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FaceOff 5 drops tomorrow (Thursday - 4pm ET) exclusively on our YouTube channel.

SHINY LITTLE CIRCLES No. 18: Thad Jones and Mel Lewis: Consummation This might be the most fun you can have with a 1970s big band. Flugelhorn! French horn! Flute! Electric bass! Lush but also raw and punchy - no Quincy Jones polished sheen to be found here. #jazz #bigband #flugelhorn #cd #vinyl

SHINY LITTLE CIRCLES No. 17: George Winston - “Forest” George Winston described his solo recordings as rural folk piano, which is a bit of an undersell. He draws on the cascading, complex harmonies of minimalism infused with compelling timbral variations in his compositions and arrangements.

HEARTBEATS by The Knife is one of those songs that you hear once and it immediately gets lodged in your brain forever. The drum groove is so simple but so satisfying. And the bass line is one of the greatest ever recorded. #theknife #synthpop #drummer #bass #indie

SHINY LITTLE CIRCLES No. 17: Large Groovy Circles Edition: Makaya McCraven - “Off The Record” I first caught Makaya McCraven in coffee shops and dorm basements around western Massachusetts (with Cold Duck Complex and Jeff D’Antona). In the ensuing years, McCraven has become the face of modern jazz.

Not a lot of poor people at the Winter Olympics, huh?

I watched the bad bunny halftime show

The patriots can still win if Mike pence has the courage to do the right thing

2025 was dark but we're clawing our way through out with the power trippers and bigots tearing families and communities apart in with glockenspiel and fuzz bass making stochastic, beautiful noise here are two offerings featuring humans playing instruments and mourning our death march

What if god was one of us Tryna suck and fuck His way home

SHINY LITTLE CIRCLES No. 16: Large Groovy Circles Edition: Horselords - “Comradely Objects” Dissonant and groovy interlocking parts! Math! Polyrhythms! Saxophones! At times reminiscent of early Battles EPs, but more deliciously weird. #vinyl #mathrock #minimalism #experimental #postrock

Liquid Glass? More like Liquid Ass

Seriously considering submitting a paper titled “Look at How Cool Baldet Crater Is” and it’s just a bunch of pictures of weird volcanic features in Baldet Crater. #moon #space #science #geology #nasa

Incredible album from @planningforburial.bsky.social via @theflenser.bsky.social

SHINY LITTLE CIRCLES No. 15: Spinny Magnetic Rectangles Edition: Planning for Burial - “Matawan - Collected Works 2010-2014” A symphony of textures, drones, dissonance, pulses, static, and half-whispered vocals. It is the saddest and most beautiful music I’ve heard.

So when (and why) did we start saying “cosplay” instead of “costume”?

If I’m Skeeting from an airplane, should I still include a land acknowledgment?

Wonderful woozy post rock from D Majestic and the Spectral Band - It’s Gotta Be Off To Be On #NewMusic #PostRock acidted.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/w...

IGBOTBO got a very nice write up in the excellent @acidtedblog.bsky.social : “There are whispers of offstage noises and that sense of trying to hold on as everything falls around you is perhaps a more pertinent sense of the US today than any number of political podcasts.” Music for the moment.

SHINY LITTLE CIRCLES No. 14: Spinny Magnetic Rectangles Edition: Opposites - “Patience as a Vulture” Warbling, lo-fi, spacey, dissonant, noisy experimental rock from this Chicago-based quartet. I have no idea how I came into possession of this cassette, but it was a very pleasant surprise.

Chicago Bulls? More like Chicago Cucks.

According to my sources, the FBI was initially open to a concurrent investigation with the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (the state agency that would do this investigation). Trumpy U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen heard about this and intervened, barring the FBI from cooperating with local police.

SHINY LITTLE CIRCLES No. 13: Ex Eye - “Ex Eye” Relentless, brutal, beautiful, and inventive post-metal featuring Colin Stetson making ten million tortured sounds per second on saxophones and Shahzad Ismaily pulsing and writhing on alien synthesizers. This is a challenging and rewarding rock album.

