Jen Matson (DJ nstop)
@nstop.com
Cycles Per Second on @khuh.bsky.social 104.9 FM in Seattle ~ Wednesdays 6-7pm PT // Live music junkie, traveler, culinary noodler, record collector, cat cuddler, designer. http://www.nstop.com
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Jen Matson (DJ nstop)
@nstop.com
· Nov 11
(Re)-introducing myself to the new peeps: I’m a community radio DJ and designer who mostly posts about music and cats. Also into zines (both reading and making) and #indieweb tech stuff.
While I ended up catching the B-52's the following June, on New Year's Eve 1989 I was seeing experimental combo Birdsongs of the Mesozoic at a free First Night concert in Boston. First time seeing any members of Mission of Burma (Martin Swope, in this case) perform live.
If you need something later to send this year packing, and in light of the various MTV music-only channels worldwide shutting down, why not when the B-52s put paid to the 1980s as a whole? (This was recorded November 1989 for later broadcast, but hey, you do what you can.)
B 52s - (Live MTV New Years 1990 Full Show)
YouTube video by VHS Music Rarities
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January 1, 2026 at 3:26 AM
While I ended up catching the B-52's the following June, on New Year's Eve 1989 I was seeing experimental combo Birdsongs of the Mesozoic at a free First Night concert in Boston. First time seeing any members of Mission of Burma (Martin Swope, in this case) perform live.
🚨Year-End Favorites Incoming🚨 I'll be counting down my favorite releases of 2025 tonight on @khuh.bsky.social. The final standings are a mystery... even to me! But I'll have it figured out by 6pm Pacific, so tune in then at hollowearthradio.org for 100% top-grade tunes.
December 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
🚨Year-End Favorites Incoming🚨 I'll be counting down my favorite releases of 2025 tonight on @khuh.bsky.social. The final standings are a mystery... even to me! But I'll have it figured out by 6pm Pacific, so tune in then at hollowearthradio.org for 100% top-grade tunes.
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It's your yearly reminder that 5 years ago (jeez) I made what I think is a pretty fun hour-long mix of vintage department-store Christmas music for your festive times. Please enjoy! www.mixcloud.com/DeejayBearcl...
Ursine Waves Episode 045: Kresge Christmas Klassix
www.mixcloud.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
It's your yearly reminder that 5 years ago (jeez) I made what I think is a pretty fun hour-long mix of vintage department-store Christmas music for your festive times. Please enjoy! www.mixcloud.com/DeejayBearcl...
If you are wide-eyed in anticipation of the annual Cycles Per Second Holiday Spectacular, never fear! It’s on the way tomorrow. Until then, you can check out my holiday shows from the past eight years (all but 2017’s feat the usual new music from that year): www.mixcloud.com/nstop/playli...
December 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
If you are wide-eyed in anticipation of the annual Cycles Per Second Holiday Spectacular, never fear! It’s on the way tomorrow. Until then, you can check out my holiday shows from the past eight years (all but 2017’s feat the usual new music from that year): www.mixcloud.com/nstop/playli...
One last visit to the Sub Pop airport store 😢
December 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
One last visit to the Sub Pop airport store 😢
Sleepy cat Saturday
December 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Sleepy cat Saturday
Next year's Jerkfest lineup just announced, and it's a doozy. Current Aussie faves like Dumbells, rocky, R.M.F.C. and Hedge Burners mixed w/vets like EXEK, Nicole Thibault (Minimum Chips) and The Cannanes. (Also, a one-off reunion by The Blinds!?)
December 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Next year's Jerkfest lineup just announced, and it's a doozy. Current Aussie faves like Dumbells, rocky, R.M.F.C. and Hedge Burners mixed w/vets like EXEK, Nicole Thibault (Minimum Chips) and The Cannanes. (Also, a one-off reunion by The Blinds!?)
