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Matthew Perpetua
@fluxblog.bsky.social
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Writer of Fluxblog for 20+ years... I heard codes in the melody and heeded the call, so I'm sharing things I know and love with those of my kind http://linktr.ee/fluxblog
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It's that time of year again...

🎁A VERY 80s CHRISTMAS🎁 - unlike most public "80s" holiday playlists, this is *actually* music from 1980-1989!

🎄Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/2oG...

🎅🏻Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

☃️YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
November 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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“At my request, the Frank Quitely cover [of Batman/Deadpool #1] is an homage to the illustration Longhorns Dance by Jim French, which depicts two gay cowboys, naked from the waist down except for gunbelts, boots ‘n’ spurs.” - Grant Morrison
November 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Cyclops is famously neither of these things
November 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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did you know the French rock band Phoenix wrote their hit song "1901" about Frasier?
November 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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for reference - they're playing in the round, center of arena floor
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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but as far as the X-Men go, Etienne Lux is basically going allllll the way to the logical conclusion of Charles Xavier, but he looks like Tunde from TV on the Radio
November 13, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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a word to comics people - I have been loving The Power Fantasy by @kierongillen.bsky.social and @casparw.bsky.social - it's very smart and fun and fast paced and issue #13 is a massive payoff that ends with a crazy "uhh now what???" scenario. Get on board if you're not already
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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New playlist IN THE YEAR 2000 - been thinking about music from 2000 a lot recently, so here's a selection of classics from the turn of this century

🔄Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/7FP...

🔃Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

🔁YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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November 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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New playlist 99 INDIE + ALT-ROCK BANGERS FROM THE 90s ...self-explanatory, right? A good time!

📠Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/1Ee...

🥦Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

🔊YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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New playlist 🇯🇲DREADLOCKS IN MOONLIGHT: JAMAICAN MUSIC 1968-1981🇯🇲 - a selection of 100 reggae, rocksteady, dub, and ska classics.

🟢Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/7d3...
🟡Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
⚫YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
October 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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this is a follow up to BLACK BEATLES: R&B COVERS 1963-1972, one of my most popular playlists

⚫ Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/171...

⚪ Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

⚫ YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
October 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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New playlist JAZZ BEATLES 1965-1971, jazz renditions of Fab Four classics recorded by the band's contemporaries

🎺Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/4bd...

🎸Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

🎷YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
October 21, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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funny how Crisis On Infinite Earths is our reality now - algorithmic culture making everyone live in infinite contradictory parallel Earths crashing together, the only path forward being unification into a coherent new Earth
October 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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New issue features an essay about why I think Geese’s rejection of quantized aesthetics is the key to why they’ve got so many people excited right now, a playlist of 70s jazz for nighttime listening, and some live show reports
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October 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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New playlist 25 LATE NIGHT JAZZ FUNK GREATS - mostly fusion, mostly 70s, mostly groovy, all best heard at night.

Not a bad path into jazz! One of my favorites I've made.

🎷Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/5gV...

🎺Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

🥁YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
October 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Bumping up this old playlist NERD WAVE 1978-1982, in which the nerd emerges as a new wave rock archetype with a distinctive twitchy affect
Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/1Gh...
Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
October 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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the best job in show business for 46 years: being Fred Schneider
October 6, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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New playlist ⚫EARLY METAL AND HEAVY ROCK 1968-1972⚫, featuring prime movers, early adopters, and key one-offs at the dawn of the heavy metal era

🦇Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/3BG...

🎸Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

🤘YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
October 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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if you want to be a little more accurate, these records both came out in 93
September 23, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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🎵Roofman / come together with your hands / Tatum / playing some sort of con man🎵
September 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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we need new rock guys who have a goofy hat collection like young Jeff Ament
September 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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If you like R.E.M. I can't stress enough how fun it is to see these guys play the hell out of the IRS era songs and Shannon channels Stipe so well - get on this, it's so fun and you can count on R.E.M. never touring again
September 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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cover source, 1985 Wrangler ad from the UK
September 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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New playlist 🌺YOU'VE BEEN RIPPED OFF🪻, a mid-80s alternative mixtape mostly focused on 1985
More accurately, this would be two 90 minute cassettes

🟢 Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/3tg...
🍎 Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
📺 YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
September 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM