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Podcast Episode 771 is live Velvet, Matmos, Surya Botofasina, Lucrecia Dalt Y La Bamba, Niño de Elche, and Victor Herrero, Christina Vantzou, John Also Bennett and Oliver Coates, Buck Curran, The Notwist, David Shea, SPC ECO, and The Stargazer Lilies. brainwashed.com

Whitney Johnson - Canonization and the Female Pioneers of Electronic Music vimeo.com/1141446786 This talk by Whitney Johnson was recorded live on August 14, 2025 at Q-O2 workspace Brussels. www.q-o2.be/en/event/whi...

Nomination round is now open for the Brainwashed 2025 Annual Readers Poll. Nominations will be taken through the end of the year because music keeps getting released until the end of the year! Make sure you vote beginning 1/1/26. brainwashed.com

Podcast Episode 770 is now live! Seasonal music by The Legendary Pink Dots, Laura Cannell, Paula Kelley, Nina Nastasia, Low End Activist, Marielle V Jakobsons, Throwing Muses, Gareth Davis & Scanner, Ólöf Arnalds, Insides, Kodax Strophes/Martyn Bates, and Coн & Wladimir Schall. brainwashed.com

Podcast Episode 769 is now live! All new music by Saagara, Shane Parish, µ-Ziq, Big Blood, Maria Somerville, Colleen, Mike Majkowski, Hekla, Silvia Tarozzi, and Nailah Hunter & Alia. brainwashed.com

Podcast Episode 768 is now live! Brand new music from Foetus, Nurse With Wound / Diarmuid MacDiarmada, Isolated Gate, IE, Hilary Woods, Midori Hirano, and Sadness, plus a gem from the vault by Sister Irene O'Connor. brainwashed.com

Podcast Episode 767 is live Marie Davidson, Paula Kelley, Tashi Dorji, FACS, K-LONE, A Place to Bury Strangers, Ginger Beef, Gnonnas Pedro, Ruth Mascelli & Mary Hanson Scott, Brown Angel, Le Grand Couturier, Call Super, The Stargazer Lilies, and Pete Namlook & Ludwig Rehberg. brainwashed.com

Podcast Episode 766 is live New music from The Legendary Pink Dots, Softcult, Charles Hayward & Dälek, Pullman, Dizzy Fae, The Cosmic Tones Research Trio, Maneater, Francesca Remigi, Barry Walker Jr., and Shit Robot, plus vintage pieces by Peta Lily & Michael Process and Dave Ball. brainwashed.com

Podcast Episode 765 is live New tunes from Soft Cell (with JG Thirlwell & Gary Barnacle), Sugar Plant, Tortoise, Sugar, The Soft Pink Truth, Odonis Odonis, Mermaid Chunky, Arvo Pärt, Barry Adamson, and Nadja, plus some music from the vaults by Patrick Cowley and Cabaret Voltaire. brainwashed.com

Podcast Episode 764 is live Special Guest Graeme Revell: composer, author, and founder of SPK. This episode features music from Surgical Penis Klinik, SPK, Socialistisches Patienten Kollektiv, and Graeme Revell himself, including an exclusive new piece. brainwashed.com

Podcast Episode 763 is live! New stuff by Glyders, Sharon Van Etten, Carla dal Forno, Lauten der Seele, echospace, Sloan, Ayu Okakita, Anthony Moore with AKA & Friends, and Miki Berenyi Trio, plus vault music from Laika, Brigitte Fontaine, and K. Frimpong & His Cubano Fiestas. brainwashed.com

Podcast Episode 762 is live Author & Punisher, 58918012, Sõon (Adi Newton & Jack Dangers), Whitelands, Saint Abdullah, Madeleine Cocolas, The Legendary Pink Dots, Dry Cleaning, HAAi, Rivulets, Grouper, Collabs 3000, KK NULL, SPC ECO, Joseph Kamaru and Buffalo Tom. brainwashed.com

