Hello. On my way to Eindhoven after a cancelled flight and I’ll be away for 2 days to play an American Nightmare set. Then back to LA for 2 days. Then to Berlin for two Cold Cave shows.

Not sure how much more flying I want to do. It brings too much emptiness in my stomach. Maybe it’s the cocktail of missing what I love vs bureaucracy and physics and natu…

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Here is what’s on in headphones. Plus it helps your soul.

1. Nikki Sudden - No Good In Heaven

2. Second Layer - Fixation

3. The Wild Flowers - Melt Like Ice

4. Cabaret Voltaire - Sensoria

5. Severed Heads - We Have Come To Bless the House (Marcel Dettmann edit)

6. Rain Dogs - High Speed

7. CC Dust - New Ways

8. Clock DVA - Sensorium

9. Cardinal & Nun - Dancing In The Evil

10. Preoccupations - Ill at Ease

11. Nagamatzu - Deliberation

12. The Passions - I’m In Love With A German Film Star

13. Wicca Phase Springs Eternal - Horseback

14. Van Dyke Parks - Farther Along

15. The Beach Boys - Feel Flows

16. Jeff Buckley - Yard Of Blonde Girls

17. Rosa Anschütz - Sun Tavern

18. Winter - Sometimes I Think About Death

19. Spahn Ranch - B.A. Walk

20. Cities Aviv - Now That I’m Anywhere

21. Nick Nicely - Hilly Fields

22. Death In Vegas - Girls

23. Tristeza - Golden Hill

Here is what’s on around the home.

1. Rosa Anschütz - Rigid

2. Buzz Kull - Fascination

3. Absolute Body Control, Rue Oberkampf - Le train

4. Blank Dogs - Yellow Mice Sleep

5. Thurston Moore - Leave Me Alone

6. Kontravoid - Cost of Life

7. Covenant - Tension

8. Romy - No Audience

9. Front 242 - Controversy Between

10. OMD - Georgia

11. Andy Bell - It Gets Easier

12. Them Are Us Too - Marilyn

13. Malaria! - Lay Lady Lay

14. Skinny Puppy - Grave Wisdom

15. Patriarchy - Hurt Me

16. Xmal Deutschland, No More - Die Wolken - No More Remix

17. Robert Görl - Ich denk an dich

18. Trisomie 21 - See the Devil in Me

19. James Ray & The Performance - A New Kind Of Assassin

20. Paralisis Permanente - Heroes

21. Robert Rental - Double Heart

22. Coil - A Cold Cell

23. Rosa Anschütz - Sold Out

Hello beautiful readers - I want to share with you my airplane playlist as I take off on an 11 hour flight from Los Angeles to Santiago, Chile today. Please listen along with me today and feel the synchronicity. I need your energy! Before long flights I like to make playlists that will comfort me in what is otherwise a very traumatic experience, as I don’t like to be enclosed or pinned down. Very rough week getting ready for these shows with Amy’s health. Thinking of you all and am looking forward to these and the following US shows - if you need tickets please visit here. I 🤍 U.

1. Majesty Crush - No. 1 Fan

2. The Beloved - A Hundred Words

3. Molly Nilsson - Earth Girls

4. Cindy Lee - Lucifer Stand

5. Relapsa Passion - Rocket Ship

6. MEMORIALS - Giving Hope

7. The Cleaners From Venus - This Rainy Decade

8. Stereolab - John Cage Bubblegum

9. Andy Bell - It Gets Easier

10. Alison’s Halo - Wishes

11. Lilys - Day of the Monkey

12. Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld - A Quiet Life

13. Crime & the City Solution - The Adversary

14. Primal Scream - Medication

15. The Third Bardo - I’m Five Years Ahead of My Time

16. Nature And Organization - Tears for an Eastern Girl

17. Spell - Seasons In The Sun

18. The Charlatans A Man Needs To Be Told

19. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - (None)

20. Alex Chilton - Like Flies On Sherbert

21. Blonde Redhead - Snowman

22. Tristwch Y Fenywood - Ferch Gyda’r Llygaiud Du

23. Eugenius - Oomalama

24. Evergreen - Glass Highway

25. Clock DVA - 4 Hours

26. Earth - Harvey

27. Mark Lanegan - Pure Religion

28. Bobb Trimble - Premonitions - The Fantasy

29. The Byrds - Wasn’t Born to Follow

30. Smog - Bathysphere

31. Sonic Boom - Angel

32. Songs: Ohia - Farewell Transmission

33. New Order - Here to Stay (Radio Edit)

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Greetings from beneath the Doctor’s orders to lay even lower. I was meant to be in Peru today but am on an extended layover in my Los Angeles bed. It’s ok. I hope you are too. Here is what I’m listening to…

