Bought! LIKE THE ARTWORK! Will listen in depth soon enough.

Glad they did a proper new transfer and mastering of the tapes.

I also find this concert recording way less anemic than the KEXP one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzdZsoRKbto


The above IS more flattering than what I've heard of this band in passing. For the record, I don't have strong opinions about them. I remember, back in like the mid-aughts or ...

Old music, mind you, but someone finally made an official reissue of The Hamilton Movement's "She's Gone," one of the best singles OF ALL TIME:

[media]https://nowagainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/shes-gone[/media]

Have got a bootleg of it in the other room, but this version was transferred and ...

Discovered today that the Criterion Channel now has Four Nights of a Dreamer on tap, which hopefully means a spine number is imminent. And maybe Une Femme Douce --highly underrated--will finally get restored and put out by . . . someone?? That one is long overdue. There's a bunch of other Bresson ...

Yeah, makes sense, further delineating the online site of an active, functioning business with a message board featuring a bunch of oldish dogs who may or may not have anything to do with it.

On the one hand, there are the people with whom one has "official business." And on the other, there's "the ...

Badminton might be the single most underrated sport. Have always loved it.

I like that you can do it on any large enough patch of cut grass, regardless of how closely cropped it is. You could play it indoors too or on asphalt, if you could get the posts to stand up.

I like that the shuttlecock ...

I'd known of this LP a while back, then got a rip of it around the early 2010s, but only recently picked up a copy on vinyl. I like it a lot, but it's a curious little collection of songs. For (but not limited to) the following reasons . . .

- It's the only solo LP by Mayo Thompson, apparently ...

Not having an active Twitter or Instagram account, or whathaveyou, I haven't followed all of the hullabaloo surrounding Wim Wenders's statement at this year's Berlinale, that artists "have to stay out of politics."

Feels like a lot of contention could have been avoided if he'd simply said, "Artists ...

Originally it was just going to be in response to the Angine de Poirtrine thread, but then I thought I'd bring some other bands into the mix.

Good noise:

https://hiraeth6.bandcamp.com/album/pms


Ok - so I’m biting on the artwork here - not the overdone nude girl thing, but what the fuck is on the floor? Are they fish? Is she meant to be seeking refuge in a demonic future world of dead fish and the only safe place is standing on ...