Undomondo
@undomondo
Aging dad, music nerd, music blog & radio show since 2005. Booker for festivals & clubs. Istanbul / Barcelona. Mondo Times Newsletter: Undomondo's Terminal Optimism on Apple Music:
Seminal read, regarding our interaction with images, and the change from the photograph era to the AI era. @spikeart.bsky.social @gideonjacobs.bsky.social spikeartmagazine.com/articles/ess...
New episode of my Radio Alhara show which I cheekily named Fifth World, after Hassell’s 4th World. It’s live tonight, you can stream it at Radio Alhara. I'll post it to Soundcloud tomorrow. Barcelona Time: 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM Istanbul Bethlehem Time: 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
"Surrealist blues poet" really holds up here. ajamonet.bandcamp.com/track/for-th...
Razor sharp political commentary from Aja Monet on her 2026 album. She's also curating part of the lineup for Le Guess Who this year! www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyP1...
Pretty spot on essay on @aeon.co // by @emilyherring.bsky.social about the parallels of early 19th century French artists like Musset, Hugo and Chateaubriand "le mal du siècle" to our doomscrolling age. aeon.co/essays/young...
Somebody "made a site that picks the closest rothko for how the weather feels outside your window". I guess we'll have the same Rothko for some time here in BCN. rothko.joonas.wtf
Published a new edition of Mondo Times, feat. Paradise Metal on Heat Crimes, @cochemea.bsky.social, @andrewwasylyk.bsky.social, @claypipemusic.bsky.social, Turkish City Pop by Peki Momés, indie rock by Zoh Amba and a new 20 song playlist by me, among others! Check + subscribe + share!
Sober influencers, the love of the game, GLP-1s hkatewilliams.substack.com/p/on-drinking
This one is a very good testament to the commercialization of techno, festivals and nightlife in general, and how it's turned into a business by capitalists/promoters and techbros. notagspodcast.substack.com/p/san-franci...
I bought the No Tags 02 Reader, which is the podcast/substack transcribed and compiled. Great stuff! I just saw it in my local kiosk (the classiest News & Coffee, which always deliver). The substack is also very active, gonna share something as a reply.
Noah spells out the known truths about the US that we Europoors know. www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-econom...
This triggered my Pavarotti obsession and of course the algorithm started giving, because this larger-than-life figure is more than opera. www.instagram.com/p/DVuHk_IjHBO/
This set of Ottoman-era data visualizations from Cerîde-i Adliyye, “The Justice Gazette,” a Ministry of Justice publication printed in Türkiye in the mid 20s are absolutely bonkers. Infographics mania! casualarchivist.substack.com/p/poetic-jus...
Reminded me of this journalist in Turkey, who defected to Erdogan's side, and ended up being a radical advisor to him with fringe economical and general ideas (like telekinesis attacks etc.) There's an anatomic similarity to these breed of utter swindlers. Bash his face in (ours is dead & rotting).
Last week's most listened as per last.fm. @rutherfordmatt.bsky.social I've listened and liked the new Bill Callahan and Sleaford Mods albums, but my favourite from your list is Searows. I'll dive deeper into that this week.
I know he turned out to be a paedo in the end but Hakim Bey’s Jihad Revisited has some good takes on the USA/Islamism thing that has been going on since basically all our lives: