Listening Habit
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A weekly newsletter of music discoveries and re-discoveries for discerning listeners. Occasional tangents. Based in the Hudson Valley, NY. ListeningHabit.substack.com
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November 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Nina Simone's childhood home in North Carolina has been preserved and restored. #musicsky
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5 Things to Know About the Nina Simone Childhood Home Project | National Trust for Historic Preservation
Explore the newly restored home of singer and civil rights activist Nina Simone in Tryon, North Carolina.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Nina Simone's childhood home in North Carolina has been preserved and restored. #musicsky
savingplaces.org/stories/nina...
savingplaces.org/stories/nina...
Using ultrasound frequencies to make people experience smells. Sound is magic.
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We Induced Smells With Ultrasound
We decided to try to stimulate the olfactory bulb with focused ultrasound. As far as we know, no one seems to have done this kind of stimulation before - even in animals.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Using ultrasound frequencies to make people experience smells. Sound is magic.
writetobrain.com/olfactory?ut...
writetobrain.com/olfactory?ut...
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RIP to the legend Jimmy Cliff, who has sadly left us age 81.
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Many rivers to cross - Jimmy Cliff
YouTube video by TheSunAnge
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November 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
RIP to the legend Jimmy Cliff, who has sadly left us age 81.
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The rise of culture automatons, more bad stuff from Spotify, and a bunch of scintillating recent music finds spanning hudson valley ambient, celebrated vibraphonists, gully rap theater, eclectic wall of sound psych-gaze and more in this week’s Listening Habit.
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Taste-making for Robots 🤖
Culture machines, Spotify news, and recent musical discoveries
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November 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The rise of culture automatons, more bad stuff from Spotify, and a bunch of scintillating recent music finds spanning hudson valley ambient, celebrated vibraphonists, gully rap theater, eclectic wall of sound psych-gaze and more in this week’s Listening Habit.
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“The dollar is now the yardstick of cultural authority…”
An interesting essay by Jonathan Frantzen from 1996, originally published in Harper’s. War, oil, the declining popularity of reading, and other topics…
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An interesting essay by Jonathan Frantzen from 1996, originally published in Harper’s. War, oil, the declining popularity of reading, and other topics…
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Why Bother? by Jonathan Franzen
“The Harper’s Essay” [“Perchance to Dream”] is retitled “Why Bother?” in Jonathan Franzen’s collection of essays “How to Be Alone”. Why Bother? by Jonathan Franzen (The Harper’s Essay…
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November 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
“The dollar is now the yardstick of cultural authority…”
An interesting essay by Jonathan Frantzen from 1996, originally published in Harper’s. War, oil, the declining popularity of reading, and other topics…
extrafilespace.wordpress.com/2015/09/15/w...
An interesting essay by Jonathan Frantzen from 1996, originally published in Harper’s. War, oil, the declining popularity of reading, and other topics…
extrafilespace.wordpress.com/2015/09/15/w...
Blur was correct: Modern Life is Rubbish.
November 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Blur was correct: Modern Life is Rubbish.
Lovely atmospheric sounds for a gray morning. #ambient #musicsky
quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/a-warm...
quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/a-warm...
A Warm Static Sphere, by 36
9 track album
quietdetails.bandcamp.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Lovely atmospheric sounds for a gray morning. #ambient #musicsky
quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/a-warm...
quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/a-warm...
The newly reopened, historic Community Theater in Catskill, NY is quite a vibe. Down these stairs from the second screen back to the lobby.
Saw Peter Hujar’s Day, which is a fun, intimate snapshot of the photographer’s day. My Dinner with Andre, but talking memory and minutiae.
📽️ #moviesky
Saw Peter Hujar’s Day, which is a fun, intimate snapshot of the photographer’s day. My Dinner with Andre, but talking memory and minutiae.
📽️ #moviesky
November 23, 2025 at 5:27 AM
The newly reopened, historic Community Theater in Catskill, NY is quite a vibe. Down these stairs from the second screen back to the lobby.
Saw Peter Hujar’s Day, which is a fun, intimate snapshot of the photographer’s day. My Dinner with Andre, but talking memory and minutiae.
📽️ #moviesky
Saw Peter Hujar’s Day, which is a fun, intimate snapshot of the photographer’s day. My Dinner with Andre, but talking memory and minutiae.
📽️ #moviesky
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Fugazi played "Reclamation" early in a set performed in front of the Supreme Court in protest of its rightward shift in 1992 (Clarence Thomas, state challenges to abortion laws). Themes of autonomy (bodily and otherwise) abound in this tune.
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Reclamation
YouTube video by Fugazi - Topic
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November 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Fugazi played "Reclamation" early in a set performed in front of the Supreme Court in protest of its rightward shift in 1992 (Clarence Thomas, state challenges to abortion laws). Themes of autonomy (bodily and otherwise) abound in this tune.
youtu.be/uHTMKAFiZxc?...
youtu.be/uHTMKAFiZxc?...
