FUCK ICE. DEFUND & THEN ARREST THEM ALL.

Cover image for the December 31, 2025 edition of Cycles Per Second, featuring a grid of 15 record covers, along with the text: "Cycles Per Second Top LPs/EPs 2025"

Cycles Per Second :: Best of 2025 Top LPs 1. Galore - Dirt 2. Strange Passage - A Folded Sky 3. Possible Humans - Standing Around Alive 4. Horsegirl - Phonetics On and On 5. The Tubs - Cotton Crown 6. jeanines - How Long Can It Last 7. Artificial Go - Musical Chairs 8. good flying birds - Talulah's Tape 9. The Bats - Corner Coming Up 10. Thalia Zedek Band - The Boat Outside Your Window Top EPs 1. Sachet - Taipei Learner 2. Norm Dogs - Norm Dogs 3. time thief - time thief 4. The Hobknobs - Gather No Moss 5. The Pennys - The Pennys nstop.com

My New Year's Eve @khuh.bsky.social broadcast of my favorite LPs and EPs of 2025 is now online, an hour of nothing but hits, incl perhaps a couple of surprises? Check it out: www.mixcloud.com/nstop/2025-f...

Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2025 We select our top albums of the year.

"...something peerless and certifiably designed to combat these times."

FACS' "Wish Defense" is @sun13music.bsky.social's #2 release of 2025! 🖤🤗🖤

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POST HOLIDAY FLASH SALE!

Save 50% OFF EVERYTHING until Midnight tomorrow (12/27!) using the code: HALF

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We hope you & yours are having a wonderful & safe holiday season! XOXO -Bill & Lisa

If my math is right, you can go to the link below and use the code below to buy 4 Sunwatchers LPs for a total of $50.

If you don't have them, you should do that, with haste.

Ep. #947: FACS - Kreative Kontrol Brian Case discusses the new FACS album 'Wish Defense,' when we met in Edmonton, St. Louis musical mentors, seeing Fred Armisen’s band Trenchmouth, loving underground Chicago rock music and key Britis...

February 6, 2025

Ep. 947: FACS

Thanks Brian! @troubleinmind.bsky.social

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Ep. #956: The Tubs - Kreative Kontrol Owen Williams from the Tubs discusses their excellent album, 'Cotton Crown,' DADGAD guitar tuning and affinities for artists like Big Star, Richard Thompson, and SZA, how the humour in his music can b...

March 4, 2025

Ep. 956: The Tubs

Thanks Owen!

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FACS - Void Moments (2020)

@troubleinmind.bsky.social

#nowplaying #nowspinning #musicsky

It's technically NOT Bandcamp Friday, but we're gonna act like it is - our farewell code: ADIEU will still net you 30% off your order on our Bandcamp page 😮 👀

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Missed this announcement, but OH YEAH this is fantastic news

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”
- Hannah Arendt

This is a huge scandal, one of the worst in modern law enforcement and something that is astoundingly unconstitutional and illegal.

TiM tribute on @wfmu.bsky.social right now with DJ Michele!
🫡 🥲💗

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Possible Humans - Standing Around Alive LP [Hobbies Galore, Australia] New from Aussie Indie Rockers... previous album on Trouble In Mind. Goner's got the only batch of copies over the pond on this one -- the new album from Possible Humans entitled Standing Around Alive ...

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Just nabbed a copy thru Goner - can confirm: RIPS

The AI industry demands their theft be permitted.

Trouble - Playlist by elsplice

Made a new playlist for Bandcamp Friday of some favorites from Trouble in Mind who recently announced they were closing down. They will be MISSED!

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September 2025 (Part 3): A Farewell to Trouble in Mind (plus 5 more) I spent a lot of time over the last few weeks looking back at the catalog of Chicago-based indie label Trouble in Mind , who recently announ...

The mighty @troubleinmind.bsky.social is shutting down operations so I spent some time writing about five of my favorite songs from their sprawling catalog of hits, as well as a few other assorted cool songs I listened to last month.

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Sad to be informed by Nate on @wfmu.bsky.social that @troubleinmind.bsky.social ceased operations in Sept.

They were a nurturer, taste and scene maker who will be sorely missed. Really, a vanguard of and for interesting, new, cool American music.

Pour one out.

Lynyn lets his wild beats breathe on the new Ixona - Chicago Reader Lynyn lets his wild beats breathe on the new Ixona, beloved indie label Trouble in Mind hangs it up, 5 Magazine celebrates 20 years, and more.

New Gossip Wolf:
Lynyn on his new @sooperrecords.bsky.social album!
@troubleinmind.bsky.social says farewell!
@5mag.bsky.social celebrates 20 years!
@chrisdeville.bsky.social in conversation with @jackriedy.com!
A Kickstarter for a Lounge Ax doc!

If your label is home to bands as amazing and varied as the Tubs, En Attendant Ana, the Serfs, FACS, Sunwatchers, Dummy, Nightshift, Martin Frawley, the Mountain Movers, etc. and you can’t make/have to shut down it really says something about how low we’ve sunk as a culture. RIP Trouble in Mind.

RIP Trouble In Mind, one of the best labels run by some of the nicest people in this business they call show.

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Tombstone for Trouble in Mind.

My incredibly low opinion of the music industry was slightly parlayed by the continuing presence of great DIY labels like Trouble in Mind. Sad to see them go, but glad they fought the good fight as long as they could. Listening to the Jonas Reinhardt tape they released as I type this.

Once again reminding folks that the ethical replacement to using Spotify isn’t another streaming platform; it’s buying music from artists when you’re in the financial position to do so and pirating them when you’re unable to do so. Or simply ask an artist for the files, like actually.

This was a lovely post courtesy of Atonal: “…a beacon of independent music thanks to an eclectic and bold curation” 😭

Goodbye Trouble In Mind This one hits harder than most. It’s a rough time out there for the indie edge of the music industry; whether its press, labels, bands, or shops. After 17 years running as one of the best voices in in...

Humbled & grateful for this 60-song Trouble In Mind mix that Andy from @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social made on Mixcloud... Some of these songs we haden't listened to in years. 😢 Support his excellent writing over at the site 🫡

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Honored by your support Bruce. Means a lot, especially from you! ❤️

Always appreciated Dusted's support over the years, Jennifer! Thank YOU! 💗

You're the best Andy! We will forever appreciate your support! 🙏💗

TROUBLE IN MIND RECORDS: 2009-2025



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