What is Dave wearing today? In spirit, Dave is wearing a coat of many colors. In reality, he is wearing an off-white polo shirt and red shorts. How does Dave feel today? Dave is reflective. What are the factors affecting Dave's mood? Dave is mourning Dolly Parton while celebrating her life and accomplishments. Has Dave ever entered a Dave lookalike contest for drag queens and come in last? No, Dave has not done that. Dolly Parton did.

By RCA Records - https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54429601 Decide who you are, and do it on purpose— Dolly Parton

What I listened to at the record store. Before I left for the record store today, I received some good news. I'll write about that tomorrow, so it won't overshadow this post. :) Outfit of the day. MY OUTFIT ✿ T-shirt: Cecelie Bahnsen x Uniqlo ✿ Skirt: Monki ✿ Socks: Tamagotchi ✿ Shoes: Fila (secondhand) I let fate take the reigns today. I started in the "T" section, hoping to run into another TV On the Radio album.* Instead, I picked up "Takeshi's Cashew," a band I'd never heard of but found…

Like many people, I was sad to read news that Dolly Parton died in Nashville, Tennessee yesterday, August 25, 2026, at the age of eighty years old. From the obituary on her website: A rhinestone life that shone bright enough for the world to see, Dolly will forever stand as an inspiration not only through her timeless music and prolific songwriting, but also her wit, warmth, and kindness that made us all feel like family. Dolly Parton’s legacy is one of love, kindness, and resilience. With a…

Hey people! A few weeks ago, I was catching up on some of the newest releases from the Welsh Bryn Rock label, which is something I do once in a while, because it’s co-founded by one of my faza peeps, Jacob Elwy, with his brother Morgan, and also because they’ve released a lot of great music in the last few years, so I like to keep an eye on it, even if I don’t follow them, like, massively systematically at this point. And it was during this last catch-up that the music of Osh Gierke caught my…

Completely at odds with most prevailing trends in the shoegaze/dreampop space, Los Angeles’ Bubble Tea & Cigarettes make songs so delicate they sound as though made of spun glass. I missed their set last month headlining Loveless Fest, but did catch them last year at The Drake Underground and while I was expecting something exceedingly […] The post Bubble Tea & Cigarettes – “bluebird” appeared first on Space Echo.

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I found a fun little quip from John Wright, the drummer of Nomeansno, about the history of music post Nirvana. Every major label tried to sign every band, and then it became no longer an alternative, it sort of became co-opted by the mainstream and people moved on to hip hop and dub step and then everyone got sick of rock and roll and went to raves. — Wrong (album) on Wikipedia 🎵

Dolly Parton - Musikladen 1977Goodbye to real American dreamer Dolly Parton! Yesterday after the sad news broke, the various online timelines overflowed with love and appreciation for the singer-songwriter-philanthropist-actor-theme-park-proprietor. And it’s all deserved. Just imagine — you devote your life to spreading joy, acceptance and kindness and it comes right back to you in the end. There’ll never be anyone else like Dolly, but we can still try to follow her radiant example. Hers is a…

I can't remember when the last essential American 60s garage rock compilation was issued... sometime in the early 00s with the ace Teenage Shutdown cd series and those seven volumes of Fuzz, Flaykes & Shakes. This month however an excellent cd has been released Teen Beat Mayhem: Slipped Thru The Cracks. So these never previously compiled tunes come from the record collection of Mike Markesich. He of course is known to garage fans as the author of 2012's TeenBeat Mayhem the most exhaustive and…

youtube • video ID: hNI_Qx3cspEclick image to load player It takes a generational talent to take a song like “House of the Rising Sun” and make it in your own way. RIP This article was originally published at: https://andrei.xyz/quickies/dolly-parton-house-of-the-rising-sun-live/

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Herman and Sharlet with the Tennessee Valley BoysLP Promotional PLP 190Rimrock pressing from late sixties tracklist1 - Will The Circle Be Unbroken.mp3 2 - Just A Closer Walk With Thee.mp3 3 - The Amen Corner.mp3 4 - How Beautiful Heaven Must Be.mp3 5 - I'll Never Die.mp3 6 - Satisfied.mp3 7 - Give Mother My Crown.mp3 8 - How Great Thou Art.mp3 9 - The Third Man.mp3 Last track (If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again) is missing.From the back cover :In the years I have worked with and around…

In the heat of Sunday afternoon I happened to find myself at a country music festival by the Thames, listening to Definitely Dolly — a Dolly Parton impersonator and her four-piece band. When I told an American neighbour where I was going, she predicted that there would be “heartbreak — and trucks.” She was wrong about that. Instead there were hats and boots. And beer. And a lot of people having a good time listening to decent renderings of immortal songs like “I Will Always Love You”, “Jolene”…

Vafurlogi: Gneisti af eldi GuðsOut 26th June on NoEvDia/Oration True to the spirit of Icelandic black metal, this is a rhythmically informal, cyclically structured set of layered guitar chords defined by loose dissonance and overlapping main themes that seem to emerge from the background before casually decaying away. But unlike Svartidauði or Carpe Noctem, Vargurlogi point the music toward the orchestral over the industrial, furnishing us with a surplus of material oriented around fatalism, a…

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Dear Fellow Listeners, The old Listening Post feature of This Week in Sound has been renamed Throughline to better represent the underlying concept. The concept is an annotated three-item music playlist/mixtape, each entry centered on a different theme, that theme being the “through line” between the varied tracks. What constitutes a through line? It might be instrumentation (as in this issue), or technique, or cultural heritage, or record label, or scene, or medium, or mode of consumption, or…

