me in a pitch meeting near the end of 2014: I have a great idea for True Detective season 2

not sure how language will survive the redundancy of poetic metaphor

one hour later and oh hello there huge skillet of Indo-Chinese Kadhai Stir-Fried Noodles with Crispy Tofu, Charred Broccoli, and Collard Ribbons

just finished my session as a talking head on a documentary project that I don't think I can talk about yet

I'm really into, when the song calls for it, the evocative art of a well-done fade out and I was just reminded that Robert Plant's "Big Log" is a great example of that

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oh come on Rico what do you think Jesus rode, a horse?

DJ mix suggestion (if you're fuckin' twisted): Swallow - "Lovesleep" → John Waite - "Missing You"

show of hands: who else has had a potentially productive state of flow demolished by a six week old kitten pooping on the floor of your office

something released today worth checking out — exquisite →

Watched Zardoz last night and I've been thinking about it all day. So I made this

Sound Designer and frequent David Lynch collaborator Alan Splet working on Eraserhead (1977)

it's uncanny that the evil of Facebook was prophesied all the way back in 1974 by the kosimiche duo Cluster and their album 'Zuckerzeit'

now I feel bad that Juno Download hasn't crossed my mind in many, many years, but back when I was that DJ guy it was my preferred place to preview + grab digital releases for my sets

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Steven Garnett flashes back to 1998—his previous encounter with Thurston Moore and Kramer—and wrangles the duo together for an expressive email interview about their album, 'They Came Like Swallows' →

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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Chaz Underriner speaks with Lisa Ann Schonberg, a drummer and sound artist who hangs out with myrmecologists (folks who study ants), finding ways to record insects, plants, and the soil itself for a series of intriguing installations and compositions →

hi we’re at the Psycho screening (with orchestra) and this is not a flattering photo for any of us

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 (𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟮): Andrew Hamlin looks at 50 years of Kraftwerk's 'Radio-Activity' and views the kollektiv combo's first all-electronic album through 50 years of nuclear age anxiety →

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 (𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟭): @lawrenceperyer.com has a fantastic conversation with experimenting violinist Meredith Bates about improvisation as a 'witchy power,' the influence of being among big trees, and the quantum ideas behind her expansive new album, 'The Observer Effect' →

if I had a time machine I'd go back to 1985 and walk into a gathering of goths wearing this

I happened upon this glorious nugget while researching an article we're posting later today ☢️

I worked in music publishing and I gotta say Burton Cummings pulling SOCAN's representation of his songwriting shares so his estranged ex-bandmates could no longer legally perform the best known Guess Who songs in a public venue has got to be one of the most baller moves in music business history

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: @garrt.bsky.social talks loops, saxophones, and Mount Fuji with Ethan Helm, a jazz musician satisfyingly venturing into the ambient clouds with his album 'Dreamscapes' → www.thetonearm.com/ethan-helms-...

❝ Brion [Gysin] was a transmitter from other forms...from ancient Egypt...to Tibetan knowledge...to modern science...to inner worlds. → whitehotmagazine.com/articles/d-a...

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗬𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆: The Tonearm's Bill Kopp (@musoscribe.bsky.social) explores the seven-piece psychedelic stew that makes up the Brooklyn band Evolfo, whose latest album, 'Of Love,' is a blissful, and surprisingly soulful, trip down hazy pastures →

𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺: a lovely conversation between @mhcoons.bsky.social and the brilliant singer/songwriter Charlotte Cornfield that touches on the tough personal realities that influence musical storytelling … have a gander →

In which I ponder mortality at a Feelies show... and might possibly break some news.

when playing in a particularly cold climate that’s when he brings out his frosty alter ego Sombrrrr

this week’s Talk Of The Tonearm newsletter has just crawled to the surface of a dark Scottish loch and into your email inbox so many curated recommendations + artists to discover — including a short convo with Phillip Golub about his brilliant new album, ‘Partisan Ship’ many miles away →

Weckerman on the attack

my favorite thing right now is overhearing parents attempt to explain art to their small children: “you see, that was a famous painting and then he thought it would be funny to put a mustache on her”

last night

I will financially support any airline that exclusively enlists Buddhist monks as its gate agents

🎶gettin on a jet plane gonna see The Feelies 🎶

I mean I really can't fault someone for concocting an urgent excuse to immediately stop that song

• AFAIK = Analog Folklore Activated In Kraftwerk • BRB = Brain Records Bonanza • ADIH = Amon Duul Is Heavy • PITR = Playing Intense Teutonic Rock • DM = Dieter Moebius

celebrating what would have been Arthur Russell's 75th birthday at The Tonearm ✨ → www.thetonearm.com/the-radicall...

It’s not every day that you find a sixty year old, still sealed album, let alone one as sick as this! Trance, Brion Gysin, Paul Bowles, Ira Cohen, Morocco #vinyl

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me at the club after finishing off my limoncello

new music from MGTM warrants an urgent red alert, but one noticed in the distance through rapidly accumulating fog

from a geeky friend's collection and into your geeky hands back in my geekier years (around 14 yrs old) I somehow programmed my own versions of Missile Command and Joust on one of these using Extended BASIC … those blinking sprites nearly gave me a seizure

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pick a Bond from photos you already have in your phone

Belle & Sebastian are Caroline's favorite band (I like them, too!), so we're about to get on a train to Miami for a brief getaway culminating in the show tomorrow night btw we have an extra ticket if anyone is game, an amazing seat near front center

pls read this essay (The Tonearm debut of writer Jon Buckland) on Metal Machine Music and its unlikely tribute albums and then, once finished, go back and read the Lester Bangs review linked within the article → www.thetonearm.com/power-to-con...

slightly increase a band Gang of Four and Three Quarters