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Dublin's @lankumdublin.bsky.social return with a new, stand-alone single: a devastatingly powerful and otherworldly interpretation of The Specials’ 1981 number one, ‘Ghost Town’. Watch the stunning video, directed by Leonn Ward & cinematography by Robbie Ryan klofmag.com/2025/10/lank...
Lankum Release Devastating ‘Ghost Town’ Cover with Stunning Leonn Ward Video
Lankum have released a devastating, otherworldly cover of The Specials’ ‘Ghost Town’, accompanied by a stunning video reminiscent of Andrei Tarkovsky —the perfect match to the track’s unsettling inten...
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October 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Former Google CEO (a billionaire, needless to say) says people should be working 72-hour weeks, using some nonsense about Chinese workers as an excuse. This comment seems like a pretty sane response. slashdot.org/story/25/09/...
September 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Actor and director Robert Redford has died at 89. He was a strong advocate for environmental justice, Indigenous rights and independent film.

Watch our interviews with Redford about art, activism, founding the Sundance Film Festival and more:
https://www.democracynow.org/appearances/robert_redford
September 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Opinie Ludo De Brabander (Vrede vzw), Bert Engelaar (ABVV), Ann Vermorgen (ACV): ‘Met een NAVO-norm van 5% dreigt de vernietiging van onze welvaartstaat’ www.mo.be/opinie/met-e...
‘Met een NAVO-norm van 5% dreigt de vernietiging van onze welvaartstaat’ – MO*
Vrede vzw vraagt 5 seconden politieke moed tegen de 5%.
www.mo.be
June 18, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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An urgent message from The Wire magazine

Running an independent music magazine is becoming increasingly difficult. We need your support

www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...
An urgent message from The Wire magazine - The Wire
Running an independent music magazine is becoming increasingly difficult. We need your support
www.thewire.co.uk
May 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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reporting, went first time "viral" on mastodon with this post! never so many re-toots <3
March 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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"All rivers lead to the same ocean: find your form of resistance, no matter how small, and go hard. It's now or never. Together we can prevent the annihilation of the memory of the world."

A tribute to the pirate shadow library UbuWeb:
"All rivers lead to the same ocean": UbuWeb, pirate shadow library, is back - CDM Create Digital Music
The underground treasure trove of "avant-garde artifacts" is back on the Internet, a source of light even in days of darkness.
cdm.link
February 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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“Europe Endless” by Kraftwerk.
I recorded this in my backyard today. Halfway through a bird started cheering me on. That’s why I’m smiling.

youtu.be/otxh_Zorwjo?...
“Europe Endless” by Kraftwerk, acoustic cover
YouTube video by Shane Parish
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January 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Hello there. We are The Tapeworm. We have been releasing avant-garde a clue sounds on cassettes and lesser formats since 2009.

Releases are available from the-tapeworm.bandcamp.com

Some out-of-print bangers are available digitally as part of The Digital Archive of Tapeworm: datworm.bandcamp.com
November 23, 2024 at 10:33 AM
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Lunchtime session at the very shmancy studios of 5dB Media.
Then we ate eggs.
youtu.be/ijIikrox4rg?...
Lunch With... Gwenifer Raymond
YouTube video by 5dBmedia
youtu.be
November 14, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Outsiders: 7* signs of good luck (a diary) w/ Sioban & tumy @ Kiosk Radio 17.11.2024 #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/rSfCv
Outsiders: 7* signs of good luck (a diary) w/ Sioban & tumy @ Kiosk Radio 17.11.2024
Artists and musicians Sioban and tumy present their sign of Good Luck, a narrative of introspective soundscapes that evoke a sense of floating and subtle disturbance. An atmosphere that feels both fam
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November 19, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Listen to Outsiders: Teenage Menopause w/ Tesaran @ Kiosk Radio 18.11.2024 #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/HS6Kv
Outsiders: Teenage Menopause w/ Tesaran @ Kiosk Radio 18.11.2024
Indonesian noise multiacktivist Tesaran is a low-sleeper maker, representing his country’s aesthetics and influences to the international scene. 🌐
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November 19, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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mastodon is still superior to bluesky, join mastodon!
November 16, 2024 at 9:04 AM
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"We’re facing drug shortages and price-gouging that were unheard of in ancient times, and it’s entirely self-inflicted. Real medicine is cheap and plentiful. The problem is that doctors refuse to prescribe raw onions anymore."
I’m Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and It’s Time to Build a Healthcare System for 2025 BCE
“After saying that he would let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ‘go wild on health,’ President-elect Donald J. Trump said Thursday that he would nominate him...
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November 15, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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Hello—introductions seem in order in this cordial new space.
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I’m Robert Macfarlane; I write books, films & music about the infinitely complex & fascinating terrain where nature, landscape, language & imagination entangle.
These are some of my books—& Is A River Alive? (just finished, out May 1st.)
November 14, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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“The Future of Songwriting” is a @RoughTrade Book of the Year…link to buy signed copies: www.roughtrade.com/en-gb/produc...
November 13, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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This absolute gem of an album from Maalem Houssam Guinia (or Gania, Guinea, Ghania, Guenya or Kania as the Arabic text on the cover states) is out in full on Friday but here, you can have an early listen:

bandcamp.com/private/G1GE...
November 11, 2024 at 8:00 AM
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We converse about the wild god himself in a new Nick Cave Listening Post. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7640655...
Listening Post: Nick Cave
Nick Cave got his start in the punk clubs of Melbourne, as the shirtless, skeletal and incandescent front man for the Birthday Party, an outfit once dubbed “the most violent live band in the world.”...
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October 11, 2024 at 6:13 PM