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Atlas Obscura

Kinomoto Tsuruya Bakery in Kinomoto, Japan - [image: Stop by this modest-looking bakery chain outlet for 'salad bread.'] Since the 1960s, Tsuruya Bakery has been making *sarada pan*, or "salad bread...
3 hours ago
It starts with a birthstone...

New York in 100 Songs - The Velvet Underground -
3 hours ago
blog to the oldskool

Oral-X – Tribal Zone EP - I’ve got some spare time over the Holidays, so I figure it might be nice to post up a few releases that don’t have audio on the net anywhere. With this kin...
7 hours ago
Mrs Tsk *

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9 hours ago
vintage everyday

30 Amazing Behind the Scenes Photos of ‘General Lee’ Cars Used During the TV Series “The Dukes of Hazzard” - The General Lee is an orange 1969 Dodge Charger driven in the television series *The Dukes of Hazzard* by the characters the Duke boys, Bo and Luke, along ...
9 hours ago
ThamesTv

Slade | Noddy Holder | Interview | Merry Christmas | Open house with Gloria Hunniford | 1999 -
17 hours ago
Kieran Press-Reynolds genreologist at large

#3 - Charli xcx - BRAT but it’s an EOY blurb, or something - I tried pitching this story to a dozen places, but nobody wanted it.
1 day ago
{ feuilleton }

All Clouds are Clocks: György Ligeti - It’s unlikely that anyone will be stuck for anything to watch during the next few days but you could do worse than spend an hour with this documentary abou...
1 day ago
Wormwoodiana

A Lilliput Magazine Anthology 1937-46 - Lilliput magazine ran from 1937 to 1960, publishing some 277 issues. Earlier this year Chris Harte published a History and Bibliography of the magazine, wh...
1 day ago
A Year In The Country

Revisiting and (Almost) Rounding the Circle – The Eccentronic Research Council, The Kunsthaust Gallery, Ben Wheatley and Tam Lin - As is a (semi) custom at A Year In The Country, this year’s posts are (almost) ending with something of a round up of cultural curios… and this year it inv...
2 days ago
cardrossmaniac2

MEO 245 - Lady Love - *[1980]* 3XY ROCKS Melbourne. The upbeat synth-rock of *Lady Love* was a regional hit in Melbourne but surprisingly only made it to number 43 on the nati...
2 days ago
it's her factory

“Girl, So Confusing,” femme cool, and resolution over resilience - In summer 2024, the figure of the “rock star”–someone who parties hard, does equally hard drugs, flouts rules of propriety, and lives a big, very spectacul...
5 days ago
We Are the Mutants

Kool Kelly’s Place: True Confessions of an ’80s Bedroom - By *The Mutants* A few months ago my dad sent me a whole bunch of pictures on a flash drive. This was one of them. It's my bedroom in 1987. I’m 15...
1 week ago
Relative Nostalgia

Go to Apps/Services for 2024 - My typically used apps, websites, services, and general tech things used during 2024.
1 week ago
Municipal Dreams

Council Housing in Wigan: Part III, the Post-War Years - Last week’s post looked at interwar Wigan, an era when the borough embarked on a programme of large-scale housing construction … Continue reading →
1 week ago
History is made at night

Trackers and Breakbeats: Brain Records exhibition - 'Trackers and Breakbeats: Celebrating Brain Records’ Underground Revolution' was an exhibition at The Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich...
1 week ago
Fuji Puzzle Box

Various Artists: That's The Way I Feel Now—A Tribute to Thelonious Monk - The first of producer Hal Willner's tribute compilations from the 1980s (to be followed by the Kurt Weill collection "Lost in the Stars" in 1985...
1 week ago
Nina Power

Substack! - The vast majority of my new writing/projects/links to podcasts can be and will be found on my Substack, which can be found here. Many things planned for 2025!
1 week ago
Dreams of Space - children's books and outer space

Distant Worlds (1932) - An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight. Borrowing from a book-seller description: Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" acco...
1 week ago
Internet Archive - Collection: prelinger

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 2024: Streets, People, Play - The 19th annual iteration of Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, which premiered at Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, December 9 and 10, 2024.. This item belo...
1 week ago
robinthefog

