Over the 40 years since their release I`ve played the A.R. Kane singles “When You’re Sad” and “Lollita” frequently. However, I’d rarely gone back to the album “i”, apart from the track, “A Love From Outer Space”, which I remain admittedly obsessed with. In preparation for interviewing Rudy Tambala, one half of the influential duo, I spent a very enjoyable hour with the long-player, listening and looking for clues. Speculating at sources of inspiration and listing possible points of reference,…
This second collection of jazz themed tracks is a mix of vintage, classic, contemporary, big band and modern swing. A treat for the ears and plenty to snap your fingers to.Track list:1 Baby I Need Your Lovin' - Lisa Stansfield (Swing) 2 Honeysuckle Rose - Jess Stacey (The Human Stain) 3 Chicago Shake - The Bruce Fowler Big Band (Public Enemies) 4 Flirtibird - Duke Ellington (Anatomy Of A Murder: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 5 Paid For Loving - Love Jones (Swingers) 6 Woodchopper's Ball -…
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 27th May 1996 An album that Bathory mastermind Quorthon shelved in 1989 for sounding too different from the band’s sound (he was probably right), 1996’s ‘Blood on Ice’ arrived just as the band’s ill advised old school thrash records confused everyone and yet perfectly as the folk metal scene was starting to rise from its formative roots in the previous few years. And yes, this is famously part of Bathory’s ‘Viking metal’ era but what is Viking metal if not…
Replied to Tadej Pogacar explodes the historic Alpe d'Huez record! (climbing-records.com) 1. 2026: 35:25 Tadej Pogacar 23.38 km/h. 2. 1995: 36:40 Marco Pantani 22.58 km/h. 3. 1997: 36:53 Marco Pantani 22.45 km/h. 4. 1994: 37:15 Marco Pantani 22.23 km/h. 5. 2004: 37:36 Lance Armstrong 22.02 km/h. I haven’t watched the Tour de France since 2016, mainly due to the fact I dropped cable and would need to subscribe to a streaming service that may or may not work with my all-Linux set-up. But I stay…
A hundred death metal albums not from the USA Where were you in 92? Well, I was being shepherded between various preschool childcare arrangements, blissfully unaware of the exploding death metal scene. Part I took us from the late 80s to 1991, and naturally Sweden dominated when you remove death metal’s other centre of gravity across the pond from the picture. By 1992, we get a more even spread geographically. Given the sheer density of material chucked out in this single year, I decided it…
Sonic Youth - Complex, Washington, DC, July 25, 1986What the world needs now, is EVOL, sweet EVOL. Right? Just about 40 years ago, Sonic Youth was touring all over in support of their classic third LP, which had been unleashed earlier that spring. A lotta good tapes from this era, some officially released, some unofficially circulated. This Washington, DC, show falls in the latter category — but with its high-fidelity recording and high-quality performance, it could easily be added to the…
[1973]In the great British tradition of singles not included on albums. Roxy Music's second single came out a month prior to their second LP For Your Pleasure but was not included on that record. It's crazy that such weirdness made the top 10 back in 73. It all floats along on a surreal electric marshmallow with a great intro, toppermost drum action, totally off kilter studio manipulated sax, unconventional arrangement of words for pop ie. no chorus, cool disorientating guitar shenanigans and…
I hadn’t listened to bluegrass in years until last weekend when I was frying green tomatoes. (You gotta have music to match the cooking.) I got the itch again today. Now playing: Ralph Stanley, “Clinch Mountain Gospel” 🎵 It’s so good.
I just heard that David Latchman has been made Vice-Chancellor of the University of London (until 2028). You can read about it here in the Times Higher. What the Times Higher doesn’t discuss (at all) is Latchman’s track-record of research misconduct. You can read a lengthy discussion of some of it in the following blog post. It is also discussed more briefly in Latchman’s Wikipedia page. If you want a symptom of the pathological state of the current higher education system, you need look no…
I ended up discovering a whole bunch of music that way. I downloaded a whole bunch of albums that I never had the opportunity to try because every album was an 18 dollar investment. That kind of radicalized me, and I became a fan of so much more music.” An absolutely fascinating read and extremely relatable.
"Sexual Healing" by Marvin Gaye Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Share a song that feels like it has healing powers - Sexual Healing by Marvin Gaye "Sexual Healing" works because the arrangement carries the argument: the drum machine's pulse against Gaye's voice creates tension between mechanical desire and genuine ache, which is the whole thesis of the song. View Lou Plummer's Crucial Tracks profile
Let us dive right in to this weeks metal releases and see what treasure we can dig up. Hails! Decapitated Prophet - death - PolandSquelching - death - USAInto Darkness - death/doom - ItalyInventtor - death/doom - BrazilSallow Moth - death/prog - USARipper - death/thrash - ChileFrostbite Terror - melodeath - FinlandTyraels Ascension - melodeath/metalcore - USARamshack - melodeath/groove - FinlandCelestia - melodeath/gothic - GreeceKrishna’s Cult - tech death - CanadaLitosth - black/death -…
❤️ https://blog.koehntopp.info/2026/07/22/moores-law-und-die-ai-blase/ Sehr schön zusammen gefasst. Es gefällt mir natürlich überhaupt nicht doch kann ich das selbst aus dem privaten Anwender-Umfeld absolut nachvollziehen. Die Leute kaufen seit Jahren keine “richtigen” PCs mehr und spielen auch lieber auf dem Tablet oder eben auf einer Konsole. Selbst meine eigenen Kinder sitzen lieber mit dem Smartphone *neben* dem PC und spielen auf dem Smartphone. Und wozu auch? Auf Steam und Co finden sich…
Austin’s favorite justice and joy rock trio, Parker Woodland, is back with their new EP, Police On My Back: Singles Collection Vol. 1, available July 24, 2026 on Flak Records. The album is available as a digital download on Bandcamp with sales of the single “Police on My Back” benefiting the Texas Civil Rights Project. The EP is also available on cassette and can be picked up at the album release on July 24 at Waterloo Records. Read the full review at The Cosmic Clash.
