RETROMANIA: March 2020

KINDRED BLOGS AND SITES

Breakfast In The Ruins

Horror Express 2023:All Aboard! - *“It would be logical to suppose that troubled art is born out of troubled times. But it would be wrong to be that systematic about it, for what period of...
1 hour ago
Atlas Obscura

Dambadarjaa Monastery in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia - [image: Dambadarjaa Temple amid the hills] Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia's capital city, is a sprawling metropolis in the country's north-central region. Ulaanba...
3 hours ago
vintage everyday

35 Fabulous Photos of Evelyn Ankers in the 1940s - Born 1918 in Valparaíso, Chile, British-American actress Evelyn Ankers was known as “the Queen of the Bs”. She starred in films including *The Wolf Man* (1...
5 hours ago
It starts with a birthstone...

Mojo Collection - The Ultimate Music Companion # 426 The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead -
7 hours ago
ThamesTv

British cuisine | 1970s British cooking | Vincent Price | Claire Rayner | Part 1 | Today | 1972 -
9 hours ago
Internet Archive - Collection: prelinger

In Our Hands, Part 3: How to Lose What We Have - Part 3 of 4 of "In Our Hands". From the How We Live in America Series. Anti-communist, pro-capitalist film. Drama of an authoritarian (probably Communist...
13 hours ago
Dreams of Space - children's books and outer space

Let's Fly to the Universe (1962) - A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here: https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961....
16 hours ago
Wormwoodiana

Authors Take Sides on Spiritualism - 'Metropolitan' 1920 - A Guest Post by Bill Ectric -
22 hours ago
cardrossmaniac2

Aäkon Këëtrëh - The Dark Winter - *Aäkon Këëtrëh - The Dark Winter (1997)* Then sometimes you find yourself listening to black ambient cassettes from the 90s at five in the morning. This i...
1 day 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...
2 days ago
Mrs Tsk *

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2 days ago
A Year In The Country

2003: Andrew – The Corn Mother 39/52 - I thought when the internet began to get big that something would turn up. But it didn’t. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve searched for the phrase “The...
2 days ago
{ feuilleton }

McCallum reads Lovecraft - Art by Leo and Diane Dillon. RIP David McCallum, who I prefer to remember for his role as one half of the weirdest-TV-duo-ever, Sapphire and Steel. McCallu...
3 days ago
DREAM WEAPONS

Dream Weapons present: TERRESTRIAL PLANETS C90 - As you may have noticed I’ve made quite a few 1970’s jazz-themed mixtapes. On Terrestrial Planets all the music presented were recorded sometime in bet...
3 days ago
BroadcastForSchools - Recent changes [en]

File:Globo waving.jpg - Syntax ← Older revision Revision as of 06:17, 26 September 2023 Line 6: Line 6: |company=BBC |company=BBC |imagefromdecade=1990s |imagefromde...
4 days ago
Backlisted

196. George Moore - Esther Waters - In this episode we discuss the controversial and ground-breaking novel, *Esther Waters* by the Irish novelist George Moore. We are joined by Tom Crewe, ...
4 days ago
Fuji Puzzle Box

Anne Sylvestre: Fabulettes - A really sweet album of kids' songs by French singer-songwriter Anne Sylvestre, with some glorious album art that I've carefully restored. ...
4 days ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

Henry Kaiser – It’s a Wonderful Life (1984) (AVANT GARDE PROJECT 134, FLAC) - Henry Kaiser (nacido en 1952) es un guitarrista y compositor vanguardista estadounidense, a menudo contado entre la nueva generación de improvisadores, q...
1 week ago
Flow

Over*Flow: “It’s Not Steroids, It’s Testosterone!”: Deconstructing Gender and Sex in Bros (2022)Lauren Herold / Kenyon College and Nicole Erin Morse / Florida Atlantic University - Herold and Morse reassess the "bad object" status of the 2022 semi-satirical gay rom-com Bros and discuss its deconstruction of cis gay masculinity.
1 week ago
History is made at night

Sheffield Gramophone Shops - Sucker for old gramophone record sleeves, advertising the shops they were bought in. I found these examples in a Peckham charity shop, both of them from ...
1 week 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...
2 weeks ago
robinthefog

SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY – THE INCREDIBLE NIGHT CREATURES OF VOX INTERRUPTUS - You are hereby invited to a very special event taking place at Iklectik on Tuesday 19th September, where Ken Hollings and I will reunite as The Howling and...
2 weeks ago
Ken Hollings

New From The Howling: Incredible Night Creatures of The Midway! - *Incredible Night Creatures of The Midway* is the latest album from The Howling, the collaborative project that Howlround and I started back in 2019...
3 weeks ago
Found Objects

Wireless World Part 2 - Back in 2019 I posted a number of pages/ads from the 1962 publication Wireless world back then I had every intention of putting more pages from Wireless ...
3 weeks ago
Jonathan Griffin

Keith Haring - The Broad, Los Angeles I predict few will linger long enough to absorb the four paragraphs of potted biography on the neon yellow wall welcoming visitors t...
5 weeks ago
Chart Music podcast (David Stubbs, Neil Kulkarni, Simon Price, Taylor Parkes, Al Needham et al)

Chart Music #72: October 3rd 1985 – Rod Vicious - The latest episode of the podcast which asks; so how do you set fire to a trophy? Like a man in a cage, we find ourselves trapped in the mid-Eighties, impr...
5 weeks ago
Rough Type

Culture vultures - I’m not tearing up over Elon Musk’s termination, with extreme prejudice, of Twitter. Kill the blue bird, gut it, stuff it, and stick it in a media museum t...
1 month ago
The Pinocchio Theory

THE BLUE BEAUTIFUL WORLD, by Karen Lord - Karen Lord’s novel The Blue Beautiful World (to be published on August 29, 2023; I got to read an advance copy through Netgalley) is the third in her “Cygn...
1 month ago
Municipal Dreams

A Joyful Family Home? - On the 9th July, the Sunday Times posted an article in their Style section. Here’s how it was headlined in … Continue reading →
2 months ago
We Are the Mutants

RAD, MAD & BAD: The Analog Rebellion of Craig Baldwin and Other Cinema - By *Andy Prisbylla* Under the stewardship of underground filmmaker and curator Craig Baldwin, Other Cinema stands as the vanguard of Baldwin’s personal art...
3 months 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...
3 months ago
Miraculous Agitations

'Asphyxia: The "Idiote", the Library Wifi and the Suppressed Safe' - At 6pm today (Wednesday 10th May) Resonance Extra will begin a regular episodic version of what was originally a single 22-hour radio show commissioned b...
4 months ago
treffynnon19

Milltowners (1986) -
5 months ago
WOEBOT

Sick Veg - I can hear the grass grow...
6 months ago
History's Dumpster

The Jupiter Ace Computer - The Jupiter ACE computer was a British-designed computer that was released in 1982 by Jupiter Cantab, a company founded by two ex-Sinclair Research ...
6 months ago
Kieran Press-Reynolds genreologist at large

My top 25ish songs of 2022 (plus 20 honorable mentions) - Here are my top 25 songs of 2022 with 20 bonus honorable mentions. I’ve also made Spotify and YouTube playlists. Thanks for reading, hope you find somethin...
8 months 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...
9 months ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

A Second Take on 2012's EEPEEs and ELPEEs - * Best Albums of 2012* 1. Jam City -Classical Curves 2. Death Grips -The Money Store 3. Le1f -Dark York 4. DJ Rashad -Teklife Volume 1: Welcome to the...
9 months ago
Nina Power

Second Wave Feminism Course, London Jan-March 2023 - I’ll be teaching an in-person course at Mary Ward Centre (42 Queen Square) on Friday afternoons 1-3pm from Jan 20th – March 31st 2023. The details and sign...
9 months ago
Suspended Reason

Maq III - Dear X, So the bad news is I have no easy way to explain what I’m working on/have been working on/will be working on for a while. I’ve been asked about the...
10 months ago
lunarlodge

Autumn Serenade - Notes on Janet Werner, Backxwash, This is not a Scarf, a loving tribute to Boris Brott, &+
10 months ago
it's her factory

What 90s alt rock radio, Woodstock 99, and the Telecom Act have to do with contemporary right-wing media - While I have your attention: now that writing is no longer something my day job pays me to do, I’ve decided to keep the newsletter free but set up a Kofi t...
10 months 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
1 year ago
Cartographies of the Absolute

