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Baxter Holland @mathrawk.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I hadn't thought about chooglin' tonight, but this guy is making me change my mind.

A YouTube comment under CCR's 'Keep on Chooglin': I choogled a little a few nights ago...... thinking about chooglin some tonight.

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Baxter Holland @mathrawk.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I laughed out loud at this just now.

Meet Me In Noisearitaville: Jimmy Buffett Power Electronics Tribute Comp

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Baxter Holland @mathrawk.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

If anyone's curious, here are the albums I loved the most this year.

Apparitions - Volcanic Reality
The Austerity Program - Bible Songs 2
Brighde Chaimbeul - Sunwise
Jim Ghedi - Wasteland
S.G. Goodman - Planting by the Signs
Hedonist - Scapulimancy
Kid Cops - s/t
Leather Hearse - Decalouge
Lindstrøm - Sirius Syntoms
Model / Actriz - Pirouette
Primitive Man – Observance
Secret Cutter - ///

Teller Bank$ - Drug$$$
Toru - Velours Dévorant
Town Portal - Grindwork
The Tubs - Cotton Crown
Various - All the Young Droids: Junkshop Synth Pop 1978-1985
Stephen Vitiello, Brendan Canty, Hahn Rowe - Second
Water Damage – Instruments
Why Patterns - SCREAMERS
billy woods - GOLLIWOG
worriedaboutsatan - The Future Can Wait
Yellow Eyes - Confusion Gate
Yowie - Taking Umbrage

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Baxter Holland @mathrawk.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I just read about D'Angelo's death and said "oh my god" out loud. What a legend. His genius gave us this, and I love it dearly.

The cover of D'Angelo's 'Black Messiah' album.

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Baxter Holland @mathrawk.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

A lean, propulsive read that is, on the surface, a blow-by-blow account of an amateur cycling race. Underneath that, however, are darkly hilarious musings on suffering, ego, and why the hell people race on bicycles in the first place. I don't know shit about cycling and I LOVED this.

The cover of Tim Krabbe's book 'The Rider', which features a lone cyclist on a three-color cover of blue, orange, and red.

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Baxter Holland @mathrawk.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Happy 20th birthday to an absolute landmark album for me: The Psychic Paramount's 'Gamelan Into the Mink Supernatural'. Led Zeppelin mixed with Can mixed with My Bloody Valentine. It was featured in an Aquarius Records (RIP) newsletter and I was hooked from the sound sample.

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Baxter Holland @mathrawk.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

RIP to a true king, and the creator of the soundtrack to every childhood mall trip I ever took, and every G.I. Joe, Gobot, or Transformer that was given to me as a treat.

The cover of Chuck Mangione's 'Feels so Good', which features the man himself embracing a trumpet, looking like the happiest man alive.

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Baxter Holland @mathrawk.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Halfway through a horrifying year. This is the crop of albums that have helped me through it, for those curious.

The Austerity Program - Bible Songs 2
Bruiser Wolf – Potluck
Brighde Chaimbeul - Sunwise
Leather Hearse - Burn in Heaven I
Lindstrøm - Sirius Syntoms
loscil - Lake Fire
Model / Actriz - Pirouette
Museum of Light – Diviner
Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas – Totality
Secret Cutter - ///
Laurie Torres - Après coup
Toru - Velours Dévorant
The Tubs - Cotton Crown
Stephen Vitiello, Brendan Canty, Hahn Rowe - Second
Water Damage - Instruments
billy woods - GOLLIWOG
worriedaboutsatan - The Future Can Wait

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Baxter Holland @mathrawk.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Team Brooks here too cos my plantar fasciitis has gotten WILD.

My black and white Brooks sneakers. I tried desperately to find a “cool” style and this is the best I could do.

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Baxter Holland @mathrawk.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Whoops - I forgot the alt text. Here are the screenshots with proper text.

Funny enough, we found out that not everyone had this understanding seared in their DNA like we did. So here’s something like an explanation: a Taco Riff is the heaviest part of a song – sometimes the whole song – where the guitar, bass and drums lock together and make the world melt in a moment of undeniable pleasure. Picture this – if you were a sophomore in high school and the senior who ran your packed car pool said “Hey, The Cure is so much better than metal, right? I mean, what is it that you like about metal so much?”, the Taco Riff is what you would want cued up on the cassette you pass forward from the back seat.

