Jen Matson (DJ nstop)
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Cycles Per Second on @khuh.bsky.social 104.9 FM in Seattle ~ Wednesdays 6-7pm PT // Live music junkie, traveler, culinary noodler, record collector, cat cuddler, designer. http://www.nstop.com
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(Re)-introducing myself to the new peeps: I’m a community radio DJ and designer who mostly posts about music and cats. Also into zines (both reading and making) and #indieweb tech stuff.
Picture of a smiling red-haired woman wearing a black sweater, gesturing at a door painted with the call letters of Seattle radio station KHUH
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New band alert!: Rachel Love (Dolly Mixture), Peter Momtchiloff (Heavenly/Would-Be-Goods), Ian Button (Heavenly, Thrashing Doves) are...

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Playing the first single from their upcoming EP on hollowearthradio.org right now 👀
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The past three weeks' worth of Cycles Per Second, featuring (almost) three hours of the latest and greatest songs to tickle my ears, now up on ye olde Mixcloud.

www.mixcloud.com/nstop/
Collage of cover images from the September 10th, 17th and 24th episodes of Cycles Per Second, featuring four square panels, from top-left to bottom-right:

1. a pale green-tinted illustration of a reel-to-reel machine
2. a lime green-tinted illustration of a pair of headphones on a textured aquamarine background
3. a bright red-tinted vintage transistor radio set on speckled yellow background
4. an orange and red-orange turntable illustration, with the words "Cycles Per Second" above it and "nstop.com" below it Collage of playlists from the September 10th, 17th and 24th episodes of Cycles Per Second, featuring four square panels, from top-left to bottom-right:

1. Sept 24th:
Tony Molina - Violets of Dawn
Good Flying Birds - I Care For You
Permanent Opposite - Sadie
Norm Dogs - Electric Light
Talkies - Hollow
Joel Cusumano - Two Arrows
Hélène Barbier - Lapin
Dancer - Deadline
Sharp Pins - I Don't Have The Heart
A Country Western - Clouds
Pop Filter - Dirt Road Anthem
The Prize - Connie
Tulpa - Let's Make A Tulpa!
Don Dias - Matter Of Time
J'AIME - (Strictly Not) Thinking of You
Beloved Binge - Paper Eagles
The Cindys - Dry TV
bloom effect - suspendo

2. Sept 17th:
Shy Boys - Upperclassmen
Peel Dream Magazine - Venus In Nadir
Aurora Roja - Mercedes
Creative Writing - Memory Light
Blueboy - Cloud Nine
Optic Sink - Don't Look Down
BIG GAINER - Tikibars
Piso Franco - ex-post
Vérité Synthétique - Pencil Stories
Lo and Behold - An Idiot's Grin
Silkworm - Developer (demo)
Lac Observation - Greenland Myth/Birch Canoe
Nervous Eaters - No More Idols
Stereolab - Fed Up With Your Job

3. Sept 10th:
Strange Passage - Hunter's Fancy
Monetaries - Beauty Manipulator
Neil Brogan - Nagging Doubt?
THEEE KEVIN ALVIR - ME vs. COCKROACH
Uncomfortable Police - Hazmat Kat
Added Dimensions - Self Improve
LIGHTNING IN A TWILIGHT HOUR - There's More to Life Than Crooks
Algae Dust - Everything That's True
Mines - Breathe Deep
Hydroplane - Houdini's Plane
Grrrl Gang - O, My Love
Night Court - Noisemaker
Alibi - Attitüde
Nape Neck - The Shallowest End
pôt-pot - 22° Halo
Peter Peter Hughes - Rising Tide

4. an orange and red-orange turntable illustration, with the words "Cycles Per Second" above it and "nstop.com" below it
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Oh hey, hello fellow friend of Andre
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Not much research needed, as I was also a fan of Talkies :-) Saw you here in Seattle at the Funhouse on a bill with my pals Zebra Hunt in 2015 or 2016
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Ibex Clone are killing it rn with their set. New songs!
Screen grab from performance of Ibex Clone on the livestream of Gonerfest 22 in Memphis, TN on September 25, 2025
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Am sadly missing Gonerfest this year but the livestream is free and they got started about 10 min ago. goner-records.com/pages/gonerf...
Screen capture of a live video showing the band Wesley & The Boys playing live on stage to an audience at Gonerfest 22 in Memphis, TN on September 25, 2025
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After much travel and live music, been catching up on getting the past two weeks' worth of Cycles Per Second shows up on Mixcloud. Here's two hours of my favorite new and newly-issued music, everything from jangly pop to prickly punk to bedroom ambient. www.mixcloud.com/nstop/
Cover image for the August 27, 2025 edition of Cycles Per Second: a blue-tinted image of a stereo speaker component tilted up and to the right, exuding illustrated sound wave squiggles, set against an aquamarine background. Playlist for the August 27, 2025 edition of Cycles Per Second: 

