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Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Here's a large Tanya Donelly postcard ad - I know there are standard non-US sizes but I don't know them, but this is probably about the size of half of a standard US sheet of paper (8.5"x11"). Lens cap for scale!

Large graphic postcard ad for Tanya Donelly's Beautysleep

large postcard next to a lens cap to show that it is a much larger than standard postcard size

the back of the postcard with 4ad/Beggars Group

Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Apparently a year ago today I was also posting a C93 cd with Louis Wain connections!

Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Trying to get back to daily posting! A James Low book with an accompanying C93 cd. "This piece was recorded by Current 93 for release with Simply Being by James Low, and is not to be sold separately from it, or all the hells shall open at once for those responsible."

Book called Simply Being by James Low next to a black cd which just says The Fire of the Mind

Book by James Low next to the CD, which reads: THE FIRE OF THE MIND
CURRENT 93
This piece was recorded by Current 93 for release with
Simply Being by James Low, and is not to be sold separately from it,
or all the hells shall open at once for those responsible.
Current 93 are not:
'Chi.med.sangs.rgyas: guitars, bass, vocals
Steven Stapleton: guitars, bass, backing vocals, puppets
David Kenny: guitars, bass
Mixed by Steven Stapleton, David Kenny and David Tibet
Engineered by David Kenny
My love to Starfish and James Low
Cut by Denis at Porky's
A Durtro release, made in England
Durtro 1994
® Ourobouros Music 1994
This title David Tibet / Current 93
David Michael Tibet, London, August 27 1994.

The back of the cd case: "THE FIRE OF THE MIND
CURRENT 93
This piece was recorded by Current 93 for release with
Simply Being by James Low, and is not to be sold separately from it,
or all the hells shall open at once for those responsible.
Current 93 are not:
'Chi.med.sangs.rgyas: guitars, bass, vocals
Steven Stapleton: guitars, bass, backing vocals, puppets
David Kenny: guitars, bass
Mixed by Steven Stapleton, David Kenny and David Tibet
Engineered by David Kenny
My love to Starfish and James Low
Cut by Denis at Porky's
A Durtro release, made in England
Durtro 1994
® Ourobouros Music 1994
This title David Tibet / Current 93
David Michael Tibet, London, August 27 1994."

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Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Whew, it's been like a month since I posted! So much for regularity! Here's a special treat: Mark Robinson's business card. There's nothing on the back. It's perfect.

white card with all caps text that says Mark Robinson and @MMARKK(dot)com

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Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I have been extremely slack over here but this released today and for anyone who misses This Mortal Coil and early-90s 4ad should not sleep on Stefano Guzzeti's new one glassmodern.bandcamp.com/album/in-a-s...

glassmodern.bandcamp.com

In A Strange Place, by Stefano Guzzetti

14 track album

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Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

In 2002, the Exile Follies toured - it was Kristin Hersh, John Doe, and Grant Lee Phillips (who for some reason got totally shafted on the ticket stub). They played separate sets and collaborative sets and I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. $15! God, I miss Maxwells.

THE EXILE FOLLIES
JOHN DOE*KRISTIN HERSH
MAXWELLS
1039 WASHINGTON, HOBOKEN

30AUG02

MON SEP 23, 2002 8:30PM

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Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Hard to photograph, but here's a shopping bag for Learn to Sing Like a Star by Kristin Hersh - I can't guess where I shopped that this was the bag. I was living in Portland OR at the time this record came out, and I think KH was living there at the same time - I saw her SO much that year.

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Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Today's music ephemera: an Edward Ka-Spel 8 track tape, "A Pleasure Cruise Through 9 Dimensions," edition of 15 (ours is number 7). Beta-lactam Ring Records, 2011. I had an 8-track player in the 90s, but I don't think I still had one in 2011, so this has likely never been played, which is sad!

spine of an 8-track tape labeled "Edward Ka-Spel, A Pleasure Cruise Through 9 Dimensions," gray in a silver slipcase. The top of the tape has a red and yellow rocket ship.

8-track tape for "Edward Ka-Spel, A Pleasure Cruise Through 9 Dimensions," gray in a silver slipcase. The top of the tape has a red and yellow rocket ship.

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Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Today we have Xiu Xiu's "More hot than sad" hot sauce by Soothsayer (Chicago). Possibly the best name for a hot sauce ever. I actually bought 2 bottles of this when it came out, one for the archives (this one, bottle 168 of batch 1) and another bottle (half empty in my pantry. Verdict: delicious).

