Jen Matson (DJ nstop)

Now up on my site: Check the Record #3! A personal zine about record collecting, w/an Aussie record shopping travelogue, a treatise by Calvin of @krecs.bsky.social on price stickers and a piece on how my late dad shaped my collecting path. $6 + postage, ships worldwide www.nstop.com/product/chec...

Ripping thru a new Cycles Per Second on-air rn w/a bounty of fall releases sporting scratchy guitars, blooping synths, languid jangle... and sometimes all three! Tune in: 104.9 FM in Seattle or khuh.fm/shows/cycles... online.

The Clean @ Maxwell's - Sept 29, 2010

Excellent in-flight entertainment tonight incl plenty of hyper-local flavor (my neighborhood record store! my friend and Seattle arts&music legend Larry!)

As someone who first got online in nineteen fucking eighty-six, THIS

OH at the record store: Her: This sounds like like something I would play back in the day Him: Like a year ago? Her: More like three (Me: 💀)

But hire a local designer? Nah.

New England things, grocery edition

Now up, my newest for @rollingstone.com: Private equity firms bought up all the big rock publishing. Now they're going after the indie labels. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

From Philadelphia, Mesh!

Dona Casque, from Paris. Very cool set of rhythmic post-punk with synth bubbles and syncopation, performed with panache.

Been digitizing things from my cassette stack of c. 1988-91 local radio shows. This was a cool find.

Live Cycles Per Second show is on RIGHT NOW thru (Seattle) radio or the interwebs, w/new indie music from London to Los Angeles, Beijing to Berlin + a batch of new/archival releases from Australia and New Zealand. Tune in to the livestream at: khuh.fm or dial it to 104.9 FM on yr stereo in the 98109

Gotta love an airport whiskey tasting right before the gate. No, I will not be buying the €159/bottle Irish whiskey, but I sure did enjoy it!

First of three times I get to see The Bats this week. Can you tell I’m trying to make up for it having been over 13 years since the last? 😂

Good shit in the New Arrivals bin at my neighborhood record store

Coffee before a haircut. My hair rn:

Can't get to Rebellion? Watch our documentary instead! Wit and wisdom from Gina Birch, Lucy O'brien, Liz Naylor, Viv Albertine, June Miles-Kingston, Jane Woodgate, Jane Dowsett Lesley Woods, Liz Naylor, Trash, Karen Gymslip, The Dollymixture and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zki9...

I can find enough new music to fill an hour or radio every week, but coming up with a mix tape full of fresh musical discoveries for a fellow lady DJ similarly clued-in to the latest and sharing many of the same favorite bands/labels? WAY HARDER

This was a very fun gig. And I won’t mind if you check out this video premiere instead of listening to my live radio show this Wednesday evening. 😉

Only if I get to choose

Found out more about The Vera Project’s plans for a new Georgetown venue at their neighborhood Garden Party this afternoon. Can’t wait!

RIP Jeff Conolly of Lyres, who could tear it up onstage til the end. (Here w/Mission of Burma at the tail end of a raucous cover of “No Fun” at his cancer benefit in March.)

Probably the most, uh, off-brand thing I’ve ever done, but I was 12 and they had this activity at my summer camp and I was pretty good at it: Receiving the NRA’s Junior Marksman Certification (for .22 caliber target shooting)

Only a few days until our first UK tour. We booked this entirely DIY through the goodwill of the punk/indiepop community. Please try to buy tickets in advance - it will help reassure the kind folk that are putting on the gigs that they haven't made a terrible mistake. Tickets: linktr.ee/neutrals82

Smash Your Nose on the Trunk Lock Lost Sebadoh album title or thing I just did while bringing the groceries in from the car?

As much as I enjoy learning about new bands from Bandcamp’s editorial staff, the gaps in many of these younger writers’ musical education really shows when trying to frame current trends in relation to what’s come before, esp some of the 90s micro-scenes.

Just a normal Friday afternoon here in Georgetown

Gently cradling yr records as I prepare to play them on my show, with Danish, British, German and American indie pop, early 90s shoegaze from Perth, and other new discoveries. Onir NOW: 104.9 FM in Seattle or hollowearthradio.org online