Cabaret Voltaire - But What Time Is It Really? - new live album, recorded on the 2025 UK tour. Hoping the US tour goes as planned, as I have a ticket to the DC show! I've been waiting 40+ years to see them! (Tara Busch of I Speak Machine is taking Chris Watson's place for this tour.)

I was at Big Ears a few weeks ago with a team of seven tapers. We have a Google Drive folder (generously maintained by my friend Randy Bayers) with about 80 sets of music — a few more to come. drive.google.com/drive/mobile...

Disappointed that Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize called their collaboration Nine Inch Noize and not Nine Inch Boys

Scouting the National Arboretum for Talos Principle levels

I tried something novel: listening to Angine de Poitrine via audio only! Still good, but without the visuals the tracks wear thin about halfway through

This is something my teenage self would have bought based solely on the cover art, then tried to convince myself that I liked the music (see also Nazareth's No Mean City)

Somehow I'd never heard of Clearlight until this box set came out, and GOOD LORD is it proggy, like "I heard you like prog so I put some prog in your prog so you can listen to prog while you listen to prog" proggy

Some indy research that I'll be sharing results of for everyone to see / use! This survey is on short fiction anthologies. You can take it even if you never read them, as there are Qs about that, too. The aim is to help anthologies shine, so please share it! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Reposted it from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social earlier, but here it is again:

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

As it's my 50th birthday today - if you want to help an author out - you can buy a pdf of my first novel A DISTASTEFUL HORROR STORY (2019) - which will be deleted forever tomorrow, never to be reprinted in my lifetime. buymeacoffee.com/johnnymains/...

BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores. The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act. Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.

In case you needed any more reasons to boycott Target

I didn’t know this, did you? Amazing!

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

What a strange typo to appear *twice* on a book's back cover ("hi" for "his", 1992 Carroll and Graf edition of E. F. Benson's Collected Ghost Stories)

At Hood College for Julius Hemphill saxophone quartets, performed by Marty Ehrlich and the Maryland Saxtet, presented by FEMA (not *that* FEMA... the Frederick Experimental Music Association)

Check out the ritualistic meditative grooves of Monk Pond’s Echoes of an Infinite Dawn recordcratesunited.com/2026/04/11/m...

Hakumba - The Garden - Afrobeat, Ethio-jazz, and spiritual jazz from 13-piece Hungarian band (including cello, viola, male & female vocals)

At Washington National Cathedral for The Tallis Scholars: Miracles and Mysteries

The record is called Wrigglers polypores.bandcamp.com/album/wriggl...

Zyggurat who had a Mini CD on Clay Pipe a few years back have a new album out on @oldtechlady.bsky.social today, and it's great! old-technology.bandcamp.com/album/sphere...

Yes - Aurora - new song out today, title track from forthcoming album due June 12 Yes - Aurora - new song out today, title track from forthcoming album due June 12

A plea to UI developers: if the user has to choose an item from a picklist, alphabetize the picklist by the value displayed, not a shadow value. So sick of "Delaware" coming after "District of Columbia" because "DE" comes after "DC". Could be even worse for countries!

Today's lunch salad: Spring mix Pumpkin seeds Roasted chestnuts Pickled onions Pickled beets Blue cheese crumbles Croutons Balsamic with honey dressing

The world provides, if you know where to look

Bookmarking this for when I get asked why I'm not using Copilot at work

Someone in my neighborhood still has this bumper sticker on their vehicle. I'm still pissed that a Democrat would use a logo indicating movement to the right! But given that it was Hillary Clinton, at least it was honest.

it also has this one

Today's lunch salad: Spring mix Pumpkin seeds Grape tomatoes Tamed jalapeno spices Crispy fried onions Seitan chorizo crumbles Croutons A sliced avocado Chipotle salsa cremosa

In 1976 we could order NFL-branded bags through my elementary school for some reason. I got a Seattle Seahawks bag and my best friend got a Tampa Bay Buccaneers bag, because both teams were new and new NFL teams were novel. So when the Seahawks win the super bowl my inner sixth-grader is chuffed

The Box were top-tier skronkers!

Small comfort as the submission deadline has already passed and the university I work at complied with it. And it was a bear to compile.

Danakil Safari - From the Soil - Ethio-jazz-inspired quintet from Norway

A new Gang of Four single 😮! With the lineup from the farewell tour

oh my god they finally did it. they finally invented a good printer.

I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter’s Anti-Intellectualism in American Life and now every time a Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I wish Chrome Hoof had lasted long enough to do a US tour so I could have seen them live

My job got in the way my usual New Music Friday posting, but here are the twelve albums I listened to the most last week. I enjoyed a lot of new and recent releases, and I can’t wait to look into what all came out today. Any new albums you all are excited about?

Um lance meio jazz eletrônico, um negócio experimental bem foda que o Shabaka faz.

Michael Gregory Jackson - Clarity Limited Edition LP/CD/Digital album Remastered and restored and the first reissue authorized by Michael Gregory Jackson since the original release in 1976 releases May 30, 2026 moved-by-sound.bandcamp.com/album/clarity

I am reading a British folk horror novel, and one of the characters is named Noah Jones, but I first read it as Norah Jones, and that's who I picture now every time the name comes up

When I was compiling my collection of crank book covers with art by well-known SF artists I kept thinking there must be at least one confirmed Chris Foss out there. Voilà!

Having just seen a photo of Rami Malek, I'll throw out my opinion that he would make the perfect Severian

Marter and Yony - Rhythm Matter - a generous serving of dreamy dub tracks from Masateru Yamauchi and Yoshio Kobayashi

#NewMusicFriday Wendy Eisenberg, 'Wendy Eisenberg' They riff hard in Editrix. They shred in the Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet. They write devastating and self-deprecating songs solo. This sorta circles all three with an ear toward pastoral psych. wendyeisenberg.bandcamp.com/album/wendy-...

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