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 […]

"...I wanted this list to capture something else — something deliberately accessible. Something glossy. Something you’d hear leaking from a car window at night. Something catchy enough to carry a body."

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Tired of streaming services dictating my music discovery, I resurrected an old internet relic to reclaim my listening experience.

Two tunes make a happy accident from typing stuff into the Apple Music search bar

J. Cole is one of the bestselling recording artists in the world. He is also a decent basketball player.  A few years ago, he played for the Scarborough Shooting Stars. (This would’ve been fun to talk to Faiz about. Hamza and I grew up in Scarborough!) He recently played a game with the Chinese Basketball […] The post Which story will you choose? appeared first on Herbert Lui.

On Saturday afternoon, having had a day and a half to recover from the  Homegrown Heroes: From Bond to Thunderbirds concert at the Barbican, British soundtrack composer extraordinaire David Arnold was back for another taste of the London Soundtrack Festival – this time in conversation with journalist Sean Wilson at the Royal College of Music. […]

Hey people! 🙂 Four years ago, I featured in “Bibiel Hears Things” a song titled “Bittersweet” – a debut from an artist from north Sweden called Sky Li, also known under her real name Linnéa Norlén. I’ve really loved her music from the beginning so I’ve been following her later work, and by now, she … Continue reading Bibiel Hears Things: Sky Li – “Ladder”

Lou Reed - “Tell It To Your Heart,” Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey, September 26, 1986Major milestone alert! Lou Reed’s Mistrial was released 40 years ago this month! OK, maybe it’s not major — I don’t think anyone is clamoring for #Mistrial40 deluxe anniversary reissue. I mean, what are you going to put on it … stripped-down Lou demos, extended remixes of “The Original Wrapper,” sweet ‘86 live jams, a blu-ray with outtakes from the “No Money Down” video shoot, isolated Fernando Saunders…

Aphex Twin vs. Muse Good morning! Today we’re taking a look at Drukqs by Aphex twin as it takes on Muse’s Origin of Symmetry. Aphex Twin- Drukqs As a teenager, I once read a Flipside review where the writer said they couldn’t get into the record because they couldn’t get past the stupid title. That’s […]

Blasart: Depravatus Christianis SacrisOut 28th March on Lavadome Productions Overwrought black metal cloaks repetition with subtle shifts in emphasis and pitch, alongside some welcome decorative accents. Chugging thrash articulation beefs up the more fluid intent behind these tracks, only somewhat hampered by the obnoxious domesticity of the hardcore derived vocals. What at first appears to... Continue Reading →

There’s a specific font that has become associated with the early stages of neighborhood re-development.

No, I have not insinuated myself into a new show, creeping like predatory mold on an unwary Senator; The 1940s Radio Hour1 in 2014 was the last time I trod...

20 years ago today I uploaded Capture to YouTube. At 38,000 views it is my most popular YouTube video by an extreme margin, but I think the only thing that is remarkable about it is that it has been around a long time!

Before Sunset, Street Corner, Cafe Fabre is a collaboration between 2 generations of electronic innovators. Yasushi Yamashita is a member of the duo, Inoyama Land, who have been producing groundbreaking music since the early 1980s. ASUNA is the alias of Naoyuki Arashi, a currently Kanazawa-based sound designer / artist, who has been prolific since the […]

Joseph walks me through the basics of heavy metal from across the pond. Plus a quick chat about the current state of “trad” metal, and why it’s popularity seems to be on the wane.

Rounding off the 2026 London Soundtrack Festival was the aptly titled Rachel Portman & Friends – Beyond the Screen, as the celebrated composer was joined on stage at Cadogan Hall by friends and collaborators Gill Graham, Niklas Liepe & Nils Liepe to talk and play through her illustrious career to date. Not only was Portman […]

Of Montreal “When” I say this with the greatest admiration and respect: Kevin Barnes is a messy bitch who lives for drama. Following his career over the long term means you get the highs and lows of his love life as it progresses through stages happiness and despair. He’s exceptionally good at capturing the best […]

There’s something good going on with music these days. Romance by Fontaines D.C. is a perfect album. I have listened to it almost every single day for weeks and have not gotten sick of it once, which is – and I mean this clinically – a medical miracle. Jack White is on SNL. The Strokes are touring. There is a band called Angine de poitrine who are the most aggressively anti-AI band I can imagine existing, out here doing absolutely Weird Shit™, and I don’t even normally listen to math rock like…

This week’s theme is pretty much what it says: Tracks from 10 random Blue Note records, Artists include Lee Morgan, Art Blakey, Wynton Kelly, [...] The post Podcast: 10 Random Blue Notes first appeared on jazzcollector.com.

The Best Record of 2001: Day 16 Good morning! Today we’re taking a look at It’s a Wonderful Life by Sparklehorse as it takes on The World Won’t End by the Pernice Brothers. Sparklehorse- It’s a Wonderful Life Sparklehorse often feels like a car crash. Some of that (okay, a lot) had to do with […]