We’re articulating our approach to generative AI so musicians can keep making music and fans can trust the music they find on Bandcamp.

Oh cool. I was happy to find a place in the neighborhood where I can get Gb Lfaurkteeee, NY-style.

I missed out on this album last year (and have never taken the time to listen to These New Puritans before) but this would’ve definitely been on my end of year list if I had: album.link/i/1795082574

Finally found a shop that sells Ctfnooaenb 🙌

Post a picture of the venue where you attended your first concert and the band...

Jago soothes Quentin's head

If you’re in Minneapolis and need a place to just BE right now, Big Hill Books and Birchbark Books & Native Arts are both open and ready to welcome you with open arms.

Finished ‘Chasing the Dark' by Ben Machell - a fascinating biography of the life of rationalist and sceptic Tony Cornell of the Society for Psychical Research. He was as much a social worker, sensitive to the lives of the people he investigated. Utterly fascinating! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/chas...

Don’t you just hate it when Christmas is barely over and already the Valentine’s Day stuff comes out and … and … *buys his Easter egg*

Brand new on Dirty Feed: I absolutely guarantee that you have not read this fact about The Peter Serafinowicz Show and The Butterfield Detective Agency sketch ANYWHERE else. www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/01/ever...

Kings of Leon did predict this tbf 😬

After reading Louie Mantia's blog post "And Stay Out", some of my thoughts about Alan Dye leaving Apple, Jony Ive's influence on Apple's interface and hardware design before Dye, and the general lack of playfulness in everything Apple makes these days. karbonbased.io/posts/2025/12/...

My favorite advice for blogging remains that you should hit publish while you are still actively unhappy with what you have written, because the only alternative is a huge folder full of drafts and never publishing anything at all

Your podcasts will never be as cool as this.

Watched this again last night. Such a timeless TV adaptation, so well cast.

I think The Signalman (1976) remains an immortal ghost story (for Christmas) because every second of its chilling dreaminess is in service of a resonant ache of loneliness. We have, at one point of another, all felt this helplessly alone and fraying at the edges with an eerie drone.

Second anniversary of our Apple TV’s spectacular attempt to understand me asking for “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas”

It seems that in trying to work out why descriptions weren’t showing up, I’ve messed up my whole podcast feed. It’s hand rolled, and maybe it’s time to to use some sort of service?

An extra slice of ho, ho, ho to you all! I decided to do a quick Troika episode this afternoon, so Episode #58, Hickensian Christmas III. I features alternative festive tunes, from artists on Sonic Cathedral: Deary, Pye Corner Audio and Dawn Chorus & the Infallible Sea. hicks.design/troika/troik...

Just in the last week, my Mastodon posts have been reposted to Bluesky (other than the manual cross posting I do), presumably by some service I once signed up for? I've unfollowed bridgyfed, so it's not that 🤷

Edge Eatery Witney: The Frank Clause 🥪 A sausage patty, crispy bacon, melted Emmental, cranberry sauce, marmite mayo, fried egg, and crispy sage, on an English muffin with hash browns on the side ❄︎ 5/5 🙌 (See alt description for review) #festivesandwichreviews #festivesandwichreviews2025

The one I’ve been waiting for. Colly always puts so much effort in to his end of year roundups, and there’s loads here I’ve not listened to, but will be https://mastodon.social/@colly/115753055808590160

The one I’ve been waiting for. Colly always puts so much effort in to his end of year roundups, and there’s loads here I’ve not listened to, but will be

TOND A new ghost story for Christmas From the makers of Broken Veil pod.link/1745494718/e...

I've just posted my Annual Report, highlighting my favourite albums, gigs and books of 2025. I decided on no links to streaming services, or reviews this year, you're just getting a grid of album covers with links to Bandcamp! Ho ho ho! hicks.design/journal/hick...

If I was Father Christmas I would deliberately skip any properties displaying a Santa Stop Here sign. Don't tell me my job.

