this banal video- whose 'karen council' mistranslation is a lie that tells the truth- illustrates a pervasive fantasy that defines so much of our authoritarian present: the longing to summon arrest or punishment, the longing to wield vicarious power through the threat of police

Mainstream music industry claims that business is booming only reflect the Swiftian 1% – could they be heading for a fall?

How The Music Industry Is In A New Age Of Arrogance

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No home is complete without one 👇

Not expecting anyone's noticed but Golden Hour is on hiatus atm. A number of reasons, not least its platform. But also I've seen a definite downturn in engagement over the last year. Honest question: does anyone here ever listen?

The Quietus has regenerated.

Welcome to our new realm of cultural discovery, devilment and debate.

thequietus.com

#CultureCountered

Not content with already releasing one of my favourite albums of recent months (Worlds Gone M.A.D.), Nuke Watch are back again with more trippy electro-acoustic outernational jazz weirdness...
beat-detectives.bandcamp.com/album/peppers-…

#WeirdButTrue - an occasional series...
I once acted in a student film in which I had a scene with Jim Smith of Cardiacs, who was playing a gangland boss.

Of course Marc Skinner's wearing a black turtleneck

Vast ships sail ruby seas, through concave oceans where grinning infants dance like whipped paper dolls. Bring forth skin engines spewing iron roses to end the polar bias. Tapered realms of microdots imprinted upon the world.

An actual real life hedgehog snuffling round our estate in broad daylight this morning 😍

In #JapaneseFolklore kama itachi is a #yokai which in English translates as sickle weasel. They look like weasels with spiky fur and razor sharp claws and appear riding on dust whirlwinds, sometimes barking like dogs. They move so fast that they become...
#FolkloreSunday
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I should have gone to Cardiacs' Sing To Tim shows. For some reason, I still struggle with the idea of Cardiacs without Tim. Daft, I know. Wish I'd been there tho. Missed seeing so many lovely people I've not seen in an age...

#TonightsListening
Cardiacs: The Seaside (Original Edition)
alphabet-business-concern.bandcamp.com/album/the-seas…

Delighted to see Decolonise Fest made their crowdfunding target for the 2024 festival 🎉 But you can still donate to help fund this awesome event by & for punx of colour...
decolonisefest.co.uk