Taco Riffs don’t depend on the what’s happening with the rest of the song. They are what they are all on their own. Now that the Tamil Tigers are no longer a going military concern, everyone of consequence agrees that the hugest, heaviest riff is the final guitar bit of “Good Morning, Captain” by Slint. This an undeniable fact, like gravity. But that’s only because the whole song (and probably the whole album) has been deliberately constructed just to deliver that moment – it’s pretty astonishing. To be fair, though, that riff doesn’t deliver on its own; it’s transcendent because of all that has been building up to it. But the Taco Riff does not need the rest of the song. Really, the rest of the song is usually just window dressing (and that’s fine).

There are only two things in metal that rival the glory of the Taco Riff. One is the muted 16th note melody line matched with a double bass drum – Bolt Thrower pull this shit all over “The IVth Crusade” and it rules. The other thing is very specific – 1:04 into “Dawn of a New Age” by Satyricon: Satyr delivers a “DIIIIEEE” that is incredible. This actually isn’t relevant to the discussion at hand other than to say that Bolt Thrower and Satyricon both peaked after about two records and those peaks are fantastic.

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Baxter Holland @mathrawk.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Hah I'll share Justin Foley's description (singer/guitarist of the Austerity Program).

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Baxter Holland @mathrawk.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

A good friend of mine recently published a kid’s book about Edward Gorey, and I had no idea he was this preposterously iconic.

Edward Gorey absolutely slaying in a knee-length fur coat, a long cozy scarf, sunglasses, and an immaculately trimmed beard. He is terribly handsome.

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Baxter Holland @mathrawk.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Out of all the Kash Patel bananas-ness in that WSJ article, this actually made me guffaw out loud.

He was planning to reorganize the Federal Bureau of Investigation with a regional command structure, raise fitness requirements for special agents and arrange a partnership between the FBI and the UFC cage-fighting league run by a close friend of President Trump’s, people familiar with the meeting said.

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Baxter Holland @mathrawk.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Hi. I’m Baxter Holland. You may have seen me in such films as “The Stench of Excellence” and “Cop Lust”. Do you have a wife that you love? Do they love durian? Try Wife CakesTM. The only cakes for wives that you love who love durian.

I’m holding a box of pastries called Wife Cakes with a picture of a durian on the front. They weren’t bad honestly. Little dry but quite tasty.

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Baxter Holland @mathrawk.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

When the riff comes back but slower. (I shamelessly stole this from animalsdoingthings on IG).

A squirrel making an incredibly derpy tongue out intense face that says “I fucking love this”.

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Baxter Holland @mathrawk.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

If you see this, post a fictional artist/band you would love to see live

The Riverbottom Nightmare band from Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas, featuring Chuck Stoat on vox and keys, Stanley Weasel on the guitar, Fred Lizard on the drums, Howard Snake somehow playing the bass and contributing backup vox, and Catfish, who just sits in a tank and vibes out.

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Baxter Holland @mathrawk.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

This was a preposterously good year for music. For those interested, I put together my metal and non-metal EOY lists. I usually do one list, cos I do feel that there are only 2 kinds of music (good and the other kind), but it was a lot to digest. Anyhoo, maybe you'll find something you like.

2024 Metal/Noise Rock Faves

Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
Bursting - s/t EP
Chat Pile - Cool World
Couch Slut - You Could Do It Tonight
Necrot - Lifeless Birth
Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja
Pyrrhon - Exhaust
Spectral Voice - Sparagmos
SUMAC - The Healer
Thank - I Have a Physical Body That Can Be Harmed
Thou - Umbilical
Ufomammut - Hidden
Undeath - More Insane

2024 Non-Metal Faves

Elucid - Revelator
Gnod - Spot Land
Asmaa Hamzaoui & Bnat Timbouktou - L'bnat
Helado Negro - Phasor
Haley Heyderickx - Seed of a Seed
Chuck Johnson - Sun Glories
Bartosz Krucynski - Dreams & Whispers
My Heart, an Inverted Flame - The Frail Parish
Abdallah Oumbadougou - The Godfather of Tuareg Music Vol. 1
Orville Peck - Stampede
Sheer Mag - Playing Favorites
Water Damage - In E
Gillian Welch - Woodland
Luke Wyland - Kuma Cove

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Baxter Holland @mathrawk.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I am going to a rock and/or roll show tonight.

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Baxter Holland @mathrawk.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy

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Baxter Holland @mathrawk.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

That canceled tv show you’ll never stop thinking about

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