Me and my mate Davey used to play records by A.R. Kane. In our teens, listening to them on cassette, driving around in his car. trying to escape the boredom of Croydon. “When You’re Sad” and “Lollita”, especially. Then I left London for uni, and money for anything other than booze and drugs became scarce. I lost touch with the duo until I returned, in 1989, at the tail end of the extended “Second Summer Of Love”. Christian, someone I’d met at a temp job, lent me a copy of a fanzine called…
The trumpet is an instrument of thresholds. Its voice arrives from beyond the visible world, bearing summons and warning within the same breath. It can illuminate a melody’s architecture, then dissolve it until only a gleam remains. This rare sampler, included with the April 2016 issue of Musica Jazz, gathers master trumpeters associated with ECM and reveals how differently each has negotiated the border between declaration and disappearance. Mathias Eick’s “Dakota,” from Midwest (ECM 2410),…
I have an irrational aversion towards The Cardigans' second album, Life. Or the copy I have of it, anyway. The Cardigans' debut album Emmerdale was released in 1994 by Trampolene Records, a tiny subsidiary of the then-independent Stockholm Records - in Sweden only (and Japan where it randomly took off). The album did decently in Sweden and encouraged the label to give the band a bigger push overseas. The follow-up Life was recorded quickly thereafter and released the following year under the…
I've always admired Duval Timothy's minimalistic jazz, but this album's fascinatingly experimental. The heavier use of electronic instruments gives this a very interesting, ambient soundscape.
Can - Palais de Chaillot, Paris, France, September 4, 1975Can you dig it?! After a little break, the Can live series is revving back up again with Live in Arles, a tape from August 1975 recorded in a crumbling Roman amphitheatre on a bill with Nico and Kevin Ayers. Apparently, it’s “regarded as one of their finest performances, even by the band members themselves”! And yeah, it is definitely great, with a particularly killer rendition of “Vitamin C” that might’ve raised a few centurions from…
A Funk Odyssey Super Mario Odyssey 2001: A Space Odyssey Magnavox Odyssey Honda Odyssey The post Top 5 Odysseys appeared first on Cultrface.
It’s a Thursday blog post! We’ve got new albums from Little Gold, Cel Ray, Dom Sensitive, and Mesh, all out tomorrow (July 24th). Check them out, and if you missed Monday’s blog post (featuring Fig Dish, Hail Maria, Crash Outfit, and Red Star Sky), catch up on that one, too. 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. Little Gold…
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…
I’m delighted to share that The Blue Hour is now available on both Spotify and Apple Podcasts. The Blue Hour is a conversation—a dialogue about life, literature, science, philosophy and everything in between. Hosted by Farha Guerrero, the program airs live every Tuesday at 2 p.m. on CiTR 101.9 FM at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and streams live at citr.ca. Listen to The Blue Hour on Apple Podcasts Listen to The Blue Hour on Spotify You can also explore past broadcasts through…
“Lonely Deckchair”, the latest release on Ibiza-based label, NuNorthern Soul, aims to musically document a momentous family trip. Over the course of 10 tracks, the artist – Andrew Wright – invites us to join him as he travels with his young children to an Aguadulce idyll where he himself holidayed as a kid. This is the album’s premise, a return to innocence, a world full of wonder and possibility. Creating new memories, while revisiting the old. Song titles refer to not only the locale, but…
Freddy Cannon, best known for such songs as "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans," "Palisades Park," and "Action," died on July 17, 2026, at the age of 89. He also appeared on Svengoolie and wrote the songs "Svengoolie Stomp" and "Hey, Svengoolie" for the show.Freddy Cannon was born Frederick Anthony Picariello, Jr. on December 4, 1936, in Revere, Massachusetts. He grew up in Lynn, Massachusetts. His father was a truck driver, but also sang and played the trumpet in local bands. Exposed to music…
The sampler collaborations between Musica Jazz and ECM Records grew from a partnership woven into European jazz history. Founded in 1945, Musica Jazz is the world’s second-longest-running jazz magazine, and since November 1981, it has included an exclusive record or CD with every monthly issue. These releases extend the magazine’s criticism into sound, giving its features a parallel musical life. Producer Manfred Eicher has often helped curate these issue-specific compilations, each one a…
Here in New England, we got some serious smoke from the Canadian wildfires. How does it compare to other places? Interplanetary Smoke On 2026-Jul-15, smoke from some extensive Canadian wildfires blew down into the US, creating some surreal atmospheric color. (Also surreal: Trump, being an idiot, decided it was because Canadians didn’t properly rake leaves in their forests, and vowed to impose 50% punitive tariffs.) Californians are used to such things, but in New England that much smoke is very…
