Volume 7 in a series of joylessly noisy musicks. Released June 14, 2024.

All playing, recording & mastering executed on guitar/effects at The Subversive Workshop 2023-2024.

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Happy New Year y'all

“Don’t Try”: The Philosophy of the Hardworking Charles Bukowski

Volume 6 in a series of joylessly noisy musicks.

Created & recorded at The Subversive Workshop 2022-2023. Released Jun 9, 2023.

Live-performed/live-mixed synths. Overdubs added post.

Trk 1-Carlos Satanist on bile.
Trk 2-Christopher Scott Davis on synths.
Trk 3-Jeremy Trotter on Miracle Violence.

Volume 5 in a series of joylessly noisy musicks.

All music created & recorded at The Subversive Workshop, late 2017 - Apr 2018. Released May 7, 2018.

Skeletal Reflection was created for Freakface Radio & the game Freakface, from Emperors Of Eternal Evil.

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3 recordings released this year, started my improv trio Thick Editions, and kept up work on the decades of musicks available at www.jeffmcleod.net
Overall, a pretty good year. For musicks, that is.

In The Wire 503/504, Xenia Benivolski writes that as the speed of events and information flows increases, drone based slowness offers another mode of perception

Read the full essay here: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

Volume 4 in a series of joylessly noisy musicks.

All music created on guitar & recorded at The Subversive Workshop, Jan - Apr 2015. Released May 13, 2015.

Jeff Rieter - synth & Kydd electric upright bass on trk 3.

@mars-marr.bsky.social - guitar on trk 4.

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Volume 3 in a series of joylessly noisy musicks. Released Nov 29, 2014.

All music created and recorded at The Subversive Workshop, Sept - Nov 2014.

Thanks to Emperors Of Eternal Evil for the inspiration for track 1.

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Sticker of the Day! PRETEND I’M NOT HERE - DRIPFACE! 5.5” x 2.14” & 2.75” x 2.13” Rectangles! Black Ink on White Vinyl! Screen-printed!

#stickeroftheday #stickinittothemansince93 #stickerguy #blackink #whitevinyl #shoplocal #renonevada #sticker #rectangle

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Christopher Bickel @smashism.bsky.social has launched a crowdfunding campaign alongside a proof of concept short film for his next feature length project!

#ChristopherBickel, who has directed some of my favorite low budget genre fare over the last decade

Volume 2 in a series of joylessly noisy musicks. Released May 28, 2014.

All music created and recorded at The Subversive Workshop, Mar - May 2014.

Track three is for Barry Thomas.

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Volume 1 in a series of joylessly noisy musicks. Released March 4, 2014.

All music created and recorded at The Subversive Workshop, Nov 2013 - Feb 2014.

Dylan Hawes-Glynn - guitar on track 3

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Rest in peace, Perry Bamonte, the guitarist and keyboardist for the Cure.

“Quiet, intense, intuitive, constant and hugely creative, ‘Teddy’ was a warm-hearted and vital part of the Cure story,” the band shared in a statement.

'Coil felt dangerous. Not with just the standard fear that your parents would hear the lyrics through the floorboards but rather that you the listener would unlock forbidden irreversible things.'

Quietus Best Of 2025: Coil’s Scatology Revisited

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"The makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. Their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude. Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave."

Home Depot Introduces New 12-Foot-Tall Baby Jesus Skeleton https://theonion.com/home-depot-introduces-new-12-foot-tall-baby-jesus-skele-1851069460/