TROPISPHERE has a new tape and we'll have copies of Los Demos at our show in Oakland tomorrow. playing w/ some Bay Area (Tuxedomoon-related) legends! Sat Jan 10 Los Microwaves Winston Tong + LX Rudis Nasty World Tropisphere DJ Cristal Chains Show at 8:00PM at Thee Stork Club 21+ $15.00-$18.00

Upcoming tour for my project Radio Shock (no wave/trip Metal/synth-punk) in the PNW! Thurs 1/22: Seattle at Drac's Castle Fri 1/23: Corvallis at Interzone Sat 1/24: Portland at Wyrd Hut Sun 1/25: Olympia at Voyeur More details shortly or just DM me!

BUY OR DIE bid on ephemera, artwork, instruments from the estate of The Residents' late+great Hardy Fox pbagalleries.com/auctions/cat...

🚨NEW BOOK ALERT🚨 My first book*, "Learning Through Noise," is available NOW from Palgrave Macmillan! It's a deep dive into the relationship between learning and noise and the last publication to come out of my dissertation. Available now from the publisher- link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

been thinking about what it meant that BotH came to us with this story I think it points to how alt-weeklies and small music venues used to be part of the same independent culture ecosystem. Arts infrastructure as a public utility — but totally separate from city govt. We so desperately need it

TROPISPHERE on the bill with some Bay Area legends this Saturday at Thee Stork in Oakland. Sat Jan 10 Los Microwaves Winston Tong + LX Rudis Nasty World Tropisphere DJ Crystal Chains Show at 8:00PM at Thee Stork Club 21+, $15.00-$18.00 tix: wl.eventim.us/event/los-mi...

My heart

tarantella-9.bandcamp.com/album/kit-cl... JKC's first performance in 6 years. A requiem and reflection on those lost

vegan pasta fagioli with slow-cooked cranberry beans happy new year good people

This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.

J. Soliday- Raspberries Either @cranksatori.bsky.social needs to get his modem fixed or he's just on top of the jitter and stutter crunched out game. cranksatori.bandcamp.com/album/raspbe...

Vinny Golia Quintet • Out for Blood (1989) w. Michael Vlatkovich, Wayne Peet, Ken Filiano, Alex Cline digital reissue • long out of print vinnygoliamusic.bandcamp.com/album/out-fo...

Hello, putting this EOY surprise! Gratitude to everyone who has listened to/bought any of my music or purchased anything digital, or physical. #industrial #horrormusic malocculsion.bandcamp.com/album/collez... Dropping this singles collection spanning the last seven years minus this year.

my very good family got me this Ayler/Cherry box I didn't even know existed

We're adding a few releases to our bandcamp for the duration of our sale! One of our oldest/most extreme releases, 200+ acts doing 13 second songs-Venetian Snares, Cock ESP, Matmos, Eats Tapes, Richard Devine, insane lineup, ridic concept. $1 ONLY / $5 CD ratskinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-tr...

a Jesus Fetus youtube.com/playlist?lis...

LIFE DAY up in this bitch

proud theatre kid here come at me bro ✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓ playbill.com/article/in-r...

In Icelandic folklore Jólakötturinn, the Yule Cat, comes to eat those who do not wear their new clothes for Christmas. In this image, you can see somebody did not put on their new Christmas sweater. Or perhaps even more unfortunately, no one got them one! More ... 👇

People may not realize that this is the birth place of Ethnic Studies and the first Black Studies program. SFSU is a school of historic significance.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

noooo

with Barney of NAPALM DEATH Grind core anti fascist TS and Death Metal against Racism tote bag 🎁

She co-founded Reid’s Records in Berkeley, dated Jackie Robinson, delivered cash for the Black Panthers and published a memoir.

Could I interest you in an hour of unhinged Venezuelan psychedelia? xweed420x.bandcamp.com/album/esto-n...

All Spike and Dick Goodbody and none of me. Aren't you lucky!! @wfmu.bsky.social @sjroomwfmu.bsky.social @negativlandland.bsky.social wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

The only way you can still pretend that Reagan was good is if you believe in his policies or don’t believe in anything at all. Either one is disqualifying.

ALL IN

Who's that Pokémon? It's.... Matt Ingalls! and his special power is blowing your fucking mind with a clarinet and 2 microphones

In remembrance of Rob Reiner, I am putting on: sock-shoe-sock-shoe. www.youtube.com/watch?v=keX9...

Our winter sale is Live! 50% off everything from ratskinrecords.bandcamp.com and Ratskin.org Please consider to help us continue to support underground artists and document important art and music. Free whistle and community defense card with every order. LP’s - $10 CD’s - $8 Cassettes $5-8 💕

MIDnight Ditty

🚨URGENT: Congress prepares to push forward wolf slaughter bill that would remove federal protections for gray wolves across the lower 48 states and prohibit judicial review. Decision will be voted on Dec. 15 and could move to a House vote next week. 📣Take action: https://bit.ly/4adWexU

reflecting on all 2025 Dark Entries releases today on NTS 12pm PST featuring songs by Q Lazzarus, Coatshek, Corps Diplomatique, Brown Angel, Testpattern, Patrick Cowley, @robothustle and more 📻 nts.live

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

Tropisphere recording session with Eli Reyes and Bobby Cosmos. Our tape is almost done. Hope to have it in-hand and shipping early 2026.

Midnight Ditty

stone-cold classic

heading into the new year like Laughing Sal

Lotta good people our there still.

Beans and Barley, a Milwaukee institution for the last 50 years, is set to close next month. It began as a “health food store” in the early 1970s and eventually added a vegetarian restaurant. This was taken after hours in March 2019 while helping to put up an exhibition of paintings by Cynthia Hayes

just look at this spectacular telephone pole

Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.

Amy Denio: boldjourney.com/life-values-... #MusicSky

"dad, you know there used to be Coca-Cola in cocaine?"

Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.

Tonight! bsky.app/profile/obso...

far from his best play, but I dug in deep to Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll at ACT in SF, directed by Carey Perloff in 2008. Carey gave me leverage (with Tom's blessing) to score the play with rare Plastic People of the Universe cuts and I sourced as much from vinyl as possible. #RIPTomStoppard