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21st century schizoid band: Max, Natalie, & Doug. tweets by Mukqs. Doug & I run the label @HausuMountain . I run the label @BlorpusEditions 🥂

Chicago
Joined February 2012
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3 years
Kentaro Miura dropped medieval gothic masterworks as panels in Berserk like it was nothing. maybe the closest manga has gotten to Doré’s illustrations for Dante’s Inferno
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seeing this thread full of corporate AI fuckheads pat each other on the back & try to denigrate this clearly sick performance & litigate what is & isn’t art is heartening because it shows that noise & performance art are still capable of frightening the squares
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Javi Lopez ⛩️
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"AI-generated outputs cannot be considered art". Meanwhile, art:
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6 years
find someone that accepts you like Jean-Paul Sartre accepts the crabs he hallucinated for years after taking mescaline
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sorry but ACAB includes: - Transformers (“protect” the earth, Optimus Prime is red white & blue) - Scooby Doo gang (heavily carceral) - Powerpuff Girls (operate with extreme impunity, no judicial review) - Arthur (idk he just feels like a cop to me) - Peppa Pig (literal pig)
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2 years
Stan Kelly gave our beloved Sickos: “ha ha ha... Yes!” image macro but i submit the non-binary celebration-ruining fetus as another instant icon
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“krautrock is a slur. you don’t call Italian rock music from the 70s ‘pastarock’ do you?” no we don’t but we should start because that’s hilarious
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Herbie you have to stop. you fuse too hard. your arps too different. your beat programming too bad. they'll kill you Herbie:
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Sean Adams
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What’s your favourite album cover that references another album? This sort of thing
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friend: you ok man? you kinda spaced out there for a second me: oh ya i’m fine no worries [inside my brain:]
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Badalamenti really wrote a ~40 second cue so compelling that it could be used in every episode of the first 2 seasons of Twin Peaks in all their diverse plotlines & always set the mood, always convey the evil energy at the heart of the plot, & you’d never get tired of hearing it
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one of my piano students (13 y:o) who usually is an extreme 1st-person-shooter / hyper-modern PS4 head told me today that he & all his friends have only been playing Animal Crossing & have a group chat dedicated to turnip prices “yeah we’re killing it on the stalk market”
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rest in peace Vangelis. brilliant composer & performer, OG psychedelic freak lifetimes ago, peerless gear head, merciless puller of our heartstrings 💜🙏
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which M&M is getting the aux cord
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@GoodWillsmith
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thinking about this moment
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me age 12: System of a Down “Prison Song” has sick riffs & I love the scream vocals. heavy as fuck dude me now: why yes, the US government does use revenue from minor drug sentences to fund secret wars, rig elections, & train brutal corporate sponsored dictators around the world
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Cloud plays Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush"
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girls only want 4 things
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you can make everything what you want with your head
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the true lost era of the music format wars is the golden age when you could google “[album name] rar [mediafire / rapidshare / filetram / zippyshare]” & the thing would just be there to download
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BREAKING: i've just obtained a live feed of this jam
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The Eddie Van Halen, Jimi Hendrix, Randy Rhoads, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Prince, Chuck Berry, Duane Allman, Albert King, Allan Holdsworth, Dimebag Darrell, BB King jam session occurring right now I have a feeling is pretty good.
