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Victor @vodem.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

FIRST MIX OF 2025 FAVES! Mapping out a field of indie pop, art pop, and folk-leaning tracks that foreground melody, lyricism, and songcraft. Music of beauty and immediacy. #mixcloud @mixcloud.bsky.social #bestof2025 #indiefolk #indiepop #artrock www.mixcloud.com/Vodem/the-ma...

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Victor @vodem.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

BEAUTIFUL “NEW” INDIE FOLK MIX Melancholy but hopeful mix I made in 2013 inspired by a song on an “It Gets Better” video a friend produced. www.mixcloud.com/Vodem/innoce... #mixcloud @mixcloud.bsky.social #musicmix #musiccompilation #indiefolk #indiepop #folkmusic #pride #pride2025 #itgetsbetter

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Victor @vodem.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

#FridayNightJam From Blossom Dearie's 1966 album "Blossom Time at Ronnie Scott's" (which is a club in London). Written by Dave Frishberg, a great songwriter and writer of several Schoolhouse Rock songs -- and Blossom also sang some of those! #music #blossomdearie #davefrishberg #schoolhouserock

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I'm Hip - Remastered 2023

Blossom Dearie · Discover Who I Am: Blossom Dearie In London (The Fontana Years: 1966-1970) · Song · 2023

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Victor @vodem.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

NEW MUSIC MIX! A warm and immersive, decades-spanning, melodic, multinational indie mix. #mixcloud #musicmix #indie #indiepop #artpop #artrock #indierock #music www.mixcloud.com/Vodem/spinni...

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Spinning Time: An Atmospheric Indie Mix

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

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Michele Hornish @hornish.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Can we talk about this in a per-month metric? I think it might be easier for folks to internalize. It's like having a new $316 bill every single month. That's a lot of groceries.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This is a real exchange I just had:

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Victor @vodem.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Friday night jam! R.I.P. Michael Hurley, the charming sometimes called “Godfather of freak folk” who died, appropriately enough, on April Fools’ Day in Portland, Oregon. #Fridaynightjam #music #michaelhurley #freakfolk

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You Got To Find Me

Michael Hurley · Long Journey · Song · 1976

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

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‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation

A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.

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Victor @vodem.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Seen in San Francisco today. Good call on the bumper sticker!

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Victor @vodem.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

1) The present depressing national moment is a great time to check out this indie pop mix I made in 2003 (and recently re-shared on Mixcloud). It has a mellow, pleasant disposition; it’s a nostalgic soothing balm. More about the mix in the first comment… #musicmix #indiepop #music

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Glide (early 2000s indie pop, mostly)

This is the second in a series of indie pop compilations that I have made around the time of my birthday since 2002. This has always been one of my favorites. It features indie pop from the early 20...

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Victor @vodem.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

#fridaynightjam Hamlet Minassian was an Iranian musician of Armenian descent. This track is from an an album released in 1980, recorded in Iran during the last moments before the 1979 revolution. It’s fun and unique cheesy synth pop music. #music #armenianpop #armenia

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Al Elnim

Hamlet Minassian · Armenian Pop Music · Song · 1980

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Victor @vodem.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

#fridaynightjam Not how it went down today, but in this 1977 track Fela Kuti counsels against political compromises that hurt the vulnerable: "I no go agree make my brother hungry ... I no go agree make my brother homeless ... No agreement today, no agreement tomorrow.” #music #felakuti #resist

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No Agreement (Edit)

Fela Kuti, Afrika 70 · No Agreement (Edit) · Song · 2021

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

In a world of Matts, be a Derek.

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Victor @vodem.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

#fridaynightjam Nils Lofgren, founder of the band Grin, sometimes player for Crazy Horse, and longtime guitarist for the E Street Band. This song, off Lofgren’s 1975 first solo record, was written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King in 1966 and also recorded by Dusty Springfield and The Byrds. #music

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Goin' Back

Nils Lofgren · Nils Lofgren · Song · 1975

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Conan: You know, Anora is having a good night. That's great news. Two wins already. I guess Americans are excited to see somebody finally stand up to a powerful Russian.

