"Oceancore" is a thing, and the world is a better place for it.

'Confession presents dal Forno’s music at its most lush and sensual, evoking 90s dream pop as much as 80s post-punk. It still has the chilly sensibilities of her previous work, but there’s a shimmering lightness there as well' Carla dal Forno - Confession buff.ly/lFtokmY

I don't think I'll read "dilate" the same way again. Well played, Philip and Beth.

Instead of a "29th Anniversary Upload" of a straight rip of the 1997 vinyl, we took a little more care with documenting our first 7" as The Imaginary Friend. Still fragile. Still brittle. Still a 1996 cassette four-track artifact.

Remedy & Wren demo tape up now on Speakeasy Studios' Bandcamp. It's very good. speakeasystudiossf.bandcamp.com/merch/remedy...

Easily my album of the year, and it's not even May.

My album is out today. i have activated my bot spam army, and I will be going viral any second now. See you on the other side of fame.

Blimey, didn't know this was coming. Some great choices here and the descriptions make us sound good! ❤️

Nancy found a copy of our first 7” single as The Imaginary Friend, recorded 30 years ago on an overworked cassette four track in Houston, and released by Drive-In Records of Grand Rapids, Michigan in early 1997.

In order of appearance: Seabuckthorn, Tara Clerkin Trio, Iko Chérie, Little Skull, SQ Mice, Phantom Horse, Márta Sebestyén, Acid Twilight, Cocanha, Delphine Dora, Valentina Magaletti & Marlene Ribeiro, Index for Working Musik, Electroscope, ToiToiToi, MEMORIALS @xrayfm.bsky.social

My favorite photo from Rocketship's West Coast tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of 'A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness.' I took this after the Portland show at Mississippi Studios, just before the "Class of '26" parted ways. The Telephone Numbers and Remedy & Wren are the other bands featured.

A small, visible core supported by a much larger, largely invisible and interlocking periphery. The band on stage and the crowd in the room get remembered, photographed, occasionally written about. The rest fades into the background, even as it does the work of holding the whole thing together.

After two weeks on the road (and a broken foot) with Rocketship, DJ Gilliflower is back on the air at @xrayfm.bsky.social with Turtles Have Short Legs. Whether she’s holding down a bassline or broadcasting into the quiet ether, the discipline remains the same: a steady, exploratory signal.

An AI-generated podcast summary of The Rocketship of Theseus, a zine published by The Grey Ledger Society about the West Coast leg of Rocketship's 2026 anniversary tour. The zine was fed to NotebookLM along with several web sources about the reissue. This is what came back.

Tonight’s watch, apropos of the recent announcement that New Order and Joy Division will be inducted into the 2026 Rock Hall, a 2024 doc about the origins of the Haçienda: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ybF...

My friend Kyle Bruckmann (whose music features prominently in GUT INSTINCT) has released his new EP of electronic "breakfast music", and as I am taking the day off I'm listening while I drink coffee and it is a freaking delight. As gentle as he gets, still restless and playful and idiosyncratic.

I never get tired of seeing these in the wild!

"[Dusty Reske] has much in common with Kurt Heasley of Lilys, a Slumberland alum and musical itinerant. Like that band, none of Rocketship’s successive work revives the bizarre, singular magic of its debut. It’s an acquired taste for sure..." As our dog might say, "That's a back paw compliment."

Ready to bring #scifi #horror to the virtual tabletop? The official #ShadowsOverSol 2e core rulebook is now available for #FoundryVTT! ▪️ Automated character sheets ▪️ Streamlined combat ▪️ Compendiums with all gear, NPCs and monstrosities! Grab it and start playing! #ttrpg #ttrpgsky #rpg #dnd

A tour diary of sorts as the “road hubby” for the bassist of Rocketship on their three date jaunt of California. The only drugs involved were NSAIDs, and there was fruit, vegetables, and hummus in the green room.