“lol”

✨ Stars of the Lid Forever (starsofthelidforever.com) Christmas update! I’ve just published 8 new shows, bringing our total to 25 🙌 Saint-Jean-Baptiste au Béguinage, Nottingham Contemporary St John-at-Hackney Le Poisson Rouge Les Voûtes, Paris St Giles in the Fields St Mary's Church Philadelphia

The Two Ronnies liked the British Leyland Double Bonus in 1981

@remysharp.com Am I talking to 'Chris Young Small Agency Owner'? scrib.li (Checking out a work enquiry email to see if company was legit, then saw your avatar!)

"Look for me in the trees. I will be there in the trees." A letter worth reading? ✅️🤍 (Sent into The Irish Times)

Two guys from Muscle Shoals (of all places) made a shoegaze concept album about an island off Northumberland. A joy to bring this “magical” (according to @huwstephensdj.bsky.social on BBC Radio 6 Music) record into the world alongside Well Kept Secret. UK tour in April!

@stevequeralt.bsky.social stepped out of the shadows and released this stunning solo debut. A post-rock indie disco crossover featuring @emmaandersonmusic.bsky.social and Verity Susman, that Record Collector called “an impressively sculpted soundtrack for dystopias real and imagined”.

Waitrose Christmas Roast Chicken with all the Trimmings Wrap 🥪 A tortilla wrap with roast chicken, roasted carrot, parsnip and brussels sprouts, sage & black pepper mayo, cranberry & redcurrant chutney, lettuce. ❄︎ 2/5 (See alt desc for review) #festivesandwichreviews #festivesandwichreviews2025

Over on @tedium.co tonight, I explain what it was like to lay out the @404media.co zine in Affinity, using WINE on Linux. Yeah, it occasionally crashed. Yes, it did try to export a 17-exabyte PDF (not WINE’s fault). But YES, it was absolutely viable. Would do again. tedium.co/2025/12/10/4...

AI tech bros promising to allow you to talk to a digital simulacrum of your dead relatives as a false comfort during your natural process of grief are, I’m afraid, in contravention of the 1736 Witchcraft Act, the 1951 Fraudulent Mediums Act, and should be hanged. I don’t make the rules.

I keep thinking about all of the people who were NOT hired as part of this exercise. All the real world production crew. The actors. The caterers supporting real world shoots. So many people with real skills not being paid. So. Many. Creative. People. Not. Being. Paid.

Excited to announce that my wife Karen has taken up the bagpipes

M&S Turkey Feast 🥪 Roast turkey breast with pork, sage and onion stuffing, onion mayonnaise, cranberry chutney and smoked bacon on malted brown bread ❄︎ 3/5 (See alt description for review) The one with the weird Cranberry! #festivesandwichreviews #festivesandwichreviews2025

M&S Turkey Feast 🥪 Roast turkey breast with pork, sage and onion stuffing, onion mayonnaise, cranberry chutney and smoked bacon on malted brown bread ❄︎ 3/5

Starting to think the best #festivesandwich is three slices of Stollen on top of each other #festivesandwichreviews #festivesandwichreviews2025

Aphex Twin's Girl/Boy Song is a Christmas song

Aphex Twin's Girl/Boy Song is a Christmas song

Costa Coffee: Turkey and Trimmings Toastie 🥪 Turkey shavings and bacon leaf (like gold leaf, but with bacon) with sage & onion stuffing dust, the lightest of mayonnaise and cranberry smears on cheese topped white bread. ❄︎ 1/5

Costa Coffee: Turkey and Trimmings Toastie ❄︎ 1/5 (See alt description for review. See the promo image for lies.) #festivesandwichreviews #festivesandwichreviews2025

Rival Consoles will be very high on my albums of 2025 list!

My Spotify wrapped summary is that my band took all our music off Spotify because the company’s CEO invests the billions which he doesn’t pay artists on AI drone weapons tech. Ditch Spotify. Pay artists. Redistribute wealth. Stop war. Happy Christmas!

“If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time period. Or if everyone used Apple Music it would have been £12,331 more.”

“If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time. Or Apple Music would’ve have been £12,331 more.” loscampesinos.com/heres-how-mu...

Opening door number four of the Scarred For Life advent calendar, we find... ITV's brilliant adaptations of John Wyndham's novel about a troubled boy and his alien friend: the CHOCKY trilogy!