#EmmaCapponi – Buried (Squandered Summers) "capture the storytelling that is at the heart of folk music, ancient and modern. ..The most unique album I have heard this year." @edjupp.bsky.social www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/12/11/e...

'Lisbon’s best kept secret proves it pays off when you dare to be weird. Like in chopped and screwed hip hop, DJ Narciso’s intoxicating beats appear to be fractured, leaving you in a woozy, psilocybin-like state' DJ Narciso - Diferenciado - The Best Electronic Music of 2025 buff.ly/raXAwzZ

How are those tariffs working out you ask? qz.com/china-trade-...

This thread from @itsquinns.bsky.social as he tries to a LARP for 11 people is gold. So many interesting suggestions and rabbit holes to go down.

We really need to start calling this dance "the Bubba"

"People who study #misinformation and work on content-moderation teams aren’t engaged in ‘censorship’— they’re engaged in activities that the First Amendment was designed to protect. This policy is incoherent and unconstitutional," says @carriedecell.bsky.social. knightcolumbia.org/content/new-...

Here’s a great story about the origin of the photo used for the Strange Currencies' single cover in 1995 posted by Angie Grass, a longtime friend of Michael’s, who took the photo while on a road trip out West years ago. Many of us at REMHQ had wondered about the story behind the photo & here it is!

Happy birthday to the Frenchman in sunglasses, Jean-Luc Godard. "It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to."

Thank you for this excellent reporting. Please use your broad audience to educate on Kushner’s role in crafting this deal, which is just breaking. This seems a huge, unsurprising but underreported factor which points directly to likely Trump family enrichment through it. 1/

Nice review of the deluxe edition of Prince's "Around the World In a Day" that puts it in context. It followed Purple Rain in 1985 and it's the weird middle child between that album and Sign of the Times. But there are gems here. www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/prin...

I feel dirty after reading the Olivia Nuzzi story in the NY Times this week. And then I stepped into trail of slime coming afterwards in her ex Ryan Lizza's substack. ew.

Four decades back a major label released a debut album that sounded like almost nothing on earth while still sounding incredibly familiar. Our man in San Francisco Ned Raggett takes stock of it all Happy Birthday to the JAMC's Psychocandy, which turns 40 today! buff.ly/nflmjN6

Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.

Why isnt the NY Times covering the Trump administration this way?

This week

Where there is smoke....

Donald Trump’s unpredictability is helping China in its contest with America for global influence. In 2026 Chinese leaders will continue playing a canny game

Remember how Trump tried to say this was a Democratic consipracy? The call was coming from inside the creepy sauna.

Remember when Trump and the GOP crushed the New Green Deal? 59-65% of voters support the policy and the outcomes that the NGD proposed. But the GOP squashed it.

This is delightfully researched

ma'am the raccoons are no longer in the trenchcoat, they're on the run in a stolen powered exoskeleton

Cat Power is heading out on a 'The Greatest' 20th anniversary tour next year, and she recorded her new 'Redux' EP with her band from that era; hear their cover of James Brown's "Try Me"

A great live show from Cat Power, in 2006, touring her album The Greatest, with the Dirty Delta Blues band. Just so effortlessly cool youtu.be/rFgdIvZMN5M?...

Don’t know anything about this paper but on the face of it this looks and reads like a solid investigation.

Gorgeous soundcheck

Absolute rockstar Delia featured in my talk recently at the Immersive Experience Network Summit in London. Link to my talk to follow but you need to watch this.

Local journalism matters

By the way, the archive of @tim-burgess.bsky.social amazing @listeningparty.bsky.social remains one of the absolute gems of the internet. During lockdown, it was like church. Turning up to commune with other music fans was a balm for my battered soul. timstwitterlisteningparty.com

Absolutely love this record with the Everly Bros harmonies and gorgeous indie guitars. Such a classic.

Despite what this article suggests, this clickbait headline says more about the absolute uselessness of the charts than it does about any genres popularity or cultural significance.

I fucking hate The Sun but this is next level trolling of the Monarchy.

Charlie Stross (@cstross.bsky.social) lays it out. It's always darkest before the light. I hope. www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...

Keith's blog @songsommelier.bsky.social looks at the ipod which is 20 years old this weekend and deeper listening. In a world where so much is screaming for my attention. How I choose to slow down and listen with intent is becoming essential. #slowmusic substack.com/inbox/post/1...

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this week www.last.fm/user/jukevox

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

Rockin' and a-rollin', splishin' and a-splashin', Over the horizon, what can it be?

Of all the names that @jimmykimmel.com is suggesting for Trump signs at the NoKings rally this weekend, this is my favourite: Velveeto Corleone

Yevgenia Berkovich’s poems provided oxygen for those who were gasping for words after Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. 1843 reports how her art struck a nerve with Putin

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