INFERNO. 29 MAY 2026. boardsofcanada.com

TENS machine: on.

Can't help turning it up to 11.

Not so niche, in fact. Last week, as you may have read, more than 200 authors quit Grasset, one of France's finest publishing houses, following its takeover by billionaire Vincent Bolloré. Bolloré also owns the railway bookshop chain Relay, whose windows are now full of titles by far-right figures.

I was at Big Ears a few weeks ago with a team of seven tapers. We have a Google Drive folder (generously maintained by my friend Randy Bayers) with about 80 sets of music — a few more to come.
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Loud Ambient EP2. Free or pay what you want. Up now. Spread it.
theblackdog.bandcamp.com/album/loud-a...

A large group of men in US naval uniform of the 18th century rowing a hugely overcrowded small boat on choppy seas

It’s the 248th anniversary of the most exciting thing ever to happen in Whitehaven, when a Scotsman fighting for the Americans in the War of Independence made a small town in Cumbria the last place in England to be raided successfully from the sea... 🧵

Cover of 'The Gleaning' by Fay Musselwhite. Trees and dark green landscape artefacts overlaid on an urban scene.

"Land, class and nature run through these poems like family threads or mineral deposits."

'The Gleaning'
Fay Musselwhite
A new collection

Now available for pre-order from Longbarrow Press:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

We're thrilled to announce a two-book deal with @robpalk.bsky.social . 📚 The Crowd Pleaser (Feb 2027) and a reissue of Animal Lovers (Oct 2026) – funny, tender, and quietly devastating comic fiction. We can't wait to share them.

Summer Is A Coming In.
What have you got planned for May Day?
Rituals, songs and dance?
Some other kind of countryside magic?
#beltane #mayday #pagan #countryside

www.cutfromtheland.co.uk/product/summ...

Precisely why @marcdavenant.bsky.social's vital Outsiders project encompassed temporary accommodation as well as sleeping rough www.buzzmag.co.uk/marc-davenan...

The new reissue of my book Notebook, which Stephen Fry called "hilarious", but what is he to know about such things?

THREAD. My short book Notebook (out of print for over a year due to the demise of my ex-publisher Unbound) is being republished tomorrow. People often say it's an easy gateway to my writing & @blackwells.bsky.social will send it to you with free worldwide delivery: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Cover: Listen To Me and I’ll Tell You A Story by Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe. In an underwater scene tinted in sea green, a child-like being with flowing ochre-colored hair and dark sea green skin sits on a mass of orange-ochre and green tentacles talking to a school of salmon-color fish. In the foreground, another school of brown fish swimming away from the scene. The text "Uncanny," "September/October 2025," "Issue Sixty-Six," and the credits are in white.

Wonderful news, Space Unicorns! Uncanny Magazine (Publisher/Editor-in-Chief Michael Damian Thomas, Managing Editor Monte Lin, Poetry Editor Betsy Aoki, and Podcast Producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky) is a finalist for the Best Semiprozine Hugo Award! buff.ly/1K10weZ

Cover for Issue 62 of Uncanny Magazine, art by Maxine Vee titled "Mermay - Golden Hour." In a forest of brown, orange, and golden leaves, a mermaid with orange/gold hair sits on a rock in a small light blue pond. She stares at her open palms, illuminated by a beam of sunlight. Purple flowers in shade lie scattered on the ground in the foreground. The words "January/February 2025" and "Issue Sixty-Two" are at top. The list of credits is on the bottom

Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! "Five Uncanny Stories, Two Uncanny Poems, Uncanny Magazine, and Michael Damian Thomas Are 2026 Hugo Award Finalists!" buff.ly/1K10weZ

I went on @adambecker.bsky.social’s new podcast and had a shitload of fun talking about Star Trek and yes, fascist shoes

Listen here:
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IT'S THAT MAGAZINE WE ARE !!!!!! 👀👀👀

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🎉 Congratulations to Richard Price on the publication of The Island – out today!

A father and daughter. A city turning strange. A remote island on every screen, pulling toward a childhood he can't outrun.

saltpublishing.com/products/the-island-9781784634032

Plague Dogs, by The Heartwood Institute 14 track album

#JustListened

The new album by @heartwood9.bsky.social is a delightfully dynamic and atmospheric piece of cinematic music.
But even more importantly, the sales of it are benefiting www.animalrescuecumbria.co.uk
Definitively a worthy cause to support, so have a look!

Highly recommended!

As today is the tenth anniversary of the death of Prince, I've updated @thequietus.com #ThePortal archive dive with writing on his utter genius: John Higgs on Prince & William Blake, a guide to Prince's Minneapolis, classic albums revisited, Prince beyond the hits & much more

thequietus.com/portal/

Sheffield, this evening (you can also be among the first to pick up advance copies of Fay Musselwhite's new collection, which will be on early sale at the event)

Apparently Sam Altman also wrote a manifesto (on top of Marc Andreessens a while back). Are there others?
Genuine question: why do we think the tech bros are doing this? Which need does this fulfill for them?

#5DebutAlbums7579 #NowPlaying
Donnie & Joe Emerson - Dreamin' Wild
Originally released in 1979, only to sit in the Emerson brothers' home studio for decades.
Re-issued by the brilliant Light in the Attic Records.
Fantastic record
donniejoeemerson.bandcamp.com/album/dreami...

‘We did a seance for Beethoven, to see what he thought’: the playful, pioneering life of field-recording maestro Annea Lockwood The New Zealand composer burned pianos, sampled earthquakes and recorded Belfast’s peace walls. And at 86 is still invested in her life’s work: to appreciate the music in everyday sound

There's only one Annea Lockwood.

52 Albums To Shape A Soul : #26 Prince and the Revolution – Purple Rain (1984)

Marking the tenth anniversary of the passing of Prince I thought I'd reshare this.

Why I felt his album 'Purple Rain' belonged amongst my 52 Albums To Shape A Soul 💜x

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We did a Black Pylon guest mix for lovely Kate’s Dark Train show - now up to stream on Mixcloud. Black Pylon is our new tape label, third release coming soon. We also have a new collab album ‘16mm’ out on @strategictaper.bsky.social in case you didn’t know 😉

This is your 6am Defenestration wake up call!

The April 2026 issue of Defenestration has arrived, and it's full of the kind of humorous short stories and poems that we know you need in these trying times. Check it out here: bit.ly/4sO20eZ #DefenestrationMagazine #fiction #poetry

Thank you once again to everybody who congratulated me and @kirstyislathomas.bsky.social. It has been a very rough few years (some things you know, some things you don't), and it is so wonderful to be able to share this joy with friends and family. 😊❤️