1. Sunshine Bandits - Pinup Boy

2. Belgrado - Boixar

3. The KVB - Words

4. The Wake - Crush the Flowers

5. Lykki Li - Complaint Department

6. La Punta Bianca - Smell of Paint

7. Martin Dupont - Just Because

8. Getting The Fear - Against The Wind

9. Anja Huwe - Rabenschwarz

10. Sandra Electronics / Karl O Connor - Her Needs (1999)

11. Semetary - Wendigo

12. Linear Movement - Night in June

13. Broadcast - Follow The Light

14. Rosa Anschütz - By Gaining Many Somethings

15. Black Box Recorder - Child Psychology

16. Love Life - Joy

17. Einstürzende Neubauten - Ist Ist

18. Turnabout - Better Off Alone

19. HTRK - Dream Symbol

20. Savage - Don’t Cry Tonight (Original Version)

21. Wicca Phase Springs Eternal - Spider Webb

22. Space Afrika - Honest Labour (feat. HforSpirit)

23. Cold Cave & Genesis P-Orridge - Comprehension

New playlist of Mark Lanegan sung songs. This is what I’m listening to this weekend. Wishing you all the very best.

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Hello Fine People,

Here is a holiday edition of the Happy New Tears playlist. Hope you’ll enjoy it as I do. I actually found making this harder to compile than I anticipated. Some obvious & some necessary & some aren’t holiday songs at all but feel like ‘em. I was also repulsed several times over by the shameless covers I regrettably discovered this morning. I must say, your traditional Christmas songs made me violent. All my love to everyone else…

1. Hermine - Happy Holidays

2. Psychic TV - White Nights

3. Francoise Hardy - Song of Winter

4. Vashti Bunyan - Coldest Night of the Year

5. Cristina - Things Fall Apart

6. Slowdive - Star Roving

7. The Ocean Blue - Love Doesn’t Make It Easy on Us

8. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Birthday

9. Felt - My Darkest Light Will Shine

10. Sad Lovers and Giants - Christmas on Easter Island

11. Low - Just Like Christmas

12. Broadcast - Winter Now

13. The Legendary Pink Dots - Frosty

14. Saint Etienne - Teenage Winter

15. The Fall - (We Wish You) A Protein Christmas

16. Xmal Deutschland - Xmas in Australia

17. The 6ths - Winter in July

18. The Magnetic Fields - Have You Seen It In The Snow

19. Mark Lanegan - Strange Religion

20. Nico - Winter Song

21. John Cale - Child’s Christmas in Wales

22. Lou Reed - New Sensations

23. The Velvet Underground - Jesus

24. Julian Cope - Christmas Morning

25. Alan Vega - No More Christmas Blues

26. Smog - Rock Bottom Riser

27. Cerberus Shoal - Make Winter a Driving Song

28. Tindersticks - Snowy in F# Minor

29. Earth - Divine and Bright

30. Spiritualized - Always Together With You

Hermine’s “Happy Holidays.”

Leaving the city, lock ourselves in homes
Go crazy with no time to rest
Four walls of concrete, and a door upon the street

Come with me, come with me
Come with me, come with me
Traffic, trains and aeroplanes
Headlights always shining on the room
TV, holocaust and hurricanes
Murders going on outside the door
Let’s not be logical twenty-four hours a day
Leave the sirens blaze on down the road
Police oppressors that disrupt our daily lives

Laugh with me, laugh with me
Laugh with me, laugh with me
It can’t be that home
There’s no rooms, there’s no space
A walk on the street is nobody’s dream
Why do we drag each other into traps?

We need each other like a flower needs the rain
Be with me, be with me
Be with me, be with me
Let me take you far away
On holiday, happy holiday
Let me take you far away
On holiday, happy holiday

Don’t wake up and give in to the day. Each one gets a little shorter. Here are some more songs revolving from the fore and background. Your not-so-secret admirer.

