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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Touch Girl Apple Blossom – Sidewalk “Breakfast in cemetery / Boy tasting wild cherry / Touch girl, apple blossom / Just a boy playing possum”. That, from Beat Happening’s Indian Summer, is where Austin’s Touch Girl Apple Blossom got its name ➡️ @krecs.bsky.social ftherules.net/2026/03/17/t...

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Rachel Love – Without You More than four decades after she and her Dolly Mixture bandmates sang about a popular classmate, Rachel Love still makes music. In Railcard and on also her second solo album, Lyra (from 2024, but re-released next ➡️ @slumberlandrecords.com ftherules.net/2026/03/16/r...

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Tinariwen – Sastanàqqàm The Guardian published an article about Tinariwen, a Tuareg collective from the Sahara who are one of the pioneers of desert blues. The article focuses on how the collective is dealing with the (geo)political changes in the region, but it ➡️ ftherules.net/2026/03/15/t...

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The Femcels – Not ur Friend A ‘femcel’ is a voluntary celibate woman and listening to the lyrics on London’s The Femcels’ debut album I Have to Get Hotter, either that name or those lyrics are not to be taken literally. They make music not dissimilar to ➡️ ftherules.net/2026/03/14/t...

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Club 8 – Lazy Oh hey, Club 8 is still around. It appears the Swedish duo has been making music all this time while I wasn’t paying attention, with their most recent album (Seasonal Echoes) released in 2025 (on Darla). They still make ➡️ ftherules.net/2026/03/12/c... @darlarecords.bsky.social

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

New Bad Things – Freemason Love Triangle There is a small part of my brain that for the past 30 years has remembered the song Freemason Love Triangle by Portland, Oregon’s New Bad Things. In fairness, it is a really great song title. It is also a really great ➡️ ftherules.net/2026/03/11/n...

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

The Telephone Numbers – Telephone Numbers Theme “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you” said Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas A. Watson over the telephone, exactly 150 years ago today. Telephone numbers wouldn’t come into use until 1879 ➡️ @slumberlandrecords.com ftherules.net/2026/03/10/t...

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Television Personalities – Geoffrey Ingram I was there when in December 2002 the Television Personalities made its comeback, after singer Dan Treacy had spent some time in prison. The mini festival in London where they played turned out to be quite pivotal for my ➡️ ftherules.net/2025/11/22/t...

Television Personalities - ...And Don't The Kids Just Love It

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Star Feminine Band – Jusq’au Bout du Monde Star Feminine Band is a group of young women – when they formed, their average age was 16 – from the north of Benin. They have been picked up by some of the bigger European festivals (they played both Glastonbury and ➡️ ftherules.net/2025/11/22/s...

Start Feminine Band - Jusqu'au Bout Du Monde

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Oblivians - Ja Ja Ja There’s an Internet verb ‘to wilf’, short for What was I Looking For: getting lost in some rabbit hole, usually on Wikipedia, having long forgotten what your original purpose for opening the browser was. The other day, after some wilfing ➡️ ftherules.net/2025/11/21/o...

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

The Gentle Spring – Severed Hearts The Gentle Spring is Michael Hiscock’s new band. He once formed The Field Mice and in my world, that is a recommendation even more than 30 years after that band ceased to exist. Michael now lives in Paris and in The Gentle Spring ➡️ ftherules.net/2025/11/21/t...

The Gentle Spring - Looking Back at the World

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

The Notwist – Run Run Run (Ada Remix) We all do silly things when we are young. Bavaria’s The Notwist once started out as a metal band. Thankfully, they moved on from that long ago and for the last few decades, The Notwist has been making music on the border ➡️ ftherules.net/2025/11/20/t...

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Laundromat Chicks – Secrets Laundromat Chicks sounds as if they come from Oxford in 1988 or Göteborg in 2004. In fact, they come from Vienna in 2025. There is a whininess in the singer’s voice in Secrets but combined with a jangly guitar and a very basic pop song ➡️ ftherules.net/2025/11/19/l...

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Strange Passage – Palace Behind the Shade I learned about Strange Passage’s Palace Behind the Shade from a @rosyoverdrive.com blog post that also mentioned Hüsker Dü and maybe that’s why that comparison keeps popping up in my hand. Just like the Hüskers did ➡️ ftherules.net/2025/11/17/s...

