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"Bad" by Michael Jackson Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What song makes you feel braggadocious As it turns out, MJ may have been a bit weird, but he wasn't a predator, so it's once again OK to listen to his music. I'm not usually a pop fan, but 80's era stuff brings back the feels from my high school years and early 20s. View Lou Plummer's Crucial Tracks profile

A Journey In Search Of Flamenco A young British academic regales us of when he left his life behind and went to Spain in search of Duende - the intense emotional state that enraptures a crowd in a performance, and is most commonly associated with flamenco. Another ‘read it on holiday’ book which added a lot ...

I’ve been on record—geddit?—here stating that MP3s are my preferred audio format. MP3 is no longer patent encumbered, it’s widely compatible with anything I throw them onto, and the quality difference between 320 Kb/s MP3s and higher fidelity formats like FLAC (and ALAC) were imperceptible to me. That was true at the time, but I’ve since proven myself wrong. I can hear the difference. Though it took a few changes in my circumstances to realise. Last year in Vietnam (shoot, I still haven’t pos...

Following two successful British tours earlier in 1966, the first with The Krew as backing band and the second with The League of Gentlemen, promoter Roy Tempest brought Lee Dorsey back for a final tour that autumn. According to Disc & Music Echo, the tour kicked off on 14 October and the main backing group … Continue reading Lee Dorsey’s British tour in October-November 1966 →

Mike Westbrook turns 90 today. To celebrate that milestone, the master of long-form compositions for large ensemble has released the latest in a series of solo piano albums in which he explores music that means a great deal to him, in the process exposing the roots of his own creative journey. Some of those albums […]

Proc Fiskal – “Imagemage” (bc) Micofcourse – “Hi, Bye” (Tre Mission Remix) (bc) Versalife – “Culprit” (bc) The post New Hots Hots 14 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

After Spice Girls, Mel C had a period - like so many of us - of experimenting with the cloud. When she came out of it, she wrote this song: When the cloud costs more than I can understand When uptime is not what I had planned When AWS goes out and there's no end in sight When Azure can't keep up all through the night I turn 2 U Like the admin reaching for a Sun I turn 2 U 'Cause it's the better one I can set it up When US-EAST is down I turn 2 U When my boxes are racked with redundancy They h...

"Concentric Macroscope is about transmissions—about radio waves and about communication, what’s said and unsaid. It’s about the transmission of information, and about echoes, and repetition. It’s about the invention of languages."

Hey, everyone! You may remember my post from 2024 over my friend Jon R. Mohr’s album he released that summer, Bioluminescent Soundwaves. Well, I’m happy to report that Jon has come out with a brand new song, Death is a Beautiful Cobalt Blue. This eleven-minute composure featuring the vocals of Julie Elven is a piece that […]

According to this website, Indianapolis native George Chandler was serving in the US military in northern Italy when he formed this soul quartet with fellow expatriate servicemen Rudy Rollins, Charles Cannon and Stanley Evans. The Four Kents formed a backing group called The Submarines in mid-1968 to support them live, which comprised a mix of … Continue reading The Four Kents’ British tour June 1968 →

A closer look at specific metal tracks at the granular level, this week we take a closer look at Demilich’s The Sixteenth Six-Tooth Son of Fourteen Four-Regional Dimensions (Still Unnamed)