NOISEMAS 2024 - Iklectik Presents NOISEMAS 4 – In Aid of Palestine and Lebanon 12-Hour Non Stop Fundraising Music Marathon Sunday 15 December 2024 | 12pm – 12am Tickets: d...
1 week ago
Backlisted

228. Voices of the Old Sea by Norman Lewis - We are joined by the poet Katrina Porteous and the writer and editor Patrick Galbraith to discuss Norman Lewis’s account of the of the three summers he ...
2 weeks ago
DREAM WEAPONS

Added streaming option for Xmas Delights I-IV - Because why not? As they were all compiled before DWp existed, and before I knew about this streaming option thing, these have never been available as su...
2 weeks ago
The Haunted Generation

Elizabeth Parker, Future Perfect and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop - “I was thinking of nuns in a deserted abbey,” says Elizabeth Parker with a smile. “Maybe they’re ghostly nuns? They’re singing, but then some kind of great...
2 weeks ago
Greyscape

Why were Zoos attracted to Modernist design? - Concrete Menageries: Why were Zoos drawn to Modernist design? We’ve featured the modernist architecture of two zoos in Britain, Regent’s Park and Dud...
4 weeks ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

Hammer House of Horror: Rankings & Wrap up. - If only to distract myself from the fact that the flaming jalopy which is the western world just failed to clear the chasm jump which might have kept the ...
5 weeks ago
Flow

Remote vibrator norgesmester gruppesex – escorte kristiansand swedish gay porn - Sex Czech escort guide kristiansand escort En rettferdig og bærekraftig utvikling kan bare fremkomme dersom politikken drar i samme retning, sier daglig le...
1 month ago
The Pinocchio Theory

WAVE WITHOUT A SHORE, by C J Cherryh - I just finished reading C J Cherryh’s novella WAVE WITHOUT A SHORE (one of the three texts in the collection ALTERNATE REALITIES, available on the Kindle f...
1 month ago
Infinite Speeds

Sound Characters - A prolegomena to a concept (of sound as a living being)
1 month ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

KLAUSS - CIELOS MÓVILES (NOT ON LABEL, CD ALBUM, 1997) (FLAC) - *Klauss, grupo argentino fundado en 1988 por el músico y experimentador sonoro Ernesto Romeo (sintes, secuenciadores, samplers, mellotron, teclados, bat...
2 months ago
Found Objects

P for Paladin - *Paladin* - second only to *Picador* as a publisher's name to set the arty-intellectual bibliophile's heart a flutter... Radi...
2 months ago
soundpoetry

Víctor Sosa / Los animales furiosos (2003) - DESCARGA / DOWNLOAD
2 months ago
Rough Type

Goodbye Rough Type, Hello New Cartographies - Rough Type has had a twenty-year run. That seems like long enough, particularly seeing as the blog has been pretty much dormant in recent years. So this wi...
2 months ago
BroadcastForSchools - Recent changes [en]

Look and Read/Geordie Racer - Notes on the production, casting and filming added, plus notable mentions on quiz shows and news programmes! Show changes
2 months ago
Jonathan Griffin

Carl Cheng - Tourists and surfers strolling down the Santa Monica pier in 1979 would have passed a mysterious awning advertising “The Natural Museum of Modern Art”. A n...
3 months ago
I Understand (Stonecirclesampler et al)

No more days // 2009 - 2013 - Part II: the beginning of the end + ambient grime noir, endless rainfall & the 2009 - 2013 after dark inspirations ov the new Stonecirclesampler album
5 months ago
Chart Music podcast (David Stubbs, Neil Kulkarni, Simon Price, Taylor Parkes, Al Needham et al)

Chart Music #74: Neil - Our mate Neil Kulkarni died in January. This episode is dedicated to him. Subscribe | Facebook | Twitter| The Chart Music Wiki | Patreon Simon’s Quietus pi...
5 months ago
Suspended Reason

An Ecosystem of Effects - Let us posit a simplification, which will hopefully seem less arbitrary and less reductive as we further describe it. The simplification is this: that the ...
10 months ago
Portals of London

