When you’ve been listening to music for as long as I have, you get to a point where you can often tell, just based on the sounds you’re hearing, what instruments a band used in a song.

What’s scary to admit is that Quibi had the right idea (wrong formula) for psychologically-addictive-short-form-video

Also it was called Quibi

Pitchfork won't put me on Over / Under because they know I'll say some shit like "Uncrustables are a sign of spiritual rot"

New video up on YouTube, have a preview. Song is currently called Poser Nihilist

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William Basinski's 'The Disintegration Loops' has entered our Hall of Fame

An elegiac masterpiece that measures the weight of time

Resonance, by Yumiko Morioka 10 track album

Been listening to this a lot lately. There's a lot of space to the piano melodies, it has a real flow to it metronrecords.bandcamp.com/album/resona...

They said Steely Dan’s Aja was good for testing audio equipment, but every time I try it I black out for 5 minutes and my speakers are smashed and I’m holding a hammer for some reason

Attached a cowbell to our shelf 3 months ago and no one has noticed or cared

Recording Demos in the Void

Full Video: youtube.com/shorts/LKGdE...

I used to make tape loops, so I'm one step ahead

they should put some of it towards education as well, as a subliminal suggestion

how people online talk about Mark Rothko

(arguing with 12,000 made up people in my head at once)
Why? Is the world so divided????

what I'm saying is you're allowed to dislike any band for any reason, but some reasons are stupider than others

idk maybe when the government transparently lies about mass violence it's committing, it's counterproductive to say "a band getting popular through marketing" is a "psyop"

apologies for being one day ahead of the discourse

Weezer Cruise Homunculus

Every time you complain about someone being an “industry plant” they remove one day from your lifespan

Gallons of crude oil

“I’ve never seen a shooting star before”

Recording Demos in the Void

Full Video: youtube.com/shorts/LKGdE...

I always tell ambient musicians the same thing: get a drum machine. It will make your ambient music a lot more pumped up and attention-grabbing.

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I only read about half, but iirc he’s said he didn’t want to do a typical wrestling origin story book. Wanted it closer to a “hanging out” feel

He does get into more about his career throughout it, but I live for hearing this man talk about his BLT opinions. I should pick it up again

Worship the Disease, by Sleep Debt Ceiling 4 track album

Worship the Disease OUT NOW

4 songs about dehumanization, cruelty, and trying to get through it all. Listen on Bandcamp and streaming.

sleepdebtceiling.bandcamp.com/album/worshi...

You’re allowed to call American imperialism a death cult because it is one

Let's see Paul Allen's 11 minute dungeon synth demo tape

“Why do you use bsky if posts rarely reach new audiences?”

It is one of the few remaining websites where I can say “fuck” without a robot carpet bombing my house

INTERVIEWER: where do you get your ideas from?

ME: Don’t you dare fucking speak to me

My best writing advice is a two-pronged attack of:

-write every single idea you have even if it's placeholder
-mercilessly edit until you get down to the best version