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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 21h

Adam Wilson on FAIL SONS: "I wanted to write a book that reflected what I see as the central issue of the Millennial midlife crisis: not the desire to escape from a bourgeois existence, but the realization that, at 40, you still haven’t achieved it!" countercraft.substack.com/p/processing...

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Processing: How Adam Wilson Wrote Fail Sons

The author on novels in fragments, fiction as lucid dreaming, and the millennial midlife crises

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Dillon @freeyourradio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#NowPlaying on Cosmic Church @iheartnoise.bandcamp.com on @campradio.bsky.social @wildermaker.bsky.social - Hands Off the Suit, Creep via Western Vinyl wildermaker.bandcamp.com/album/smokin... listen.camp

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Smoking the Bunny, by Wilder Maker

17 track album

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Britt Robson @brittrobson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Saw drummer Jeremy Cunningham in the Jason Stein and Josh Berman Quartet during the Chicago Jazz Festival over Labor Day weekend, not realizing his new project, "Passing Fires," a tribute to his dad, is on the verge or release October 2 and is the best thing he's ever done.

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Wilder Maker // Gabriel Birnbaum @wildermaker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Also this is not about my band personally, there was no way we were taking up that space at the moment, but someone else would've this is what poptimism hath wrought!!! fr though this is actually what happens when small experimental music artists are fighting for the same press space as pop stars

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Wilder Maker // Gabriel Birnbaum @wildermaker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I know it doesn't really matter but the fact that t swift is still minmaxxing her press impact by releasing a standalone single and then announcing the album it's from a day later is so annoying. Yeah, sure, take up two news slots on Pitchfork because you can. I'm sure no small artists needed those.

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theartsdesk @theartsdesk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

THE DAY HAS COME #theartsdesk turns 17🎂, bringing readers the best independent arts & cultural coverage since 09/09/09. Huge thanks to all supporters! SUBSCRIBE before midnight today for our “Founders’ Rate” £40/year *in perpetuity*. There will never be a better deal! theartsdesk.com/subscription...

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Wilder Maker // Gabriel Birnbaum @wildermaker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

featuring the usual band of Gabriel Birnbaum, Adam Brisbin, Nick Jost + Katie Von Schleicher, as well as guest appearances from Macie Stewart, Levy Lorenzo, Chuck Johnson, Joseph Shabason, Cole Kamen-Green, Will Shore, & Kitba

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Wilder Maker // Gabriel Birnbaum @wildermaker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Like its predecessor, Smoking the Bunny is built on a series of studio improvisations, edited and shaped and processed by me (Gabe) and shaped into strange, asymmetrical song poems. "Hands Off the Suit, Creep" & the title track are available to stream now

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Wilder Maker // Gabriel Birnbaum @wildermaker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

SMOKING THE BUNNY || NOV 6 || 1:25 AM to 3:15 AM Today we share the first two tracks from vol two of our three album sequence that began with last year’s The Streets Like Beds Still Warm. lnk.to/smokingthebu...

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Wilder Maker // Gabriel Birnbaum @wildermaker.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

big and free show this Friday playing sax with Bex Burch (killer band w Peter Zummo, Lia Kohl, Carmen Quill, Mikal Patrick Avery) - thekitchen.org/on-view/as-y...

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ON VIEW: Bex Burch

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I'm playing serious catch-up with a bunch of this year's new jazz releases and I'm having a great fucking time. Here are 4 standouts so far (links for all in the comments): • Sharada Shashidhar, A Foot On The Ground • Micah Thomas, Lucid • Phillip Golub, Partisan Ship • DoYeon Kim, Wellspring

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Nonesuch Records @nonesuch.com · 22/06/2026

Henry Threadgilll, @vijayiyer.bsky.social, and Dafnis Prieto cover Tidal's Modern Contemporary! "I Wanted a Map," from their upcoming album, 'Fifteen,' opens the playlist: tidal.com/playlist/70e...

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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 20/04/2026

Adam Schatz :: A Test of Attention Spans and Contract Cleaner aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/04/20/a... Adam Schatz steps fully into the role of spontaneous composer with his modal jazz and fractured bop-inspired forthcoming solo album Civil Engineering Vol. 1, out April 24.

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Adam Schatz :: A Test of Attention Spans and Contract Cleaner - Aquarium Drunkard

Though he's known for his work with artists like Neko Case, Japanese Breakfast, and Hand Habits, and the prog-pop of Landlady, Adam Schatz steps fully into the role of spontaneous composer with his mo...

