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  • 2 days ago | daily.bandcamp.com | Matthew Blackwell

    ALBUM OF THE DAY Purelink, “Faith” By Matthew Blackwell · June 05, 2025 ​ ​ Purelink Brooklyn, New York follow ✓ following unfollow ... Faith Purelink . / pre-order buy pre-order buy you own this wishlist in wishlist go to album go to track go to album go to track .

  • 2 days ago | daily.bandcamp.com | Matthew Blackwell

    BEST FIELD RECORDINGS The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, May 2025 By Matthew Blackwell · June 04, 2025 Bandcamp hosts an amazing array of field recordings from around the world, made by musicians and sound artists as well as professional field recordists. In this column, we highlight the best sounds recorded outside the studio and released in the last month.

  • 1 week ago | pitchfork.com | Matthew Blackwell

    Harold Budd finally agreed to breakfast. The minimalist composer had been receiving letters from someone named Ruben Garcia insisting that they meet; Garcia thought that Repetition Repetition, his band with local L.A. guitarist Steve Caton, would interest Budd. He was right: When the three sat down at a Mexican place together, they hit it off immediately and went back to Garcia’s house to jam.

  • 1 week ago | daily.bandcamp.com | Matthew Blackwell

    LISTS Susan Alcorn’s Revolutionary Pedal Steel By Matthew Blackwell · May 27, 2025 For a long time, Susan Alcorn lived a double life. At night, she would play in dance halls and honky-tonks around Houston, Texas; during the day, she would hole up by herself to study avant-garde jazz and free improvisation. Her chosen instrument, the pedal steel guitar, was associated with country and western and virtually unheard of in other genres.

  • 1 week ago | pitchfork.com | Matthew Blackwell

    To really die you have to die three ways. Townes Van Zandt discovered this after overdosing on model airplane glue. He was declared DOA at the hospital where, to hear him tell it, he sat for an hour and a half while doctors debated just how dead he was. “There’s brain death, which I’ve suffered. There’s respiratory death, which I haven’t suffered yet. And there’s heart death, which I go through every two or three months,” he told filmmaker James Szalapski.

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Matthew Blackwell
Matthew Blackwell @MBlackwell27
12 Jan 25

Scientifically accurate.

Valentino
Valentino @EuroValentino

Out of all the cities I’ve been to in the world, Cairo was the worst by far. Truly an urban hell on Earth. https://t.co/8WFp2YMsMp

Matthew Blackwell
Matthew Blackwell @MBlackwell27
20 Nov 24

And where many of its “citizens” have either never heard of “Papua New Guinea” or don’t identify with it, avoiding the strange people who sometimes appear in their valley calling themselves “police.”

Stone Age Herbalist
Stone Age Herbalist @Paracelsus1092

I still don't understand how Papua New Guinea can legitimately be called a nation state, when its police and legal services can't physically access swathes of the country where entire families are lynched for being sorcerers and witches. https://t.co/VvICwQsbQa

Matthew Blackwell
Matthew Blackwell @MBlackwell27
18 Jul 24

RT @clairlemon: The irony is that in trying to assassinate Donald Trump, Crooks inadvertently provided Trump with an opportunity to display…