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NEW ISSUE OUT NOW! We have synthpop giants PROPAGANDA on the cover of the latest Electronic Sound and we’re issuing the mag with a clear vinyl seven-inch featuring superb new mixes of the band’s classic tracks ‘Dr Mabuse’ and ‘Duel’. Get your copy at electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/magazine

Bandcamp Bans AI Music AI music has become a big problem on streaming services. Remember the Velvet Sundown, the AI-generated psych-rock band from last year with hundreds of thousands of Spotify streams? Remember bands gett...

Bandcamp bans AI music

LAST NAMES TOMORROW 🖤

We’re revealing the final additions to our music program tomorrow, and that’s not all.
Film, art & performance announcements are coming up very soon, including the timeschedule.

More info: Grauzonefestival.com

ICE Can Access Your Social Media. Here’s What To Know – Featured – Borderless Magazine NFP ICE Can Access Your Social Media. Here’s What To Know – Featured – Borderless Magazine NFP

“Unfortunately, immigrants and noncitizens should now assume that anything they share publicly on social media might be surveilled by the government and potentially used against them,” EFF’s Lisa Femia told @borderlessmag.bsky.social.

That must be really crazy to realize that literally billions of people want you to drop dead…

Is Robert allergic to playing “All At Once” live or something?

Geneva Jacuzzi is giving us Sigourney Weaver in Ghostbusters vibes tonight

I’ve said “stupid bitch ass republican bitches” so much, it’s lost all meaning…

Is there anything worse than a clout chaser?

The singer Addison Rae and the movie ‘Requiem For A Dream’ were released 25 years ago today 🥳

So, you’re counting on the right-wing cops to arrest the right-wing SA troopers?

I joined to read their nonsense dribble

Sonic Youth Tease 2026 News On Washing Machine’s 30th Anniversary Sonic Youth broke up in 2011, seemingly irrevocably, amidst the divorce of formerly married bandleaders Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon. In the years since then, Gordon has not exactly given off the imp...

Today is the 30th anniversary 'Washing Machine,' and Sonic Youth are using that occasion to tease some 2026 news

Haute and Freddy are like Chappell Roan except good

It’s World Goth Day. Happy birthday, Charli XCX. @charlixcxofficial.bsky.social

Taiwan Appoints Metal Singer Envoy To Finland We have a pope from Chicago, and now Finland has an envoy from a metal band. Freddy Lim is the frontman of the group Chthonic, and he was chosen by President Lai Ching-te as Taiwan’s ambassador of the...

Taiwan has appointed Freddy Lim, frontman of the metal band Chthonic, envoy to Finland.

Finland has the most metal bands per capita, with around 80 for every 100,000 citizens.

We chat with Darrin Huss of Psyche about the legacy of the Canadian synthpop legends. www.idieyoudie.com/2025/05/22/w...

It’s great until it’s packed wall to wall with a bunch of stinky goths

An important lesson from Jean-Luc Picard that I’m still sharing all these years later.

Tracks: March 17th, 2025 | I Die: You Die New jams from Riki, Lead Into Gold, Ultra Sunn, Iszoloscope, Dark Chisme, and Brixx.

New jams from Riki, Lead Into Gold, Ultra Sunn, Iszoloscope, Dark Chisme, and Brixx.

www.idieyoudie.com/2025/03/17/t...

Chicago! Get your Tickets! 🌹 ministryband.com/tour

Can California stop paying their state money to the feds? Like, is there a way to cut their bratty step kid off of his allowance?

So we’re just driving everywhere for 4 years? Got it…

The DEI is coming from inside the house!

Nick Fuentes makes me reconsider my feelings about doxxing.

Luigi Manigone makes me contemplate unconventional ways to save lives.

And now James Woods is helping me find positive takeaways with devastating wildfires.

Next body of water name change: The Specific Ocean