If there are no Helsinki dates, I shall cry you a Katrina of your very own.

Vaster than Empire, and more slow..."Alice" is one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard.

My local record shop, in Kaisaniemi subway station. I'm happier'n a pig in shit.

"Play your gloom axe, Stephen O'Malley!"

No *way*.

Good god, I've been looking for this a long time.

Mod nights at good ol' 330 Ritch

Yes yes yes.

"And so the Japanese keep themselves very well informed. When they travel to the west, they know where to go. They consume culture in a way we, its progenitors and original makers, are too complacent to."

Something I can't attend this year, due to multiple and intractable conflicts. : . (

(Not?) for otaku only: limited-production, lovingly produced sounds

Godspeed You Black Emperor! divided by Throbbing Gristle times early Pink Floyd: LOUD and very f'ing cool

via Webb

Eva Hesse

Music for Zumthor's thermal baths

Mmmmmmmminimal sounds