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Victor @vodem.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Disappointed at the lack of fiery anti-authoritarianism at the Oscars. The dual speeches for No Other Land were great. I appreciated Adrien Brody’s comments, but it’s unfortunate they came at the end of such a mess of a speech. I liked Conan’s “standing up to a powerful Russian” line.

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Victor @vodem.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

#FridayNightJam Roberta Flack died on Monday, R.I.P. She was a pianist and vocalist of uncommon expressiveness. This lyrically direct track from her 1969 debut is appropriate, in this moment of transparent moral failures dressed up in false complexity. #music #robertaflack

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Tryin' Times

Roberta Flack · First Take · Song · 1969

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

It's nice to see, but honestly, this was "news" in 2015.

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Victor @vodem.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Friday Night Jam! I love it when I discover the original of a song I didn’t consciously realize was a cover. I previously only knew this 1965 song written and performed by English pop singer Twinkle from the cover by The Smiths. #fridaynightjam #music #rwinkle #thesmiths #goldenlights #coversongs

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Golden Lights

Twinkle · Golden Lights · Song · 1964

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Victor @vodem.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

2024 MUSIC MIX #8: AVANT GARDE AND EXPERIMENTAL AMBIENT FAVORITES Confusing times call for confusing music... 22 favorite 2024 avant garde and experimental ambient tracks. #music #bestof2024 #avantgarde #ambient #experimentalmusic #musicmix www.mixcloud.com/Vodem/glass-...

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Victor @vodem.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

A powerful insight from Neil Postman’s 1985 “Amusing Ourselves to Death” that applies to all “educational” kids’ tv, and helps explain why Americans lack critical reasoning skills today: “We now know that Sesame Street encourages children to love school only of school is like Sesame Street.”

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Zez Vaz @zezvaz.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

‘Cybertruck Man’ a cartoon in defiance of Musk #political #cartoonist #cybertruck #elon #musk #democracy #tiananmen

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/02/2025

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

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Victor @vodem.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

The Substance is an interesting double feature with Andrzej Zulawski‘s Possession (1981) — similar body horror, virtuosic tortured acting, and some overlapping psychological themes. If you loved The Substance, I recommend Possession. #movies #thesubstance #possession #horror #bodyhorror #movie

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Victor @vodem.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

2024 MUSIC MIX #7: AMBIENT FAVORITES 20 favorite 2024 "ambient" tracks, including both synth and non-synth based music, largely rooted in indie/jazz/neo-classical/world-music traditions, rather than in the electronica scene. #music #ambient #newage #bestof2024 www.mixcloud.com/Vodem/wind-p...

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Wind Portals: 2024 Ambient Favorites

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

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Victor @vodem.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

2024 MUSIC MIX #6: TRANSNATIONAL RHYTHM FAVORITES 15 tracks manifesting a syncretic (culture-mixing) approach to music making. Share freely! www.mixcloud.com/Vodem/vision... #music #2024bestmusic #musicmix #bestof2024 #latinmusic #worldbeat #worldfusion #worldmusic @mixcloud.bsky.social

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Visions: 2024 Transnational Rhythm Favorites

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 05/02/2025

"The whole country is at the mercy of conceited twenty-something computer science dipshits as they get a remedial crash course in government, learning the kinds of things that college freshman in political science 101 are expected already to know."

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Why Elon Will Be Trump’s Undoing

And a request to the DOGE Bros: Please read a f***ing book.

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Victor @vodem.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

#FridayNightJam! We could use some silliness and so here's Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention's satire of San Francisco in its hippie heyday. The Summer of Love was in 1967, so this 1968 track was a very contemporary vivisection of the flower power scene! #music open.spotify.com/track/7nRQVI...

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Who Needs The Peace Corps?

The Mothers Of Invention · We're Only In It For The Money · Song · 1968

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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Actually, no. This misses the point of Jesus's Parable of the Good Samaritan (Lk 10: 25-37). After Jesus tells a lawyer that you should "love your neighbor as yourself," the lawyer asks him, "And who is my neighbor?"

