it's a bird, it's an email, it's the Talk Of The Tonearm newsletter. this week features insight probes into the likes of Patrick Shiroishi, Matt Piucci (Rain Parade), Jens Kuross, Jon Fadem, + Holy Mountain Records and you'll find yourself additionally pleased if you like tomato soup 🥫 →

many glistening treasures to behold on The Tonearm this past week ✨: - Rain Parade's Matt Piucci Reclaims 'Crashing Dream' - McLuhan's Wild Music Lives On - SANAM's Infinite Fire - M. Sage's Rural Reckoning - Lila Meretzky's Musical Afterimages our writers are the BEST — pls give these a glance:

everyone needs to go to the theater this weekend and see One Battle After Another for the main reason of helping to make it a hit — that way it'll still be playing on the big screen in three weeks when I finally get my replacement scleral contact lenses

DJ names I'm considering: Lord Tofu Lunar Vandross HBO Max The Human Breadbox Pope FOMO Two Turntables and a Stethoscope

the song "Habibon," which is embedded as a video in this article, is undoubtedly my favorite music discovery of the week

good morning from the lakeside #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NewDayRising

I really enjoyed watching this as it unfolded live last night and am so happy it's here to enjoy again today — such a fiery combo →

today's Talk Of The Tonearm newsletter has shot out of the circus cannon what's the deal? oh, just rare insight into: - Robin Holcomb & Peggy Lee - Briana Marela - Shrunken Elvis - Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou - Andrew Staniland they are ALL so interesting. don't believe me? see for yourself!💥 →

I think it's pretty funny when Eno says in this video "we sit down and we try to make a place that we haven't been to before" because I'm thinking "huh sounds to me like you might be there for a while"

attentively lounging on a #Caturday

❝ Sitting in an alcove next to the 1940 mobile Eucalyptus, which suggests a Surrealist take on a dinosaur skeleton at a natural history museum, I observed how its parts moved in a glacial twirl, like the elements of a Morton Feldman composition. →

Keats and Yeats are on your side while Zakk Wylde is on mine

❝ My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist... Although I am not a Communist, I refused to fall in line by hating them. →

shout out to @lawrenceperyer.com for submitting his interview to The Tonearm with the Lebanese band SANAM which in turn introduced me to this incredibly gorgeous song →

can you please let the RZA know that the "Würm" section of Yes's "Starship Trooper" has a boom-bap prog beat that would make for a hella ill loop

I'm now going on 11 months that this song has popped in my head every day at some random moment (seriously) and I'm still not hating it

Wrote about the manifold splendors of the late John Whitson's legendary Holy Mountain label for @thetonearm.com . This one really meant a lot to me, and I thank editor Michael Donaldson for the opportunity. www.thetonearm.com/requiem-for-...

I just want to give a quick shout-out and recommendation to @laminda.bsky.social's fantastic starter pack devoted to independent, supporter-funded media. The Tonearm is included in the mix and we're humbled by the amazing publications with which we've found ourselves rubbing elbows. Huzzah!

❝ While inherently a tense situation, it was also astonishing to see, and Lehtonen couldn’t help being curious “what it would look like to have a skyscraper made of ice on your backyard.” → www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/07/denn...

❝ The world of cereal box record collecting is unique, in that the songs themselves and the audio quality are of lesser importance. “They’re fascinating insights into our past,” Cumella said. “Today, it stands out as a bizarre artifact of another time that we would put a record on a cereal box.” →

original track list for Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On album: 1. Let's Get It On 2. Keep Gettin' It On 3. Still Gettin' It On 4. Can't Stop Gettin' It On 5. Took a Break, Now Gettin' It On Again 6. Gettin' It On and On and On and On and On … etc

good morning from the lakeside #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NewDayRising

that curiosity that we call the Talk Of The Tonearm newsletter is now on its way to our email fam ✨ featuring: - Larry Tye on Louis Armstrong - Darol Anger on bluegrass R&D - Nate Smith on Sign o' the Times - Adam Weinert on artistic farming check it out online and join the conversation:

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

I don't know if I would exactly praise it as it was often hella annoying but man I'll probably die wondering about what batshit crazy direction John From Cincinnati was going to go next

we're driving at full throttle this week on The Tonearm, crossing the finish line with these stories: - 'The Jazzmen' author Larry Tye - brainwave composer Andrew Staniland's Mind Music - pastoral trio Shrunken Elvis - the legendary Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou - the untethered Briana Marela YES!

I got to chat with Briana Marela about synthesizers, wearable instruments, working at Buchla-- and her latest gorgeous release for AKP "My Inner Rest" which merges technology with soft introspection. This my first interview for @thetonearm.com ✨ www.thetonearm.com/the-untether...

🎂 Stanisław Lem (1921-2006)

❝ So today let’s not dwell on how the ‘60s Revolution turned in on itself, but instead remember that brief moment of unity when such disparate groups as the Black Panthers, the Weathermen and the leader of the psychedelic movement came together to confront the MAN. →

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abracadabra! this week's edition of the Talk Of The Tonearm email newsletter has been cast into the world ✨ Orcutt Shelley Miller + saxophonist Rico Jones + drummer Charlie Werber + composer Marko Ciciliani ✨ there are also plenty of recommendations, clickable links, and suspicious tomfoolery

the world would be a slightly better place if we can all agree that 'poptimism' now actually refers to a really rad breakdancing move

I don't have the time right now to do this but if I did I'd find a way to make it all Minutemen songs

Did Walter Murch invent the timestretched vocal back in 1971?

Roman Mars's anti-efficiency rant at 19:00 is 🔥 and I enthusiastically co-sign his argument →

A.C. Marias – Just Talk - taped off Snub TV

if I had the money and bought all the rights to ‘The Smiths’ from Morrissey, I’d find every Smiths tribute band in the world (there’s a lot) and tell them they can all now officially and simultaneously perform and tour under the name The Smiths

at first glance I thought this headline meant something else and for a split second I was quite confused

good morning from the lakeside #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NewDayRising

good morning from the lakeside #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NewDayRising

if today is 90125 day that means tomorrow is Tormato Tuesday

Happy Labor Day🧑‍🏭

there is SO MUCH in this weekend's Talk Of The Tonearm newsletter and I can hardly believe it Greg Freeman + Rez Abbasi + Rogerio Boccato & Cardume + Aqeel Aadam + recommendations galore + LP drops the phrase 'the Mighty Zep' it's out now + viewable online (and please consider subscribing) ✨ →

here's an old Russian joke, Soviet-era: a man goes to a newsstand, glances at the day's newspaper, shakes his head in disappointment, then walks away … he does this every morning after a few weeks of this the news agent asks what he's looking for … "an obituary," the man says …

I won't mention what podcast interview inspired this mini-rant because I find the host insufferable but … the nostalgic notion, especially from certain fellow Gen Xers, that culture-jamming was a distinct thing of the '80s + '90s and no one's doing it anymore is incredibly naïve …

eye issues mean I won't be attending the much-anticipated screening of the new Brothers Quay film at our local arthouse theater tomorrow so please go in my stead and let me know how it is

it's 1992 and I open a small record store - this curious fellow named Garnett is one of our first customers, looking for Royal Trux vinyl and now it's WHAT over 30 years later and I have commissioned Garnett to write a rollicking piece on the Bill Orcutt — Steve Shelley — Ethan Miller power trio 🤘

I had a dream that Glenn from The Feelies showed me the proper way to use an EBow