Really cool how we don’t need or want this and no one asked for it. This will be the straw that turns me completely back to asking them to turn in work on printed paper which will annoy them (but has always been my wish)

Extremely honored to be reviewed in @chronogram.bsky.social. Pick up your copy in Hudson Valley locations. "A sublime experimental psychedelic offering, it’s perfect to bliss out to on a sun-dappled summer afternoon" @silvercurrent.bsky.social www.chronogram.com/arts/album-r...

Zohran’s mom directed Mississippi Masala! That says so much.

Thursday May 1 in Newburgh, NY at Untouchable Bar with the Zach Layton (17-string bass)/ Ryan Sawyer (drums)/ Alex Waterman (cello) trio and Will Stratton who just release a great record. 8pm with Oui Oui food truck

Just up, a new live recording of a show at Richard's Goat in Arcata, CA, feat. Ethan Miller (Comets on Fire, Howlin' Rain) on electric guitar and Anthony Taibi (Carlton Melton) on synth. juliebethnapolin.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...

Teaching Tina Campt’s Image Matters today. What an exquisite book.

In response to undemocratic practices at the MLA, the Sound Forum executive committee invites paper proposals on censorship and silencing soundstudiesblog.com/2025/03/03/c...

It is very difficult to write about the negative and negativity

"The world can be sinking around you and still we have the desire to create. We have to create." Read @voicesbend.bsky.social's roving and deeply thoughtful conversation w/ @aquariumdrunkard.com aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/01/29/j...

Julie Beth Napolin :: The AD Interview aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/01/29/julie-beth-napolin-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview Julie Beth Napolin delivers a singular debut, one that cuts new trail through the cosmic and the colloquial wilds while adding to the amorphous canon of psych-folk.

Attiah wrote for WaPo on digital blackface in AI after this text exchange (full transcript below). I'm reminded of the great piece Lauren Jackson wrote about reaction GIFs in Teen Vogue a few years ago www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

@voicesbend.bsky.social’s Only the Void Stands Between Us is @bandcamp.com’s album of the day! “Only the Void…occupies a place that exists somewhere outside of time & space. It inhabits a musical continuum where the cosmic, earthbound, ancient, & eternal meet.” daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the...

Happy for "Time Image" to be included in Cosmic Church's favorites of 2024 list @silvercurrent.bsky.social

I am really looking forward to this show with my old Citay bandmate, Ezra Feinberg, and Zach Layton. Bob Bannister will join me on guitar. The Luncheonette in Greenpoint is not long for this world, so it's a chance to soak up this special community. Dress warmly! Friday January 10 at 8pm

This album by @voicesbend.bsky.social is a beautiful way to see in the end of the year. juliebethnapolin.bandcamp.com/album/only-t...

Tonight in LA at Permanent Records! The last night of my tour and I’ll be playing with the incomparable Isaiah Mitchell of Earthless and the experimental violist Amy Cimini! Show is at 9pm The LP is out now on @silvercurrent.bsky.social

Another week, another playlist up on the blog. Focus on @voicesbend.bsky.social's new album + 18 new songs by Papa M, Tarwater, LEYA, James Brandon Lewis, Trupa Trupa, The Letter E, Ak’chamel, Juanita Stein, Minta & the Brook Trout, and more. Available on Spotify, YouTube, and Tidal.

“Julie Beth Napolin weaves the kind of mercurial folk spell that leads to whispered-about reputations. It’s headphone folk at its finest.” Read the full review @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social @voicesbend.bsky.social Only the Void Stands Between Us • out now in stores • Listen/Order at bandcamp

Look at what's album of the day on Bandcamp Daily! ❤️ daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the...

