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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆:
Lawrence Peryer speaks with synth pioneer Suzanne Ciani about handing her one-woman Buchla to a 50-piece orchestra on 'CIANI/ORKEST', keeping fifty players in time with a tiny Korg drum machine, decades of playing to folks who wouldn't listen, and finally saying 'yes' at 80 →
https://www.thetonearm.com/speaking-the-word-of-the-buchla-suzanne-ciani-orchestral-wave/
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pls read this essay (The Tonearm debut of writer Jon Buckland) on Metal Machine Music and its unlikely tribute albums and then, once finished, go back and read the Lester Bangs review linked within the article →
https://www.thetonearm.com/power-to-consume-and-lou-reed-metal-machine-music-afterlife/
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after a few days at Big Ears hearing most of the performing bands using loopers and effects, Tom Skinner's acoustic jazz combo (drums+cello+double bass+two winds) was refreshing … and v. good!
here's the conversation The Tonearm's Jonah Evans and I had with Tom after the show →
https://www.thetonearm.com/tom-skinner-silhouette-music-kaleidoscopic-visions/
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just one of the uncountable multitudes victimized by the administration's federal goon patrol, but this one hits Orlando's music scene pretty hard
and they grabbed him in his own fucking club
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getting back to my roots with a Cajun-inspired dish for tonight's din-din — collards from the garden, kidney beans, crispy tofu, tomato sauce, smoked chipotle peppers, lots of spicy goings-on, to be served over rice
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tl;dr: diggadoo-diggadoo-diggadoo-diggaddo wowwowwowwowwoooooo diggadoo-diggadoo-diggadoo-diggadoo
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❝ For the temple, this marks the first time a robot has participated in the sugye initiation ceremony, when followers pledge their devotion to the Buddha and his teachings … While a human monk normally receives a small incense burn on the arm, instead Gabi received a lotus lantern festival sticker and a prayer bead necklace. →
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like a model rocket, the latest Talk Of The Tonearm is now sputtering up to the sky before parachuting gently into your email inbox
this weekend's edition features a newsletter-exclusive interview with saxophonist Chris Potter about his John Brown-inspired album, 'Alive With Ghosts Today'
dig in! subscribe! →
https://www.thetonearm.com/her-instrument-damaging-technique-newsletter/
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so stoked to have Maria Schneider on the podcast today — there's a good bit of bird talk, too →
https://podcast.thetonearm.com/maria-schneider-composing-in-the-age-of-curated-rage-american-crow/
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Moroccan rocket building → https://mossandfog.com/a-rocket-shaped-building-rises-in-morocco/
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❝ Celebrating losers in the battle is exactly what we need right now, because we need to fight without a guarantee, and sometimes seemingly even without a prospect of victory. It’s the only way to counter the gross iniquities of our time. →
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❝ In 1962, the American Legion picketed the Pasadena Art Museum for showing one of his constructions built around a crumpled American flag. After someone broke into the museum at night and tore off the flag, Mr. Herms left the shell of the artwork on display, inserting a note that read, “Despite this degradation, the forces of creation will go on.” → https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/arts/george-herms-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hFA.7gfh.4rRmkD8QYOYK&smid=url-share
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❝ How many scenes in the canon depict farting? … a few years ago, my friend Cassey Lottman and I created the Great Farts of Literature database, an ongoing project dedicated to cataloging the best butt bombs in print and from which this list is adapted. →
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a remake of Logan's Run but it's set in a futuristic Brooklyn where those who turn 30 are forced to quit their indie rock bands
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an excellent mini-doc on how Yasujirō Ozu adapted his characteristic meticulousness, objectivity, and use of 'rhyming' shots to the advent of color in film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5P22nEmF3k
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jeez more like Stingy amirite
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the latest Talk Of The Tonearm email newsletter has spread its leathery wings and is now descending upon the unsuspecting villagers
features a rundown of our week's stories, a bevy of recommendations + clickable links, and the inside scoop on a new remix project featuring The Sun Ra Arkestra
https://www.thetonearm.com/invented-phonetics-theatrical-instincts-newsletter/
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I was just pitched a band described as 'post-indie' which I guess means they've signed to a major label … ?
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❝ It is the ultimate Gothic inversion: the living child is transformed into a data set to be optimized, while the host performs a pantomime of joy to mask the sound of a tomb clicking shut. → https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-banal-horror-of-jimmy-fallon
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funny I was involved in community radio solely for the SHEER UNASSAILABLE POWER
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@SidFudd@4bear.com is this show new to you? it's so good — enjoy the archive!