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me when the most abrasive harsh noise imaginable is on vs. me when pop-punk band featuring a guy singing whose voice could be described as “snotty” is on
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without Dave Smith, no MIDI as we know it. no widely available polyphonic synthesis in the form that we know it. thank you for envisioning how electronic music could evolve & giving us the tools to make it sound like whatever we can imagine. rest in peace
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he is risen
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for all the “bro wtf are Cocteau Twins saying” memes, it really is special & legitimately magical to me that Elizabeth Fraser fully committed (for a long while at least) to singing gibberish in the most beautiful fashion imaginable. truly a wild move. i don’t take it for granted
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Chick Corea & Herbie Hancock live in Frankfurt, 02/18/78
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thinking about the set we saw Anna Azizzy play in a basement in Pittsburgh in 2015 with a mic-ed knife & a mic-ed plate full of lunchmeat & veggies. patiently chopping each item, room dead silent, u got to hear the different grain of sound each one made
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Arthur Russell died 30 years ago today. a person & a body of work that defies all categorization. a freak genius & a humble polymath whose art we’re all still exploring & discovering together. thank you for everything
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Joanna Newsom “Ys” [2006]
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Maggot Brain is 50 years old today. thinking about all the psyches that have been shattered & rebuilt thanks to this album over five decades, my own included. we have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe, & they were delicious 🙏
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one of my students asked me: “would you rather: - only be able to listen to Tool for the rest of your life or - never hear any music again” I asked him if I choose only Tool would I be able to listen to natural music like bird calls & he said all the birds would sing Tool music
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"something truly magical happens when these players get together. deeply out, & yet blessed with a firm control of negative space & dynamics. we look forward to what comes next from this bold new ensemble"
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YMO x TG ultimate posse pic with Takahashi in Blue Steel mode, the only mode he knew
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it’s not at all lost on me that Rashida Tlaib, while under fire with racist genocide-stoking bullshit from all angles of our government & society right now, is making the effort to present this act to fight for musicians probably the only congressperson i respect
@RepRashida
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib
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It takes more than 800,000 streams per month to make the equivalent of a $15/hour job, and the vast majority of music artists on platforms like Spotify never get to that number. I introduced the Living Wage for Musicians Act to fight for the fair pay that musicians deserve.
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getting targeted ads to “date slavic ladies” on the 0PN album teaser... a little too on point
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if your music sounds like this please send me a demo
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Neb | 🏳️‍🌈
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just found an unfinished version(?) of the new transformers trailer where all of the audio is removed except for the SFX and it's freaking me out
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@lilmissboujeee
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what does it even mean when a man says “i got alot going on”?
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oh u like gestural large ensemble avant-garde electro-acoustic performance art huh who’s this then
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quintessential “dudes rock” duo right here. they saw you from across the bar & are perplexed by your vibe but want to invite you to record the sounds of an iceberg melting
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"yeah their early stuff was way better. super raw. totally free music"
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laptop ambient musician: “i don’t just go up there & press play when i perform, ok? a lot goes into this. i’m fine-tuning, making decisions, improvising” Phill Niblock: “yeah when i perform i just press play on a single file on my laptop & then play solitaire on my phone”
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Einstürzende Wordbauten ⬛️🟩🟩🟩⬛️ 🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️🟩 🟩⬛️🟨⬛️🟩 🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️🟩 ⬛️🟩🟩🟩⬛️ ⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️ ⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬛️🟩⬛️🟩 ⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️ ⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️ ⬛️🟩🟩🟩⬛️ 🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️🟩 🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️🟩 🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️🟩 🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️
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R Plus Seven is about to be ten years old. this is the room now. there’s a whole other monolith in there & also a baby cube. feel old yet ??
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openers have a sacred right to blow the headline act of the show out of the water. witnessing this happen is one of the true pleasures of going to see live music
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apparently the LCD S*undsystem guy is in Chicago today? i like to imagine that the environment around him gentrifies in real time. like he walks into a building & by the time he leaves it’s a yoga studio for dogs
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@boynamedshark not to be that guy lolll but... there’s a small loop of tape that’s blank but always spinning around in there that serves as a kind of blank canvas to catch the feed from the 1/8 jack, it’s basically like leaving the record activated on a tape deck & hearing what u play into it
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Mdou Moctar the only band i can think of that unites Saharan / Tuareg music heads, noise freaks, more middle of the road indie rock people, & dads who just wanna rock out & idolize Eddie Van Halen. truly the people's band
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now here’s a guy whose whole deal i just don’t get at all
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┏┓ ┃┃╱╲ in ┃╱╱╲╲ this ╱╱╭╮╲╲house ▔▏┗┛▕▔ we ╱▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔╲ don’t tolerate Yoko Ono slander ╱╱┏┳┓╭╮┏┳┓ ╲╲ ▔▏┗┻┛┃┃┗┻┛▕▔
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this situation is grim & the fact that nearly all music spirals in the direction of streaming / exploitation in this system could not be more obvious & untenable for artists also The Caretaker feels like a particularly thorny project to contextualize in all this given its M.O.
