kevin duquette
@littlestinker.biz
green thumbed website buildy designy musicy person. thanks / sorry.
i do @topshelfrecords.com and @tonedotaudio.bsky.social things
topshelfrecords.com // tone.audio
i do @topshelfrecords.com and @tonedotaudio.bsky.social things
topshelfrecords.com // tone.audio
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𝙏𝙊𝙋𝙎𝙃𝙀𝙇𝙁 𝙃𝙊𝙇𝙄𝘿𝘼𝙔 𝙎𝘼𝙇𝙀 𝙄𝙎 𝙇𝙄𝙑𝙀 ⋆.𐙚 ̊
💿 use code 𝗙𝗨𝗖𝗞𝗜𝗖𝗘 for 30% off everything
📀 $5 mystery vinyl is back ~ select by sound
💿 free LP, CD, or cassette with any $50 purchase
head to our website, bandcamp, or uk store to shop this one through 11/30 🫂
www.topshelfrecords.com/categories/s...
💿 use code 𝗙𝗨𝗖𝗞𝗜𝗖𝗘 for 30% off everything
📀 $5 mystery vinyl is back ~ select by sound
💿 free LP, CD, or cassette with any $50 purchase
head to our website, bandcamp, or uk store to shop this one through 11/30 🫂
www.topshelfrecords.com/categories/s...
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
𝙏𝙊𝙋𝙎𝙃𝙀𝙇𝙁 𝙃𝙊𝙇𝙄𝘿𝘼𝙔 𝙎𝘼𝙇𝙀 𝙄𝙎 𝙇𝙄𝙑𝙀 ⋆.𐙚 ̊
💿 use code 𝗙𝗨𝗖𝗞𝗜𝗖𝗘 for 30% off everything
📀 $5 mystery vinyl is back ~ select by sound
💿 free LP, CD, or cassette with any $50 purchase
head to our website, bandcamp, or uk store to shop this one through 11/30 🫂
www.topshelfrecords.com/categories/s...
💿 use code 𝗙𝗨𝗖𝗞𝗜𝗖𝗘 for 30% off everything
📀 $5 mystery vinyl is back ~ select by sound
💿 free LP, CD, or cassette with any $50 purchase
head to our website, bandcamp, or uk store to shop this one through 11/30 🫂
www.topshelfrecords.com/categories/s...
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Trying something new with the original drawings in my store. If there's one you're interested in, I'm entertaining reasonable offers on anything that's in stock.
Here's some of what's available: bensears.bigcartel.com/category/ori...
Here's some of what's available: bensears.bigcartel.com/category/ori...
August 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Trying something new with the original drawings in my store. If there's one you're interested in, I'm entertaining reasonable offers on anything that's in stock.
Here's some of what's available: bensears.bigcartel.com/category/ori...
Here's some of what's available: bensears.bigcartel.com/category/ori...
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NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning.
Please take care when watching.
Please take care when watching.
August 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning.
Please take care when watching.
Please take care when watching.
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Y’all should all follow and send support to @ftpmutualaid.bsky.social
We’ve been coordinating with them to support unhoused neighbors & get necessary supplies to people impacted by these evictions.
Donate at the links here 👇
linktr.ee/FeedThePeopl...
We’ve been coordinating with them to support unhoused neighbors & get necessary supplies to people impacted by these evictions.
Donate at the links here 👇
linktr.ee/FeedThePeopl...
Feed The People Mutual Aid | Twitter, Instagram | Linktree
A mutual aid collective based in Washington, DC, serving our unhoused neighbors.
linktr.ee
August 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Y’all should all follow and send support to @ftpmutualaid.bsky.social
We’ve been coordinating with them to support unhoused neighbors & get necessary supplies to people impacted by these evictions.
Donate at the links here 👇
linktr.ee/FeedThePeopl...
We’ve been coordinating with them to support unhoused neighbors & get necessary supplies to people impacted by these evictions.
