Em Reed (Debut novel MORE BUGS out now)!!!

A Quora post that says: "I can feel my soul getting darker and evil and I can't help it. What do I do?"

But things are always moving. And we're moving in the realm of aesthetics, which is not their terrain, though they trespass on it briefly, and think they have the map and the territory, ha ha

I am kind of at a nadir of optimism on this topic despite getting more involved in and enjoying zine related stuff because of how enclosed and systematically eliminated everything that encourages peer-based collaboration and creative sharing online has been lately. So I get extra pissed off abt it

I am just really tired of like "professional" small business whatever people shitting up entire scenes or infrastructures and then acting like they didn't do anything lol but at the same time like they HAD to and anyone who wouldn't do what they did are the bad ones. like hmm

Woah remember when Stephen wrote this? harmonyzone.org/text/busines...

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You gotta remember to sanity block the same people over here that you did in the other place

SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE

Ok, for Bandcamp Friday, OOOPS all bands I've seen this year!

First off SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE. This was an amazing gig, felt like seeing early Sonic Youth must have, I think??? They have been doing dreamy, noisy, beautiful, depressing music for a while now: spiritofthebeehive.bandcamp.com

the sweetfish.site advent calendar

better late than wait! the 88x31 button advent calendar is now live 🎁

Yaaay music <3

Party Dozen A sonic partnering of saxophonist Kirsty Tickle and percussionist Jonathan Boulet, Party Dozen is a project loosely based around improvisation.

And finally... Party Dozen... this shit is crazy. If you want kids to stick with marching band you should be letting them listen to this rather than making them line up and play the fucking Forrest Gump theme party-dozen.bandcamp.com

NEGATIVE BLAST Getting on by getting off.

Negative Blast.... love them... blissfully high energy hardcore. The show was great and I have been listening pretty regularly since negativeblast.bandcamp.com

Bikini Body https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/weird-party https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/weirder-party

I'm so glad I went to see Bikini Body on a whim... super funky and one of the best pits I've ever been in bikinibody.bandcamp.com

Thank The Rock Band Thank From Leeds. "Mischievous agit-rock philosophers." - Steve Lamacq "Obnoxious noise fuelled punk for the dance floors." - Birthday Cake For Breakfast "This Leeds band pairs brawny...

We saw them with Thank who were really fun. I keep saying fun but lol looking at the titles of these albums/songs... it's music that makes being miserable less bad let's say thankleeds.bandcamp.com

mclusky mclusky were a band between 1999 and 2005 and now they are a band again I know, mindblowing. go wonder at the night. mclusky firmly believe that all djs should be French

OK winding it up... there's a new mclusky album. If you like all the other mclusky albums it is also really good mcluskymclusky.bandcamp.com

FADED INTENTIONS, by False Reality 12 track album

And False Reality... just shred-tastic, imo falserealityhc.bandcamp.com/album/faded-...

Gout

My other favs from Core... Gout seems kinda new but really interesting and put on a great show goutgoutgout.bandcamp.com/music

DITZ Post post-punk from Brighton, UK EU STORE: shop.bingomerch.com/collections/ditz UK/EU/ROW booking: andy@lovethyneighbourmusic.co.uk MGMT: andy@lovethyneighbourmusic.co.uk UK PRESS: amy@afterhoursp...

Speaking of noise, DITZ was my favorite new discovery at Core festival this year. Definitely want to see them live again, but the recordings hold me over until then... ditzband.bandcamp.com

Wolf Eyes Wolf Eyes is from Michigan. They are known for their bizarre and otherworldly approach to everything.

I also increased my noise cred by getting to see Wolf Eyes... um... wow they're prolific wolf-eyes.bandcamp.com

Clachan Dubh, by Dragged Up track by Dragged Up

Dragged Up opened at that gig I think, which was a nice, appropriately-groovy accompaniment draggedup.bandcamp.com

Chaotic Shimmer, by Charles Moothart/CFM 6 track album

Charles Moothart & band were also a great show, very classically rockin' cfmmusic.bandcamp.com

Osees Psych-punk psychic warrior, ear worm-farmer, and possessor of many stamped passport pages John Dwyer does not let up. His group Oh Sees (aka Thee Oh Sees, OCS, The Oh Sees, etc) have transmogrified to...

We also got to see Osees with their amazing post-SORCS 80 setup. You already know this shit, it's good: ohsees.bandcamp.com

Erotic Secrets of Pompeii Apocalyptic art rock from the forbidden zone 🐐🛸🦷🔪⚰ linktr.ee/esop

EROTIC SECRETS OF POMPEII - A very fun surprise. Came for the Old Time Relijun-like single but the broader catalog is a really interesting synthesis of New Wave and Goth eroticsecretsofpompeii.bandcamp.com

SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE

Ok, for Bandcamp Friday, OOOPS all bands I've seen this year!

First off SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE. This was an amazing gig, felt like seeing early Sonic Youth must have, I think??? They have been doing dreamy, noisy, beautiful, depressing music for a while now: spiritofthebeehive.bandcamp.com

If you have ever enjoyed or learned from a zine, would you join me in sharing or donating to this GoFundMe, for an artist who is a friend of friends and who is currently incarcerated and facing deportation related to allegedly having and moving some anarchist zines?

The Third Policeman!! It's great.

If I didn't have a dayjob I'd maybe compile the book on this process haha.... it is definitely a phenomenon that deserves that level of analysis

I have been getting a lot (of connections, of feeling like my work is circulating in the world... for cash I just about break even) from zine fairs... there are places that are encouraging but they're definitely not driven by metrics

from the wikipedia page for The Third Policeman: Publication history In 1940, O'Nolan completed the novel and circulated the typescript among friends in Dublin. He submitted it to Longman's, the English publisher of his first novel, At Swim-Two-Birds, but they declined to publish it. O'Nolan believed that Graham Greene, who had been a champion of his at Longman, was still a reader with the company, but he was not. Consequently, the novel fell on less sympathetic ears. The rejection notice read in part: We realize the author's ability but think that he should become less fantastic and in this new novel he is more so. The American author William Saroyan, who had become acquainted with O'Nolan during a brief stay in Dublin, offered the use of his literary agent in finding an American publisher, but with no success. O'Nolan made no further attempts at publication and shelved the manuscript, claiming that it had been lost. O'Nolan told his friends that while driving through Donegal the boot of his car opened unknown to him, causing the manuscript to flutter out page by page until it was gone. In reality he left it on the sideboard in his dining room, in plain view to him every day as he ate, for 26 years.

Anyways, a beautiful story, a terrible story, about one of my favorite novels, which I think of often, having to live with my basically unmarketable artistic practice

There has literally never been a stronger exhortation, at the cultural level, to sell out. Which means you get basically nothing for doing so now... ha ha