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Echo & The Bunnymen return with “Brussels Is Haunted” The Bunnymen are back with their first new music in over a decade, and I really didn’t expect it to be this good. Reports of the demise of Ian McCulloch’s voice, it turns out, have been much exaggerated. The first single from their forthcoming album Apples For Isaac, the sublime “Brussels Is Haunted,” sees the band defying gravity; this is classic Bunnymen, with Mac and Will Sergeant, and the rest of the band, very much on form. They’ve been…
I started playing drums when I was 6 or 7 years old. My cousin lived next door and had a very nice Ludwig kit and hundreds of records. I had natural rhythm and drums came pretty easily to me. So most of my life I played acoustic (analog) kits. Electronic kits weren't even a thing until quite a few years after I started playing. Recently, I bought my first electronic kit. It's a mid-range Yamaha model. I bought it sight unseen. I've played Roland kits before, but had never played a Yamaha. So…
Robyn Hitchcock - 40 Watt Club, Athen, Georgia, April 24, 2026Robyn Hitchcock — the hardest working man in showbiz? Well, one of ‘em anyway. Now well into his 70s, Hitchcock has a new memoir (Stranded in the Future) and a new album (The Confuser) out this summer, along with his usual heaps of tourdates. He’s also got a well-worth-your-cash Patreon chock full of fascinating writing and unheard demos, rarities and outtakes. And that recent Globe of Frogs redux/remaster/remix? It’s awesome. So…
I have a British lad in my head going "bit bittersweet, innit?" on all these things.
This Thursday Pressing Concerns features four records coming out tomorrow, July 17th: new albums from DUM1, Brian Ennals & Blockhead, and Tiger Bear Wolf, plus an expanded reissue of Franklin‘s debut album. Read ’em below! If you missed Monday’s blog post (featuring Hurry, William Matheny, TIFFY, and Twin Bloom), check that out too. Franklin – Go Kid Go (Expanded) Release date: July 17thRecord label: Solid BrassGenre: Post-hardcore, emo, noise rock, 90s indie rockFormats: Vinyl, digitalPull…
Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. (A SoundCloud account is helpful but not required.) There’s no pressure to do every project. The Junto is weekly so that you know it’s there, every Thursday through Monday, when your time and interest align. Tracks are added to…
It's that part of time in my life where I feel very lost. I recently lost a relationship, came to terms with some realities about my sense of self and brokenness, and just feel so uncertain about myself and the future. I have so much I need to figure out and work on. It has been very overwhelming for me in the last few weeks. This also happened to me in 2023, at the back of my first ever relationship breakup. That led to a lot of changes in my life and I am a different person today because of…
Gurley gorgeousnessNice 'n' slinky Ray Keith (+ Nookie) remixin two partsand then the Shades of Rhythm version, the "Hard" halfway through the "Menace" diva sample appears - much closer to its original speed rather than the ooh oohing whipped soul-cream of the Rufige Cru trackBut where oh where is the "Peace Sign (Classic Piano Mix)"?Ah seems it Was reissued by Kniteforcehttps://kniteforcerevolution.com/store/product/peace-sign-ep-12-vinylAr least you can hear the original demo…
Well, it’s still Wednesday, so the weekly post where I run down impending Boston-area rock shows and recent event announcements of (my/your) interest is not technically overdue… BUT it is a little late to be useful for the insane amount of things happening on this very weeknight. Seriously, there’s a lot going on for a […]
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 10th April 2026 The third album from Swedish post metallers Dimwind is their first to chart their new course as a vocal driven trio, and ‘The Carrion Waltz’ takes a lot from the more atmospheric sludge and post doom scenes of Atlanta, Georgia, as well as their homeland legends Cult of Luna as well. Driven by personal experiences of fighting and surviving cancer, it has the potential to be an intense experience, and the album is out now self released. Opener…
