tonight we're playing in #OlympiaWashington at The Crypt. $5-10, 8PM, 21+

Happening this weekend! We'll be playing in Olympia on Friday and Seattle on Saturday. Come listen to independent music and chill ! 🎸

And to get an even more disturbing view of DOGE's rampage, read our history of DOGE as told by federal workers.

Happening this weekend in #Olympia and #Seattle.

Madison Carstens, a transgender woman from Seattle, was attacked by six men in a transphobic hate crime on Sept 2. She suffered a ruptured eardrum - that may have permanently damaged her hearing - and a severe concussion that will keep her out of work for weeks or months. Do your thing, fam. (1/2)

Claudia Cardinale and Robert Redford dying in the same week puts the world in a hotness deficit not seen since at least the 19th century

Seruchi. Seruchi. Seruchi. #vhs #retro #seruchi (via youtu.be/L2EN8nN0w9A?... )

I’ve been eating microwaved plastic my entire life and I’m supposed to be worried about Tylenol?

Maybe they're gonna start pushing oxy for mothers now?

Is everyone re-reading Kafka lately?

Morning listening = this live Henry Cow. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ic9q...

Two new instrumental tracks from Moor Mother, raising funds her nephew who recently passed. moormother.bandcamp.com/music

This is a clip of a much longer vid we used to show while playing (sometimes still do). From our latest FR FR www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgt7...

we're playing two shows in washington next week with many great bands so come out and say hello if you live in Olympia or Seattle.

Oregon seems to have gotten the COVID vaccine shipment in finally. Do with that what you will.

For real? Furreal furreal. Latest Vardaman album is still our newest album and is available for your listening NOW.

Have we pointed this latest album out lately? Probably not. thevardamanensemble.bandcamp.com/album/fr-fr

Despondent Friday listening: gnod.bandcamp.com/album/just-s...

#PortlandOregon y'all should listen to this episode.

Interesting discussion with Olivia Katbi co-chair of DSA in #PDX & Councillor Mitch Green with the Trillbillies in this week's episode. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Alongside @nedl.bsky.social, I wrote a few things about some new vinyl releases dropping tomorrow. www.vinylcut.net/new-vinyl-re... If you like what we are doing, consider subscribing, eh?

First they came for Jimmy Kimmel and I was like, “Meh, he sucks anyway.”

I have found a field recording motherlode on youtube. Includes one of my favorite series Smithsonian Folkways "Music of Indonesia". m.youtube.com/@Ambientscap...

RIP Hermeto Pascoal (June 22, 1936 – September 13, 2025) youtu.be/lZbfNtDCHdM?...

A little late, but now's the time to read/listen to Manufacturing Consent if you haven't.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ3S... bsky.app/profile/kase...

it’s a beautiful day to shut the fuck up

pronouncing shoegaze like foie gras

I/We were busy this weekend so I finally have time to say RIP Bruce Loose. This is my favorite version of my favorite song by Flipper and contains a mantra I repeat often. m.youtube.com/watch?v=oJgS...

TONIGHT, or I guess early evening @vardamanens.bsky.social in Corvallis OR!! It's at The Bunker (DM for the addres) (or iyk just show up) WALL TO WALL ENTERTAINMENT in Downstate Oregon!! #musicsky

tonight we play this!

Fri 2-4 on @xrayfm.bsky.social - @pdxpopnow.bsky.social fest stuff + @swissarmywife.bsky.social @vardamanens.bsky.social @anamanaguchi.bsky.social @gregoryalanisakov.bsky.social @jennyhval.bsky.social @sleater-kinney.bsky.social @grettaseabird.bsky.social & more! xray.fm 107.1 FM #portland #radio

ok, ok! Stop giving me ads for this! I'll buy some already!

#Portland this fundraiser for Turn Turn Turn is happening this Friday. Come out, say hello. #musicsky

Morning listening is Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy by Sun Ra and His Myth Science Orchestra. I bought this on CD (also contained Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow) back in the stone age and it's still a top Sun Ra album for me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rat...

This is fucking awesome.

RIP.

Thinking about how the great Barbara Ehrenreich nailed one of the primary problems with modern journalism a full decade ago. “The real face of journalism today: not million dollar-a-year anchorpersons, but low-wage workers and downwardly spiraling professionals…“ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

In the ongoing reveals of "bands Vards were also in" our main synthesist Alex @planetariummusic.bsky.social was in the group Yume Bitsu and Planetarium Music (among others). m.youtube.com/watch?v=gfOS...

In the ongoing reveals of "bands Vards were also in" our main synthesist Alex @planetariummusic.bsky.social was in the group Yume Bitsu and Planetarium Music (among others). m.youtube.com/watch?v=gfOS...

Updated with 30 additional bands, artists and indie labels!

bandcamp is switching to Stripe-based payment processing which is forcing artists to upload ID to get paid. their help centre makes it a little annoying to find but bandcamp.com/contact should get you where you wanna be. everyone go tell @bandcamp.com this shit will make their platform worse

Adding: As someone who listens to queer artists on your platform as well as being a band with people who are queer, I can't support you in the use to make Stripe, a company infamously known for being anti queer, as the main paypro for the site. Please reconsider or I will seek an alt to bandcamp.