I could write 300 characters about how @voicesbend.bsky.social's first album in over a decade is a must-listen but Jim Allen at @bandcamp.com daily already did that and more, so

Thanks to whoever posted this on here a few days ago. Been enjoying it a lot. Julie Beth Napolin @voicesbend.bsky.social - Time Image 📡📻🔒Sheffield Live! 93.2FM juliebethnapolin.bandcamp.com/track/time-i... #NightTrainNowPlaying

Thanks, Heathen Disco! "She carves a sizable swath of song out of an instrument that sounds as if it's 16 feet long, weighs 300 pounds,... and requires the blade of a hatchet for a pick. ...The bicoastal bliss of somebody who's seen something instills this whole record with a peaceful confidence."

Happy album release day to @voicesbend.bsky.social, whose absolute stunner ‘Only the Void Stands Between Us” debuts on vinyl today. The artwork is lush and gorgeous with a gatefold, but I had to get a photo with the @6organs.bsky.social hype sticker intact. Jamming my copy as I type. ✨🌟

Julie Beth Napolin's brilliant 'Only the Void Stands Between Us,' a masterclass in dark cosmic folk, is out today! Hit your fave record store or order here: : juliebethnapolin.bandcamp.com/album/only-t... Catch Julie on tour including an LP release in BKN 12.7 @ PIT Deets @voicesbend.bsky.social

A look at the beautiful gold foil printing & Niki Shelley's exquisite artwork for @voicesbend.bsky.social's Only the Void Stands Between Us. Inner portrait by Marianna Ellenberg reminds me of Argento's Suspiria everytime ♥️ Out Friday & shipping now: juliebethnapolin.bandcamp.com/album/only-t...

Only the Void Stands Between Us is out on @silvercurrent.bsky.social 11/29, and to celebrate, I’ll be playing some shows in NY & CA. Thanks to Nick Potts for the beautiful guitar goddess poster. You can find tickets & more info on my website juliebethnapolin.com

Very nice essay by Heather Davis, "Waiting in Petro-Time." "Climate change is always there, on the horizon, looming. This reality sits at the back of the brain, emerging in moments of relaxation as a 'nagging malaise'" read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

The MLA will not allow a resolution to be discussed by the delegate assembly or voted on by members www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

I am here. 🥰

Julie Beth Napolin (Citay, Meridians) embarks on a solo debut. The songwriter taps into the darker waters of psych folk, collaborating with Tom Carter trading acoustic and electric strings as Napolin’s voice floats in the darkness above. @SilverCRecords bit.ly/4e2Clc0

X has a new terms of service that goes into effect on November 15. It says that by using X, you agree that everything you post can be used to train their AI models.

I'm going on tour in support of my new record, out on 11/29 on Silver Current! I'll be playing with some of my favorites along the way--Lianne Smith, PG Six, Meg Baird, Isaiah Mitchell, and many others. You can find tickets and more info at juliebethnapolin.com

Once again, @gabrielwinant.bsky.social hits the nail on the head www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

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Julie Beth Napolin • Only the Void Stands Between Us “This is cosmic folk of the highest caliber." ~ Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) Out November 29 on Silver Current. Listen and download the title track now and preorder on limited edition vinyl: juliebethnapolin.bandcamp.com/track/only-t...

I was lucky to have been able to read parts of this beautifully conceived & daring book while it was in development and it absolutely blew my mind. And taught me so much. ORDER THIS BOOK

“The tents are always telling us something that we don’t want to hear.” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...

good morning to students, faculty, staff, and alums fighting for the souls of their higher ed institutions, for the right to shared governance, for the freedom to learn, for collective space

I have to stan that 35 mins after an attempted shutdown by campus cops in the midst of a national news protest flashpoint, WKCR is currently playing dense experimental jazz www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/

I'm very excited to welcome to the Craft Lunch series Andrew Leland, author of The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight. Tuesday 10/3 at 1230pm (in person only). It's free and open to the public; there will be refreshments. To attend, register here: event.newschool.edu/andrewleland

Please read our open letter to the WVU Board of Governors published in the Boston Review today. @jessiew.bsky.social , @rosecasey.bsky.social and I wrote it together and we mean every word.