kicker of elves

Committee on Painting and Sculpture Funds, and The Modern Women's Fund

Dorothea Tanning, On Time Off Time, 1948
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137253

Monthly Listening: September 2025 Rounding up great new releases we checked out during August from omeme tenten, BAILEFUNK KAKEKO, mei ehara and more

New Monthly Listening is out for September!

Our round-up of new albums we enjoyed this month, from omeme tenten, mei ehara, and more

thissidejapan.substack.com/p/monthly-li...

Topster titled "First-Timers - Week of September 29, 2025"; 4x4 grid featuring sixteen albums including: Cluster - Zuckerzeit Harmonia - Musik von Harmonia Tangerine Dream - Phaedra The Residents - Meet The Residents Isao Tomita - Snowflakes Are Dancing Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Brian Eno & Nico - June 1, 1974 King Crimson - Red John Cale - Fear Bob Marley & The Wailers - Natty Dread Nico - The End... Cecil Taylor - Silent Tongues Haruomi Hosono - Tropical Dandy Rapsody & Madlib - MadRaps - Single Magdalena Bay - Second Sleep / Star Eyes - Single Hearts2Hearts - Pretty Please - Single tripleS - tripleS hatch! <SecretHimitsuBimil> - EP

4x4 for the week! A lot of art rock and krautrock this time as well as some recent releases to fill out the grid. Only two more batches until I'm finally out of the Seventies.

Gift of UBS

Georg Baselitz, Five Times Titmouse, 1988-89
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136921

LIGHTNING BOLT

Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection

Vétheuil - 1901
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/1222167

why are you all talking about ai slop walmart

[MCA voice] yeah!

and also: The Proclaimers! (I think)

Accepting nominations overnight for this so keep them coming!

Very helpful piece by @ryandombal.bsky.social - start here to understand what’s involved for labels and artists in trying to separate Spotify from the rest of digital distribution. And go here to urge regulation of ALL streaming platforms for the benefit of artists: weareumaw.org/make-streami...

Save 10% on Blippo+ on Steam Blippo+ is a live-action, off-cable TV simulator. Channel-surf the stars and discover the staticky, radical world of Planet Blip through its soaps, sitcoms, news, weather, and talk shows. But don’t to...

Anyone with even a passing interest in retro TV owes it to themselves to check out @blippo.plus . It's such a weird, wonderful love letter to late 80s/early 90s cable and local access TV.

(Funny enough, my only real complaint with it is there's not enough commercials. 😅)

Houses in the Snow - 1895
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10595

Ooh, these are all great, but I love the one with rain on the window

Yeah, I’ve tried it once before but it didn’t save when I downloaded the Topster for whatever reason, which is why I skipped the attempt this time. Maybe I’ll get another chance to give it a go in the future. Thanks though!

Topster titled "First-Timers - Week of September 22, 2025"; 5x4 grid featuring eighteen releases including: Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music Nick Drake - Pink Moon Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges - Clube Da Esquina Herbie Hancock - Crossings Various Artists - The Harder They Come John Cale - The Academy in Peril Townes Van Zandt - The Late Great Townes Van Zandt Miles Davis - On the Corner NEU! - Neu 2 Sun Ra - Space Is The Place John Cale - Paris 1919 Judee Sill - Heart Food King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic [NOT PICTURED BUT MEANT TO BE] Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Faust - Faust IV Can - Future Days Fripp & Eno - No Pussyfooting HaSeul - <Love Poison> - Single Wednesday - Bleeds

Another 5x4 this week. More jazz, more folk, more art rock... but also: a dash of reggae and Brazilian pop. Not pictured though is Larks' Tongues in Aspic, thanks Topster.

Larry Aldrich Foundation Fund

Miroslav Sutej, Bombardment of the Optic Nerve, II, 1963
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135340

"The Worst Pies in London" from Sweeny Todd. I'm only familiar with the movie version though.

A screenshot of the headline of an article by Carl Wilson, reading, "Criticism's Biggest Strawman: What was 'poptimism,' and why are people still saying terrible things about it?" It's illustrated by a picture of a straw-stuffed scarecrow in a field, wearing a Taylor Swift T-shirt.

Once & for all, let's specify what "poptimism" was & wasn't, and why many people can't stop blaming it for every cultural change of the past 20 years. Most recently the esteemed Kelefa Sanneh, who's often (wrongly) said to have started it! Today in @slate.com
slate.com/culture/2025...

Fuck, I was so close!

Is it from Music from Big Pink?

It's not The Band, right?

Is it by a folk artist?

Is it from before 1970?

Does it feature synthesizer?

Is it from the '70s?

gay they might be giants be like MINIMUM WAAAAAAAGE

Favorite Guitar Hero II track? (Will also accept answers from Guitar Hero 3 or any Rock Band game)