I’ve decided I’m going to do my mental health a favor and not finish this. So much sucking up to the worst people in earth.
Jennifer Kelly
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Dusted editor, Aquarium Drunkard, Bandcamp contributor, Knicks fan, sci fi writer
“This new collaboration between Devendra Banhart, Noah Georgeson, and Gyan Riley (son of Terry) possesses the kind of easy-flowing interplay that arises most readily out of long-standing friendships,” writes Tim Clarke. www.tumblr.com/dustedmagazi... @nicemanwashing.bsky.social
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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 1 · HUG — S-T (Luaka Bop) · Photo by Christian Stavros HUG - Cow With Half Moon Parasol This new collaboration between Devendra Banhart, Noah Georgeson, and Gyan Riley (son of Terry)…
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“These songs punch and reel and lament, hitting hard on the rock ’n roll dopamine of windmill chords and explosive drum fills, while admitting of longing in plangent fiddle runs,” writes Jennifer Kelly. www.tumblr.com/dustedmagazi...
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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · The Tubs — Hard Life (Merge) · Photo by Robin Christian The Tubs - Who's Gonna Love You Now? Pity the young band on the brink with their big guitars and crazed fiddles and relent…
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What I remember about 9/11 is that I felt safer then than i do now
So much good punk, post-punk, garage, lo-fi out of the Netherlands right now. theklittens.bandcamp.com/album/have-a...
Have A Heart, by The Klittens
13 track album
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Omg please let this guy and all his weirdo friends go on sex strike forever.
Microplastics Sommelier@leastactionhero.bsky.social · 3d agosorry for screenshotting some twitter rando but you guys need to see this
“Anger and desperation punch up through tape hiss and distorted riffs, a mixture of sharp affect and smeary sonics,” writes Jonathan Shaw. www.tumblr.com/dustedmagazi...
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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · Wetnurse — Demo (Self-released) · WETNURSE - PHÁISTE For a particular sort of listener — punks with rad lefty politics and a tendency to idealize the sounds of mid-1980s undergrou…
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I’m going on break next week, and will, unfortunately, be unable to write about or even listen to much new music for a while, possibly for weeks. I’m finishing what i can beforehand and will start fresh if and when i feel up to it. It’s been my pleasure and honor, thanks for everything.
One of the things about being really sick is that you lose your autonomy. SO many people telling you what to do.
“Here, she delivers epic slow rockers in the vein of Crazy Horse, Silkworm and Come, letting the guitars clang and resonate while organ drones build to dizzying hums,” writes Jennifer Kelly. www.tumblr.com/dustedmagazi...
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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 2 · Lily Seabird — Lightspheres on Their Way (Lame-O) · Photo by Rick Soszynski Lily Seabird turns up the amps on this fourth full-length, returning to the raucous aesthetic of Alas a…
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This week’s random Thursday goes to Micah Blue Smalldone’s Wake in Fright project—and the song is called “Wake in Fright,” too. wakeinfrightband.bandcamp.com/album/around...
Around Every Corner, by Wake In Fright
4 track album
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So this is the guy who promised lower inflation and no new wars, and who’s stiffed every contractor whoever worked for him, and the media is covering the $5000 checks like they’re actually going to happen?
A gift from my radiation oncologist. (She’s regifting cos she doesn’t like beans, but we do.) send recipes if you’ve got them.
“Despite ambiguities a-plenty, its beauty imbues every phrase and gesture,” writes Marc Medwin. www.tumblr.com/dustedmagazi... @anothertimbre.bsky.social
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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 1 · Jürg Frey — Clarinet Quintet (Another Timbre) · Jürg Frey - streaming extract 1 'Clarinet Quintet' In Beloved, Tony Morrison describes the house, numbered 124, as “spiteful,” or “…
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“Eras overlap in Vanishing Twin’s sixth and latest full-length, Archives, as 1960s yé-yé grooves collide with images of life and art in a gleaming Space-Age future.” I wrote up Vanishing Twin for bandcamp. daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the... @bandcamp.com
Vanishing Twin, “Archives”
Yé-yé grooves collide with images of life and art in a gleaming Space-Age future on the London act's latest.
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“Twilark’s Canon Pence sees the beauty in everything falling apart,” writes Jennifer Kelly. www.tumblr.com/dustedmagazi... @twilark.bsky.social
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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 1 · Twilark — Never Learned the Tide (Géographie) · Twilark - No Cowboy Song Twilark’s Canon Pence sees the beauty in everything falling apart. In a wavery tenor balanced precariously…
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The new Pulp Live! Is fun but maybe not essential. Still there’s something so joyful about thousand of people singing along to “Common People,” isn’t there? (This is not the version I’ve been listening to but you get the idea.) youtu.be/Ul72SMAgW0Y?...
Pulp - Common People (Live at Brixton Academy 95)
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Would’ve liked to see Shelton beat Alcazar but 11 pm start is too late for cancer girl.
Not sure why I’ve been putting off Lee Ranaldo’s drone-y, Middle Eastern flavored soundtrack for The System, but it’s a good one. silvercurrent.bandcamp.com/album/the-sy...
The System (Original Soundtrack), by Lee Ranaldo
15 track album
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“ Holter is masterful in crafting artful arrangements, but the songs themselves are compelling creations,” writes Christian Carey. www.tumblr.com/dustedmagazi... @cbcarey.bsky.social
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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 1 · Julia Holter — Materia (Domino) · Julia Holter - Fantasy The piece “Materia” appeared on Something In The Room She Moves, the previous album by Julia Holter. For her latest record…
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“Formal Sppeedwear moves with the herky-jerky, stutter-stepping assurance of the very earliest Talking Heads, before the incorporation of Afro-beat, all thumps and yelps and manic rants,” writes Jennifer Kelly. www.tumblr.com/dustedmagazi...
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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · Formal Sppeedwear— Punch Card (Melodic) · Formal Sppeedwear - Who Needs Spain Ball Punch Card delivers android funk of the highest order. The Stoke-on-Trent trio raises the ghosts…
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Here’s some really good female-forward post-punk with a surrealist edge. teamworkworks.bandcamp.com/album/somebo...
Somebody's Gotta Do It, by Team Work
11 track album
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“While the double disc Parts & Labor veered occasionally towards proggy excess Mercury runs a ferociously tight ship. It’s loud as fuck, but nothing’s wasted.” My review of Upper Wilds’ latest at @aquariumdrunkard.com aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/04/u...
Upper Wilds :: Mercury - Aquarium Drunkard
Dan Friel is having a summer, what with the surprise resurgence of aughts noise mainstays Parts & Labor and now a fourth album from guitar-centric, astronomy-centric Upper Wilds. Yet while the double ...
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