Ben

Glad you like it, an intense listen!

Flagging that your uncut.co.uk domain email addresses don't seem to be accepting incoming mail - 550 Relay not permitted

Wild to me that we're 20 years since twitter launched and people still don't seem to understand that's it choose your own adventure

HYMNS, by David August 9 track album

New David August is very lovely, 9 sparse solo piano pieces. Not quite ambient but definitely of that lineage davidaugust.bandcamp.com/album/hymns

At Source, by caterina barbieri 4 track album

New Caterina Barbieri / Bendik Giske is a good 'un; complement each other very well and short enough to compel a respin as soon as you're through. Boomkat says "beatless, biomechanical trance" which I'll go with caterinabarbieri.bandcamp.com/album/at-sou...

Live at Roadburn 2023, by Chat Pile 18 track album

Guaranteed to blow the cobwebs away

A disco ball lighting up a concert room ceiling

Courtney Marie Andrews and band

Very much enjoyed Courtney Marie Andrews at Islington Assembly Hall (best mid-sized venue in London?), particularly her opening run through AOTY contender Valentine

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

This is peak middle aged living

Love this, not a name I'm familiar with - would definitely have attributed to Stanley Spencer

PIG DESTROYER Tickets | £36.47 | 13 Nov @ Scala, London | DICE Virginia extreme sound nihilists PIG DESTROYER deliver savage grindcore that is both intentionally confrontational and thoroughly pummeling. PIG DESTROYER fo...

Pig Destroyer supported by Wormrot in November at the Scala; be there or choose to continue to have functioning hearing link.dice.fm/7V4KJFUk30b?...

Completely forgot about this one! An old favourite too

I'd normally agree but my worry is this stuff won't get through as not enough people are locked into legacy/quality media to be exposed to this type of info and instead getting their news from a Reform-positive slop funnel. Hopefully I'm wrong.

I as much as anyone else enjoy a good moan so I get it

I never see events or the discourse in my timeline. People need to sort out their following list and muted words, skill issue tbh

London’s Early Drum & Bass Scene: A Photographer’s Story London’s early Drum & Bass and Jungle scene in the 1990's — the D&B music producers & Dj's by photographer Colin Hawkins

Some absolutely sensational drum and bass photos

colinhawkins.co.uk/londons-earl...

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This track is a blast

I seem to remember he mentioned her in passing a few years ago in their guidance to guests as an exemplar of a Tier 1 artist (Kanye as well lol) but the pod has changed a bit since. Think there'd be mutiny given Britney's placement in the Pantheon.

Glamour headshot of Sheridan with large text at bottom of image.

Ann Sheridan, “Will ‘Oomph’ Title Help or Harm Her?” — Motion Picture, July 1939

#BOTD 1915

Oral History of Pro Wrestling’s 1995 Historic Excursion into North Korea In 1995, long before Dennis Rodman sparked international outcry with similar trips, a most unlikely group of Americans visited North Korea against all advice: a troupe of major professional wrestlers,...

This piece detailing the 1995 WCW/NJPW wrestling shows with 170k+ (forced) attendance in North Korea is wild

Defect got thicc. This is going to ruin my life, I had to remove the original from my Steam library last year as I couldn't stop playing it

These stood out, Fossilization is the best so far. All either Death or Black metal, Qasu bit weirder experimental BM:
Fossilization - Advent of Wounds
Void Monuments - Posthumous Imprecation
Ectovoid - In Unreality's Coffin
Gorrch - Stillamentum
Viserion - Fire and Blood
Qasu - A Bleak King Cometh

I've liked a lot of extreme metal this year, some stuff that isn't that:
Danny L Harle - Cerulean
"Naive Melodies" Talking Heads Tribute on BBE
Mandy, Indiana - URGH
Courtney Marie Andrews - Valentine
Plantoid - FLARE
Ulrika Spacek - EXPO
Tempa Allstars Vol. 9
Joel Ross - Gospel Music

The band Yellow Swans bathed in red light on stage, both members are facing each other standing in front of desks full of kit with FX pedals by their feet

Astounding set from Yellow Swans at The Lexington this evening. Last saw them way back in 2008 and they've lost none of their power live, like they're grappling with some invisible force on stage

Will be there :) Do you have set times for the show yet? Just want to make sure trains will line up

"The artwork titled “Masks Looking at a Tortoise” was created by artist James Ensor in 1894. This oil on canvas and panel piece is associated with the Expressionism movement and falls within the genre of still life. In the artwork, one can observe a row of vividly colored masks that exude a sense of vibrancy and individuality, despite sharing a collective gaze directed toward a solitary tortoise positioned on a surface below them. These masks feature a variety of expressions and are rendered in a style that utilizes visible, expressive brushstrokes, characteristic of James Ensor’s approach and the Expressionist movement as a whole. The masks differ in color, shape, and emotion, but they are united by their intent focus on the mundane subject of a tortoise. The use of masks as subjects in this work might suggest themes of identity, facade, and the human condition—common motifs in Ensor’s oeuvre. The painting potentially explores the contrast between the animate and the inanimate, as well as the absurdity inherent in the attention given to the slow-moving tortoise by the dramatized masks." Artchive: https://www.artchive.com/artwork/masks-looking-at-a-tortoise-james-ensor-1894/

James Ensor - Masks Looking at a Tortoise (1894)

I saw this the other week, so good!

One of the best of 2026 so far, goes hard