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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Le label Born Bad Records a 20 ans www.liberation.fr/culture/musi...
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Le label Born Bad Records a 20 ans : «Rien à branler de finir dans la playlist barbeuc de Spotify !»
Malgré une économie du disque toujours plus exsangue, le label de l’opiniâtre Jean-Baptiste Guillot fête cet automne deux décennies d’indépendance au service de l’underground rock français.
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Cult indie band from Spain Migala reissue their foundational album Diciembre 3 a.m. and announce a unique show in Madrid. migalaband.bandcamp.com/album/diciem...
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Diciembre 3 a.m. Edición Especial 30 Aniversario., by migala
18 track album
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Marc Masters 🌵 @marcissist.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
RIP David Fair. What an inspiration. He and Jad pretty much invented DIY indie. youtu.be/kt1At1Fq8dE?...
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David & Jad Fair from Half Japanese explain how to play guitar
YouTube video by Stormy Weathers
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Demain soir à Paris 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
La première projection en France du film We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher aura lieu au Point Éphémère à Paris lundi 31 août. Une autre projection aura lieu au cinéma La Clef le 23 août. Plus d'infos : www.closeandremote.net/portfolio/we... et www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap... #MarkFisher
Affiche du film We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher pour la projection du la 31 août 2026 au Point Éphémère à Paris en France.
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Great read and excellent writing - Patrick Clarke from The Quietus reporting from the New Trad Fest in Saint-Aignan. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Tao of Glass - Fond memories of this beautiful part-performance part-concert homage to Philip Glass from its premiere at the Manchester International Festival, currently played at Soho Place in London. The original music soundtrack by Philip Glass is out, too. www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/j...
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Tao of Glass review – stage magic as McDermott meditates on the minimalist master
This multifaceted and intensely personal homage to – and collaboration with – composer Philip Glass is a transcendent tapestry suffused with joy and wonder.
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The French Exception - The War, De Gaulle, Brel, Barbara, Brassens, Ferré, Gainsbourg, and the Rock and Roll Revolution that Never Happened. By @thehinternet.bsky.social www.the-hinternet.com/p/the-french...
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The French Exception
The War, De Gaulle, Brel, Barbara, Brassens, Ferré, Gainsbourg, and the Rock and Roll Revolution that Never Happened
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Gugusse et l'automate, Georges Méliès, 1897.
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Cities and Memory @citiesandmemory.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Launching on Monday! 100 years of incredible ethnographic recordings from @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social's extraordinary sound collections, reimagined into brand new compositions by sound artists, musicians, composers, poets and producers from all over the world.
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Cafe OTO @cafeotodalston.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
JOB VACANCY - SENIOR PRODUCER We’re looking for a new Senior Producer to help plan our programme and make it happen: www.cafeoto.co.uk/job-vacancy-...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/03/2025
Artists told to leave Dalston street that nurtured Oscar winner
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Artists told to leave Dalston street that nurtured Oscar winner
Hackney council calls time on Ashwin Street studio, neighbour to newly famous live music venue Cafe Oto
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Sony Music backs AI rights startup Vermillio - Axios www.axios.com/2025/03/03/v...
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Exclusive: Sony Music backs Vermillio's $16M Series A
The startup offers an AI licensing and protection platform.
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
On AI - "The only uncertainty [around intellectual property] is around who has been using the UK’s creative crown jewels as training material without permission and how they got hold of it.” - John Naughton, The Observer www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Creative industries are among the UK’s crown jewels – and AI is out to steal them | John Naughton
The tech firms’ efforts to change copyright laws and gain free access to intellectual property is patently wrong
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Bill Fay, 9 September 1943 – 21 February 2025. pitchfork.com/news/bill-fa...
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The library of analogue sounds from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop is now publicly available for the first time www.spitfireaudio.com/bbc-radiopho...
Black and while picture of a female sound engineer working in a recording studio in the 60s
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
#jesuisCharlie
Translation in several languages of the French slogan "Je suis Charlie" that became a popular way of showing support of French satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo following the attack by Islamist terrorists of its Paris office and the killing of 12 people including cartoonists, journalists, staff and two police officers on 7 January 2015
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Pascal Bertin 💿 @pascalb.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Rattrapé mon retard sur ce docu signé Moby qui donne envie de manger du punk vegan et de devenir hardcore, ou l'inverse. Avec Ian Mackaye, Steve Ignorant de Crass, Captain Sensible et bien d'autres.
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Punk Rock Vegan Movie (2023) | Teaser
YouTube video by Moby
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Georgia Hubley, Ira Kaplan & James McNew @dumpland.bsky.social - Little Black Egg aka Yo La Tengo - Café OTO, London - 30/11/2024
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Colossal @thisiscolossal.com · 27/11/2024
Starling murmurations from Dr. Kathryn Cooper
a sunset timelapse photo of a landscape with a dramatic murmuration of starlings
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Anita Chaudhuri @anitachaudhuri.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I wasn’t expecting to like the much-hyped Anastasia Samoylova show as much as I did. Beautifully curated at Saatchi Gallery, many of the images focus on climate anxiety in her adopted home state, Florida.
