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)

During January 1966, promoter Roy Tempest brought Lee Dorsey over for a British tour on which he was backed by The Krew (https://garagehangover.com/lee-dorseys-january-1966-british-tour/). The response was so positive that Tempest lined-up another tour that kicked off three months later. According to a review in the Derby Evening Telegraph in its 30 April issue, page 7, … Continue reading Lee Dorsey’s British tour April-May 1966 →

Pentangle - Fillmore East, New York City, February 7, 1969We’re just hitting all the Doom & Gloom favorites this week — Sonic Youth, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Can … and Pentangle! Recently, the Guardian published a short essay by broadcaster, writer and DJ Zakia Sewell, who details how her teenage experience at a Pentangle reunion show in 2008 led to a broader understanding of being “half-white, half-black; half-British, half-Caribbean, and on the faultline between what sometimes felt like tw...

It’d be an overstatement to say the spirit of Ryuichi Sakamoto has followed me around on this trip – I’ve actually had very little opportunity to listen to music – but it is noteworthy that I saw the seeing sound, hearing time installation featuring his work at Hong Kong’s M+ gallery, and then when record […] The post Yellow Magic Orchestra – “Rydeen” appeared first on Space Echo.

Synthpop clowns, grunge country, genre-fuck, and my tip for the Eurovision 2026 win

Erin Corbett's "The Tree, The Rot, The Bloom" is out now, and it's really good. You should listen to it!

I was originally challenged to do this by Annie, last year, but have moved my blog to Pika since then so, I’m reposting it here. Enjoy! What are five of...

The Von Pip Podcast returns after a break with 60 minutes of the finest music from the past, the present, and the future (and guests too).

When The Pudding launched its Cultural Borders of Song map in 2018, it offered a compelling snapshot of global music tastes. But the map stalled in 2021 - and hasn't been updated since. For a truly up-to-date view, the new Cultural Borders map delivers a live glimpse of what the world is listening to right now.Cultural Borders is an interactive map of global music trends. Click anywhere on the

More musical mayhem from The Explodo Boys. Chris Harwood: lead vocal and bass, Gerry Kruger: guitar, George Kuczek:drums, Dan Rowles: keyboards.

Jesus Christ. With such crisp breaks and a vocal delivery like this, what the fuck else do you really need? A delightful piano riff, some warbly keys, and a low-passed reese don’t hurt, but the track might survive without them when those two core elements are so on-point. Maybe I’m being a little hyperbolic–the piano […] The post From the Mailbox 45 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

12tree / Rolling Deep Dub / Hot Piroski Robin Twelvetree has a new single out, titled Rolling Deep. The digital package includes 3 mixes. One of which is a dub. Lush, languid, with whispered vocals, muted trumpet, a ringing key riff, plus some super laidback guitar, it’s no surprise that this is Cantoma-esque, since Robin’s […]

THE STEVE IGNORANT band head out on the road for a series of live UK dates in the coming weeks, beginning this weekend with shows in Southampton, Birmingham and Derby, ahead of playing a set at Meff-Fest 2026 in Colchester in May. Following several weeks of intense rehearsals, Ignorant promises that the band’s updated live […]

"...the issue is maybe that I love music so much that sometimes I can’t cope with it. I am, like a lot of elder millennials, arrested in the '90s indie scene I first fell in love with."

I am so grateful that I can make music. It’s a language that allows me to speak in the pure vocabulary of emotion with people. It allows me to relate to people in a way that is totally different from every other form of social interaction, even sport, which comes closest.  And it allows me to connect with myself as well. A bunch of musicians have put together a short film that aims to tell you why they make music. If you are not a musician, it’s almost impossible for me to tell you WHY I make...

The VitalsRelease date: 26 October 1981UK chart peak: #1Running time: 58:19Singles: N/A Queen’s Greatest Hits proved to be a hit outside of the UK as well, reaching number 1 in Austria, the Netherlands, Germany & New Zealand – plus it hit the top 30 in Australia (#2) and Norway (#21). It has sold consistently in the […]

Can - Salle Wagram, Paris, France, March 19, 1976OK, after Crazy Horse in West Germany yesterday, we’re staying in March 1976 … and keeping it teutonic! CAN! In the spring of ‘76, Michael Karoli, Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit and Holger Czukay were about to have a weird breakthrough hit single with “I Want More.” But what Can really seemed to want around this time was a new vocalist. Tim Hardin and Thaiga Raj Raja Ratnam had already been tried out … in Paris, just about 50 years ago, English ...

The roots of the trumpet-and-piano duo in jazz go back to the day in December 1928 when Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines recorded a piece titled “Weather Bird”. It became a classic, one of the keystones of jazz history. I was thinking about it when Ambrose Akinmusire and Sullivan Fortner took the stage at the […]

"Hungry Heart" by Bruce Springsteen Share the first song you ever heard from your favorite artist. I'd been peripherally aware of Springsteen as pre-teen. My parents subscribed to Time Magazine and I remember when he was on the cover in '75, but it wasn't until I was 14 when Hungry Heart was being played on the radio constantly that I became a fan. My old man HATED the song because of the whole leaving the wife and kids in Baltimore thing. I loved it. I had a hungry heart then and I have one...

Temora: DemoOut 13th March on Blood Harvest At face value this is fairly run of the mill old school death metal, delivered with a pleasing sparseness that presents as authentic as opposed to another empty pastiche. Peeling back the layers reveals a degree of pomp and playful bounce to this material. Many riffs taking on... Continue Reading →

In this Thursday Pressing Concerns, we’re looking at four albums coming out tomorrow, March 20th: new ones from Gladie, Otoliths, This House, and Filth Is Eternal. If you missed Monday’s blog post (featuring Micah Schnabel and Vanessa Jean Speckman, The Notwist, Land Whales, and Corespondents), check that out too. If you’re looking for more newContinue reading "Pressing Concerns: Gladie, Otoliths, This House, Filth Is Eternal"

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 […]