Mapping Racial Fascism - Poster by Michael Hoerger for the he Black Panther Black Community News Service, from the National Museum of African American History & Culture.
1 year ago
DIAMOND VARIATIONS

CPU DIE SHOTS - https://higherinquietude.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/cpu-die-shots/
1 year ago
Scarfolk Council

Bad Kingdom (1972) - In 1972, the government drew up plans to construct a deportation facility off the coast of Ireland that could house as many as 70 million people - the en...
1 year ago
Tim Worthington's Newsround

Top Of The Box Vol. 2 - [image: Top Of The Box Vol. 2 by Tim Worthington - the story behind every album released by BBC Records And Tapes.] From *Play School Play On* to *Russ...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
blog to the oldskool

AV-8 – Pyrogen (Mad Monk Mix) - Been ages, hope everyone is doing OK! Here’s an absolutely mad 1992 tune that showed up in the mail for me recently. Honestly I’m not too phased by weird 9...
1 year ago
(SF) 365

Joker - I’ve been wanting to watch *Joker* since it came out, and the fact that I haven’t reveals to me that, deep down, I knew it would be a bit of a struggle. ...
1 year ago
soundpoetry

7 puestas de sOl / vOz - Luis Bravo & J.A. Italiano (2021) - 7 Puestas de sOl / vOz - 100 años de Amanda Todas las pistas son versiones de los poemas visuales homónimos de Amanda Berenguer, incluidos en el libro “...
1 year ago
One1more2time3's Weblog

Instagram - I continue here… http://www.Instagram.com/one1more2time3/
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
davidtoop

Spheric resonances / eggflutes - Last September, when social contact was still a desert landscape, Ecka Mordecai cycled to my home to present me with a gift of eggflutes. To describe them ...
1 year 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...
2 years ago
entschwindet und vergeht

Some thoughts on the 2021 Serpentine Pavilion - For a variety of reasons I have not written anything for quite a while, not for magazines, not for publications and certainly not for a book, so maybe wh...
2 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...
2 years ago
Portals of London

Sky-borne lights: The South Dulwich Woods Beacon - Allotment owners are well-known guardians of city space. They have good reason to be protective. Land given over to thisContinue Reading
2 years ago
The Vitalist

The colorful mountains near Tabriz, Iran - The colorful mountains near Tabriz, Iran
2 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,...
2 years ago
metopal.com

The Fractal Roguelike - Back in 2013, I wrote a post about Spelunky HD and its demonstration of “rule horizons,” a concept I described as “expanding layers of complexity that radi...
2 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...
3 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...
3 years ago
Néojaponisme

The Second Manifesto of Néojaponisme - Maybe websites are not the answer. In the old age of our second decade (website years are like dog years), print may be a better match.
3 years ago
dispokino

Dispokino on Instagram - Dispokino has a channel on the Instagram bulletin board system: https://www.instagram.com/dispokino/ Connect your Commodore to the Internet with any curr...
3 years ago
The Hum Blog

A Power Stronger Than Itself: Sounds For Communal Isolation. Vol. Three - Bradford Bailey – Untitled Collage, 2007. I’m writing from a future, just ahead of most. It’s a present, already the past. More than a month into a life ...
3 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...
3 years ago
Between Channels

Smokey Blue’s Away (and returned) - Hullo. I’ve been away for a little sleep and woken up covered in dust with leaves in my eyes. As my young family coughs and snorts abed all around me, what...
3 years ago
Tiny Mix Tapes

RIP: David Riley, bassist for Big Black - David Riley, the bassist for Big Black, has died at 59. From David Riley’s partner, Rachel Brown: Sad news my Chicago friends. My dearest friend and lon...
3 years ago
Rockets & Rayguns

407 Proxy Authentication Required - hangingfire: SO THERE’S NO SHORTAGE OF THINGS TO UNPACK ABOUT *MR. ROBOT* 4.07 but I wanted to talk about the paintings (prints) in Krista’s apartment. ...
3 years ago
Parallel Lies

