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Brad Martinez
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'Halvorson succeeds in perfectly balancing beauty and melodic implication with her restless experimentation. The result will have listeners coming back time and again to uncover more in these thrilling pieces'

Mary Halvorson – About Ghosts is No 49 in The Quietus AOTY 2025 Chart

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Mary Halvorson – About Ghosts album cover. A painting of some cartoonish ghosts in flight, crossing each other with a rainbow colour effect.
December 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Where to start with Dmitri Shostakovich, one of the most important classical composers of the 20th century.
Dmitri Shostakovich Revolutionized Classical Music From Behind the Iron Curtain
Where to start with one of the most important, emblematic composers of the 20th century.
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August 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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"I love the songwriting, the musicality, the performances, and the extraordinary power of his truth-telling. A genius – how beautiful that he lived at all."

#KaeTempest on #JeffBuckley Grace

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Jeff Buckley Grace cover. The artist holding an old fashioned microphone, eyes closed, face turned slightly downwards.
July 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Sonemic Interview: Stars of the Lid

Adam Wiltzie of Stars of the Lid discusses the band's DIY beginnings, orchestral influences on their sound, honoring Brian McBride's legacy in remastering 'Music for Nitrous Oxide,' and more in this interview with @calcash.in.

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July 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Flenser’s Seasonal Suffering: Summer’s Sigh - a playlist by The Flenser.

Updated seasonally to keep your spirits low all year round 😭

Available on Spotify.

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June 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Luke Schneider, pedal steel guitar god.
July 3, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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The Minutemen are the unique band whose music so effortlessly expresses both an acute sense of humor and a distinctive, indissoluble social and historical consciousness.

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June 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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This week's featured list:

Hypnotic Noise Resonance

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(Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke & Oren Ambarchi - 'いいこいいこがたつた一つだけ足りないと悪　たつた一つだけ多と善　そんなもんさ')
June 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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If one of your heroes is @planningforburial.bsky.social, the saying “never meet your heroes” is complete bullshit. Such a friendly, funny, and personable guy; spent 15 minutes talking to me when he didn’t have to. Then delivered a gorgeous and crushing set, cathartic as hell for me. Thanks, man.
June 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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On this date in 2000, Modest Mouse - 'The Moon & Antarctica' was released.

📈 #9 for 2000, #312 overall

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June 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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"I got the idea that music was there to set the mood for everything you were doing, you can dictate the atmosphere by the music you’re playing… as a six-year-old listening to Elgar on Canvey Island." Remembering Douglas McCarthy with his Quietus Baker's Dozen:

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Gold Gold Gold Gold Fire Fire Fire Fire: Douglas McCarthy's Favourite LPs | The Quietus
"Music for me has a symbolism around the weekend," says Douglas McCarthy, frontman of Nitzer Ebb and since 1980ish a master of shouting and pointing over fierce electronics. "Dad and I were twitchers,...
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June 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Sounds from deep in the subconscious
The Caretaker : An Empty Bliss Beyond This World | Album review | Treble
One of James Leyland Kirby's most haunting works as The Caretaker, An Empty Bliss Beyond This World is art conceptually bound by shadows
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June 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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June 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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A roadmap for navigating the catalog of Boris
The Best Boris Albums: A Beginner's Guide | Treble
A guide to getting into the legendary Japanese metal trio with five of the best Boris albums, plus next steps and deeper listening.
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May 31, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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I wore my new For All Time @planningforburial.bsky.social shirt today while planting pumpkins in the backyard patch. My older neighbor (nicely) said it was much better than the “evil demon shit [I] usually wear.”
May 31, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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@planningforburial.bsky.social @theflenser.bsky.social (yes, I have a child who decorated)
May 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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An introduction to Sunn O)))
Beginner's Guide: The Best Sunn O))) Albums to Start With | Treble
In our beginner's guide to the robed dronelords, we put together a five pack of the best Sunn O))) albums, plus next steps.
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May 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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'Audibly poised at a cultural pivot-point, Phaedra captures a time when a technological future could be conceived in countercultural, human-centred, and hence utopian terms.'

Reissue of the Week: #TangerineDream’s Phaedra

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Tangerine Dream - Phaedra album cover.
April 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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@planningforburial.bsky.social + @theflenser.bsky.social 4 Presidents.
March 17, 2025 at 9:56 PM