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Chris Monsen @chrismonsen.bsky.social · 9h

The Go-Betweens, The Friends of Rachel Worth #NowPlaying Crossposted with @openvibe.social

Album cover for The Friends of Rachel Worth by The Go-Betweens

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Chris Monsen @chrismonsen.bsky.social · 9h

Political Song For James Hetfield To Sing Crossposted with @openvibe.social

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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 15h

#NowSpinning Henry Cow: In Praise Of Learning (1975) "Dare to take sides in the fight for freedom"

Black vinyl LP playing with classic Henry Cow sock sleeve in red behind

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Palestinian skateboarder in Gaza doing a kickflip over an unexploded US-made (in Garland, Texas) Mk. 84 2000lb aerial bomb, provided to Israel as one of many tens of thousands of aerial bombs in the 1,000 and 2,000lb class included in US military assistance.

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Chris Monsen @chrismonsen.bsky.social · 16h

Happy b'day to the mighty Damon Smith! I've been playing No Tunes Rise From The Blood, the recently released trio recording with Smith, James McKain and Weasel Walter, a good deal of late. weaselwalter.bandcamp.com/album/no-tun...

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No Tunes Rise From The Blood, by James McKain, Damon Smith & Weasel Walter

6 track album

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Pål Nordseth @palnordseth.bsky.social · 19h

14 (!) år siden Disney kjøpte Lucasfilm, og så har vi fortsatt ikke fått denne crossoveren? (Tusjpenn, frihånd!)

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Jason Narducy @jasonnarducy.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Happy Birthday, Bob Mould!

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Jeff Golick @jgolick.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

This is it.

destruction of the notion of truth: we just won't be able to believe anything anymore. The placement of power within the hands of unelected tech billionaires, creating a kind of fascism.
And the total redefinition of the notion of art and creativity-away from the empathy of trying to see into somebody else's life and understand how somebody else sees the world, into a hall of mirrors, an infinite plane of utterly meaningless nonsense.

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Chris Monsen @chrismonsen.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

For dagens Musikkmagasinet har jeg skrevet om «A Living Poets Group», et livealbum av treblåser Ken Vandermark der han har samlet både nye og eldre samarbeidspartnere samt tre poeter, og lagd nok et interessant tilskudd til en særdeles sterk og rikholdig diskografi. Les omtalen i papir- og e-avisa.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 15/10/2026

What's up,

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

you can't be serious. This reads Meta/Facebook/Insta is looking to grant itself the rights to scrape websites across the open web - and train Meta's AI - if a company after Oct 30, 2026 uses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or other Meta services. So every biz. Read that again. Outrageous. 1/5

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Chris Monsen @chrismonsen.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The title piece for Thelonious Monk's classic Brilliant Corners was reocrded 70 years ago today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awlb...

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Brilliant Corners

YouTube video by Thelonious Monk - Topic

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Matana Roberts @matanaroberts.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Some things are valuable simply because you do them. Not everything has to leave a digital paper trail to count imho...

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

When you consider the scale of the economics and social impact of this, it’s genuine serious Hard Journalism being done here.

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Chris Monsen @chrismonsen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

A curious mix of 60s/70s British folk and 80s indie/jangle going on here. Song People, Tho I Seem Tame #NowPlaying

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Actual Cancel Culture of a significant cultural figure [unlike where far right extremists engage in hate speech & are held accountable]. It’s extremism like this, & the disinterest of the current UK Labour govt in stopping the shift to the far right, that’s deeply worrying.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

My apologies to anyone else who’s old enough not to want to be reminded just how fucking long ago it was, but: today is the 41st anniversary of the release of Cloudbusting—so it must be time to tell you about Wilhelm Reich and his orgasmatron...

Cover art of Cloudbusting single, showing Kate Bush as Peter Reich, sitting on his father’s rain machine, with its huge blunderbuss barrels pointing at the sky

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Chris Monsen @chrismonsen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Passerine, the upcoming quartet album by bassist Stephan Crump with David Leon, Kenny Warren and Ches Smith is just lovely. Releases on Oct. 23. More on this later. #NowPlaying

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Plenty of opinion pieces have been and will be written about Hegseth's depraved plans to have a man killed in front of cameras. I doubt that any will be as eloquent and distressing as Thackeray's account of his witnessing the hanging of François-Benjamin Courvoisier on 6 July 1840.

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GOING TO SEE A MAN HANGED

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 14/10/2026

Math is a liberal art

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov confirms Elon Musk's Space X crippled Ukrainian capabilities last night. In other words, the US deliberately sabotaged European defence operations mid-mission. Every country in the world should move away from buying American hardware ASAP.

