I'm so excited to share my new article/interview about @faetooth.bsky.social in @thetonearm.com that dives deep into their career and second album "Labrynthine"!! Faetooth excites me so much and it was a thrilled to spend time with them and their music last year www.thetonearm.com/beyond-fairy...

I wrote this

the website for Mona, an art museum in Tasmania, as well as "a temple to secularism, rationalism, and talking crap about stuff you really don’t know very much about," is a total joy to explore →

"People might call you a ‘luddite’, or an ‘enemy of progress’, or they might find other ways why you’re wrong and nothing you do will change anything. Ultimately, that doesn’t matter at all. Because passivity, fatalism and ignorance are definitely not the way forward either."

Blue (1993) Derek Jarman

i think this is more important than ever

boy am I excited to dip my brain into Bi Gan's Resurrection in a few hours

yesterday on The Tonearm we published a conversation between composer Bryan Sethi Lawrence Peryer — some terrific chat in there about musically translating the migration experience and intentionally smashing together the traditions of classical + Latin American folk music … well worth checking out

If you’re in need of some light amid an even darker world this morning, I recommend this conversation sooner rather than later.

damn right

"As a 20-year old [from Kansas], James had to be not only a remarkable autodidact but also courageous to go from there to coming out and meeting Allen Ginsberg in Manhattan in 1974, and from there to becoming Burroughs’ right-hand man." Obituary — James Grauerholz:

unexpectedly, at the stroke of midnight, and in addition to Popeye, Buck Rodgers, and Tintin, the entire ouevre of Dream Theater instantly became a part of the public domain

damn, unidentifiable moldy food discovered hiding in the hidden recesses of the fridge — you're gorgeous

another year, another opportunity to post this outburst all-timer

it's just like that Black Flag song "TV Party" up in here tonight except it's a version where they're shouting "CANAL BOAT DIARIES!" over and over again for the show names

this sounds exactly like how I feel going into 2026

oh now this is a lovely interview with the ultra-talented Lia Kohl, conducted by The Tonearm's @tangentuniverses.bsky.social — featuring a tale of an unidentified drunken singer post-NYE party so it's today-appropriate + be sure to check out the embedded Roulette live performance which is fantastic

post a perfect piano roll from the 1890s that isn't Scott Joplin, Eubie Blake, or James P. Johnson

post a perfect album from 2037 that isn't Scrobottom Layabouts, Deez 4 Finger Jabs, The Boost Goblins, or Lunar Cramden and the Solartots

the good news: Resurrection is screening in the Orlando area next week much to my surprise the bad news: it's playing at a theater located in 'Disney Springs' well OK then — guess who's making the 30-minute trek out to Disney World next weekend

because it is the holiday season and I'm a sucker for bad puns I came THIS CLOSE to titling this newly published article on The Tonearm 'Elf in the Self'

a bit of a jam innit

xmas lights on the lake

transcription software just mistook  Steve Reich for Steven Wright and I'm going to have to sit here and think about that juxtaposition for a while

"gurus • creative people • pop celebrities • society submergers • super spatials • swamis • me"

merry christmas

my 10 favorite 'not new' movies I saw for the first time in 2025 (chronologically): The Gold Rush (1925) Red River (1948) In a Lonely Place (1950) Good Morning (1959) The Boston Strangler (1968) +

we're all drawn towards the void, but each day we continue to exist & try to do good for our friends & culture is worth celebrating. so let's raise a toast to US as well as those who are gone, vowing to continue our fight to bend the arc of society in the direction of ecstasy rather than despair.

they're finally bringing out Captain Timid's arch nemesis, The Surpriseler!

this is how I visualize myself as I keep working through the holidays so I can feel better about it

next Christmas I'm going to get some friends together to go door-to-door carolling but the only song we'll know is Black Flag's "Spray Paint The Walls"

D. Boon died this date in 1985... I saw Minutemen play a few shows in college and met him. I was so NOT a punk kid but was a budding lefty. He quizzed ME: What do you think of...? Have you read...? When I learned he'd died, I surprised myself and sobbed. Boy could we use him now... Rest in Power

There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.

I fear I may be a member of what I imagine to be a teeny tiny minority of folks who enjoyed Licorice Pizza much more than One Battle After Another

a nice article on a weird time and a (frankly) weird scene a few old, dear pals of mine are mentioned, and I'm given props near the end for quoting Brian Eno

loving loving loving this interview with Nels Cline we just published … appropriately geeky for The Tonearm's target audience

you will be visited by three spirits

so humiliating

I have wanted to speak with Nels for some time. The opportunity presented itself and here it is. Enjoy.

you're going to love my new synthpunk band we're called localhost/

we just watched Sirāt … holy … … freakin' … … … moly

writing about the art you care about is such a good feeling, like you're baking a birthday cake for someone you love

It's release day! Our debut album available on all major platforms. Only digital release for now, but vinyl and other goodies coming soon. Please follow us at lostnoisesoffice.bsky.social. Bandcamp: lostnoisesoffice.bandcamp.com/album/cloud-...

here's a round-up of breaking music news you might have missed over the past several days

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it’s actually kind of sad that George Carlin didn’t live long enough to do an epic bit about the smart toilet

every year, I publish my best albums of the year 1977 list at the very beginning of December to get a head start on everyone else, knowing damn well that some great album I can't include is inevitably going to come out a few days later

sure that Liam Gallagher post where he says new music is for wankers I'm quite happy singing the old stuff nostalgia forever is pretty funny until you realize Kevin Shields could have posted the same thing