For this month's @bandcamp.com Tape Label Report, I caught up with the good folks behind Bloxham Tapes. Read it, if you like: daily.bandcamp.com/tape-label-r... @alisoncotton.bsky.social @obsidianshard.bsky.social @lukedrozd.bsky.social
Robert Barry
@monsterbobby.bsky.social
Freelance writer (The Wire, Tribune, Art Review, Mubi Notebook, &c.). Musicker (Far Rainbow, The Pipettes). Reviews Editor at The Quietus. Author of The Music of the Future (Repeater, 2017), Object Lessons: Compact Disc (Bloomsbury, 2020). Idiot.
It's new issue of The Wire time! This month, I interviewed reclusive mystery man of Portuguese electronic music, Nuno Canavarro and reviewed a festival of sound art in the suburbs of Copenhagen on the hottest day in Danish history.
The Wire Magazine@thewiremagazine.bsky.social · yesterdayThe Wire 511 is out now! Featuring Space Afrika on the cover, plus Nuno Canavarro, Lucy Liyou, Jad Atoui, Rump State, Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra, Darla Quintana, Jennifer Herrema’s Invisible Jukebox, and much more. Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/
wrote about apes, blockchains, protocols and music for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/the-blockcha...
The Blockchain Fantasy is Dying
SoundCloud’s recently announced acquisition of NFT music platform Nina Protocol sounds the death knell for the illusion of tech’s utopianism in the arts
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Something similar happened in France a few years ago. Climate activists responded by filling the golf holes with cement. www.bbc.com/news/world-e...
Climate activists fill golf holes with cement after water ban exemption
French environmentalists sabotage golf greens to protest against their exemption from water bans.
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I reviewed Oliver Beer's recent show at Ropac, London, for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/oliver-beer-...
Oliver Beer’s Music for Paintings
The artist’s canvases record the shapes created by hundreds of notes like a musical score, but the closer you get, the less gestural they appear
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Did an interview about the book - and what's been happening with Burnham, Farage etc since - with @labour-hub.bsky.social. labourhub.org.uk/2026/07/22/f...
“Farage is in real trouble – now we have to show there is a better way of doing politics”
Labour Hub interviews journalist Daniel Trilling, whose book If We Tolerate This: How the British Establishment Made the Far Right Respectable was published earlier this year. LH: You divide the bo…
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Daniel Trilling@trillingual.bsky.social · 3mo agoIF WE TOLERATE THIS is out today! These are worrying times politically but if there's one thing I want to get across, it's that the slide into far-right nationalism is not inevitable. Please help me spread the word. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...
Bought tickets to see the Philip Venables opera 4:48 Psychosis and my google calendar has helpfully autocorrected to 16:48 Psychosis, so now every time I look at the calendar for October it's like, oh, yes, I must remember to go mad at about ten to five in the afternoon that day.
ah good good. no running water again. god i can’t wait for thames water to be nationalised.
apparently it’s 20 years to the day since me and a bunch of pals from brighton released an album that changed our lives (and maybe a few other people’s too). so, for old times sake, let’s all pull some shapes youtu.be/HbnVNZe2D_0
The Pipettes - Pull Shapes
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Wrote a little bit about some of the records by Fluxus-affiliated artists and composers in my collection for @thequietus.com 's subscribers thequietus.com/subscriber-a...
Organic Intelligence LVIII: Fluxus on Vinyl | The Quietus
In 1963, Nam June Paik made a doner kebab out of records. Born in Seoul in 1932, the irrepressible artist and composer had moved to Germany in 1957 to study music at the University of Munich. Soon aft...
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sort of fascinating the way every time someone is injured by a lime bike they get a headline, which gives the impression it’s common but actually proves it isn’t. if every victim of a car accident made the headlines the news would literally have no space for anything else.
Wrote a few little bits for @thequietus.com Albums of the Year So Far chart about recent albums by Juni Habel and Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir. But who made the top spot? Only one way to find out, pop pickers! thequietus.com/tq-charts/al...
The Quietus Albums of the Year So Far 2026 (In Association with Norman Records) | The Quietus
Six months into 2026 here are the best albums of the year so far, as voted for by tQ staffers, columnists and writers
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Anyone know a pub in central / east / south-east london with a big outdoor terrace that definitely won't be showing any sports tonight?
someone needs to make a public list of london pubs that will never show football so i know where i can drink during these Difficult Times.
The new issue of The Wire magazine is out and it features my interview with artist Phil Coy and also my review of some of the more sound & music-y bits at this year's Venice Biennale. Run to your nearest newsagent and get your copy now!
The Wire Magazine@thewiremagazine.bsky.social · last mo.The Wire 510 is out now! Featuring Fire-Toolz on the cover, plus DeForrest Brown Jr., Franck Vigroux, Tokyo Rockers, Carlos Giffoni, Labake Sabbath, Phil Coy, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe’s Jukebox, The Wire Tapper 71, and much more. Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/
The V&A's Lost Music Venues display is still closed "due to extreme heat". It's only 22° today. How can a museum that big with that much money still not have adequate air con?
what do you call two psychics in a big top? a media circus
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... Excitingly, we could be mere months away from Trump being made anti-pope and a cybertruck getting ordained as a bishop.
Crisis looms for Pope Leo as splinter sect seeks to ordain far-right bishops
Conflict threatens to worsen mounting tensions between the Vatican and rightwing Catholics in the US and globally
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hello everyone i am working on a big piece for guardian about the CURRENT STATE OF MUSIC ZINES!!!! i have many already but i want to get as many as poss from FAR AND WIDE in uk so pls either fill out the form here or email me directly (email on my website in bio) www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
Sniffin’ Glue at 50! Do you make a music zine? If so, we want to see it
To mark 50 years since the punk DIY publishing explosion, we want to compile a map of the UK’s contemporary zine scene
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have added a few dots to my public sound art map recently – still lots missing though. Do please drop me a line if you know of anything that's not there cargocollective.com/bobbybarry/P...
Public Sound Art Map - Robert Barry
Public Sound Art Map (2026–) In early 2026, I found myself searching online for some sort of map that would detail the locations of permanent works of sound art around the world. Since I couldn't find...
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extremely sorry but can sports people please try not to post things that just say like oh fuck oh no this is dreadful without any context cos as a non sports person it makes me think maybe something actually bad and of consequence might have happened please and thank you.
Doctor says, treatment is simple: Prime Minister's in town. Everyone hates hiim. Go tell the voters you're going to depose him. Your electoral prospects should pick right up. Andy Burnham in a few months' time: But doctor, I am… etc etc.
Not sure what I've done to deserve this but the youtube algorithm is now serving me videos which tell me to pour hydrogen peroxide on my own feet.
fascinating to me how all the I am a very important music critic type people on here seem to find the appeal of olivia rodrigo’s music just completely unfathomable.