#Listening to...

"Annihilation/Billionaire Death Drive is a second volume of anarcho-industrial punk from Te Whanganui-a-Tara’s Displeasure, the digital subsidiary of Unsanitary Napkin. The album expresses an even greater sense of urgency about the fragile state of our planet, and a greater sense of fury towards the depraved hypercapitalist sadists ruling over us"

https://mirlo.space/displeasure/release/annihilationbillionaire-death-drrive

#HatTip to unstream.stream for making this more discoverable!

#music #electronic #industrial #Displeasure

#Listening to a podcast edition of the recent KEXP live-to-air by progressive metal band Agriculture;

https://www.kexp.org/podcasts/live-on-kexp/2026/1/21/agriculture/

This is not for the fainthearted, it can be as loud and intense as you might expect. But it is unusual, atmospheric music, riding the knife edge between raucous and ambient, between expansive space and overwhelming volume.

#podcasts #Kexp #KEXPLive #music #metal #progressive #Agriculture

#Listening to Spiderland, a 1991 album by US mathrock pioneers Slint;

https://slint.bandcamp.com/album/spiderland-remastered

Reminds me somewhat of King Missile's Happy Hour, released a year later, which is one of my all-time favourite albums. Infamous for the single Detachable Penis. Also to some degree The Jesus Lizard, particularly the vocal style and some of the guitar tones.

I can't believe I never discovered Slint during the 90s, or even the noughties. Great stuff.

#music #rock #MathRock #Slint

#Listening to @kidlightbulbs' 2025 album INFINITE NORMAL;

https://music.kidlightbulbs.com/infinite-normal/

An intriguing singer-songwriter album reminiscent of Sparklehorse, Badly Drawn Boy or SJD. Melancholic and frustrated melodies, and lush instrumentation, especially for a solo act (plus a few friends).

Great to see professional sounding artists making use of non-corporate music hosting tools like FairCamp (see link) and @bandwagon (click on the Kid's @handle to see his BW profile).

#music #indie #KidLightbulbs

#Listening to Sweet Candy Power
by Shonen Knife, released in 2025;

https://shonenknife.bandcamp.com/album/sweet-candy-power-2

I first heard this Japanese punk band in the late 1990s, care of a friend who was obsessed with all things Japan. But BC tells me they've been a band since 1981. They still got it.

#music #punk #Japan #ShonenKnife

#Listening to Slap on the Wrist by Aotearoa ska-punks Roofdog, a band I've had many a wild skank to over the years;

"When will you let me out of here?
I need a joint, I need a beer
When will you let me out of here?
For your cannabis laws I just don't care"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k0bq8lG0V8

Love the little dub breakdown at the end, the self-titled album this track comes from has a few examples of this stuff.

#music #punk #ska #Roofdog #cannabis

#Listening to Umami (Single) by
@brickwallunlimited from 2024;

https://bandwagon.fm/67d9bb3e5f1aeb12faa08832

I was sceptical at first, unwelcome echoes of my own halting experiments with Fruity Loops on Windows 98, but this track grew on me as it evolved. It's a playful piece, and much more sophisticated in its execution that it initially seems.

#music #electronica #BrickwallUnlimitedInc

In the mood for a bit of punk today. #Listening to Ōtautahi hardcore band Kisser's 2025 release This World Swallows People Whole;

https://kisserhc.bandcamp.com/album/this-world-swallows-people-whole

Love the freaky electronic intro and archival samples, love the heavy guitars and chanting, love the changes of pace and tone, love the old school cartoony cover art. A solid album.

#music #punk #hardware #Kisser

#Listening to Here Come the Lucky Ones by @RobertaFidora, released in 2025;

https://mirlo.space/robertafidora/release/here-come-the-lucky-ones

The song begins with a haunting melody against a moody, atmospheric backdrop, then explodes into an electroclash anthem with strong hints of retro new wave. A fun and unexpected little drop of song for the evening. Glad I finally got around to browsing @mirlo for some tunes.

