Uni’s dad is cream, and his mom is orange and white… yet Uni was born black and white. No one else in the family has his black-and-white coat or his :3 face either. He was an only kitten too. Uni really is a miracle cat!
for the latest @thewiremagazine.bsky.social, my visit to Kirana East and a conversation with the disciples of Terry Riley: www.thewire.co.uk/issues/510
The Wire 510
On the cover: Fire-Toolz : Prolific producer and musician Angel Marcloid’s colourful world-building and genre collisions open portals to new dimensions. By Emily Bick; Franck Vigroux : The French mu...
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go down to BAM today & catch nick ray’s thwarted floridian allegory of nature and progress, Wind Across the Everglades. my thoughts over at @screenslate.bsky.social www.screenslate.com/articles/win...
Wind Across the Everglades
After an insult to a society lady in 1900s Miami, idealistic schoolteacher Walt Murdock (a fresh-faced Christopher Plummer) is drafted as an Audubon game warden and charged with enforcing Florida’s hu...
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is basilica doing soundscape this year or has woodsist won the crunchy hudson valley festival wars once and for all
Happy 91st birthday to the incomparable Terry Riley, one of our greatest American seekers.
RIP MAGGOT BRAIN — the only magazine that would ever pay me to write a 7,000 word history of a Feelies side project that never released a record
patrons to the estimable @aquariumdrunkard.com can read my thoughts on inferno, boards of canada's subtle & surreal new album (DM if you positively *need* a link): aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/06/06/b...
Boards of Canada :: Inferno - Aquarium Drunkard
In our particulate-dense media environment, a decade-plus silence takes on the weight of a gesture in its own right—an invitation to focus, to stay awhile. Structurally, Inferno is less interested in ...
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howard brookner's recently rescued documentary is an excellent entry point to the work of the late robert wilson, screening tonight at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social. i wrote about it for my friends at @screenslate.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/rob...
Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars
Would you break a strike for art’s sake? At the risk of letting the wolf of reaction in the door, the question becomes irrepressible at the climax of Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars (1987), Howard Br...
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RIP to michael parenti, many of whose impassioned, penetrating, often amusing lectures are collected on this stealth podcast channel podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...
YellowParenti
Politics Podcast · YellowParenti
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is there a metabolic turn in experimental rock? does it hold potential for a new aesthetic confrontation with the data regime? what my friends at @thewiremagazine.bsky.social indulged me to suggest is, maybe? www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...
Process of Time - The Wire
To make sense of ongoing tech revolutions, a new generation of musicians is making music that metabolises electronic processes through analogue forms, argues Ryan Meehan
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got to interview weir maybe a dozen times & he was always lovely. but he also spoke very slowly, with long thoughtful pauses that made me think we'd been disconnected, but i didn't want to be interupt. so once, when we actually did get disconnected mid-thought, it took me far too long to notice.
To make sense of ongoing tech revolutions, a new generation of musicians is making music that metabolises electronic processes through analogue forms, argues Ryan Meehan www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...
Process of Time - The Wire
To make sense of ongoing tech revolutions, a new generation of musicians is making music that metabolises electronic processes through analogue forms, argues Ryan Meehan
thewire.co.uk
once you’ve been ejected from your fifth screening of marty supreme, make your way to metrograph this week for luc moullet’s cowboy psychogeography, A GIRL IS A GUN, which i wrote about for @screenslate.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/gir...
A Girl is a Gun
In 1966, in the throes of an uprising at the University of Strasbourg, a student named André Bertrand plastered the campus with a work of propaganda whose telltale clash of text and photo proclaimed t...
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more sad news from the merry prankster family: just heard that springfield creamery proprietor (& organic yogurt innovator) chuck kesey has departed, only a few months after his wife sue. we spoke with them both about the dead's infamous 1972 benefit a few years ago. www.dead.net/deadcast/sun...
i greatly enjoyed thinking my way through @willsloanesq.bsky.social’s tender & amusing biography, ED WOOD: MADE IN HOLLYWOOD USA. read my blood-curdling (not festive) review over at MUBI’s Notebook: mubi.com/en/notebook/...
