rabbit rabbit rabbit for September, in the middle of another run of AZ-connected birthdays (not of famous people, however admirable; but of (still living) people who are important to me): 8/27 Ken Rudolph of soc.motss (85); 8/30 Ellen Sulkis James, a long-ago companion of mine on the staff of the Reading (PA) Eagle (86); 8/31 Benita Bendon Campbell, dear friend since Princeton in the 1960s and my connection to the late Ann Daingerfield (Zwicky) (90); 9/2 Mike Jankulak of soc.motss (57); and…

Finished reading: Fourteen Ways of Looking at Jellyfish by Carole Boston Weatherford & Bagram Ibatoulline 📚

Willis Alan Ramsey - The Bunker, Lockhart, Texas, 2022This past summer, I was surprised to see Willis Alan Ramsey’s name pop up on E-Town’s upcoming event calendar; I knew the singer-songwriter was still around (and that he maybe lived in Colorado?), but gigs were few and far between. Ramsey is a semi-mysterious figure, having released a classic LP for Shelter Records in the early 1970s and having not released a note since. Would he stumble onstage and deliver a totally burned out and wasted…

I’ve posted this song here before, but I absolutely love the groove to this song. This is a live version from eight years ago, and the vocals are slightly flat, but I still dig it. I would love to see True Widow live.

Way back in the 1990's I used to work for a bank, specifically Abbey National and their huge head office at the top of St Vincent Street in Glasgow. Over 3,000 people worked there at its peak! Working for a bank is, in my opinion, not very cool (great pension though!), but for a number of years it was a great place to work. I was 21 and there were loads of people of a similar age. There were regular nights out, five-a-side matches and ... some truly gorgeous girls! Work was just something to do…

snippets of joythis was a very joyous program for me gadigal jazz is full of beauty and i'm constantly in awe that i get to witness such music and feel so alive and feel so much here are some snippets of memories that i collected during the show i met a remarkable double bassist and improviser, wilmer. he was visiting this city. we had a full conversation about art, moving cities, the burden of being eldest children, and finding the freedom to let go. thanks for encouraging me to keep making…

"Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards" by Billy Bragg Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What's your favorite song about moving forward? - Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards by Billy Bragg Bragg's version of it isn't naive optimism, it's someone clear-eyed about how slow and disappointing progress actually is, choosing to keep pushing anyway ("just because you're going forwards doesn't mean I'm going backwards"). That's a more honest read of "moving forward"…

I spent yesterday evening in the church of Sigur Rós, accompanied by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. It was as close to a spiritual experience as you’re likely to get with a band. Icelandic ambient post-rock and a 40+ piece orchestra. Mesmerising.

A Delightful Record(A J & F Enterprise)Don Hart Featuring Ray WixJ8OW 0579 Girl Of My Life(Hart, Gale & Gayle (BMI)J8OW 0580 I'm Not Ready Now(Hart)DBS-1011958Featuring The Heart Strings -- Chuck, Vi & Ray Wixcredited on the picture sleeve onlysee 45cat * Record listed at Rockin' Country Style (location unknown) . Although listed as a different artist on the Reserve label (real name Donald Dougherty) this is the same artist. This is also a Cleveland, Ohio label. Backing Don Hart, guitarist Ray…

Released in 2005 as a promotion-only compilation, La Buissonne Studios occupies the elusive third chamber in the catalogue attached to the celebrated recording complex at Pernes-les-Fontaines. Its history was built through improbable labor. Gérard de Haro and two childhood friends first recorded musicians in a modest space at L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue; an encounter with bassist Barre Phillips sharpened their desire for a professional studio. They found a hangar and house in Pernes, worked with…

If you read this blog, you know I love OutKast, AKA the greatest band/musical group of all time. Their sophomore LP, "ATLiens," turned 30 this late August. As many will say (and I agree), without OutKast you just don't (quite arguably) get much of a Southern rap movement. As Andre 3000 put it all those years ago when OutKast won Best New Artist (Group) at the Source Awards for their debut album, "The South's got something to say." For a number of years, OutKast did too. The group is most likely…

Currently describing himself as an “ambient folk” guitarist, Motohiro Nakashima, made his recorded debut with an album of delicate IDM, over 2 decades ago, on London’s Lo Recordings. Since the 2010s, Nakashima, himself haling from Fukuyama, in Japan’s southern Hiroshima prefecture, has been releasing music largely independently via Bandcamp. His latest long-player, however, is his second for Tokyo’s Flau. Across 10 tracks, the album is a musical mediation on the environmental crisis and our…

This week’s theme: Sonny Rollins as a sideman, starting with his first recordings as an 18-year-old. Featured artists include Sonny Rollins, JJ Johnson, Kenny Dorham, Clifford Brown, Max Roach, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Philly Joe Jones, Babs Gonzalez, Thelonious Monk, Julius Watkins, Percy Heath, Willie Jones, Bennie Green, John Lewis, Roy Haynes.The post Podcast: A Side of Sonny first appeared on jazzcollector.com.

