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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nope, I didn’t feel that earthquake in the Seattle area (Kitsap County) just now.

Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The new Songs in the Key outtakes EP should be released in the form most faithful to its parent double-album: a generic 33 RPM 7” with muddy compressed sound thrown in an LP sleeve jacket.

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I mean, I had to stop at the word “wagegimp”

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My “Choosin’ Texas” hot take: People *are* that excited about the song. The “but no one’s excited about this song!” takes are a reflection of our acceleratingly shrinking mental echo chambers due to coping mechanisms for this fucking shit world - and we’re like too busy to discuss it as nauseum

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Here, the ghost is me. @highway62.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Close on 30 years ago, @quartzcity.bsky.social and I recorded an album by our then-project, The Roswell Incident. @steadystate.bsky.social recorded it and @nedraggett.bsky.social was on hand for a bunch of it to witness. highway62.bandcamp.com/album/transa... You can snag it for nothing.

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Transantarctic, by The Roswell Incident

11 track album

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I just watched the latest ep. of Sidetrack Adventures, & the host Steve linked to a 24/7 livestream/broadcast from inside an abandoned factory (the Silos) next to Owens Dry Lake, Owens Valley. It's amplified feedback from in the factory reacting to the dry lake winds. 752>Satellite Radio. Hit Play.

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Sonic Division

Metabolic Studio Sonic Division Sonic Division investigates the means by which sound waves generate physical and biological change and exchange across landscapes. Our practice seeks to activate living...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Seattle just became the first city in America to ban grocery stores from engaging in surveillance pricing. This is a huge win for consumers against companies that abuse their personal data to rip them off. Watch former FTC Chair Lina Khan explain.

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The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)

Should corporations be able to weaponize your personal data to rip you off?Well, they may already be doing that thanks t

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Sonic Division

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

YouTube has just recommended me the most psychotic video ever: a “survivalist” “comedy” public access show in the 80s based in Winnipeg called S*U*R*V*I*V*A*L. You can hear the full Chrome/Alice Cooper theme song or you can skip to 8:00 for the, uh, fun part.

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S*U*R*V*I*V*A*L- Winnipeg VPW 1980's Public Access TV

YouTube video by rs.matr1x

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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S*U*R*V*I*V*A*L- Winnipeg VPW 1980's Public Access TV

YouTube video by rs.matr1x

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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fascinating. Middle-aged men writing ragebait lyrics to piss off other middle-aged men and then hiring adorable teen girls to be the face of it and receive all the rage

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The Reynolds Girls - I'd Rather Jack - Official Video

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Saga, sighs queen @saga.iam.bi · 21/09/2026

we got a Jace and a Raven? damn this is legit polycule drama, okay

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tall (but not tallest) Chris @tallchris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is literally Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I really really hope the Dems are paying attention to the Sheeran / Macklemore story. (They’re not.)

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Graeme Thomson @graemethomson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Laughing Stock is 35 years old today. I bought it the week it came out; it might just be the best eight quid I ever spent. Some thoughts on what it meant then, and what it means now. medium.com/@graeme_1713...

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Into The Flood:

Talk Talk’s Laughing Stock, Then & Now

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If this is all you want to know about today, there can’t be a more succinct and funny way to do it than this

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Kid Congo Powers @kidcongopowers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

R.I.P. Catherine Ringer . Loved Les Rita Mitsouko

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Domenica @diavoleria.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

All I have to add to the Macklemore discourse is that moreso than Seattle, he is 100% Evergreen State College student energy. Seattle once again over here with the stolen valor.

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There's never a bad time to subscribe to @nedraggett.bsky.social 's Patreon, but if you're an MBV obsessive & you are seeking a mid 90s Shields interview, he just posted one last Friday. Originally appeared on the KUCI-FM (88.9fm in Orange County CA) program guide with MBV on the cover in 1995

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Ned Raggett — creating writing about music.

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Cross-region Replication or Geo-redundancy has been super common in cloud services for over a decade, so the “10,000 copies of itself” ex AI guy has given me a tiny bit of relief that he might be exaggerating things a bit.

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Before that day, CNN dot com was my home page. Being on the opposite coast, I was lucky to not witness what was going on, but because the CNN page was being hit so hard, they put up a 1993-era home page saying basically “U.S. under attack” - and I still remember that being the most chilling thing.

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Happy 25th anniversary to Mercury Rev’s All is Dream - their last great album IMHO - released in the U.S. on, yup, That Day.

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Hercules

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Happy 25th anniversary to Mercury Rev’s All is Dream - their last great album IMHO - released in the U.S. on, yup, That Day.

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Hercules

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ʝɛც @50poundnote.com · 10/09/2026

*Yamaha RX11 drum fill*

Emmy Award winner Jodi Long says “I don’t believe in reincarnation because I refuse to come back as a BUG or as a RABBIT.”

Academy Award nominee E. Max Frye responds “You know, you’re a real UP person.”

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Anthony Cougar Miccio @anthonymiccio.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My favorite albums of 1986 post endorses the below reference. (Ironically, “Bizarre Love Triangle” was the band’s lowest charting UK single from 1986-1995.) anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/my-favorite-...

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My Favorite Albums Of 1986

My favorite albums of 1986 are less than 10% Laswell-produced, and less than 10% Enigma-released. For now.

