Percussion, in the ECM imagination, rarely behaves as ornament or engine alone. On ECM Special V: New Music in Percussion, rhythm functions as a conduit for revelation, each struck surface opening into an interior geography where hands and skins communicate in infinity signs. The compilation gathers music that feels carved from threshold states, hovering between human gesture and some older grammar of vibration. Its deepest theme may be contact: the instant when one body addresses another…
Attempting to recreate the golden yesterdays of Jose Padilla’s White Isle sunsets with the tunes of today… John Beltran / Sunrise And The Life We Live / Music For Dreams A few weeks ago I met Music For Dreams founder, Kenneth Bager, for lunch in Tokyo. It was our first physical meeting, after way over a decade of corresponding. We talked of many things including, of course, recent releases. We both raved about John Beltran’s latest album, “Canada”, at which point Kenneth also shared that he had…
The Bowery Boys were a nativist New York street gang who spent the 1840s and 1850s fighting Irish immigrants in the streets of Lower Manhattan. Their most infamous member was Bill the Butcher. Their politics shaped American history.
NEW RELEASE – ALESSANDRO FLORIO Four to the Florio. [row-start] [half] [/half] [half] Personnel Alessandro Florio (guitar), Troy Roberts (tenor saxophone), Kyle Koehler (organ), Carmen Intorre Jr. (drums), Laura Taglialatela (vocals 6) Recorded in October 2025 at Tedesco Studios in Paramus, New Jersey Released as Self-Released in 2026 Track listing Reginella / Fratm Fa / Come Pioveva / Taneda / Will You Still Be Mine / Born To Be Blue / Punta Germano / Trouble #2 [/half] [row-end] How sweet it…
Today I discovered by accident that in Apple Music, if you swipe on the name of the currently playing track on the Now Playing screen, you can skip to the Next/Previous track.
Reviews / June 29, 2026 Atlantis Paul Williams Parry Music Ltd, 1987 Paul Williams’ 1987 Aquarius is, simply put, one of the most beautiful library music albums ever made. It would never have been described that way when it came out, of course. Library or production albums were released exclusively to media producers who would buy certain tracks or entire catalogs to score commercials, TV and radio shows, films, documentaries, educational programming, and so on. And these were not the programs…
Streaming platform Tidal lays out its AI content policy. The headline decisions are that AI-generated music will be labeled and cannot be monetized. The challenge will of course be enforcement. On that, Tidal says:→ TIDAL - High Fidelity Music Streaming
As much as it delights me to live in a world where Slowdive are a constantly touring entity, I won’t pretend I’m not waiting for them to get off the road and back into the studio because, well, I live in a festival-less market so it’s highly unlikely they’ll be stamping their passports in Canada […] The post Slowdive @ RMMF 798, Beijing – April 2026 appeared first on Space Echo.
Fun and fascinating - with fabulous fotos - Danceteria oral history by Joy Press, aka the missus, who was a regular at the legendary New York club in the 1980s. Everyone from Madonna and Fab 5 Freddy to Mark Almond and Michael Musto to Beastie Boys and Butthole Surfers makes an appearance. Something in the air clearly - in freaky synchrony the final Soft Cell album is titled Danceteria, while Madonna has a single out called "Danceteria". Joy was working on this story for months for discovering…
Heute darf ich euch einmal Physical Graffiti näher bringen. Habe ich schon länger auf dem Schirm und erschreckenderweise festgestellt, dass ich sie hier auf dem Blog noch gar nicht gefeatured habe. Das hole ich heute mit dem Track „Ava“ nach. Zusammen mit Wilczynski und damaa.beats hat sie hier einen wunderbaren Track gebastelt. Wie immer meine Empfehlung: Hört euch das an! Bei Klick wird dieses Video von den YouTube Servern geladen. Details siehe Datenschutzerklärung.
Hypnolovewheel - Parallel UniverseReintroducing Hypnolovewheel! This excellent band made several albums worth of impeccable indie pop from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, sharing stages and labels with that era’s cream of the crop, from Galaxie 500 to Superchunk to Yo La Tengo. And it’s that latter band’s James McNew who has helpfully compiled Parallel Universe, a best-of that’s packed with sweet melodies, crunchy guitars and lyrics that walk a fine line between heart-on-the-sleeve and…
Shelley and Joseph walk through four picks apiece from Q1 and Q2 2026, followed by a discussion on a couple of the bigger releases of the year thus far, Darkthrone, Immolation, fanatics, and the limits of a viable career.
