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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 11h

I always want to read contemporary reviews of artists I explore to get an idea what type of environment in music culture they were creating in — no worries of me changing my mind based on an old sexist crank in Downbeat magazine.

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 14h

If I was Doctor Who I probably would spend loads of my time re-enacting the Van Gogh episode except it would be making old school critics read the reappraisals of stuff they hated. "Shouldn't you let Alice herself know how much she's loved?" asks the companion, I tetchily wave them aside

Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 14h

Reading contemporary Alice Coltrane album reviews… wow, if she had literally brought back John Coltrane from the dead, these reviewers would have criticized the way she resurrected John Coltrane.

I was already expecting Yoko Ono levels of hate, but wow, it was worse.

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 14h

Reading contemporary Alice Coltrane album reviews… wow, if she had literally brought back John Coltrane from the dead, these reviewers would have criticized the way she resurrected John Coltrane.

I was already expecting Yoko Ono levels of hate, but wow, it was worse.

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 1d

Really rainy, basically. Pretty common for this region, the visualization less so

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 2d

PNW about the get shafted. Prep yourself & check yourself.

Pacific Ocean moisture map showing a red girthy long shaft extending from Hawaii to the US states of Washington and Oregon.

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 2d

Bitchin Bajas opened, and they were great too. Don’t miss them either.

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 2d

Seeing Stereolab tonight after the protest was perfect timing. Laetitia apologized for not wearing a frog costume and seems amped to arrive in the U.S. at this moment.

Their set was phenomenal, but the way. The new songs’ live versions are extra loud & heavy. Don’t miss them in the upcoming dates.

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 2d

RIP Klaus Doldinger at 89: long time German musician/saxophonist who was the longtime leader of the underrated rock band Passport.

Klaus Doldinger's Passport • Schirokko (1973)

YouTube video by Top VideoSound

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Stereolabgroop @stereolabgroop.bsky.social · 2d

Tonight - @stereolabgroop.bsky.social play a sold out show at the Neptune - Seattle, Washington. USA. Support from Bitchin’ Bajas.

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Friends Below Zero @friendsbelowzero.bsky.social · 2d

Two great underrated WA state bands on the same bill at an Olympia Pizzaria, Dec. 2008.

Talbot Tagora were a weirdo Seattle trio that should have been talked in the same breath as Thinking Fellers, rRope or Erase Errata.

And Sex Vid were a warped Seattle/Olympia/Austin hardcore band.

Talbot Tagora and Sex Vid @ Old School Pizzeria in Olympia, WA December 2008

YouTube video by Elizabeth Skadden

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wendy cloudberry @wendycloudberry.com · 12d

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, of course! Great remix! There seems to be a lost 1994/1995 808 State album featuring “Lemon”, “Insane Lover”, “Freak”, “Bombadin” and other tracks.

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 5d

808 State’s last great album, and maybe even their best, is genre-defining for late 90s Electronica. I don’t know why 1996’s Don Solaris was ignored. Even Meat Beat Manifesto’s Subliminal Sandwich was talked about more. But Don Solaris has aged amazingly well.

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 7d

People are shocked when I tell them how many (effectively) solo albums Richard Ashcroft, Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, Gruff Rhys, Bernard Butler, Graham Coxon, Damon Albarn and Brett Anderson have put out. All that and Suede & Pulp putting out 2025 albums.

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 9d

It’s still so weird to me that Michael Gross’s most well known oeuvre is the Tremor series and not the likeable dad on Family Ties

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 9d

LOL

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 9d

It strikes me as odd that the modern definition of Macho in the U.S. infers a fear of urbanity worse than any character on the show Little House on the Prairie.

Then I immediately thought “Little Chud on the Prairie” and how this needs to become a thing.

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 9d

That makes sense. What’s funny is during the Confield tour when I saw them in Seattle and Los Angeles, they played in the dark then too, though just the stage. They were really trendy then, so it was hilarious watching celebrities at the L.A. show make an immediate B-line after 5 minutes.

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 9d

This is the most I’ve heard people talk about Autechre since 2001. Whether the venue-in-the-dark thing is ill-advised or not, the publicity is working.

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 13d

For anyone who needs a break, clipping. are about to play right now on The Best Show live.

🔴 LIVE! clipping. Movies You Refuse to Watch! | 201-989-0012 | The Best Show

YouTube video by The Best Show with Tom Scharpling

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 16d

Truth be told, not many 12th albums are great, but the Isley Brothers arrived at Album #12 --3+3 (1973) -- with a brief imperial phase.

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social · 16d

The answer is clear.

Hot Streets, the 12th album from Chicago.

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 16d

Agreed, Noooo. I can’t imagine how fast a show would be cancelled today if they broadcast any skit like Handi Man.

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 16d

There was a custom “Deluxe” bootleg digital edition available on file sharing sights, which is how I heard it (og vinyl aside). The LP was digitized pretty well except “Frozen” and it came with bonus ‘74 live tracks from shows in Alabama. But for people who never opened that door, it’s new!

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Steady State Sounds @steadystate.bsky.social · 18d

I will be in New York a week from tomorrow.

The main reason is I’m seeing @bestshow4life.bsky.social 25 live at the Bell House in Brooklyn. Are you going too?

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