Silver Apples in Stereo

@pwrmnstr.bsky.social and I went to see The Haters play in February, and I bought a contact mic glued to a magnet from @cranksturgeon.bsky.social at the merch booth. Gave it to Eric at our last rehearsal and he did this. (No, we're not turning Oceanographer® into a noise project. ...yet.)

Some shots of us playing at last weekend's barn party (no, not Labor Day weekend, the weekend *before* Labor Day)

This last weekend's event in the Catskills was just beyond incredible, and we're so stoked that Oceanographer could play a part in it. Looking forward to doing it again in August of 2026!

…it’s this weekend, y’all.

This is due to the Yocum/Yoakam connection. I’m greatly pleased by this outcome.

"Composer Gavin Bryars looped and layered a recording of a rough sleeper to create something hypnotic." Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet — how a homeless man’s singing became a contemporary classic:

Great news! Oceanographer® is playing a show in a couple weeks. Unfortunately, there’s a catch: It’s a private and invite-only affair. So all we can do is tease you with this flyer. Read more at: oceanographer.music/2025/08/11/s...

Fire fashion as always from WFMU

Be cool around the pool in some new WFMU summer swag! We have several new designs exclusive to the store, including the Unwound T in men’s and women’s sizes, the Shirt Music T, the Gold Blob cap in two logo colors, and a whole bunch of other swag that has never before been in the store. wfmu.store

Give a listen to this guy’s composition “Vexations” (if you’ve got a spare 36 hours to do so).

inspired by hiking thru wildflowers 🌷🌾🌻🌼✨ #pixelart

We like this one in particular.

A wonderful school #joncarling #drawing #art

Next time I'm stoned and rambling crazy bullshit, I need to remember to say "The hypothesis is an interesting exercise in its own right, and is fun to explore, irrespective of its likely validity." From a piece on how the comet 3I/ATLAS might be alien spacecraft: avi-loeb.medium.com/is-the-inter...

its your responsibility to make the world more mystical

SONG OF THE DAY: "Firefly" by Stephen Ballinger Oceanographer™ has loved Steve since we first met in 2006, when his former group (The Travelling Band) arrived in NYC to record their first album. This track is from Stephen's 2024 release 𝘾𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙧 𝘿𝙤𝙤𝙧 stephenballinger.bandcamp.com/track/firefly

⚠️ We're still hard at work on our website problems, but to reiterate for those of you who don't know:

Someone in my neighborhood knows what’s up.

Amidst this miasma of tragically foretellable crisis, the good folks at 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝑻𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒖𝒑 have seen fit to publish two of my poems in their fourth volume: • "The Solemnity of the Epiphany" • "Variations on a Theme by Lewis Carroll" Read them here: thebrokenteacup.org/volume-4/

Yeats's "Second Coming" is undoubtedly whirling our way. There is no reading of the news that doesn't confirm that "The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity." The fell name of the rough beast which slouches toward its Bethlehem has never been more apparent.

Great new track posted on Mastodon last week by @feinstruktur.bsky.social mastodon.social/@feinstruktu...

brb I need to go get some E's & Wizz.

Jeremy spent the afternoon today in the Oceanographer™ secret lair introducing some new pedals to the band. If you look closely, you’ll see there are two signal chains coming out of that guitar. And two amps.

Song of the Day! "Like Love is Real" by Yndling This 2022 track from the Norwegian artist Yndling is a must-listen for anyone who likes Slowdive, Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine — or good enveloping soundscapes that deliver solid songwriting. yndling.bandcamp.com/track/like-l...

Poem of the day: "HOST," by Bruce Bond

Song of the day! "Eurasia" by TENGGER: tengger.bandcamp.com/track/eurasia "The band considers [...] travel the spiritual center to their works, and that mindset is reflected in their adopted name, TENGGER, meaning 'unlimited expanse of sky' in Mongolian and also 'huge sea' in Hungarian."

Song of the Day: bedhead.bandcamp.com/track/living... “Living Well,” by Bedhead — live from 1998. “Captured during their Transaction de Novo tour, Bedhead's *Live In Chicago* finds the group upon the fabled stage of the Empty Bottle… April 16th, 1998.”

1/4: Woke up this morning to two emails from different publications, notifying me that they will be printing four (total) of my poems. 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭:  "Hell yeah!" 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭: "Goddamnit, that's a brickload of admin I'm gonna to have to do on such a beautiful Saturday."

2/4: Four hours of emails and chasing Google Forms and Submittable entires later, and I've finally withdrawn the lucky poems from the fifteen different other publications they had been in consideration with.

3/4: Two of these poems are my favorite little babies, which were each rejected by 60 to 70 journals before they were accepted today. One of these poems I had only submitted to one journal, and it was accepted straightaway. This little spoiled brat will never know rejection.

4/4: So anyway! I'm happy to announce I have poems forthcoming in 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝑻𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒖𝒑 and $ 𝑷𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝑪𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒚. May we all have much fortune this afternoon!

Poem Alert! I have a poem today appearing in 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙞𝙜 𝙒𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬 — check it out here: - On Mobile: thebigwindowsreview.com/wp-content/u... - On Desktop: thebigwindowsreview.com/wp-content/u... (Or just go to thebigwindowsreview.com/wp-content/u... and scroll to page 42).

Just yesterday I took this photo, which fits the poem perfectly.

And if anyone else wants a T-shirt, we have two large left and about a dozen medium: oceanographer.bandcamp.com/merch/schoon...

Due to an IT error, we have gone TEN YEARS without seeing some emails ... including two T-Shirt Orders from September and December of 2015. If this was you, we just sent you an email to ask you to confirm your mailing address; we can get those shirts in the mail to you ASAP if you get back to us.

𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧: Members of Oceanographer™ appear on 𝘚𝘩𝘶𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘶𝘨𝘴 𝘖𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘗𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 — out this week on Apple Music & elsewhere. Eric Elterman composed the bulk of the score, with Jeremy L. Yocum contributing vocals, bass, synth, samples &al. music.apple.com/us/album/shu...

Great two-song release out on Bandcamp today from BLANK ACCOUNT (friends and WFMU regulars) — give it a listen! blankaccount.bandcamp.com/album/on-the...

Every time @pwrmnstr.bsky.social and I go to the mall, we have to have margaritas. RIP David Berman youtu.be/BamaU09AdGA

Just discovered this killer track while listening to a Greek radio station from Thessaloniki: anotherdyke.bandcamp.com/track/gender Ten-year-old track, but it might as well have been released this morning for how timely the lyrics are.

{steering the giant porcupine straight for the hot air balloon fest} “How DARE you call my tantrum ‘LITTLE’?!?!”

Let’s all wish a 100th Happy Birthday today to the invention of the microphone.

Out late, white lights glimmering in the darkness, a ghostly calm #ambient #drone #dronemusic #lyra8 #somacosmos #somalabs #strymon #analogsynth #dawless #synthsky

THIS SHOW WAS AMAZING

Some shots of the Haters with @cranksturgeon.bsky.social at TV Eye tonight. Tremendous show - thanks 🙏!

T O N I G H T in LA

What we talk about when we talk about talking about twin peaks

I posted at length about this on FB (still learning how to best do that over here), but for now, it seems important to memorialize Susan over here. She meant so much to us here in Baltimore. A beautiful artist and human being. www.stereogum.com/2295071/peda...

Given that my "day job" is in the realm of fine art, I find myself increasingly elated whenever I discover an intersection between art theory/criticism and my own experience as a poet who reads and writes poetry. This passage is one such source of elation.