The longer I keep doing these regular mid-week ‘Boston-area shows’ posts, the more repetitive the preambles are going to become. I should just get down to business. So I will! Here are a couple of lists: First, local-ish shows that are coming up within the next seven days that are either in my taste wheelhouse, […]
Blumi Jaguar Entering with the kind of bass line that threatens to chin you, Jaguar is Blumi’s first release for Capitane Records, and provides a preview into her forthcoming debut LP, Steady Heart. The tension at Jaguar’s core is concerned with the dichotomy between the individual and society — our need for space and solitude, combined with the desire for connection. That cool bass line is complimented by a percussion section that feels like a pan about to boil over. Together, they underpin…
. [I do a list at the end of every year. And sometimes I also do a shorter list in the middle. Not all of these records were released this year, but this was the year I heard and enjoyed them.] Dijon – BabyTitanic – HAGENSetting – Setting keiyaA – hooke’s lawNadah El Shazly – Laini TaniMaurice Louca – Barĩy (Fera) برٌِيChyna Baejing and Boneweso – BAEJING BALLADmary sue, bloomcycle – Self Expressions From Selling Reflections On The Internet .
It’s been a poorly kept secret for years now that there were Mojave 3 reissues coming from 4AD at some point, but details had been less than vague until recently. Back in April 4AD released a limited edition run of their 1995 debut Ask Me Tomorrow as part of the Rough Trade 50 reissue series, […] The post Mojave 3 – “Love Songs On The Radio” appeared first on Space Echo.
All One Song - “Down by the River” with Lee RanaldoWelcome back to All One Song, a Neil Young podcast presented by Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions. We’ve spent the last couple months conversing with a bunch of great musicians and writers about — you guessed it — Neil Young! But the end is nigh, my friends … today, we are wrapping up season two of All One Song. I’ll be handing back the Transmissions keys to Jason Woodbury, who already has a killer lineup of interviews coming up this summer. Will…
From Against the Cult of Commodity's "Orthodox D&D - a curious find." I went through the trouble to read the scanned paper, so I thought I might as well transcribe it. What Is Orthodox D&D?The philosophers have only interpreted RPGs in various ways; the point, however, is to play. This question, simple as it is, has been the focus of much discussion in dungeon and dragon game circles. But among intellectuals it has gradually become fashionable to greet any profession of faith in Dungeons &…
From Against the Cult of Commodity's "Orthodox D&D - a curious find." I went through the trouble to read the scanned paper, so I thought I might as well transcribe it. What Is Orthodox D&D? The philosophers have only interpreted RPGs in various ways; the point, however, is to play. This question, simple as it is, has been the focus of much discussion in dungeon and dragon game circles. But among intellectuals it has gradually become fashionable to greet any profession of faith in Dungeons &…
A few days ago my wife took me on a trip to Madrid for a concert of my favorite classical music composer - Ludovico Einaudi. What a show it was! And how can a piano composer fill out an entire arena with 10-12 thousand viewers and entertain them for almost 3 hours so that they don’t want to leave and can’t get enough? Here’s how: The Spanish Christmas Lottery Ad in 2015 How I discovered Ludovico and his brilliant music? A piano player is a rock star? Ludovico Einaudi in Apple Park! The Spanish…
Women of music volume 17
When my brother Pete and I were kids, and our parents were out of town, we ditched school for a week and cut an “album” by recording backing tracks to my dad’s reel-to-reel, then live overdubbing on different instruments and capturing the whole mess on a cassette recorder. We didn’t know what we were doing, so we recorded the quiet, acoustic instruments first. Then we overdubbed electric organ and drums. Our second-pass instruments drowned out everything we’d recorded first. How we kept time is…
Trust me #117Sundress by Ben KwellerI've spent considerable time revisiting the sunshine, open road, warm breeze guitar pop of Ben Kweller over the last month. Kweller had a magnificent run of 00's albums; his debut Sha Sha (2002), On My Way (2004), Ben Kweller (2006) and Changing Horses (2009). There was a large gap between 2012's Go Fly A Kite and 2021's Circuit Boredom, but Kweller seems to have the bug again, releasing Cover the Mirrors (including collaborations with Waxahatchee and The…
Назустріч Останньому Світанку (Towards the Last Dawn)Out 29th May on ATMF The debut EP from this Ukrainian outfit is reminiscent of early Abigor in the way it roots a romanticist aspiration in the adventurism of medievally derived melodic lines. But it manages to contain this within an expression of metal at once strikingly energetic and conflicted. There is a frantic push and pull across these tracks, as the rhythmic momentum continually yanks the emotive currents in antagonistic directions.…
2026 • LP To see all 6 photos, visit the article page. This article was originally published at: https://andrei.xyz/records/vunk-suflet-digital/
It’s not every day that you hear a cover that is so good that it redefines the song forever. Here’s Desert Rose by Faouzia www.youtube.com/watch Faouzia sang this song at a charity event in front of Sting and he said he’ll never sing it again, it’s hers.
