Westside CowboyPhoto by Joe MossWelcome to part 110 of my Never Ending Mixtape where the latest additions take us from 5,074 songs to 5,139 with the addition of Well Done Kid, You Did It by Westside Cowboy. Check their debut album out. It will be in my end of year blog. Likewise with The Womack Sisters album.Over 5,000 songs! The idea behind this playlist was simple - I'd just add songs in no particular order, with no thought behind the song, artist, genre ... or anything. The complete opposite…

Share a song that changed your perspective on music. First question I have to ask myself is, what is my perspective on music, and has it ever changed? I grew up with music, music playing in the kitchen, the radio or cassettes in the car, the LPs in the living room, the piano, my Dad’s guitar and harmonica. I remember my first CD, I remember my introduction to MiniDisc, and my fascination with Napster and then Spotify (the choice!) although I’m now happily in the Apple Music world. But I don’t…

Cover Art for Smooth: A Life In Minor Release Information Artist Smooth Title A Life In Minor Date March 3rd, 2023 Download Cyan Website, BandCamp Introduction I have to admit to being a bit, no more than a bit, surprised. It appears that I haven’t written about Smooth before. But I have been listening to his work for over a decade at this point. Possibly the biggest series of his releases that I’ve enjoyed are the Vintage releases, but also his Colors of Dub among many other releases. So, why…

Think back to your childhood: What is your earliest music memory? Share that song and your story! Atarah’s Band is my earliest wholly music focussed memory. A flautist who took an orchestra on tour with a show aimed at kids. I can’t remember much more than a flamed hair woman, and being invited up to pick a percussion instrument to play. All very vague, it was the late 70s and whilst music was a constant in our house —my piano lessons were about to start— this visit to Kelvinhall, this…

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The Dolly Parton song that means the most to you. When I was 16 I joined the local Hospital Radio team (Hospital Radio Lennox). We broadcast every evening, and at the weekends. It was an eye opener in terms of exposure to the hospital environment —I will not hear a bad word about nurses from anyone!— and in my growing enthusiasm for music. We had a variety of shows and whilst the bulk of my first year or so was spent on the request shows —where we’d wander the wards and gather requests and…

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Andy SheppardSalt Catchers Andy Sheppard tenor and soprano saxophonesRita Marcotulli pianoMichel Benita double bassRecorded March 2025, Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, LuganoEngineer: Stefano AmerioCover photo: Jan KrickeProduced by Manfred EicherRelease date: September 11, 2026 Across six ECM releases, Andy Sheppard has treated ensemble form as an instrument in and of itself, altering the ambient details around his reeds so each setting reveals a different nuance of his breath. The quintet on…

A tribute to Dolly Parton by Dr. Ethan Hein through a close listen to her recordings across five decades Read on Substack

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Andre Hardy’s novel Tear the City Down is a stunning noir debut. S.A. Cosby wrote of the book: “A fantastic journey through mean streets and shattered hearts. Full of vibrant prose and…

Note how the copyeditor assumed that the 2 in "2 Bad Mice" was me having started and abandoned a numbering system but having forgotten to remove the 2 in front of the second entry - gah!Also gah - Mojo got someone else to do the big reported story on jungle and had me do the sidebar. Still I suppose, what with me by this point having already written about it for Vibe, The Observer, The Wire, and Melody Maker (twice!), and quite possibly some others I'm blanking on (Spin? Details?), they might…

Dreaming of Citra BMW Having emerged out of the Manchester music scene in late-2021, five-piece Dreaming of Citra combine pop melodies with a kind of clear-eyed shoegaze influenced indie rock. Here on new single BMW, the outfit employ their sound to create a vivid-yet-otherworldly aesthetic. Steely guitar riffs intermingle with a wandering bass guitar hook, as vocalist Rae opens with a description of getting, and then crashing, her new dream car. Vivid snapshots of journeys — behind the wheel,…

Share a song that feels like it’s giving you permission to feel everything. I have a melancholy side. I’ve been through depression. It still sits in the background making me question everything. I now know that I don’t need permission to have feelings and emotions. I know that many people share these thoughts, I am not alone, I am not that unique. Occasionally I want to slip away from the world to a quiet place and just … be. No pressures, no thoughts, just a moment of existing. “The Other…

What song makes you feel like you’re exactly where you’re supposed to be? I am, right now, sitting on the sofa. My best friend, the person who sees me, who gets me, is on the chair. Our son is playing on the floor. When I’m away from them, as I was on Thursday night, I miss them terribly. I am supposed to be here. “Such Great Heights” by The Postal Service Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Listen to Gordon McLean's Apple Music playlist View original post on…

What’s your favorite song about patience? I am not patient. I am more patient than I used to be for sure, but my default is not to wait, is to do the thing. Unless there is thinking involved, in which case I have a tendency to over think things. I’m also better at NOT doing that too. A lot of my patience has been found through meditation, and learning to be in the moment and, if that’s a struggle, finding a way to accept that things will come when they come. Tomorrow is always a new day. It all…

A track exchange, like a painting exchange, involves two people prompting each other to pen their thoughts about a track that the other has chosen for them. A copy of this note is published on James’s website as well. James’s pick for me was ‘A satisfied mind’ from Bon Iver’s 2026 record VOLUMES: ONE which presents the song from a concert at the State Theatre in Portland, Maine, in the US. I first heard ‘Satisfied mind’ when Willie Nelson covered it in 2010 and I have loved the song for its…

Now and again, a pop cultural phenomenon breaks boundaries with an energy so furious, it can be mistaken for outrage. It’s not easy to connect the throwers of such pop-cultural hand grenades to a specific agenda; it’s never entirely clear what they want or whether they want anything at all. One thing is clear, though: They are committed to assertion. I thought about that while watching Butt Hole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt, a documentary about a raucous Texas art/punk band that…