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time has tempered my relationship with Brian Eno’s art from the state of extreme fanboy to like, appreciative fan. no specific reason, just like the nature of life. & yet without a doubt this MF was COOKING here 100%
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30 years old today. thank u for enriching our lives 🙏
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traditional ways to make it in the music industry: - generational wealth - know the right people - be very hot some newer ones: - be an AI - start beef about politics of touring - your project was invented by Spotify - viral video where u plug yr synth into a bug or some shit
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studio as instrument / effects processing before Lee Perry: ooo maybe we can make it sound like the band is really big & in a tunnel! after Lee Perry: make drums out of water. smear sounds like paint. instruments don’t have to remind us of what we know down here on earth
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in my mind, The Replacements are the ultimate “you had to be there, man” band. & i was not there, turns out
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Microdosing Has Taken the Tech Sector By Storm & Increased Productivity, But What If You Took More Drugs & Shit Started to Melt Into Fractal Pools of Beautiful Colors & Shapes Inside Your Eyes?: The Case For Taking A Normal Amount of Drugs
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it’s gotta be:
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Thugger instructing Burial to raise the volume of the Metal Gear Solid 2 sample on “Archangel”
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look at this picture of Scott Walker lol
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contextual starter back / mood board for André 3000 flute album
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if you are the CEO of Amtrak please send me a demo of your tape-loop based diaristic sampledelic music that explores the way that railroads bisect the natural world with machinery
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Horseless Age
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Learning about the CEO of Amtrak
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fellas, would you marry a girl who keeps at least ten bodies submerged in her spectral black goo dimension & feeds on them for the sustenance she needs to continue the hunt
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@mymixtapez
My Mixtapez
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Would you Marry a girl who had 10 bodies or more? 🤔
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so if I’m understanding the situation correctly, the music of The Caretaker is catching on with Zoomers who are treating it like some kind of “The Ring”-style creepypasta that will traumatize u when u listen & now it’s trending with its own “Challenge” video format ? LOL amazing
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summer is over must post fall Prince
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Sakamoto’s run of 80s solo albums stands as one of the most monumental leaps forward for electronic music. the seeds of electro-pop, strain after strain of dance music, skewed sample collage, hip-hop production. music as deeply profound as it is goofy. legitimately “experimental”
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2021: OPN is the musical director of The Weeknd halftime show 2022: James Ferraro revs a motorcycle onstage for 30 min at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics 2023: Dean Blunt fills 400 solo cups with Cîroc at the concert inaugurating Elon Musk’s colony on Mars
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@royalpratt
Gregory Royal Pratt
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NEWS: Mayor Lori Lightfoot concedes defeat in Chicago mayor race as voters Tuesday rejected her bid for a second term after four tumultuous years marked by a pandemic, spikes in crime citywide and widespread divisiveness.
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to the joker this is just a regular horse
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is your teen texting about Three 6 Mafia? OMG: original Memphis gods STFU: Scarecrow taken from us JFC: Juicy finally canonized KMS: Koopsta's mystic stylez GTFO: GangstaBoo totally flattens opposition
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@BrentSirota
Brent S. Sirota
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Ok, here's a genuine question for something that I have been struggling with: what does 'futuristic' music sound like today? Not retro-futuristic, not the 1960s or 80s conception of the sound of tomorrow. An actual projection or imagining from the present we are currently in.
