Rants // RIP Social Media (2008-2016)
Love him or hate him, Ted Gioia got it absolutely right when he titled his recent essay Social Media is Now Shrinking. Try asking anyone you know about the prospect …
Live Shows // Miki Berenyi Trio at the Sinclair by Adam Weitzman
Great show by Miki Berenyi Trio at The Sinclair in Cambridge last night. Thanks so much for slogging through the rain AND the visa issues to get here and play …
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Radio Shows // Cosmic Church of I Heart Noise – Ep. 72
Tracklist Visible Light – Losing Leaves Disinblud (Rachika Nayar & Nina Keith) – Give‐upping (feat. Julianna Barwick) (Smugglers Way) Joseph Decosimo – Pretty Fair Maid (Dear Life Records) Gwenifer Raymond – …
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Dispatches from the Underground // Bandcamp Friday – October 2025
Boulder Fields Ironic Hill – MASTER PEESE / The kinda Velvets-tinged, melancholic, lo-fi guitar tunes that 80s Creation records used to specialise in, mixed with intimate, hypnotic, ambient acoustic motifs. …
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Dispatches from the Underground // October 2025 – Pt. 1
New Music Umulamahri – Learning the Secrets of Acid (h/t Svvan “gone” Ronson a.k.a. Cory Peterson) The Implicit Order – Disposable Outcome (h/t John Lithium) Patrick Shiroishi – Forgetting is …
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Rants // Steve Albini vs The Music Biz
Chances are – if you’re into indie/punk rock and were a teenager in the 90s you probably remember Steve Albini’s essay “The Problem with Music“. If not, its very much …
Radio Shows // Cosmic Church of I Heart Noise – Ep. 71
Yara Asmar – 3 wooden giants and mechanical birds (Time Released Sound) Richard Carr – Chiffon (Infrequent Seams) Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin – Chahar (Drag City) Natural …
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Report Cards // Telepaths: Pt. 1
Roundup of reviews for Telepaths by William Carlos Whitten aka Bill Whitten and his mysterious companion Diana Crash! The two bonded over their love of literature upon a chance meeting …
Dispatches from the Underground // September 2025 – Pt. 2
New Music Pulselovers – Northern Minimalism 4 (Lunar Module) / 2CD collection of remixes of tracks from Northern Minimalism 1-3 (a 7”, a 10” & an LP). Everyone in a …
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Rants // How to Build a Local Scene by Peretsky
Max Alper aka Peretsky is a composer, audio technologist, educator, writer and a wiseass Original Bluesky thread You do not need to be a musician to personally participate in cultivating …