During the 1980s, guitarist Barry Reynolds was a member of Island Records’ legendary Compass All Stars. Together with his colleagues Sticky Thompson, Robbie Shakespeare, Sly Dunbar, Mikey Chung and Wally Badarou, he helped create countless ground breaking hits for the label, from their state-of-the-art Nassau-based studios. In the process, the group also created a distinctive and hugely influential – oft copied, never matched – sound. Reynolds collaborated closely with Marianne Faithfull, but…
Released in 2013, this two-disc set is a welcome addition to ECM’s obscure constellation of compilations, not least because it draws generously from the label’s New Series imprint. Such recordings are often omitted when anthologies favor the jazz-oriented catalogue. Here, written music and improvisation pass into one another with scarcely a seam. A year appears through fragments, each marking a different nuance of time. My delight is immediate when the sequence opens with “Un Dia De Noviembre,”…
DOOM is getting closer to my sensitive spot. DOOM Now Runs in R?! Incorrigibly persistent readers of this Crummy Little Blog That Nobody Reads (CLBTNR) know that we’ve followed with some amusement the attempts to port the game DOOM to increasingly absurd hardware platforms (e.g., PDF files with internal Javascript, the Domain Name System, and so on). Up until now, it’s all been good, clean fun. On somebody else’s platform. But now… they’ve made it run (using FFI, which cheating, but only sorta)…
Laurie Johnson's great lost soundtrack for Hammer's original Vampire Slayer - available at last!
Sinead O'Connor - Cabaret Metro, Chicago, Illinois, April 11, 1988OK, fine, another Aadam Jacobs tape — this one taking us back to a fiery gig on Sinead O'Connor’s first American tour. Sinead was just about 21 years old at this point, but she commands the stage effortlessly, whipping the Chicago crowd into a frenzy as though it’s no big thing. O'Connor kicks things off alone onstage with a proto-PJ Harvey rendition of “Jackie” before her band joins for an ecstatic “Mandinka.” Oh and the rhythm…
Newport Street This and more in today's update to Northern Folk Archive here -https://northernfolkarchive.pagecord.com/bolton-town-centre-08-june-2022
[1981]I thought back in the 80s 'Geez this dude from Mr Mister is pretty old. What's he been up to? Where's he been till now?' Forty years later I've finally found out the answer, he was the dude in Pages. Turns out two of the dudes from Mr Mister were in Pages. Pages were a soft rock duo, consisting of Richard Page and Steve George, who formed in LA in 1977. They did three LPs of sweet soft rock with jazz and soul inflections, I guess the kids would call this breezy AOR shtick Yacht Rock these…
Defiled: Altered StateOut 12th June on Season of Mist The latest effort from this long standing Japanese entity offers flashes of brilliance between long stretches of uninspired number crunching. Similar to Krisiun in the sense that they champion shortform death metal. But where Krisiun – love or hate them – make known their urge to flatten death metal off into a relentless churn of violence in every bar they play, Defiled at this point feel tired, falling back on generic grooves and…
BLAOW! BLAOW! What’s going on, Internet? This banger of a track, Rowdy (BLAOW!), was introduced to me as part of Les Mills SPRINT release 43. We’re only up to release 44 but have been enjoying this track every other SPRINT class. I’ve been playing it a bit for the kids, and I love in the mornings when we get ready for a ROWDY drop off. Hedex ft. Eksman - Rowdy (BLAOW!) Hey, thanks for reading this post in your feed reader! Want to chat? Reply by email or add me on XMPP, or send a webmention.…
I find myself forgetting I have a music streaming subscription, or end up using it to listen to the same things.This is my fault. The recommendations are good, and the depth of content is incredible. For me, though, it had become like an unused gym membership: you know it’s good for you, but you don’t use it.I’ve ditched that, and I’m trying curated albums.I’ve subscribed to Cantilever. It’s ten albums to stream each month. The oldest one drops off, and a new one is added every few days. (Ten…
