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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 12h

Happy Birthday, Thelonious Monk.
#jazzsky

This record made a huge impression on me as a young person.

youtu.be/0WArkytksIU?...

Ugly Beauty

YouTube video by Thelonious Monk - Topic

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 13h

Mother, Father, Sister, Brother aka “Motherfuckin' Son of a Bitch”, was the house band for Philadelphia International — the architects of the Philly Soul sound in the mid-‘70s.
#soulsky #funksky

youtu.be/J38ylUZESuc?...

Cheaper to Keep Her

YouTube video by MFSB - Topic

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 14h

*sings something about you are the wind beneath my wings, then promptly falls off roof and breaks leg*

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 14h

Goddamn gravity. Worst of the natural forces.

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 15h

Some face-melting news: A new Wagon Christ record (aka Luke Vibert) is coming out this month:

detunedrecords.bandcamp.com/album/planet...

Planet Roll, by Wagon Christ

16 track album

detunedrecords.bandcamp.com

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Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · 16h

Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe's third collaborative album, Liminal, was released today, October 10, 2025

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#OneHitWondered @onehitwondered.bsky.social · 1d

#QuickSidenote Dennis Coffey might be best known for his 1971 hit "Scorpio" (credited Dennis Coffey & The Detroit Guitar Band), which peaked at #6 on the #Billboard #Top40… and was famously the 1st record spun at NYC’s Studio 54. #DennisCoffey #Studio54 #OneHitWondered

1971 HITS ARCHIVE: Scorpio - Dennis Coffey (mono 45)

YouTube video by AnotherProf

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 23h

John Carpenter’s Big Fat Greek Wedding

National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 23h

John Carpenter's Cousin Vinny

Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 23h

John Carpenter's Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 28d

A painting by Panhandle Slim sharing some timely/timeless wisdom from James Baldwin. #art

A simple, illustrated portrait of James Baldwin on the left side of a bright orange background. Black lettering fills the rest of the panel: “we can disagree and still love each other unless our disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of humanity and right to exist.” - James Baldwin. The panel hangs on a chain link fence near a playground.

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 1d

I’m betting no

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 1d

Just watched this 1982 Wim Wenders’ project putting directors in a hotel room in Cannes, alone with a camera, and asking them whether cinema was a dying art form. Herzog, Spielberg, Godard, and many more, are among the respondents. Interesting division between art and industry.
📽️

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Room 666 (1982)

During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders asked a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the camera, and answer a simple question: "What is the future...

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 3d

“When musicians improvise, the portion of the brain associated with the “inner critic,” the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, is less active, while the medial prefrontal cortex, the part in the center of the brain associated with creativity and language, takes over.” - from the book Transcendent Waves

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 1d

Seasonal dinner advice:

1. Acorn squashes, halved & seeded, then par-bake 15-20 min at 400 F
2. Cook 1lb loose breakfast sausage in skillet
3. Mix sausage, panko, 1 beaten egg, parmesan, sage, blk pepper
4. Scoop mixture into squash halves and top with more parmesan
5. Bake 15-20 min longer

🤤🍁🍂

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Jon Amadeus Markley @xjamarkleyx.bsky.social · 1d

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck Amazon and “Prime Day”

Big Tech is not your friend. It’s a toolset for economic exploitation.

popular.info/p/update-law...

UPDATE: Lawsuit alleges Prime Day is a fraud

The federal class action lawsuit has been ignored by major media outlets, which continue to promote Prime Day deals.

popular.info

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 1d

A link you’d shared a week or two ago about human cells emitting specific frequencies sent me down a rabbit hole, which then back linked to a back issue from ‘23 talking about Mashed Up and how remixing threatens hegemonic forces.

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll check it out! Serendipitous timing, you actually get an unrelated shout out in this Saturday’s edition of the newsletter.

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 2d

Algorithmic filter bubbles got you sonically pigeon-holed?

Find some new inspo among the gems on this recent discoveries playlist:

Catchy Colombian triphop, stone-cold jazz, rewarding underground rap, international funk grooves, transcendent bangers, and more.

bandcamp.com/veaukab/play...

Listening Habit - Recent Finds -… - Playlist by Listening Habit

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Jennifer 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 2d

periodic reminder that art spiegelman, author and artist of maus, is also the creator of the garbage pail kids.

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 2d

“Some genres endure because people are devoted to them; others, like soft rock, endure because they are useful catchall categories, and because no one cares enough to police their boundaries.” - Kelefa Sanneh, from the book “Major Labels”

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 4d

A stone cold EP from 2021 containing mystical jazz breaks like Alain Goraguer got lost in the desert.
#musicsky #rediscoveries

glassbeams.bandcamp.com/album/mirage

Mirage, by Glass Beams

4 track album

glassbeams.bandcamp.com

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 3d

Hudson Valley folx, here’s an exciting concert announcement for next spring at Basilica in Hudson. Tix go on sale on Thursday for retro-garage-psych rocker Ty Segall in April 2026.
#hudsonvalley #concerts

www.eventim.us/event/ty-seg...

Ty Segall concert poster with vector image of him holding a guitar colored by a rainbow gradient from top to bottom. April 29, Basilica, Hudson is on the lower left side.

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 2d

I see the word “taffy” somewhere while going about my normal day and without fail, I got this song running through my head for a couple hours afterward. 🍬🍭

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D4L - Laffy Taffy (Video)

YouTube video by TheArchitects

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 2d

Algorithmic filter bubbles got you sonically pigeon-holed?

Find some new inspo among the gems on this recent discoveries playlist:

Catchy Colombian triphop, stone-cold jazz, rewarding underground rap, international funk grooves, transcendent bangers, and more.

bandcamp.com/veaukab/play...

Listening Habit - Recent Finds -… - Playlist by Listening Habit

bandcamp.com

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 2d

Mexican Summer just added a gold-vinyl reissue of Connan Mockasin's 2013 record of off-kilter indie-psych-pop, "Caramel." Definitely worth a revisit if you yearn for wavy, pitch-shifted sounds straddling weird and smooth with aplomb.

connanmockasin.bandcamp.com/album/caramel

Caramel, by Connan Mockasin

11 track album

connanmockasin.bandcamp.com

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