They’re calling him “COVID-19 Calvin Austin”

I shouldn’t have checked my booking email I have to cancel a slam-dunk, COMPLETELY BOOKED tour for a non-US band on my roster because two-thirds of the band got their visas denied I want to cry, again, for the millionth time this week But I gotta shower and get ready to socialize some more

Lotta friends on this one

New Playlist Alert! BROWN UNIVERSITY BANGERS: 100+ eclectic tracks written and/or performed by Brown University students, faculty, staff, and alumni. #brownuniversity #providence #rhodeisland #ivyleague #spotifyplaylist

SHINY LITTLE CIRCLES No. 12: Vince Guaraldi - “A Charlie Brown Christmas” Perhaps the most successful jazz record of all time, and for good reason. Guaraldi is a master of nuanced harmonies and lyrical melodies. Has anyone called him “The Beatles of Jazz”?

SHINY LITTLE CIRCLES No. 11: Various Artists - “Christmas Blessings: The Narada Christmas Collection (Volume 3)” Hear me out. A bunch of slightly weird New Age / ambient / classical crossover Christmas songs dripping with reverb and 1995-era synthesizers.

MERRY CHRISTMAS from Ingenii Redords, the holly jolliest experimental record label this side of the North Pole! May your stocking be full of obscure and challenging music in your format of choice.

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Yet another wonderful episode of Nya Ljud, hosted by @rikardfvs.bsky.social on @campradio.bsky.social

Listen again: Nya Ljud / 19th December 2025 Playing tracks by Jenn Jacobsen, Russell’s Teapot, Prurit, Asha Patera, d. majestic and the spectral band and more. @rikardfvs.bsky.social | www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/nya-...

thoughts on robot drums vs. real drums?

Who up Nogging they Egg

Just ended up on this playlist with our noisy steel drum punk cover of Last Christmas. Gnarly!

Good playlist alert

My xmas playlist is up, now with Bandcamp links for everything: nicholasburgess.com/xmasplaylist Since posting, I found some more (appropriate) christmas songs, so I may do an update in the next day or two. No new tracks from me, but I included some of my classics. Let me know what I should add!

This should be easy for some of you. Can you get the exact intersection? Hard mode: get the month and year. #geoguessr #geography #rainbolt #travel #cities

Thanks @ingeniirecords.bsky.social 💯 I've now playlisted your post, see the details in the post below. Please help out by following, listening, and sharing this playlist! Post me more whenever you like 😀

📌 #2 Added to playlist: "It's Gotta Be Off to Be On" by D. Majestic and the Spectral Band

Hey @listigeplaylists.bsky.social here’s a brand new ambient postrock track for you: open.spotify.com/track/0YVDyB...

The Spectral Band is wrapping up 2025 with an ambient post-rock track with glockenspiel, fuzz and feedback featuring a 1960s-era amplifier sold exclusively through automotive supply stores. Thanks to Culture Beat for the premiere and kind words! Links to the premiere and track below.

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SHINY LITTLE CIRCLES No. 10: A Troop of Echoes - “The Longest Year on Record” An understated yet ambitious record that finds the sax-heavy postrock outfit teaming up with a string quartet, horn section, choir, etc. This DIY punk orchestra is a significant departure from the bands early dancenoise.

Steel drums. Sitar. Fuzz bass. Glockenspiel. Dissonance. People acting real weird. Weird Christmas music is the best kind of Christmas music, and if you disagree, you’re getting coal in your stocking. We’ve collected all the weirdest stuff we could find in our EXPERIMENTAL CHRISTMAS playlist.

Steel drums. Sitar. Fuzz bass. Glockenspiel. Dissonance. People acting real weird. Weird Christmas music is the best kind of Christmas music, and if you disagree, you’re getting coal in your stocking. We’ve collected all the weirdest stuff we could find in our EXPERIMENTAL CHRISTMAS playlist.

SHINY LITTLE CIRCLES No. 9: Volcano Kings - “11 Ways to Avoid Death in Trash Can City” The undisputed kings of instrumental noir rock. Their drummer used to bring a full-sized oil drum to all their shows. Now that’s commitment. #noir #instrumentalrock #spymusic #cd #surfrock