I don’t know enough about musicology to know why Assassin’s Lovesong immediately evoked such an ageless “end of an Irish wake” feeling for me, but I’m currently sending it to every fiddle player I know.

(“Assassin’s Lovesong” is, by tying anti-state action with earnest love, the underbelly to the statist faux-affection in “I Love You Citizen.”)

Video premiere in 8 minutes at www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Rq...

"I have done what must be done." Seeming: Assassin's Lovesong a new single open.spotify.com/track/21Du6p...

I’ll be playing a very short and very weird noise set tomorrow in Rochester at the (free!) Avant-Garde-a-Clue fest (75 Stutson). 7:15, but sure to get there in time to catch the legendary If Bwana (Al Margolis) at 6:30.

Go cause good trouble. Stay safe.

I made a little toy for exploring and mixing mathematically possible backbeat rhythms! In a 2-beat 16th-note grid with kick/snare/hat, there are 1,458 combinations. And in combination, there are 2,125,764 ways to fill in a 4/4. Enjoy playing ALL of them here: salexanderreed.com/backbeats

THE WORLD album cover by Dragan Bibin out Dec. 5 on Artoffact Records pre-order it NOW at Bandcamp Teaser single "Zebra Tramples Horse Trainer" is out TONIGHT. seeming.bandcamp.com/album/the-wo...

“Fascism” isn’t a slur for politics we don’t like. It’s a precise word with precise meaning. And in the face of what’s happening right now in America, it’s the most honest one we have. I’ll lay it out as plainly as I can. 🧵

I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.

According to data from Ice, we passed a significant milestone. Immigrants with no criminal record now make up the largest group arrested and booked into detention by Ice.

Tonight at 9 in #Ithaca I’m playing Naked Noise 12 (which involves—to be clear—no nakedness). I’ll be one of 18 musicians performing a two-hour improvisation. Psychedelic, immersive, ritualistic.

With Robert Redford having passed, I beg you all to watch Sneakers (1992), one of the most prescient movies in recent decades, and certainly the best hacker film ever made. Also it's very funny.

These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.

Don't let anyone relitigate the possibility of a better world. It is not up for debate. Don't let them drag your technicolor heart into their monochrome hell of greed and resentment.

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California. Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

my band's new single heavy sad synthpop b-side is a banger in Spanish seeming.bandcamp.com/album/tomorr...

my band's new single heavy sad synthpop b-side is a banger in Spanish seeming.bandcamp.com/album/tomorr...

There is no route out of fascism that involves sacrificing the vulnerable. All that does is tell the fascists that we're willing to turn on each other for the illusion of safety.

Since @seantcollins.com was asking about ridiculous things we've dreamt, here's a greeting card I was handed a few years ago in a dream.

Opinion | Fiscal challenges are real. but the attack on the humanities comes down to something much deeper. chroni.cl/3JD7MiG

RIP Tom Lehrer, one of the absolute greats, and the only songwriter of note ever to put his catalogue willfully into the public domain. This was my first favorite of his: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TytG...

Marcel Proust whips out a Black & Decker drill and lobotomizes you on the dancefloor. This is Requiem Mash II, a stew of late twentieth-century subculture and tomfoolery. I made it for you. 124 songs in under 38 minutes. Featuring "Scatman Will Tear Us Apart." alexreed.bandcamp.com/album/requie...

Damn @salexanderreed.bsky.social is a national treasure, this is delightful (and love love love the heavy dose of Light Asylum in there) alexreed.bandcamp.com/album/requie...

Marcel Proust whips out a Black & Decker drill and lobotomizes you on the dancefloor. This is Requiem Mash II, a stew of late twentieth-century subculture and tomfoolery. I made it for you. 124 songs in under 38 minutes. Featuring "Scatman Will Tear Us Apart." alexreed.bandcamp.com/album/requie...

I was depressed, but then @salexanderreed.bsky.social released a forty minute 124 song mashup and that became untenable.

If we're talking about Ozzy, one of my favorite tidbits is that the first Black Sabbath album was recorded in a single day. Like, "Oh it's Thursday night. What did you do today?" "Invented metal."

Nurse, this is no simple Duran Duranxiety. I fear I am going into Duran Duranaphylactic shock. I need a Duran Duranesthesiologist before I have a Duran Duraneurysm.

People want to spend more time thinking about history, art, literature, and meaning. That scares rich bastards shitless. Archived link at archive.is/5Yprj.

Walked by a car show and met a very sweet guinea pig and her 1911 Maxwell AB.

Oh hey, I wrote a thing.

Woke up this morning and wrote a short fugue in three voices based on Zombie Nation's "Kernkraft 400." www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU0j...

Ever notice how the uncommon poetic meter of Bowie’s 1971 “Bewlay Brothers” is identical to (the vastly inferior but definitely earlier hit) “Honey” by Bobby Goldsboro, 1968? (@bowiesongs.bsky.social?)

RIP Mark Snow, composer for the X-Files and much more I was lucky enough to interview him when I was a teenager. Here's the transcript. www.patreon.com/posts/37607776

America is bad at diagnosing slow violence. But murder by neglect, impoverishment, and starvation, is still murder.

bad day

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

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Back to the important work. Here's a sign I liked.

News: Seeming embraces strength in flexibility with lead single from first new album in five years regenmag.com/news/news-se...

Something I made

Here's Douglas McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb at age 17 telling fascists to fuck off. Not enough industrial acts were taking a clear stand like this in 1983. www.youtube.com/watch?v=awu3...

RIP Douglas McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb www.youtube.com/watch?v=66F2...

You have no obligation to defend or explain the behavior of random street protesters. We have a lawless government that is flagrantly violating its legal, moral, even philosophical obligations to us. Everything else is secondary

The rich must be taxed. Politicians who say this should not be the case are your enemies. You should grow up and stop accepting lies.

i personally do not think the administration is actually prepared for what happens if they are facing mass protests in every major city in the country

Strudel on roses and whiskers on strudel Doorbells and sleighbells and strudel with noodles Strudel that flies with the moon on its wings These are a strudel my favorite things

Happy World Goth Day! This is the Aegis Archive, a nonprofit library of over 2000 rare goth zines from the 1980/90s. We’re always looking to do outreach, to help scholars, and to grow the collection! #goth #zines youtube.com/watch?v=26o-...

Happy World Goth Day! This is the Aegis Archive, a nonprofit library of over 2000 rare goth zines from the 1980/90s. We’re always looking to do outreach, to help scholars, and to grow the collection! #goth #zines youtube.com/watch?v=26o-...