Artistic / Psychic exploration of a house in Stoke Newington - Rotherhithe Archive #0000 A quick note on an artistic addition to the archive. Intrigued by our account of the Stoke NewingtonContinue Reading
1 year ago
PONTONEPONTONE | PONTONE

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
1 year ago
Archaic Inventions

M.A.B. - Words Never Told -1986- (Cassette, Anti-Musik Der Landsh, AML 5), Poland - Here's another relic from behind the iron curtain on the great Polish cassette label Anti-Musik Der Landsh that was founded by Mariusz Blachowicz in t...
1 year ago
Modernism Unbound

On The Historical Avant-Garde - The ambitons of the artists associated with the historical avant-garde remain relevant to this day. In this essay, Jon Lindblom looks closer at Peter Bürge...
1 year ago
It's Full of Stars

Formses - My FORMS series of albums (to be found over on my bandcamp page) takes an idea I first explored on my Twenty Systems album, but develops it into the idea o...
1 year ago
treffynnon19

Milltowners (1986) -
1 year ago
The Zuckerberg Files

Six4Three v. Facebook sealed exhibits - In 2019, a cache of leaked Facebook documents connected to litigation by Six4Three against the social media company were made publicly available by NBC New...
1 year ago
lunarlodge

Autumn Serenade - Notes on Janet Werner, Backxwash, This is not a Scarf, a loving tribute to Boris Brott, &+
2 years ago
Real Life

Who Can It Be Now - On social platforms, the "fluid self" is not a rejection of personal branding but another manifestation of it
2 years ago
DIAMOND VARIATIONS

CPU DIE SHOTS - https://higherinquietude.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/cpu-die-shots/
2 years ago
The Old Weird Albion

Obsolete Spells – Tour Dates – More for 2022 - A lot’s going on at the moment, so, here: Obsolete Spells – Poetry & Prose from Victor Neuburg & the Vine Press is now available from Strange Attractor Pre...
2 years ago
One1more2time3's Weblog

Instagram - I continue here… http://www.Instagram.com/one1more2time3/
2 years ago
Retro Synth Ads

Kawai R-50 "The Right Stuff" advertisement, Keyboard 1987 - Kawai R-50 drum machine "The Right Stuff" full page colour advertisement from page 81 in the December 1987 issue of Keyboard Magazine. Although it wa...
3 years ago
The Interregnum Navigation Bureau

Coda - I will now be wrapping up this blog, as I've pretty much said everything I wanted to say. Even when I first started blogging with the "Decades" blogs all t...
3 years ago
Continuo's documents

New album, free download. Musique concrète suite for... - New album, free download. Musique concrète suite for bullroarer, church organ, cimbalom, vocoder, boat horns, Romanian Catholic choir, Indian ashram temp...
3 years ago
Velcro City Tourist Board

Solargoth - I keep telling myself I shouldn’t pass public comment on solarpunk, firstly because I haven’t done the reading and legwork, and secondly because I know a f...
3 years ago
The Vitalist

The colorful mountains near Tabriz, Iran - The colorful mountains near Tabriz, Iran
3 years ago
Richard Warren

Russell Quay, skiffle painter - [Excuse the oversized images in this post. WordPress have thoughtfully binned the old ‘classic’ editor, which worked perfectly, and have substituted a new,...
3 years ago
I cite

"Feudalism Lives on in the Delta" -- Ray Sprigle - all of this comes from here Chapter 14 Feudalism Lives on In the Delta By Ray Sprigle Black of the rich earth and green of the springing cotton plants stre...
4 years ago
Café Kaput

No wave is ever the same. New album, available now. - Available now at cafekaput.bandcamp.com Artist: Jon Brooks Title: No wave is ever the same. Released: 1st May 2020 Label: Café Kaput Cat. No: KAP011 For...
4 years ago
Public Information

3 Times When You Will Need A Financial Advisor - Everyone wants to be financially stable as they need to plan on securing the future of their family as well as for themselves after retirement. There are...
4 years ago
Ken Hollings

Inferno, the First Volume in My Three-Part ‘Trash Project’ Launches February 18 - *‘Trash has always served me well—over the years it has become the outer form and material expression of my dreams: of tomorrow, of life in space, o...
4 years ago
Miraculous Agitations

