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Brad Cohan @thebradcohan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I reviewed the new record from NYC indie greats Antietam for @treblezine.bsky.social … awesome record don’t sleep on it !

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MAGNET Magazine @magnetmagazine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Five Questions with Antietam (Dromedary, @sugarblastmusic.bsky.social, @clarioncallmedia.bsky.social). “I feel some of my sharper edges softening with age while my focus is sharpening. I’ve gotten better at knowing what’s important and what’s not.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/09/22/f...

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Al C. @sugarblastmusic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Brand new music from The Human Hearts, and a video where you get to see Franklin Bruno learn how to ride a bike!

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Jen Matson (DJ nstop) @nstop.com · 01/07/2026

Last two weeks' worth of radio shows now up online. As international as the World Cup? Perhaps not, but I'm trying! New indie tracks from 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇦🇺🇳🇱🇪🇸🇧🇪🇨🇦🇨🇷🇮🇪🇬🇧🇧🇷 and multiple cities across 🇺🇸—37 bands, 2 hours of music & talk. www.mixcloud.com/nstop/

Cover image for the June 24, 2026 edition of Cycles Per Second: a collage featuring two vintage electric guitars at opposing angles, one tinted red-orange and the other tinted golden yellow, set against a pale blue background with textured blue and peach-colored triangular shapes

Playlist for the June 24, 2026 edition of Cycles Per Second:

Guiding Light - Shackled By Lust
piso franco - Va!
Tactics - Watch My Hands
Article 58 - Reflections
The Klittens - Have A Heart
wearemarvin - Take Me To Hollywood
The Tubs - Who's Gonna Love You Now?
Deadbeat Beat - Dying On That Hill
Fabienne Delsol - She Is Gone
Fleur - Jour D'été
Kiwi jr - Pure Michigan
Perennial - What's New On The Beat Scene
ROBERTA LIPS - Coup de Bluff
Cœur À L'Index - Mes Héros
canaries - horsepower
Seko - Auto Saucer
Dylan Thomas. - Desapariciones
Mad Iris - Daisy Don't Take My Baby
Billy Gardner & Friends - The World

Cover image for the June 17, 2026 edition of Cycles Per Second: a bright orange-tinted, slightly blurred outline of a woman in a dress, from shoulders to mid-skirt, pulling a vinyl LP out of its cover, set against a pale yellow background

Playlist for the June 17, 2026 edition of Cycles Per Second:

Mesh - Violent Peasant
Back Pocket - Panic Vacuum
Bronwyn Bradshaw - Le coeur qui tremble
The Fizzbombs - It's Not As Simple As That (BBC session)
Slippers - Til You Know
Honeybunch - Newton Told Me (live)
Crying Loser - Eat the Evidence
Go Public - G.O.L.F.
Rare Spam - To've Been Green
SÖT - Espurna
Liquid Cross - So Shut Down
Radical Friendship Theory - Considering
Doug Gillard - New Vista
Brian Bilston and The Catenary Wires - Under A Cat
Fall Breaks - Trainwrecks & Tambourines
Answering Machines - New Song
Pretty In Pink - Flowers
Kratzen - Tanz das Kraut

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MAGNET Magazine @magnetmagazine.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Antietam’s “Way Too Well” (@sugarblastmusic.bsky.social). “As I was making this record under the geopolitical equivalent of a tornado warning, I questioned if I even had the right—the privilege—to be creative.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/24/m...

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Al C. @sugarblastmusic.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Brand new Antietam, full-length out soon on dromedary.

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Jen Matson (DJ nstop) @nstop.com · 09/06/2026

So many bands I’m looking forward to catching for the first time, or the first time in forever. Last time I saw Dumptruck was in, uh… 1991?

Poster for DromFest ‘26, taking place in Catskill, NY on September 4-6, 2026. Featured artists and events:

Friday, September 4:
Dumptruck
Consonant
Karen Schoemer and her “August” Band
Saturday, September 5:
Wussy
Antietam
Doug Gillard
Moviola
Via
Martha’s Vineyard Ferries
Barbara Manning
Stuyvesant
The Human Hearts
Tiny Blue Ghost
P.G. Six
Readings by Erica Fletcher, Scott Seward, and Tim Sommer
Sunday, September 6:
Come
Scrawl
Nice Strong Arm
Hypnolovewheel
Sleepyhead
Beth Kaplan
French/Cell
Purple Ivy Shadows
R.B. Korbet
Creative Writing
Sweet Harm
Plus a screening of the Mike Galinsky/Suki Hawley film “Radiation”

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Jen Matson (DJ nstop) @nstop.com · 09/06/2026

DromFest ‘26 lineup is live: Barbara Manning, Scrawl (again, yay!) and… a Consonant reunion?! Sold. app.promotix.com/events/detai...

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PromoTix

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Saw an eclectic and talented bunch of regional musicians, including Lea Bertucci, Taraka Larson, Ben Vida, Ben Dewan, and more, perform Steve Riley’s “In C” and it was a wonderful expression of community playing. The Avalon Lounge in Catskill is a special place.