Side of the hot sauce bottle that just reads "soothsayer"

"YOU WILL BE IN A DAZE
UNABLE TO TALK OR MOVE
FROM THE NUMBING AND THE
RUSH OF ENDORPHINS THAT
KICK IN FROM THE SPICINESS.
LIKE ALL OF SOOTHSAYER'S
PRODUCTS. XIU XIU'S "MORE
HOT THAN SAD" HOT SAUCE IS
VEGAN, GLUTEN FREE AND
CONTAINS NO ADDED SUGARS
OR CHEMICAL PRESERVATIVES
OF ANY KIND"

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Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Ok, one more today. This enamel badge/pin is from @kristinhersh.bsky.social's 2007 European tour for Learn to Sing Like a Star, as it helpfully says on the packaging!

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Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I'm still reposting from week 1 of this account's life and not even managing to do that on the right schedule 😅

Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Stormy Records postcard- I know the brick and mortar shop doesn't exist anymore, and neither does the URL on the postcard. I currently have a Stormy Records sticker on my laptop but I couldn't tell you for sure if they *sent* it recently or if I *dug it up* recently. Stormy is/was Windy & Carl.

a purple and blue piece of swirly art likely made by Windy that says Stormy Records in white

Stormy
Records

4717 Horger (just off Michigan Ave.)
Dearborn, Mi 48126 USA
313-581-2589
www.stormyrecords.com

ambient, psych, techno, 60's jazz. Buy, sell and trade

11am - 8pm Monday - Saturday / 12pm - 5pm Sunday
Specializing in new indie and import releases, collectable vinyl,
new and used records and compact discs. We buy old records!

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Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today: a large Air Miami sticker! It's like an old fashioned, 1980's-era bumper sticker. Lens cap for scale!

white bumper sticker that says I Hate Milk. Beneath that is a black box with Air Miami written in white. Lens cap for scale

Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

One year ago I posted my Mirador tequila. You'll know I've given up on the day I drink it instead!

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Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

4ad promo postcard for His Name Is Alive's Last Night (2002). I suspect the "4ad sampler" mentioned on the back is Doctor Tiger's Deathless Promise.

a postcard with class Vaughan Oliver art used for His Name is Alive's album Last Night.

the back of the postcard advertising The Mountain Goats, Piano Magic, His Name is Alive, and Sybarite albums all due to be released in 2002 on 4ad.

Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

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Today's music ephemera is my beloved Tuscadero nightlight. I can't begin to guess where or when I got this - I assume at a Tuscadero show back in the late 90s. It still works!

Rectangular nightlight branded with a silhouette of the band Tuscadero and the band's name underneath it

Rectangular lit up nightlight branded with a silhouette of the band Tuscadero and the band's name underneath it

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Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Enormous Throwing Muses sticker - you can see the lens cap for scale! Probably via Throwingmusic in the late 90s?

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Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

A Xymox sticker! I couldn't begin to guess the year of this, or where I got it.

a circular sticker on a square background. The sticker is white with black text and a black outline - the letters x, y, m, o appear around the circle, so the x serves as both the first and last letter.

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Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Continuing my weeklong celebration of this account's anniversary, the 2nd ever item I posted! My photography has not improved in the year since.

Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Ok, since The Quietus posted an old interview with Lush today, how about a ticket stub from when I saw them at Fast Lane in Asbury Park NJ, 1994? This was my 2nd Lush show - the first had been at the Ritz in NYC in 1992. Fast Lane was a helluva venue, and Lush were very loud. This show was SO good.

purple and teal ticketmaster ticket stub from Lush at Fast Lane in Asbury Park on Tuesday, August 23, 1994. General admission $10.

Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Happy niche secondary bluesky account day to me! I started this nonsense 1 year ago today. According to my records, I've posted 240 things since then. Short of my goal of 365, but not bad considering how much work I didn't do in that time!

Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Tarnation surprised me as a band. I didn't get them at first - too country in the 90s for me. But within a year, I found myself craving them and their sound (especially on Gentle Creatures, although now Mirador stands out as a masterpiece to me). These are mini-promo-postcards with the 4ad artwork!

2 half-sized postcards (identical) next to one another that together equal the size of one regular postcard. They both feature the incredible v23 artwork of Vaughan Oliver and Timothy O'Donnell. This album had VERY different artwork and design in the USA.

The back of one small postcard reads:

Tarnation

MIRADOR

THE NEW ALBUM
available on 7th April 1997

Tarnation

COMPACT DISC : CAD 7004 CD
DOUBLE VINYL : DAD 7004

"bleakly beautiful" NME
"painfully gorgeous" MM
"quintessential americana" THE WIRE
"beautifully heartbreaking" MM
"rarely have the Bad Seeds or Tindersticks
sounded this good" THE LIST ****

http://www.4ad.com
4AD Mail Order : PO Box 3813,
London SW18 IXE.

Art Direction : Vaughan Oliver at v23
Design : Vaughan Oliver and Timothy O'Donnell at v23
Photography : Michele Turriani.

Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Ok, I *think* this was my first Belly show, and I *think* this was a show they played with the Red House Painters and Medicine - someone who was with me can correct me if I've bungled 2 shows together, because I kind of think I have. This was a CMJ showcase of the sort we were spoiled with in NYC!

purple teal and white ticketmaster ticket stub. CMJ presents Belly. 18 to enter 21 to drink at the Marquee in NYC. Friday, Oct. 30, 1992, 9pm

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Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Patterns of Light is a 2019 album from Warren Defever, and he released a limited edition that included this booklet of lyrics and doodles and notes. It's covered in vellum (?) and quite lovely! (1/2)

white booklet with a thin vellum cover so you can't quite see the cover sheet that says Patterns of Light beneath it

a hand pressing down the vellum cover sheet so you can see the title Patterns of Light

Table
of
Contents

invitation
lyrics
biography
sleeve notes
creation myths
turning physics back into poetry
how light was shown to be a wave
diagrams
index of first lines

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Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

A promo postcard from 4ad advertising The Hope Blister's first album, Smile's OK. This project was explicitly likened to This Mortal Coil and while I adored The Hope Blister, they were no This Mortal Coil. This is postmarked 1999 even though the album was released in 1998.

cover art from the Hope Blister's "Smile's OK" record, a man with his face down snuggling a black dog

the address side of the postcard advertising the Hope Blister's Smile's OK on 4ad

postmark from Carrboro NC, January of 1999

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Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Ok I really don't want to do anything productive so here's a second post today to make up for being on vacation for so long. The new Xiu Xiu record (Eraserhead) arrived, and along with it? A VHS of a concert with the film and Xiu Xiu's interpretation of the soundtrack. My photography is not great!

LP cover of Xiu Xiu's Eraserhead with a sticker indicating it is the early bird edition, limited to 500 on black and silver swirl vinyl

the binding of the VHS that says Eraserhead Xiu Xiu VHS

The back of the VHS cover that reads: "ERASERHEAD XIU XIU is a new live concert with accompanying film &
full-length album that uses field recordings, concert specific homemade
instruments, organ, modular synths, vocals, flashlights, electrical
interference, and elements of musique concrete to express the bizarre
emotionality, conflicted sexuality, relentless darkness, and singularly
unsettled moonscape of this most incredible of midnight masterpieces.
The album itself is a masterpiece in sound collage and experimentation,
with tracks like Tetra" and "Sleep Synth" shifting from minimal auditory
sensations to a clobbering, grotesque cacophony. The album's closing
track, 'In Heaven," is a beautiful rendition of Peter Ivers' original
composition, with Stewart's delicate and soft vocals showcasing the
elegance and wonder found on Lynch's directorial-debut.
Eraserhead's original sound design and score by Alan Splet and Lynch
guide Xiu Xiu's expanded interpretation, reflecting their influence as fans
and musicians. The original film gives birth to Xiu Xiu's visual lens
through which to be baffled and pummeled by the band's imaginary
unused auxiliary footage."

Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I'm back from vacation! I had a nice stack of mail waiting for me, including the newest Halou record, and Rebecca threw in some lovely ephemera for me! Here are some matches in a Halou matchbox! My photography has absolutely not improved in my absence.

black matchbox with halou(dot)com on it in capital letters

Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Posters from @kristinhersh.bsky.social's children's book Toby Snax. I have the receipt in the poster tube from 2008 still, apparently! I had forgotten I had these in storage and they're absolutely precious.

a light blue poster with a half-eaten banana in a cartoonish style

a poster of a bunny in a red shirt with a yellow lightning bolt labeled Toby Snax

a purple poster with a green cactus with pink hearts on it in a cartoon style

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Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I successfully didn't turn on my laptop for so many travel days! Glorious. Here's a sticker from Other Music, a NYC record shop where I could always find 20 things I wanted and maybe 1 I could afford.

a white sticker advertising other music with their URL and an image of a faceless orange baby with wires coming from its head

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Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I'm traveling so posts will be even more sporadic than usual! Here's a postcard advertising Savage Impressions, an incredible art book documenting the letterpress work of Bruce Licher via IPR for decades. I ofc have the book but haven't photographed any of it yet! So just a postcard for now.

a brown cardstock postcard with an old building in draker brown advertising Savage Impressions: An Aesthetic Expedition through the archives of Independent Project Records & Press

A wall of text about the regular and deluxe editions of Savage Impressions (no copy/paste is working but it's just info on the differences between them and talking up the book which is indeed glorious)

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Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

For no real reason, some postal packaging from Threshold House

a brown packet that says air mail, small packet, moon musick

Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Here's a bad photo of the Mountain Goats Dark in Here jigsaw puzzle! It's still sealed in plastic, hence the terrible photo, because I am not a puzzle person. But it's such a great image to make a puzzle out of!

a hand holds a small box with a dark image on a dark background

Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Since 4ad is re-releasing Mojave 3 stuff (hooray!) here's a promo postcard from 2003 advertising Spoon and Rafter

standard postcard with the album artwork from Mojave 3's Spoon and Rafter

mojave 3

RELEASED ON 22ND
SEPTEMBER 2003

The digital single "Bluebird Of Happiness"
is available now from 4ad.com and
mojave3online.com. Includes album
version and Adem remix.
The "Bluebird Of Happiness" remix
EP is available now from http://
mailorder.almaroad.com.
Includes mixes by Manitoba
and Minotaur Shock.

