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Just posted something on the blog about the awesome #ChicagoOffSpotify campaign alongside ten blurbs about ten newish songs I heard this month. Featuring tracks from Modern Nature, Emily Hines, Algernon Cadwallader, M. Sage, Horse Lords, and more! horsecombinations.blogspot.com/2025/09/sept...

Nearly six dozen Chicago musical acts have signed onto this boycott campaign / open letter urging other local musicians to pull their music from Spotify. More on this in my @chicagoreader.com story chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...

new from me: a treatise on why using AI for every goddamn thing (incl, now, promos for music performances by humans) sucks shit www.coyotemedia.org/diy-vs-ai-th...

Open Letter: Chicago Musicians Are Pulling Their Music From Spotify tinyurl.com/ChicagoOffSpotify

@darkentries.bsky.social mix to brighten your day soundcloud.com/darkentriesr...

In 27 years I've drunk fifty thousand beers And they just wash against me Like the sea into a pier

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here's the archive of this month's nts program.

I've once again punched the clock at the blog factory and produced nine blurbs about nine cool songs I listened to this month. This time we're talking about Julie Doiron, Ambarchi/Berthling/Werliin, Steve Gunn, Sam Prekop, Anysia Kym and more! horsecombinations.blogspot.com/2025/09/sept...

Listen/Download my mix for Palestine, now on Soundcloud soundcloud.com/acloserliste...

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Jim O’Rourke’s Steamroom series of electronic and archive works now has its prices cut by half, to help people fill the gaps. So much incredible music here: you can literally dip in at random and land on something beautiful every time. steamroom.bandcamp.com

The spirit of the SXSW Doritos vending machine stage lives on 🥰

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The snow falls down so beautiful and stupid For the black silhoutte of Abraham Lincoln trees The sky's low and grey like a Japanese table And my horse's legs look like four brown shotguns

16 minutes and 41 seconds of exactly my kind of shit, thank you "ear" surfgangrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-mo...

i was the 52nd person to purchase a copy of Hotline TNT's Raspberry Moon today as part of their 24-hour anti-spotify telethon ! they hope to sell 500 records. how cool www.assnup.com

This is about music subcultures but really applies to any sort of grassroots, tight-knit community bonded by shared values chicagoreader.com/music/music-...

New post up with thoughts on the final eight songs added to our August 2025 playlist, featuring tracks from artists like Paira, Pile, Susumu Yokota, Nourished by Time, Earl Sweatshirt, and more! horsecombinations.blogspot.com/2025/09/augu...

here's to Michael Rother at 75: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fz4...

Piano and Scene by David Berman evanstonpubliclibrary.wordpress.com/2016/04/30/n...

There's a new post up today with thoughts on eleven cool songs I listened to this month, featuring artists like Cass McCombs, Memotone, Emmylou Harris, No Joy, Water From Your Eyes, and Daniel Hecht. horsecombinations.blogspot.com/2025/08/augu...

Another post from the archives, here's one from June about making a plan to leave Spotify, plus blurbs about songs from acts like Peace Flag Ensemble, Car Culture, Jonny Nash, Coral Grief, and more! horsecombinations.blogspot.com/2025/07/june...

Here's another one from the archive: thoughts on ten cool songs I listened to in June, featuring Horsegirl, Tortoise, Oren Ambarchi, Close Lobsters, and more! horsecombinations.blogspot.com/2025/06/june...

my audio recording of En Attendant Ana at the 2023 Milwaukee Psych Fest is now on the Milwaukee Taper blog, freely available in both mp3 and high fidelity lossless FLAC file formats: www.milwaukeetaper.com/2025/08/en-a...

the archive of this month's NTS show has posted.

"a cooler world is possible" 👑

Insane crop of new releases today holy cow

Can a timeline cleanse be music? Listen to Zambian freedom fighter Alick Nkhata, killed in crossfire by Rhodesian forces in 1978. His lovely country tunes, township jazz, and vocal pop soundtracked Zambia's independence movement. Those harmonies! mississippirecords.bandcamp.com/album/radio-...

Horse Combinations returns with ten more blurbs about ten cool songs. Featuring tracks from artists like Natural Information Society, Michael Beach, and Anysia Kim, plus a story about being the first guy to ever say "Alexa, play The Durutti Column" horsecombinations.blogspot.com/2025/08/augu...

Talked to a few Chicagoans about bailing on Spotify

found a cure for AI psychosis! put this on and listen to all 3 hours your soul will be saved

I'm hard at work crafting some new blurbs for you, for now let's take a look into the archives at a post outlining eight cool songs I listened to in May. Featuring Disiniblud, Phi-Psonics, HiTech, Fuubutsushi, Kevin Ayers, and more! horsecombinations.blogspot.com/2025/06/may-...

Music can't cure all this, maybe, but it can help our hearts keep pumping... musicophilia.wordpress.com/2019/04/02/r...