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Marc Masters 🌵
Профиль VivelyI write about music & my latest book is “High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape” http://highbiasbook.com/ I host the Music Book Podcast. I am a Nationals & D-backs fanatic. DON'T USE AI.
The July edition of my Good Experimental Music roundup is up today. Free to read/share! Thanks to all my subscribers, this is even more fun to write than my Bandcamp column that got axed, their loss! :) www.goodexperimentalmusic.com/good-experim...
Good Experimental Music: July 2026This time around: guitar and banjo essays, vocal drones, a meeting of four improv stalwarts, and instruments crafted out of abandoned plows.www.goodexperimentalmusic.comMy favorite album of this century recently turned 25. "Our memories are corruptions that have been broken and pieced back together. Endless Summer replicates this." Jon Buckland at @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Waves Eaten by Flames: Endless Summer by Fennesz at 25 | The Quietus25 years on, Jon Buckland looks at the complex emotional affects triggered by Christian Fennesz' third album, Endless Summer.thequietus.com"goes to see the Flaming Lips once" (h/t @maura.bsky.social) www.fashiontimes.co.uk/katy-perry-i...
Katy Perry Gets Trapped in Giant Bottle During Performance as Fans Ignore Her Pleas To Roll Her BackKaty Perry's inflatable bottle stunt at Isle of MTV Malta turned into a viral spectacle as fans pushed her in the wrong direction, creating a comedic moment during her headline performance.www.fashiontimes.co.ukNew episode of the Music Book Podcast: we talk to John Davis about his excellent book “Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, DC,” published last fall by Georgetown University Press. themusicbookpodcast.buzzsprout.com/2120946/epis...
“There is no ethical use of generative AI. The labour of working creatives has already been steadily devalued over the years, and now it has arrived at a place where it only holds financial merit when fed to the machine.” www.anxietyshark.ca/an-empty-bit...
An empty bit of good.Let the machine work and drain and sputter and purge, may we dance and clap at what meagre pleasures it can conjure.www.anxietyshark.ca"The great lotion lockup was a corporate moral panic, which has been a disaster for their profits and for the rest of us a degrading enshittification of running basic errands."
We used to be able to buy things in this countryLocking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazydannykatch.substack.comGood chat with Michael Brook about his new 4AD reissue and his career. last-donut-of-the-night.ghost.io/michael-broo...
Michael Brook on Revisiting Cobalt Blue, the Infinity Guitar, Film Scoring, and Leaving Work at WorkThis is a free post from Larry Fitzmaurice's Last Donut of the Night newsletter. Paid subscribers get one or two email-only Baker's Dozens every week featuring music I've been listening to and some cr...last-donut-of-the-night.ghost.ioNice piece on Julius Eastman by @liaminscoejones.bsky.social via @passionweiss.bsky.social www.powmag.net/p/julius-eas...
Gay Guerrilla: The Long Resurrection of Julius EastmanThe late composer's work has become newly celebrated. What does that say about him—and about us?www.powmag.netI think a pure intention would be to intend never to use AI. www.hearingthings.co/alt-pop-tric...
This is some kind of masterpiece. It drones as good as anything, but stick around b/c it also contains a percussion jam and an ending section that's like a great lost Dirty Three track or something. nataliabeylis.bandcamp.com/album/around...
Around Here, The Birds Plant The Trees, by Natalia Beylis1 track albumnataliabeylis.bandcamp.comHappy 104th to Rachel Robinson, born…two years before Marshall Allen?!?!
MLBWishing a happy 104th birthday to Rachel Robinson! Founder of The Jackie Robinson Foundation in honor of her late husband, Rachel continues to be an inspiration for all. 💙