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.
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...
Reposted by Jen Matson (DJ nstop)
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!
Happy 10th anniversary to one of the best albums of 2015 that you've probably never heard: the self-titled debut/swan song by Auckland, NZ band The Moonlight. themoonlight.bandcamp.com/album/the-mo...
The Moonlight LP, by The Moonlight
10 track album
themoonlight.bandcamp.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Happy 10th anniversary to one of the best albums of 2015 that you've probably never heard: the self-titled debut/swan song by Auckland, NZ band The Moonlight. themoonlight.bandcamp.com/album/the-mo...
I married into a musical family :-)
Did you know my dad is a wonderful musician and composer? I am very pleased to present his album from 1999, Ancient Echoes - Music for Dulcimers and Flutes, now on Bandcamp. It's great!
tombaehr.bandcamp.com/album/ancien...
tombaehr.bandcamp.com/album/ancien...
Ancient Echoes - Music for Dulcimers and Flutes, by Tom Baehr
27 track album
tombaehr.bandcamp.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I married into a musical family :-)
New Possible Humans LP! Loved their 2019 debut (released by @troubleinmind.bsky.social over here), and I am happy to report this one also rips. hobbiesgalore.bandcamp.com/album/standi...
Standing Around Alive, by Possible Humans
9 track album
hobbiesgalore.bandcamp.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
New Possible Humans LP! Loved their 2019 debut (released by @troubleinmind.bsky.social over here), and I am happy to report this one also rips. hobbiesgalore.bandcamp.com/album/standi...
If you still need recs in the waning hours of Bandcamp Friday... I got ya. New CPS up now w/music fr artists/labels @glenndonaldson.bsky.social @lindymorrison.bsky.social @evernever.bsky.social @meritoriorec.bsky.social @indieordie.bsky.social @hiddenbayrec.bsky.social www.nstop.com/cycles-per-s...
October 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM
If you still need recs in the waning hours of Bandcamp Friday... I got ya. New CPS up now w/music fr artists/labels @glenndonaldson.bsky.social @lindymorrison.bsky.social @evernever.bsky.social @meritoriorec.bsky.social @indieordie.bsky.social @hiddenbayrec.bsky.social www.nstop.com/cycles-per-s...
New band alert!: Rachel Love (Dolly Mixture), Peter Momtchiloff (Heavenly/Would-Be-Goods), Ian Button (Heavenly, Thrashing Doves) are...
Railcard
Playing the first single from their upcoming EP on hollowearthradio.org right now 👀
Railcard
Playing the first single from their upcoming EP on hollowearthradio.org right now 👀
October 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM
New band alert!: Rachel Love (Dolly Mixture), Peter Momtchiloff (Heavenly/Would-Be-Goods), Ian Button (Heavenly, Thrashing Doves) are...
Railcard
Playing the first single from their upcoming EP on hollowearthradio.org right now 👀
Railcard
Playing the first single from their upcoming EP on hollowearthradio.org right now 👀
The past three weeks' worth of Cycles Per Second, featuring (almost) three hours of the latest and greatest songs to tickle my ears, now up on ye olde Mixcloud.
www.mixcloud.com/nstop/
www.mixcloud.com/nstop/
September 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The past three weeks' worth of Cycles Per Second, featuring (almost) three hours of the latest and greatest songs to tickle my ears, now up on ye olde Mixcloud.
www.mixcloud.com/nstop/
www.mixcloud.com/nstop/
Nice story about my favorite Seattle venue, turning 25 this year. www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
At 25, this Ballard club is a Seattle music institution
Sunset Tavern has long stood at the forefront of local music. Now, it's kicking back and letting loose for its 25th trip around the sun.
www.seattletimes.com
September 27, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Nice story about my favorite Seattle venue, turning 25 this year. www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
Ibex Clone are killing it rn with their set. New songs!
September 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Ibex Clone are killing it rn with their set. New songs!
Am sadly missing Gonerfest this year but the livestream is free and they got started about 10 min ago. goner-records.com/pages/gonerf...
September 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Am sadly missing Gonerfest this year but the livestream is free and they got started about 10 min ago. goner-records.com/pages/gonerf...
