30 years without a business plan or a clue! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Brainwashed.com turns 30!

Thanks to everyone for all the support and contributions for the last 3 decades.

In the absence of any celebration, we encourage you to go play some music for a friend/family/colleague/enemy they've never heard before. Feel free to send pictures of their reactions!

The cover of NASA's golden record

An explanation of the diagram of how to play NASA's golden record included on its cover

The latest edition of A Duck in a Tree, now out as a podcast (bit.ly/3Qm44xl), opens with Omar Alzal's Hindi greeting from NASA's golden records onboard the 2 Voyager spacecraft. The record covers explain how to play the record with the stylus stored on the spacecraft.

They included a stylus.

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Sunset in Costa Rica photo by Jonny Minogue. Get involved: subscribe, review, rate, share with your friends, send images!

Podcast Episode 786 is live

All new music by The Veldt, Noveller (feat. Iggy Pop), Lea Bertucci, Mi And L'Au, Mammo, Kikù Hibino & Merzbow, Bergsonist, Meitei, Hoavi, Black Flower, Tristan Allen, and Aaron Shaw.

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Podcast Episode 785 is live

Espen Reinertsen, Will Gardner, Margareth Kammerer, Juli Deák, David Newlyn, Tegh & Adel Poursamadi, Marc Almond & The Gaslight Troubadours, Huggy Bear, Pauline Oliveros / Issui Minegishi / Miya Masaoka, Le Simandou De Beyla, Fugazi, and June of 44.

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Let Love In photo by Eve. Get involved: subscribe, review, rate, share with your friends, send images!

Podcast Episode 784 is live!

New tunes from Dead Pioneers, Analog Tara, Cole Berliner, Carl Stone & Asuna, Paula Kelley, The NRG, BIG|BRAVE, Guided By Voices, and Dobrawa Czocher, plus not so new tunes from Banda 20 De Julio De Repelon, Christina Kubisch, and Raglani.

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Podcast Episode 783 is live.

Miki Berenyi Trio, Dead Can Dance, Tujiko Noriko, The SPKtR, Kristin Hersh, Ak’chamel, The Givers of Illness, Lee "Scratch" Perry & Mouse on Mars, Terrence Dixon, Magic Tuber Stringband, Annea Lockwood, dagmar zuniga, and Braasch / Oliveros / Van Nort.

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Listening from mobile during escapade prep heading south cause of sirens photo by Nathalie. Get involved: subscribe, review, rate, share with your friends, send images!

Podcast Episode 782 is now live

New music from La Sécurité, Paperclip Minimiser, Bruce, Hannah Archambault, Mandy, Indiana, Nastia Reigel, Ben Vida, Russell Haswell, and OHYUNG, plus older music from Yo La Tengo, Temporal Marauder, and Idea Fire Company & Brrr.

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Sunset on the Hudson photo by Maggie. Get involved: subscribe, review, rate, share with your friends, send images!

Podcast Episode 781 is live

Welcome Womens History Month with an all women episode:

Music by Anne Clark, Carla dal Forno, Félicia Atkinson & Christina Vantzou, Loraine James, Dumama, Caterina Barbieri, Magi Merlin, Annie Hogan, Honey Dijon, Nina Nastasia, Colleen, and Wet Leg.

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Pole with keys in Wellington New Zealand photo by Mike. Get involved: subscribe, review, rate, share with your friends, send images!

Podcast Episode 780 is live!

New tunes by James Blackshaw, Miss Grit, and SQ Mice, plus some music from the vaults by Mike Dunn, Johnnie Clarke, Nina Nastasia, S. Carey, Little Annie, K. Alexi, and Éliane Radigue.

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Zaggy looking at the snowicane photo by Jon. Get involved: subscribe, review, rate, share with your friends, send images!

Podcast Episode 779 is live

Newer music from Cabaret Voltaire, I Speak Machine ft. Gary Numan, Galactic Embrace, Johnny Sais Quoi, Aja Monet, Rat Heart, Sugar Plant, and Bill Orcutt, plust some older music from Ebo Taylor & Uhuru-Yenzu, and Gazelle Twin.

