Brian Collins
@bhcphd.bsky.social
He/Him. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦Writing a new book on the metamodern music and mythology of #KGLW. All opinions are mine. Pro-democracy, anti-fascist. Do not comply in advance. Am I supposed to have a fake name or something?
October 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
October 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
#nowplaying #vinyl Sungazer, “Against the Fall of Night.” I’ve never been much of a jazzbo but I got turned onto this Brooklyn fusion duo by chance when I was pulling up a kglw song that also happens to be the title of their first album- “Perihelion.” this one came out last August and it’s amazing.
May 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
#nowplaying #vinyl Sungazer, “Against the Fall of Night.” I’ve never been much of a jazzbo but I got turned onto this Brooklyn fusion duo by chance when I was pulling up a kglw song that also happens to be the title of their first album- “Perihelion.” this one came out last August and it’s amazing.
#nowplaying #vinyl “Summer ‘75.” I was born on the very last day of that summer. Hits recorded *not* by the original artists that I got at a flea market for $1 last weekend. Great nostalgia here: “Brandy” & “Wildfire” (always associated with Mom), & the whole concept of a re-recorded top 40 is 🤯.
May 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
#nowplaying #vinyl “Summer ‘75.” I was born on the very last day of that summer. Hits recorded *not* by the original artists that I got at a flea market for $1 last weekend. Great nostalgia here: “Brandy” & “Wildfire” (always associated with Mom), & the whole concept of a re-recorded top 40 is 🤯.
#nowplaying #vinyl Motörhead, “On Parole.” The 2020 double-LP reissue. Picked this up at a flea market last for a mere $5. Pretty great.
May 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
#nowplaying #vinyl Motörhead, “On Parole.” The 2020 double-LP reissue. Picked this up at a flea market last for a mere $5. Pretty great.
#WorldGothDay #nowplaying #vinyl As I’ve been selling a few dozen of my not-in-heavy-rotation records to move to a new house, I’ve been regretting selling my old Christian Death vinyl (Only Theater of Pain & Ashes) when I left Chicago 15 years ago. Just got this one for the first time though!
May 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
#WorldGothDay #nowplaying #vinyl As I’ve been selling a few dozen of my not-in-heavy-rotation records to move to a new house, I’ve been regretting selling my old Christian Death vinyl (Only Theater of Pain & Ashes) when I left Chicago 15 years ago. Just got this one for the first time though!
#nowplaying #vinyl #musicsky Windbreakers, “The Disciples of Agriculture.” Killer jangle pop featuring Mitch Easter. Happy Mother’s Day and don’t look for this one on Spotify.
May 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
#nowplaying #vinyl #musicsky Windbreakers, “The Disciples of Agriculture.” Killer jangle pop featuring Mitch Easter. Happy Mother’s Day and don’t look for this one on Spotify.
#nowplaying #vinyl #vinylsky Frankie and the Witch Fingers, “Data Doom.” This is like when somebody wakes you up by pushing you and your bed off the roof of a 30 story building. Real good.
May 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
#nowplaying #vinyl #vinylsky Frankie and the Witch Fingers, “Data Doom.” This is like when somebody wakes you up by pushing you and your bed off the roof of a 30 story building. Real good.
#nowplaying #vinyl The Residents, “Not Available.” This is what it’s all about.
May 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
#nowplaying #vinyl The Residents, “Not Available.” This is what it’s all about.
#nowplaying #vinyl Everybody just calm the funk down. It’s James Brown, “Hot Pants.”
May 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
#nowplaying #vinyl Everybody just calm the funk down. It’s James Brown, “Hot Pants.”
#nowplaying #vinyl The Allman Brothers, “Idlewild South.” An impulse purchase with store credit because it is remastered and 180g. Haven’t heard it in a long time and never owned it (was more of a ZZ Top & James Gang guy), but it sounds great and reminds me what I like about the last #kglw album.
May 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
#nowplaying #vinyl The Allman Brothers, “Idlewild South.” An impulse purchase with store credit because it is remastered and 180g. Haven’t heard it in a long time and never owned it (was more of a ZZ Top & James Gang guy), but it sounds great and reminds me what I like about the last #kglw album.
It's been awhile, and nobody kept asking about it, so here's another all #vinyl mix featuring a Croatian synth-pop cover of "Mad World," a Krautrock rarity, a live cut from Frankie and the Witch Fingers, a #KGLW demo, and the result of a criminal investigation. www.mixcloud.com/Cagey_el_UU/...
May 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
It's been awhile, and nobody kept asking about it, so here's another all #vinyl mix featuring a Croatian synth-pop cover of "Mad World," a Krautrock rarity, a live cut from Frankie and the Witch Fingers, a #KGLW demo, and the result of a criminal investigation. www.mixcloud.com/Cagey_el_UU/...
#nowplaying #vinyl #cincodemayo “Back Up: Mexican Tecno Pop 1980-1989.” A truly underappreciated musical subgenre to go along with my tacos this evening. Stay free, Mexico.
May 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM
#nowplaying #vinyl #cincodemayo “Back Up: Mexican Tecno Pop 1980-1989.” A truly underappreciated musical subgenre to go along with my tacos this evening. Stay free, Mexico.
#nowplaying #vinyl “Cologne Curiosities-The Unknown Krautrock Underground, 1972-1976.” It’s half past time to stop fucking around.
May 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
#nowplaying #vinyl “Cologne Curiosities-The Unknown Krautrock Underground, 1972-1976.” It’s half past time to stop fucking around.
#nowplaying #vinyl Sextile, “yes, please.” I’m not sure if the Happy Mondays reference is deliberate, but definitely a throwback to electronic party music of the 90s. I loved “Push”, but I need to give this one a few more listens. It’s their first since they sadly lost a founding member to overdose.
May 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
#nowplaying #vinyl Sextile, “yes, please.” I’m not sure if the Happy Mondays reference is deliberate, but definitely a throwback to electronic party music of the 90s. I loved “Push”, but I need to give this one a few more listens. It’s their first since they sadly lost a founding member to overdose.
#nowplaying #vinyl The Teardrop Explodes, “Wilder.” Is there any musician who’s a harder nut to crack than the Archdrood Julian Cope? I’ve read his books but passed on “Floored Genius” a bunch of times. Then I saw this on a record-buying binge in Columbus and the price was right. Track 1 is cool!
May 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
#nowplaying #vinyl The Teardrop Explodes, “Wilder.” Is there any musician who’s a harder nut to crack than the Archdrood Julian Cope? I’ve read his books but passed on “Floored Genius” a bunch of times. Then I saw this on a record-buying binge in Columbus and the price was right. Track 1 is cool!
#nowplaying #vinyl Shudder to Think, “Pony Express Record.” Finally, after 30 years, this minor masterpiece *just* got a vinyl release. You can keep your Fugazi. This is the pinnacle of Washington DC in the naughty 90s. I remember, I was there (intermittently).
April 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
#nowplaying #vinyl Shudder to Think, “Pony Express Record.” Finally, after 30 years, this minor masterpiece *just* got a vinyl release. You can keep your Fugazi. This is the pinnacle of Washington DC in the naughty 90s. I remember, I was there (intermittently).
#nowplaying #vinyl Alex Chilton, “Like Flies on Sherbert.” This is the best thing he ever recorded, with “My Rival” and “Alligator Man” being the standouts. Change my mind. You can’t.
April 30, 2025 at 12:50 AM
#nowplaying #vinyl Alex Chilton, “Like Flies on Sherbert.” This is the best thing he ever recorded, with “My Rival” and “Alligator Man” being the standouts. Change my mind. You can’t.