#music #electronica #ElectroClash #RobertaFidora

#Listening to A Better World, a 2025 album by political punk bands The Dissidents and D.O.V.E;

https://thedissidents.bandcamp.com/album/a-better-world

If you need to feel less alone in your frustration at the designer dysfunction of a world built for profit not people, check it out.

#HatTip to @uneasylistening for the link in their profile that led me to The Dissidents' music.

#music #punk #TheDissidents #DOVE

#Listening to Shapeshifter's Soulstice album, released in 2006;

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB37D0334C72C6E2C

NewPipe happened to be set to 0.75x speed when I started the album, and it turns out New Day Come actually sounds really good at this speed. The beat is a bit less frantic, the instrumentation more atmospheric, and the vocal deeper and more brooding, while still being uplifting. Speed-shifting music is fun.

#music #electronica #DnB #Shapeshifter

#Listening to the Spring EP by Aotearoa anarcho-punk band Fog, released in August of 2025;

https://areweinthecloudsnow.bandcamp.com/album/spring

#music #punk #AnarchoPunk #PostPunk #Fog

#Listening to Blind Yeo's KEXP Live performance from a couple of days ago;
https://omny.fm/shows/kexp-live-performances-podcast/blind-yeo-live-on-kexp

Check out the list of recent performers on the official website for KEXP Live;

https://kexp.org/podcasts/live-on-kexp/

... or follow this account to get a post when they put new video up on YouTub;

@youtube_kexp

Maybe one day we can convince them to post them on a PeerTube channel too ...

#podcasts #KEXP #KEXPLive #music #psychedelic #BlindYeo

#Listening to the 1971 self-titled album by Hot Chocolate;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3X6HHwKKXc

It's very obvious in hindsight how much 70s soul like this inspired the musical style of hip hop.

#music #soul #HotChocolate

#Listening to Hair Did by The Scotch Bonnets;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFQXRDWbZr4

A bouncy roots ska style track about getting gussied up for a night out. The perfect antidote to the orgy of doom and gloom engulfing the postmodern mediasphere. Check it out!

Hair Did is the first single release from their second album Come on Over, released in 2019;

https://thescotchbonnets.bandcamp.com/album/come-on-over

#music #ska #ScotchBonnets

Now I'm #listening *again* to Rebuffering, a collaboration by Tizzer and krumpet_love, recorded in 2020. I listened to this about 4-5 times after discovering it last night;

https://blocsonic.com/releases/track/bscomp0054-disc-1-tizzerkrumpet-love-rebuffering/

Subsequent releases on Tizzer's BandCamp reveals them as more of a prog metal experiment. But this track is brooding psychedelic rock, like something from Radiohead's later albums. Their 2014 album Contact Light has more of this jammy vibe.

(1/2)

#music #rock #psychedelic #Tizzer #KrumpetLove

#Listening to Marquee Moon, the classic 1977 album by proto-punk band Television;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0xL0S4NlAY

Television were regulars at the legendary CBGB, famous for being the early stomping grounds of other New York art punk bands who went on to mainstream success, notably Talking Heads and Blondie.

(1/2)

#music #rock #Television

#Listening to Rich People, a standalone track by Carsie Blanton from 2022;

https://carsieblanton.bandcamp.com/album/rich-people-digital-single

Licensed under CreativeCommons (BY-NC-ND 3.0), as is all the music she's released since on BC. Maybe everything there, but I didn't check every single release.

#HatTip to the @bsots Radio music podcast for introducing me to this song, in part 2 of the interview with @musicman;

https://radiobsots.blogspot.com/2023/07/bsots-180-in-conversation-with-douglas.html

#podcasts #BSOTS

$5 whale listening hydrophone making workshop

https://exclav.es/2025/08/03/dinacon-2025-passive-acoustic-listening/

#HackerNews #$5 #whale #listening #hydrophone #making #workshop #acoustic #marine #life #DIY #ocean #conservation