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Humu Trott @humuhumu.com · 27/01/2025

Last year, I found and fell in love with the song “Cannock Chase” by @labisiffre.bsky.social. I love it so much I wrote a blog post about it.

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Cannock Chase

The universe brought me a new favorite song, packaged cleverly in the season finale of Hacks.

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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · 26/01/2025

Straight white dudes: “I just don’t feel valued, appreciated, seen, and respected. I don’t see a lot of opportunities. And I don’t get to say what I really want to say.” Women, people of color, LGBTQs: “Welcome to the party, bitches.”

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Victor @vodem.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

2024 MUSIC MIX #4: ATMOSPHERIC ART POP FAVORITES From art music veterans like Brian Eno and Laurie Anderson to newer artists like Mabe Fratti, from neo-classical and jazz song to indie folk... #music #2024bestmusic #musicmix #bestof2024 #dreampop #artpop www.mixcloud.com/Vodem/hover-...

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Hover Lightly: 2024 Atmospheric Art Pop Favorites

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Victor @vodem.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

2024 MUSIC MIX #3: ART SYNTH POP FAVORITES 21 "art" or "indie" synth tracks, some poppier, some artsier, some manifesting a neo-new-wave or neo-post-punk vibe, most in English, French, or German. #music #2024bestmusic #musicmix #bestof2024 #synthpop #artpop www.mixcloud.com/Vodem/omens-...

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Omens: 2024 Art Synth Pop Favorites

Countless hours of exploring and listening and curating have been rigorously distilled into 9 timestamped mixes of 2024 favorites, idiosyncratically sorted by genre. This is mix #3. Here are 21 "art"...

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Humu Trott @humuhumu.com · 13/01/2025

We could all use a soft landing place for our brains right now and in the coming weeks. A way to catch our breath, mentally speaking. I’ve written up a list of my favorite gentle TV shows:

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Gentle TV shows

A collection of soothing television series, perfect for when you need a mental reset.

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Victor @vodem.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

This is mix #2 of 2024 music faves. Critic Philip Sherburne aptly described ambient jazz as an "attempt to combine the expressive language of jazz with the atmospheric quality of ambient music, to introspective and enveloping effect" #music #bestof2024 #bestmusic2024 #musicmixes #jazz #ambientjazz

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Signs Of Life: 2024 Ambient Jazz Favorites

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Victor @vodem.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

@mixcloud.bsky.social, there seems to be a problem with the charting in the site. I see many new shows that are not showing chart positions, where normally shows chart within a day of upload. I had no problems with a show I uploaded at the end of 2024, so this seems to be a new systemic problem.

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Victor @vodem.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Happy New Year everyone! Every Friday night in 2024 I shared a song (a “Friday Night Jam”), a diverse range of quirky tracks. Here is a selection of some of these songs — 22 undeniable tracks from around the world, mostly from the 1960s and 1970s. #music www.mixcloud.com/Vodem/songs-...

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Songs for Insane Times: A Selection of 2024 Friday Night Jams

Each week during 2024 I shared a song every Friday night (a "Friday Night Jam"). Festive, quirky, and fun, mostly international pop, mostly from the 1960s and 1970s. Artists include: 1. Kevin Ayers (...

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Victor @vodem.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Friday Night Jam! The country (and world) in 2025 is going to be like a ship without a sail, but I’m going to end 2024 on a more hopeful note. As they say in this 1971 gospel track, “I know we can shake it,” even if it takes awhile… open.spotify.com/track/4Oq0AU... #music

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Like a Ship

Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir · Like a Ship (Without a Sail) · Song · 1971

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Victor @vodem.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Friday Night Jam! A more defiant note for the end of 2024. A 1967 funky banger from San Francisco's Sly & The Family Stone. It's odd, Sly and his band are probably one of SF's very best musical legacies, but you rarely hear them talked about in the City. #music open.spotify.com/track/2VHALp...

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Underdog

Sly & The Family Stone · A Whole New Thing · Song · 1967

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