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4 years ago
R/J/L-H

Mengenal sistem software manajemen klinik - Saat ini, di dunia yang paling kompetitif ini, telah menjadi penting untuk membuat perubahan mendasar tentang bagaimana Anda mengelola bisnis Anda. Teruta...
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 years ago
PONTONEPONTONE | PONTONE

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
4 years ago
Greyscape

Hackney’s German Hospital - Hackney’s German Hospital The 1936 Modernist wing of the German Hospital in Hackney A story of the best and the worst of the 20th Century This is a pict...
4 years ago
Bat, Bean, Beam

Another year of Wellington - There is no overarching theme to this year’s collection of my favourite Wellington photos. Walking our still fairly new dog has taken me to some new places...
4 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...
4 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...
4 years ago
Dream Transmissions

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

The Design and Placing of High Quality Concrete -
4 years ago
Stockhausen: Sounds in Space

SONNTAG aus LICHT - *Sunday from Light (1998-2003)* *for 10 vocal soloists, boy’s voice, four instrumental soloists (bassett horn, flute, trumpet, synthesizer), two choirs, t...
5 years ago
Include Me Out

Art Zine: Out of Nowhere now available! - You can read more and buy it here
5 years ago
http://soundsorceryfiles.tumblr.com/

Video -
5 years ago
In Media Res

Summer Break - - [image: Theme Week]Thank you to all of our contributors and followers. - - -
5 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...
5 years ago
Southern Discomfort

h-h-h-Hanif’s half hour - Now # It quickly becomes apparent that nothing is going to materialise. Once the interview request, itself fielded, to be … Continue reading →
5 years ago
Southern Discomfort

h-h-h-Hanif’s half hour - Now # It quickly becomes apparent that nothing is going to materialise. Once the interview request, itself fielded, to be … Continue reading →
5 years ago
The New Inquiry - Marginal Utility

Save the World - How *Star Wars* films thematize their own irrelevance
5 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...
5 years ago
The Night Mail

no.8// Twin Peaks the Musical! - *This is one of my ten short essays about *Twin Peaks *Season 3. Click this link to read my introduction to this series.* At the Roadhouse, every night is...
5 years ago
Another Nickel In The Machine

My New Book – High Buildings, Low Morals - “I don’t know what London’s coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.” ― Noël Coward, Collected Sketches and Lyrics It’s been two years si...
5 years ago
Rouge's Foam

Slides for talk at No! Festival, HKW Berlin - This past weekend I gave a talk about how, why and whether cultural work can refuse the various alienations of modern society / economics, as part of a pa...
5 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...
5 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 ...
5 years ago
Our God is Speed

Cargo Culting - Christopher D'Archangelo, *Post No Art* (c. 1975) as seen at documenta 14, Kassel, Germany. via Thierry Geoffrey Various graffiti, Athens, Gree...
6 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...
6 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...
6 years ago
The M.O.P. Radionic Workshop

Leigh on Sea Folk Festival 2017 - Teleplasmiste will be performing at this year’s Leigh Folk Festival, and also participating in Justin Hopper’s audio-visual feast of music and folklore, I ...
6 years ago
Found Objects

About The Author # 2. -
6 years ago
Speaker to Animals

Do “Aspies” Dream of Electric Sheep? Part 3: The Autistic Mode - This final part of my essay on Blade Runner moves into more speculative areas and draws on linguistics and literary theory to discuss and examine how Blade...
6 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
6 years ago
Cottage Of Electric Hell !

Picnic At Hanging Rock - 1975 - I'm sure Peter Weir's spellbinding 1975 masterpiece, *Picnic At Hanging Rock*, needs little introduction here. With it's ethereal, otherworldly atmosphe...
6 years ago
...and what will be left of them?