I was incredibly fortunate to have a unique POV of the Rocketship show at The Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles a couple of days ago.

"Hot take" on e universal.

Miss Delia has opinions. And a never ending need for cheese. www.greyledger.org/the-carpet-d...

I wrote up a few tips for writing modules. I hope folks find it interesting! I might add to it over time. newschoolrevolution.com/module-writi...

For Brené Brown, the researcher who has made her name and career out of embracing empathy and vulnerability, the new Trump era of confrontational language and macho posturing is a source of personal sorrow. But is it also bad for business? ft.trib.al/MtNsngA

Born to Be Waagh!

Ka-waaaagh-ii?

Well, I finally broke down and made hardcover versions of the Cairn 2e Warden's Guide. It looks pretty good! You can get it from Lulu right now, or you can wait for it to show up on DTRPG. www.lulu.com/shop/yochai-...

Set in a Nordic city that runs on time, just not always this year's time. You work for the transit authority. Even as a passenger. Or as a dog on a tram. Your job is to ride the line, observe, and file clean reports. The system would prefer that you check the box anyway. #ttrpg #koira

Make things to be used, or experienced, or read or seen or whatever. Then maybe sell them. But don’t make things to be sold, ever.

"My name is Delia. I live here. This is, as far as I can determine, the only relevant fact about existence."

A TTRPG about: - small disturbances in ordinary life - cities that maintain themselves through habit - the cost of understanding how things actually work - negotiating with systems rather than defeating them - being recognized — or not — by the place you live hotelkilo.itch.io/les-arrondis...

I installed Spotify's Linux app many years ago. It stopped working after a while as nobody maintained it. Now, when I click on a Spotify link, it tries to start that app and fails. I'm happy with that.

Humans have always externalized cognitive and relational labor. Meanwhile, neurodivergent people have been doing this more explicitly and at higher cost. AI makes that externalization widely available and culturally visible, but the benefits and risks are not evenly distributed.

...mistakes were made...

This is fascinating, and the example he brings up of fixing the bad edit on "I Am the Cosmos" is a good example of the genuinely difficult decisions that go into archival releases of all types (I would probably not have fixed that were it my decision, but it wasn't).

#whatsforlunch salmon burnt ends, brisket, collard greens, baked beans, and more at Podnah’s Pit BBQ

It’s Bandcamp Friday eve, and we have a new release exclusive to the platform damonandnaomi.bandcamp.com/album/whats-...

I have a new release on somnimage, part of their wonderful unknown territories series. Available either as a download or limited edition print. Please take a listen and today is Bandcamp Friday!

Herrington & Lightbown 'On the Economic and Social Benefits of Post-Mortem Marine Luminscence' Two hauntology-adjacent instrumentals. Fishy business.

War converts destruction into political compliance. In WWII, destruction was unconstrained, and compliance was total. In nuclear-modern war, destruction is capped, and compliance becomes partial or resistant. The more you value civilization, the less efficiently you can destroy it into submission.

"Daddy?" "Yes, son?" "What did you do during the Hauntology Wars?" "Well, a funny thing about Hauntology is it's better to haunt something you have done than haunt something you haven't done. By the way, if you see your mom this weekend, be sure and tell her...."

One more! Opal at the I-Beam. Grainy as all get out but sounds glorious. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCqD...

Éliane Radigue is not a composer who failed to succeed in the music industry and survived anyway. She never accepted the premise of the experiment in the first place, attempted to build a career, scale an audience, or translate practice into product on an industrial timeline. She simply worked.

If compost names what happens after destruction, mycelium names what happens between what remains. It is not the dead material and not the visible growth, but the living network that makes reuse, redistribution, and relation possible at all.

Going to be dyeing some of these shirts by Farewell Transmission. Small to 4XL available, printed on Port & Company PC54 "Core Cotton" unisex shirts. Preorder for 75 shipped. DM if you'd like one or have questions 🫡

#bigstar #third #cd