1. Bedhead - Disorder

2. Wire - Take It (For Greedy)

3. Christiane F. - Wunderbar (House Edit)

4. SRSQ - Someday I Will Bask in the Sun

5. Drop Nineteens - Winona

6. The Cult - Spiritwalker

7. Scott Walker - Track Three

8. SPELLING - Under the Sun

9. Solid Space - Please Don’t Fade Away

10. Zanias - Tryptamine Palace

11. Second Layer - Courts or Wars

12. Anita Lane - Bella Ciao

13. Modern English - Gathering Dust

14. Lilys - Claire Hates Me

15. Robyn Hitchcock - The Ghost In You

16. Peter Murphy - All Night Long

17. ANOHNI / Mykki Blanco / Kelsey Lu - French Lessons

18. Hood - One Way Negative Friend Utilisation

19. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Hole

20. Grand Duchy - A Strange Day

21. Michael Gira - Blind

22. Cold Cave - Dandelion

23. Psychic TV - Stolen Kisses

24. The Gutter Twins - Idle Hands

25. Ultra Vivid Scene - Mercy Seat

26. Young Marble Giants - Searching For Mr. Right

27. Ana Roxanne - Camille

28. Aphrodite’s Child - It’s Five O’Clock

29. Spectrum - Indian Summer

30. Codeine - Atmosphere

Good Morning Dear Supporters,

Here is a Cold Cave song you haven’t heard, and beneath the lyrics below, a link for the gracious paid subscribers to download and pretend hold. It was recorded sometime during the fruitful years that were 2020-21. Travis Shinn took the above photo, of course.

I hope you are well, more soon.

WE

YOU REALLY COULD HAVE HAD IT ALL

Since you've asked
I've got nothing against you
It's just pure deletion
No existence
Most days I can't even remember your name
And now I hear
You're running around
This overcrowded town 
Doing all that you can
To bury me in the ground
It's been so many years
Since you've had 
Anything at all
It's been so many years
Since you've had me
And after so many years 
Of your nothing at all
Lies
Deceit
Retreat
Defeat
You know you really, really, really could have had it all.

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Don’t wake up and give in to the day. Each sun revolution calls for a new fight against extinction. Here are some songs revolving from the fore and background. Love you like a long lost leper.

1. Jane Birkin - Ex-fan des sixties

2. Felt - Rain of Crystal Spires

3. Purple Mountains - All My Happiness is Gone

4. Strawberry Switchblade - Trees and Flowers

5. Trisomie 21 - See the Devil in Me

6. The Ocean Blue - Between Something and Nothing

7. Dolly Mixture - Will He Kiss Me Tonight

8. Dorothy - I Confess

9. Guided By Voices - High in the Rain

10. Morrissey - A Swallow on My Neck

11. Silicon Teens - Red River Rock

12. Nabihah Iqbal - This World Couldn’t See Us

13. Monaco - Tender

14. The Durutti Column - Sketch for Summer

15. My Dad Is Dead - The Quiet Man

16. Ultravox - Hiroshima Mom Amour

17. Pink Industry - Don’t Let Go - 12” Version

18. Freur - Doot Doot - 12” Mix

19. Big Blood - Sweet Talker

20. Nico - My Heart Is Empty

21. Mark Lanegan - Creeping Coastline Of Lights

22. Book Of Love - Boy

23. Julee Cruise - Mysteries of Love

24. Alan Vega - WILD HEART

25. The Sisterhood - Giving Ground

26. Arthur Russell - Instrumentals Vol. 2 Part 1

27. Cold Cave - Love Is All

28. The Damned - Life Goes On

29. The Psychedelic Furs - She Is Mine

30. Jon Auer - Gold Star For Robot Boy

Sharing with you a playlist for my airplane ride today from Los Angeles to Amsterdam.

1. Lawrence Ferlinghetti - The World Is A Beautiful Place

2. Marianne Faithfull - Sparrows Will Sing

3. Leben und Arbeiten - Amanita

4. Dario Dell’aere - Eagles In The Night

5. Carmody - Messengers of Love

6. OMD - The Misunderstanding

7. Mittageisen - Automaten

8. Sad Lovers & Giants - Colorless Dream

9. Billy Childish - We Have War Because We Love War

10. Mekons - Ghosts Of American Astronauts

11. Alex Chilton - Like Flies On Sherbert

12. The Modern Lovers - I’m Straight

13. Trisomie 21 - Is Anybody Home? (Part 1)

14. Lana Del Rey - Paris, Texas

15. Einsturzende Neubauten - The Garden

16. Vashti Bunyan - 17 Pink Sugar Elephants

17. Bridget St. John - Song to Keep You Company

18. Incredible String Band - The First Girl I Loved

19. Sonny Sharrock - Blind Willie

20. Mark Lanegan - Carry Home

21. Steve Von Till - If I Needed You

22. Amenra - Black Crow Blues

23. The Cult - A Cut Inside

24. M.I.A. - Born Free

25. Depeche Mode - People Are Good

26. Fad Gadget - For Whom The Bell Tolls

27. Samedi - Between Two Hearts

28. Emma Ruth Rundle - Darkhorse

29. Bel Canto - Mornixuur

30. Jesu - Don’t Dream It

Happy Friday everyone… I woke up a little before 5 and started writing and realized that something’s off. Maybe I’m sick like everyone else is. Hard to say when even at my best I feel at odds. But still I wanted to share something... Here’s a Cold Cave demo I hope to finish one day. There’s an arsenal of these. Sending your way as part of some purge I c…

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This is a Cold Cave demo from 2013 that was never released or fully realized, written around the time of Oceans With No End and People Are Poison.

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Thank you for subscribing and reading everything I spilled this week. Here are 23 songs for you.

1. Dead Moon - Can’t Do That

2. Harry Nilsson - You Can’t Do That

3. New Order - Procession (Rehearsal Recording)

4. William Patrick Corgan - Processional

5. 39 Clocks - Psycho Beat

6. Generation X - Psycho Beat

7. Circuit 7 - Russian Roulette

8. Lords Of The New Church - Russian Roulette

9. Scott Walker - Joanna

10. Iggy Pop & James Williamson - Johanna

11. The Fall - L.A.

12. Psychic TV - L.A.

13. Elliott Smith - L.A.

14. Colin Newman - Alone

15. Love - Alone Again Or

16. Nina Simone - Alone Again Naturally

17. Psychic TV - Just Like Arcadia

18. The Cure - Just Like Heaven

19. The Jesus And Mary Chain - Just Like Honey

20. John Lennon - (Just Like) Starting Over

21. Bob Dylan - Just Like A Woman

22. Sinead O’Connor - Just Like U Said It Would B

23. Nine Inch Nails - Just Like You Imagined

Thank you for subscribing and reading everything I spilled this week. It will get messier. Here are 23 songs that’ve been playing around here and relevant to this week’s posts.

1. Automatic - New Beginning - The first song from their latest album. Have seen them live a few times now and are always on. Def one of our fav current bands.

2. The Cure - I’m A Cult Hero - “I'm ahead of my time…”

3. Depeche Mode - Ghosts Again - Love everything DM always and forever and this new beautiful melancholic has been on repeat.

4. Marie Davidson - Work It - Soulwax Remix - “You wanna know how I get away with everything? I work all the fucking time.” Work Work Work.

5. Pulp - The Boss - Demo - From the deluxe release of His ‘n Hers. Have been playing this for a few years now usually, on repeat.. For Steve Mackey, Pulp’s bass player who passed last week. We were in touch over the years and he was always a kind and supportive gentleman.

6. Rose McDowall - Don’t Fear The Reaper - My ringtone.

7. Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon - Life At Brian’s Sessions - The man with the golden voice.

8. Pylon - Crazy - Athens GA legends formed the year I was born. Fits any mood. Driving with windows down or staring at a wall.

9. The Vacant Lots - Thank You - Have been jamming their records for years now and they keep getting better.

10. Crime & The City Solution - All Must Be Love - As performed in Wings Of Desire.

11. Coil - Cold Cell - Coil’s take on a traditional Russian prison hymn. Mood altering for the worse.

12. Lilys - Ginger - Love Kurt. If I could play guitar I would want to be in a band that played this.

13. The KVB - Always Then - Playing together in London next month.

14. Mark Lanegan w/ PJ Harvey - Hit The City - Anthem for life no comparison.

15. Einstürzende Neubauten - Sabrina - “It is as black as Malevich's Square.” Music to listen to while working on the Heartworm Reader.

16. Royal True - Stevie (For Steven S.) - A pick me up. RTX / Hagerty always right.

17. Peter Hook & The Light - The Village - Live - Several live albums streaming and all are such a joy to listen to because the energy is unparalleled.

18. Yo La Tengo - Miles Away - Masek took me to see them the night we got back from Mexico. Hadn’t seen them since 2009 in London. They played two sets and ended the first one with this song. Had to leave because it was so crowded and person next to me kept lighting the most crooked sidewalk-find joint, hitting it then leaning on me. New record rules.

19. Billy Bragg & Wilco & Natalie Merchant - Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key - Was stuck in my head after overhearing a Jeopardy answer of Walt Whitman which reminded me of the opening song on this record.

20. Cold Cave - Meaningful Life - For Greg & Dennis…

21. Mazzy Star - Blue Flower - After reading A Scene In Between USA revisited The Rain Parade and Opal and landed here naturally, always one of my fav tracks.

22. Charles Bukowski - Style - Don’t try.

23. Neneh Cherry - Dream Baby Dream - A+