After being utterly bored & disappointed by the 'viral meme backed by private equity' that is 'Backrooms', myself & @insultitude.bsky.social kicked off Pride season in earnest with one of the most epic homoerotic spectacles committed to film. Home video doesn't do it justice.

Tbqh, this is one reason among many that we shouldn't depend on corporate money. If your Pride event relies on corps and can be killed if they pull out, you don't have a Pride event, you have a PR event for banks and weapons maunfacturers.

argalirecordsnetlabel.com/2026/04/11/1... IMPORTANT @argrecnetlabel.bsky.social update! We are extending the submission window for the current compilation by ONE WEEK. Deadline for tracks is now JUNE 6TH! Tentative release is now planned for June 13th, but will let you know next week. 🧵

Furthermore, we’re all going to have at least some friends and family that will swear up and down that they never actually supported Trump, even as Trumpism will outlast Trump to one degree or another. Don’t let them rewrite history again.

Slightly ruin a song title. Thus: "The Light Dribbles Out Of Me"

As an aside, "Hitler Pete" is an anagram of Peter Thiel.

Good night.

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.

It's Saul Bass' world. We just live in it.

If you see this post an anime you love.

#Film89PosterOfTheDay No.3118 Suspiria (1977) (Artist: @johnjpearson.bsky.social) Director: Dario Argento

Hark, a cob web ridden artifact!

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

Someone asked Robert Fripp on Cameo basically why the guitar in Heroes is so emotional. Fripp - with emotion - struggled to answer. 'Any working player... responds to what he's hearing.' What Bowie gave him allowed him to be as alive & present as he was.

Per a conversation w/ @thefallingdream.bsky.social: "AI Psychosis": ableist, saneist, makes it seem like an individual problem; washed "AI Ensorcellment": highlights both the truth of the magico-religious commitments underlying all tech *&* the curse-like nature of systemic "AI" impositions; fire

‘Anyway, here’s Wonderwall’

the internet

argalirecordsnetlabel.com/2026/04/11/1... Still accepting tracks for this upcoming @argrecnetlabel.bsky.social compilation! TEN MORE DAYS TO GET A TRACK IN! Deadline is MAY 30th.

Collector of Dust – Entropic Tapestries Epic journey thru a kaleidoscope of post rock roads less traveled. argalirecordsnetlabel.bandcamp.com/album/entrop... @reonmoebius.bsky.social www.etherdiver.com/2026/05/15/o... #PostRock

this is just one more blatant example, and i’m glad some people are calling it out.

Had a really fun chat about Still In A Dream, shoegaze, noisepop etc with Mark Ellen + Dave Hepworth for their Word In Your Ear podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5MK...

This reminds me of something that one of the loveable grumpy curmudgeons from Red Letter Media said about Star Wars during some round table discussion: the franchise has the illusion of this big sand box of story potential but the execs will always bankroll trademarked nostalgia slop without fail.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsAM... Fourth track in the recently released "Ephemera" EP. This is a bit more minimal than I had originally intended, but hopefully it fits the vibe of the music better. More details in the description. Loud turbulent industrial electronics. This One's For You.

40 years old now, yikes (how I heard it at the time: one of the last tapes I bought before leaving my childhood home). 14 might be the best age to first hear it; it's how I discovered Laurie Anderson, Kate Bush & Youssou N'Dour (& indirectly, Anne Sexton & Stanley Milgram).

Assault On Precinct 13 Halloween Escape From New York The Fog The Thing

"I want to destroy my brand. I want to destroy it. I will destroy it."

Welcome to the week. Here's some new music to get you thru it! Unusual post rock, classic pop/rock, a drinking song for protesters, instrumental eclecticism + more www.etherdiver.com/2026/05/15/o... From @timeveleigh.bsky.social @reonmoebius.bsky.social @rsomers.bsky.social @sixomatic.bsky.social

Guardian 100 novel list. I hate this crap. Art treated like sport. It’s boring and male. I do art to get away from the notion of ‘winning’ and ‘best’. Read what you like. Like what you like. Thick snobs.

Oh really, bumper sticker? Drum machines have no soul? Fortunately I brought my own soul and don’t need my tools to have one.

"This is so cool! It'll make conservatives so mad!" Folks, these people are angry at being alive. Not an achievement.

Happy Birthday Robert Fripp!

While I'm supposed to be on a recording sabbatical, I guess the show last month at Spacebar was such a success that me and @dsherrick.bsky.social will be doing our bowed string manoeuvring in the dark again along with local post punk trio Idioms and Cinci spooky synthesizer act Etudes Of Horror.

the spectrum of Fripp's looks in the 70s alone, from "theory hippie" to "guy who likes to rap to his friends about Orgone therapy" to "Sapphire and Steel"

Cheers to @etherdiver.bsky.social for featuring the debut Collector Of Dust EP in their 'Other People's Music' review block. Also a bonus to zeroing in on the Sonic Youth & Talk Talk influences.

Though there's traceable nods to 90s slowcore & post rock (Low, Red House Painters, Labraford, Bark Psychosis, Rachael's) this album is it's own haunting malaise ridden entity. The soundtrack to miserable Mid Western summers and winters. motionward.bandcamp.com/album/the-moth

I suppose since that mega thread last week with @robertdallasgray.com snowballing from Simple Minds to post punk bassists: it's another opportunity to remind those in the know and those unfamiliar how good The Comsat Angels were. Mik Glaisher & Kevin Bacon were a formidable rhythm section.

The idea that Twitter itself, let alone politics or the discourse, would be different if all the cool people had stayed is laughable, and the idea that they had some duty to stay that they failed to live up to is ridiculous.

hi. welcome to dpresso. your parents never loved you.

In a move some are calling the savviest media pivot in years, the Post is pivoting to video in 2026 with a robust cast of contributors who look like a Matryoshka doll of variously sized JD Vances

I sometimes entertain the idea (or naive ambitious hope) that @argrecnetlabel.bsky.social with myself and @johnlithium.bsky.social at the helm sort of matches the eclecticism, scope, and devoted hands on nurturing that @i-p-r.bsky.social cultivated since 1980. Cheers to @nedraggett.bsky.social .

48 years ago today Black and White is the third studio album by English punk band The Stranglers, released on this day in 1978 includes the singles "Nice 'n' Sleazy" and "Walk On By" #punk #punkrock #oldschoolpunk #TheStranglers #blackandwhite #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Some of my most cherished childhood memories was watching the original Twilight Zone, Lost In Space, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, Dark Shadows, & Alfred Hitchcock Presents with both maternal grandparents respectively. And those were all made long before I was an idea in my parents's heads.