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deepest condolences to family, friends and bandmates of the stupendous Brent McLachlan (bailterspace, The Gordons)
pic - 9/1/22, Mercury Lounge
pic - 9/1/22, Mercury Lounge
December 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
deepest condolences to family, friends and bandmates of the stupendous Brent McLachlan (bailterspace, The Gordons)
pic - 9/1/22, Mercury Lounge
pic - 9/1/22, Mercury Lounge
Shopping at Euclid Records in New Orleans today with my mom
December 6, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Shopping at Euclid Records in New Orleans today with my mom
Hellloooo Providence…
December 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Hellloooo Providence…
This is now the third time a Discogs database entry of mine has gotten belatedly merged with an existing one, all bc the guys submitting these things have issues correctly ID-ing colors of labels/vinyl. It's a thing! www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brai...
When It Comes to Color, Men & Women Aren't Seeing Eye to Eye
How does the brain's wiring affect men and women's perception of color?
www.psychologytoday.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
This is now the third time a Discogs database entry of mine has gotten belatedly merged with an existing one, all bc the guys submitting these things have issues correctly ID-ing colors of labels/vinyl. It's a thing! www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brai...
Fascinating history of the Indie Top 20 series. Essential (if incomplete) samplers of the 80s UK indie charts in the pre-Internet era, esp for those of us here in the US that couldn’t afford to buy a bunch of imports.
They do, yes - they were just rebadged. I actually did a whole blog about these years ago and Chet Selwood, who set up the series with his sister Bee, got in touch and gave me a bunch of information:
indietop20.blogspot.com/2021/01/indi...
indietop20.blogspot.com/2021/01/indi...
Indie Top 20 Life, Remembered
Indie Top 20, eighties, nineties, alternative
indietop20.blogspot.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Fascinating history of the Indie Top 20 series. Essential (if incomplete) samplers of the 80s UK indie charts in the pre-Internet era, esp for those of us here in the US that couldn’t afford to buy a bunch of imports.
Just realized this great lost pop single came out 10 years ago last week. If Will Ivy is done making noise with Flat Worms, perhaps he can revert to the jangle? willivy44.bandcamp.com/track/if-i-w...
If I Was A Painter, by willivy44@gmail.com
from the album Scrap Plastic b/w If I Was A Painter
willivy44.bandcamp.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Just realized this great lost pop single came out 10 years ago last week. If Will Ivy is done making noise with Flat Worms, perhaps he can revert to the jangle? willivy44.bandcamp.com/track/if-i-w...
Another new radio show this week, w/my picks from the latest crop of indie music to pass thru my headphones, incl releases from @lapochettesurprise.bsky.social @meritoriorec.bsky.social @tinyglobalmusic.bsky.social. @khuh.bsky.social broadcast now streaming online: www.mixcloud.com/nstop/cycles...
November 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Another new radio show this week, w/my picks from the latest crop of indie music to pass thru my headphones, incl releases from @lapochettesurprise.bsky.social @meritoriorec.bsky.social @tinyglobalmusic.bsky.social. @khuh.bsky.social broadcast now streaming online: www.mixcloud.com/nstop/cycles...
I dipped into a random issue from May 1987 and found this highly entertaining European tour diary for The Chills. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/...
November 11, 2025 at 5:09 AM
I dipped into a random issue from May 1987 and found this highly entertaining European tour diary for The Chills. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/...
Unexpectedly found ourselves in Portland with nothing to do tonight, so why not see some Australian punk new and old? Wollongong duo chimers and The Saints ‘73-‘78 w/orig members Ed Kuepper and Ivor Hay, plus Mick Harvey and Mark Arm (vox) among others. A fantastic double bill.
November 9, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Unexpectedly found ourselves in Portland with nothing to do tonight, so why not see some Australian punk new and old? Wollongong duo chimers and The Saints ‘73-‘78 w/orig members Ed Kuepper and Ivor Hay, plus Mick Harvey and Mark Arm (vox) among others. A fantastic double bill.
This and last week's show now up on Mixcloud! Two hours of Cycles Per Second, with the freshest underground jangle, drone, fuzz and roar from 🇩🇪🇫🇮🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇸🇦🇺🇨🇦🇵🇱🇳🇿🇳🇱🇺🇸
www.mixcloud.com/nstop/cycles...
www.mixcloud.com/nstop/cycles...
www.mixcloud.com/nstop/cycles...
www.mixcloud.com/nstop/cycles...