DOS – Future Paradise Crystalline modern electro from Austrian producer DOS (real name Noah Gorbach). The drums are ace here, but it’s hard to focus on anything but that enormous mid-90s ROMpler piano riff. This is what it would have sounded like had Robert Miles decided to produce electro instead of radio trance, and gosh, I really wish he had. As someone who finds classic machine funk rhythms deeply irresistable and infectious, I often wish more producers of the genre would stray a bit from…
Londoner Artificial System has returned with a new EP of dark, uncompromising, psychedelic electronica. Compositions he’s termed “inter dimensional excursions”. The set takes its title, “X/E/C/K”*, from a frighteningly potent drug cocktail, and throughout features sampled dialogue and that describes the use and effects of undisclosed pharmaceuticals. The mid-tempo techno pounding of “Killing Time Before We Get High” pits sinister squelching and Sci-Fi sound effects against rattling snare rolls.…
There exist no end of bands that have toured, or continue to tour, well past their sell-by dates. Often, the modern lineup of the bands have only nominal overlap with the version of the group that recorded the hits. The Stones are kinda like this, since only two guys on stage at a Stones show were part of recording the bulk of their setlist — even Ron Wood is a newcomer by that metric. Sometimes, even, there’s no overlap at all: nobody in Lynyrd Skynyrd in 2026 was in the band before 1987, long…
NEW RELEASE – DE GROOTE – FAES DUO Flemish eclecticism of the grittiest and soulfullest order. [row-start] [half] [/half] [half] Personnel Bruno de Groote (guitar), Ben Faes (bass), Dré Pallemaerts (drums) Recorded in 2025 at Studio Portino in Antwerp Released as Vlaamsekunst Records 004 in 2026 Track listing Time Unfolding / Floating On Time / On A Timeline / Drifting Low / Acte de Présence / Leaving The Nest / Another Road / Break Of Day / September Blues / Spinning Days [/half] [row-end]…
The Best Record of 1989: Day 16
In this week's Radio Times - Doctor Who, The Monkees, Belle And Sebastian, Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World and Jailhouse Rock. Not THAT Belle And Sebastian. But also them too.
This was inspired by writing a review of this paper, and reuses some material from my review. I don’t think that paper is very good, but my problems are with the whole approach, including much “classier” looking work published in better venues. This article also expands and repeats some arguments I made here.With modern genomics you can try to find out things about DNA. The obvious thing is “what does it do?” What role does this genetic variant play in biology, in building a human, and thereby…
My current jam is Love Yourself (1999 Electronic Demo) by Sufjan Stevens.
Dysthen: DysthenOut 29th May, self-released Brings a tight, crisp survey of Nordic black metal that, whilst not exactly offering anything new, justifies the extent of its emotive intensity through a sharp consolidation of melodic talking points alongside a bracing momentum sustained throughout the course of this brief EP. In this endeavour it conveys a sense of the epic within a relatively short runtime, stretching out the listener’s perception of time by asking them to undertake a journey…
The algorithm is terrible, and many outlets end up covering the exact same releases from a given week, based on factors that have little to do with having listened to the releases at issue. But navigating the onslaught of new releases every week is intimidating. I have a methodology for navigating the flood, which you might consider, which provides a manageable listening Step 1: Look at the list of upcoming releases on Consequence. https://consequence.net/upcoming-releases/ The list is fairly…
Lovage vs. Unwound Good morning! Today we’re taking a quick look at records from Unwound and Lovage. Mike Patton contains multitudes. For every weird or abrasive track he’s been on (i.e. anything by Mr. Bungle), there’s been an equal number of straight up rockers, ballads, or smoothed out tracks. He’s also no stranger to concept albums (see again: Mr. Bungle). Nor is Nathaniel Merriweather aka Dan the Automator, aka one half of Handsome Boy Modeling School. The two of them team up with singer…
"Tell me about [insert musical artist here]." That's what makes Track Star on YouTube so good. Sure, I can look at the Wikipedia page about a band like The Black Crows. But what if I asked a random Gen X-er about it. What would she tell me? What details would she bring up? It isn't about the chronological events of how a band came to be or who the members are. The real meat is what the songs meant. I recommend checking the series out. Great stories. Great music finds.
Der gute Hus Kingpin, dem ich hier schon einen Beitrag gewidmet habe, kommt heute mit dem Track „Best of the Best, Pt. 2“ zum Zug. Hört euch das an, es lohnt sich. Bei Klick wird dieses Video von den YouTube Servern geladen. Details siehe Datenschutzerklärung.
This blurb at Ars Technica really kind of sums it up — sorta: They go too far in praising Spielberg; I don’t think he’s been an interesting director in a long, long time. He was always a little hit or miss, but looking at his filmography I don’t see a genuinely great movie in there since Ryan in 1998. AI was a turgid mess. Minority Report collapsed under the twin singularities of the director and the star. The new film will have rousing music and some no doubt fun action set pieces, but it’ll…
"Little Boxes" by Malvina Reynolds Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What song makes you think of your childhood home?-Little Boxes by Malvina Reynolds Once again, I owe my Mom a debt of gratitude for being the most influential person in my musical life. It's not just the artists she introduced to me, buy the values they represent. I don't remember not knowing this song. Mt brother and sister and I sang it on many car trips. View Lou Plummer's Crucial Tracks…
If you’re only just now joining us: this is part two of my list of my favorite forty albums/EPs of 2026 thus far, presented in alphabetical order by artist name. Thanks for reading! View part one of the list here. Here are links to stream a playlist of these selections via Spotify and Tidal (Bandcamp links are provided below for all records). Loto – _____ Release date: April 17thRecord label: Self-releasedGenre: Art rock, soft rock, chamber pop, indie popFormats: Digital On the latest album…