Favorited Maxell brings back classic 1970s cassette tapes — 1970s ferric formula is custom-made for vintage PC data drives | Tom's Hardware by Mark Tyson (Tom's Hardware) Creating mix tapes is hinted at as a possible use of a pack of UD-60Us. Normal-position tapes (Type I ferric) like these are not the best for high-fidelity audio recordings. I always liked to use Chrome (Type II) or even Metal (Type IV) tapes for my own hi-fi mixes and recordings. Nevertheless, ferric tapes are ideal for 8-bit…

Former CBC and CTV News anchor Lloyd Robertson passed on this month, at the age of 92. He presented Canadian news for more than four decades, the longest uninterrupted stretch of anyone in North America. I remember him for a period in the 2000s when CTV had among the earliest news podcasts I subscribed to. His voice, along with Mark Colvin, Keith Olbermann, and the regular cast of the NHK World, became a daily fixture of my life for many years. I’m not religious, but it’s fun to think of him…

Matthieu Beck / Suede Dubs In 2022, French musician Matthieu Beck released his album, “Here Alone”, on Growing Bin. The record gaining a rave Ban Ban Ton Ton review, care of Secret Soul Society’s Cal Gibson. Beck has now singled out the track “Suede”, commissioned a couple of cracking remixes and pressed them onto a super limited, bespoke 45. The original was a sun stroked, tropical skank, with pan pipe-coloured keys countering a pretty, “Moments In Love”-esque piano melody. Time Capsule’s Kay…

And as a fitting tribute to Dolly, one of my favorite bands of all time cover Jolene.

The Estate of Andy Warhol & The Andy Warhol Visual Arts Foundation, Dolly Parton, 1984, acrylic and ink on canvas, 42 x 42 inches, sold at Christie’s in 2012 by a bankrupt Atlanta developer It’s not clear how many people realized it in 1975 or 1984 when Andy Warhol made these portraits of her, or in 2012, when Christie’s sold them as a “prime example of American Kitsch” for failing real estate developers dodging a collateral call, Andy Warhol, Dolly Parton, 1975, Polaroid, 4 1/4 x 3 3/8 in.,…

VERY LIMITED STOCKS of two twelve-inch Poison Girls re-releases are available through the band’s new official Bandcamp site. First up, is the 2016 Water Wing re-release of the 1982 Where’s the Pleasure LP, pressed on 80gm vinyl and packaged in a polythene slip sleeve Second up, in the 2015 All The Madmen twelve-inch re-issue of “Persons Unknown” and “Statement”. Both vinyls are available to buy by customers in the UK. Poison Girls – Where’s The Pleasure LP (Water Wing 2016) and Poison Girls –…

Steve SwallowWinter Songs Mike Rodriguez trumpetChris Cheek tenor saxophoneSteve Cardenas guitarGil Goldstein pianoSteve Swallow bassAdam Nussbaum drumsRecorded September 2024 at Sear Sound, New YorkEngineer: Tyler McDiarmidCover photo: Luciano RossettiAn ECM ProductionRelease date: June 26, 2026 “I was there when this music was written. In fact, my hand held the pencil. I began with the need to do something to fill each long day, and music rushed forward to sustain me. Before Winter Songs I…

VIRUS HAVE RELEASED a new single Architects of Evil in both vinyl and digital download formats. Title track “Architects of Evil” is backed by “Fuck Off Farage.” Both tracks were recorded at Axe & Trap Studios, Wells, on 22 November 2025 and were produced by Ben Scott and Virus.The physical version of the single is pressed on recycled vinyl, and is limited to 300 copies. Both versions are available from the band’s Bandcamp site. Virus. 2026. The Architects of Evil. Virus.…

The Purse (direct link)From the album “Live At Folsom Prison” recordedat The Julia Tutwiler Prison For Women, Wetumpka, Alabama, USAMega Records, 1970 The full album is available HERE Note: Rest assured, sensitive souls, women behind the bars photographied by Bill Forshee were not actual inmates. They were models. * On January 13, 1968 Johnny Cash recorded his legendary concert album “At Folsom Prison” within the walls of that California penitentiary. It is considered by many to be the greatest…

ADVANCED RECORDS WILL release a limited edition vinyl compilation of all four John Peel sessions by The Cravats this November. Limited to just 150 copies, The Cravats – The Complete Peel Sesions will be released “on double clear vinyl with black smoke” and in a gatefold sleeve designed by Rob Dallaway. The material was previously issued by Overground Records in 2021. The track listing is as follows: A) Welcome Pressure Sellers Who’s In Here With Me Live For Now Precinct B) Still In Your Eyes…

Damn. Dolly Parton.

This week’s theme: Continuing the celebration of the third anniversary of Jazz Collector Live and Jazz Collector Radio. Featured artists include John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Arthur Taylor, Eric Dolphy, Freddie Hubbard, Jacki Byard, George Tucker, Roy Haynes, Dexter Gordon Tommy Flanagan, Larry Ridley, Alan Dawson, David Burns, Stanely Turrentine, Wynton Kelly, Tal Farlow, Eddie Costa, Rosemary Clooney, Sonny Rollins, Jake Hanna, Scott Hamilton, Bill Berry, Billie Holiday, Lester…

Dolly Parton, one of the most awesome humans on the planet, has passed away at age 80. This one is hitting harder than most for me; I have nothing but pleasant memories of Dolly’s music and seeing her performances throughout the entertainment industry over the decades. She’s done so many great things throughout her career. I encourage you to visit Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, which shares books to encourage youngsters to read. The world will definitely miss her. We needed more people…