November 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This and last week's show now up on Mixcloud! Two hours of Cycles Per Second, with the freshest underground jangle, drone, fuzz and roar from 🇩🇪🇫🇮🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇸🇦🇺🇨🇦🇵🇱🇳🇿🇳🇱🇺🇸
www.mixcloud.com/nstop/cycles...
www.mixcloud.com/nstop/cycles...
www.mixcloud.com/nstop/cycles...
www.mixcloud.com/nstop/cycles...
Making the scene at Short Run Comix Festival. Tons of folks as usual, but much easier to move around in the spacious and airy new venue in Georgetown.
November 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Making the scene at Short Run Comix Festival. Tons of folks as usual, but much easier to move around in the spacious and airy new venue in Georgetown.
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The final pressing of The Go-Betweens 'G Stands for Go-Betweens' box set is now available for ordering from @Dominorecordco. For orders within the EU please visit thegobetweens.krasserstoff.com; for the rest of the world please visit www.dominomusic.com/releases/the...
October 31, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The final pressing of The Go-Betweens 'G Stands for Go-Betweens' box set is now available for ordering from @Dominorecordco. For orders within the EU please visit thegobetweens.krasserstoff.com; for the rest of the world please visit www.dominomusic.com/releases/the...
Closing out the month with a clutch of October radio shows uploaded in the past week. Tons of great tunes from the indie underground that need more ears on 'em: Hedge Burners, Possible Humans, Lande Hekt, ONYON... (I could go on...) www.mixcloud.com/nstop/
October 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Closing out the month with a clutch of October radio shows uploaded in the past week. Tons of great tunes from the indie underground that need more ears on 'em: Hedge Burners, Possible Humans, Lande Hekt, ONYON... (I could go on...) www.mixcloud.com/nstop/
Circa 1994 playlist from my college radio show, scribbled around a pic of Sonic Youth on the back of a Record Collector mag.
October 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Circa 1994 playlist from my college radio show, scribbled around a pic of Sonic Youth on the back of a Record Collector mag.
Hey, Seattle: Not only is the Short Run Comix Festival happening in Georgetown this year (hooray!), this cool, FREE gig is happening at my local afterwards w/folks from The Shins, Califone, Low. 9pm this Saturday
October 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Hey, Seattle: Not only is the Short Run Comix Festival happening in Georgetown this year (hooray!), this cool, FREE gig is happening at my local afterwards w/folks from The Shins, Califone, Low. 9pm this Saturday
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Flying Nun on Multitrack
First installment of my blog about these special tapes in the FNR and Chris Knox collections at National Library of NZ. What is a multitrack? What is on these tapes? And how can you listen to and research them? Have a read. 👇👇
natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/f...
First installment of my blog about these special tapes in the FNR and Chris Knox collections at National Library of NZ. What is a multitrack? What is on these tapes? And how can you listen to and research them? Have a read. 👇👇
natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/f...
October 28, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Flying Nun on Multitrack
First installment of my blog about these special tapes in the FNR and Chris Knox collections at National Library of NZ. What is a multitrack? What is on these tapes? And how can you listen to and research them? Have a read. 👇👇
natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/f...
First installment of my blog about these special tapes in the FNR and Chris Knox collections at National Library of NZ. What is a multitrack? What is on these tapes? And how can you listen to and research them? Have a read. 👇👇
natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/f...
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hi! maybe you remember me from the menu i made for my cat, which hit surprisingly big a little while ago. i made some menus for other people's pets in exchange for donations to pro-trans organisations. now i'm doing it again, but for food banks.
please share! more info downthread!
please share! more info downthread!
October 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
hi! maybe you remember me from the menu i made for my cat, which hit surprisingly big a little while ago. i made some menus for other people's pets in exchange for donations to pro-trans organisations. now i'm doing it again, but for food banks.
please share! more info downthread!
please share! more info downthread!