The latest offering from new Baltimore Grunge / Shoegze band Dosser.
On tour with Pianos Become the Teeth this November. >Tickets here<
Stream “Kids” by Dosser here!
If you’ve been looking for an inside scoop of what’s happening in the diy music and art scene, you’ve come to the right place. And if you haven’t, I invite you to stay a while—you just might find your next favorite band, poet, or painter. With this blog, I aim to curate a space where especially interesting and under-appreciated talent can finally be recognized—with a particular focus on uplifting queer, black, and POC voices. There is a wealth of art, music, and literature out in the ether. The people at the helm of that expression deserve their flowers. If you would like to submit a song, poem, or guest blog to the Bones Gazette, there will be more details at the bottom of this post.
So who am I?
I’m your dutiful host: MJ Bones! I am an avid lover of art in all of its forms, with a knack for writing. It was only a matter of time before I’d venture into the blogosphere. As a diy musician and artist myself, I’ve had the privilege to meet so many other talented people over the years. The grit, passion, and community mindset of diy is unlike anything I’ve witnessed in other scenes. It is truly a remarkable thing to be a part of.
In the realm of diy, we’ve got each other’s backs. Much of the community is comprised of queer folk, addicts in recovery, and people trying to navigate life with mental illness and disabilities. Our ranks consist of some of the most vulnerable groups of people on the planet. That fact, coupled with a heavy overlap in leftist politics, makes for an innate sense of duty to protect each other. Whether you’re going hungry, kicking a habit, battling demons, or exploring your gender identity, you will always find support here.
I have so much pride in this scene and what it stands for. Diy saved my life. It continues to save my life every time I go to a show, or an art opening, or an anarchist bookstore. This world is a scary place, but there are little pockets of wonder and beauty everywhere—if you know where to look.
So welcome, everyone, to the Bones Gazette! I hope you can find some community with me in this virtual space. Not only will I try my best to get you plugged in to the coolest shit ever, but also keep you posted on my own contributions to the zeitgeist of the underground. Additionally, I’ll keep an ongoing reference of mutual aid organizations to check out if you or someone you love is in need.
This brings me to the tofu and potatoes of it all: the Bones Gazette newsletter! I am beyond excited to announce that I will be publishing a free monthly newsletter to supplement this blog. The newsletter will have a more honed-in focus on featured artists, with exclusive interviews and in-depth reviews of their work. The first issue will be covering the January release of Blue Raspberry’s debut album, The Harmless Haunt—so stay tuned!
Thank you so much for reading. If you would like to submit something to the blog, email [email protected]. Make sure to specify what you are submitting in the subject line, as well as include a short bio and link to your socials with your work.
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Considering yourself an artist, being a songwriter, is an interesting thing. I think when I started doing this I just wanted to make stuff, and I still do, but I've also been indoctrinated into this idea that I need to be striving to be part of the machine. If I made it I probably would never be satisfied. I wrote this song about that feeling of indoctrination, the stockholm syndrome of hoping I am recognized. Shouldn't it be enough to just do it for me?
