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Totally Wired @totallywired87.bsky.social · 3h

In recent years I have got back into collecting physical media, but the surging price of vinyl is making me fall out of love with it again. It’s no wonder everybody uses Spotify when the alternative is so unaffordable. Something has to change.

🧠 OPINION 🧠 If the music industry needs consumers to survive, it has to meet us halfway

Streaming has done untold damage to the music business, but what are we to do when physical media is becoming increasingly unaffordable?

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Totally Wired @totallywired87.bsky.social · 15d

Last night I saw YHWH Nailgun - an extraordinary band - live in Berlin. Their debut album 45 Pounds is good, but their live act is something else entirely. Read my review…

🎸 LIVE REVIEW 🎸 YHWH Nailgun

The Brooklyn four-piece bring their visceral vibrations to Berlin

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Totally Wired @totallywired87.bsky.social · 20d

With One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson has now made 10 brilliant feature films. But where does his newest one sit among his filmography so far? In my new Substack post, I have attempted to rank his 10 films from least to most brilliant.

The 🔟 films of Paul Thomas Anderson ranked in order of greatness

Where does One Battle After Another sit in the impossible list?

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Totally Wired @totallywired87.bsky.social · 20d

With One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson has now made 10 brilliant feature films. But where does his newest one sit among his filmography so far? In my new Substack post, I have attempted to rank his 10 films from least to most brilliant.

The 🔟 films of Paul Thomas Anderson ranked in order of greatness

Where does One Battle After Another sit in the impossible list?

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Totally Wired @totallywired87.bsky.social · 29d

I saw One Battle After Another last night. It’s the film of the year, if not the decade, and it reinforced my view that Paul Thomas Anderson is our greatest living filmmaker. Read my review.

🎞️ FILM REVIEW 🎞️ One Battle After Another

The revolution will be cinema

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Totally Wired @totallywired87.bsky.social · Sep 19

This week I have written about Long Story Short - a Netflix show which really charmed me this summer - and where this ‘sadcom’ sits in the pantheon of adult animated comedy.

📺 TV REVIEW 📺 Long Story Short

The creator of BoJack Horseman takes the animated family sitcom in a brilliant new direction

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Totally Wired @totallywired87.bsky.social · Sep 19

This week I have written about Long Story Short - a Netflix show which really charmed me this summer - and where this ‘sadcom’ sits in the pantheon of adult animated comedy.

📺 TV REVIEW 📺 Long Story Short

The creator of BoJack Horseman takes the animated family sitcom in a brilliant new direction

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Totally Wired @totallywired87.bsky.social · Sep 12

💿 RECORD REVIEW 💿

Jonathan Richman: Only Frozen Sky Anyway

💿 RECORD REVIEW 💿 Jonathan Richman: Only Frozen Sky Anyway

Strap in for a long-read on a fascinating artist who's still going strong after almost 60 years

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Totally Wired @totallywired87.bsky.social · Sep 12

💿 RECORD REVIEW 💿

Jonathan Richman: Only Frozen Sky Anyway

💿 RECORD REVIEW 💿 Jonathan Richman: Only Frozen Sky Anyway

Strap in for a long-read on a fascinating artist who's still going strong after almost 60 years

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Totally Wired @totallywired87.bsky.social · Aug 25

Indian Pale Male play the Voices for Gaza fundraising concert featuring Reem Anbar + Gazelleband, Ríoghnach Connolly & Ellis Davies + Ramsey Janini/رمزي جعنيني and special guests on Thursday 28 August at Band on the Wall, Manchester.

Voices for Gaza - Band on the Wall

A fundraising concert featuring Reem Anbar + Gazelleband + Indian Pale Male + Ríoghnach Connolly & […]

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Totally Wired @totallywired87.bsky.social · Aug 25

Watch Indian Pale Male’s performance of ‘Rule Based Order’ live at Manchester’s Carlton Club here…

Rule Based Order - Indian Pale Male (Live at Carlton Club)

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Totally Wired @totallywired87.bsky.social · Aug 25

Important piece of writing from Nathan McIlroy (Indian Pale Male) on the daily atrocities committed in Gaza, perpetuated by a complicit media and a Cult of Greed and Self-Interest...