Well, raising the minimum price of the new album by Toxic Chicken for Bandcamp Friday met with blank stares, as expected, but it amused us, anyway.
For now at least, ‘Scumbag’ has reverted to its previous minimum donation price of £2, but feel free to multiply this number by any positive integer.
Well, raising the minimum price of the new album by Toxic Chicken for Bandcamp Friday met with blank stares, as expected, but it amused us, anyway.
For now at least, ‘Scumbag’ has reverted to its previous minimum donation price of £2, but feel free to multiply this number by any positive integer.
This vintage painting of an owl and a blue tit illustrates Phantom Circuit #464.
Phantom Circuit #464: Achromic Tit Pun
Tracks by Kavalcade (c/o @wepn.bsky.social), Wahn (c/o @ivopetrov.bsky.social), @toxicchicken.bsky.social (on @earthrid.bsky.social), Portal, Seefeel and many more.
First heard yesterday on @beachyheadradio.bsky.social
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Thanks! 🫡
Bandcamp Friday crazy special! Minimum price DOUBLED for today only! 💸 Yes, get 100% ON!
Well we did say it was crazy. ‘Scumbag’ is cheap at double the price, so why not scum bag yourself an anti-bargain and help us support the marvellous music of Toxic Chicken.
#BandcampFriday #GrotShop
New release on Earthrid today: ‘Scumbag’!
Sunny sounds but scummy themes by the always inventive Toxic Chicken (@toxicchicken.bsky.social). #electronicmusic #experimentalmusic #scum
Now…
Going to a gaggle of gigs could be a giggle.
It’s sad to see that many musicians (for example) have apparently created a Bluesky account only to abandon or neglect it. Bluesky is tiny compared to X-formerly-known-as-Twitter™ and the like but it’s incomparably better—especially if you tweak settings. No interest in helping a project grow.
‘Funderground #131’ by @toxicchicken.bsky.social
A lively edition with the sounds of @an-eel23.bsky.social @glynmoog.bsky.social @caryaamara.bsky.social @bongosurfo.bsky.social @strawberrystation.bsky.social @bennjordan.bsky.social @ruby-my-dear.bsky.social + many more.
As heard yesterday on BHR.
Thanks to @darktrain.bsky.social for playing a track from our release of ‘Quirky & Perky‘ by @toxicchicken.bsky.social in the latest edition of the show. Catch up on Mixcloud:
Damon Krukowski's Why Sound Matters insists that sound is material, labor is real, and the way we treat both reveals what we value. Noise pollution, streaming's devaluation of recorded music, the saturation of shared soundscapes—these are not abstract problems.
Yes. And.
Many thanks to the ISSS for including ‘Metal’ from ‘Quirky & Perky‘* by @toxicchicken.bsky.social in this bumper edition of the show. #np
* earthrid.bandcamp.com/album/quirky...
“Learn from Me. 40 Harsh Truths I Wish I Knew...” ❌
“DEREK ZOOLANDER CENTER FOR KIDS WHO CAN'T READ GOOD AND WHO WANNA LEARN TO DO OTHER STUFF GOOD TOO”
Many thanks for the kind review of ‘Quirky & Perky‘ by @toxicchicken.bsky.social!
The final Daily Bread column of 2025. New music from @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social @toxicchicken.bsky.social '...what The Doors may have sounded like if they were brought up with the Game Boy and not the blues.'
monolithcocktail.com/2025/12/08/o...
You have contacted Stripe about this?
Account setup from some countries can be very onerous (fortunately, from the UK it is not so bad).
it's so paradoxical the music scene & venues & musicians are struggling so much - yet I can't remember a time when so many artists have put out so many absolutely top drawer releases.
Albums that would have previously been my favourite of the year now seem to come out on a weekly basis.
Thank you to @phantomcircuit.bsky.social for including new work from “11.11.25” plus a duo piece with @markhjorthoy.bsky.social in Phantom Circuit #457. Always a far reaching, eclectic set!
At Christmas in 1971, the number one single in the UK was ‘Ernie’ by Benny Hill.
“Rubber Ducky / You’re so fine…” Fortunately I have forgotten the rest but that was a catchy start.
He is now talking about the effect of “low lane C mode” on “the mono ring”. 🤔
I was rather mystified just now by what an American YouTuber meant by “low lane C mode” in Logic Pro till I realised he meant “low latency mode”.
‘Funderground #127’ by @toxicchicken.bsky.social
Tasty cheesy, weirdness & fun from @pettaluck.bsky.social @bernd-michael-land.bsky.social @caryaamara.bsky.social @an-eel23.bsky.social @neonkittens.bsky.social @orwrimp.bsky.social @johncallaghan.bsky.social and many more. As heard yesterday on BHR.
Millie Fairley, from Eastbourne, East Sussex, has aplastic anaemia, which affects around two people in every million in the UK.
There are still many netlabels (even by the strictest of definitions) and no end of interesting releases, but it seems to me that netlabels were at peak activity around 2011, yes..?
“This is a dangerous precedent: if Southern Water avoids real consequences, the message will be clear: pollution is a PR issue, not an offence.”
you know it’s a bad Cloudflare outage when it even takes out down detector 😅
You thought “Vermilion and Snowy Waxcaps” was the fifth EP by The Cocteau Twins, didn’t you.
And if you’re too brooding and intense to benefit from cheerful music occasionally, we have alternatives too. earthrid.bandcamp.com