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On a readers poll?
Don't think we have covered anything Boyd Rice has been involved in for over 20 years at this point.
Coil list was hosted elsewhere and moderated by other people.
Maybe read the reviews on the site or listen to the podcast and find out what music is being supported these days.

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Podcast Episodes 776 is live

New music from Laibach, Drop Nineteens, Pan•American, Insides, Dizzy Fae, Kim Gordon, Greater Than One, Yīn Yīn, Eli Keszler (remixed by Tim Hecker), Klein, Adey Omotade, and Joshua Abrams, plus tunes from the vaults by Tommy Peltier and K.A. Posse.

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2025 Annual Readers Poll Results

(they got published last week some time, sorry we didn't make the announcement)

thanks to all the readers and supporters over the years

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Snow in Watertown photo by Emily. Get involved: subscribe, review, rate, share with your friends, send images!

Podcast Episode 775 is live!

Sugar, Carlos Giffoni (feat. Zola Jesus), New Mexican Stargazers, A. Campbell Payne, Geologist, New Age Doom feat. H.R., Strand, Periode, Paula Kelley, Lightning Bolt, yaz lancaster, Marnie Weber, Rocketship, and Gregory Isaacs (pres. by Sly & Robbie).

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Forest Lagoon photo in Iceland by Emily. Get involved: subscribe, review, rate, share with your friends, send images!

Podcast Episode 774 is live!

New music from Dälek, Nowhere Flower, Isabel Pine, Setting, Immersion, Brad Rose, Dominique Fils-Aimé, Craggyland, Bill Callahan, Shackleton, and José González, plus music from the vaults by Kevin Richard Martin, Beatriz Ferreyra, and The Necessaries.

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Podcast Episode 773 is live

Prostitute, SAULT, Cate Le Bon, Pullman, JT Donaldson, Jessica Williams, Helena Silva, Craven Faults, Luís Fernandes + Pierce Warnecke, brock van wey, Hana Korneti, Sean McCann, The Black Star Sound, Test Dept, Brandy Dalton, and Spider Taylor.

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Less than a week to vote in the Annual Brainwashed Readers Poll!

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Voting Round Now Open!

2025 is done.

Vote NOW in the 2025 Annual Brainwashed Readers Poll

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Votes will be taken for 2 weeks and closed on January 15th. Results to be posted shortly thereafter.

Thanks to all and have a Happy New Year.

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One week left for the nomination round of the Brainwashed Annual Readers Poll.

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We start voting once the year is over and all the releases are in!

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Podcast Episode 771 is live

Velvet, Matmos, Surya Botofasina, Lucrecia Dalt Y La Bamba, Niño de Elche, and Victor Herrero, Christina Vantzou, John Also Bennett and Oliver Coates, Buck Curran, The Notwist, David Shea, SPC ECO, and The Stargazer Lilies.

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Whitney Johnson - Canonization and the Female Pioneers of Electronic Music This talk by Whitney Johnson was recorded live on August 14, 2025 at Q-O2 workspace Brussels. A talk about “female pioneers” of electronic music and…

Whitney Johnson - Canonization and the Female Pioneers of Electronic Music
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This talk by Whitney Johnson was recorded live on August 14, 2025 at Q-O2 workspace Brussels.
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Nomination round is now open for the Brainwashed 2025 Annual Readers Poll.

Nominations will be taken through the end of the year because music keeps getting released until the end of the year!

Make sure you vote beginning 1/1/26.

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Podcast Episode 770 is now live!

Seasonal music by The Legendary Pink Dots, Laura Cannell, Paula Kelley, Nina Nastasia, Low End Activist, Marielle V Jakobsons, Throwing Muses, Gareth Davis & Scanner, Ólöf Arnalds, Insides, Kodax Strophes/Martyn Bates, and Coн & Wladimir Schall.

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Podcast Episode 769 is now live!

All new music by Saagara, Shane Parish, µ-Ziq, Big Blood, Maria Somerville, Colleen, Mike Majkowski, Hekla, Silvia Tarozzi, and Nailah Hunter & Alia.

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Podcast Episode 768 is now live!

Brand new music from Foetus, Nurse With Wound / Diarmuid MacDiarmada, Isolated Gate, IE, Hilary Woods, Midori Hirano, and Sadness, plus a gem from the vault by Sister Irene O'Connor.

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