Donate at the links here 👇
linktr.ee/FeedThePeopl...
just described an unreleased album we're working on to a zoom call of dozens of people as "the musical equivalent
of a Carmelo Anthony pull up j in your eye"
of a Carmelo Anthony pull up j in your eye"
August 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
just described an unreleased album we're working on to a zoom call of dozens of people as "the musical equivalent
of a Carmelo Anthony pull up j in your eye"
of a Carmelo Anthony pull up j in your eye"
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@topshelfrecords.com pledges monthly donation match for aid in Gaza
Topshelf Records Pledges Monthly Donation Match For Aid In Gaza
Israel is still killing people in Gaza. The Palestinian genocide continues to escalate; the region has reached two out of three famine thresholds (plummeting food consumption and acute malnutrition) a...
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August 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
@topshelfrecords.com pledges monthly donation match for aid in Gaza
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Topshelf (@topshelfrecords.com) has launched a donation initiative to help aid efforts in Gaza
Topshelf Records Launches Donation Initiative for Aid in Gaza
The label behind Ratboys, Ekko Astral, and more will match donations to the Sameer Project for the next 10 months
pitchfork.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Topshelf (@topshelfrecords.com) has launched a donation initiative to help aid efforts in Gaza
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Ghost 6.0 is here — meet our biggest upgrade yet
🫶 Reach millions of users across the social web
🔎 Understand what works with native analytics
➕ Powerful new creator tools
📈 $100M earned for indie publishers
ghost.org/6/
🫶 Reach millions of users across the social web
🔎 Understand what works with native analytics
➕ Powerful new creator tools
📈 $100M earned for indie publishers
ghost.org/6/
Ghost 6.0 - Grow faster.
Connect to the world's largest open publishing network, understand your audience with native analytics, and build a sustainable publishing business.
ghost.org
August 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Ghost 6.0 is here — meet our biggest upgrade yet
🫶 Reach millions of users across the social web
🔎 Understand what works with native analytics
➕ Powerful new creator tools
📈 $100M earned for indie publishers
ghost.org/6/
🫶 Reach millions of users across the social web
🔎 Understand what works with native analytics
➕ Powerful new creator tools
📈 $100M earned for indie publishers
ghost.org/6/
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YES !!! new ava luna
avaluna.bandcamp.com/track/frame-...
avaluna.bandcamp.com/track/frame-...
Frame of Us, by Ava Luna
from the album Ava Luna
avaluna.bandcamp.com
August 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
YES !!! new ava luna
avaluna.bandcamp.com/track/frame-...
avaluna.bandcamp.com/track/frame-...
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We call on all our music peers (labels, artists, musicians, booking agents, publicists, critics, managers, show promoters and other industry folks) to join us in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Start your own matching campaigns, call your reps, find actions near you, speak up. Free Palestine
August 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
We call on all our music peers (labels, artists, musicians, booking agents, publicists, critics, managers, show promoters and other industry folks) to join us in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Start your own matching campaigns, call your reps, find actions near you, speak up. Free Palestine
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We're raising funds for The Sameer Project, a donations based aid initiative run by Palestinians in the diaspora currently focused on the distribution of food, water, and tents in South Gaza as the Israeli blockade continues. Visit topshelfrecords.com/gaza to double your donation and learn more.
August 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
We're raising funds for The Sameer Project, a donations based aid initiative run by Palestinians in the diaspora currently focused on the distribution of food, water, and tents in South Gaza as the Israeli blockade continues. Visit topshelfrecords.com/gaza to double your donation and learn more.
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Holding a raffle to raise money for pircoregon.org (PDX) and www.vamosjuntos.org (PHL), two grassroots immigrant and refugee rights organizations on the frontlines fighting for our communities.
Win the original artwork for Blue Smiley's "Coma" or 1 of 20 limited edition silkscreened reproductions.
Win the original artwork for Blue Smiley's "Coma" or 1 of 20 limited edition silkscreened reproductions.
July 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Holding a raffle to raise money for pircoregon.org (PDX) and www.vamosjuntos.org (PHL), two grassroots immigrant and refugee rights organizations on the frontlines fighting for our communities.
Win the original artwork for Blue Smiley's "Coma" or 1 of 20 limited edition silkscreened reproductions.
Win the original artwork for Blue Smiley's "Coma" or 1 of 20 limited edition silkscreened reproductions.
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I'm sad to share news of the passing of Patricia Hetter Kelso, a visionary advocate for democratic ownership and the widow of Louis Kelso, inventor of the ESOP.
Her writing and conversation helped inspire my work around "exit to community" and more—see how: osf.io/preprints/me...
Her writing and conversation helped inspire my work around "exit to community" and more—see how: osf.io/preprints/me...
July 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I'm sad to share news of the passing of Patricia Hetter Kelso, a visionary advocate for democratic ownership and the widow of Louis Kelso, inventor of the ESOP.
Her writing and conversation helped inspire my work around "exit to community" and more—see how: osf.io/preprints/me...
Her writing and conversation helped inspire my work around "exit to community" and more—see how: osf.io/preprints/me...
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I'm deeply in love with Deja Carr's music, especially the simmering minimalist beauty of her bass-and-vocals approach. A lot of it has been hard to hear for a bit, so I think this bounteous new compilation will be a revelation:
maldevisa.bandcamp.com/album/palimp...
maldevisa.bandcamp.com/album/palimp...
Palimpsesa, by Mal Devisa
29 track album
maldevisa.bandcamp.com
June 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I'm deeply in love with Deja Carr's music, especially the simmering minimalist beauty of her bass-and-vocals approach. A lot of it has been hard to hear for a bit, so I think this bounteous new compilation will be a revelation:
maldevisa.bandcamp.com/album/palimp...
maldevisa.bandcamp.com/album/palimp...
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Mal Devisa announces anthology album 'Palimpsesa' — "Old Intro" and "Skyline Arms-Reach Out" are available now for the listening
Mal Devisa Announces Anthology Album 'Palimpsesa': Hear "Old Intro" & "Skyline Arms-Reach Out"
Almost 10 years ago Deja Carr — better known as Mal Devisa — shared her debut full-length album Kiid. She’s put out quite a bit of music since then, but that music is sometimes difficult to find; her ...
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June 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Mal Devisa announces anthology album 'Palimpsesa' — "Old Intro" and "Skyline Arms-Reach Out" are available now for the listening
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❤️🔥 Reintroducing, Mal Devisa — the songwriting, liberation & poetry project of multifarious artist Deja Carr whose new anthology album 𝑷𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒔𝒆𝒔𝒂 we're grateful to release on July 30 ➷
Listen to lead singles "𝐎𝐥𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨" + "𝐒𝐤𝐲𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐦𝐬-𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐎𝐮𝐭" and pre-order a cassette: www.topshelfrecords.com/275
Listen to lead singles "𝐎𝐥𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨" + "𝐒𝐤𝐲𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐦𝐬-𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐎𝐮𝐭" and pre-order a cassette: www.topshelfrecords.com/275
June 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
❤️🔥 Reintroducing, Mal Devisa — the songwriting, liberation & poetry project of multifarious artist Deja Carr whose new anthology album 𝑷𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒔𝒆𝒔𝒂 we're grateful to release on July 30 ➷
Listen to lead singles "𝐎𝐥𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨" + "𝐒𝐤𝐲𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐦𝐬-𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐎𝐮𝐭" and pre-order a cassette: www.topshelfrecords.com/275
Listen to lead singles "𝐎𝐥𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨" + "𝐒𝐤𝐲𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐦𝐬-𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐎𝐮𝐭" and pre-order a cassette: www.topshelfrecords.com/275
recharged by friendship, wonder, whimsy, joy
June 16, 2025 at 6:40 AM
recharged by friendship, wonder, whimsy, joy
in “TIDE / TIED”, @tbirdthanyaiyer.bsky.social made a beautiful and essential album for our collective current moment. i encourage you to slow down and take it in with your best headphones: www.topshelfrecords.com/284
www.topshelfrecords.com
May 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
in “TIDE / TIED”, @tbirdthanyaiyer.bsky.social made a beautiful and essential album for our collective current moment. i encourage you to slow down and take it in with your best headphones: www.topshelfrecords.com/284
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🫧 Really hyped to let you know that we’ll be releasing the new Subsonic Eye album ‘Singapore Dreaming’ on June 11 and it’s soooo good 😩⋆｡𖦹°⭒˚｡⋆
New single + music video for "Aku Cemas" out today, and physical pre-orders are now up! Everything you need is here 🏗️ www.topshelfrecords.com/286
New single + music video for "Aku Cemas" out today, and physical pre-orders are now up! Everything you need is here 🏗️ www.topshelfrecords.com/286
