Music in the streaming age is weightless. It reaches you through the aether from servers thousands of miles away into whatever speaker happens to be nearby. It seems almost infinite, is completely free of friction, and incredibly easy to take for granted. I recently bought a record player and my first three records, with plans to buy more. To anyone used to tapping a glass screen to hear any song ever recorded, this looks like too much work to listen to a limited number of tunes. Records are…

Music in the streaming age is weightless. It reaches you through the aether from servers thousands of miles away into whatever speaker happens to be nearby. It seems almost infinite, is completely free of friction, and incredibly easy to take for granted. I recently bought a record player and my first three records, with plans to buy more. To anyone used to tapping a glass screen to hear any song ever recorded, this looks like too much work to listen to a limited number of tunes. Records are…

I always love a good band documentary. This pretty much explains, how they made their by far shittiest album. But I really would have liked to know how they landed on the decision about that snare sound.👍 Recommended!

It’s Friday. It’s been a long week. Let’s face it, they’re all long. So some new metal will help us stage dive right into the weeks. Let’s go. Remember that Bandcamp Friday is next week. Hails! Wharflurch - death - USASacriligious - death - SwedenProfanation - death - FranceZealot Cult - death - IrelandBurner - death/hardcore - UKCrown Magnetar - deathcore - USABarren - death/grind/crust - BelgiumTombstalker - thrash/death - USABeat - grindcore - USAVictims of Contagion - tech death -…

Tomorrow is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Gayle Peck, more commonly know as Julie London. Her musical persona provocative, her beauty commensurate. Julie’s sophisticated delivery of angst-laden tunes was unsurpassed. Here is this fine singer singing her own fitting epitaph: While her appearance may have been worldly and seductive, in reality she was a doting mother.

oh, get me away from here, I’m dying play me a song to set me free I had the incredible good fortune of getting to see Belle and Sebastian live on their If You’re Feeling Sinister 30th Anniversary Tour this past weekend. They played through the whole of that album for the first half of the show, then did a set of fan favourites in the second half, complete with audience going up on stage to dance to ‘The Boy With the Arab Strap’. nobody writes them like they used to so it may as well be me It’s…

Magical musical musings from the mind of the marvellous John Matthews. Gavilán Rayna Russom is an artist, folklorist and curator based in New York City who has been making electronic music for over thirty years. In her early twenties she became an electronics engineer and by the start of the 2000s was busy building, tweaking, and fixing custom synthesisers for DFA Records and LCD Soundsystem – she actually joined James Murphy’s band full-time from 2009 to 2018. My introduction to her music came…

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How did I not know about the existence of the Suzuki Andes 25F, an instrument that looks like a melodica… …but sounds like a recorder or flute? Here’s Suzuki’s official product video for the Andes 25F, and the only it could be more Japanese would be if it didn’t have English text: (Also, I just learned that Suzuki trademarked the term “melodion”.) It can be quirky… It can be serious… It can even be haunting, in a melancholic 1980s way… Here are its innards …and I’m thinking, “You know, with one…

I’m at Album Club #187. I know Crash from when I was a kid, but have never heard the rest of the album.

The Jerseymacs have been very good this summer, and I am both obliged and pleased to reconsider my 2008 take: There is a moment when you take a bite that you can convince yourself it is going to taste like a McIntosh.... ¶ This year's is the same round, oblate, modestly ribbed apple, its red blush, streaky in spots, over spring green and decorated with light lenticels and a light bloom.

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So as I was getting ready to write this day-late weekly Boston-centric upcoming shows & announcements post, news of the 2027 edition of the Something In The Way fest over at Roadrunner (with a pre-show at The Sinclair) in early February popped up on my screen. Headlined by The Jesus And Mary Chain, Turnover, & […]

I've been playing music for a very long time...since I was in middle school. I have a pretty eclectic palate, but I have some staples pretty common for those of my generation. Shoegaze and its variations (specifically Dream Pop or Dream Rock) would never have been something I guessed I'd latch onto. Sure, the 1980s brought this musical idea to the masses with bands like Cocteau Twins, the Jesus and Mary Chain, and My Bloody Valentine, but they were really overshadowed by synth-pop and New…

Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts - Capitol Theater, Port Chester, New York, September 24, 2024Over on Aquarium Drunkard this week, I shared my thoughts on Second Song, Neil Young’s latest album. Go read my thoughts, damnit! In short, this is definitely one of Neil’s best this century, with introspective lyrics, gloriously loose arrangements and an elegiac vibe. It’s also a major upgrade in quality from Young’s last album, the mostly dismal Talking to the Trees. Second Song is the second studio…

