Awesome post punk with glimmers of death rock and dark wave! pilgrimsbandofficial.bandcamp.com/album/gemini

New from me, at @vqr.bsky.social: a few years ago two people contacted me about a TEDx talk I once gave, “The Art of Haunting.” When I replied I’d never given a TEDx talk, things just got weirder. On AI, ghosts, what it means to tell a story, and what Italo Calvino saw coming 60 years ago. Enjoy!

I smashed the order button for this tape So. Damn. Hard. Listen to Lagrimas, buy this tape! fiadh.bandcamp.com/album/im-not...

#ANDNEW #AEW Women's World Champion Thekla! #AEWDynamite

I’m not sure how to feel about the Thekla v Stat match. The botched hand tie kind of ruined it for me…

This is the most perfect, and most Laibach thing ever. Watch this video now, and be prepared to shake your ass youtu.be/erR5PSfKo7w

I was wicked impressed tonight by Mass Ego, a blackened hardcore band from Baltimore. I hope they put some new stuff out soon, because the songs they played tonight went hard AF

I think that I will always be team Nopeth, but I am happy that so many of y'all draw joy from listening to Opeth!

Bandcamp Friday purchases

Current listening queue…

You may have heard it is bandcamp Friday Perfect time to preorder my new album Séance! It’s Jesu meets Coil with a little neofolk shoegaze and doom for spice. ( lot of influences here) All made by some gothy witchy trans lady, me! sylviarosecult.bandcamp.com/album/s-ance

Without downloading new pictures, where are you mentally?

My favorite January releases were: Zu - Ferrum Sidererum Backengrillen – S/T Blackwater Holylight – Not Here Not Gone Gavran - The one who propels Summer of hate - Blood & Honey What did y’all love from January?

I didn’t really expect to see Trhä live. But I’m doing so this weekend…

Killer new skramz/post-hardcore from the Philippines zegemabeachrecords.bandcamp.com/album/like-a...

This 2022 album still bangs hard! dasfliege.bandcamp.com/album/one-da...

I started the day with the new Soft Pink Truth, and damn @drewdaniel.bsky.social, this is fantastic. I’ve been teaching philosophy of music this semester, and this fits with so many things I’ve been thinking about! thesoftpinktruth.bandcamp.com/album/can-su...

New Roadburn lineup announcement today. This fest is going to be absolutely killer this year!

Announcing pre-orders for my new album "Séance" Created to channel the trans ancestors that have come before, to seek their guidance and to bring their power and energies forward. ON @ampwall.com and @bandcamp.com sylviarosecult.bandcamp.com/album/s-ance ampwall.com/a/sylviarose...

It’s Wednesday…and you know what that means!!!

Side two of this noise rock album basically sums up my feelings right now

Started the day with this killer free form noise rock, deathjazz album from Umeå. I’m trying to decide whether to pull the trigger on the vinyl backengrillen.bandcamp.com/album/backen...

Cow tools are rad. But also: Go vegan!

Gasket was on fire tonight! I had to leave a bit early to catch the train. But that was a hell of a kickass show!

It’s weird being an old dude in a scene that you didn’t grow up in, but I always love the vibes at shows up in Baltimore…

Is anyone I know going to be at the Gasket album release party in Baltimore tonight?

Help us raise money for People Serving People, a Minnesota mutual aid organization, by purchasing some of the most hilariously ripping grindcore of the COVID era!

I just listened to this kickass crust album. Maybe you’ll like it too aruspexcrust.bandcamp.com/album/the-de...

The cognitive whiplash of going from Bach to Totem Skin, then back to Bach, then over to Alpinist…

What are your favorite examples of *recorded music* from outside the European tradition? I’m teaching philosophy of music, and I want to make sure my students hear as many different styles and traditions as I can show them!

First potential AOTY for 2026

My listening queue for this week! Dead Spells (2025) North Innsbruck Motljus Pâro The Ruins of Beverast Woe (still haven’t listened) And the new Zu when the vinyl shows up!

Teaching philosophy of music shortly… Quick, help…what is music?

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

Somehow I’ve never been to Oklahoma…

Yeah, I grew up as a hardcore kid, who also loved metal. And I’m probably out of my depth, but…

Listening to the new Zu album in a listening party, and it looks like I might have just found the album to get my 2026 EOY list started 🤣

My new years resolution was to stop doing Duolingo. I had a 1790 day streak. But yesterday, I deleted my account. I thus achieved my New Year’s resolution. Now, back to my regularly scheduled programming

We don’t need to grant online attention to every egregiously racist utterance in 2026

If years were better made, we wouldn’t have to replace them every 12 months. This is just planned obsolescence.

Seems like a good time to post this…

Is there a @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social 2026 subclub that I’ve missed? I did it in 2025, and was thinking about doing it again next year…

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains. I just listened to this and it’s still one of my all time favorite albums. Every song on it rules, and I wish Joy Division sounded more like their cover of Isolation!

The fire in the mountains lineup in getting really interesting!

"Dark Arms Reach Skyward With Bone White Fingers II: Be (Not) Afraid" will release on January 1, 2026. Artwork by Melanie Hutchins. #metalsky

My kingdom for alt text on every #Metalsky AOTY list Between shitty phone screen and being literally half blind y'all testing me

Do any of y’all have suggestions for killer post punk or goth stuff from back in the day that I should check out? I’ve been listening to the first The Shroud and Strange Boutique and would love more stuff in that space. If you don’t know Strange Boutique… strangeboutique.bandcamp.com/album/the-lo...

I’ve been checking out things on other people’s lists, and I’m still really happy with mine. It’s weird, it has things from a wide range of genres, and most of the people I know would give at least part of it a side eye. I guess that pretty much sums up my taste in music

I just listened to this album again after seeing it on a friend’s top-10 list. I’m surprised I’m not seeing it on more lists dawnofouroboros.bandcamp.com/album/biolum...

Album of this night William Basinski - Silent Night