Listening to the latest The Talk Show, Gruber’s guest Andru Edwards mentioned he’d taken 46 flights this year, and that sounded insane. Then I checked Flighty, and I’m at 39. Maybe I am one of the crazy ones.

In celebration of John Coltrane’s Centennial birthday, this edition of Jazz Collection Live focuses on Trane’s ballad playing, featuring performances from Prestige, such as I See Your Face Before Me, Violets for Your Furs and more; Blue Note, I’m Old Fashioned; Atlantic, such as Naima and Every Time we Say Goodbye; and Impulse, including Alabama, After the Rain, Lush Life, I Wish I Knew, In a Sentimental Mood, and several more. Featured artists include John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy…

Barbara Lee Mac - Big Fat Mama.mp3Brenda Burns I'll Come Running.mp3Dolly Cooper - My Man.mp3Dolly Parton_ All Shook Up (Live).mp3Donna And The Tennessee Moonshiners - Geisha Girl.mp3Edna McGriff - Oh Little Daddy.mp3Ellen Marty - This Time Of Year.mp3Judy Tremaine - Chain Lightning.mp3Judy Valentine--Never Smile At A Crocodile.mp3Merry Clayton - It's In His Kiss.mp3Odessa Harris - A Rockin' Good Way.mp3Sherrell Townsend - He Thinks I Still Care.mp3WoM 33

I found a sound.I liked it.Was it right to put it on the track that I thought didn't need bass on it?I'll listen tomorrow.I'm so nearly finished mixing, enough to turn off the mixing desk in my head that keeps me awake at night.

Carole Bennett With The Satisfiers - He's Coming Home (direct download) *Record listed at Rockin' Country Style (no location). Nice record, but is it rockabilly? Singer from Long Island, New York. In 1955 she was a winner on the Arthur Godfrey "Talent Scouts" television show. As a result she was signed to the Rama label in New York and, shortly afterward, to the Capitol label before recording for the Hilton label in 1957. Record re-issued by Verve Records on the West Coast. See her discography…

New Musical Express on the 1983 reissue of Charlie Gillett's 1971 book The Sound of the City. Reviewer Paul Du Noyer notes that "interest in old music has never been higher", with NME's own series of cassette compilations of vintage soul, jazz, reggae, etc, given as proof. He says the timely reissue of Gillett's classic tome can nourish the evident appetite for history out there. 1983 figures here as a lull, a flagging of energy, with a wide range of listeners and musicians looking to replenish…

Mushroom Lady poster (1967) by East Totem West. • “I want to be able to hear the process happening throughout the sounding music.” Composer Steve Reich talks to Flora Willson about his long career. More Reich: live performances from 1976 by Steve Reich and Musicians of Six Pianos and Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices And Organ. • At Aeon: Eric Leas on toadstools and toxins. “When I found the mushroom Amanita muscaria being sold in candy wrappers, I uncovered legal loopholes, dangerous…

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers Into The Great Wide OpenGet It At DiscogsPetty re-upped with Lynne and reunited the Heartbreakers. The results are about what you’d expect: more retro-minded rock ’n’ roll songs presented with modern sheen and maybe a hair more oomph than fans got on Full Moon Fever. Despite the lack of monster pop singles like “Free Fallin’,” which became Petty’s calling card, Into the Great Wide Open isn’t an inferior sequel. Like so many entries in Petty’s catalog —…

Album of the Week, September 26, 2026 In retrospect, it’s amazing that Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan took six years to follow up Mustt Mustt, his crossover qawwali + club album that he recorded for Real World with Michael Brook in 1990. Not only did the album do fairly big numbers—Real World has claimed over 600,000 albums sold, not counting sales in the Indian subcontinent—but the cultural impact was big, with reports that British youth in particular were turned onto more traditional qawwali music…

What does the metalhead do on their day off and why is it ambient? I listened to all the “black ambient” releases from the 90s to find out. Black metal ambient (Part I) In Part I we ranged through Central Europe, taking in the Austrian syndicate, on to the bonkers peripheries of France’s already bonkers Les Légions Noires, and pockets of life in the surrounding Fauna of Northern European and South American black metal. For Part II we take on perhaps the biggest names in black metal adjacent…

For the past couple of years I have been gravitating to a certain form of melodic death metal, with hints of doom on the side. Bands like In Mourning; Fires in the Distance; Counting Hours; Hanging Garden; Enshine; and Nailed To Obscurity have been on heavy rotation and I don’t see that changing any time soon. I never really thought about why, but the folks over at Forgemaster Metal on YouTube have spotted a trend in this new breed of dark, heavy but still emotionally available metal. I love…

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 1st May 2026 The fifth record from California’s progressive black metallers Ashen Horde comes on the heels of 2023’s excellent ‘Antimony’ record, but changes tack a little from their previous concept driven records into something a little more individualistic. ‘The Harvest’ has a loose theme about things ending, but Ashen Horde’s spectacularly eclectic influences are more the focus here, ranging from brutal, technical death through fiery black metal to 90s…

A fucking album that sounds exactly like an album should sound. GREAT songs, sharp sounds, defined, clean. Honesty and beauty. When things are done this well, interpretation almost becomes pointless. Any comment feels unnecessary, including these few lines. But I like it so much that I want to write them anyway. It’s a beautiful album. All of it. Sometimes — increasingly rarely — you hear something and its identity is immediately there, clear and unmistakable from the very beginning. Empty…