'Is anyone out there?' - Making stuff in the 21st century, and getting people to notice - Worms Making Music, YouTube, 2007 Is it me, or is everything becoming impossible? Is anyone out there? My previous blogpost was a dumped rejected artic...
4 years ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

Cover version - For whatever reason at some point I started taking inventory of the cover versions of "classic rock" band songs that were actually worthwhile. Not sure wh...
4 years ago
Scarfolk Council

Welcome to Scarfolk... -
4 years ago
(SF) 365

Feel (is a word I can't explain) - So sang Paul Weller on The Style Council's fourth single, A Solid Bond In Your Heart, which had also been considered as The Jam's last single. It's partly ...
5 years ago
Tiny Mix Tapes

Macintosh Plus announces new album, shares 12-minute preview called "Sick & Panic (First Mix)" - That’s right. Vektroid just announced a new Macintosh Plus album. And, thankfully, the first preview of it sounds nothing like Floral Shoppe (which, by ...
5 years ago
History's Dumpster

The Last 78 RPM Records - "Gwendolyne" Julio Iglesias (1970, Colombia) Image: Discogs *What was the last 78 RPM record?* I've been asked this question now and then and to be perfe...
5 years ago
davidtoop

emanation, as if by a charm: Ami Yamasaki - Surprise is a dubious pleasure, cultivated in the search for musical forms that take the listener into realms of impossible/imaginary. Then suddenly, after...
5 years ago
WOEBOT

The Bumper Book of Woe - Hello Woebles! I've only gone and done it again! Here is the sequel to 2013's "The Big Book of Woe," my latest collection of writing on music, "The Bump...
5 years ago
Parallel Lies

Photo -
5 years ago
The Hum Blog

outside the reed syndicate - A brain melting mashup of Tony Conrad and Faust’s Outside The Dream Syndicate (1973) and Terry Riley’s Reed Streams (1967), from (and by) The Hum. (Headp...
5 years ago
metopal.com

Family BASIC in 2019 - In preparation for an article I’m writing on hobbyist Japanese Famicom programmers in the 80s, I’ve spent the past few days diving into a quirky bit of sof...
5 years ago
Cartographies of the Absolute

The threadbare cloth of realism (interview) - This is the transcript of an interview from the weekend edition of Efimerida ton Syntakton (The Editors’ Newspaper), on the relative fortunes of the far ri...
5 years ago
R/J/L-H

Ini keuntungan ehr yang perlu anda ketahui - Electronic health records dataset (EHR) merujuk pada rekam medis pasien secara individu dalam format digital. Sistem catatan kesehatan elektronik mengoo...
5 years ago
Retrospace

7 Reasons Why You Should Buy Vintage Clothing - Did you know that the average person spends over $160 a month on clothing? Depending on how you shop, and what you shop for, you can really stretch that ...
5 years ago
Rockets & Rayguns

hangingfire: Of all of my efforts in Janky Joke Photoshop, I... - hangingfire: Of all of my efforts in Janky Joke Photoshop, I feel that this is one of my better ones.
5 years ago
Tim Worthington's Newsround

Box Set: Loungecore - *A collection of some of my recent features on mid to late nineties loungey indie dance music...* It looks as though some of you aren't aware that I no...
5 years ago
The Charnel-House

A hundred years since the murder of Luxemburg and Liebknecht - The failure of the “Spartakus” uprising was the first episode of the bitter lessons to be drawn from the inability of the old SPD left to break from that p...
5 years ago
Bat, Bean, Beam

Ten. - When I started blogging, ten whole years ago, people were already saying that blogging was dead. They were right. Certainly the blogs on which I formed my ...
6 years ago
Bubblegum Cage III

Albums of the Year 2018 - Somehow, 2018 managed to be an even more execrable 12 months than 2017. It was also a slightly odd period for music, insofar as a few (though certainly not...
6 years ago
ecstatic apophenia

De Origine Draconum III: Wyrmling - *“With a terrible singleness of concentration he achieved the union of his new skin with his body, preventing rejection. No corner of his body was left to...
6 years ago
Dream Transmissions

New blog - Hey old readers, I'll be blogging here now: Embedded
6 years ago
Boring Old Books

