Matt Sargent
@mattsargent.bsky.social
Guitar, pedal steel, microphones, computers.
I'm excited to perform this piece quite a lot over the next two months. The first performances are next week in Atlanta (Sound Now Festival) on Wed. 1/28 and at Normal's Books on Sat. 1/31.
January 21, 2026 at 12:01 AM
I'm excited to perform this piece quite a lot over the next two months. The first performances are next week in Atlanta (Sound Now Festival) on Wed. 1/28 and at Normal's Books on Sat. 1/31.
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> Jandek in a mine
Elaborate on that plz
Elaborate on that plz
January 20, 2026 at 11:05 PM
> Jandek in a mine
Elaborate on that plz
Elaborate on that plz
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I keep coming back to this album
January 20, 2026 at 10:21 PM
I keep coming back to this album
Robert Ashley Ensemble
Jandek in a mine
Alvin Lucier
Silver Jews
Yellow River Boys
Jandek in a mine
Alvin Lucier
Silver Jews
Yellow River Boys
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Diamanda Galas
Beth Gibbons
Beth Orton
Bob Mould
Jawbox
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Diamanda Galas
Beth Gibbons
Beth Orton
Bob Mould
Jawbox
bsky.app/profile/aund...
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Gorillaz
Tegan & Sara
Interpol
Jay Z
X
Gorillaz
Tegan & Sara
Interpol
Jay Z
X
January 20, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Robert Ashley Ensemble
Jandek in a mine
Alvin Lucier
Silver Jews
Yellow River Boys
Jandek in a mine
Alvin Lucier
Silver Jews
Yellow River Boys
Saw two shorts-in-winter guys make friends in Walmart parking lot.
January 20, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Saw two shorts-in-winter guys make friends in Walmart parking lot.
Betalevel hosted a show of my music in 2016. It was one of my favorite nights ever and sparked some conversations that led to recording "Separation Songs," an album-length string octet, in LA a few years later. Loved that space.
A love letter to a weird space whose time is coming to an end, and to @zota.bsky.social’s enduringly wonderful aesthetic.
Glacial Errata, No. 54
Five Things for the Week of January 19, 2026.
glacialerrata.beehiiv.com
January 19, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Betalevel hosted a show of my music in 2016. It was one of my favorite nights ever and sparked some conversations that led to recording "Separation Songs," an album-length string octet, in LA a few years later. Loved that space.
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I remember the heartbreak that day we said goodbye to Dr. King. Feeling some of that heartbreak today as folks try to drag us all backward into the darkness. Love has got to win, y'all.
January 19, 2026 at 5:16 PM
I remember the heartbreak that day we said goodbye to Dr. King. Feeling some of that heartbreak today as folks try to drag us all backward into the darkness. Love has got to win, y'all.
Tuning up this patch for Giacomo Fiore, who will premiere "Gift" at the West Oakland Sound Series on 2/8.
January 19, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Tuning up this patch for Giacomo Fiore, who will premiere "Gift" at the West Oakland Sound Series on 2/8.
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I'm an OUTLAW and I listen to COUNTRY MUSIC and have a BEARD and drive a BIG TRUCK and I like to OBEY LAW ENFORCEMENT
January 18, 2026 at 8:04 PM
I'm an OUTLAW and I listen to COUNTRY MUSIC and have a BEARD and drive a BIG TRUCK and I like to OBEY LAW ENFORCEMENT
I kind of burned out on Bill Callahan about ~6-8 years ago. I just put on a series of his LPs and forgot how truly good that music can be. Coming back around.
January 17, 2026 at 6:29 PM
I kind of burned out on Bill Callahan about ~6-8 years ago. I just put on a series of his LPs and forgot how truly good that music can be. Coming back around.
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This makes me feel more patriotic than the national anthem ever could
January 16, 2026 at 5:28 PM
This makes me feel more patriotic than the national anthem ever could
My extremely conservative father went to New York City for the first time this year and he was in jaw-dropped disbelief about how nice it was.
I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
January 17, 2026 at 6:26 PM
My extremely conservative father went to New York City for the first time this year and he was in jaw-dropped disbelief about how nice it was.
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if I see you dooming on the timeline you have to donate to the Minneapolis strike fund
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Support Impacted Union Families! | Working Partnerships
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January 17, 2026 at 2:16 AM
if I see you dooming on the timeline you have to donate to the Minneapolis strike fund
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Cats know when you’re about to get up and they don’t like it.
January 17, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Cats know when you’re about to get up and they don’t like it.
The Lost Highway phone moment is one of the few scenes in a movie that genuinely gave me nightmares. I kept seeing that guy in the hallway of our old apartment the whole night afterward.
This scene will never not blow me away. From the (lack of) music, to the absolutely incredible and terrifying vocal effect…just perfection. G-d how I miss this man and his artistic vision
January 16, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The Lost Highway phone moment is one of the few scenes in a movie that genuinely gave me nightmares. I kept seeing that guy in the hallway of our old apartment the whole night afterward.
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We get to the problem where every application of machine learning is now called AI, so we no longer have useful language to distinguish between Holly Herndon training her own custom models and a Prompt Artist™ crapping 50 songs a day out of Suono.
January 14, 2026 at 9:32 AM
We get to the problem where every application of machine learning is now called AI, so we no longer have useful language to distinguish between Holly Herndon training her own custom models and a Prompt Artist™ crapping 50 songs a day out of Suono.
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every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
January 16, 2026 at 9:24 PM
every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
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Happy release day, everyone! Music by Michael Pisaro-Liu, Eva-Maria Houben, Szymon Wójcik, Conner Simmons, and Wilson Tanner Smith! sawyereditions.bandcamp.com
Sawyer Editions
Sawyer Editions is a small-batch label specializing in contemporary, experimental, and improvised music, especially of new and unreleased artists. Demos always welcome.
sawyereditions.bandcamp.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Happy release day, everyone! Music by Michael Pisaro-Liu, Eva-Maria Houben, Szymon Wójcik, Conner Simmons, and Wilson Tanner Smith! sawyereditions.bandcamp.com
Reposted by Matt Sargent
Happy release day, everyone! Music by Michael Pisaro-Liu, Eva-Maria Houben, Szymon Wójcik, Conner Simmons, and Wilson Tanner Smith! sawyereditions.bandcamp.com
Sawyer Editions
Sawyer Editions is a small-batch label specializing in contemporary, experimental, and improvised music, especially of new and unreleased artists. Demos always welcome.
sawyereditions.bandcamp.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Happy release day, everyone! Music by Michael Pisaro-Liu, Eva-Maria Houben, Szymon Wójcik, Conner Simmons, and Wilson Tanner Smith! sawyereditions.bandcamp.com
The amp that a million screaming fans first learned about on the Ed Sullivan show.
January 16, 2026 at 2:23 PM
The amp that a million screaming fans first learned about on the Ed Sullivan show.
I'm listening to this for the first time ever in 2026 and it's real good.
I found an original of this at Lou’s in Encinitas in 2003 for $2 and it is one of the greatest things that has ever happened to me
"Some 42 years after... Drag City returns Circle X’s Prehistory to the vinyl format on February 27, 2026. The Louisville-NYC art-punk-rockers insisted on carving a system beyond standard definition, their debut album existing bafflingly outside of time when... released in 1983."
lnk.to/prehistory
lnk.to/prehistory
January 15, 2026 at 3:07 PM
I'm listening to this for the first time ever in 2026 and it's real good.