@yewknee oh my, yes, the cyber tubes are the most important part of the cyber nets!

OMG that was beautiful. #DemDebate

"the late nineteen ninety-nines"

http://t.co/eo1BL8xASV

easy to forget these people are all friends off camera

Nice try Joe Biden. #CNNDebate #DemDabate http://t.co/C1zJWzyERl

We've been bad Bernie. Fix us.

Bernie Sanders accent and volume is straight out of 1960. #demdebate

@yewknee I'd like to think wizard is Amy Poehler in disguise.

These poor guys that showed up to the Clinton/Sanders show. #DemDebate

It's hard to watch this without thinking Bernie Sanders is about to drive a Delorean into the future

Does the #DemDebate have a halftime show and is it Chaka Khan? Then no, I'm out.

remember that idiot from the Nashville venue that threw a fit? Turns out he looks like even more of an idiot at the end of the court case

#cray but #congrats

impressive doesn't do it justice

Field Music return with new 14 track album ‘Commontime’, set to be released on 5th February 2016 via Memphis Industries. The first song to be taken from the album is ‘The Noisy Days Are Over’, an insistent, sax-punctuated groove and a conversation between two friends struggling to say farewell to the bad old boozy days, when they should “get to bed like everyone else". Over the past four years, North-East siblings Peter and David Brewis have threaded their way through one extra-curricular project after another but were inevitably drawn back to working together on their own songs. "As much fun as we might have had on our own or collaborating, we missed just spending time in the studio, the two of us, trying things out and playing together." explains David. The space that Field Music vacated in those four years still appears to be empty. No one else really does what Field Music do: the interweaving vocals, the rhythmic gear changes, the slightly off-chords, but with the sensibility that keeps them within touching distance of pop music. But with Commontime, Field Music show off their unashamed love of choruses in a way they’ve only hinted at before. Written and recorded in spontaneous bursts over six months in their Wearside studio, Commontime is built around the brothers playing and singing together again, but also features a wider array of players, including original Field Music keyboardist Andrew Moore, Peter's wife Jennie Brewis and new member of the live band Liz Corney on vocals, plus a panoply of other players. “We wanted to embrace being a duo and, perversely, that made us feel more comfortable about all of those conspicuous cameos” reveals David. Over the fourteen songs of Commontime, real life conversations are replayed, acquaintances come and go, hard won friendships are left to drift and diffuse snap shots of the everyday are pulled together into what must rank amongst Field Music’s best works to date. Commontime is available to pre-order at www-field-music.co.uk on limited edition 2 x 180gram green vinyl + download code, CD, and download. The first 250 physical orders include an exclusive signed print. The album is also available to pre-order on iTunes with an instant download of ‘The Noisy Days Are Over’.

Mark Davis has done a wonderful thing. During his time as a K-Mart employee from the late 80's to early 90's he decided that instead of throwing away the cassette tapes that played as in-store entertainment that he would take them home. Moreso, he decided that it'd probably be a great idea to digitize and release them, all 56 of them. You can read more about the project here or have Mark himself walk you through the collection (it's an oddly fascinating tour).

My knee jerk is to say that my enjoyment of this is nostalgia based but I didn't spend a great deal of time in K-mart as a kid nor was I really aware of much popular music / muzak at the time. This is just a fascinating bit of archiving and sharing that we could have never experienced without the wonder of the Internet and the kind folks at archive.org to house it all. So, tune yourself into Kmart October 1989 for a real treat today.

Janet Delaney has been a photographer for a long time and has a rich portoflio of works to see but I'm absolutely smitten with this collection of images from New York City 1984 - 1987. They seem to capture that transition period between 70's fashion and what we associate with the 80's (Members Only jackets, Big Hair and a bit of rough despondence in the city). This article gives some nice background on her work and where her head was at during that period. It's impossible to pick a favorite amongst the collection, so please go browse through every single one.

via Becky.

I randomly encountered the work of Shantell Martin through this enjoyable photo from Danny Magnino capturing the side of Nashville restaurant Rolf & Daughters. Diving further into Martin's work, it's all an entrancing bit of line work and personalities. I love the simplicity and playfulness of it. Oh, and there's tons of it to see. Bonus!