Michal Čudrnák

BWO Sessions by BWO collective & Jonáš Gruska 19.6.2025 The BWO collective select to narrate the Hardcore Continuum: mutations and offshoots of club sounds from the UK and around the world. Rhythm is a dancer, it's a soul's companion, you can feel it every...

V júnovom BWO Sessions sme vyspovedali Jonáša Grusku o vystúpeniach s Axis Mundi, výbere releasov na LOM audio, akciách v LOM space a sérii DIY akcií na Devínskej kobyle radiopunctum.cz/archive/2025...

Pálffy alleys

Biskupice with the ever-present Slovnaft chimneys on the horizon

Midwar Czechoslovak bunker, part of the Bratislava defense system

Vladimír Karfík water works

Haunted oak and chestnut alleys from the old times, looming oil-industry chimneys, mid-war bunkers, floodplain forrests, post-WWII waterworks. Biskupice meadows Vlčie hrdlo (Wolf throat). www.vopz.sk/park/7680-bi...

Global Ear: Bratislava - The Wire Chiara Rendeková compiles an annotated playlist to go with her report on Bratislava’s LGBTQI+ underground music scenes in The Wire 496, as the city resists authoritarian crack downs

Global Ear: Bratislava

Chiara Rendeková compiles an annotated playlist to go with her report on Bratislava’s LGBTQI+ underground music scenes in The Wire 496, as the city resists authoritarian crack downs

www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

Mohol mať @miloshroch.bsky.social čítačku Šeptej nahlas o českom shoegaze na festivale s lepšou témou ako je Väzbi? Na Braku čítal v Rómerovom dome do gitáry a efektov Obelisk of Light obeliskoflight.bandcamp.com. Jeden z highlightov tohtoročného BRaKu, spolu s “detskou Pecha-Kucha” na dvore MMB

Adam Badí Donoval from Bratislava gets a deserved praise in the recent newsletter of @philipsherburne.bsky.social . His last album from 2022 was a comforting and hope-full listen , this one is dark and moody mappa.bandcamp.com/album/a-mirr...

Could be Buchbox where I bought my copy too! Just finishing it with #1 West. I couldn’t resist and read the chapters zigzag, starting with Centre, following with North and East. Loved the parts where you stroll around the places, like Čachtice, wooden churches in Ruthenia, or Chernivitsi.

An urgent message from The Wire magazine - The Wire Running an independent music magazine is becoming increasingly difficult. We need your support

An urgent message from The Wire magazine

Running an independent music magazine is becoming increasingly difficult. We need your support

www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

Three things we learned about Sam Altman by scoping his kitchen All Drizzle, no sizzle

“His kitchen is a catalogue of inefficiency, incomprehension, and waste. If that’s any indication of how he runs the company, insolvency cannot be considered too unrealistic a threat.” www.ft.com/content/b180...

NTS | Don't Assume NTS is a global radio platform broadcasting music from over 50 cities around the globe, live 24/7.

Early Bird Shows with Spirit Blue is soundtracking my morning tea almost every week. Love for the scheduled media & rituals they make happen www.nts.live

Lifetime, by Erika de Casier 11 track album

Denmark has no shortage of songwriting and production talent: Efterklang, Smerz, Quadron. Erika de Casier is from Portugal, lives in Copenhagen and knows how to use her voice and production skills. Her new album Lifetime is wrapped in lush trip-hop beats erikadecasier.bandcamp.com/album/lifetime

TikTok EU ban kedy?

@lewis

New additions to the library: along the lines of the border & party lines. @lewisbaston.bsky.social on the places locked in between countries, mountains and rivers. @ehgillett.bsky.social on the spaces and events in between legal and illegal, mainstream and underground.

Great solo show “Many Worlds Over” by Ayoung Kim at the Hamburger Bahnof.Digital&analogue media based story of two delivery drivers meeting between future Seoul and timezone wraps. The sequel to the main movie has been commisioned&is on display @acmimuseum.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3xP...

Čítanie predposlednej kapitoly o konci shoegaze a EOST v pôvodnej zostave bolo silné, pustil som si Free-D a do toho išla búrka. Prvýkrát a naposledy som album počul 4 roky po vydaní na svojom prvom napálenom CD s mp3. Asi som vtedy na to nemal aparát a setting, teraz mi ten zvuk zafungoval.

