No better time than now to pick up Lost Ghosts at 99 cents! Seven stories of paranoia and decay ripe for reading in the long, waiting hours of the night. www.amazon.com/dp/B0D4S4GTVN

Lost Ghosts is on Kindle Countdown Deal — just 99¢ from Sept 15–22. Seven stories of horror, paranoia, and quiet apocalypse. Perfect for fans of Black Mirror and The Twilight Zone. www.amazon.com/dp/B0D4S4GTVN

Straight romance? Millennial satire? Pharmaceutical-powered speculative fiction? All of the above, but never really enough of any one of them. My latest book review for @spectrumculture.bsky.social spectrumculture.com/2025/09/09/b...

The reality show as capitalist critique is not exactly new ground, but Aisling Rawle breathes some compulsively readable life into the idea in her novel The Compound. My latest book review for @spectrumculture.bsky.social spectrumculture.com/2025/08/19/t...

At it's core, Ling Ling Huang's second novel contains a gripping story of a toxic friendship. Unfortunately, everything else about it tends to fall apart when you look at it too hard. My latest book review for @spectrumculture.bsky.social spectrumculture.com/2025/07/24/i...

What up friends, clear your reading schedule briefly for Ps and Qs 3rd anthology, GAUGES AND GHOULS, out now on Amazon etc. In it you'll find 10 stories about the awful things you get up to in the course of the work day. Hate your boss? You're not alone! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FJMRP9P3

There's subliminal advertising: There's liminal advertising: I think there might be something here. There's superliminal advertising: HEY! YOU! CLICK THIS LINK ALREADY! All have their place.

My latest short story, up in the tower of @crowkeys.bsky.social - perseverance, loss, and mushrooms. Read it and let me know what you think it's about.

FREE all weekend until the end of Monday, it's the collection that's been called "A newer, realer form of fear rarely found in modern fiction." Not just KU free but "no money down" free. No excuses to grab your copy and check it out today! Link below.

Sayaka Murata often leaves readers in a 1000-yard stare at the end of her work, but on the English translation of her 2015 novel Vanishing World it's for a different, less complimentary reason. My latest book review for @spectrumculture.bsky.social spectrumculture.com/2025/06/22/v...

Lost Ghosts, the first collection of horror short stories from Trevor James Zaple, available now FREE on Kindle Unlimited. Early stories of near future despair from an award-winning Canadian author. Get in now: www.amazon.com/dp/B0D4S4GTVN

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Phantom Island The orchestration is a nice touch and it would work elsewhere quite well, but Phantom Island suffers mainly from being a collection of castoffs retrofitted with strings and brass. Good, but perhaps not great. spectrumculture.com/2025/06/19/k...

I dare you to name all 48 Neil Young albums.

yeule - Evangelic Girl is a Gun #NowPlaying Evangelic Girl is a Gun is a pop album perfect for a world where truth is uncertain, and where we’re all as online as we are in the flesh.

Our Cure feature continues. This week we spotlight THE HEAD ON THE DOOR.

Discography: The Cure / The Head on the Door The Cure's key transition album between their churning goth phase and their romantic era. In just 37 minutes the band took what came before and made it pop friendly without sacrificing the essential elements that made the Cure great.

Ty Segall - Possession Possession makes the same case that Ty Segall has been making all along for over a decade: that he’s one of the all-timers, a guy who can range from pure fuzz to emotional finesse in the blink of an eye.

Beirut - A Study of Losses Beirut’s lengthy, meandering album involves a conceptual project by a Swedish circus, a German novel and an inventory of vanished things.

No smoked salmon was consumed in the writing of this. With SABLE, fABLE, Bon Iver delivers an album that feels less like a statement and more like a reconciliation. It doesn’t chase trends but finds meaning in the middle distance between cabin and studio, between myth and memory.

Pigs x7 - Death Hilarious Death Hilarious is Pigs x7 distilled, showing them to be loud, ugly, relentless and chaotic, but never boring.

Dead Meadow - Voyager to Voyager Despite the unfortunate circumstances surrounding its creation, Voyager to Voyager is a worthy entry in Dead Meadows’ catalog.

Me to Brian Moylan every day since September 22nd, 2011.

This was two bucks not twenty years ago. I'm a RETVRN guy but only for breakfast prices.

Perfume Genius - Glory The vanishing point between the personal and pop, a record that is lush, restless and unforgettable.

