Minotaur Shock
New Minotaur Shock album on 4AD: “Instead of doing a Radiohead and asking you to pay what you think the music is worth, I have decided to try and explain what I feel the music is worth, and explain…
anglepoised stream
A partwork that builds week by week into a valuable resource.
Or a tumblelog to you, dear reader.
Others:
- 2lmc spool
- Anarchaia
- Bifurcated Rivets
- Daily Chump
- david thair's tumblefeed
- Headlessness
- Maskingtape
- one.point.zero
- Online Oxygen
- roamin
- Polymath Blues
- projectionist
- The Tumblelist
- TZG2.0
FORA.tv - Neal Stephenson: Science Fiction as a Literary Gen
“Neal Stephenson delivered a talk entitled The Fork: Science Fiction versus Mundane Culture at Gresham College. Four professors discuss the origins of science fiction, its overlap with other genres…
soundamus
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“ I didn’t RTFA, but I for one welcome our new, naked Natalie Portman and grits overlords, to which CmdrTaco replied, “you must be new here.” He’s a Twitter sock-puppet, but so am I, you insensitive clod! In Soviet Russia, the only way to be sure is for orbit to nuke you with a beowulf cluster (yes, it runs Linux!). ??? Profit! I am trying to condense Slashdot down to a fine extract. Anyone else want to see if they can perfect it?
Band Leaks Own Album, Blames Pirates
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Malcolm Middleton & Alan Bissett - The Rebel on His Own Tonight (1,141 plays on Last.fm)
A collaboration by erstwhile Arab Strap member Malcolm Middleton and Falkirk-based author Alan Bissett, from the Chemikal Underground Records compilation Ballads of the Book.AL Kennedy on a collaboration between Scottish writers and musicians:
Lyrical folk, politicised rage, a shattering meditation on death, a chat with Jesus, love, hate and Calvinism - it’s a varied compilation with an underlying commitment that makes it curiously unified, and not a Scottish cliché to be found.
Play count: 6
Orwell Diaries
“To mark the 70th anniversary of the [Orwell] diaries, each diary entry will be published on this blog exactly seventy years after it was written.”
“ Mix tapes mark the moment of consumer culture in which listeners attained control over what they heard, in what order and at what cost. It liberated us from music stores and radios in the same way radios and recordings liberated generations earlier from the need to be present at the performance of live music.
From Mix Tape, edited by Thurston Moore.