Today’s going to be a good day.

Sitting at the traffic light Posting on Bluesky Haikus about black metal

Gazing at wintry tree limbs Wondering how to Read the black metal logos

With the constant attacks on academic research stretching across the globe, it is incredibly brave to nominate my tape, "Learning by Listening Vol. 9: Learning to Make Noise: Toward a Process Model of Artistic Practice within Experimental Music Scenes," as the best cassette of the year.

EPISODE 213 / TOP 200 TAPES OF 2025 we made a list of the year's best tapes with the help from @strategictaper.bsky.social, Drongo Tapes, Ephem Aural, @mrshafshr.bsky.social, @TabsOutArchive, Orb Tapes, and @larrywish.bandcamp.com Check it out tabsout.com?p=30218 Alert us of mistakes by midnight!

EPISODE 212 💥 is the new GIANT CLAW his best yet?! 💥 does chi-town super group BYSH please you!? 💥 what does the WRONG SIDE of a Tiger 2-XL tape sound like?? 💥 why does the wolf howl for BLACKBRAID?? 💥 what are YOL and STORYTELLER talking about?? FIND OUT! tabsout.com or places where podcasts live

POV you're playing a noise show

Episode 211 ⚡ classic SONIC YOUTH 🤖 a tape meant to be played in a 90's robot toy 🥴 @hyphyskazerbox.bsky.social goes ultra mode 💨 a generation joint from SIR TAD ☎️ a call to THE GATE's hotline + new jams ➕ hawsh noish, @jollies.bsky.social, Dave Rudder and more! tabsout.com

EPISODE 210 cassettes from Final Heaven 🤢 Dreamcastle™ 🤢 VODE 🤢 G Lucas Crane 🤢 Tallulah Bankheist 🤢 Lars McCoy 🤢 Master Boot Record 🤢 Dr. Peter J Woods and more! www.tabsout.com

EPISODE 209 We got mentioned in another book and someone made us a fan IG account. So we must be very smart and very very funny! To celebrate we played tapes by Jair-Rohm Parker Wells, Toxic Chicken, Unholy Altar, Ouroborean Piss, Liz Meredith, Bridges of Konigsberg, Degraved, & more tabsout.com

Episode 208 🕊️ new MERZBOW 🩸 old CONTROLLED BLEEDING ⚔️ crawl the dungeon with TOMESTONER 👨‍👦‍👦 Mike Watt and Mold Omen collab as MOW 🫧 burst the DOT COM BUBBLE ☢️ double shot of NUCLEAR WAR NOW! @merzbow.net @wattfrompedro.bsky.social @alexhoman.bsky.social @oxenrecords.bsky.social 👉 tabsout.com

Episode 207 🪥 NOOTHGRUSH demo craziness 👑 Memories from EMIL BEAULIEAU 😭 WEAKLING black metal scariness 🎸 COSME / POOPY PEEPY rock block 🐉 crawl the dungeon with DESOLATION PLAINS & GUARDIANS OF THE 7TH TOWER 🐉 🛹 OLSON collab tabsout.com

10 years ago today: Zigra performance at Argilla’s in Newark, DE.

Totally just recalled a dream from last night. I was on a Zoom call with The Melvins and Dale Crover says “Jamie I bet you could make those electronic frog sounds”.

Babe, are you ok, you've barely spun your 2025 limited edition "liquid-filled" copy of Bon Jovi's "Slippery When Wet". www.discogs.com/release/3326...

Floralplasm performance at Newark Bike Project last night: youtu.be/X1nVzTSilvg?...

Gear preview for Floralplasm gig tonight!

Mike Oldfield’s music speaks to me because it’s kinda like prog music with a tinge of ambient that a hobbit or elf would enjoy.

Episode 205 Chris Haug from the Delaware Music History Archive joins the crew to discuss DMHA and play some local tapes Toxic Holocaust 🔹 boysetsfire 🔹Woz 🔹High Karate 🔹Infection 🔹Network 34 🔹MC Iziah 🔹Clevinger 🔹Silk & Satin 🔹 a live recording of King Crimson in Wilmington and more tabsout.com

putting this guy in charge of medicine

When you print the spine of your release upside down, you need to sit in the time out corner for 10 minutes.