Nightmare of Infamy: Ed Wood’s Glandular Cinema
On a new biography of cult cinema’s patron saint.
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back at it in the World's Only Music Magazine with a feature on the delightful new record from Andy Boay (a.k.a. Andy from Tonstartssbandht), and a festival experience at Dripping in which all of my atoms were split. buy before you try...
The Wire Magazine@thewiremagazine.bsky.social · last yr.The Wire 499 is out now! Featuring a 10-page Cabaret Voltaire special, plus DJ Haram's Invisible Jukebox, Earshot, Moreskinsound, SANAM, Michael Hurley, Chris Burn, 40 pages of reviews and more. Copies are available to buy from our webshop now, & on newsstands from 7 Aug: www.thewire.co.uk/shop/
Pairing Laurel Canyon splendor with a surreal perspective, the Wand frontman’s latest solo album offers wry portraits of the strange characters and bleak situations that populate modern life
Cory Hanson: I Love People
Read Ryan Meehan’s review of the album.
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cory hanson has made another jukebox of bouncy & beautiful tunes about our contemporary psychosis. i wrote about it for @pitchfork.com: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Cory Hanson: I Love People
Read Ryan Meehan’s review of the album.
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almost forgot to mention, zohran’s victory got me so hopped up i entered a fugue state and wrote my first substack about what challenges the future might hold open.substack.com/pub/eeeesspe...
Interesting Times
A rapid response to Zohran Mamdani's momentous victory, and how the Left might prepare for the fight ahead
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i’ll take my expressionism: abstract, with a healthy cloud of suspicion thank you very much
The Drift@thedriftmag.com · last yr.Mentions from @therealbradbabs.bsky.social, @return2sanders.bsky.social, @malignfiesta.bsky.social, @harmlessfires.bsky.social, @zoeguttenplan.bsky.social, @differance.bsky.social, @erinlangner.bsky.social, @cryinmeehan.bsky.social, @devintoshea.bsky.social, and @aprzhu.bsky.social.
what movie (now in theaters) deserves such scorn? you’re going to have to crack the latest @thewiremagazine.bsky.social to find out or you can ask me personally. it’s really pretty obvious. but i’d prefer you buy the magazine & read the full review www.thewire.co.uk/issues/497
🙏 Ryan Meehan @cryinmeehan.bsky.social for this - if you still don't know anything about Michael Hurley, you can get started here, and it's not a long read. Dare I say: fans of @ivorcutler.bsky.social, or of our own @littlejohnnee.bsky.social, are in for a treat. Such a truly unique talent.
The Wire Magazine@thewiremagazine.bsky.social · last yr.Following Michael Hurley’s death on 1 April, Ryan Meehan tracks the outsider folk singer and cartoonist’s journeys across America and remembers the restless bohemian spirit that powered them thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/ryan-meehan-remembers-michael-hurley
the latest from @stereolabgroop.bsky.social plays like a series of melancholy landscapes viewed from the window of a trans-europe express. i reviewed their enjoyable reunion record, Instant Holograms on Metal Film, for my friends at @aquariumdrunkard.com: aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/06/03/s...
Stereolab : Instant Holograms on Metal Film : Aquarium Drunkard
When it comes to Stereolab, the fact that nobody else can make music quite like them should be justification enough for their return. Instant Holograms on Metal Film is a record for the faithful: stat...
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those of you longing for a hot götterdämmerung summer should consider checking out john milius' ungainly surf epic BIG WEDNESDAY, screening at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social this very afternoon. wrote 'er up for my friends at @screenslate.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/big...
Big Wednesday
By 1978, the New Hollywood revolution was cooling into its brushed aluminum entertainment phase. For some of the so-called “Movie Brats,” this transition would cement their fortune, and leave others i...
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