Hihihi people! 🙂   Today’s “Bibiel Hears Things” feature, as a few others before it in the history of My Inner Mishmash, is inspired by Griff Lynch’s show on The Boat Pod. Griff Lynch is a musician who happens to be my faza peep, and in his shows on the Boat Pod he presents all … Continue reading Bibiel Hears Things: The Bug Club – “Have U Ever Been 2 Wales?”

Matt Kivel - Escape from L.A.Matt Kivel gets specific on Escape from L.A., his latest LP, which was released earlier this year on Scissor Tail Editions. He sings about watching his dad act in “The Natural”; he sings about his twin brother; he sings about being in a 2000s band that could’ve been as big as Vampire Weekend. But it’s to his credit as a songwriter that the album’s 11 tracks never feel overly-diaristic or indulgent. Like a great memoirist, Kivel manages to take wholly…

Q: Over the last decade I’ve been seeing an uptick in the use of “drop” to mean something new being released, like a podcast episode or music album. Where does this come from? A: Something must be in the air. Two people have asked us this same question within a week. The use of “drop” […] The post ‘New albums drop like leaves in the fall’ first appeared on Grammarphobia.

I don’t watch a lot of TV series, but when I find something I like, I’m all in. Very few shows get to this rarefied air for me- mostly because I have the attention span of a fruit fly. To get me to sit down and stare at a screen (without scrolling) for an hour? […]

I have written about many of the Shelflife CD-R series releases on the blog. It is a beloved series of 12 CDRs that the American label released between 2002 and 2003 where they introduced a lot of bands that at the time weren’t well known. The first of these releases was from a band called […]

This weekend was very relaxed. I spent time grading, reading a couple manuscripts, doing some writing, and watching sports. It was a good weekend and productive without feeling like I was being buried. I’ve been working my way through the Miles Davis discography and listened to Nefertiti for the first time in a number of… Read More →

On Saturday I went into London to see Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore play at EARtH, and it was as marvellous as I hoped. On…

"Here I Go Again" by Whitesnake Which artist did you discover thanks to a music video? - Here I Go Again by Whitesnake I was just a mild fan of hair metal bands, but being male and alive in the 80s meant I was definitely a Tawny Kitaen fan. This, I think, is the most iconic of all the videos she appeared in. View Lou Plummer's Crucial Tracks profile

We’ve got new EPs from Sacred Heart Academy and Cashier and new LPs from Market and Black Beach in the Monday Pressing Concerns! Check them out below! We’ll be back on Thursday. If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what else we’ve written about lately. If you’dContinue reading "Pressing Concerns: Sacred Heart Academy, Market, Black Beach, Cashier"

Melanie Crew & Ross Palmer are a South London-based duo. Their personal partnership also became a musical one when Crew turned her hand to songwriting and started performing them live. Palmer, already a songwriter himself and a veteran of the folk and roots scene, began sitting in on live performances, contributing guitar and occasional harmonies … Continue reading This week’s featured artists: Melanie Crew & Ross Palmer – new album ‘Some Other Stories’ →

sander777 – life reprise First up today, a pair of tracks from LA’s sander777 (Sander Bryce), both from his recent LP the Real, named for the Lacanian concept of a state of unknowable objective existence, outside the limits of representation and symbolism, separate and distinct from any ontological state of being. It’s hard to imagine […] The post From the Mailbox 51 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

The Nine Inch Noize (NIN + Boys Noize collaboration) Coachella set yesterday is a bit good. If you like that kind of thing, which I do, and you should too. Two bonuses (1) Trent's wife Mariqueen on stage for vocals (2) the Nine Inch Noize album comes out IN FIVE DAYS.

Susumu Yokota released the album Laputa in 2003. Its title is likely a reference to Hayao Miyazaki’s movie of the same name. The film, an ecological fable, borrows from Jonathan Swift’s 1726 novel, Gulliver’s Travels, and in 1986, was the first full length animated feature for the now world famous Studio Ghibli. Both Swift and […]

Back home to the news that Viktor Orbán has been ousted in today’s election in Hungary I thought I’d share something celebratory. Here is a classic recording of the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor by Franz Liszt played by György Cziffra. The second is by far the most famous of the 19 Hungarian […]

At the end of September 2024, I leased a Nissan Leaf for a song. In April 2026, how is it holding up? Do I still like it? Would I get another one? Let's dive into some stats about how it's going. 10,504 miles The amount I've driven it in 18 months. One downside I neglected to mention about the lease in my last post is that you can only drive 10,000 miles per year. Truthfully, I completely forgot to mention it because it's a complete non-factor for me; since this is my non-road-trip vehicle, I…

I'm not someone that is good with picking favourites. But around two years ago I realised that Paramore are my favourite band of all time[1]. And I think All We Know Is Falling is in good contention...

Starting to think that restricting cigarettes and discouraging sex was a mistake. “It’s not really enjoyable to make music now… it takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of practice, you have to get really good at an instrument or really good at a piece of production software. I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of time they spend making music.” - Mikey Shulman CEO/Founder of Suno.com back in some asinine podcast in 2025

One of the reasons why I’ve hitched my wagon to Hayley Stewart’s Mecha Maiko project over the past eight or nine years is that the Toronto-based artist makes inherently human electronic music that never bores, never sounds rote or paint-by-numbers, and always captivates. This is true for her music and lyrics, really. Stewart probably uses […] The post Mecha Maiko Taps Into Her ‘Nervous System’ On New LP appeared first on Vehlinggo.

By the time Philadelphia soul group The Orlons toured Britain in July 1966 they comprised lead singer Rosetta Hightower alongside singers Sandy Person and Audrey Brickley. For some of this tour, The Orlons were backed by Bluesology, who featured a very young Elton John (aka Reg Dwight) on keyboards. At this time Bluesology comprised Stu … Continue reading The Orlons’ British tours in 1966 and 1967 →

For a while I've been meaning to create a list1 featuring albums that will stay with me forever. The reason for their inclusion is varied, but the connecting element is that when I don't know who I am anymore, I turn to one of these. Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 1992 Burial Untrue 2007 Coil Ape Of Naples 2005 Gridlock Formless 2003 Interpol Turn On The Bright Lights 2002 Kate Bush Hounds Of Love 1985 King Of Convenience Riot On An Empty Street 2004 Legowelt Classics 1998 2003 2003…

"I read that Daniel Day-Lewis would listen to Eminem’s 'The Way I Am' every day on the set of Gangs of New York to get amped up for his role as Bill the Butcher, which I find almost unbearably cute in a boomer dad kind of way."