"I can confirm that tonight SpaceX has implemented a speed limit on Starlink terminals while in motion.

The limit currently applies to the StarShield “military package” and is set at 100 mph.

Our defense forces were not given notice of this limit, and this has resulted in the disruption of a number of missions.

It is clear that this action cannot be a coincidence and is related to the current political situation."

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13/10/2026

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

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Melvin Gibbs @melvingibbs.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I BEEN telling people that AI is a cult not (just) a form of technology

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

incredible thread where Stephen repeatedly has to explain the idea that race is primarily a social convention, not a biological category

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Chris Monsen @chrismonsen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I've got that singing Spanish guy on coms, and boy is he singing.

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(Screams From The) Burning Ambulance @burningambulance.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The 100th anniversary of Chuck Berry's birth is on Sunday. I wrote about him and his legacy in today's newsletter. burningambulance.substack.com/p/chuck-berr...

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Chuck Berry @ 100

The very bad man who invented rock ’n’ roll

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Kate Feldman @kateefeldman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Every time we do "Twitter is bad now" discourse (which is like weekly), I have to think you're all just romanticizing what it was like before too. I had people photoshopping my face into a gas chamber in like 2020. It's WORSE now. It wasn't good before.

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Chris Monsen @chrismonsen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I do love me some Kranky, especially -- as some of you may know -- Labradford. Do check out Ned's overview on Shlf.

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Chris Monsen @chrismonsen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Rich f*ckers sticking up for rich cheaters. Quelle surpirise.

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Chris Monsen @chrismonsen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Buell Neidlinger and Dennis Charles recorded "Air" and "Port of Call", released on The World of Cecil Taylor, on this day, October 13, in 1960.

Album cover for The World of Cecil Taylor.

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Chris Monsen @chrismonsen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Not all music releases come out on Fridays. Two new albums out today, both very much worthy of attention. Or at least, they've piqued my interest: Luke Stewart Exposure Quintet, In the Air And On the Ground (RogueArt) and Håvard Wiik Trio, Hic sunt Leones! (Sonic Transmissions Records).

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

For example, AI "music" is proliferating on streaming platforms, especially Spotify, with thousands of new "tunes" registered every day by specialist companies, diminishing the already small pool of income which used to be distributed among actual musicians.

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Eternal gratitude to @grovejoel.bsky.social, who found the video highlights of the greatest game of the year. I shan't say more.

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AIK - BP | HIGHLIGHTS

YouTube video by Hjärtat Slår För AIK

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Chris Monsen @chrismonsen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Happy 90 to the brilliant Tom Zé!

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Chris Monsen @chrismonsen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

An alternative version, of several possible ones and with no overlaps, could look something like this:

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Dano Loves Music @danolovesmusic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Remembering John Prine, one of music’s all-time greatest songwriters, on what would have been his 80th birthday today!

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Chris Monsen @chrismonsen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That was a lovely worked goal.

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Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"I liked the sound. I don't know exactly why, and I still can't explain it satisfactorily. But I fell in love with the sound and with the instrument." Happy Birthday Julius Watkins born October, 10 1921

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Ole Roar Husby 📎 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @orhusby.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Denne uka har det faktisk vært innslag om #skotthyll på lokalnyhetene i Møre og Romsdal. tv.nrk.no/se?v=DKMR981...

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Distriktsnyheter Møre og Romsdal: Tirsdag - NRK TV

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Chris Monsen @chrismonsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sylvie Courvoisier, Chimera Almost three years since this wonder of an album was released (Oct. 20th 2023, to be exact). Just astonishingly beautiful, stirring, eerie and strange at the same time. #NowPlaying

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Chris Monsen @chrismonsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins recorded "Ramblin'", "Free" and "Forerunner", released on the masterful Change Of a Century, on October 9., 1959. #jazzsky

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Fenriz Friday @heyheyitsfenriz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

hey hey, are you having a great friday?

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Chris Monsen @chrismonsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Apropos the brillaint Nobel prize winner Anne Carson: just recalled that the titles of the pieces on Somersaults, a wonderful 2015 free improv album by @oliebrice.bsky.social, Tobias Delius and Mark Sanders, were lifted from Carson's book Glass and God. tworiversrecords.bandcamp.com/album/somers...

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SOMERSAULTS, by OLIE BRICE & TOBIAS DELIUS & MARK SANDERS

3 track album

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Chris Monsen @chrismonsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh OK, then. But treating this task as the sub-header implies: Not necessarily 9 all-time faves but albums that shaped my taste(s). Many others too, of course. Tried leaving one blank space to represent that there's always more music of any vintage that shape my perspectives, but it wouldn't let me.

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