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Lorelei – Stop What You’re Doing With Slumberland (@slumberlandrecords.com) releasing all these fine records lately, one would almost forget that the label has been around for well over three decades. Washington DC’s Lorelei released an album with noisy shoegaze ➡️ ftherules.net/2025/11/16/l...

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

The Mountain Goats – Rocks in my Pockets For me, The Mountain Goats (@themountaingoats.bsky.social) will always be the one-man lo-fi band I fell in love with in the late 1990s. I know they’ve released a million albums as a full band since but it still doesn’t feel ➡️ ftherules.net/2025/11/13/t...

The mountain goats - Through this fire across from Peter Balkan

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Dreamcoaster – Catch Me When I Fall The excellent @janglepophub.bsky.social blog — a great source for new music in, well, that particular subgenre — refers to Dreamcoaster’s music as ‘jangle-gaze’. An excellent description, as the ➡️ ftherules.net/2025/11/12/d... @dreamcoasterband.bsky.social

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Jovi feat. Reniss – B.A.S.T.A.R.D. I am a sucker for songs that switch between two languages and B.A.S.T.A.R.D. switches between three: French, English and Cameroon pidgin English. Alternating between rappers (Jovi and Reniss, both from Cameroon) is another weak ➡️ ftherules.net/2025/11/11/j...

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

The Laughing Chimes - High Beams Right from the opening keyboard notes of High Beams I knew that this was my favourite song of what their label Slumberland calls The Laughing Chimes’ “sophomore album” (I had to check the US educational system ➡️ ftherules.net/2025/11/10/t... @slumberlandrecords.com

The Laughing Chimes - Whispers in the Speech Machine

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Gaze - Eric Idol Nothing says that my taste in music isn’t that of most people than the fact that about half the plays of Gaze’s Eric Idol on the various music platforms is me playing the 74-second song over and over again for the past ten years. ➡️ ftherules.net/2025/11/09/g... @krecs.bsky.social

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Etran de L’Aïr – Imouha ftherules.net/2025/11/06/e...

Front cover of Etran de L'aïr - 100% Sahara guitar

A mini van with a single front wheel out of which four Black men are hanging, three holding a guitar

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Stereolab – Cybele’s Reverie @stereolabgroop.bsky.social ftherules.net/2025/11/01/s...

Front cover of the album Emperor Tomato Ketchup by Stereolab

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Joel Cusumano – Two Arrows @joelcusumano.bsky.social ftherules.net/2025/10/30/j...

Front cover of Joel Cusumano - Waxworld
The letters in yellow/orange capitals in front of a black and white photo of a middle aged man, with a mustache, with a hand in front of his face

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Higher than the Stars @thepainsofbeing.bsky.social @slumberlandrecords.com ftherules.net/2025/10/27/70/

Don't cover of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart — perfect right now: a slumberland collection 2008-2010
The front cover has a blue and yellow photo of two people

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The Ekphrastics – This Month At The Roman Bros. Gallery @ekphrastics.bsky.social ftherules.net/2025/10/25/t...

Front over of All Of A Sudden, Pow! by the Ekphrastics. The album shows drawn fireworks on a black background, with the band name in red.

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Ata Kak — Daa Nyinaa ftherules.net/2025/10/24/a...

Front cover of Ata Kak — Obaa Sima, which is a yellow and red cassette cover with a black man in sunglasses, a cap and a denim jacket singing in the microphone

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Tullycraft – Tarrytown ftherules.net/2025/10/19/t...

Front cover of Shoot the Point by Tullycraft, which is an abstract painting with arrows and circles

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Tyler Childers – Oneida @tylerchilders.bsky.social wordpress.ftherules.net/2025/10/18/t...

Front cover of Tyler Childers's album, with a man sitting in a classic personal library, with a dog in front of him

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Snõõper – Company Car ftherules.net/2025/10/16/s... www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vNS...

Front cover of Company Car by Snõõper, showing a man with a fake head holding a giant portable phone and smoking a gigantic cigarette

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ftherulesblog.bsky.social @ftherulesblog.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Kicking Giant – Fuck the Rules ftherules.net/2025/10/15/k... www.youtube.com/watch?v=cag1...

Front cover of "This being the Ballad of Kicking Giant, Halo" which shows the two-person band in a black and white photo surrounded by colourful cuttings

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