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Ground Hum Fest Strives to Draw You into an Alternate Reality In a mere four years, Ground Hum has risen from an experimental multimedia festival at makeshift warehouses with infrastructure issues and strictly local performers to a full-fledged Happening™ at a l...

Wrote about the Seattle multimedia festival Ground Hum for The Stranger. Lineup includes upsammy, Joy Guidry, and Raica, ( @chloeharris.bsky.social ).

www.thestranger.com/music/2026/0...

Local Physical Media Producers Defy the Algorithmic Overlords In 1984, American science fiction writer William Gibson defined “cyberspace” (a term he coined) as “a consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators” in the near-future...

Physical media offers artists a type of freedom that can never be recreated digitally.

Pretty fitting given the people in charge of things that basically every attempted official justification for what the US was going for in Iran and why they hadn't foreseen any of the extremely foreseeable consequences is basically at the level of something you'd hear during a field sobriety stop.

Does anyone have any photos of Columbia Records execs listening to Herbie Hancock's "Rain Dance"? Asking for me.

Hello, there. John Cale's Vintage Violence begins with one of the strongest 4-song runs in rock history.

March Things to Do: Music The best concerts and dance nights happening in March.

Previewed upcoming shows by Truly, Steve Hauschildt/Kara-Lis Coverdale, Cochemea, Tara Clerkin Trio, Champagne Bubblebath, and THC.XLR/Erin Jorgensen for @thestranger.com.
www.thestranger.com/arts/2026/03...

Great news: Tonto's Expanding Head Band legend Robert Margouleff has a memoir coming out in May on Jawbone Press.

I've become really good at getting rejected by Seattle's huge non-commercial radio station. Third time's the harm [sic].

If I had a dollar for every FB friend request that features a white stranger with a guitar in the profile pic, I'd be able to afford VIP tickets to a Neil Young concert.

Tulsi Gabbard released a fundraising video in 2019 titled "Trump's Path To War With Iran"

"We've gotta stop Donald Trump from starting a war with Iran."

FOR SALE
Wax Poetics magazine #49 Latin Issue (2011). VG+; $25 shipped.

I imagine all the women who appeared on Roxy Music LP covers throw a party every year at which they talk shit about Bryan Ferry.

in Seattle, on Saturday, at Seven

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:

This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

You can just say things.

For a while in the '70s, the Rutles were Innes-capable.

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Andrzej Marko/Andre Mikola- Fly Me To The Sun [2023 Be With reissue of the 1983 Coloursound Library original]
This is the back cover.
NM/NM; $26 shipped.

At last night's DJ gig, I was playing a track by Alessandro Alessandroni, which had a very nice guitar part. This guy approached me and earnestly said, “I've been playing guitar since I was 8.” Momentarily stunned, I said, “That's cool,” and then began rummaging through my record bag.

Seattle tonight! Here’s @davesegal.bsky.social ‘s write up for The Stranger.

Does anybody proofread or fact check anymore?

Democrats in four states seek to bar ICE employees from future civil service jobs Bills aim to make ICE employees ineligible for jobs in law enforcement, public education and state civil service

this is the way

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It's maddening that American Music Club's two best albums—Engine and California—aren't on Qobuz.

This passage from Wiki on Can's mostly wretched Out Of Reach LP cracked me up. The English is as broken as the songs.

YouTube video by CAVS CAVS - Candiru (Official Music Video)

Hey, King Gizzard drummer Michael “CAVS” Cavanagh's new single sounds like Can's “One More Saturday Night.” His new album's allegedly influenced by Herbie Hancock, Billy Cobham, Alice Coltrane, Tony Williams, and Harvey Mason. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ-x...

FOR SALE
Don & The Goodtimes- "Turn On" / "Make It" [1964, Wand 7"] VG/generic; $20 shipped.

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Eve- "The Warrior" / "It Don't Matter To Me" [2021, Munster/LHI 7"]
Reissue of a song that originally appeared on an album recorded in 1968 by this Detroit girl group (as Honey Ltd.) and released on Lee Hazlewood's label. B-side's a David Gates cover. VG++/NM; $20 shipped.

Every news story is now “State Senator Randy Pervert (R-Springfield) was indicted on 8 counts of lewd behavior with a child under 12 and has been put on paid leave from his two jobs as Border Patrol liaison and youth pastor at First Presbyterian (PCA) where parishioners say they were ‘blindsided.’”

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The Everly Brothers- "Mary Jane" / "Talking To The Flowers" [1967, Warner Bros. promo, styrene]
VG/generic; $20 shipped.

Maybe the bravest beginning to any rock album is “Eternal Caravan Of Reincarnation” off of Santana's Caravanserai: 35 seconds of cricket chitter.

YouTube video by Mousiko Kaleidoscopio The Drones - I Haven't Got The Nerve

I've been into the Left Banke for decades, but only learned of this nice 1967 cover of "I Haven't Got The Nerve" by the Drones last night, thanks to fellow DJ Maxwell Edison.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOj_...