I’m glad to hear that Dave Grohl has a soon famous daughter who can take up the mantle when he gets too old to be a talking head on every music documentary ever made
I’m glad to hear that Dave Grohl has a soon famous daughter who can take up the mantle when he gets too old to be a talking head on every music documentary ever made
a day late, but I’ll still consider this a birthday present
pleased to have The Tonearm's intrepid Steven Garnett shine the light on some much worthy Orlando talent, especially this trio consisting of those who have been in the off-kilter trenches for years and years — def check out the quiet radness of Lost Noises Office →
a screenshot of a Bluesky post: CNBC• @cnbc.com • 1h To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five- word response. Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror, says public speaking expert When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public ...
"'You Made Me Realise' midsection"
that explains the time I heard a baby go DAL-DAL-DAL-DAL-DAL!
getting ready to publish an article on The Raincoats which sent me happily revisiting Delta 5 today →
post your favorite Lord of the Rings character, wrong answers only
I think the WH troglodytes get their jollies when Radiohead tells them to “fuck off” on Instagram but probably wouldn’t be as chuffed if the band then publicly auctioned off a signed guitar and gave all the money to an immigrant legal defense fund — just sayin’
would greatly dig it if when a prominent artist’s song appears in some evil WH propaganda video instead of just angrily posting about it the artist also maybe auctions off a guitar or does a charity show or maybe gives a slice of their millions to an organization fighting the evil thing in the video
It's just one story, one illustration of all the terrible things that have happened. It's been a week since the very great noise/drone artist Siavash Amini posted this, from where he lives Tehran. There has been no update since. It could be for any number of reasons. We just don't know.
are you implying he's *my* side effect? ✨🤯✨
should I report this as a potential side effect
under observation after taking a test COVID vaccine and there’s a guy sitting next to me talking about how bigfoot is a multi-dimensional alien
me whispering to my wife: that’s the white swan
me whispering to my wife a bit later: that’s the black swan
me whispering to my wife after several more minutes: that’s the white swan again
going to the ballet tonight, which will finally stick it good to my arch rival, Timothée Chalamet
a weekly newsletter, you say? Talk Of The Tonearm? a new interview with experimental flutist Rachel Beetz? and also there's Loula Yorke, Erik Hall, Fågelle, Aukai, etc? and … wait for it … oodles of recommendations? 🤯
tell me more → www.thetonearm.com/spring-forwa...
today's 'putting the email newsletter together' soundtrack → shabaka.bandcamp.com/album/of-the...
fake rock fact: Van Halen were commissioned to write and record the theme song for the TV show Manimal. unfortunately, their song was rejected, but, needing material for their next album, they made lemonade out of lemons by changing the lyrics. and that's the story of how we got "Panama".
Bare branches silhouetted against hazy sun with structure visible through fog, black and white atmospheric scene.
a strange bit of morning fog accompanied by a freshly cobwebbed shrub and it appears I've woken up in a haunted cove
Brucewayne Batman
my mom’s brother was my dad’s college roommate. the brother borrowed my dad’s pride and joy, his Porsche (it was the mid-60s) without my dad knowing and totaled it. obviously that resulted in a falling out, but he still married the sister.
I had a studio engineer friend who, whenever hearing something like that on a mix, would adorably say, “sounds like someone got happy on the pan”
I really shouldn't go to this but I will probably end up going to this →
chill
a black-and-white photo from the '60s by Ralph Eugene Meatyard — a small child with a spooky old man mask covering his head sits and holds a female doll in his hands, outside in a stone enclosure.
❝ In his weirdest and best-known images, Meatyard staged fantastical scenarios in wooded areas or inside abandoned old houses, featuring his wife, children and friends wearing macabre masks and surrounded by dismembered dolls and other props. → undermainarts.org/meatyard
gotta say if you have the psychic need to detach your brain from the state of the world for a couple of hours that new Elvis movie will really do the trick
a handy recap of our jam-packed week on The Tonearm (Winged Wheel! Ratboys! Marija Kovačević! Lala Lala!) plus a newsletter-exclusive interview with field-recording artist + musician Ian Wellman, discussing the devastating concept behind his extraordinary album, Particulary Dangerous Situation