Alex Silver

This is a beauty. One of my first purchases as an early member @subvert.fm 💪

Lady Lamb! Maine!

Only recently learning about Shane Parish. His albums Undertaker Please Drive Slow and Repertoire take interpretation to a fascinating place. I don't know if he pulls out an essence as much as retells things in a clarified voice—the magic is in the playing rather than the intoxication of "song."

This album is so interesting! I really like El Haris [Anxious] for its textures. And the artwork by Evelyn Hofer led me to seek her out. Ty @juddgreenstein.bsky.social

This was great! Really loved the clear-headed advice about participation and understanding the web you want to live in.

Ruined my day yesterday. Grump.

Pierre Schaeffer on vinyl!

Mixtape: KLOF No. 62 (Folk, Alternative, Experimental) Our latest KLOF Mixtape features a selection of folk, ambient, electronic, field recordings and experimental music, including Keaton Henson, Hen Ogledd, Weston Olencki, Joe Westerlund, and more.

A very nice mixtape from @klofmag.com from November. I believe its editor Alex Gallacher does these? Learned about Scissor Tail Records, also Max García Conover—who is apparently from Maine and recording with Haley Heynderickx. Mixtape format +1! No. 71 looks good.

klofmag.com/2025/11/mixt...

Love seeing several @ooyhrecords.bsky.social artists and Takuro Okada!

I wonder if it's New Year's resolutions related to exercise? Last summer I got into a good habit on the stationary bike—and I used "Sidestepping" to lower my heart rate. Lovely song.

Love the conceit of singing from the dentist’s chair. Also the awareness of a set with cameras. Great song, happy for this tip!

Je suis un prof collégien—il y a deux ans j’étais dans mes vingtaines, mais cette année mes cinquantaines. C’est difficile d’apprendre trente années de comportement si vite.

Done. Avery Friedman 🙌🌀

It's hard to imagine being so patient with the air you breathe. Eric Hehr gives great context to this album, and how it fit into Ammons' life. But also close feeling for the role of tone, which I just sit there and relish so much.

The universal in the particular, damn 💘😵‍💫

"If platforms push us toward individualized survival, we can refuse that horizon. We can rebuild capacities that make journalism durable. Editing, fact-checking, legal support, beats, mentorship and labour protections can exist outside legacy conglomerates." @therewasnosound.bsky.social

Don't Start Another Substack Michael Rancic writes about how platforms like Substack push writers toward individualized survival strategies over solidarity.

@newfeelingcoop.bsky.social w/ great points on precarity and gig platforms.

"But for things to change, we have to imagine more than hermit crabbing from one platform to the next: we have to resist the ways our work is becoming individualized in the first place."

www.newfeeling.ca/dont-start-a...

This was great. She gave such eloquent responses! I was also nicely transported by those old Custom House Wharf photos from the section above 🕗

This was nice! Really graceful, and some satisfying timbres, very woody, crackly. Great for a frigid Maine night.

“Get To Meet Them” feels great, looking forward to absorbing it more! Loved getting into a daydream trying to find the loop in the visualizer.

This is nice!

Listened to this one quite a few times now, it's great.

"...strumming and plucking, tapping until the shape of a song emerges" and "...how organic and conducive to day-dreaming the music is." I think they're really really good at pulling meandering sound into a solid, locomotive body.

Listened to the single every day of the last few. I get so charged up but with a clear mind. Great song

Some great advice from Stinson. I like the emphasis on the tactile aspect of shows, also: “If you mean it, you’re not gonna be able to get rid of it.”

Count me in!

Woah! I get the print edition and hopefully I’ll spend tomorrow morning with this

Like the culture suddenly needs the one thing-a-ma-bob and Young goes, "Oh, here! I have one in my garage from a few years back. You go ahead and take it."

What a great essay. "Contemporary music utilising older instruments or idioms isn’t new or unusual, and when it’s anachronistic it only reinforces the idea of a linear history." I hope our concept of folk becomes more like this going forward. Having an eye for past's involvement with present.

Treize ans, wow. À l'époque, je pensais que Berberian Sound Studio était arrivé d'une vraie distance de Tender Buttons, etc. Mais aujourd'hui ces albums ont un air de solidité ensemble, comme documents importants tous du même lieu.

Good find!