"Mom Rock"? Oh you mean Throwing Muses. Or Belly.

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The dream always starts the same way

I was going to write something like "My two cool uncles" but I realized they are only a few years older than me. 😅

Watching these videos makes me miss the two summers I spent working in Japan. "In March 2026, TV Tokyo launched a dedicated YouTube channel for the 2012 Solitary Gourmet television drama aimed at international viewers. The episodes are uploaded at a rate of one per week with English subtitles..."

I love the story behind the most scratched moment on vinyl. What's that you say? You want a thread? Well, ok...

Two beautifully sunny days this weekend, and I'm stuck at home with a very painful arm that I can't explain. Not good.

This is what peak masculinity USED to look like. Society is so broken now

NEW AVALANCHES

A pretty consistent thing I’ve heard from people with low vision/who are blind is that smart glasses are a game changer, and that they wish the most effective ones weren’t from the creeps at Meta. This is where real privacy laws, and actual enforcement of abuse regulations, could have impact.

Happy Low-Life Day. I remembered I made this back when I clearly had too much time on my hands.

‘Bookplates’ was published in 1956. Miniature personalised works of art. This blog post features 50+ maraid.co.uk/blog/2015/07...

This looks great. I was hyped about a possible CiM track I hadn't heard of but his contribution is Lead Point from 1998's Series One which hasn't seen a reissue yet. (Delsin has done so for several other old EPs like Series Two.) www.delsinrecords.com/artist:cim

#CannesFilmFestival jury president Park Chan-wook says, "I don’t think politics and art should be divided."

read it in a book or write it in a letter wake up in the morning and there’s still no guarantee

A selection of not #NewOrder CD singles and EPs. #WeekendSingles

Like a mashup of H.R. Giger and Eadweard Muybridge.

I think this is old news for most fans, but if you want to listen to the latest & greatest 2026 rips of pre-debut Boards of Canada material before the new album arrives, you can just go to rareboc.org to download the FLACs instead of poring over the Internet Archive.

Something's happening.

It’s Saul Bass’ birthday. Here’s a wonderful collection of 39 of his beautiful & highly influential title sequences: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

On the #shoegaze tip meantime, heads up @catbus.phd et al, new single on @soniccathedral.bsky.social here featuring @emmaandersonmusic.bsky.social with a new-to-me duo of harp and synth players -- quite a combo! -- Masal. Link to full thread about it below but here's the video doncha know.

Very enjoyable, walking the line between the sunny and the shadowy like they do so expertly.

One minute and change until new Boards of Canada.

A new DJ mix from me: music with arpeggios, for no other reason that I thought it would be a fun constraint. feat. Alex Metric, Jacques Lu Cont, Rhythim is Rhythim, The Chemical Brothers, Hyper Go Go, Kiesza, RONEeS, Sunareht, BT, Orbital, and more. blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/04/26/o...

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Monthly listening, May 2026: Guillermo Scott Herren I've listened to One Word Extinguisher over and over but skimped on much of the rest of Herren's output as Prefuse 73 and other aliases. Good soundtrack for spring, too.

Wonderfully hazy.

Anthony Bourdain biopic movie idea: he wanders thru a city like NYC or Tokyo at night, trying to get something to eat, but just ends up in hijink after hijink. Like After Hours, but about food.

2026.05.02

The Glasto version might be the best Hooky ever played it - youtu.be/gICW-q--FlM?...

"the pleasure of [...] sorting"!!

me & all the Bandcamp emails in my inbox

Happy Chungking Express pineapple expiration day to everyone.

I just watched two different old commercials with split screens, one for Microsoft and one for Nike, thinking I might post them on Multichannel - only to find both of them featured absolutely the worst people. Pass.

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While we were away on my wife's sabbatical last year, one of the people who asked about renting our house short-term was Hiro Murai. He said he liked my Wong Kar-Wai posters during the remote tour. The rental didn't work out, and now I can see he was here in MA to shoot Widow's Bay.

Maggie Cheung in Irma Vep (1996)

Sounding like a big, bombastic Hudson Mohawke track, in a good way.

New (old) Plug! "For this release, Luke Vibert unearthed and hand‑picked a collection of previously unreleased jungle and drum & bass gems, sourced straight from his original mid‑90s DAT archive."

Out this Friday, May 1, which is also happily enough Bandcamp Friday.

Thinking of watching Michael tonight. No the other one. Michael Clayton.

Great night in Hebden Bridge with the return of Chapterhouse. They exceeded my expectations, the Whirlpool songs sounded so good, I’d forgotten how manic the drums are. Quick break before another 6 songs (4 from early EPs, 2 from Blood Music), and then a couple more in the encore. It was loud 😁

2026.04.25

Mesmerizing in-studio footage of a stone classic.

I happend to watch "The General" (1926) yesterday at a local movie theater. Here is my clumsy review. kaist455.com/2026/04/26/t...

#Mood 1986 ...

Monthly listening, April 2026: Boards of Canada I'm listening to their catalog in the wake of the Inferno announcement. As often as I play the debut album, I rarely revisit the last two. It's also nice to have the earlier rarities in high quality now all on the Internet Archive.

Avalanches logo looks really cool. Couldn't fault it. One for the geologists there.