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that prior to the 1500s the only place you could find potatoes was in the Andes never ceases to blow my mind … and then the hypothesis that the 'little ice age' of the 1600s might have been caused in part by an explosion of wild growth in farmland abandoned by all the people who died over here wtf
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when Florian Fricke appears on screen in Werner Herzog's 1968 film Signs of Life
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glad I'm not baked rn as this would probably make me way paranoid
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"... after Bob Marley had finished singing, myself and a friend went up onto the platform where he was performing. He was chuckling away and I asked if I could take off a piece of his hair." ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
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a lot of bad news stories out there but this is up there among the worst →
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ambitious home dinner creation after several days of travel — vegan vindaloo curry with collards (from the garden), peppers, broccoli, and tofu — huzzah!
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❝ “Sometimes I can’t stop remembering and talking about him,” he said, and sighed. “But I would’ve never had the nerve to get onstage without him. There’s something about that I won’t ever get over. I still carry it with me. I owe D. Boon for everything.” → https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/arts/music/minutemen-d-boon.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XVA.V2ZW.-J2sG2K7hnji&smid=url-share
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btw not sure if anyone can fathom this but I’m in Knoxville TN and I’ve had the most delicious vegan borscht for breakfast two days in a row
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I can’t believe I managed to write and send out the latest edition of our Talk Of The Tonearm newsletter from my Knoxville hotel room after three frantic days of Big Ears festival-ing, but I sure did → https://www.thetonearm.com/the-unpredictable-feedback-of-the-natural-world/
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“Big Ears 2026: Our Guitarists Sit in Chairs”
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starting to think I’m going to make it all the way through Big Ears without seeing a guitarist not seated in a chair
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this lamp in my hotel room looks like it was modeled after Brion Gysin’s Dreamachine
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I'll be in Knoxville tomorrow through Monday with a couple other members of the team, representing The Tonearm at Big Ears 2026 💥
here's a handy guide I put together, just published on the site and featuring many of the artists I'm v excited to check out in person →
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me, recently: Letterboxd is at its best when members post thoughtful and respectful film reviews rather than dropping goofy one-liners
me, reviewing Fassbinder's Satan's Brew just now: Fass-bonkers!
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it's a handy rundown of everything happening on our humble online magazine, via this weekend's Talk Of The Tonearm newsletter
Zeena Parkins, Momoko Gill, Sam Wenc, Kodomo, Special Friend, Bayeté … and a newsletter-exclusive interview with cool as ice NYC band Amiture
brand new, good for you →
https://www.thetonearm.com/a-deliberate-case-of-serendipity-newsletter/
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a pair of fantastic articles posted on The Tonearm that dive into a musician's creative process
firstly, Mariam Abdel-Razek joins Momoko Gill for chocolates in a London cafe to discuss her brilliant new album 'Momoko,' as well as displacement, community, and, as a migrant, finding a home in music:
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here's a fun idea:
sure, watch the Oscars, but with the sound muted, and then blast today's new episode of The Tonearm Podcast with Zeena Parkins over it … showbiz! →
https://podcast.thetonearm.com/zeena-parkins-invention-loss-and-the-living-harp-mills-college/
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hi! this week's new issue of Talk Of The Tonearm features a newsletter-exclusive interview with Mary Ocher on her politically and personally-charged album, 'Weimar' … also: Bette A., The Raincoats, Lost Noises Office, Modha, Michael Graves, and a whole bunch more ✨
the voodoo that you do so well →
https://www.thetonearm.com/the-ethics-of-serving-the-archive-newsletter/
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the only Oscar that matters let's be honest
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there was a vintage era when we might have called this trip-hop or downtempo or what have you but it's perennially fresh and sly feel-good groove music for downbeat times ✨
and thus cue Sam Bradley to tell us all about the cool German duo Modha in today's feature presentation on The Tonearm →
https://www.thetonearm.com/the-groove-centered-ease-of-modha-at-your-pace/
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"do you consider yourselves noise merchants?" is perhaps the GOAT of interview questions
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the new Spielberg movie trailer is here →
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way too many bands out there called Sky Mall
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❝ In his weirdest and best-known images, Meatyard staged fantastical scenarios in wooded areas or inside abandoned old houses, featuring his wife, children and friends wearing macabre masks and surrounded by dismembered dolls and other props. → https://undermainarts.org/meatyard
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gotta say if you have the psychic need to detach your brain from the state of the world for a couple of hours that new Elvis movie will really do the trick
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a handy recap of our jam-packed week on The Tonearm (Winged Wheel! Ratboys! Marija Kovačević! Lala Lala!) plus a newsletter-exclusive interview with field-recording artist + musician Ian Wellman, discussing the devastating concept behind his extraordinary album, Particulary Dangerous Situation
↓ (click) ↓
https://www.thetonearm.com/the-honesty-of-instruments-newsletter/