Modern Practical Building Volume 1 - Caxton Publishing Company Limited. New and revised edition, 1950. Note: scans of photographs...
6 years ago
http://soundsorceryfiles.tumblr.com/

Video -
6 years ago
Stockhausen: Sounds in Space

DIENSTAG aus LICHT - (from JAHRESLAUF) (© www.karlheinzstockhausen.org) *Tuesday from Light (1977, 1987-1991)* *for tenor, bass and soprano vocal soloists, trumpets, trombones...
6 years ago
In Media Res

Summer Break - - [image: Theme Week]Thank you to all of our contributors and followers. - - -
6 years ago
Soundboy

I’ve moved this blog to ianhogarth.com - Shout out to my Tumblr/RSS reader peoples. New blog is here: https://www.ianhogarth.com/blog/ New post on the geopolitics of AI just up: https://www.ian...
6 years ago
Include Me Out

Album: Stretchmarks - The Stretch m-ARKhives - 'Can you imagine Doobie in your funk?' - George Clinton 'You fake the funk / Your nose got to grow' - Bootsy Collins I like my Funk uncut, but who does...
6 years ago
Sounds of the Dawn

Sounds of the Dawn Guest Host Northern Ashram NTS Radio December 9th 2017 - Tracklist East – Lélegzet Barry Cleveland – Abrasax Renato Anselmi – Mercato Fenicio Ron Boots – Breath The Living Air Francis Moneyman – Getting Ready Jea...
7 years ago
The Night Mail

no.7// The Blue Rose: TV as Performance Art - *This is one of my ten short essays about *Twin Peaks* Season 3. Click this link to read my introduction to this series.* If there’s a true precursor to ...
7 years ago
Southern Discomfort

Samira Ahmed: Blade Runner meets The Good Life - Broadcasting House. You know the one, near the Church, back of Oxford Circus, Orwell did a stint there. Room … Continue reading →
7 years ago
Southern Discomfort

Samira Ahmed: Blade Runner meets The Good Life - Broadcasting House. You know the one, near the Church, back of Oxford Circus, Orwell did a stint there. Room … Continue reading →
7 years ago
Fuck Yeah Brutalism

Jan Smuts Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1970(Unknown... - Jan Smuts Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1970 (Unknown Architect) FYB is going on indefinite hiatus to rethink and retool. Back soon. In the meanti...
7 years ago
-ɴ●♰ξs ϝᴙ●ლ ♰Ӊξ ṿ◍♏ⅉ✞◍ℾⅉữ♏-

café in Shoreditch - In a café in Shoreditch the air is peppered with mid-atlantic accents and the croak of privilege. ‘Like, patriarchy yeah, and like, but what about like ...
7 years ago
Another Nickel In The Machine

The Prince of Wales Theatre, Dickie Henderson and the Ross Sisters - When the last chord of ‘Twist and Shout’ came to an end, the Beatles grouped together at the front of the Prince of Wales Theatre stage. The blue curtain s...
7 years ago
Our God is Speed

Because - Honestly, back in the days when Julian Cope's *Krautrocksampler* doc became the Young Person's Guide to Same, I took issue with the author's assertion t...
7 years ago
The New Inquiry - Marginal Utility

Everything in Its Place - To live your best life in the moment, replace things with carefully staged images
7 years ago
The Social Life of Secondhand Clothes

Reviving Revivals - I was paging through the latest Elle magazine, looking at one of the Trends pages, when I spotted a blouse with puffed sleeves. Elaborate blouses with ruff...
7 years ago
io9

We May Eventually Find Out How the Battle of New York Changed Peter Parker - The Battle of New York at the end of *The Avengers* is a crucial moment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s the moment the whole world changed. And wh...
7 years ago
The M.O.P. Radionic Workshop

Summer Shuffle – 16 June 2017 -
7 years ago
Between Channels

Lost Objects - Hullo. What with the pram in the hall being the enemy of buying secondhand magazines, books and records and all that, I don't really do this anymore. Item...
7 years ago
Found Objects