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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 06/02/2026

Wilder Maker :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/02/06/w... Songwriter Gabriel Birnbaum’s latest with Wilder Maker leans into sophisto-pop shaded indie pop noir, careening from rootsy swagger into bursts of digital space jazz and ambient funk.

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Wilder Maker :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview - Aquarium Drunkard

Songwriter Gabriel Birnbaum’s latest with Wilder Maker, 2025's The Streets Like Beds Still Warm, leans into sophisto-pop shaded indie pop noir, careening from rootsy swagger into bursts of digital spa...

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LA Star @lastar.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

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Jennifer Kelly @jenpkelly.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Jennifer Kelly is facing a tough battle against cancer after her diagnosis on Christmas Day, and the costs are overwhelming. Please consider clicking the link below to donate or share it with others who might help. gofund.me/7a7486b6b

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Donate to Support Jennifer Kelly’s battle against cancer., organized by Jennifer Kelly

On December 25 (yes, Christmas), I was diagnosed with a large, aggressi… Jennifer Kelly needs your support for Support Jennifer Kelly’s battle against cancer.

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Wilder Maker // Gabriel Birnbaum @wildermaker.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

playing solar myth in philly tonight on saxophone with Bex Burch!

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”

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Handing Out Free Tickets, Mamdani Says Theater Should Not Be ‘a Luxury’

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

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Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

there should be no terrified masked poorly trained out of state militia empowered to act extrajudiciously on the street and that is the political floor

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

🎶2025 was a GREAT year for music I struggled to narrow down my list of Albums of the Year to just 100, but here they are; all genres represented, from pop to post-punk, jazz to folk-funk! Alt text included The list excludes reissues—which I previously posted about— & compilations (skeet coming)

DJRUM: Under Tangled Silence
Nadeem Din-Gabisi: Offshore
Shit & Shine: Please Bring Cool Friends
Ofir Ganon: Same Air
Maribou State: Hallucinating Love
Fabio Mina: Existence/Resistance
Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta: Mapambazuko
SML: How You Been
oneL Sextet: Wild With Life
Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin: Ghosted III
The Circling Sun: Orbits
Moin: Belly Up
Blood Orange: Essex Honey
Black Country, New Road: Forever Howlong
Hackney Electronica: Synaptic Shadows
Marie Davidson: City of Clowns
Circuit Des Yeux: Halo On the Inside
Tim Hecker: Shards
Leo Chadburn: Sleep In the Shadow of the Alternator
Isaac Sherman: A Pasture, Its Limits
Land of Echo: Almost Music
Bitchin Bajas: Inland See
СОЮЗ (SOYUZ): Krok
Everything Is Recorded: Temporary
Eiko Ishibashi: Antigone

Gregory Ullman, Josh Johnson, Sam Wilkes: self-titled
Mess Esque: Jay Marie, Comfort Me
Stereolab: Instant Holograms on Metal Film
Coffin Prick: Loose Enchantment
Trio Mokili: self-titled
Alabaster de Plume: A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole
more eaze & claire rousay: no floor
Little Simz: Lotus
Sarathy Korwar: There Is Beauty, There Already
Los Thuthanaka: self-titled
Zopelar: Call It Love
Richard Youngs: Hidden
Brooke Combe: Dancing At the Edge of the World
Emma-Jean Thackray: Weirdo
Florence Adooni: A.O.E.I.U. (An Ordinary Exercise In Unity)
Linda May Han Oh: Strange Heavens
Yazmin Lacey: Teal Dreams
Rainy Miller: Joseph, What Have You Done?
Annahstasia: Tether
lavender: we’re having a barn dance
Proc Fiskal: Canticle Hardposte
Jenny Hval: Iris Silver Mist
Kassa Overall: C.R.E.A.M. (CASH RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME)
Sam Prekop: Open Close
Leon Vynehall: In Daytona Yellow

Rosalía: LUX
Cate Le Bon: Michelangelo Dying
Annie Achron: Never Paradise
Black Hill Transmissions: Transmissions #4 Tape
Yasmine Hamdan: I Remember I Forget
Moses Brown: Stone Upon Stone
Rafiq Bhatia: Environments
Kelly Moran: Don’t Trust Mirrors
The Necks: Disquiet
HAAi: HUMANiSE
Max Jaffe: You Want That Too!
Rian Treanor & Cara Tolmie: Body Lapse
Tacoma Park: Glosson Circle Sessions
Maraudeur: Flaschenträger
Chicago Underground Duo: Hyperglyph
Inturist: Tourism
DJ Narciso: Diferenciado
Gryphon Rue: I Keep My Diamond Necklace In a Pond of Sparkling Water
yaya bey: do it afraid
Ben LaMar Gay: Yowzers
Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas: Totality
Ensemble Nist-Nah: Spilla
Deerhoof: Noble & Godlike In Ruin
Gelli Haha: Switcheroo
Wilder Maker: The Streets Like Beds Still Warm

Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer: Different Rooms
Loula Yorke: Time Is A Succession of Such Shapes
Model/Actriz: Pirouette
Pulp: More
Christer Bothén: Christer Bothén Donso n’goni
João Selva: Onda
Moses Yoofee Trio: MYT
Smerz: big city life
Rival Consoles: Landscape from Memory
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: GUSH
Annie & The Caldwells: I Was Living In A World of Sin (Mixes – Part 1)
Asher White: 8 Tips for Full Catastrophe Living
Kalia Vandever: Another View
Lucrecia Dalt: A Danger to Ourselves
Raven: Gnosis
Phylipe Nunes Araújo: self-titled
Piotr Kurek: Songs and Bodies
Sessa: Pequena Vertigem de Amor
SHOLTO: The Sirens
Project Gemini & Wendy Martinez: Time Stands Still/Le Temps S ’Arrêtte
Shinichi Atobe: Discipline
Geese: Getting Killed
Joe Westerlund: Curiosities From the Shift
Lonnie Holley: Tonky
Zé Ibarra: AFIM

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Wilder Maker // Gabriel Birnbaum @wildermaker.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I love the formatting of this list - super fun and diverting to read

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josh terry @joshterry.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I wrote about more music than ever this year at No Expectations, so I compiled what I think are the 100 Best Albums of 2025. If you don't recognize a lot of the names here, don't worry. That's the point. I hope you find something new to dig. www.noexpectations.fyi/p/the-100-be...

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The 100 Best Albums of 2025

…According to some guy in Chicago. Plus, every album and more I recommended in No Expectations this year.

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Twistedsoul @twistedsoul.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Brooklyn’s Wilder Maker returns with The Streets Like Beds Still Warm, a hypnotic, noir-infused journey through a single night’s drift, equal parts dream, confession, and cinematic dissolve.

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Beautifully Strange Experimental Folk/Jazz/Improv: The Streets Like Beds Still Warm by Wilder Maker

Delve into the hypnotic sounds of Wilder Maker's latest album.

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Grant Sharples @grantsharpies.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Music writers, what is your favorite piece you wrote this year? Linking mine below. I love asking people this every year bc it gives me a chance to catch up on a bunch of articles I may have missed/create a place for writers to plug their work! lareviewofbooks.org/article/spri...

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Springtime for Springnuts | Los Angeles Review of Books

Grant Sharples offers a personal account of the Boss’s career and legacy in light of the new biopic “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere.”

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PopMatters @popmatters.com · 02/12/2025

The 20 Best Experimental Albums of 2025 This year has been particularly exciting for experimental music, ranging from free-form guitar freak-outs to lush, ambient, and constantly pushing boundaries. READ: tinyurl.com/BestExp25

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onion person @junlper.beer · 26/11/2025

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

For this week's Sunday Review, I went long on one of my favorite albums of all time: Giant Steps by the Boo Radleys.

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The Boo Radleys: Giant Steps

Read Zach Schoenfeld’s review of the album.

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Paul Craig @paulwcraig1.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The author, @graemethomson.bsky.social is here. Well worth finding and reading

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Wilder Maker // Gabriel Birnbaum @wildermaker.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I know a lot of people are quitting spotify rn, to which I say great, good work. If you're missing some of the discovery functions, I recommend MailTape - their site is easy to navigate, can be sorted by mood, & is curated by humans who make & love music: www.mailta.pe

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Welcome to MailTape

Every Sunday morning, we release a music selection curated with a guest. MailTape is an Art project started in 2011.

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Wilder Maker // Gabriel Birnbaum @wildermaker.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

so cool to have a new Fieldwork album, I listened to Your Life Flashes about a million times - brain-tickling music fieldworktheband.bandcamp.com/album/thereu...

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Thereupon, by Fieldwork

9 track album

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Wilder Maker // Gabriel Birnbaum @wildermaker.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

night two happening soon - we hit right at 8!

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