As soon as the days visibly shorten and the air gets cool, I experience a mood best described as "cozy-morose." It is a mood for curling up under a blanket with a cup of tea and reveling in feeling just a bit sad. In 2017, with some help from Pinterest (which was still good at the time), I put together The Cozy-Morose Playlist. It lived on my Rhapsody account and later on my Spotify account. Since I'm no longer willing to pay for music without owning it, it's currently on PipePipe (my…

Wendy’s new emo rock album, Songs to Listen to in a Wendy’s Parking Lot is probably my favorite fast food promo project since the anime-styled “choose your own adventure”/dating simulator game I Love You Colonel Sanders. With songs produced by Matt Squire (credits include Panic! at the Disco, 3oh!3, All Time Low, Simple Plan and Sum 41) and featuring the following artists… Matty Mullins of Memphis May Fire and Anberlin Chloe Kinnon of Winona Fighter Shane Told of Silverstein Beau Bokan of…

You had me at “retro Balkan pop music night.”

Only just over a month away! I hope I know all the words of my new songs off by heart by then!Support is from songwriter extraordinaire Lorraine LucasTickets here: https://wegottickets.com/f/26674

Today’s TDC says Here’s an image of actress Olive Thomas likely pretending to be a jazz drummer. Share an unlikely song you can imagine her laying down the drum beats too. Olive Thomas (LOC) flickr photo by The Library of Congress shared with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) I think this track by AC/DC would be a good one for her to try, actually.

Welcome to the Thursday Pressing Concerns! We have new albums from Psychic Flowers and Homework that come out tomorrow (September 25th), as well as an archival release from The Catburgers that also comes out tomorrow and a brand-new LP from Deady that came out earlier this week. Check them out below, and if you missed Monday’s blog post (featuring Shotmaker, The Van Pelt, My Pet Fossil, and Carry Ripple), check that out too. If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory…

In this episode, Breandán Kearney sits down with Edward Vandermeersch of Rolling Hills brewery in Oudenaarde to discuss family and Oud Bruin. The post EP057 | Rolling Hills appeared first on Belgian Smaak.

Test Icicles For Screening Purposes Only This is a cross-post from my Sound Club music club, where I regularly share an album for listening and discussion. Check out the club here. The mid-00s UK rock scene had become a relatively safe space. The rise of the Strokes and The White Stripes in the US had their own response on the other side of the Atlantic, but it had ultimately culminated in the concept of ‘landfill indie’. Kaiser Chiefs, Keane, and The Zutons knocked out rock songs with little…

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 pressure to do every project. The Junto is weekly so that you know it’s there, every Thursday through Monday, when your time and interest align. Tracks are added to…

What’s a guilty pleasure song? I do not believe any pleasure is guilty. If something brings you pleasure then that is a good thing! Celebrate it!! I understand the thinking though, I’m sure there are some songs that we enjoy that fall outside the genres most of our friends would recognise as “ours”. For me, my oldest musical pleasures are, of course, songs my parents played. My Mum, the teenage screaming Beatles fan, had a love of singer-songwriters, especially those with the piano to the fore.…

Crucial Track for September 23, 2026: “Like a Stone” by Ben Thornewill What’s a song you’ve had on repeat recently? ∞ via Crucial Tracks

No.006 “u1ch.ing2m.ao4y.en4ch.ao3z” The only thing I know about No.006 is that it’s apparently a Chinese woman named Huang Hanqiu, but I’m not even certain about that. Weird electronic producers will lie about anything – or conceal anything – to seem interesting. But that sort of effort wouldn’t be necessary for a glitch track like this, which is somehow both totally incoherent and one of the year’s best earworm-y pop songs. Imagine Charli XCX at maximum Brat hookiness, but scrambled and warped…

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 21st February 2025 With all the excitement about the new Wayfarer record coming out, I searched my inbox to see if I was lucky enough to get a promo (I wasn’t, dear reader) but I did find ‘Wayfarer’ the album by Texan one man post/black/doom project Culak out last year, an album that I enjoyed on previous listens but had erroneously never written about. Well, I’m going to do that now, because this is a record more people should be listening to. It is out now…

Light Conductor are a duo, sometimes, often, trio of Montreal-based musicians who are members of the extended Godspeed You Black Emperor family. Their latest long-player, “Sequence Three”, is the final instalment in a trilogy that began in 2019. Citing Wolfgang Voigt, Spiritualized, Cluster and William Basinski as influences, and recording entirely with vintage analogue gear, the music they make is drone-driven. Their massed machines raising refracted, diffracted waves, washes of buzzing,…

Heard about Andrew W.K.’s new album (allegedly we’re calling this jazz-noir) in, of all places, a marketing email from Blackwing. Darcy Smyth describes it perfectly: This is lounge music for a room that might not exist, all smoke and red curtains, the kind of piano that sounds like it’s remembering something it can’t quite say. Total Twin Peaks Roadhouse energy, like Lynch left the lights on and wandered off. Been in rotation for days now.