Výborná kniha! Historiek z natáčania, tripovania a cestovania tak akurát. Kultúrne a dobové referencie, archívne materiály a rozhovory nakombimované.Pripomenula mi Gaming the Iron Curtain @electroslav.bsky.social v tom, ako dokumentuje kultúru počas zmeny režimu bez stereotypov.

YouTube video by Joshua Citarella Ezra Klein: Abundance Politics | Doomscroll

Obrat podcastov k videu som zachytil, ale nevedel som akú škálu a hĺbku to má, vďaka za tip.Podobný príklad ako Ezra je @joshuacitarella.bsky.social , z opačnej časti spektra ako Tate/Rogan. Má podobný dosah na YT ako Ezra, nedávno s ním mal jeden diel youtu.be/NzODyazKIC8

“It was year zero”: Miloš Hroch maps ‘90s Czech shoegaze scene in new book A new book by Miloš Hroch traces the early 1990s shoegaze music scene in this country, when Czech bands made a splash internationally for perhaps the only time.

This was a fun interview, and @ianwilloughby.bsky.social had serious questions about my Czech shoegaze book. We were trying to figure out why shoegaze symbolised the rupture after the 1989 revolution, and the year zero was soundtracked by massive guitar distortion.

english.radio.cz/it-was-year-...

Whisper Aloud: Czech shoegaze between the East and the West

Just got my hands on this fresh-off-the-press book by the great @miloshroch.bsky.social. He’s throwing light at the czech shoegaze movement from the after-velvet-revolution times which got recognition around/beyond Europe. Extract from the book on @thequietus.com thequietus.com/culture/book...

Herb Sundays 149: Dntel The singular Los Angeles producer Jimmy Tamborello (Dntel, The Postal Service, Strictly Ballroom) delivers the "twinkly, gentle, and cozy." + Enya, happy accidents, and more.

Sam Valenti IV of the @ghostlyint.bsky.social fame digs in the vaults and brings back memories of the early 00s pop electronica masterpieces from DNTEL and Postal Service open.substack.com/pub/herbsund...

Where were you in 1984?

Big Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead Effective accelerationists didn’t just accidentally shoot themselves in the foot. They methodically blew off each of their toes with a .50 caliber sniper rifle.

Big Tech backed Trump for acceleration.

They got a decel President instead

Effective accelerationists didn’t just accidentally shoot themselves in the foot. They methodically blew off each of their toes with a .50 caliber sniper rifle.

🔗 www.404media.co/big-tech-bac...

Prievoz orbital

Blunt question: How far does Zuck have to go until you delete your Insta / FB account? I understand how these might be embedded in some aspects of your social life or information feeds, I was in the same position. But keeping the accounts will be soon get as unbearable as keeping Twitter.

The MIT Museum,Harvard Art Museum and Damon Krukowski conversation took me (flash)back to Museweb 19 in Boston, great times.Things happening in US must have imprinted an eerie feeling to the visit. I was considering to go to the East coast this spring for Future Museum meet, but I’m not anymore.

How will Trump's executive order affect the Smithsonian? The Smithsonian Institution, a vast complex of research centers, museums and galleries, is the latest culture target of President Trump's executive orders.

www.npr.org/2025/03/28/n...

Dobrý postreh, aj keď sú rozdiely vo forme, rýchlosti pri ničení kultúrnych inštitúcí (najnovšie Smithsonian). USA: zarezaný rozpočet a odstránenie “nežiadúcich prvkov DEI” ako história afroameričanov a hnutí za práva žien. U nás: živelný rozklad kultúry bez tejto stratégie,funguje len vďaka času.

Betón, krása na pohled

Maria Somerville’s selection and soothing voice on NTS Early Bird Show always makes my day. Her new album Luster comming up on @4ad.com fits the label but isn’t confined with the dream pop and shoegaze tags. Have a listen mariasomerville.bandcamp.com/album/luster

Dumb and Dumber 4: Trump staff stepping in

40: All the things Spotify didn't want you to know but Liz Pelly found out How Spotify filled our troughes with streambait, fake artists and AI slop.

As a teaser, listen to the interview about the book on the ever great No Tags podcast open.substack.com/pub/notagspo...