Podcast Episode 761 is now live! New new tunes by Bitchin Bajas, Lea Bertucci, Old Saw, Dustin O'Halloran, Joanne Robertson, Milo Korbenski, Arrowounds, Ladytron, and the Dream Hack remixed by The NRG, plus a tune from the vault by Clock DVA. brainwashed.com

Podcast Episode 760 is now live New music from JJJJJerome Ellis, Stereolab, Paul Jebanasam, Guided By Voices, Paul St. Hilaire, Rafael Toral, Marta Forsberg, Sergio Merce, and Greater Than One, plus some classic spoken word by Taylor Mead. brainwashed.com

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Podcast Episode 759 is live. The Holy Mountain Orchestra (Al Cisneros, Robert A. A. Lowe, Ben Chasny, and Matthew Tobias), claire rousay, House of Harm, cheryl e. leonard, Ellen Fullman and The Living Earth Show, Orcutt Shelley Miller, Kevin Drumm, Swans, cross record, and Low. brainwashed.com

Podcast episode 758 is live. New music from gusgus, OHYUNG, Lucrecia Dalt, Juana Molina, Frog, µ-Ziq, Gareth Davis & Scanner, Zane Trow, RjVj, Yasmine Hamdan, and Softcult, plus music from the vaults from Keith McIvor (JD Titch) as Tomorrow The Rain Will Fall Upwards. brainwashed.com

It grieves me beyond words to share the sad news that, after some months of suffering from glioblastoma, #JDTwitch of @optimo-espacio.bsky.social has passed. His #Optimo partner JD Wilkes has posted this message on their Instagram account.

Podcast Episode 757 is live JG Thirlwell, Diamanda Galás, The Tear Garden, Volcano The Bear, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Ø (Mika Vainio), Dylan Henner, Laetitia Sonami, Seefeel, Weirs, Gary Wilson, Anushka Chkheidze + Robert Lippok, Roméo Poirier, and Andrew Chalk. brainwashed.com

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Podcast Episode 756 is now live! Self Improvement, Bayun the Cat & Iouri Grankin, Gwenifer Raymond, Coatshek, Jim White, Kieran Hebden + William Tyler, Adrian Sherwood, A Grape Dope, David Donohoe & Kate Carr, Natural Wonder Beauty Concept, Rousers, and The Body. brainwashed.com

Podcast Episode 755 is now live! New music from Holy Sons, claire rousay (feat. m sage), Edward Ka-Spel, KILN, Carolyn Fok, Christian Wallumrød, Cat Temper, Michele Andreotti, BJ Nilsen, Donna Regina, and Aki Onda, plus a classic from The Fall. brainwashed.com

Podcast Episode 754 is live! Brand new music from Major Stars, Softcult, Nobukazu Takemura, The Stargazer Lilies, Triple Five Sol, Lifeguard, Laibach (feat. Bjelo Dugme), The Colour Of Madness, The Egyptian Lover, Dale Cornish, and BlankFor. ms, Erik Griswold. brainwashed.com

Podcast Episode 753 is live The Tear Garden, Sir Richard Bishop, Cherrystones x Demdike Stare, Sam Prekop, Blurt, Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O'Rourke, Ensemble Nist-Nah, Flutter Ridder, Moodymann (feat. Roberta Sweed), Susumu Yokota, Repetition Repetition, and Jason Molina. brainwashed.com

Podcast Episode 752 is live! A single episode this week is yours to savor w/ brand new music from Painkiller, Kieran Hebden + William Tyler, Score, Cyrus Pireh, Madeleine Cocolas, Death & Vanilla, Brady Cohan, Cory Hanson, and Vanessa Wagner, + a song from the vaults by Misty Lane. brainwashed.com

Podcast Episode 751 is live! New stuff by Tim Barnes, Marissa Nadler, Yasmine Hamdan, Stephen O'Malley, Nicolas Bougaïeff, Yearns, Ori Barel, Giuseppe Ielasi & Riccardo D. Wanke, and Felix Kubin, plus not so newish music from GusGus w/John Grant, Galaxie 500, and Rebekah Del Rio. brainwashed.com

