New album WOOD & WIRES, VOL. 1 out today 🎈 Solo guitar music + field recording for quiet, restorative moments. Mastered by Heather Jones @ So Big Auditory. Streaming most places (but not Spotify or Amazon)—listen on @bandcamp.com: dhcurrier.bandcamp.com/album/wood-w...

Saxophone has to be the instrument that I most often mistakenly hear as a human voice for a sec.

this week's post is something i've been thinking about for a long time. it's called "all of us imperfect comrades: or, an army of fuckups cannot lose" margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/each-of-us...

Just learned that it was Alfred Nobel (of the Prize fame) who invented dynamite!

You may recall when gentleman and scholar @imleor.bsky.social wrote about Chicago artists dumping Spotify last month. Fortunately, telling Daniel Ek to go fuck himself appears to be contagious! Solidarity to these musicians, and may their movement continue to grow. chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...

Good guys with guns watch over us They know what’s best to serve the economy Good thing they so seldom hurt us Their aim is true when protecting state property And you know how us crowds get unruly When we’re upset, when we’ve got the numbers… lightleakthing.bandcamp.com/track/gang-o...

For no real reason, thinking about this piece about the "headline news about famous guy saying transphobic thing" industrial complex I wrote for Paste two years ago. Just before everything got worse. www.pastemagazine.com/music/transp...

Every time I hear/read someone saying “during Covid” in the past tense, it makes me lose another little bit of faith in humanity.

“The order demands that President Donald Trump stand down from his threat to deploy National Guard personnel to Chicago and affirms that Chicago Police Department (CPD) will remain a locally controlled law enforcement agency…” thetriibe.com/2025/08/mayo...

Kinda rad tbh. I personally consider this a greater & far more necessary & obviously less terrifying service than walking around with guns. The camo does come off a bit camp in this context though.

an empire’s dying days. it’s up to us how we will protect one another, and what we will build as the structures we have traditionally relied on cease to function

Cowards all.

Any recs for a video camera for someone (me) who has never had one but insists on having one that produces supremely interesting images?

On the potential DC guard deployment: “One of the [U.S.] officials said it was unclear what exactly the troops would do, but could take part in efforts to protect federal agents or even carry out administrative tasks to free up law enforcement officials.” via @reuters.com

Those little microphones everyone holds in their little internet videos now are very goofy, no? Are we all thinking this?

Not only am I not interested in this “manosphere” (& pretty sure I would hate it), I’m basically disinterested in the notion of manhood as a whole. The only criteria that I think is worth considering in judging any man exclusively against other men is how they treat non-men.

It is @bandcamp.com Friday & this album is still free: lightleakthing.bandcamp.com/album/helluv... Wrote, recorded & mixed this over ~4 months—a scrappy guitar-oriented rock & roll record. RIYL Chicago in the late ‘90s/early ‘00s, Letterboxd reviews, pop songs that are just a little “off”, etc.

I would like to read a 33 1/3 book (or even better, a full tome) on Blonde Redhead’s otherworldly masterpiece ‘Misery is a Butterfly’.

Skin, Flesh and Bones - Bones Dub [Jamaica, Dub] (1976) https://redd.it/108ga5x https://youtu.be/fwc5RrY77RA

Happy 30th birthday, Bisexuals.

PARTY TIP: Instead of using AI to prove fun points about how shitty it is, you can just… not use it. At all. For anything. Ever.

Summer ‘25 playlist for your listening pleasure: music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

Whoa.

If anyone else here is anarcho-curious like me, I highly recommend reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘The Dispossessed’ immediately followed by Emma Goldman’s ‘Anarchism & Other Essays’. The order is important—UKLG’s fiction imagines a world of real possibilities for the radical ideas Goldman puts forth.

i love music so fucking much guys

New LL album 'Helluva Swing' ⚾️ OUT TODAY basically everywhere but Spotify And it's my birthday, so your gift to me could be spending some time with these tunes...? lightleakthing.bandcamp.com/album/helluv...

Listening report: Jun. 20 - Jun. 26, 2025

New LL song "Niche & Nemeses (Little Apple)" out today—enjoy, or don't! ✌️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hun...

Listening report: Jun. 13 - Jun. 19, 2025

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

I think playing fortunate son during a fascist parade is unfortunately less a self own/unintended irony than an assertion of dominion over all culture (via calculation maybe, but much more likely imperious carelessness, ie an AI prompt to create an “American military” playlist).

Listening report: Jun. 6 - Jun. 12, 2025

#JramaJune movie watchings: Starting very strong with Alan Rudolph’s ‘Remember My Name’ (1978) boxd.it/9UI013

Listening report: May 23 - May 29, 2025

Forgot I could share these things here. My monthly movie-viewing theme of #AniMAYtion is nearing its end. This was the first of tonight’s double feature: boxd.it/9O0mQZ

Listening report: May 16 - May 22, 2025

Brian Eno calls on Microsoft to cease its partnership with Israel and pledges to donate the original fee for his Windows '95 chime to victims of Israel's genocide in Gaza

Listening report: May 9 - May 15, 2025

Listening report: May 2 - May 8, 2025

Listening report: Apr. 25 - May 1, 2025

Acronyms & jargon are really good for shared language amongst in-group members. But it’s probably a good idea to consider the inverse of that.

I PROMISE you that if you give up Spotify, follow a bunch of cool-ass musicians and music writers on here, and actually CLICK ON AND LISTEN TO the links they post, you will discover more great music DAILY than you've find via Spotify "Discover" horseshit in a year.

Listening report: Apr. 18 - Apr. 24, 2025

Been really enjoying this one lately! Sometimes you can judge a record by its cover & both are awesome.

Sebastião Tapajos & Pedro dos Santos - Tornei a Caminar [Brazil, MPB/Funk] (1972) https://redd.it/hf8rfk https://youtu.be/StHtH2EFQys

I think that putting our little thoughts behind paywalls & turning our artistic practices into subscription services speak more to the state of where we are culturally than we seem willing to acknowledge.

One of the many reasons you see me still looking like 😷 out there: www.wsj.com/health/welln...

Listening report: Apr. 4 - Apr. 10, 2025

Today in ‘Is It a Band or Is It a Brand?’

Listening report: Mar. 28 - Apr. 3, 2025