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a privilege to correspond with one of my favorite artists @Eiko_Ishibashi about not only her score for @drivemycar_mv but broader works that include a new mix/press of the immersive "For McCoy." special thx to @orenambarchi over at Black Truffle 💖🚗🎶 tonemadison.com/articles/compo…

lastly... prob won't be posting on here again for the foreseeable future due to the fascist criminal occupation... you know. I'm over there, tho ↓

"Hover" ascending (heaven), festooned experimental rock, chamber jazz in consonance and crisis, MPB-prog reinvention, aestival and arctic ambient, peripatetic post-rock, art pop descended from Björk's right lobe

closing the book on 2024's second half on the occasion of today's Bandcamp fundraiser. a round-up of some fav July-December releases:

year-end Blu-ray haul

you can also support Tone by picking up our latest colossal compilation of Madison music, "10," which is just $10 through the end of 2024 (CST) 🎶 tonemadison.bandcamp.com/album/10

last day of 2024 and final hours to contribute to @ToneMSN's year-end fundraising campaign. the impact of your donation will be tripled through @NewsMatch and a network of local donors. thanks for reading and supporting independent media. tonemadison.com/donate/

For @ArtReview_ I wrote about cinema in 2024, the year the film world turned a blind eye to genocide artreview.com/the-year-in-fi…

@fievelisglauque what about Slapp Happy and Esperanza Spalding? 😜

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point. Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this. But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned. Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future. Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development. The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital. And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative. So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

with gop white house senate house scotus theres no institutional check or balance left the only thing stopping every fascist dream coming true is the population refusing to buy in the ruling class only understands one thing money time to deprive them of it strikes and boycotts

...something poetic about @GhopperFilm distributing a pensive nature documentary about moths. read my @ToneMSN impressions of Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan's NOCTURNES and then see it for free at @uwcinematheque this Thurs, Nov 7 🦋 tonemadison.com/articles/noctu…

for @ToneMSN's Microtones last week, I wrote about the long-running "Today's Theme" tradition at @VideoHeaven, where staff continues to come up with new, exciting recommendations and lists for daily in-store viewing. (I owe them a lot for October horror!) tonemadison.com/articles/perso…

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super solid @PostPostPunk preview of AGGRO DR1FT, which is finally premiering here in Madison this evening. for supplemental lore purposes, may I also recommend viewing that Harmony The Troll YT supercut of his '90s Letterman appearances tonemadison.com/articles/psych…

halloween costume idea for people going through modernist, eco-existential crisis

@KyleMerckx a hunter is a hunter, even in a dream (on Halloween)

Halloween Celebrated

@fievelisglauque spin effusively, generously: fievelisglauque.bandcamp.com/track/hover

hovering... levitating... soaring listening (early, and on repeat) to @fievelisglauque's sublime "Hover"

in which I publicly bully @elonmusk youtu.be/SbYeTdz_JTc