🌊 softoffice.bandcamp.com/album/public-r…

‘𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘤𝘩𝘰 is sitting-room dub music, folk song with tape delay. Russell plays his cello like a percussion instrument or bass guitar, generating a series of booms and squeaks and whistles.’ Ian Penman on the music of Arthur Russell: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Impromptu chat w/ Mike Watt (Minutemen, The Stooges, all round hero) About working & flailing around in music w/ Unsung Hunger & Outer Reaches Enjoy at your leisure or ignore it and I’ll never speak of it again 🖤

just in -->> prev unreleased Ø / Vainio bit.ly/3YioaKZ

From the row over Premier League regulation to Hollywood investors, the national game has never felt more distant from its fans. 🖊️ Clive Martin on the hostile takeover of English football newstatesman.com/culture/sport/…

Author Geoff Dyer on Bob Dylan: ‘The songs pour off his records like they’re written in my soul from him to me’ dlvr.it/TF2s1q

50 years ago, John Cale found himself at Heartbreak Hotel, producing sweet and unhinged music from its rooms. Reassessing Fear, Slow Dazzle and Helen Of Troy, Darran Anderson explores the musician’s remarkable year-long burst of creativity for Island Records

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From the '80s downtown scene to "Fishing with John," a guide to the work of music's most multifaceted fringe figure. daily.bandcamp.com/lists/music-wi…

Belated 🖤 👌

RIP Mick Hobbs youtu.be/4kHKxyozwLs?si…

Scott Gordon's 'Metals' was made using his self-built Spinning Plate Instrument (SPI). youtu.be/TywkZMN4C6c

“What was it about this intensely local phenomenon—­straddling Jamaica and the Midlands—­that allowed it to become a musical Esperanto?” Ian Penman (Ian Penman) on the story of 2 Tone. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

This week's RA Podcast: Regis and Function's first mix in over ten years is a unique paean to Silent Servant, heavy on unreleased material. ra.co/podcast/978

New newsletter—interviewed Califone's Tim Rutili about getting punched in the face, shit-covered punishers, hating social media, listening to Tricky, and his extensive career. Link in thread

R.I.P. to one of the best to ever do it: youtube.com/watch?v=nymUeB…

Some of those who knew the singer-songwriter and guitarist best, including his widow Andru Chapman and collaborator Thurston Moore, help guide Jonathan Wright through Michael Chapman’s extraordinary catalogue The Strange World Of… #MichaelChapman buff.ly/wKojlYR

Lou, every single time