- No point in this not being publicly available is there? Especially as setting it up in Blog format was a bit of a labour of love. Apologies for dead links ...
6 years ago
faces on posters too many choices

- No point in this not being publicly available is there? Especially as setting it up in Blog format was a bit of a labour of love. Apologies for dead links ...
6 years ago
Island of Terror

The Bear You Can Wear - I have branched out into making tee shirts with a friend called *Nick* *Taylor*. The first on sale is *Barney, Karate Grizzly*, the first in our *Power ...
6 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 few...
6 years ago
Ghosts in the TV

danismm: Tilsit, Kaliningrad Oblast, (Königsberg) 1926 Neue... - danismm: *Tilsit, Kaliningrad Oblast,* (Königsberg) 1926 Neue Loge. Fabrikstrasse, *arch. Erich Mendelsohn *
6 years ago
e-flux » Announcements

"Occupy The Future" in Washington, DC - The Creative Time Summit—the world's largest international conference on art and social change—is headed to Washington, DC! Occurring in the nation's capit...
7 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...
7 years ago
up close and personal

The future then -
7 years ago
The Bomb Party

Graham Dunning reviews in the new Wire - I have one or two other things in the new issue of The Wire but somebody else scanned this and put it on Facebook so it was easy enough for me to copy it...
7 years ago
Writing Through the Fog

Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
7 years ago
WAVE EDGE

Jean Schwarz - Don Quichotte - Jean Schwarz - Don Quichotte Another great Jean Schwarz LP, this time on his own Celia imprint, featuring material composed between 1975-76. This is p...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 years ago
Mounds and Circles

Face Fuzz - Racial stereotypes and highly flammable unnatural fibres. Blackpool, 2015.
7 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 ...
8 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 ...
8 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...
8 years ago
toys and techniques

RE RE RE UP UP UPS - Fresh reups of old mixtapes. MIXY TRISH'S TOYS & TECHNIQUES BIRTHDAY MIX I LOOFA 2 ATELIER DE MOLECULES THE XYLOPHONE JETTY SINJIN SETS SAIL AD HOC ICE CRE...
8 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. ...
8 years ago
Social Dead Zone

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

UC44 – UC63 Contents on one page - There is no index for these issues. Instead, here are all the contents pages assembled into a single page, which may be searched by Cntrl/Command-F: _____...
8 years ago
404PageFound

You’ve Got Mail - A gem of a site that utilized Flash and HTML 3.2. Get $5 back when you buy on VHS.
8 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...
9 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...
9 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 ...
9 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...
9 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...
9 years ago
Mid-Century Modern Freak

Familiar Faces Via: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 - *Familiar Faces* *Via: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5*
9 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 ...
9 years ago
Pere Lebrun

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9 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...
9 years ago
fantastic journal

Fat. End of. - So, we've announced our end and, surprisingly, hearteningly and for all the right reasons, it feels good. Architectural practices don't normally just stop,...
9 years ago
Cathode Haze

Rewind - Over at AUFS, Adam Kotsko names the problem with the “recap” as a form of TV criticism. (Incidentally Adam, if you’re ever looking for somewhere to blog ab...
9 years ago
Modern Mechanix

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NewNewMusicalExpress

New Beatles Grammar Compilation / November 2026 - The Beatles are to release the forth in their 'English Grammar best of the Beatles series', with a new compilation album entitled *The 'Do Not' Contraction...
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k-punk

Three events this week ... - 1. Wednesday, 13 March at Waterstone's Trafalgar Square: Capitalist Realism: What is it and how to fight it With Mark Fisher, Peter Fleming and Alex Niven....
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The New Ennui

Some Music - Here are some records that have been close to me the past 13 months or so. Some of them are old, some were released in 2012. They are in no particular orde...
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heroasides

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Sea Songs

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The painted wrd

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holding out for a hero

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UNDER TOMORROWS SKY

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It's Complicated Project

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Retro Culture

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c60 Radio

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the hauntological society

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You Can't Do That On TV Anymore

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Polish Posters Shop

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UbuWeb

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Retronaut

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Ghost Box Home

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Musical Urbanism

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Electro Acoustic Composers Oral History Project

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British Public Library Buildings - a set on Flickr

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The Clifton House Mystery Episode 5 Pt.2 - YouTube

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Regretsy

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The Clifton House Mystery Episode 4 Pt.1 - YouTube

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What The Future Sounded Like - Home

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Wyrd Britain

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REWIND

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The Mire

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YFA |

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Scottish Screen Archive - Browse all full length videos

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The Wire - Bell Labs: Other Folks' Business

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The Tone Generation - Ian Helliwell's electronic music history series at MixCloud

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Retro Junk | Your Memory Machine

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the answers to the questions of the future lie in the past, or vice-versa

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The Belbury Parish Magazine

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