John Maskell got in touch to provide a more detailed account of his time with The Beat Syndicate who are listed on this site here and his first band Group 004 + 1 (originally called Johnny & The Bobcats). Here are John’s recollections: Photo was taken at a photographic studio after The Beat Syndicate won a beat competition at Coronation Gardens in Leyton, east London in June 1965. Diana Doors presented us with a recording test at Pye Studios The group Bobby & The Bobcats formed early in 1962.…

Run On - Mercury Lounge, New York City, March 9, 1996 / May 3, 1996We got a Love Child reissue series recently — now, how about Run On?! This multi-talented band, featuring (l-r) Rick Brown, David Newgarden, Sue Garner and Alan Licht (later including Katie Gentile) put out a few records on Matador in the mid-1990s that are well worth discovering. They could be noisy, they could be catchy, they could be weird, they could be sweet; it makes sense that I saw them open for kindred spirits Yo La…

Today is Bandcamp Friday, a day where Bandcamp waives their revenue share so artists & labels get the full amount. It's pretty cool. I pay for Spotify but even in this streaming age I like to buy the albums that I think are really good. I like owning the music, even though I do mainly listen via Spotify. I also like that artists are getting a decent cut, which they really don't from Spotify streams. One day I hope we can buy digital media in a record shop but, until then, Bandcamp (and Qobuz…

[1987]As heard on 3MA on Sunday nights in the late 80s. The show which was maybe called Underground or The Underground or something like that. They played independent Aussie hits of the day. Stuff straight off Juke' Magazine's Independent chart which of course was where all the best music was to be found at the time. I think the radio announcer/DJ was Pat Gary. Anyway I never understood why Mad Turks weren't as big as say Died Pretty. They had the pop smarts and the catchy tunes with great…

Super limited glass mastered CD in digipack – 100 copies only, no repress EVER, first come-first served etc. Hello You. Been a bit quiet on the wonky tape-loops front of late (keeping my head down, working on new material, avoiding the limelight etc.), but absolutely tickled pink to announce the release of a pair of Howlround live recordings from the archives for Bandcamp Friday – on a super limited CD! Glass-mastered (none of your CDr shenanigans), with beautiful scuzzy artwork sourced from a…

Another week has arrived with a bunch of new releases for us all to devour. This week is also Bandcamp Friday! So if you find something you love, try and support it. Hails! Godslut - death - PolandFog Wall - death - USADemonic Manifestation - death - MexicoPeste Negra - death - PortugalFebruus - death/prog - SwedenAcausal Intrusion - tech death - USAVredesverk - melodeath - SwedenVenomous Echoes - black/death - USASkuggor - black - SwedenSworn - black - NorwaySigh - black - JapanSeveroth -…

Listening to this perfect little tune - a favorite from 2step garage days - I noticed how the whole track is propelled along by horn fanfares.I'm assuming they are synth-horns, if only because used in such a programmed riff sort of way, precisely the same in every iteration. They actually sound quite realistic in timbre, so it's possible the riff was played by a hornsman and then sequenced.In "Clean Riddem" the way the synthi-horn functions is very different from ersatz-sax is usually deployed…

The year is 2000 or 2001. Argentine comedian Alfredo Casero, known in the country for a quite revolutionary comedy show on TV called “Cha Cha Cha”, which aired in the early 90’s, went to a Japanese restaurant to eat some sushi, a dish that had just arrived to the country and was the latest culinary hype. In between maki and nigiri, he heard a song on the loudspeakers of the restaurant, called “Shima Uta”, by a Japanese group named The Boom. The coup de coeur was immediate. He asked the waiter…

The inaugural Cadencefest united music lovers of all ages and stages for a five-hour marathon of jams and heart. Thanks to you, we raised over $1300 for the Waikiki Community Center in support of their community efforts. Thank you to Mary Moran for believing in the dream and making this a reality. The evening was full of surprises - people like Ed Sugimoto showed up and set up extra chairs for us when we hit capacity, and Daniel Gilad, Josh Iglesia and Chaz Umamoto made the show way more pro…

Musikfestival Bern runs from September 2 through 6 in Bern, Switzerland. Yesterday’s activities included the debut of a reactive ping pong table that the Disquiet Junto community contributed sounds for in a May project this year. Today, the second day, included screenings of old Flash Gordon serials as organized by Werner Hasler. In late June, the Disquiet Junto community did a wide range of versions of the Flash Gordon theme song, and different ones are playing during each of the episode…

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 22nd July 2026 The debut record from Southampton’s industrial newcomers Sunswarm is called ‘Those Who Do Not Build Must Burn’, and it is out now self released. Like all great British industrialists to come before them, Sunswarm focus their sound and message on the dystopian world crawling inexorably towards us and the future steps towards annihilation. Cheery future we’ve got coming, isn’t it? Let’s dive right in. Opening track ‘Erasure’ feels like the…

This is a really interesting release from Lexx. The producer, with a near 30 year pedigree and his roots in hip hop, has taken his beat making in all sorts of directions. From deep house into The Balearics. He certainly seems set on not being pigeon-holed and my guess is that he also enjoys learning new things and challenging himself. Earlier in 2026, he put out an EP on International Feel that found him moving into motorik, while the single that launched his new label, Unlimited Capacity, The…

Did you ever create your own mixtape? Or maybe someone made one for you? And I'm not talking about someone burning a CD, which honestly is a not much different, but an actual cassette tape that took care, timing, and attention to whip together.While that era of creation is long since gone due to the digital space we now reside in, if I were to whip together an A-side mixtape that shouted, "THIS IS CHRIS" at the top of it's figurative lungs - these would be the songs you'd find on it:"Times Like…