Two years ago I wrote about Mark Cavendish beating Eddy Merckx’s stage win record at the TdF: Until today, the record for Most Stage Wins in the Tour was held by cycling god Eddy Merckx, a Belgium rider who dominated the sport in the 60s and 70s. He won the Tour 5 times outright, and bagged the points prize 3 times and the mountains award twice, all on his way to winning a stunning 34 stages, a record he set 49 years ago. I could go on and on here, but suffice it to say that Merckx dominated…
Cover version of the month #122The Rolling Stones cover The TemptationsI stumbled across The Rolling Stones 1978 album called Some Girls in a lovely bar in the old town section of Malia while on holiday with my wife (then girlfriend) back in 2003. The guy serving behind the bar was also DJ-ing and he played a song that captured my attention.Me - Who is that?Barman - The Rolling Stones.Me - No way?He passed the CD case across the bar. The song was Miss You, the lead song on (and single from) the…
The only time I can remember seeing the 19th century abolitionist John Brown mentioned in a jazz context was in a piece called “The Day John Brown Was Hanged”, written by George Russell for the altoist Hal McKusick’s 1956 album Jazz Workshop. In that intricate seven-minute composition for quartet, Russell interpolated lines from the melody of “John Brown’s Body Lies a-Mouldering in His Grave”, the marching song sung by Union soldiers during the American Civil War, a conflict whose prefatory…
Diamond Rainbows is the fifth album from the Julie July Band and their fourth album of original material. Their first, back in 2018, was a tribute to the late Sandy Denny, representing a foundational plank of their live show. Although Denny herself drew on a much wider range of influences than the folk rock label usually given to her would imply, with each successive release the Julie July Band have been on a mission to broaden the palette of musical textures they draw from. The results have…
Listen and purchase at pinkhydrangea's bandcamp here The artist pinkhydrangea has released a new album, and since I was absolutely in love with their last album, Ethereal K-Pop Noise, which you can read about if you click here, I was hopeful that this one would be good too. It's good! Ethereal K-Pop Noise (henceforth EKPN) hit me so hard in just the right place at just the right time that I couldn't help but be gushingly effulgent in my adoration for it. "all my feelings buried" is a great…
“Introduce yourself with five albums that have shaped you.”, writes Martin. Here’s my pick, by release year: Guns N’ Roses – Appetite for Destruction (1987) Megadeth – Rust in Peace (1990) Nirvana – Nevermind (1991) AC/DC – Live: 2 CD Collector’s Edition (1992) The Offspring – Smash (1994) It’s basically a shortlist of the 12 albums that defined my teenage years. See also: One album for every year of my life.
Tssssssssssssss. AWESOME! There’s even more awesome here: Photo from: here The post #643 The sound of steaks hitting a hot grill appeared first on 1000 Awesome Things.
Tags: #music #essays #platformsI remember the first time I heard Daft Punk, and saw it too. It was in Gianfranco’s parents’ living room in 1997, in the summer. Almost thirty years ago. The room was dark, the shutters were drawn or it was night. Hard to tell sometimes in a memory. “Around the world” was playing on MTV Europe, and I had no idea what I was listening to. There were neon outlined astronauts doing a weird march on a circular staircase, and other electric pink and green and yellow…
This week’s Disquiet Junto project has worked out well, tracks by dozens of musicians who take as their compositional and production inspiration the way gauze might be interpreted as a sonic effect. This image, shot from a hotel room in DTLA, was an alternate option, while I went with this one.
Well, this has been a day, hasn’t it? I’m going to be brief about all of it: Graham Platner Accused of Rape: I think Chris Kluwe got the right of this one on Bluesky: Well, at least the fifteenth red flag finally convinced people— Chris Kluwe (@chriswarcraft.bsky.social) 2026-07-06T22:27:52.565Z I personally kinda tapped out with the Nazi tat, because I was pretty sure at that point that nothing good was going to come of things after that. But then, I’m in Ohio, not Maine, and they really…
Tomo Katsurada and Jonny Nash spent 2025 touring. Accompanying one another on acoustic and electric guitar. At the end of the year, over a 3-day period, the pair hit the studio to record what they’d learned and experienced. The resulting album, “At The Emerald Pool”, consequently has the feel of a diary. The 10 tracks flowing between polished pieces and looser, more Lo-Fi songs. Something like “Scent Of Limestone”, for example, is constructed from carefully crafted echoed, acoustic chiming and…
After going through the 10-volume Trio Records ECM Special series, we continue our journey through ECM rarities with another Japan exclusive, a DJ-use-only sampler from 1983. Released in anticipation of a series of Pat Metheny Group concerts held from October 3rd to 10th in Tokyo, Osaka, Shizuoka, and Niigata, it sketches a private map of expectation in melodies already searching for the venues that would receive them. The compilation begins, appropriately, with “Farmer’s Trust” from Travels,…
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Based on the previous post on 5 albums in reply to Martin, I thought I’d create my own similaru post worm called 8 track. Picking 8 tracks. That’s it. That’s the album. Feel free to share yours. Hundred Mile High City - Ocean Colour Scene October Swimmer - JJ72 Death Letter - The White Stripes Paranoid Android - Radiohead Aceface - King Adora Dance Me to the End of Love (Bonus) - The Civil Wars The Bay of Fundy - The Unthanks Avalanche - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds You can listen along on Apple…