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Great to see Nada Surf in top form last night at Islington Assembly Hall in London. Hats off to Matthew, Daniel, Ira and Louie!
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
"For creators, the only way to avoid pitfalls associated with investors is to own your own platforms." Another must read by @davetroy.com 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Photographer and drummer Joe Dilworth in conversation with Jeff Barrett for the launch of the excellent book 'Everything, All At Once Forever' tonight at The Social bildbandberlin.com/products/joe...
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
On Huggy Bear - “We defined ourselves by what we loved, and also what we hated and despised,” says Rowley. “Our ethics were from left-field feminism, queer politics, situationism. We wanted to carve away all we found terrible and corrupting.” www.theguardian.com/music/2024/n...
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‘We didn’t intend to create outrage’: Huggy Bear on radical politics, riot grrrl – and causing chaos on live TV
They said they’d exist for three years, then split. And that’s what the British punks did, winning love and notoriety for their feminist, queer worldview. Thirty years on, a new book tells their story
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Dave Troy @davetroy.com · 13/11/2024
1/IMPORTANT thread about Bluesky funding and origins. Many folks know that it was seeded by Jack Dorsey around a libertarian vision of a magical network that wouldn’t need moderation because it would be decentralized and baked into a protocol (somehow).
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 15/11/2024
Hi Bluesky! We've created a (constantly-growing) starter pack for you rounding up all the Quietus editors, writers and contributors who've made the move over here. Go on - give everyone a mass-follow! go.bsky.app/i6DSod
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Watching the new video for Everything is Recorded new single ‘Porcupine Tattoo ft. Noah Cyrus & Bill Callahan’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLfe...
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Everything Is Recorded - Porcupine Tattoo (ft. Noah Cyrus & Bill Callahan) (Visualiser)
YouTube video by Everything Is Recorded
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Social music platform Hangout.fm has opened its digital doors with access to over 100 million tracks. Users can sign up, select an avatar, invite friends to their personal space, and take turns playing songs from their favorite artists in a virtual DJ booth. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-n...
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Social Listening Platform Hangout Launches With Universal, Sony, Warner Music Backing
With more than 100 million tracks, the service is "inspired by queuing up the jukebox or putting on a favorite album with friends" at a time when social media is "based on division," says CEO Joseph P...
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 23/06/2024
Rafael Toral - Café OTO - 23/06/2024
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 25/05/2024
A Kharkiv des missiles russes ont touché la plus grande imprimerie d'Ukraine faisant 7 morts. Cette frappe intervient 90 ans après l’exécution en 1934 de 33 écrivains de Kharkiv symboles de la «Renaissance» de la littérature ukrainienne. via @stefsiohan.bsky.social www.liberation.fr/internationa...
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Guerre Ukraine-Russie : Moscou détruit la plus grande imprimerie ukrainienne, un symbole culturel
A Kharkiv, des missiles russes ont touché la plus grande imprimerie du pays, faisant 7 morts. La frappe, coup terrible au secteur de l’édition qui gagne en puissance depuis 2022, est emblématique d’un...
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 06/04/2024
Evil Does Not Exist written and directed by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi (wonderful) music by Eiko Ishibashi
poster of the movie Evil Does Not Exist showing little girl in blue coat turning her back in snowy forest
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
Ars longa, vita brevis.
Black and white Japanese poster for the movie Opus featuring Ryuichi Sakamoto playing the piano
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
‘It was like we’d signed up for a cult’: the weird, wild world of Butthole Surfers. www.theguardian.com/music/2024/m...
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‘It was like we’d signed up for a cult’: the weird, wild world of Butthole Surfers
The surviving members of the Texan psychedelic art rock noise band recall the drugs, fires, fights, scabies, dumpster-diving, naked dancing and primal screaming of their early days
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
“It only takes a moment for everything we thought that we have achieved to fade away.” France becomes the only country in the world to guarantee abortion as a constitutional right. ✌🏻 apnews.com/article/fran...
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France becomes the only country in the world to guarantee abortion as a constitutional right
A woman’s right to an abortion will be enshrined in the French Constitution after lawmakers approved a bill during a historic session of parliament.
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 03/03/2024
Simon Rattle condemned “the poisonous idea” that the arts are only for the elite. “It will become a self-­fulfilling prophecy if we are not careful. Everybody deserves to get the best – that was what once made this ­country so special,” he said. www.theguardian.com/music/2024/m...
