MDonaldson →

it’s useful to think of reclaiming one’s attention and agency as the magical act of warding off evil spells

favorite film in haiku cash in the gas tank stars and stripes on chrome — they roll east to mardi gras

gonna tell my (hypothetical) kids this is the new eno album → listen.hatnote.com/

a cover version of "Eleanor Rigby" except now it's about Cormac McCarthy

a truly fascinating discussion on so-called 'depraved art' and the question of separating the art from the artist →

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Bill Kopp speaks with Derek Almstead and Jason NeSmith of the Olivia Tremor Control about the unexpected new album ‘The Same Place,’ a "Schrödinger’s record" made possible by the discovery of a hard drive left untouched in the late Bill Doss’s attic →

❝ I guess the more eloquent way of saying it is that art that lasts through time and beyond trends tends to be born from a real place of struggle, even if it’s personal. And usually it’s not the struggle to become famous. →

heard a new band this morning that sounded *exactly* like the Cocteau Twins, and then someone strutted over my grave as I realized that a revival of that music now would be the equivalent nostalgia gap of the rockabilly revival in the '80s

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Tony D’Onghia speaks with Tommaso Colliva, a member of the Italian noir combo Calibro 35, about scoring (and becoming an onscreen part of) the James Ellroy documentary ‘Ellroy vs L.A.’ →

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Lawrence Peryer speaks with composer, synthesist, and pianist Midori Hirano about her new, commissioned score for Nietzchka Keene’s ‘The Juniper Tree,’ resulting in a record that may hold the most 'ma' of any in her extensive catalog →

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Sam Bradley speaks with clawhammer banjoist Allison de Groot and Nashville experimentalist Rich Ruth about their terrific new self-titled album, the art of arpeggiating banjos through stereo delay, and why it's nice to sometimes rein things in so they're not too far out for Mom →

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Carl Dexter speaks with Radiator Hospital’s Sam Cook-Parrott about the great new album 'Distorting Time,' Wild West family legends, singing live over his own four-track tapes, and how Leo Ornstein saved him from feeling washed up →

Wim Wenders' 'Perfect Days' but this time it's 90 minutes of a guy scooping out fancy litterboxes

.: night music :.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Carolyn Zaldivar Snow heads to a Kingston farm for the 50th anniversary of Mort Garson’s ‘Mother Earth’s Plantasia’ and finds harpist Mary Lattimore waiting to improvise for a gathering of leaf-loving listeners →

Alex Gibney totally should have riffed off this for the movie poster design of his new documentary film

well this is a lovely thing that's happening next month at a fine listening venue in Orlando

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Khagan Aslanov speaks with New York improvisers Ka Baird and Chris Ryan Williams about the pot of boiling water at the heart of their brilliant new duo album, ‘Enthalpy’ →

today I can't stop thinking about how much William Burroughs would've loved emojis

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: @tangentuniverses.bsky.social speaks with Italian composer and vocalist Jolanda Moletta about reclaiming the siren as a bird-woman who sings the truth … this music is something pretty special, too →

art students: be careful what you paint on the wall of your school's rundown gallery space as someday your work might become decor for some rich asshole

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Kurt Gottschalk dials in to ‘Eavesdropping,’ composer Whitney George’s 14-hour serial drama for piano and telephone, and contemplates the phone’s long career as a storyteller, from ‘Sorry, Wrong Number’ to his grandmother’s party line →

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night music

I wrote about the new Jon Hassell record "Music Is Invisible" for The Tonearm, which is gradually becoming an essential site for contemporary music writing. No advertising, no algorithms, just in-depth coverage of music. They are building something good at The Tonearm. Have a look.

sure but he also said you're not a real actor unless you play spiderman

❝ That bots might outnumber human beings on the internet is not a new or particularly radical theory. The immolation of Digg, however, suggests bots may outnumber us by a much greater magnitude than anyone expected. →

“I am Damo Suzuki”

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

good morning from the lakeside #Sunrise #GoodMorning #NewDayRising

this week's Talk Of The Tonearm newsletter has been thrown like a frisbee and is headed to an email inbox near you curated curiosities + rizzy recommendations abound + I reminisce about a flyer I 'designed' for Thin White Rope, and learn about what they're up to now (it involves a singing dog)

if you've never heard hamburger lady you live in a bubble and should be aware of that

Sunday AM music ✨

❝ In her view, optimism is passive and expects events to resolve themselves. Confidence comes from understanding that the future is not fixed and that present choices have consequences. Imagination matters … people who cannot picture an alternative to the present have trouble working towards one. →

❝ Despite these shows’ very different premises … all four contained clear warnings about where the country was headed, and their warnings have come true. →

This Chinese version of Musical Youth's 1982 chart-topper was apparently re-written to be about traditional Buddhist principles. Or something.

kittens love disco balls #caturday

I sure do dig this album and it's possible you will too ✨

if she responds with NO YOU DID then I may have to join the swifty army or whatever it's called

The best way to fight back against the Paramount/Warner Brothers merger is to support independent artists, journalists, writers, filmmakers, musicians and everyone else who has been walking a very hard path to putting things out into the world.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Steven Garnett speaks with Black Bananas leader (and ex-Royal Trux'er) Jennifer Herrema about why, to her, the dense new album 'Bad Bunch' sounds light and airy, what heirloom tomatoes have to do with AI, and the story behind a bloody T-shirt from her thirty-five-year archive →

breaking: Caroline is now listening to Dr. Octagonecologyst for the first time ever 💀