As the Wicked 2 takes start flowing, let’s also remember that Ariana Grande crushed the whole Hot Ones lineup without batting an eyelash.
🌶️🌶️ 🌶️
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🌶️🌶️ 🌶️
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Ariana Grande Hits a High Note While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones
YouTube video by First We Feast
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November 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
As the Wicked 2 takes start flowing, let’s also remember that Ariana Grande crushed the whole Hot Ones lineup without batting an eyelash.
🌶️🌶️ 🌶️
youtu.be/IPAke2nPKDU?...
🌶️🌶️ 🌶️
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oh, alas, i've been informed that there was another velvet underground of paducah, kentucky, and this was almost certainly them.
November 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
oh, alas, i've been informed that there was another velvet underground of paducah, kentucky, and this was almost certainly them.
The rise of culture automatons, more bad stuff from Spotify, and a bunch of scintillating recent music finds spanning hudson valley ambient, celebrated vibraphonists, gully rap theater, eclectic wall of sound psych-gaze and more in this week’s Listening Habit.
open.substack.com/pub/listenin...
open.substack.com/pub/listenin...
Taste-making for Robots 🤖
Culture machines, Spotify news, and recent musical discoveries
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The rise of culture automatons, more bad stuff from Spotify, and a bunch of scintillating recent music finds spanning hudson valley ambient, celebrated vibraphonists, gully rap theater, eclectic wall of sound psych-gaze and more in this week’s Listening Habit.
open.substack.com/pub/listenin...
open.substack.com/pub/listenin...
Listening to Tortoise and drinking coffee ☕️ (but pronouncing the band name like it’s a Viennese pastry in 19th century Paris; tor-twahzz).
intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/touch
intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/touch
Touch, by Tortoise
10 track album
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November 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Listening to Tortoise and drinking coffee ☕️ (but pronouncing the band name like it’s a Viennese pastry in 19th century Paris; tor-twahzz).
intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/touch
intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/touch
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Morning listen - this sounds like a music for fictional 8-bit video game
wrldendcllpse.bandcamp.com/track/--94
wrldendcllpse.bandcamp.com/track/--94
何かが失われました, by Worm
from the album 10000メートルの高度での催眠術
wrldendcllpse.bandcamp.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Morning listen - this sounds like a music for fictional 8-bit video game
wrldendcllpse.bandcamp.com/track/--94
wrldendcllpse.bandcamp.com/track/--94
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November 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Oh definitely a work of art.
#newmusic #electronicmusic
oneohtrixpointnever.bandcamp.com/album/tranqu...
#newmusic #electronicmusic
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Tranquilizer, by Oneohtrix Point Never
15 track album
oneohtrixpointnever.bandcamp.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Oh definitely a work of art.
#newmusic #electronicmusic
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#newmusic #electronicmusic
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Repost with an iconic fictional band
November 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Repost with an iconic fictional band
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A slippery collection of tunes from a Brazilian band blurring the lines between 90s alt-rock, 60s psych, and 70s kraut, among other times, styles and topographies. The results are dynamic and compelling, but also not trying too hard. #newmusic #musicsky
orua.bandcamp.com/album/slacker
orua.bandcamp.com/album/slacker
Slacker, by Oruã
10 track album
orua.bandcamp.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
A slippery collection of tunes from a Brazilian band blurring the lines between 90s alt-rock, 60s psych, and 70s kraut, among other times, styles and topographies. The results are dynamic and compelling, but also not trying too hard. #newmusic #musicsky
orua.bandcamp.com/album/slacker
orua.bandcamp.com/album/slacker
November 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Have the internet ruin a song:
“Lovin’ Youtube”
“Lovin’ Youtube”
Have the internet ruin a song:
I Could Never Take the Place of Your Manosphere
I Could Never Take the Place of Your Manosphere
Have the internet ruin a song:
“Tuesday’s Goon”
“Tuesday’s Goon”
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Have the internet ruin a song:
“Lovin’ Youtube”
“Lovin’ Youtube”
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Have the internet ruin a song:
I Could Never Take the Place of Your Manosphere
I Could Never Take the Place of Your Manosphere
Have the internet ruin a song:
“Tuesday’s Goon”
“Tuesday’s Goon”
Have the internet ruin a song:
“Sing me a song, you're the piano cat”
“Sing me a song, you're the piano cat”
November 21, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Have the internet ruin a song:
I Could Never Take the Place of Your Manosphere
I Could Never Take the Place of Your Manosphere
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So much to love here. @iheartnoise.bsky.social iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/2025-s...
2025 Sampler, by Various Artists
25 track album
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November 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
So much to love here. @iheartnoise.bsky.social iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/2025-s...
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yeah...but we'll always have the words from man himself
November 21, 2025 at 3:22 AM
yeah...but we'll always have the words from man himself
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