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Waan van de leegteOut 6th June on Terratur Possessions Similar to the recent Selenite Scrolls in its ability to insert itself into a very crowded style and still find room for a USP. This debut album slots in somewhere between early Enslaved and Ulver with a less explicitly folkist orientation. The albums washes over the listener in understated yet richly realised currents. Holistic in the sense that no individual moment, riff, or measure is particularly remarkable in isolation, but each…
It’s his first score. When he started on it, he barely knew what a “cue” was, let alone what composing for a film really entailed. He didn’t have a ton of time to prove himself before the momentum took hold, but he did so to great effect. Obsession composer Rock Burwell has turned in an enthralling but carefully tempered complement to all of the artfully unhinged and delightfully nuanced on-screen performances of this major cultural touchstone. If we think of box-office money as a decent…
Victoria Square This and more in today's update to Northern Folk Archive here -https://northernfolkarchive.pagecord.com/rainy-day-in-bolton-12-january-2017
mssv - See You ThroughSome bands go on tour. Other bands really go on tour. mssv falls in the latter category. In 2025, their 69-date trip was crammed into about that many days, as the trio traveled tirelessly from state to state, from continent to continent. But maybe that kind of work ethic is to be expected when you’ve got the legendary Mike Watt in the ranks. Somehow, in between all that jamming econo, mssv (which also features ace guitarist Mike Bagetta and veteran drummer Stephen Hodges)…
Inspired by Martin, here are "five albums that shaped me", not to be confused with "my five favourite albums ever", IYSWIM. That said, without question, Disintegration is my favourite album of all time. The Cure - Disintegration Madonna - First Album Prince - Purple Rain The Whitlams - Love This City The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Introduce yourself with five albums that have shaped you. OK Computer by Radiohead Rid of Me by PJ Harvey Goo by Sonic Youth Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
Welcome to the June 2026 playlist! We’ve got a bunch of songs on here that I enjoyed last month, and I think you’ll enjoy them too. Check them out below! Emperor X and Vesuvian have three songs on this playlist. Spacemoth and Bellows have two. Here is where you can listen to the playlist on various streaming services: Spotify (missing two songs), Tidal (missing one). Be sure to check out previous playlist posts if you’ve enjoyed this one, or visit the site directory. If you’d like to support…
"Old Man" by Neil Young Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What song would you dedicate to your younger self? - Old Man by Neil Young To me, this is a song about continuity. We are who we are, regardless of age. Sure, there have been plenty of changes, but the core remains the same - the need for love, and home and self worth. It's just pure poetry. View Lou Plummer's Crucial Tracks profile
Adrobski IDWTC Pulling together elements of electronic production, with heavy synths and fractured distortion, with traces of alternative rock, Adrobski creates a kind of beautiful noise on IDWTC. The individual pieces glisten, like an explosion of broken glass in slow motion, whilst garage rock elements act like gravity and keep the overall sound grounded. Feedback swirls, bit crushed vocals squeak under the weight of compression, and drums rattle. A beauty emerges from the surprisingly…
APOTEK – Just you and I First up on another night full of tidy UKG-adjacent stuff is this lovely warm bit from Brussels-based Italian producer Elisa Di Riccio, aka APOTEK. It’s been a demanding few months for me — mostly, work has been a bear, but also because raising two young children is such a constant challenge. In a way, the common thread is how hard management is. The role of the middle manager probably gets even less societal respect than the role of parent, but both really deserve a few…
Kazuya Nagaya is a Japanese musician and author who’s been releasing music since the end of the last millennium. Employing electronics, bells, gongs and singing bowls, his music could be described as “ambient”. Drawing on the Buddhism and traditional arts of his homeland, and striving for the same goals of spiritual simplicity and purity. Self-releasing his early productions, Nagaya’s later albums were picked up by labels based in Barcelona and Geneva, while Berlin’s !K7 licensed the 2020…
For the final volume of the ECM Special series, released in 1980, we are given not merely a selection of standout Pat Metheny tracks, but a small atlas of an artist still discovering that a guitar could become a horizon-making instrument. The set begins with “April Joy,” taken from the Pat Metheny Group’s 1978 debut, where Lyle Mays sits at the piano with a mind attuned to hidden geometries, while Mark Egan and Dan Gottlieb give the music its bright musculature. Even now, the performance seems…
I’ve had the melody to Ian McConnell’s “Bangladesh” floating in my head for weeks, so I decided to pull out my old Game Boy and record a chiptune version of the song: You can download my chiptune versions (including a version closer to the original BPM) on Bandwagon. Huge thanks to Tanner4105 for mastering these. And here’s Ian’s original version: The post Bangladesh (chiptune cover) appeared first on Doc Pop's Weblog.
Another short day, another long night. We see Marcello trying to do some actual writing in an open-air cafe, then getting attracted by an actual person’s story. He’s a little flirtatious with the teenage waitress but he mainly just seems interested in her as a cross-section of the Italian people. He also has a horrible […]