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sorry for the super music niche “You Can See Everything” meme that @50poundnote.com might appreciate

Three panel meme of the upcoming A24 film You Can See Everything. Top panel is Elizabeth Holmes saying “I don’t believe in reincarnation because I refuse to come back as a bug or as a rabbit”. Middle panel with Nathan Fielder says “You know, you’re a really ‘up’ person”, the final panel is a gray box that says “Yamaha RX11 drum fill”. It’s a reference to the Robert Longo directed music video for New Order’s “Bizarre Love Triangle” that a features a dramatic b&w theatrical interruption in the middle of the music where these two lines of dialogue are performed.

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Cool, Rosalía on SNL! Lemme check who the host is that night and oh ok hooo boy

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Eric Harvey @ericdharvey.com · 09/09/2026

When I wake up, well I know I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the man whose wife has left him

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Graham Friday @gfriday.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It took the entirety of The Henry Cow Box Redux to finally solve the Henry Cow riddle ("Why don't I enjoy this band that has so many of my favorite musicians in it?").

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Still in the Andrew Weatherall rabbit hole. Another excellent latter year remix, this one of "Devils Angels" by Unloved (2019). Great post-punk / Halloween vibe.

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Devils Angels (Andrew Weatherall Remix)

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don't mind the new thread counters. They look like footnotes in a book. Nothing wrong with that.

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gfu3.bsky.social @gfu3.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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arrowzeppelin.bsky.social @arrowzeppelin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I got Nirvana's With The Lights Out box set when I was 13 or so and thought it was the coolest thing. Loved the scans of Kurt's hand-written notes in the booklet, listening to unpolished demo versions of songs and thinking about how they evolved, and the DVD had some cool footage too

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A Hearty Hello from Veal LLC @vealllc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Bongwater's BOX OF BONGWATER. It first changed my listening, and I then eventually adjusted a bunch of what I was doing to be obscurely more like it

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Dig Out Your Soul @mystoragebench.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For an album reissue – Tusk taught me to chill, space out, and enjoy the slightly different versions over a luxurious evening, rather than attend to supplementary material like a grumpy hawk.

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Years before I’d heard of Northern Soul this Motown comp my mum had was the first time I was aware there were great 60s soul tunes beyond the stuff I heard on the radio

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Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This four-disc set Cole Porter songs covered over the decades was a great way to get into both the songs and the musicians, all from way before my time; it also meant Red Hot + Blue hit harder when it came out a few years later. But also, this is why I got my first CD player. To listen to this.

From This Moment On: The Songs of Cole Porter. From the Smithsonian Collection of Recordings.

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A Mule With A Spinning Wheel @madjaymilton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Smashing Pumpkins’ The Aeroplane Flies High was the first set i owned. A complete collection of B-sides from Mellon Collie, including a 23-minute medley of unfinished songs It was my first look at how albums are compiled, and the first time i realized sometimes bands don’t know their best stuff

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donutage @donutage.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

v/a, The Trojan Story (3xLP, 1983 / 2xCD, 1988) www.discogs.com/release/2262... This compilation opened me up to a whole new world of 1st-gen ska, rocksteady & early reggae that I might never have known about otherwise.

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Various - The Trojan Story

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1988 CD release of "The Trojan Story" on Discogs.

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Ray Davis @pseudopodium.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Pre-CDs, but the complete Buddy Holly box did a lot to convince me that the best-by-a-long-ways "concept albums" & "rock operas" were career retrospectives.

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Laughing Clowns - Cruel, But Fair: The Complete Clowns Recordings. Excerpts from a 2006 Resonance review that never appeared online (I should post it at some point). I've enjoyed Ed Kuepper's solo stuff and work with the Saints and Aints, but Laughing Clowns were a revelation.

The story of the Laughing Clowns begins in 1979 when Kuepper bailed on the Saints after a tremendous trio of recordings, including 1977's scorching debut, (I'm) Stranded. After putting the Clowns to bed in 1984, Kuepper founded the Aints with Kent Steedman of the Celibate Rifles (his answer to Bailey’s continuing use of the name the Saints) and embarked on a solo career that continues to this day.
With the release of the 48-track box set Cruel but Fair: The Complete Clowns Recordings, Kuepper's brass-saturated assemblage is getting a second chance to reach a new audience. Australia's Hot Records has also released This Is the Magic Mile, 49 tracks showcasing Kuepper's eclectic solo work—plus two Aints cuts—from 1990-2000. On his own, the prolific songwriter has issued over two dozen full-length records, including live and mail order-exclusives.

Trying to find analogues to their complicated sound is a fool's game. During their short lifespan, the Clowns were constantly evolving. There's the ghost of Ornette Coleman in the wailing "Theme from 'Mad Flies, Mad Flies'" from Mr. Uddich-Schmuddich, there's a glimmer of the Minutemen in the fast-funk of "Every Dog Has Its Day" off Everything That Flies. In the notes, Kuepper claims he was listening to a lot of Pharaoh Sanders and Sun Ra at the time, but disdains the phrase "jazz rock." Then there are his drawling, yet carefully enunciated vocals—like a more down to earth Howard Devoto.

Box set cover with a John Foy illustration of a...laughing clown in shades of violet and orange. Three CD-set on Hot Records, 2005.

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toscanini dacron @mintcaketime.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

conet project

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Realm of Dusk @realm-of-dusk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’d say The Fall Peel sessions but in reality it’s from listening to tapes of those sessions many, many years before the box came out. Only other thing that springs to mind is a distinctly non-deluxe Too Pure Sampler CD (‘Pop: Do We…’). Maybe cheap label sampler CDs could be a whole other thread.

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Elman Steven @esteven.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Birthday present for myself. Slowly, slowly making my way through this set.

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