i picked a nice day to Return To The Music Industry

Update: The forthcoming Tom Waits song is indeed a new collaboration with Massive Attack.

While we’re on the topic of Industry Plants, this one has never sat right with me:

How many trans inclusive bands can we fuck up with bad music journalism this year? Give or take five to ten.

out on the road today, saw a Psyop sticker on a cadillac

Photographer and filmmaker Dave Ma got in touch with some amazing shots of tQ’s John Doran when he interviewed #AlanMoore. With the second of Moore's Long London novels published next month, we thought it time for a Moore Portal special #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/P7akmBC

The headline: "Geese Goosed Up" was right there

happy Avril 14th to those who celebrate youtu.be/uxTdTaNIUxo?...

ALSO, it should be noted, using the word Psyop in the headline is certainly a choice

Rock n roll is a good genre imo.

AEW is hiring for someone to manage their media library if that's your thing, anyone out there. Wish I had the experience for it. www.teamworkonline.com/combat-sport...

Blothar The Berserker Of GWAR Explains How Independent Journalism Is The Only Force As Powerful As GWAR. Subscribe to The Onion at membership.theonion.com.

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

I remember buying the Meat Puppets' Huevos on cassette in high school, hearing this song and immediately thinking, "Oh, this is *the greatest band ever*." (They were not. But this song is *glorious*, and Huevos is a classic American rock album.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReiE...

Ve Neill posted this oldie but goodie I did for my pals @fangoria.bsky.social on her insta, so I thought it deserved to be over here too. (The background was done in actual eyeshadow.)

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/a...

Apres la Revolution: The Sound of the '70s French Underground. The ’68 Paris student riots was the starting point for a new, confrontational era of music.

An annual message from The Wire Publishing an independent music magazine is tougher than ever. We need your continuing support www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

HAPPY REX MANNING DAY! DAMN THE MAN, SAVE THE EMPIRE! Celebrating one of my all-time favorite movies with a piece I wrote a few years back about why casting Maxwell Caulfield as Rex Manning was a meta stroke of genius. Seriously. He's perfect. www.slashfilm.com/826048/casti...

also if you like Patti Smith, I have some books you might like! www.tillvictorypress.com or bookshop.org/a/22613/9781...

"The composer Terry Riley quips that 'Western music is fast because it’s not in tune.' We have bought ourselves convenience at the expense of consonance. Angine de Poitrine’s solution to the Terry Riley problem is to say, well, let’s play even faster and further out of tune."

Thundercat makes heartbreak sound impossibly cool on 'Distracted' @jasonbrow.com reviews www.treblezine.com/thundercat-d...

bang thy head slowly and weep www.youtube.com/watch?v=x49a...

WARNIIIIIIING! warningdoom.bandcamp.com/album/ritual...

A surefire apocalypse indicator is Warning releasing their first album in twenty years (via @relapserecords.bsky.social)

I'm confused by the people who want Bluesky to just be pre-Elon Twitter but also complain about shitty developers and periodic site outages. You're getting what you asked for!

We are on a platform with no algorithm which means that we have to post repeatedly because otherwise people who weren't scrolling during the last post didn’t see it. also I spent years writing the book and will post about it as much as I damn well please lol

This, from The Onion, is strangely moving.

Happy Caturday from Marrakech.

A firefighter in Istanbul performed CPR on a cat affected by a fire, bringing it back to life.😍👍💙

the argument over who deserves things in nyc undermines so much that we could have and like sorry but y'all lost this debate last year so try jesus

Who can hate Bluesky when comedy like this happens?

Metalpunks Powerplant lean heavier on raw, black metal darkness on 'Bridge of Sacrifice' @jasonbrow.com reviews www.treblezine.com/powerplant-b...

holy wow, just realized my book "heads: a biography of psychedelic america" came out 10 years ago this week. available from da capo press through fine independent purveyors of paper, electronic, & audio books! what a baffling time-dilated trip it's been? www.dacapopress.com/titles/jesse...

happy trans day of revenge to all who celebrate, I love trans people and fuck you if you don’t girlslivingoutsidesocietysshit.bandcamp.com/album/trans-...

Profoundly influential and we were there as babies opening for them in the early 80’s, Go4 return with this banger 💪✊👊

the best metal album that’s everything but metal drops this week (and i wrote about it)

"If we simplify, we can say that Rammstein are Laibach for the masses, and Laibach are Rammstein for the gourmets." A statement from Laibach as part of this piece asking how much the socialist Yugoslav state might have been behind the country's 80s music scene: thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Our Album of the Week is Poison Ruïn's 'Hymns from the Hills' www.treblezine.com/p...

AARON TURNER & STEVE VON TILL Discuss Reactivating NEUROSIS metalinjection.net/news/aaron-t...

“Fuck ICE” chants, speaking up against the genocide in Gaza, a deathmatch with glass, barbed wire, and an exploding table. Welcome to the AEW. The full story: lataco.com/all-elite-wr... By @afroxander.bsky.social

BOKO YOUT, a band I've been proselytizing for a few months now, is playing NYC in April (assuming all goes well). Both shows are free*, so there is no excuse. I'll see you there.

Hi so I somehow am seeing Paul McCarty at the 1200 person concert tonight. If you want me to write about it hmu

updated lineups for black cat and transmission, afters announced 👀

Slint’s “Spiderland” was released 35 years ago today.

Some exciting professional news! Here we go again. Another one from the heart. 💙

One-man black metal project Panopticon announces new album 'Det Hjemsøkte Hjertet'; hear the towering single "The White Cedars"

Flea's HONORA is a really good album. Appearances by Thom Yorke and Nick Cave. A trumpet-focused cover of Funkadelic's 'Maggot Brain.' My goodness. I say this with highest praise: this is a Sunday hangover album. It's what you put on when you need to get your head right.

My latest for The New York Times: a look at the life & legacy of the late great D. Boon. Visited San Pedro to talk to the surviving Minutemen, Mike Watt and George Hurley, as they continue to carry forward the spirit of Boon and the band. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/a...