Emily Bick

The Shards is so good. I hate to to even mention it because it's on spotify, but some guy there put together a playlist of all the songs that are mentioned in that book and it is a monster tribute & labour of love

YouTube video by CastleRatVEVO Castle Rat - WIZARD

The first comment on YouTube for this video is "This song sounds like it's airbrushed onto the side of a van" and there has perhaps never been a more apt assessment of a song than this

youtu.be/DyhYzRRMBSU

Walter Steding, Otherworldly One-Man Band and Portraitist, Is Dead at 75

RIP WALTER STEDING
as a weird underground nyc violinist steding was always second (in my mind, anyway) to boris policeband, but that ain't hay.
no firewall

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/a...

Leonardo DiCaprio has stopped using Wikipedia.

oh wow, i did not know that he went to burning man, but considering the kinds of losers who do go it tracks

At the launch I'll be in conversation with pop culture savant Travis Elborough. I'll be showing the short film my son Max made to promote the book, and giving away copies of the rare "Amor Fati" CD, of tracks by my band The Know, with every book sold.

this has to be AI, look at the wonky place settings and plate sizes; also the angle/legs on that coffee table are freaking me out, everything should be sliding off

if you want a phone number for him email me at my Wire address (can't get DMs here because of the passport scan age verification thing)

unspun, thanks autocorrect

haha looks like this is probably the rec from unseen heroes below! but he is good & not too much £££

try chris camm at jack's hairdressers in soho, he does all the rock guys of a certain age who are more 60s mod/psych inflected, he will not do any broccoli head/mullet madness.

Hope the medics sort it out and your gf is feeling better soon, Dan

It only applies to people based in the UK, some stupid age verification law for most websites here now, since summer...think bluesky applies the block by IP address; messages showed up when I went to Switzerland...if you're accessing from the US shouldn't be a problem.

For whoever tried to message me on the chat here, I can't read those because I'm not sending bluesky a scan of my passport for "age verification". Please send a general message or email me, or try my mastodon instead. Thanks!

modesty laws prevented showing even one lousy frame of John Waters' PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) in the trailer, so the only footage in it is of people reacting to a screening they just came out of. every single type of extant queer person is contained in the specific sequences I have selected here

This year I've noticed high fashion piggybacking on experimental cultures that are much more precarious and amorphous than it.

Is this new? What effect does it have? Is it even a problem?

Attempted to answer these questions in this short end-of-year essay for @thewiremagazine.bsky.social

Authoritarians used to burn books. Now their collaborators burn literacy.

Well this rules.

If you’re not familiar, a chanson is a polyphonic composition typically of late medieval and Renaissance vintage.

If you like this sound and want to go looking for more, I highly recommend listening to the work of Josquin de Prez.

Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social & Resonance Extra, Shane Woolman hosts The Wire's weekly show, playing a selection of tracks taken from the magazine's Top 50 Releases Of The Year.

Tune in from 9pm GMT extra.resonance.fm/schedule

This is 100% infuriating.

sucks to see AI abstracts added to researchers' papers without consent, also appropriate that ✨is the official emoji of AI because:

At The Wire website, listen to a selection of tracks from our Top 50 Releases of the Year, as voted for by The Wire’s team of staff and contributors.

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

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when you get to this point, why should anyone even bother reading? just zone out & let tiktok tell you where to queue...jay rayner is admirably restrained in his comments at the end

silly film for sure but that is the dumbest explanation for its premise: even if 52% of the population is under 25, only the ones from 18-25 would have been able to vote (and the constitution forbids anyone under 35 from the job)--but ignoring the constitution and innumeracy, hmmm

New show! With some holiday surprises 🎶

you guys need to cool it with the cheese before bedtime

it's just amazing that your brain went there at all--dream logic is something else. I had a friend who used to do comic strips of people's dreams; wish he was still at it, this would be a good one for him

microfiche!!!!

Before and after.

Here's to 500 more issues. Thanks to all who have helped us along the way.

(Cake made by Jill Tipping.)