gonna rank from worst to best song ranking system 😇- need to have a looong conversation with whoever made this song 🥹- teared up a little 🥰- i love love love 😊- very good 🙂- good with some issues 🤔- i would let it play in the background ig.. 😪- not feeling it 😠- no this is bad. 😡- this is really bad. 🤬- play this around me and im taking a gun out. for both of us. 8dm 🤬 ? beat 🤬 this lowk might be the worst chorus i've ever heard friend 🤬 a mess.... rat race 🤬 oh just have a day off.... mia 😡 i…
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Some 90 years ago today. Fort Riley, Kansas, 29 June 1936. The 13th U.S. Cavalry Regiment is seen returning to garrison from its last march as a horse cavalry outfit before shipping off their mounts, trading horse shoes and oats for tires and tracks. The regiment’s colonel at the time was Charles “Lutie” Lewis Scott (USMA 1905), a noted horseman, prominent in the Cavalry Branch as a across an array of organized horse shows, polo matches, fox hunting, and endurance races. Note, they are…
Many times in Germany. But never in the south of Germany. Munich remains a place I would like to visit. That’s where we are heading today on the blog. It is possible that the band Bismarck Idaho best known fact is that Momus produced four out of 5 tracks of the band’s one and only release, the “Beckenbauer EP” CD from 1994. The EP was released by the label Blickpunkt Pop (BP 001) ran by Marc Liebscher, also Munich based. This label is well known for having releasing the band Sportfreunde…
[1992]Back to the good ole days when I was twenty. Me and my mate Tony would stay up late, drink and smoke, listening to all the new and groovy sounds on cd. I'd totally forgotten the epic grunge-gaze and kaleidoscopic ambient sax haze of Never That Feeling/Never Learn. What a jam. Glorious.[1993]Unbelievably this tune, one of their greatest, was exclusively tucked away on the import only US version of The Last Train To Satansville cd EP.Cars Converge On Paris might be Swervedriver's most…
Connie Francis & Harve Presnell.When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965). What possessed a Hollywood producer to pitch a 1960s update of the George and Ira Gershwin stage musical Girl Crazy starring Connie Francis, Liberace, Louis Armstrong, Herman's Hermits, and Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs? We may never know. But shockingly, the movie was made and now we can experience When the Boys Meet the Girls.The "plot" sends a wealthy college student named Danny Churchill (Harve Presnell) to Nevada to avoid…
In this Monday Pressing Concerns, we’ve got new albums from Fire Man, Lovewell, and The Hobknobs, and a new EP from NAYAN. Check them out below! 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’d like to support Rosy Overdrive, you can share this (or another) post, or donate here. Fire Man – How to Erase Everything Release date: May 8thRecord label: Self-releasedGenre: Punk rock, post-hardcore, post-punkFormats: Vinyl,…
Every time I think about how I’ve been making music for 16 years, it blows my mind. I’ve messed around with hardware and software, gathered machines to gather dust, and seen the evolution of Logic Pro and Ableton throughout that time. But one thing has always remained: making music (except a weird period between 2015–2017; … The post FOMU and groove boxes as musical sketch pads appeared first on Sampleface.
"Bad to the Bone" by George Thorogood & The Destroyers Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Share a song that makes you feel invincible. - Bad to the Bone by George Thorogood and The Destroyers "On the day I was born, kings and queens stepped aside." This is not a song that someone with self-confidence problems would sing... or identify with. View Lou Plummer's Crucial Tracks profile
I am continuing my tour of hi-fi bars in Japan. This one is fun because you can browse the vinyl collection and choose one song to play.
I think I made the mistake of listening to Dia’s 2025 Steve McQueen Bass Symposium while driving, instead of watching it. Now as I scrub back through to find various salient points again, I realize how integral so many of the images and video clips are. And above almost all, it’s just wild that the symposium was held in the Dia Beacon gallery surrounded by Warhol’s Shadows. There’s so much to flag here in all three speakers’ talks: Solveig Nelson talks about Bass as a work of cinema—light and…
A Certain Ratio / Lucinda / Mute A Certain Ratio recorded their 3rd long-player, “Sextet” in 1981. To celebrate its 45th birthday, rather than do a straight reissue, the band have handed the masters over to friend and collaborator Andy “Emperor Machine” Meecham. The results have been rebranded “The Joy Of Sextet” – after the popular 70s love-making guide – and promo’d by Mr. Meecham’s mix of “Lucinda”. A big fan himself, Meecham deliberately hasn’t messed with ACR’s distinctive sound, but…
THIS is interesting. The complete Vitaphone soundtrack of THE CAT CREEPS (1930), synched up with the surviving footage,, with THAT patched up with production stills and footage from the original version, Paul Leni’s THE CAT AND THE CANARY. There is MORE recently rediscovered footage, clips from throughout TCC, which will be incorporated into this as […]
A Billboard chart headline made the rounds: "Olivia Rodrigo becomes the first woman in history to debut her first ten top 10 Hot 100 hits in the top 10." Lynn quote-posted it a theorem that certainly made me giggle.
I've been making more tunes lately, so I finally got enough mojo to think about posting my music again. I renewed my Distrikid account, and now I'll think a bit more about each song, and just make them more like 2 minute bass tunes for driving. Anyways. Should be good. This post (Woot Wook - Ambientcurrents is back) was last edited 3 minutes ago.
Iya Kiva is a contemporary Ukraine writer. How do you deal with the horrors of your situation? One way for Iya Kiva is sardonic humour. For more details, see https://www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poems/poets/poet/102-30516_Kiva Here is a taster, an excerpt from IS THERE HOT WAR IN THE TAP is there hot war in the tapis there cold war in the taphow is it that there’s absolutely no warit was promised for after lunchwe saw the announcement with our own eyes“war will arrive at fourteen…
The Strokes remain on top for a second week with “Going Shopping”, while sombr moves into second place with “Homewrecker”. Three songs enter the top 10: “Good2B” by Goose, “Until The Sun Explodes” by Sublime and “In My Room” by Julia Wolf, at #s 8, 9 and 10, respectively. Scottish band Gloom Is Okay are this week’s biggest upward movers as their darkly beautiful “Repeat Offender” leaps 10 spots to #12. Four songs make their debut this week, beginning with “Private” by Los Angeles alt-rock band…