Music I’ve bought in August. I saw Σtella at a festival a couple weeks ago — I had just intended to check it out while walking past, but I found myself watching the entire show, so I bought her album. And… it’s very nice? It reminds me of British early 80s indie bands — some of them had a think where they were making *wink* *wink* lounge music, and this is kinda like that. I bought an album where Astrïd and Sylvain Chauveau did a version of Dambala, so that made me get the album where Nina…

I own multiple CD and/or digital copies of a lot of albums. The original CD, the remaster, sometimes a deluxe edition or an anniversary box on top of that. They all sit in the same library in Roon, and every time I hit play I'm implicitly choosing one of them (Roon sets one of the copies as "primary"). This bugged me because I didn't know which one would objectively sound better (I clearly have problems). So I decided to stop guessing and measure it to help me: which version of each album is…

The CFL redesigned its web site today, and sadly the one article I ever contributed to the site is no longer accessible from its original link. At the moment there’s still an archived copy hanging around but in case that vanishes too, I thought I’d best preserve it here. So without further ado, from September 2009 … Music Behind Enemy Lines Steve Hayman Special to CFL.ca ‘Argonotes’ the Toronto Argonauts Band, has had the pleasure of playing at games in Hamilton a dozen times. And every time we…

It isn’t often that I get to write about the noise of dust — which, in a form amplified by the Austrian soundartist Klaus Filip, turns out to be a sort of gentle crackling, used to accompany John Tilbury’s piano on a piece included in an elegant new boxed set called At Home. This beautifully designed little coffret features a mixture of recordings made at Tilbury’s house in Deal on the Kent coast and archive pieces dating back to 1970, when the pianist was already well established as a gifted…

My socials keep me pretty aware of any time Slowdive performs live anywhere around the world, but last weekend’s show supporting The Cure and Mogwai in Edinburgh seemed particularly amplified, what with friends and celebrities also in attendance, and so my usual FOMO-proof self was a little sad. Not that hopping on a plane to […] The post Slowdive @ Outbreak Festival, Manchester – June 2025 appeared first on Space Echo.

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Words: Chris ArnsbyMark Goodier: “Hi. Good evening and welcome to Top of the Pops. We have an essential show tonight with some performances by EMF, and the Farm, and Arnee and the Terminaters. And we start with a live rap by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch with Loletta Holloway. This is a new entry Good Vibrations.” [29] MARKY MARK & THE FUNKY BUNCH Featuring LOLETTA HOLLOWAY: GOOD VIBRATIONS. I’m over 50. Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch are basically precision engineered to make me hate them.…

Shye – I Wanted It To Be You Shoegaze / Dream Pop Shye’s last album only came out in May, and she’s already releasing a non-album single. “I Wanted It To Be You” is super lush. It reminds me of older Hatchie songs, which is to say: IT’S GREAT, MOAR PLZ. Sphere – Overture Shoegaze Sphere’s last album, 2022’s A Fusion of Two Hemispheres, was really good, and “Overture” sound like it’s following in the same vein. New album Circumstances is out October 14th. Wishy – Sensational Indie Rock It’s…

What a very fun show with a very charismatic performer.

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I never heard of this thing before. Maybe Steve has. Tons more video on the channel.

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From: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/sue-me/1826574954?i=1826575254It’s always embarrassing when you discover a new artist, really like the music, think you’re onto something fresh, then discover that they’re already in the top 40 charts in both the UK and US. But hey, there’s no prizes for being an artist’s only fan. For fans of Taylor Swift and total bangers.•

Emo has a habit of being pronounced dead every few years, right before a new crop of bands revives it under a slightly different name. The current revival is no exception. People call it the fifth wave, and while the label is loose and a little contested, it's the term the scene uses for itself. What emo actually is If you're not familiar with what emo is, the word is short for "emotional hardcore." It started in the mid-1980s in Washington, D.C., when bands like Rites of Spring and Embrace…

Big CircleWe checked out the latest from mssv a few weeks back, so why not check out another Mike Watt group? In the newly formed Big Circle, the bassist has teamed up with two Feelies — Glenn Mercer and Dave Weckerman — along with Dan Francia (who has worked with Feelies friends Speed the Plough in the past) for a short/very sweet EP of groovy instrumentals. And, no surprise, it’s a blast, with the Watt and Francia on dueling basses, Mercer on crunchy guitar and Weckerman holding down the…

In 2018 the Japanese label Fastcut Records released a much deserved, a much awaited, retrospective of the 90s indiepop band Sunny Gets Blue. This Japanese band formed by Ryotaro Abe on vocals, piano, guitar and harmonica, Toru Fukuda on guitar, Takashi Togawa on bass and Eiji Miyauchi on drums released just two records back in their day and appeared on many compilations. The first release I am aware is a split CD with another legendary Japanese band, Sunnychar (who I should write about sometime…

If you have ever wondered what popular music sounds like in Kyrgyzstan, then look no further. This track is called КЫРГЫЗСТАН, which is written in Kyrgyz and means – yes, you’ve guessed it – Kyrgyzstan. It is sung by Amirchik, the stage name of Amirkhan Batabayev, a singer from the country who became immensely popular through TikTok and later with his hit song "Эта любовь" ("This Love"). He was born near Bishkek in 2003 and has gained fans across Central Asia and parts of Southeast Asia.…