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While doing my regular search for any news on the 50th anniversary of Split Enz's "Mental Notes", I discovered that Stuart Maconie started his Freak Zone show on BBC Radio 6 Music the other day with the rare-ish track "Another Great Divide" ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

[Thread] At the origins of Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) Here are some of the films that inspired the writers of this classic sci-fi horror film. An opportunity to revisit the history of sci-fi. 👋 1/21

There's not much on my #NewMusicFriday list for today, so instead I'm going into #OldMusicFriday with a buttload of Orbital open.spotify.com/album/6cni6T...

this is the funniest way to describe brian fucking eno

I've been looking forward to this episode since they announced it - mostly to see if @misterabk.bsky.social and @eleanormorton.bsky.social found the cave stuff as utterly fucking terrifying as I did when I re-read it last year 😱 open.spotify.com/episode/5a34...

Is this the worst horror novel ever written? In the latest episode of Eleanor & Alasdair Read That, we discover what might be the best bad book in the world. (And we *also* read Alan Garner's folk-horror classic The Weirdstone of Brisingamen.) linktr.ee/readthat @eleanormorton.bsky.social

Avez-vous déjà remarquer que le Joker et Obelix ont la même origin story ?

Corgis have an extremely low center of gravity and the density of a dead star. PERFECT for skateboarding! 😇

Sometimes I'm surprised by how well I know albums that I haven't thought about or listened to in years. Case in point: "One Mississippi" by Brendan Benson open.spotify.com/album/52h6DE...

Massive sail ship just hit the Brooklyn Bridge trying to go under it 😳

#NeilFinn #InfinitySessions Crowded House ❤️ Frenz you have to see this! Neil Finn leaves me awestruck again, and now I want to know how Rob Brydon got involved in this, very impressive 👍🎶🎶 Neil Finn - All lies are Wrong Infinity Sessions 15.05.25 youtu.be/XwvhRWfIsQs?...

Spinning the vinyl from last year's super-deluxe of Yes's "Fragile" this morning. How can you resist an album that kicks off with "Roundabout"? #prog #NowPlaying

The Cover of George Orwell’s 1984 Becomes Less Censored with Wear & Tear

The black shade here perfectly reflects all of the debris left over from my retinal tears... Gosh, but they were fun 😑

CBC is at least not afraid to call it what it is.

It is amazing to me that Dems are pressured to water down their messaging in order to avoid alienating 'centrists,' but Republicans can round up and deport sobbing children without fear of alienating 'centrists.' Says a lot about what we mean when we say 'centrists'

Until this week's release of the super-deluxe edition of INXS's "Listen Like Thieves" I probably hadn't listened to it in 30+ years. Which is why I've never noticed the similarity of album track "Same Direction" to New Order's "True Faith"... 🤔 open.spotify.com/track/3cn8Hn...

Jazz pianist Matthew Shipp has slammed André 3000’s new improvisational piano EP. “I think it is complete and utter crap -horrific-god awful insipidly wretched nothing,” he writes. “oh my fucking god this is some atrocious shite — is he some type of fucking asshole?”

Occasionally, very occasionally, the Internet is good

Well, since there's nothing new to listen to, it's a good thing that I finally got a copy of my favourite album from last year - Magdalena Bay's "Imaginal Disk" ❤️🧠💿 #NowPlaying

Is there anything out today worth listening to? So far, I'm seeing nothing that's even tempting me to see what it's like 😕 #NewMusicFriday

I'm really enjoying diving into Esther Rose's back-catalog after hearing her new album, "Want". I'm also wondering how the hell I hadn't heard her before, considering Alynda Segarra dueted on her last album, "Safe to Run"? open.spotify.com/album/4I9i05...

I am ridiculously fond of and nostalgic about Roger Glover's "The Butterfly Ball..." album, but I'm not sure where that comes from. I 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 my brother had a copy, but I don't recall listening to it that often when I was a kid? open.spotify.com/album/79zSPI...

Sometimes the algorithm works: the new Esther Rose album, "Want", showed up in my "Suggested New Releases" this week and... yup. It's my kind of thing. #NewMusic Also, her voice reminds me a lot of Frances Quinlan's (Hop Along), which is no bad thing. open.spotify.com/album/4fsOql...

Has Neil Finn's "Sessions at West 54th" always been on Spotify? Or just in the wake of the Record Store Day release? open.spotify.com/album/2pov4a...

They’re showing that celebrity episode of The Chase again where Rick Wakeman looks like Dr Zaius from The Planet of the Apes.

The new Suzanne Vega album, "Flying with Angels" is very good BTW #NewMusic open.spotify.com/album/08K9yh...

Jason Mantzoukas on Taskmaster is something I've been looking forward to all year www.avclub.com/jason-mantzo...

Hey! Press covering Trump! The statute that lets him impose tariffs at will? It EXPLICITLY excludes movies. He has no authority to do this. Not just bc of an absence of authorization, but bc the law says “you CANNOT do this.” Do NOT say “Trump has imposed movie tariffs,” bc he did not. He CANNOT.

Y'know when you hear a new album and it just really hits the spot? The new one from Samantha Crain, "Gumshoe", is right there. It's probably going to be a top 10 album for me this year ❤️ #NewMusicFriday open.spotify.com/album/4RtdIq...

Ever feel like Spotify is aggressively pushing an artist into your listening? For me it's Miya Folick. I do like her stuff, but it's getting a bit weird how the algorithm almost always plays one of her tracks first when I finish listening to something else... open.spotify.com/artist/1jFVu...

Making an early-ish start on #NewMusicFriday with the new S/T Lucius album. I'm liking this a lot more than their last (but then, I felt that I wasn't really the audience for that one). I think I'll find myself returning to this one a few times this year. open.spotify.com/album/06Jimj...

In the latest case of enshitification, Plex no longer allows remote streaming of your own media without paying a subscription. Good thing I moved to jellyfin ages ago.

Welp, this is some bullshit from @plex.tv - the app just updated on Android and suddenly I need to subscribe to a "Remote Watch Pass" to stream from my home server? 😡 GFY 🖕

While doing some research for a project, I came across this phenomenal image of @tourcntower.bsky.social under construction, just over 50 years ago ❤️ #MadeInCanada 🍁