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Conductor Simon Rattle says cutting UK tax relief for orchestras would be a catastrophe
Plea to protect arts funding as a growing number of city and county councils face bankruptcy
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Robin Rimbaud - Scanner @scannerdot.com · 21/02/2024
My review of the wonderful Neumusik fanzine, exploring European experimental music between 1979-1982, can now be read in full on my website. scannerdot.com/neumusik-a-f...
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Neumusik – a fanzine covering experimental music - Scanner
A review of Neumusik, a fanzine dedicated to European experimental music from 1979-1982, duplicating the original issues
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 17/02/2024
By Dimitry Markov, 1982-2024. Portrait of a Raifa special school pupil for children with deviant behavior. Chistopol, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. Série Draft Russia, 2016 © Dmitry Markov Courtesy Joe Baio Photography Collection.
Portrait of a boy getting a clipper haircut by a tatooed barber.
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
When do we explore new music? "Despite speculation that musical nostalgia compensates for life’s disruptions, musical exploration systematically reflects breaches in personal routine." A fascinating research paper by Khwan Kim, Noah Askin, and James A. Evans. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Screenshot of abstract from research paper titled "Disrupted routines anticipate musical exploration" by Khwan Kim, Noah Askin, and James A. Evans.
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 10/02/2024
Robert Badinter, 1928-2024. Holocaust survivor, lawyer, French Minister of Justice who, among many things, enacted the abolition of death penalty in 1981, decriminalised homosexuality in 1982, abolished "special courts", granted victims the right to appeal before the European Court of Human Rights.
Cover of French newspaper Libération showing a portrait in black and white of Robert Badinter the day after his death
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Robin Rimbaud - Scanner @scannerdot.com · 10/02/2024
A sad farewell to Damo Suzuki (1950-2024), who between 1970 and 1973 led pioneering German band Can through its unquestionable peak, and pretty much lived on a never-ending world tour since then.
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 07/02/2024
Just logged in here to find that we have 1900 followers!? Hello everyone! Suppose we'd better use it then eh? To start with, here's John Doran's interview with Mohammad Syfkhan, who has made one of the albums of the year so far: thequietus.com/articles/338...
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 04/02/2024
Lawrence in Fitzrovia: Unveiling of the Marble Head. The Fitzrovia Chapel, London. Corin Johnson's incredible Portuguese pink marble sculpture of singer, songwriter and musician Lawrence is a beautiful display of resilience and reflection. Exhibition curated by Martin Green.
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
Brian Griffin, 1948-2024. “Working with Brian Griffin was an absolute joy and inspiration. He was a true friend and over the years, we had many deep conversations about photography and his encyclopaedic knowledge of music.” – Daniel Miller mute.com/mute/brian-g...
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
Lancement du deuxième numéro de l'indispensable revue Kometa avec Léna Mauger, Nasim Vahabi et Pierre Haski.
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
"Mary Weiss brought streetwise realism to the Shangri-Las – and let 60s girl groups flirt with danger" - Alexis Petridis www.theguardian.com/music/2024/j...
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Mary Weiss brought streetwise realism to the Shangri-Las – and let 60s girl groups flirt with dang...
Weiss’s piercing voice gave the trio’s songs about bad boys – with their unusually high body count – a lasting punch
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Sophian Fanen 💿 @sophianf.lesjours.fr · 20/01/2024
Elle avait tout à ses pieds, elle a tout envoyé valser pour vivre une vie qu'elle choisirait elle-même. Mary Weiss était une vraie héroïne pop. Elle fut aussi un modèle pour Amy Winehouse, j'en parlais dans @Lesjoursfr: lesjours.fr/obsessions/a...
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Robin Rimbaud - Scanner @scannerdot.com · 15/01/2024
John Cage, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Cornelius Cardew feature in a great documentary "Here's a Piano I Prepared Earlier" (2005), focusing on experimental music in the 1960s youtu.be/nKPFggCNt_o?...
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The Rise of Experimental Music in the 1960s documentary (2005)
"Here's a Piano I Prepared Earlier" is a documentary film about experimental classical music in the 1960s. The program focuses on composers such as John Cage...
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 14/01/2024
“I can’t accept drum’n’bass – we need jungle, I’m afraid.” How a quote from Amol Rajan, host of the highbrow British quiz University Challenge, has inspired a stream of samples in tracks. www.theguardian.com/music/2024/j...
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‘We need jungle, I’m afraid’: how University Challenge went viral on the rave scene
A quote from Amol Rajan, host of the highbrow British quiz has inspired a stream of samples in tracks – and invitations for him to perform live
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Morvan @morvan.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
Je suis Charlie
"Je suis Charlie" slogan in multiple languages, created in support of the satiric newspaper Charlie Hebdo after it has been attacked by al-Qaeda terrorists in Paris on January 7, 2015, claiming the lives of 17 people, including 11 journalists.
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