April 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
🫧 Really hyped to let you know that we’ll be releasing the new Subsonic Eye album ‘Singapore Dreaming’ on June 11 and it’s soooo good 😩⋆｡𖦹°⭒˚｡⋆
New single + music video for "Aku Cemas" out today, and physical pre-orders are now up! Everything you need is here 🏗️ www.topshelfrecords.com/286
New single + music video for "Aku Cemas" out today, and physical pre-orders are now up! Everything you need is here 🏗️ www.topshelfrecords.com/286
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🎈💥It’s our pleasure to disrupt your regular Monday drudgery to commemorate the 1st anniversary of @ekkoastral.bsky.social’s widely-acclaimed debut album with the release of 'pink balloons: popped' today— a deluxe CD version feat. remix tracks by dear collaborators here: www.topshelfrecords.com/287 💿
April 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
🎈💥It’s our pleasure to disrupt your regular Monday drudgery to commemorate the 1st anniversary of @ekkoastral.bsky.social’s widely-acclaimed debut album with the release of 'pink balloons: popped' today— a deluxe CD version feat. remix tracks by dear collaborators here: www.topshelfrecords.com/287 💿
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We are live! @lizpelly.bsky.social and I have something new that we'd love for you to support if you're into conversations surrounding music tech and the ever encroaching cultural hellscape we find ourselves in. Sign up for early access and community perks at patreon.com/criticallistening
April 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
We are live! @lizpelly.bsky.social and I have something new that we'd love for you to support if you're into conversations surrounding music tech and the ever encroaching cultural hellscape we find ourselves in. Sign up for early access and community perks at patreon.com/criticallistening
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Tomorrow morning at 11am ET, shit gets real.
April 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Tomorrow morning at 11am ET, shit gets real.
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I spent the last four months organizing what I believe to be the biggest and best music festival fundraiser for trans rights to ever happen in the US.
In Washington DC of all places.
Please buy a ticket and spread the word. 😁
In Washington DC of all places.
Please buy a ticket and spread the word. 😁
Introducing Liberation Weekend, a two-day music and arts festival taking place in the nation’s capital on Friday, May 30th, and Saturday, May 31st, during WorldPride 2025.
Proceeds go to @genderlib.com.
Tickets on sale now: linktr.ee/liberationwknd
Proceeds go to @genderlib.com.
Tickets on sale now: linktr.ee/liberationwknd
April 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I spent the last four months organizing what I believe to be the biggest and best music festival fundraiser for trans rights to ever happen in the US.
In Washington DC of all places.
Please buy a ticket and spread the word. 😁
In Washington DC of all places.
Please buy a ticket and spread the word. 😁
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“I’ve written articles that have produced investigative reports. I’ve done stuff that has made Trump officials stay up at night. I am proud of that work, but none of it has ever mattered as much to some kid out in the middle of America as one of the songs I’ve written. And that is irreplaceable.” 🖤
I interviewed @jael.bsky.social about journalism and music open.substack.com/pub/depthper...
Heat and beats: Jael Holzman on energy reporting, misinformation, and finding harmony between journalism and music
The ‘Heatmap’ reporter discusses renewable energy conflict coverage, the parallel tactics of anti-trans and anti-climate movements, and her life in the punk band Ekko Astral.
open.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
“I’ve written articles that have produced investigative reports. I’ve done stuff that has made Trump officials stay up at night. I am proud of that work, but none of it has ever mattered as much to some kid out in the middle of America as one of the songs I’ve written. And that is irreplaceable.” 🖤
logged on to facebook for the first time this year and am just so saddened and enraged by how completely lost most of the men in my family are. deranged content. zero empathy. just pure boot licking, smooth brain, compliant slop. i cant believe they helped raise me and now i don’t even know them.
March 28, 2025 at 8:06 AM
logged on to facebook for the first time this year and am just so saddened and enraged by how completely lost most of the men in my family are. deranged content. zero empathy. just pure boot licking, smooth brain, compliant slop. i cant believe they helped raise me and now i don’t even know them.