Fran Owens on cover 1 *Del Rubio Triplets * These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ 2 *Rosalie Alter * I Had A Dream 3 *Brenda Pepper * Wichita Willie 4 *Wing * Back in Black 5 *Betty Spears * Truck Driving Woman 6 *Lynn Gibson * The Chrome Plated Hog 7 *Fran Owens * House Of The Rising Sun 8 *Stella Della Coonts * Keep On Walkin' 9 *Sherry Ray * Ring, Telephone, Ring 10 *Marga Benitez * Papa Cha Cha 11 *Irral Berger * Where Jesus Waits For Me 12 *Betty Reilly * Saga Of Elvis Presley Women of Music :…

In this Thursday Pressing Concerns, we’ve got two albums coming out tomorrow, September 11th (new LPs from Model Living and Twilark), an EP that came out earlier this week (from King’s Evil), and an album that’s out today (Halfway Up a Jagged Hill). Check them out below, and if you missed Monday’s blog post (featuring The Bird Calls, Asher White, Sam and Louise Sullivan, and Off Contact), check that too. If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what else…

What artist or band changed your music taste forever? Pick your favorite song of theirs. From heavier rock and dance music as my ‘chosen’ genres, I stumbled into this band after catching them performing at Glastonbury in 2004 (on TV, it was a couple of years before I made it to that festival where I also saw them live). I had an appreciation of lyric and melody built up through my parents record collections, and on into my own but it was heavily skewed towards indie rock, heavy rock, metal, and…

HOBO , GENIUS, AMERICA’S SOUL “Everybody might be just one big soul, so everywhere you look in the day or night, that’s where I’m gonna be” . That’s Woody Guthrie, in his last years, knowing his body was succumbing to the cruel speechless paralysis of Huntingdon’s Chorea. That link to universal human soulhood was hard-earned, through decades of hard work, wandering, poverty in the dustbowl years and political persecution under Senator McCarthy. Because all the time he was picking up songs and…

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…

something new to plague my fantasies something wistful to lull me dizzy something saccharine to force me ill and nothing and no one familiar any longer

Perhaps it was the occasion of the 30th anniversary, but for whatever reason, today Bang on a Can uploaded nine videos from 1996 of its All-Stars collective playing the music of the late Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, those following a previous two over the past week. There is much to revisit, notably film music, including themes from Pedro Almodóvar’s 1991 High Heels, of course Nagisa Ōshima’s 1983 classic Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, in which Sakamoto starred alongside David Bowie, and…

David August is the musician / composer behind the Berlin-based label 99CHANTS. Both August, and the roster of artists on the imprint, create music of an experimental nature. Modern music designed to blur boundaries. Collisions of techno, classical, ambient and noise. August has now, however, adopted the alias Argento, to demonstrate a softer side and deliver an album of chilled out sounds to Music From Memory. Titled “Miraggi”, the long-player serves as an imaginary soundtrack, a love letter…

One of the joys of my life is singing with my a cappella Renaissance choir, Carmena Bowena. For the past six yers we have worked on a repertoire of mostly Renaissance sacred music and madrigals and spreading into slightly later southern European folk music from places like Spain, France, Corsica and Italy. We have sung contemporary arrangements of songs by Sting and Paul Simon and Gordon Lightfoot and modern settings of old liturgical texts like Ubi Caritas, Ave Maria and O Nata Lux and O…

Stoked to hear Genesis Owusu, a fellow Canberran, be the soundtrack for the iPhones 18 intro!

Swagger is the scarlet letter of mediocrity.

Elusive title with Dolphy perfoming live in Copenhagen in 1961. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Heavy stuff here. An historical artifact that I’ve been after for a very long time. Had several opportunities to acquire it through the years but either it was too expensive or the condition wasn’t what I’d hoped for. This copy is stellar and I can place it on the…

The two stages of Kinoko Teikoku’s career are pretty clearly delineated into their indie era and their major label era, each covering three of their six total albums (though trainspotters would probably draw that line one album earlier, into shoegaze/non-shoegaze). Their two 2018 digital “introduction to” compilations were split as such and their vinyl reissue […] The post きのこ帝国 / 夜が明けたら appeared first on Space Echo.

Trevor Graham-Wilcox - Since WhenBreaking news! My extremely talented brother Trevor released his fourth album yesterday. On a Tuesday — just as the good lord decreed albums should be released. Trevor describes the making of Since When: “Recorded at home in the summer of 2026 in between dog walks and World Cup matches.” But that casual attitude doesn’t begin to get at the hook-filled arrangements, the sweet choruses, the imaginative twists & turns of the lyrics … I many say this whenever Trevor…

"Walkin' On the Sun" by Smash Mouth Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What would you put on for a long brisk walk? A song not exactly about walking. I remember Smash Mouth as being one of those bands that had the special something that made you notice them. View Mandaris's Crucial Tracks profile Listen to my Apple Music playlist

Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 13th July 1996 Who sounds like Nevermore then? Even today, Seattle’s power prog titans have few imitators and for good reason; born of power metal legends Sanctuary but with a lot more weight to them, their debut self titled record in 1995 had turned some heads towards the Pacific Northwest. Probably because it wasn’t grunge and it wasn’t hip, but their follow up just a year later, ‘The Politics of Ecstasy’, was to really put them onto the map. Named for…