A dozen musicians are packed into a small stage area bathed in purple light. A small neon sign above says Avalon.

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Matthew P. Brown @mpbrown.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Doug Gillard has a new record out, splayed across your streaming services. In honor of PARALLEL STRIDE, listen on the every other 2 various, mesmeric Gillard guitaring--with Guided by Voices, with the posthumous Game Theory record, with the astonishing Bambi Kino, and solo. Ears up! 2-3pm CT krui.fm

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KRUI Radio

Iowa City's Sound Alternative

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings... The great Doug Gillard of Guided By Voices, Cobra Verde & so much more joins me to talk the farmlands of northern Ohio, school marching band, ego & happiness, The Monkees + MORE! 🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsGi...

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BrooklynVegan @brooklynvegan.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This week's Indie Basement reviews: The Reds Pinks & Purples, Carla dal Forno, White Fence, Gia Margaret, WIDGET, Doug Gillard, Season 2, and more www.brooklynvegan.com/album-review...

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Indie Basement (4/24): Reds Pinks & Purples, White Fence, Gia Margaret, more

Plus: Carla dal Forno, WIDGET, Doug Gillard, Season 2, Maxwell Farrington & Le Superhomard, CAVS, The Divine Comedy, and more

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Al C. @sugarblastmusic.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

OUT TODAY: "Parallel Stride," the long awaited (12 years!) new LP from GBV/Nada Surf guitarist Doug Gillard. Check it out here! dromedaryrecords.bandcamp.com/album/parall...

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Parallel Stride, by Doug Gillard

11 track album

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Al C. @sugarblastmusic.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

New Doug Gillard LP out TOMORROW - here’s a new track to whet your appetite

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

In his @status.news newsletter @oliverdarcy.bsky.social reports the White House got Getty to delete this photo (from a Thanksgiving White House PHOTO-OP STUNT) because Karoline Leavitt was offended It ran only in a Swiss newspaper. It would be a shame if you retweeted and Streisanded it

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Al C. @sugarblastmusic.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Brand new single from Doug Gillard premieres at @undertheradar.bsky.social today. "Parallel Stride," his forthcoming LP, is out on Dromedary April 24.

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Premiere: Doug Gillard Shares New Single “Yes She Loves Me”

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?

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Al C. @sugarblastmusic.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

New Doug Gillard track on Dromedary, thanks to Jack Rabid for giving it a spin

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Al C. @sugarblastmusic.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

How many times have we heard this over the years? “Iran is just 37 seconds away from developing an entire arsenal of nuclear weapons so powerful they can kill you twice!”

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 10/02/2026

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

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‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer

Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why."

Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!"

First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"

Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization."

Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces.

Proud to be an American today!

USA 🇺🇸"

Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster."

Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."

Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars

If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position"

Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

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Sun 13 @sun13music.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

"A crucial document not just in Zedek’s already-excellent body of work." EP review: Via's 'Via' - out tomorrow via Dromedary Records. sun-13.com/2025/11/13/v...

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Via: Via

The Thalia Zedek-led band release an EP of previously unheard recordings.

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Al C. @sugarblastmusic.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Forgot to post about this here, but it’s on the air, um, now. Wavefarm.org, Monday night from 10-midnight est

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Al C. @sugarblastmusic.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Spun my favorites of 2025 on the air this week and then added a second list with a bunch of others I liked.

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Al C. @sugarblastmusic.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Sports organizations give out peace prizes now. I’m looking forward to winning the Ulster County Chamber of Commerce Cy Young Award.

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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 24/10/2025

Lebanese sextet SANAM's 'Sametou Sawtan' transforms 12th-century poetry and contemporary texts into experimental rock that captures the intensity of their cult-like recording sessions and the existential weight of living under constant threat. Borrowed Voices, Borrowed Time — SANAM's Infinite Fire:

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Borrowed Voices, Borrowed Time — SANAM's Infinite Fire

The Lebanese sextet's second album 'Sametou Sawtan' transforms twelfth-century poetry and contemporary texts into experimental rock that captures both the intensity of their cult-like recording sessions and the existential weight of living under constant threat.

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Al C. @sugarblastmusic.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Tonight in NYC, Dew Claw play their first east coast show since Dromfest ‘24, with Evan “Funk” Davies on drums and James McNew on bass.

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Gerard Cosloy @gerardcosloy.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

episode 280 of The Radio Hour That Feels Like Two Hours, 10am-noon eastern today @eastvillageradio.bsky.social www.eastvillageradio.com

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EVR IS BACK

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again. These two gotta go.

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dasroyalarctic.bsky.social @dasroyalarctic.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

thank you @madaecnerwal.bsky.social - now we gotta work on your algorhythm!

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Al C. @sugarblastmusic.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

It’s gotten to the point where I’m retweeting Chris Hayes

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Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Oh, a few more things: the Avalon Lounge is a fantastic venue; another #Dromfest highlight was the ever-changing Seve Keene exhibit (I finally got a Keene!); and I misnamed the band French? above, sorry guys

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