Sharp Pins - (I Wanna) Be Your Girl
Vaguess - Take it or Leave it
mini golf water feature - Stupid Car
Josie - Cupid Strikes A Blow
The Science Of Words - Volunteer
Cyan Pools - Go To Heaven
Omni - High Ceilings
Misere - Prickelnd
La Flingue - Homicide
glow in the dark flowers - GOTHIC THOUGHTS
I Was A King - Dust Bunnies
Far Caspian - Window
LIFE ACT - WEIRD WINTER
The Wulongs - Aesop
Massage - Fading Out
$500 - Logos v. Gnarly Wave Cover image for the September 3, 2025 edition of Cycles Per Second: overhead image of a vinyl LP with a blank, light blue label, surrounded by a sketchy pink halo, set against a bright yellow background. Playlist for the September 3, 2025 edition of Cycles Per Second: 

Verity Den - wet glass
The Sourdrops - Saw a Shadow
Idle Ray - Quiet Cab
Moviola - Stunt Your Growth
Harry Sings! - The Magnetic Clock #1
Fly Ashtray - Well Will you Look at That
The Ekphrastics - I Am Going To Read You The Riot Act
The Terminal Buildings - Papier Mâché
Bill Direen/Bilders - Stancing
Modern Nature - Glance
Furious Turtles - Trust Mistrust
QUBINOIX - アオキハル(Aokiharu)
deine Mutti - Airport Hotel
Deathcat - Your Stupid City
Chafouin - Dans tous nos états
New Issue - Slide
Wild Meadows - 1985
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Whoops! Thanks for letting me know. Now corrected.
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Designing and laying out a new issue of my fanzine about record collecting
Stack of covers for issue #3 of Check the Record zine
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What a double bill, eh? Was originally planning to be just a Fred show. We lucked out.
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Also, someone brought their cat to the gig ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
White and gray cat in a bubble-front cat backpack on a wood floor, people seated around them Close-up of a confused-looking white and gray cat in a bubble-front cat back pack
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Magical house show a couple of miles from my house: Rose Melberg and Fred Thomas
Rose Melberg, singing while playing guitar in a living room in south Seattle, 9/8/25 Fred Thomas, singing while playing guitar in a living room in south Seattle, 9/8/25
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My right ear started acting up partway thru Phantom Tollbooth’s hi-volume set, so I decided to quit while I was ahead. Thx DromFest, hope to see ya next year! (6/6)
Photo of a smiling man in a black t-shirt and hoodie next to a smiling red-haired woman in a green shirt wearing sunglasses, standing in front of a green building with a sign reading “The Avalon Lounge”
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I was skeptical about a Dambuilders gig that was billed as basically Dave Derby and friends. But when yr friends include Brendan Canty (Fugazi) and Sean Eden (Luna)… it’s gonna sound great, and it did. Surprise guest: original member Eric Masunaga! (5/6)
The Dambuilders (L to R): Claudia Chopek, Dave Derby, Eric Masunaga, Brendan Canty, Sean Eden) performing live at the Avalon Lounge in Catskill, NY on 8/31/25 as part of DromFest 2025. Eric Masunaga and Dave Derby (w/Claudia Chopek in background) performing live as the Dambuilders at the Avalon Lounge in Catskill, NY on 8/31/25 as part of DromFest 2025.
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While I’d very much enjoyed Thalia Zedek’s solo set I caught a month prior in Seattle, the (almost) full band version was mind-blowingly good. Go see them if you can! (4/6)
Thalia Zedek Band performing live at the Avalon Lounge in Catskill, NY on 8/31/25 as part of DromFest 2025.
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Rebecca Gates played solo and Spinanes songs, incl an especially sweet duet w/Elizabeth Mitchell of Ida on “Hawaiian Baby”. (3/6)
Rebecca Gates performing live at Left Bank Ciders in Catskill, NY on 8/31/25 as part of DromFest 2025.
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Mark Robinson blazed through an unbroken medley of 50 Unrest, Air Miami, etc songs. (Thx to Frank Boscoe for letting me take a pic of the set list) (2/6)
Mark Robinson performing live at Left Bank Ciders in Catskill, NY on 8/31/25 as part of DromFest 2025. Set list showing the 50 songs that Mark Robinson played
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Oh, I almost forgot… Day 3 of DromFest (Sun): The welcome return of Fly Ashtray and their arty squiggle-pop. So nice to chat w/James for the first time in almost 30 years. Fun fact: He recorded my old band’s sole record. (1/6)
Fly Ashtray performing live at Left Bank Ciders in Catskill, NY on 8/31/25 as part of DromFest 2025.