It’s short notice, but I got the call to play on short notice too! I’ll be joining Tom Hood, playing good ol’ classic rock and folk tunes — him on ukulele, me on accordion, plus various other musicians — at The Honu, a fantastic tiki bar in Dunedin at 2:30 p.m.! My plan is to show up at least an hour or more before the show to get a loco moco and an ube colada. If you’re in the area, drop by, say hi, have a drink or some food and enjoy some tunes! The post Playing LIVE at the Honu: Saturday,…

Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 6th August 1996 Dying fucking Fetus, a band who you really hope no one in your family asks you about when you’re wearing their shirts, are one of death metal’s most iconic bands. A band who kept the flame of brutality burning throughout the late 90s and early 2000s when death metal had disappeared back into the depths again, their 1996 debut record ‘Purification Through Violence’ is now thirty years old and was the catalyst for a band who are stronger than…

Why does Lizzie Borden attract musical interpretations? Is it the blood, the summer’s heat, the generational conflict, or that there’s few things quite as punk rock as a woman in a corset with an axe?

Miley Cyrus featuring Model/Actriz “Different Religion” Miley Cyrus isn’t consistent, and that her charm. She’s willing to try a lot of things and doesn’t seem too anxious losing about her position as a pop star. She can shrug off releasing a lot of duds because there’s seemingly always another mega-hit for her around the bend. And that gives her the capital to make wild creative decisions now and then, like collaborating with an abrasive art rock crew like Model/Actriz. It’s not surprising to…

Also hearing Danny say out loud that he’s sixty four years old…😱 Tom Sawyer starts here:

This one is a new favorite. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Absolutely brilliant album by sax player Curtis Amy and trumpeter Dupree Bolton. All the way through a mesmerizing session which features both individual brilliance and collective magic when this sextet tackles six outstanding tunes. It’s a great mix with lots of variety and it begs for repeated…

My pal Jesse Jarnow had me back on his essential Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast to talk about a show I saw in the summer of 1985, at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, and the best by far rendition of “Shakedown Street” I ever saw live or have ever heard in a recording.

I didn't know who Shelley was before watching this, but this was the doc I needed to see right now. It's a well made movie of a fascinating, impressive, and tragic person.

Radio Massacre International sings in my ears. Naturally, they don’t literally sing since the three of them have been bereft of voice since before the dawn of time. The instruments they wield with their nimble limbs like sekerky and krumpáče sing to me, as it should be. The human voice itself I’ve always found to be slightly overrated as an instrumental force. Time has been eking along at a plaintive, deliberate pace, as if to demonstrate to me and to anyone else who may be paying attention…

If the return of The Radio Dept. to both the stage and the studio this year wasn’t cause enough for celebration, they’re also returning to record stores this year. Or more specifically, their second album – Pet Grief – will mark its 20th anniversary with a limited edition vinyl reissue on November 13. This isn’t […] The post The Radio Dept. – “The Worst Taste In Music” appeared first on Space Echo.

Hats off to Kevin for finishing this documentary on 1907s Brighton punk, and to Doc'n'Roll for screening it!https://www.docnrollfestival.com/films/punk-brighton/

Built To Spill - UCLA, Westwood, California, April 29, 1997I caught Built To Spill last week — my first time in many, many years. And lo, it was good. The current BTS lineup is made up of just a relatively young / very energized rhythm section, leaving Doug Martsch to handle each and every tricky guitar move. And wow, did he handle those moves. In his ever understated way, Doug remains one of the coolest players, an ideal blend of Mascis, Marr, Young and beyond. Seeing Built To Spill had my…

Born on this day in 1683 was the great French composer (and music theorist) Jean-Philippe Rameau. His father was an organist in Dijon, and Jean-Philippe was taught music before he could read or write. It wasn't until he was nearly 50 that he began to compose the extraordinary operas for which he is best remembered today. As it's his birthday, let's celebrate with the roof-raising Danse du Grand Calumet de la Paix [peace pipe] from Les Indes Galantes. Be warned: if you haven't heard it before –…

Today’s TDC says We love this Air Theremin a lot. Do something, play with it, record yourself making sounds and share it with us. Have fun! Here’s mine

I bought this LP because of its Milton Glaser-designed cover featuring the colored pencil musical notations of composer/synthesist and former monk Jean-Yves Labat, alias M. Frog. It was 1973; I was about to become a high school senior, and I had hitchhiked to New York City with my friend Al Crump. The multi-floor Sam Goody record store in filthy Times Square was where I first laid eyes on it; hands instantly followed. Produced and recorded around the same time as Todd Rundgren’s psychedelic…

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. Ankur Thakkar’s novel Blow Yourself Up is a provocative and compelling debut. The Chicago Review of Books wrote of the book: “Blow Yourself Up is a love story for our modern times, exploring…

What’s your favorite love song, and why? Hard to beat a classic like this, not just the soaring melody, Etta’s voice, and the slower sensual pacing, but the whole idea of finding a love ‘at last’ sits well with me. Becca and I have been together for 8 years, and despite the age difference, since we first found each other everything just clicked into place. I didn’t think I’d find love like this in my mid-40s, had consigned myself to being mostly single for a while at that time, but then, there…