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Paul Sandars🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @paulsandars.bsky.social · 1d

BBC News - How ambient music went from 1970s niche to the mainstream - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How ambient music went from 1970s niche to the mainstream

What is it that has helped this genre find its way into everyone's headphones and ear buds?

www.bbc.co.uk

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annie parnell 👽 @avparnell.bsky.social · 1d

who was going to tell me that this town in West Texas got Donnie Darkoed

'It's kind of surreal that it happened to us': Rural West Texas woman witnesses NASA space junk as it lands in her neighbor's yard | Fortune

When Ann Walter called the local sheriff's office, she learned that NASA, indeed, was looking for a piece of equipment that had gone lost.

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Christian Carey @cbcarey.bsky.social · 2d

Tom Waits, "Tom Traubert's Blues," live #youtube
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Tom Waits - "Tom Traubert's Blues" (Live on The Human Factor)

YouTube video by Tom Waits

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Tim O'Brien @proftimob.bsky.social · 5d

At recording of new @hannahpeel.bsky.social composition celebrating 80 yrs of @jodrellbank.bsky.social with the BBC Philharmonic. We'll be discussing it all on 30 Oct www.jodrellbank.net/events/in-co...

In Conversation with Hannah Peel and Tim O'Brien - Jodrell Bank

Join us for an exclusive evening with award-winning musician Hannah Peel, uncovering new ways of understanding the Universe through sound.

www.jodrellbank.net

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Ben Salmon @bcsalmon.bsky.social · 5d

good tunes in here this month, as always ⬇️

Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 5d

September was a busy month for country (and country-ish) releases on Bandcamp. Here's the cream of the crop.

The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, September 2025

Our monthly round-up of folk, bluegrass, roots rock, Americana, and all things country-ish.

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Zachary Cale @zacharycale.bsky.social · 5d

Went into the weeds with @foxydigitalis.bsky.social. Really good convo here talkin’ about melody and sound.

foxydigitalis.zone/2025/10/06/z...

Zachary Cale Makes Melody King

Zachary Cale has been quietly building intricate worlds with his fingerstyle guitar for years now, but on Love’s Work, his first fully instrumental album, those worlds expand into something m…

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The Howard Hughes Suite @thhs47.bsky.social · 5d

Jared Leto.

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KLOF Mag @klofmag.com · 7d

Read the latest KLOF Mag Newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/klofmag/...

KLOF Mag Regular & Mixtape

New Mixtape, Buck Curran, The Little Unsaid, 10th Anniversary Anna & Elizabeth, Danny Thompson Tribute, Michael Hurley, Joan Shelley, Katie Spencer, Mason Lindahl, Blue Lake, Clara Mann, and more.

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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 8d

Kevin J. Hayes's book 'Understanding Hunter S. Thompson' challenges the romantic narrative surrounding the Gonzo pioneer, revealing uncomfortable truths about talent squandered and assignments abandoned.

Going Gonzo — The Complicated Work of Hunter S. Thompson:

Going Gonzo — The Complicated Work of Hunter S. Thompson

Kevin J. Hayes's 'Understanding Hunter S. Thompson' challenges the romantic narrative surrounding the Gonzo pioneer, revealing uncomfortable truths about talent squandered and assignments abandoned.

www.thetonearm.com

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The Howard Hughes Suite @thhs47.bsky.social · 8d

ICYMI

The Howard Hughes Suite @thhs47.bsky.social · 10d

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sleemo @sleemo.com · 8d

The Art and Making of Frankenstein is a stunning look behind the scenes of @realgdt.bsky.social’s masterpiece. It’s available for preorder now, out on 10/28. An official screenplay book will also be released on the same day.

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marine eyes @marineeyes.bsky.social · 9d

new month, new women of ambient selections ☁️

bandcamp.com/marine_eyes/...

women of ambient~ oct ‘25 - Playlist by marine eyes

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J.M. Hart (rowjimmy) @jmhart.bsky.social · 10d

Great stuff here

The Howard Hughes Suite @thhs47.bsky.social · 10d

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The Howard Hughes Suite @thhs47.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you, Jonathan! 🙏

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The Howard Hughes Suite @thhs47.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you! 🙏

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The Howard Hughes Suite @thhs47.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you so much! 🙏

The Howard Hughes Suite @thhs47.bsky.social · 10d

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No Place Like Drone @noplacelikedrone.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks for listening. We are back on October 29th!

Tonight's ministrations...

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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 11d

"I think we used technology much less than people imagine. Like I said, I was just fascinated by the sounds of things taken from the living world and made immortal, but kind of damaged or mummified in the process."

“Not Doing Things Is Soul Destroying” – Kevin Shields Of MBV Interviewed (2012):

"Not Doing Things Is Soul Destroying" - Kevin Shields Of MBV Interviewed | The Quietus

It’s hard to describe what it sounded like back then, you know. They were different times. It’s not that there’s no innovation now – of course there is, though it mostly comes from elsewhere – but for a short time in the late 1980s it seemed that every year a handful of rock records could […]

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The Slow Music Movement @theslowmusicmovement.org · 13d

"There’s the shimmering transcendence of “Lost to Follow”, the Cafe del Mar like mantric looping and politely insistent guitar motifs on “Collapsing the Vanguard”"
www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/the-lif...

Playlist Companion:
www.submithub.com/link/slow-ba...

#chillout #ambient #music #atlanta

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 13d

IMO nothing tops this site dedicated to the Fender Vibratone amp (which contained a rotating speaker, like a Leslie cabinet). It includes a thorough history of the Leslie and an incredibly detailed list of songs that used guitar run through a Vibratone or Leslie: www.nmia.com/~vrbass/vibr...

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Musicophilia @musicophilia.bsky.social · Sep 5

I did a softcover print run of my book of Lego robots, 'Planet Robotica'. They turned out really nicely! If you'd like a copy, they're $26 each plus shipping, just let me know.

Here's a PDF version if you'd like to stay minimalist:

www.flickr.com/photos/plane...

A white softcover book called 'Planet Robotica' with a jaunty elderly robot (made of Lego) on its cover. The physical Lego build of his elderly robot nemesis stands on the cover, looking disapproving, sipping his morning hot motoroil.

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Aarik Danielsen @aarikdanielsen.bsky.social · 14d

Uh, you guys ... the new Jeff Tweedy might be 30 songs, but don't let that dissuade you. It's one of the best things he's ever made.

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Hearing Things @hearingthingsco.bsky.social · 14d

“It can be a little scary,” Hotline TNT frontman Will Anderson says of taking his music off Spotify, “but one of the things we’re trying to do is illustrate that it might not be as scary as you think.”

So You Want to Remove Your Music From Spotify

Artists and labels on the realities of taking their work off the world’s biggest—and most maligned—music streaming service.

www.hearingthings.co

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 15d

Great response to people who don’t read fiction

(from The Assistant by Bernard Malamud)

He asked her what book she was reading.
"The Idiot. Do you know it?"
"No. What's it about?"
"It's a novel."
"I'd rather read the truth," he said.
"It is the truth."

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