E.G Oblique Graph - Complete Oblique (Vinyl-on-Demand) "Much of Muslimgauze’s material feels downright poppy, with its insistent rhythms and occasional melodies, compared to the skeletal sparseness and abstract clinical ambiance of much of the material that makes up Complete Oblique. With its crude bleeping electronics and lofi rhythm boxes, tracks like “Merge,” from Extended Play or “Black Cloth Behind De Gaulle’s Wax Head,” from Triptych, sound more like early electronic pioneers like Dick Raaymakers or noise contemporaries like Merzbow than Frontline Assembly or Front 242." I write about E.G Oblique Graph - Complete Oblique on @vodvinylondemand for my first Rediscover article for Spectrum Culture. Click the link in bio to read the full piece! . . . . . #EgObliqueGraph #Muslimgauze #BrynJones #VinylOnDemand #CompleteOblique #industrial #industrialmusic #industrialculture #DIYmusic #noise #noisemusic #lofinoise #coldwave #newwave #minimalwave #musiqueconcrete #experimental #experimentalmusic #DIYunderground #cassetteculture #tapeculture #electronicmusic #80selectronic #1982 #1983 #JSimpson #albumreview #musicjournalism #SpectrumCulture #Sixtysixpointsix https://www.instagram.com/p/CnknAM_vYrj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
The only way to go is up! Thanks to the people who listened to my music on Spotify this first year of publishing. Please consider supporting my music on streaming services and YouTube. It encourages me to continue creating new things to share with you! (Links in bio) ✨🙏✨ #spotify #spotifywrap #folkmusic #indiefolk #psychedelicfolkmusic #indieartist #diymusic (at Kansas City, Missouri) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl4Y93CvG82/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Getting a quick idea on the keys is paramount to some songs taking shape. I sometimes like the smaller ones for this. #novation #novationlaunchkey #diymusic #musicproduction #musicinspiration #musicians #musicproducer #musician (at Dallas, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiPAqsogGvK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Clouds start to form inside of your head
I try to pull you up from the flooded riverbed
Wish I could be floating and weightless in the sea
For now I will sink
Float to the top when I am free
Drown
📸 @emildoesaudio It will take a lot of effort to get tired of how it sounds 🎛 #rupertneve5088 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #musicstudio #recordingstudio #musicproducer #musicproduction #gearporn #recordingconsole #vintagerecordinggear #rupertneve #rupertnevedesigns #neveconsole #neumann #neumannmicrophones #protools #diymusic #recording #freelanceaudioengineer https://www.instagram.com/p/CkbwlTPyNKq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
uncertain - "the descending spirals of time" (video promo)
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NEW RELEASE coming 13 JAN 2023 on Orphanology / Bluesanct!
PRE-ORDERS AND ADVANCE STREAM ARE LIVE NOW AT BLUESANCT.BANDCAMP.COM
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Florian-Ayala Fauna is a Buffalo, New York-based trans-femme, intersex interdisciplinary artist who knows something about productive darkness and antagonizing binaries, and who shies away from neither the sublime nor the terrifying. Her latest full-length is a sonically and emotionally deep exploration of magic and pain.
The Descending Spirals of Time shares something in common aesthetically with Coil and early Current 93. (Fauna in fact has collaborated with Coil member Stephen Thrower.) Of course this isn’t only about electric lighting, and if the world is operating at a kind of deficit of productive darkness, it may be through the work of people like Florian-Ayala Fauna that we can recover some of those lost shadows.
As a trans and intersex person, as a practitioner of esoteric magick, and as a person who experiences very real visions on account of temporal lobe epilepsy, Florian-Ayala Fauna, as Uncertain, pushes against various veils and borders, exploring and antagonizing tidy divisions between worlds, between identities. The assemblage and transformation of samples and field recordings into greater works parallels a kind of transfiguration of the body, while the resulting work itself exalts magick and repels fascist realities, emotionally and aesthetically conveying extreme experiences and conjuring catharsis.
A guitar I’ve been working on (and a lot of fun to do!) I converted this ancient acoustic guitar into an occasionally used ‘Build-up’ slide-Blues guitar a couple of years back, but decided to convert it into something I could use more regularly. I’ve added nylon ball-end strings, as I usually play classical and flamenco guitars rather than guitars with steel strings and have altered & lowered the action, so the guitar has a bit more ‘give’ and I can get the kind of versatility I get from a flamenco guitar. One of the frets needed a bit of resetting as was dislodging slightly. I’ve put the guitar into my usual DGCFAD tuning to suit my voice and in the photo the capo on the 2nd fret puts the guitar back into standard tuning.
The idea behind this guitar is to have a loud acoustic/classical hybrid which has the flexibility of a Flamenco guitar & possesses clout and presence. There’s some nice warm tones (& very loud ones) I can get from this! ⭐️