About The Author # 2. -
7 years ago
dispokino

Mix: Surreal Synthesizers - If you happen to have 213 minutes to spare please listen to some synthedelic bits, blips and swooshes I carried to Bern and played in a row one night in...
7 years ago
peur bleue

Benoit B - Weekend Girl - Video by Quentin Brachet Label: Peur Bleue Records Catalogue: PBR007 Release date: November 2016 More info Buy UK Buy FR Buy DE
7 years ago
Speaker to Animals

Do “Aspies” Dream of Electric Sheep? Part 2: The Neurodivergent Worlds of Philip K Dick - This is the second part of of my essay on Blade Runner (1982) and Asperger’s Syndrome. In ”Part 1: Autistic Noir” I looked at the parallels between Ridley ...
7 years ago
Néojaponisme

Mix: The Best of Shibuya-kei, Volume One - The time has been right for a new mix that showcases, celebrates, and reintroduces the best tracks from Shibuya-kei’s peak years: dj david, mon amour - “Th...
7 years ago
sit down man, you're a bloody tragedy

- I met Mark for the first time in a pub, in north London, where there was a panel discussion launching Simon Reynolds's Rip it Up and Start Again. For a fe...
7 years ago
Rouge's Foam

Negativity, Not Pessimism! (RIP Mark Fisher) - I was so shocked and upset to learn of Mark Fisher's death yesterday. For me, Mark was both an idol and, as time passed, someone I was always pleased and...
7 years ago
Ghosts in the TV

Photo -
8 years ago
e-flux » Announcements

Kelley Walker - Direct Drive is the first solo American museum exhibition by acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Kelley Walker. Since the early 2000s, the Georgia-born, New...
8 years ago
Phil Zone

- This is advance notice that I'm going to be killing off this blog in the next month or so, mainly because I'm trying to wean myself off being continually p...
8 years ago
Writing Through the Fog

Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
8 years ago
The Bomb Party

Izlog Suvremenog Zvuka - In May, I will be speaking at the Showroom of Contemporary Sound festival in Zagreb. For more details check out the event page here.
8 years ago
...and what will be left of them?

Stoopid bass - and this and this of course
8 years ago
up close and personal

Somethin' Here -
8 years ago
faces on posters too many choices

Crank - bass = discipline two very different tracks, but the bass has the same kind of propulsive quality in each
8 years ago
Acousmata

My book “Instruments for New Music”– the project largely... - My book “Instruments for New Music”– the project largely responsible for the death of Acousmata– came out in November 2015. A history of experimental sou...
8 years ago
the hauntological society

mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur - *There is nothing to see.* Please go here: http://thehauntologicalsociety.tumblr.com/
8 years ago
Tendenzroman

Where Are We Now? - So how do us millenials relate to Bowie, and what does he mean to us? Anything more than a two-second gif, a frame for every one of his looks? Born in 19...
8 years ago
I Love 1982

mabellonghetti: Harrison Ford photographed by Jadran Lazic at... - mabellonghetti: Harrison Ford photographed by Jadran Lazic at the Cannes Film Festival, 1982
8 years ago
English Heretic

Houses On The Borderland - Last Broadcast At Boleskine - In the conclusion for "Anti-Heroes", I noted, with respect to one of the celebrants, actor George Sanders, "… the archetypes continue to conflate, to l...
8 years ago
The Inkbottle

The End of 2015, the End of The Inkbottle - As this year comes to a close, I am also going to bring this blog to a close. It’s basically been closed for a while, since I’ve not posted much here over...
8 years ago
The Meccano Grape

"The military is easily capable of adapting to change, but they don’t like to stop anything they feel..." - ““The military is easily capable of adapting to change, but they don’t like to stop anything they feel is making their lives easier, or is to their benefit...
9 years ago
Cottage Of Electric Hell !

The Seventh Cyrkle - My best wishes of the season, from deep within the sheer terror of Pendle Witch Country. As I sit by the fire this evening and celebrate *Hallowe'en*, I wi...
9 years ago
Mounds and Circles

Face Fuzz - Racial stereotypes and highly flammable unnatural fibres. Blackpool, 2015.
9 years ago
Island of Terror

What We Call The Most - 'Look, Mary, no hands!' There's no question in my mind that *Cliff Richard *has made a lot of good records, but very few of them have the immediate dance ...
9 years ago
Ruins of the 20th Century

Mother Stands For Comfort - I wrote this piece for the epiphanies column of Wire magazine in 2010; it’s included in the Epiphanies anthology, edited by Tony Herrington. In the summer ...
9 years ago
Rouge's Foam

I don’t say a lot on social media. I don’t know who my audience is. Recently, much of it... - I don’t say a lot on social media. I don’t know who my audience is. Recently, much of it has been people from the online networks of underground music I ...
9 years ago
toys and techniques

Music & Poetry of the Kesh - This cassette is included in Ursula Le Guin's novel *Always Coming Home*, which is about a valley people called the Kesh "who might be going to have lived...
9 years ago
la musique de son

Michael Giles / Jamie Muir / David Cunningham ‎– Ghost Dance ‎– Piano 502 - *"One morning in 1983 I was sent a Japanese music magazine which contained an interview I'd done (I was looking at the pictures) and over the page from...
9 years ago
the spectral dimension

The Isle is full of Noises - Easy Sunday morning viewing. Lots of rippling nature scenes between people talking about pagan gods, skulls, shape-shifting animals, Halloween fires. ...
9 years ago
Social Dead Zone

Welcome to Hollingsville - Welcome to Hollingsville: Foreword to Ken Hollings’ Bright LabyrinthOut of nowhere, I began to...
9 years ago
| Archive of Undercurrents, the magazine of radical science and alternative technology, 1972 – 1984.

UC02 Summer 1972 - Open link to Issuu in a new window ______________________________________________________________________ Undercurrents 02 Summer 1972: Contents 1 Front co...
9 years ago
WAVE EDGE

Michel Redolfi - Immersion/Pacific Tubular Waves - Michel Redolfi - Immersion/Pacific Tubular Waves One of my all time favourite pieces of digital music. All the electronic sounds on this record were g...
10 years ago
404PageFound

Pray Before the Head of ‘Bob’ - “The Ultimate Oracle: Over 1625038 Questions Answered.” A great old site that is quirky to boot. Features early HTML, a button map, and ubiquitous tiled ba...
10 years ago
Zone Styx Travelcard

- Thinking about that line in Simon Reynolds' Kate Bush piece about her not quite being cool... That's how I remember it, although I'm roughly a year younger...
10 years ago
pretty fantasmagorical

Century Falls - Do you hear that? That faint chiming sound in the distance, just detectable over the howl of the wind? Kind of melancholy… ethereal… vaguely threatening? Y...
10 years ago
croydon municipal

The making of How We Used To Live - Like most good stories, this one starts in a pub. For over a decade my band, Saint Etienne, has worked with director Paul Kelly on various short films and ...
10 years ago
Clay Shirky

Pulling Punches While Covering Print: A Reply to Ryan Chittum - Background: Yesterday, I wrote something about how nostalgia blunted skeptical coverage of Aaron Kushner’s dumb — and now failing — plans to build a newspa...
10 years ago
Ministry Of Kindred Information

Cats, Death and Creativity - Last month, I was asked to take part in a symposium Art after Death, organised on behalf of the Royal Academy by artist and pal John Lawrence. Held in High...
10 years ago
Mid-Century Modern Freak

1954 Edris House | Palm Springs, CA Designed by renowned... - 1954* Edris House* | Palm Springs, CA Designed by renowned architect E. Stewart Williams for Marjorie & William Edris. - *Via*
10 years ago
Beyond The Wychelm

The Future Is Not What It Used To Be - In September 2013, my husband and I were lucky enough to attend Salvage: A Hacker Farm Field Trip in rural Somerset, where we enjoyed live performances by ...
10 years ago
entschwindet und vergeht

The Hatchet - The following is a review of 'Experimental Architecture' by Peter Cook, written by a 'Kit Pedler' and appearing in the April 1971 issue of Architectural De...
10 years ago
Pere Lebrun

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10 years ago
Babylon Wales

The End - Here endeth the blog. Thanks for your interest - particularly to those of you who have taken the trouble to contact me over the past few years. What bett...
11 years ago
fantastic journal

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Tuesday, February 9, 2016

the ghost train

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