve and Catch Thirtythree really puts a lot of recent djent and prog metal into perspective.

Tonight on Resonance FM & Resonance Extra, @lucythraves.bsky.social will be playing new music by Roy Montgomery & Martha Skye Murphy, Space Afrika, Concepción Huerta (pictured), Mukqs, Iztok Koren & Raphael Rogiński, and more. Tune in from 9pm BST extra.resonance.fm/schedule 📷 Dan Crosby

The preceding film is underrated too. Mainly by people who didn’t like and/or get the ending (I absolutely fucking loved it).

The Dick Line Of Western Civilisation.

Ho99o9 at Patterns in Brighton was one of the best gigs I’ve ever attended.

Kevin O'Neill

Meanwhile, back on Yuggoth... An improvised piece from 2018, originally in colour but the colours need redoing, and my resurrected Lovecraft book is being planned as b&w throughout for the time being. This may change if/when I find a publisher...

If you enjoy Philip’s columns, come and see his 1993 body horror classic (with a specially recorded intro and live sets from Trigger Object and Dream Skills) at Electric Palace in Hastings. Tickets: wegottickets.com/f/22399

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Inside The Wire 510: Once Upon A Time In Tokyo The brief but wild Tokyo Rockers scene of the late 1970s created its own spin on punk and no wave, influencing legions of experimental and confrontational music in the decade to come By Stuart Munro, 📷 by Yuichi Jibiki. www.thewire.co.uk/shop/

Noting once again the shift from the bleakly operatic Dirt to the freaked realism of the s/t album.

Lent my vocals and guitar, along with a few 'Marshland' extracts to some of the tracks on this album by @blackadastra.bsky.social - The Death of the Magic Fish elasticstage.com/blackadastra...

Enjoyed Addison Heimann’s Touch Me, now streaming on Shudder. This kind of fun weirdo shit that just sort of slips out is more to my liking than any overhyped A24 business.

i find it very funny that, canonically, the last character in this comic strip would be required by his belief system to murder you the instant you admitted to having used any kind of AI for any purpose

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Office Ambience 510 Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our August 2026 issue www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

You all seem to have forgotten that the indie revolution is people doing shit without the big studios' permission and usually against their wishes. You don't need an A24 budget, you don't need Glitch. Be revolutionary and just make and share stuff whenever you want.

This is getting old and so are you.

Let me sleep so my teeth won’t grind.

If America hadn’t been founded on such idealistic principles, perhaps it might not have drifted so far from them? It’s a land of extremes, incompatible with its shadow, fighting its reflection. It’s carbonated, caffeinated and oh so stimulating. Happy Birthday, USA!

Thomas Paine is my favorite founding father. He was famously abolitionist and one of the earliest voices to point out the hypocrisy of fighting for independence while keeping slaves. He also firmly believed that keeping any friendship which required compromising your morals made you a bad person.

Not the Backrooms.

For this issue, I reviewed three Field Studies compilations from The Jewel Garden label.

Album of this night GROWING -The Soul of the Rainbow and the Harmony of Light

Pleasure enjoy this annual, celebratory Independence Day post Soundgarden - 4th Of July [Live At Hyde Park 2012] youtu.be/AMgdtJmc3XA?... via @YouTube

This video product is a detailed look at the classic ‘80s crime series, The Question. There’s also a detailed history of the character from 1967 to the present day. youtu.be/ArzTj7sCfhk

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The stage is falling apart at the rehearsal for Freedom 250's July 4th celebration.

these are the words of an expert

Watching Lorcan Finnegan’s The Surfer with the director’s commentary. Recommended tbh.

there was a time when my father had 4 FOUR jobs If hard work is really the way out of poverty - REALLY good for you my Dad would’ve been a millionaire & Curtis Yarvin would be out in the field picking strawberries right now

Watched Yuval Adler’s Sympathy For The Devil last night. Didn’t get great reviews on release but it’s a fun hybrid of A History Of Violence and Collateral with special sauce courtesy of Nicolas Cage.

Fucking tuuuuuuune. Mandrake gets the best verse.