I was recently introduced to Plantasia, a 1976 album by Mort Garson: The friends who introduced me to this album did it by skipping around from track to track and shouting "See!! See!!! Doesn't this sound like [videogame soundtrack theme]??" They are absolutely right - there are tracks in here that sound an awful lot like tracks from early classics. There's some real "great artists steal" shit going on here. A lot of the music which seems strongly influenced by Plantasia is from games I didn't…

Two weeks at number one from 11th June 1988It may have been a constant feature of the NME Indie Chart from day one, but commercially speaking, goth rock was truly at its zenith in 1988. The Mission scored a number two album (“Children”) with John Paul Jones as their producer, All About Eve had a gold-certified top ten album, and The Sisters Of Mercy had emerged from the undergrowth the year before to become serious international contenders. While the music magazines of the period talked…

A third track is up from the forthcoming Devonwho album, TV2, due out on the Leaving Records label in mid-October. The new one, titled “jogo,” is more abrupt, rhythmic and dissonant than “hibeams,” the track I mentioned at the end of last month. The arpeggiation here is severe, and the uncommon harmonic approach both underscores the inherent automation and lends variety and uncertainty to what could easily have felt rote. That’s just three tracks of the album’s eventual 19. Looking forward to…

What was your favorite song in high school? Why did it resonate? The radio crackles to life. It is full of heavily produced sounds. Bon Jovi, Madonna, Wham!, Phil Collins —artists I would spend my life with— dominated. Pet Shop Boys were ploughing a different path, New Order were living their Blue Monday ‘88 renaissance as dance music crossed the Atlantic. Remixes were starting to appear, sampling, and scratching were sounds hitting the mainstream. But alongside the radio —which I liked to…

A fluorescent new record from old pal Cybergiga (Sam Lyons), whose first record was released on Palms Out way back when. This is his second EP since emerging again last year after several years of bubbling quietly, sharpening his tools. His distinct style remains intact, though it’s been well distilled and refined over the years. This whole record is excellent, but the title track is particularly compelling — equally ebuillient, seraphic, and propulsive. (There’s also a lovely remix on the EP…

Oath’s latest is a very cool collaboration between 2 veteran sons of Sheffield’s innovative musical scene. While polishing his production chops working with Hull’s Pork Recordings – most famously as one half of Fila Brazillia – Steve Cobby was inspired by the records he danced to at the Steel City’s influential venue, Jive Turkey, and served an apprenticeship at FON Studios, the birth place of pioneering electronica label, Warp. Cobby also continues to make music with Stephen Malinder, of…

My first Pink Floyd album was Ummagumma. I was intrigued by the inside album cover with all of their music gear on display. copyright to the owner I was 3 months into my freshman year at college. 1969.Show me gadgets and gear and I loose my mind! copyright to the owners ‘Animals’ might be my favorite Pink Floyd album as I was working in a building that looked like the cover and the subject matter was similar to what I was experiencing at the time. 1977. And it was time to leave New York and…

One of the GOATs performing one of the GOAT albums on its 50th anniversary. What a time to be alive. The post Stevie Wonder has announced his Songs in the Key Of Life anniversary tour appeared first on Sampleface.

Hey people! Gwilym Bowen Rhys released an album last week! It’s the third, and last, as it turns out, in his series titled “Detholiad o Hen Faledi” (Selection of Old Ballads), which Gwilym digs out from all sorts of old books and field recordings, and particularly the National Library of Wales’s digital ballad archive. For many songs in this series, Gwilym’s recording is the first ever to have been made. And since Gwilym is one of my faza peeps, this is a big deal over here in Bibielland! I’ve…

Eliza Edens Death Drive One of my triggers in alt-rock is a sense of texture, and the first time I heard Death Drive, the latest single from Eliza Edens, I was blown away by the detail. Texture adds a vibrancy to a musical recording, particularly when it comes to real physical instruments. The bright details here make Eliza and her band’s performance feel real, intimate and grounded. The bass and guitars float right in front of you, and you can almost feel the air moving in front of your face…

Women Of Music Volume 29Lola Falana on cover tracklistAdeline Chastain Walking After Midnight.mp3 Charline Arthur - I've Got the Boogie Blues.mp3 Damita - I See The Lord.mp3 Dinah Lee - Do The Blue Beat.mp3 Eller Davis - Another Womans Man.mp3 Helen Humes - Real Fine Daddy.mp3 Juanita Nixon - I Met My Sugar in a Candy Store.mp3 Lady Elvis (Dawn Anita Plumlee) - Don't Be Cruel.mp3 Lola Falana - Working In The Coal Mine.mp3 Sassy Country - feat. Penny Hardman -- Oh Darling.mp3 Sharon Stone - You…

The spirit of peak-nuddy Sounds rematerializes in the current issue of The Wire with this "relaxed" shot of cover star Mike Watt at home in the seeming starkers.If you peer closely then it becomes clear that short shorts or at least boxers are on - but the angling seems almost deliberately designed to create the opposite first-glance impression.

"Eins, Zwei, Drei" by LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What’s a great song where the lyrics include counting ‘1, 2, 3, 4’? I don’t remember how this came onto my radar. I was looking for the perfect prompt and it came up. It reminds me of luff balloons and da, da, da. Plus the name of the group is perfect for the times we live in. View Mandaris's Crucial Tracks profile Listen to my Apple Music playlist