Manfred Eicher every single day since like 1976:

Sy Lyn - Songs About Housework - no idea how I found this one. Maybe it was recommended by @filthythanks.bsky.social ? In any case, this is some deeply weird synth-pop adjacent stuff that sometimes veers into free jazz or tape noise. On Simon Fell's label. Fascinating stuff.

Maybe I'm a bad person but I laughed harder at the recording than I have at anything in a long while

Who knew the government would one day adopt the Tim & Eric aesthetic

In other Bandcamp news, the Australia sub-sub-underground legend Tony McKey has a new release out today. The title is awesome, the cover is awesome, and the music is awesome. Dark drones that slowly reveal the action beneath the surface. tonymckey.bandcamp.com/album/slayer

Currently digging this drone 'n jam release from last year by @nofansrecords.bsky.social nofansrecords.bandcamp.com/album/wrong-...

Bruce Sutter, hall of fame pitcher. I went to school with his nephew.

25 years ago today the most important yard sale in history took place youtu.be/CUmmxW7Ksc8?...

New JCC album is absolute class - crystal clear and absolutely blasted at the same time. Feels like the future. joshuachuquimiacrampton.bandcamp.com/album/anata

ME: Lord, I just pray that you send a hedge of protection. GOD: Say less.

Idiot chess player in that Open AI ad blundered his queen for no reason

Since when are there six people in Green Day?

"Super Bowl Sunday is the best of all the Sundays" erm

Dammit Punsxutawney Phil I don't need this right now

Well at least that's something

Mourning Cloak - Beyond - On a deep Discogs dive and behold, a wild @tarotplane.bsky.social appears! This is a dark, spacy folk project from 1999, helmed by one Timothy Renner. Gets nicely far out on the longer tracks.

I asked what their favorite song was and they sent me this gem: youtu.be/MPQLcF00HuQ?...

Literally cannot stop crying 😭

Gonna cheat a little and say Playtime.

Hand in unlovable hand

Jakob Bro - Gefion - Probably my #2 ECM album. Melodic guitar + free rhythm = perfect vibes.

Exactly 10 inches of snow on the ground so far here in SE Mass. Still going strong. Not expected to change over at all. I think we'll be looking at 12-15 when all is said and done, which is on the low end of the forecasts.

Listing Horse Rotorvator for 75 bucks on Amazon Dot Com feels like performance art to me

TIL there was a Michael W Smith on the scene before the CCM singer. Makes me wonder if perhaps the latter's career was actually an elaborate piece of performance art. How would we know?

Somehow this feels like a parable

Letha Rodman Melchior - Handbook for Mortals - very quiet music that's also very heavy. Feels appropriate, given everything.

I guess mine is in a similar format: saw Guided by Voices with the bass player from The Innocence Mission.

Here's an utterly boring and predictable headline for you: Noise Dad Finally Gets Into The Shadow Ring After Years of Trying

New vinyl from Daniel O'Sullivan and @nofansrecords.bsky.social has arrived and it's a real beauty! I'm not normally a vinyl purist but the pressing on this is absolutely immaculate and you really should pick it up in that format if you can.

Suspect I'll be saying "four bucks is also kind of five bucks" to myself in the nursing home

*Scott Walker voice*

How on earth has David been gone ten years?! Station to Station is my favorite Bowie song and album - shame he didn't remember making it.

This song's feeling quite political today (which given its source material shouldn't be surprising)

Buying cds at Circuit City

Here's a prompt for you - bands where you like exactly one song and can't stand everything else. For me it's ELO - Telephone Line. One of my all-time favorite songs, and there's not a single other song by them that I like.

My New Year's confession is that when Billy Joel said "trouble in the Suez" in "We Didn't Start the Fire" I thought he said "trouble in the sewers" and it was about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

lmao

My Christmas present this year was the deluxe version of Yara Asmar's "Everyone I Love is Sleeping and I Love Them so Much." Deluxe is a bit of an understatement - the pics don't do it justice but this is easily the most beautiful packaging I've ever seen. What a privilege to have this music!

Quote your favorite pic of you from 2025

reshare if you agree wall adapters with a single USB C port have a surface area differential ratio that looks weird

Ah yes the Bostoo Yook Yarters

I joined this Obscure and Rare Music group on FB and 95% of the posts are either Captain Beefheart records or dollar bin albums with nudity on the covers. I mean, I don't know what I expected I guess but come on.

LMAO

Also new/old Drunk Elk is now on Bandcamp for those who like nice things drunkelk.bandcamp.com/album/clear-...

Recommended for your Bandcamp Friday perusal...or anytime really

Brand new from Kevin Drumm in warm organ drone mode, which he does better than pretty much anybody kevindrumm.bandcamp.com/album/battle...

Of course it's Marco lol. My man is incapable of appearing competent in public.