New review up at Spectrum Culture. They let me review books now. In a genre that thrives on cycles of reinvention, Hendrix continues to prove himself as a writer deeply attuned to both its history and its future.

Cryptosis - Celestial Death They clearly know the basics, and they know where and when to include the markers of every genre that they borrow from.

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

WE RECOMMEND: Alabaster DePlume: A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole "There’s no wallowing in the depths of despair on DePlume’s latest, nor is there an attempt to romanticize pain and struggle. Instead, it’s presented as a tool, an inherent centerpiece of growth." @alabasterdeplume.bsky.social

There’s no wallowing in the depths of despair on Alabaster DePlume’s latest, nor is there an attempt to romanticize pain and struggle. Instead, it’s presented as a tool, an inherent centerpiece of growth.

Lacuna Coil - Sleepless Empire Even if it doesn’t chart new territory and the instrumentation tends to get blurred, it’s still a grand gesture in a discography chock full of them. Far from becoming complacent, Lacuna Coil go into the night raging.

new at IHTOV, from me. i went long on @kevinpdevine.bsky.social's "make the clocks move" but really one specific song. this is deeply personal and deals with alcoholism and a fading relationship and a really profound song that changed me fundamentally ihavethatonvinyl.com/liner-notes/...

It’s the doom of the inevitable, captured through quotidian details that bring a heavy sense of wonder and sanctity to the ordinary as it slips away. Bonus: Ranciere and the Politics of Fiction in a review of an obscure English folkie spectrumculture.com/2025/02/18/r...

Universe Room advances yet another glimpse into Pollard’s particular songwriting style while offering up a sense of energy that belies the man’s 67 years. spectrumculture.com/2025/02/17/g...

Life is messy, full of ripping highs and crushing lows, dancefloor bliss and the wee small hours of the morning. On her debut album, Biig Piig captures that exquisitely. spectrumculture.com/2025/02/11/b...

Hurry Up Tomorrow feels like Tesfaye’s attempt at summing up everything that was great about the Weeknd as a project, but unfortunately, it’s clear that no one ever brought a knife to the recording sessions. spectrumculture.com/2025/02/09/t...

Writing abt #TheLocust , the #SanDiego-bred group of misfits who redefined hardcore as the 20th century morphed into the 21st, is just a fool’s errand. They wrote and performed in jagged bursts and raging threnodies. A record review. @spectrumculture.bsky.social spectrumculture.com/2025/02/04/t...

Even though there is deep-rooted inconsistency present on Airbag Woke Me Up, Jeshi is on his game more often than not, and he shows throughout that he can meet his ambitions when it suits him. spectrumculture.com/2025/02/04/j...

The newest record by Belgian doom metal act Wyatt E. shows a serious willingness to innovate while keeping two feet firmly planted in the lumbering funeral march of doom metal. spectrumculture.com/2025/02/03/w...

Prison’s sophomore record is a loose, largely improvised tribute to primal rock noise that doesn’t try to outdo its influences. spectrumculture.com/2025/02/02/p...

You can trust me with your secrets because I will not remember them or your name

Woke up to the first acceptance of the year, nice way to start a Friday.

More and stronger, I get it, it's a race to see whether it'll bankrupt me or drive me insane.

I still want to share embarks on a journey into heaviness in a tradition less accustomed to it. spectrumculture.com/2025/01/22/s...

In case you were wondering about fortune cookies: mine yesterday said "You will reunite with old friends" and then today I woke up to someone wanting to talk about a murder my friends and I were tangentially involved in 25 years ago.

I was more willing to forgive problems with Netflix shows when it cost $10 a month.

On one hand, yeah "private taxi for my burrito" is a world-ender of a line. On the other, what differentiates DoorDash or whatever from the pizza delivery guy, except that late capitalism and the gig economy has undermined said pizza guy's already precarious position?

Every time someone in my family asks what I want for my birthday, and I have to give a SFW answer, it's a Roland S-1. Putting that energy out there.

Jewel I'm asking you - no, I'm begging you to answer - who will save your soul? www.thedailybeast.com/jewel-embrac...

One day I'm-a get my stuff on that Short Fiction list, but for right now that Stoker prelim ballot has SO MUCH great stuff on it. I'm excited to see all the names and works I've come to know and am excited to read all the stuff I haven't read yet. Novel is going to be a hard decision!