In which I am compelled by strange mood to make a Voyager watch guide.

Jesus Christ. With such crisp breaks and a vocal delivery like this, what the fuck else do you really need? A delightful piano riff, some warbly keys, and a low-passed reese don’t hurt, but the…

Lavishly produced and beautifully choreographed, The Great Gatsby roars to life as a thoroughly entertaining ballet.  Another leap forward by relatively new company BIG Live, The Great Gatsby…

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Bagatelle! Wooden desk, some pegs and holes, and a spring. Each hole has different score value and your goal is to outscore your opponent.

i made a mix of UKG/house/dnb (etc… i’m not a genre cop), and i got so frustrated with mixcloud’s interface and not being able to flag an old upload as a draft, that i decided to…

Intro Your browser does not support the video tag. Video is licensed under CC-BY 4.0 Shards beneath my skin Your browser does not support the video tag. Video is licensed under CC-BY 4.0 Castiel Your…

I had the pleasure of attending the Harbingers of the Abyss Tour 2026 in Prague. I’d had a pretty rough week, so this seemed like the best way to let off some steam and man, what a good idea that…

Why Is Crowd Work So Popular in Stand-Up Comedy? Blog Series Crowd work keeps a show present because it’s unpredictable, reactive, and hopefully a bit offensive. Stand-up comedy lives on timing,…

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I've unfortunately been thinking about Timothée Chalamet more than usual this past little while. Naturally, his name has been strewn across headlines and reddit threads since the release of Marty…

If I'm thinking about my favorite newer hardcore bands from the last five years or so, Method Of Doubt would definitely be near the top of that list. Their Staring At Patterns album came out at the…

From film and TV writer David Chen’s review of this year’s Academy Awards: The concept of a 3.5-hour broadcast where you watch big movie stars accept awards and deliver heartfelt speeches…

Blatant political propaganda sold as a patriotic high budget film

Welcome to your primer on a post-Spotify/Apple Music/Amazon Music/Youtube Music future. Shit sucks, so we fix it. A range of options from "I just need something new to sign up for" to "I'll just make…

“I don’t feel like these things are possible without the ISC team behind it and it’s not something that can be accomplished through an algorithm or AI.” Where […]

NEW RELEASE "Hey Judas" from tonight's 52 Acoustic live. Click image for DistroKid Hyperfollow Links page Watch the debut LI VE on Facebook and X on 52 Acoustic Live .

Yesterday I was reminiscing about musical highlights from the past, and looked up my old band All the Queen's Men on the internet. Photo credit Rick Siegel Lo and behold a photo of us performing in…

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon . *** D rama hit the United Kingdom, this week in 1976 because, as our regular correspondent…

Hans Zimmer's revolution in Dune 3's soundtrack explained: the trailer features an All Blacks-style “space Haka” with Timothée Chalamet's voice. L'articolo Dune 3 Soundtrack Explained: Hans Zimmer’s…

Paul Banks, Madra Salach singer, McChuills, March 2026 Dublin six-piece Madra Salach blew my friend Joe and I away last year. We caught the band playing The Van Winkle in the Gallowgate as part of…

DirectorJohn Cameron Mitchell Year2006 Score3 This is one of the most sexy and least salacious films i have ever seen, or something like that. There is a lot of sex, but it feels entirely…

A great African music master is gone. Boncana Maïga, nicknamed “le Maestro,” passed away on February 28, 2026, in a clinic in Bamako. Composer, arranger, musical director, producer,…

This is the body that was given for you⁠—look at it, torn and bleeding, throbbing still with the tortured life, quivering from the bitter death-agony; take it, Christians, and eat!

In addition to the lovely string board in the opening credits, a classic red-string map appears in A Series of Unfortunate Events s01e04 (Netflix, 2017).

Part of Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series, to be published later in the year:

I’ve taken some time over the last few years to look back at records nearing anniversaries. It’s something I don’t often indulge in, but where there are obvious albums that will get piled upon by…

I wish DC Comics would get around to collecting the 50-issue, 1986-1990 Secret Origins series, perhaps in an omnibus or two, or a couple of DC Finest collections. And I hope they do so before I…

Pianist Jacky Terrasson and trumpeter Stéphane Belmondo’s Mother CD (2016, Impulse) opens with their version of Charlie Haden’s tune “First Song”.

Wonders of the Universe is the companion book to Brian Cox's TV show of the same name. I read the book on Hoopla, so probably didn't get the best way of viewing the book. The pictures are tiny, and…

Can - Salle Wagram, Paris, France, March 19, 1976OK, after Crazy Horse in West Germany yesterday, we’re staying in March 1976 … and keeping it teutonic! CAN! In the spring of ‘76,…

Locus Noir debuts with a catching and melodic record.

The 2026 Oscars™ happened, and a questionable “AI Production Studio” and “AI Talent Agency’s”1 “AI Actor” tried to use the occasion to convince The Academy™…

A new AI agent which promises to create complete video drama episodes on demand has been released on ByteDance’s XiaoYunQue AI platform. The product is based around the new Seedance 2.0 video…

Genre: Thrash Country: Belgium Year: 2026 1. Eliminate 2. Known Unto God 3. I Fear Myself 4. Nothing Is Real 5. The Truth Lies 5-track 'Ep by Cyclone, 36 years after their last release. Today’s…

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When you’re a kid, you sing along to songs in languages you don’t understand. You get the vowels wrong, the consonants worse, but somehow you land in the right place anyway. Not meaning — something…

I could summarise the previous two books in The Children of Time series. First one: intersecting narratives detailing the history of the sophont spiders, the Portiids, + the journey taken by humans…

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