Ambient pieces often start with textured droning chords and the listener will feel something is missing. This feeling grows from expectation to tense yearning, until finally, the artist brings in the birdsong samples. This is "the drop", the pressure release that fills the listener with euphoria.

Sometimes I pause and reflect that one of the top 5 Meshuggah tracks is an exclusive cut on a promo release for Toyota Scion.

Going through Tinned Fish Review withdrawal. Please don’t contact me.

EPISODE 204 / TOP 200 TAPES OF 2024 🥳 The dang thing is up. the 200 best cassettes of 2024 in the exact right order. what an accomplishment Episode 204 features pop ins from buds Delaware Dan, Crash Symbols, Strategic Tape Reserve, Scott Scholz, and More Eaze and a bunch of tapes! tabsout.com

anti-field recordings person: Field Recordings? Those are for the birds! pro-field recordings person: Field Recordings? Those are for the birds!

I wish Blood Incantation had gotten on more top 10 metal lists of 2024. 😢

☃️ EPISODE 203 ☃️ 😘 Ben Dumbauld from the Ephem-Aural label stops by plus! 🪄 Magic From Space plus! 🦛 mike sings a parody song plus! 🎤 Kenny Segal and Pink Navel plus! tapes on @ingrownrecords.bsky.social, Cudighi, @jollies.bsky.social, Rubber City Noise and even more 👉 www.tabsout.com 👈

Woke up in the middle of the night last night and caught my subconscious mind concocting a tweet about how the Sam’s Club guys are burning in hell because they didn’t choose Costco. Brutal..

As a music listener, I'm really open to any period or style or genre or format as long as in the end I'm disappointed.

Last night me and Daphne Getty performed as Happy Smiley Filthies and dedicated it in memory of our friend @hallucinogenicbulb.bsky.social Dave Petersen who we lost this week. 💜 youtu.be/yKj41xBtBgA?...

Dave was a sweet dude. He played two Delaweird shows, was a great performer and graphic designer.

EPISODE 202 - @gregdavismusic.bsky.social stops by on his way to work - we get to the bottom of @bluetapes.bsky.social - Hal McGee makes Jamie a personalized tape - noise from the Philadelphia Chicken Man - a reissue on @bumpylabel.bsky.social - final tapes from Never Anything Records more!

Is Merzbow on here??

I came on here because I’m trying to sell my doge tapes.

Too soooooon!! 😢

When I hear about people buying MIDI controllers I just have to laugh. The hubris! As if it were even the tiniest bit possible to control something as wild and potent as MIDI!

Today I reached the high point in my going-to-the-post-office-to-mail-tapes career when the Spanish national postal service gave me this free pair of socks. I will cherish them forever.

That’s a Bluesky post !

Haven’t posted here in awhile, but just came here to make a joke about how the song “Dancing Queen” by ABBA is really about actor “Steve McQueen”. It’s not really but just imagine it is. lol. Ok hope everyone’s having a great day.

Just joined a coin identification group on FB, mainly cause I want to see people get into heated arguments about coins.

🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 Episode 193 LARRY WISH stops by to clown around and play a track off his new Orange Milk tape Post-Halloween scariez on No Rent, Strange Mono, Bizzaro Warrior, Ephem Aural, Gay Hippie Vampire, and Tubapede More fun and tapes and fun tabsout.com/?p=29593 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

Recommend people pick up this banger of an album from 2012. John Swana is the best EVI player ever, and I love how this album sounds like some kind of futuristic jazz album that could easily have been on @hausumountain.bsky.social johnswana.bandcamp.com/album/abohm

All Halloween costumes should be witch or ghost or vampire. If you dress up as some “actor” and I don’t know who it is, YOU’RE not cool. I am the cool one!!

So proud to present the final two HausMo albums of the year - Out TODAY: ⚫ Quicksails - "Surface" 👁️ Tiger Village - "The Celebration" Two groundbreaking electronic albums from some of the most midwestern, most classic OG HausMo artists in existence. We are so proud! hausumountain.bandcamp.com

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