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Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Another oversized sticker - my favorite Kristin Hersh logo! Once again, lens cap for size comparison.

large round white sticker with a black border, with the stylized KH and Kristin Hersh written on the center. The sticker is quite a bit larger than the lens cap to its side

Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Here's a Neil Halstead sticker from 4ad - it's actually really big, so I added the lens cap from my camera for scale.

round orange sticker with wave artwork from Neil Halstead's Sleeping on Roads

round orange sticker with wave artwork from Neil Halstead's Sleeping on Roads next to a lens cap and the sticker is quite a bit larger

back of the sticker - white back with black text advertising Neil Halstead's Sleeping on Roads next to a lens cap and the sticker is quite a bit larger

Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

We're almost at 1 year of this account! I have definitely failed to post one item a day but on the plus side I have done zero work for like a week which is why I haven't even turned on my laptop to post. How about some *extremely* 90s Pixies stickers?

2 black and yellow circuluar stickers on a clearly torn-off sheet from a roll. They say "where is my mind?" in white and an outdated Pixies URL in yellow.

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Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

a postcard advertising RE-TG, the Throbbing Gristle reunion show and festival of incredible bands in London in May of 2004, sponsored by Mute. I didn't make it to this show and I never forgave myself. There's a mysterious note on the back from Tony Dickie, who ran (runs?) the maga/zine Compulsion.

RE~TG

Many Happy Returns

A Gelebration of Industrial Music in the 21st Century

FEATURING A LIVE PERFORMANCE BY
THROBBING GRISTLE
CHRIS CARTER, PETER CHRISTOPHERSON, GENESIS P ORRIDGE, AND COSEY FANNI TUTTI
AND MANY MORE INDUSTRIAL ATTRACTIONS ... INCLUDING SPECIAL PERFORMANCES BY
COIL, CARTER TUTTI, & THEE MAJESTY
PLUS
MATMOS, SCANNER, PANSONIC, RICHARD H KIRK, MERZBOW, MEGO RECORDS,
F.M. EINHEIT, THIGHPAULSANDRA, & MANY OTHERS TO BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY.
RARE FILMWORKS FROM THE DEREK JARMAN ARCHIVE
SITE SPECIFIC SOUND INSTALLATIONS & 24 HOUR IN-HOUSE TV PROGRAMMING
BY THROBBING GRISTLE
SITE SPECIFIC ARTWORKS BY JAKE & DINOS CHAPMAN
A UNIQUE WEEKEND EVENT 14TH-16TH MAY 2004
R.S.V.P TO MUTE.COM/TG

Robn, Congratulations again. I hope you enjoy the enclosed. Best Wishes, Tony.

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Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

In 2005, 4ad put out a compilation celebrating 25 years of the label called "1980 Forward". It has a TAD catalog number so it must've been limited but I don't know how many were made. Here's a 12"-sized plastic bag celebrating the same release (despite the fact that it was only released as a CD!)

a slightly-opaque plastic bag with a big black square in the center listing off the 4ad roster, with '1980 forward' written across the top

a black and clear abstract symbol, part of the art design for 1980 forward by V23

Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Legendary Pink Dots - Plutonium Blonde tour poster (2008). I don't think I actually saw them on this tour but we have a handful of posters from it and I think the pint glass I posted months ago is also from this so presumably this was all mailorder!

long poster of a line drawing in silver of a woman on a black background

Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Look what came in the mail today! Anniversary edition with expanded and updated stuff!

Book cover for facing the other way by martin aston- anniversary edition

Robin's music ephemera @musicephemera.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

A letterpress postcard for Half String's album A Fascination with Heights. IPR/Bruce Licher always did their gorgeous design work. I'm a big sucker for Licher's design work. The first image (silvery, in the sunlight) is more accurate than the second. No clue what the note to me from Bruce is about!

silver letterpress postcard with the artwork from the album the fascination with heights by half string

the colors look beige and sepia but in the sunlight it's grey and silver

handwritten note that says "Robin, thanks for participationg, sorry about the screwn-up! kind regards, Bruce" and I have absolutely no idea what this was in reference to!