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FOR SALE
Sebastian Williams & His Soul Men- "The One You Can't Have" / "Shucks" (1969, Cotillion 7" promo)
VG/generic; $20 shipped.

You know it's a good night on the decks when Kurt Bloch rushes over to praise you for spinning an Aphrodite's Child track (“Air”) that he thought only *he* played out.

404 Media Is Making a Zine We are publishing a risograph-printed zine about the surveillance technologies used by ICE.

404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:

www.404media.co/404-media-is...

RIP, Scott Richardson, vocalist of Detroit psych-prog group SRC. Wrote about their fantastic 1968 debut album earlier this year.

jivetimerecords.com/2025/03/src-...

On sale at Waĺl Of Sound in Seattle for $25. Somebody needs this.

Sold.

Yes, he might be the only one.

This supports my long-held belief that political pundits damn near universally possess awful musical taste.

It's hugely disappointing to find out that one of my favorite political pundits, a Black man in his 30s, is a fan of Creed and Limp Bizkit—and even sings their songs at karaoke.

FOR SALE
Demdike Stare- Wonderland [2016, Modern Love 3xCD deluxe edition]
Includes 2 bonus discs containing all of the tracks from the Test Pressing EPs.
VG+/VG++; $23 shipped.

Guy in front of me in the record shop is looking up Discogs prices in front of the shop-owner *after he’s been given a deal on the records.

The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.

"The Parliaments with the Funkedelic" [sic]

This may have been the only time that Iggy Pop, George Clinton, and Ted Nugent were in the same room.

You have my attention. Didn't know about this one. RIP, legend.

I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.

*shakes fist at sky*
No Seattle date for Adrian Sherwood's 2026 N American tour?!?!

Mid-'70s David Lynch looked like he could've been in the Stone Roses.

FOR SALE
Egisto Macchi- Fauna Marina [2019, http://btf.it]
Reissue of the 1972 Italian library-music classic.
VG+/VG+; $24 shipped.

YouTube video by Booker T. & the M.G.’s - Topic Chicken Pox

RIP, Memphis soul man/guitar maestro Steve Cropper. "Green Onions" is a minimalist masterpiece every bit the equal of anything Riley, Reich, Glass, or Young have done. (I'm not posting it here because you should already have every second memorized.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGHq...

i'm actually struck by how pete hegseth isn't just a cowardly man but a capital-c Coward. a guy who gets off on abusing and hurting people he thinks are weaker than him and then tries to run and hide when there might be consequences

Went to a market to pick up one item and in the 3 minutes I was there I heard the end of Funkadelic's “Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On” and Lafayette Afro Rock Band's “Hihache.” It's weird to enter a public space and feel as if you've stumbled upon one of your DJ sets.

Please check out my new feature on Danz CM, a canny electronic musician/vocalist and obsessive chronicler of synthesizers on her Synth History blog, via @thetonearm.com .

FOR SALE
Au Pairs- Sense And Sensuality [1982, Kamera]
UK original press. VG+/VG; $50 shipped.

The Tonearm | putting a needle on the cultural wax Interviews, commentary, and creative kudos abound.

re: The Tonearm

I'd like to bring on another writer to our online mag who specializes in experimental music, be it freak-out jazz, post-classical, sound art, outsider noise, or delicious combinations of those … must have writing experience (this can be your blog/newsletter) + into doing interviews

Imagine my consternation when I saw stamps at the post office bearing the haughty visage of William F. Buckley. I say, this is a most noisome abomination! I demand a Gore Vidal stamp! I demand a Susan Sontag stamp! I demand a Greg Tate stamp!

Iggy Pop: “Ron [Asheton] for quite a while visited [The Three Stooges'] Larry Fine, and he would bring Larry cigars and whiskey and stuff like that.”

I wonder if Moe was jealous...

FOR SALE
Demdike Stare- Test Pressing Vols. 1-7 (full run) [2013-2015, Modern Love]
All vinyl is VG+-VG++ and housed in generic test-pressing paper sleeves, with each volume containing a thick paper insert with track info. Hoping to sell this as a set; $130 shipped.

This sure beats "404 Page Not Found."

TIL that Cher covered the Zombies' "This Will Be Our Year"... while I was shopping for a 2026 daily planner.