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maybe the cutest youtube comment interaction i’ve ever seen. imagine being Charles & seeing this dude’s name on there randomly & being like “oh fuck it’s Chad i have to say something”
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“music industry” lmao the scales are tipped everywhere in favor of the few on top. of course this type of framing is deployed in major news outlets to discredit the artists that make the music wanting more than .003 cents or w/e per stream. disrespectful. everything is broken
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BBC News (UK)
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Music industry makes $26bn but wants streaming prices to rise
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did you know: your EP could be an LP if you add more stuff to it
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if your music sounds like this please send me a demo
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recent developments in AI technology have revealed the truth behind Goya's dark masterpiece: through extrapolation algorithms we now know that Saturn was devouring his son inside of an Arby's
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@w000rm “waaaooww”
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Milford Graves & Min Tanaka Bennington College, 1993
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i don’t give a fuck what u call the art i make, u can say “i was listening to Max’s disgusting little goblin songs the other day.” fine with me but the minute u call your art “content” - like some interchangeable morsel you toss into the machine to keep it churning - fuuuck that
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this exchange killed me 💀💀💀
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we regret to inform you that our thirty-fourth choice for the new host of Jeopardy, a Cajun alligator hunter named Dusty Beauregard who lives on a houseboat in the gulf of Mexico, once wrote in a Tumblr post that "the earth is flat & i have pissed over its edge into the abyss"
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@bagagwaa whatever she’s selling, i’ll take three of em
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new OPN is great. sometimes u just need to go full prog fantasia, buffet of sick synth tones mode. it’s cool to hear him write at this degree of maxed out detail / fidelity / narrative complexity & turn the dial back towards ~producing electronic music~ over everything else
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Björk - Homogenic Three 6 Mafia - Underground Vol. 1 Nobukazu Takemura - Scope Death - Individual Thought Patterns Tortoise - TNT Naked City - Naked City Gorguts - Obscura AFX - SAW 85-92 Ween - The Pod
@TotalMusicSnobs
The Music Snobs
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What are your Top 9 albums from the ‘90s? Only rule: you can’t include the same artist twice. (RT w/ your answers)
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wondering how / if history will consider the insane levels of power emanating from Ohio for the last like 20 years in terms of noise / experimental music. it’s the American cradle of freaks. doesn’t get said enough
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a disaffected goth catboy, your pervy uncle, & a man with diamond cheekbones who always looks like he’s in a high-end whiskey commercial dove into electronic music & changed the game forever. thank you for everything YMO 🙏
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coworker music: - Clara Rockmore - The Caretaker - Karen Dalton - Alexander Scriabin - William Basinski - late period Scott Walker - Burial - DJ Spooky - Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Philip Jeck - Lustmord (i work inside a haunted painting in the ballroom of an abandoned hotel)
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you can love something without knowing much about it. you don’t have to be a walking wikipedia about the things you love. it’s cool if you are but it’s not necessary. you can see or hear something & just be like “wow i love that”
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the best news segment i’ve seen pretty much ever. the raw damaged poetry of it. like Werner Herzog assessing St. Louis
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also fuck this dimension, take me to the one where the completed Autechre soundtrack to Metroid Prime saw the light of day
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20 years after appearing in the image for the Experimental Band Theoretically Good headline in The Onion, Soliday is still out here freaking out the squares. wild set last night
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starting a noise rock band? things to consider select your vocal class: 🔘 David Yow (guy shouting) 🔘 Mark E. Smith (guy talking) 🔘 Jamie Stewart (trauma, horny) drums: 🔘 the path of the human 🔘 the path of the machine guitars: 🔘 angular / lacerating (only one option)
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lesbian DMT wedding, great cosmic mantis presiding, all the fanciest bugs in attendance.... this is the true meaning of International Women’s Day
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Mark Ryden
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@MisterLies yeah this is the most psychotic factoid imaginable lmao
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it’s hard to articulate just how much i disagree with this whole viewpoint. “roll of the music industry dice” “basically a business card” - what artist worth their salt thinks about creating art this way? a critic encouraging outright careerism is just like... so dark
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one major Chicago archetype is the nondescript normcore 30 y/o dude with a mustache who stands in a pack in the corner of the bar with other dudes that look exactly like him & they say nothing to anyone & later someone tells you “that guy was in Smith Westerns” or some shit
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mandatory post of the photo of Keiji Haino at Screwed Up Records & Tapes
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me analyzing past sales data & triangulating a price slightly under the current market trend for a Discogs LP listing that no one is ever going to fucking buy
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dragging a dead deer up a hill to make a deal with god
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