Podcast Episode 750 is now live! New tunes from Whitelands, Bitterviper, Adrian Sherwood, Gabriel Brady, Manslaughter 777, Tortoise, Blonde Redhead, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Vanessa Tomlinson, and Xenia Pestova Bennett, plus music from the vaults by Ilpo Väisänen and The Pastels. brainwashed.com

Podcast Episode 749 is live! New music by Four Tet, Nina Nastasia, Benoît Pioulard, House of Harm, Illusion of Safety, HAAi (with Jon Hopkins, Obi Franky, ILĀ & Trans Voices), Rozet, Kinga, Pneumatic Tubes, Contagious Orgasm, and Hampus Lindwall, plus classic from Cabaret Voltaire. brainwashed.com

Podcast Episode 748 is live Dimensional Holofonic Sound, Stars of the Lid, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Matt Jencik & Midwife, Ambarchi / Berthling / Werliin, Joy Guidry, Saint Etienne, Gwenifer Raymond, Dizzy Fae, Cate Le Bon, Arrowounds, Stereolab, Alan Sparhawk, and Nitzer Ebb. brainwashed.com

Podcast Episode 747 (special guest David J. Haskins) is live David discusses new album The Mother Tree, the new book of poetry Rhapsody, Threnody & Prayer (both due out June 6), plus his first book, as well as time in Love and Rockets and Bauhaus (and a cute Bowie story). brainwashed.com

Podcast Episode 746 is live! We return with brand new music from Xordox, somesurprises, Nation of Language, Marissa Nadler and Milky Burgess, Purelink, Eli Keszler, Julia Sabra, øjeRum, Larum, Bruno Pronsato, Pan•American & Kramer, plus a classic from Carl Craig. brainwashed.com

Olga Anna Markowska, "ISKRA" "a powerful and focused soundtrack for something like James Marsh’s macabre yet achingly beautiful and poetic Wisconsin Death Trip or one of Bill Morrison’s mesmerizing decomposed film fantasias" brainwashed.com/index.php?op...

Maria Somerville, "Luster" "well-placed sharp textures and stylistic curveballs to mostly elude that trap and come across like an excellent and lovingly curated mixtape" brainwashed.com/index.php?op...

Rashad Becker, "The Incident" "feels like the fruit of a Lovecraftian scenario in which Becker is plagued by recurring nightmares of an otherworldly city populated by slime-covered and tentacled horrors" brainwashed.com/index.php?op...

Eliana Glass, "E" "makes me want to run out into the streets to tackle random pedestrians and demand to know why they are not listening to it right now" brainwashed.com/index.php?op...

Cross Record, "Crush Me" "Cross’s hushed and intimate songs often sound like they are happening while The Rapture unfolds, burning planes fall from the sky, and the earth rips itself open" brainwashed.com/index.php?op...

Rrose x Polygonia, "Dermatology" "a marriage made in heaven, as Wang’s dancefloor-driven beat mastery brings a sensuous physicality to Rrose’s lysergic forays into psychoacoustic phenomena" brainwashed.com/index.php?op...

Podcast Episode 745 is live!!! Dead Pioneers, Maria Somerville, Mess Esque, Thalia Zedek Band, Velvet, Grails, Disiniblud (Rachika Nayar & Nina Keith), New Candys, Eli Winter, Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari, Dummy, Joseph Allred, loscil, and HTRK. brainwashed.com

Podcast Episode 744 is live! New stuff from The Bug, Softcult, Sally Anne Morgan, Matt McBane, Eliana Glass, Thank You Lord For Satan, JakoJako, Anla Courtis ja Lehtisalo, Asher, Quade, Marina Zispin, Nazar, and Erik Klinga, plus a vault reissue by Bag People. brainwashed.com

Podcast Episode 743 is live! Joseph Allred, Shonen Knife, Sault, David Thrussell & Die Teufelsmaschine, Chris Brokaw, The NRG, Sharpie Smile, Moin, Jules Reidy and Sam Dunscombe, Sandwell District, Gryphon Rue, Glare, Anthony Pateras, Creeping Pink, Monolake, and Merzbow. brainwashed.com

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