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Dada Strain @dadastrain.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Paper in Fire" is one of the best folk-rock songs written during my American consciousness. Also (and I say this as Brooooce stan): JCM's band >>> E Street Band. Saw them in 85 (MSG), 87 (Cap Centre) and 92 (Merriwether), and they killed each time.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The book Venn I am going to suggest: American Oligarchs by Andrea Bernstein + Caliban & Witch + Capital Is Dead by McKenzie Wark

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Dada Strain @dadastrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One I am very much looking forward to...

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Dada Strain @dadastrain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"brain on drugs" for me - but both iconic

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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's been evening all day long And how can something so old Be so wrong?

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Dada Strain @dadastrain.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

(last second) Dada Strain Live PSA | Honored to fill in as a moderator for a conversation at this year's Brooklyn Book Festival. Sunday 9/27, 5p, Borough Hall, chatting classic NYC music with two smarties, Gillian McCain ("Please Kill Me") and Will Hermes ("Love Goes to Buildings on Fire"). Join us!

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Sonic Reducers: The Evolution of New York Noise - Brooklyn Book Festival

How did a single generation of New York outsiders permanently rewrite the rules of rock and roll? Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the seminal punk oral history Please Kill Me as co-author Gillian Mc...

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Mannie T'Chawi … (the “T” is silent) @mannietchawi.com · 23/09/2026

This story is a great example of when @prisonculture.bsky.social speaks on picking something to focus on, organize around it, and keep at it! You don’t have to do it all, but what you do, could make all the difference.

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Dada Strain @dadastrain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Related: trying to figure out whether circa 2026 the term "dub techno" has become completely meaningless, or if the "genre" tag has simply become a catch-all for broad, open-armed world of electronic producers administering types of echoes and fluctuating rhythm. Loving the latter...

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Dada Strain @dadastrain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

...as long as there's 10 more mins, and it gets wackie by the end. Exhibit A: music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/track/rainso...

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Rainsong (Kuniyuki Remix), by Gus Till

from the album Rainsong

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Dada Strain @dadastrain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

LOL - same...though I figured Irving Azoff was somehow front-and-center

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Dada Strain @dadastrain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This weekend I realized that Sheffield's Short Span might still be a completely dud-free label—one massive dub/techno/ambient electronics unspool after another. Kudos to the operators... shortspanrecords.bandcamp.com/music

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Short Span

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Dada Strain @dadastrain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Backwoodz x Mike Ladd? Perfect

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Dada Strain @dadastrain.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Though fully predictable, James Talarico's about-face is still so disappointing. So few Ds have spines.

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Dada Strain @dadastrain.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Among the saddest things in my feed: when no-editing happens to potentially good reporting/writing/interviewing - and smart folks mindlessly re-up it. #standards

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Dada Strain @dadastrain.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"a pop-up true crime exhibit"??? is this another phrase for an actual "crime scene"?

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Dada Strain @dadastrain.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

where's the cocaine | some cocaine | all the cocaine line?

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Dada Strain @dadastrain.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

HA! Sitting on my stereo and not looked through it yet

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We're going to have a better understanding of the 19th century than of the 21st century. I don't think people are fully appreciating this.

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Dada Strain @dadastrain.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New Dada Music (radio archive edition) | The good folks at Columbia’s mighty WKCR, invited me to come and play some music on a Monday afternoon. In keeping with Dada Strain philosophy, I programmed 3hrs of all new/recent releases by folks in the BklynSounds community. (Full play list on Soundcloud)

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Piotr Orlov / Dada Strain (GT048) | Groove Trackers | August 17, 2026

After Piotr Orlov's show was lost due to technical glitches, we invited Piotr back to do a full 3 hour show during WKCR's Afternoon New Music show. In keeping with the philosophy of Dada Strain, Piotr

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

p.s. Also this!!!!!

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Dada Strain @dadastrain.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

🧵! If you never read Tressie on Dolly, treat yourself. But this thread's not just about grief for a fallen legend (or two), but for the destruction of—and inability to create—environments and spaces where future genius can blossom.

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Dada Strain @dadastrain.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Lyrics I've known my entire adult life haunting me this week: - "They're selling postcards of the hanging" - "I know we had no money, but I was rich as I could be"

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Dada Strain @dadastrain.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Thinking of you, among a few. "The Dolly Moment" was what initially brought me to your writing, and I've never left.

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Here are a series of essays I wrote about Dolly tied to albums at the beginning, middle and end of her vast, prolific career, if you're looking for a little themed reading. www.dontrocktheinbox.com/on-dolly-par...

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On Dolly Parton, Brilliant In Every Era

Today marks an unfathomable loss: Dolly Parton has died. Brilliant artist, devoted philanthropist, remarkable human; to list her achievements here feels redundant, as the cult of Dolly has long since ...

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The True American @thetrueamerican.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Strange this stuff is happening so frequently with an unqualified former heroin addict at the head of a department randomly gutted by Elon’s incels and all its experts either fired or resigning. Just strange. www.usatoday.com/story/grocer...

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Publix blueberries, mixed berries recall now highest risk. See where

Sold in Publix locations across eight states, the affected product have expiration dates into 2028, meaning they could still be in freezers.

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Dada Strain @dadastrain.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Dada Strain @ L&SD, Saturday 8/22, 7p, Greenpoint with Lesley Mok + Tomin + Ali Berger rhythm improvisation community music Info/Tix/RSVP: dadastrain.substack.com/p/dada-strai...

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Dada Strain @dadastrain.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A roundtable with me and three former co-workers of note—five years before Dada Strain (an editor at NPR Music att, they asked I keep it OTR) When I say I've seen some sh!t, shared some sh!t, and was shaped by it, I'm not humble-bragging, just stating that what you gain from experiences matter.

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