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I haven't forgotten that I committed to making music last week! In fact, I've turned my synths on almost every day this week and noodled a little. I've rearranged things a few times and am probably not done rearranging but I feel good (and nervous) about playing some music live on the internet this Sunday! Probably around 7pm Pacific; I'll blog about it with a YouTube link when I confirm, later this week. I'll play for about an hour, like I used to. I want to try to make something that doesn'...

https://insitze.com/blog-posts/ Last autumn, (In)Sitze underwent some semi-major architectural changes, documented in the (In)Sitze 2.0 post. Now, after watering the seeds of my digital garden some more, it seems (In)Sitze has grown at least one foot taller. For those interested in how this site is run or in web design in general, here is an extensive list of what’s new on (In)Sitze 3.0 (and what to expect for the future): 🌐Probably the most significant takeaway is migrating from hosting on…

For Record Store Day this year On-U Sound have collected together all of Little Annie’s work with the label as an expanded double album edition of the 1992 long-player Short And Sweet. The original vinyl LP featured 10 tracks penned by Annie, Skip McDonald and Doug Wimbish. The Tackhead / Sugarhill chaps producing the backing […]

"The music herein may take you a place you may not want to go: to a graveside perhaps, or a deathbed, or simply to a wasted day.  It may remind you what the Navajo believe: that if a sunrise finds you still asleep, God will simply assume you are dead."

Should probably post this before Wednesday gets away from me entirely. Time for the weekly rundown of recent Boston-area show announcements that are in my taste-wheelhouse, or at least ones I think friends might care about. Along with a list of shows I might check out this week/end, before the next of these things. There […]

I love the idea of Record Store Day but I no longer have a turntable, cassette deck or CD player despite the hundreds of vinyl records going mouldy in my garage (wanna buy them?). These days I want less stuff, not more. You’ll understand when you’re in your fifties. I love to buy albums digitally on Bandcamp (or Qobuz/7digital/Juno if it’s a major label) after using Spotify to try-before-you-buy, but it’s an underwhelming experience. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to do this...

I’m a little ashamed to admit I’ve thoroughly slept on The Pineapple Thief. I’m a sucker for music which sits at the proggy end of the spectrum, but I also think Gavin Harrison is one of the greatest drummers on the scene right now. Harrison joined The Pineapple Thief in 2017, so I should have been all over them. I’m not sure what happened, but I’m here now. PT It seems like a strange coincidence that The Pineapple Thief shares its initials with Harrison’s other band, Porcupine Tree. However...

So both Joy Division and New Order were just inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, and the big question around that is if the members of those bands will attend, and if so, how will they interact? Given the public bad blood between Peter Hook and Bernard Sumner over the last two […] The post Iterations: Joy Division/New Order – “Ceremony” appeared first on Space Echo.

Gryr – Drift Cloudy electronica from Gothenburg-based Gryr (Jonatan Josefsson). The A-side, “Drift,” is music perfect for driving through foggy tundric expanses—it evolves deliberately, cruising steadily in a lilting trance. The B-side, “Sand,” is slightly more propulsive, but no less aerial–tumbing through many of the same lofty space as the first one, but with a […] The post From the Mailbox 52 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

My NYU colleague Derek and I are delighted to introduce you to Tuniversity, our new music learning venture. Our first songwriting course starts next month, and we are holding our inaugural Tune Up event at the end of April. We were motivated by two different things: people want to study with us who don’t attend … Continue reading "Introducing Tuniversity"

Immolation: DescentOut 10th April on Nuclear Blast Some Morbid Angel fans argue that they lost something following the departure of Richard Brunelle. Trey Azagthoth, for all his talents, benefited from a grounded counterweight, marrying flamboyance with efficiency perfectly. Opinion may be divided on the direction of MA following ‘Blessed are the Sick’, especially from ‘Domination’... Continue Reading →

All One Song - “Thrasher” with James Jackson TothWelcome back to All One Song! We’re spending some time this spring traveling deep into the Shakeyverse, talking with some great artists about their favorite Neil Young songs.On last week’s episode, Brigid Mae Power and I got into Neil’s classic lament “Albuquerque” — and I think we both agreed that Neil nailed the stark, lonesome vibe of the American southwest in that song. If you’re going to try to evoke those kinds of landscapes, you don’t need…

Pulp vs. Les Savy Fav Good morning! Today we’re taking a look at Pulp’s We Love Life as it takes on Go Forth by Les Savy Fav. Note: As many of you saw, I recently wrote about a Best Record of 2001 challenge and noted that I’d be writing some of these up. The plan is to do […]

I already told you about Nine Inch Nails and I already told you how they're probably my favorite band in the world.You can find all of my posts about them via the link below:Nine Inch Nails - Liminal WebJapan, art, islands, France, the internet, and

Let's stay up late and catch the warm orange glow of the sunset while we vibe to some chill jams from various Tekken, King of Fighters, and Street Fighter games.

When I wrote about New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival a couple weeks ago, Bill posed a question the the comments: “I have a question about the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival – I know there are some jazz and New Orleans – based acts (and maybe more this year than in recent years?), ... Read more

Father/son duo Brian Owens and Thomas Owens, Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come." What a phenomenal duet.

Do you know Baba Yetu? Take three minutes and listen to this performance of Baba Yetu.  (Our ancient blogging platform doesn’t like embedded video, so you’ll have to click through to YouTube.  Go ahead and click, nothing bad will happen.) Some notes: First off, if you didn’t figure it out from the short prayer at […]

"I Saw Her Standing There" by The Beatles Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Which artist were you a fan of first? Write the story of the song that made you a fan. - I Saw Her Standing There by the Beatles Say what you want about Boomers, they had the best music. I was lucky to grow up in a house where my Mom would stack LPs on the record player and we'd listen to The Beatles, James Taylor, Pete Seeger, Cat Stephens, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and so many ...

I don't mean to complain, but this week is really keeping me on edge. As if it weren't enough that we're celebrating our EP release with a concert on Friday at Indra, right in the heart of the Reeperbahn district, where the Beatles played their first gigs, no, it's also completely uncertain how many people will show up and whether we'll even manage to fill the place. The record we're releasing hasn't arrived yet either. The DHL tracking status indicates delivery sometime between Thursday an...

Finally! We are so pleased to announce that Side A is now live! You can stream or download it on the website and you should soon be able to find it in other places you listen to podcasts (e.g. Spotify). We hope you enjoy it. Side A explores themes of liminality: the betweenness of times and spaces, ways we merge with the more-than-human world, moments of pause and flux in our lives and identities. Head over to Queer Out Here's home to listen to the issue, download a hi-res version if you so d...

April 14th is up there with August 8th (aka 808 Day, after the classic Roland drum machine) as the best electronic music holiday of the year. And you can fold in July 18, World Listening Day, timed to the birthday of Canadian acoustic ecologist and composer R. Murray Schafer. Each year, musicians around the world […]

Welcome to the wonderful, wonky, instrumental, imaginary, world of Larrison’s Connectors. Many of the album’s 25 tracks were discovered on a cassette – of which there was only 1 copy – by Freedom To Spend’s Jed Bindeman. Others were painstakingly reviewed and rescued from an archive accumulated by Larrison while living in Austin, Texas during […]