"Just Like a Pill" by P!nk Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Hit shuffle on your music library and post the first song played My wife loves P!nk and I don't blame her. She's had a very successful and long career in an industry that has torn apart others. I like this song because it talks about how not every relationship is good for us. View Mandaris's Crucial Tracks profile Listen to my Apple Music playlist
"Golden" by HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. The last song you heard on the radio The song certainly has staying power as the movie was released more than a year ago. My daughter always asks us to skip it because she's heard it too many times. I relent because I understand the feeling but I still love it. View Mandaris's Crucial Tracks profile Listen to my Apple Music playlist
Ask anyone and they will tell you that two things that are featured heavily on Kuriositas are science fiction and dance – and never the twain shall meet. However, it is with unspeakable joy that I can feature a combination of the two. World-renowned tap dancer Demi Remick in cahoots with Postmodern Jukebox have created this wonderful dance feature where we can watch Remick go through her paces to the tune of ten of our favorite sci-fi themes – all to a jazzy swing beat. Starting with…
BGDN – do what the fk you like All dark 2-step for you tonight. First up, from BGDN (Bogdan Bobrov), a producer from Los Angeles. True to its title, this track has a rakish, devil-may-care quality that’s immediately disarming. It’s hard to say whether the track’s impeccable balance is a happy accident achieved in flow state or the result of meticulous care, but whatever bred this, I can’t get enough of that big perc hit that comes somewhere just off the 2 in each bar. It sounds sort of like…
Lo Recordings’ latest release explores the archives of Russian musician OID. The label have cherry-picked 7 shorter and 3 longer tracks that span 25 years of music making. Their choices touching on a variety of electronica sub-genres, while still demonstrating OID’s signature sound. “Ambite”, for example, is a cloud of warm, swirling vapour, while the music box ballerina melody of “Casket” moves to delicate, intricate, whizzing, and whirring IDM beats. “i-ph jz” mixes Morse Code signals with…
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 9th May 1986 There is a constant war within myself over which of the classic German thrash trio I enjoy the most, and it seems to depend on which I’ve listened to most recently. It is incredibly hard to argue which one has been more influential however, and as if to help me still not be able to make said argument, please welcome to the Anniversary Series Sodom’s magnificent ‘Obsessed by Cruelty’, an album that stands tall amongst its 1986 peers with ease. A…
Welcome to part 110 of my Never Ending Mixtape where the latest additions take us from 4,934 songs to 5,012 with the addition of Hit & Run Lover by Tommie Young.Over 5,000 songs! The teenage me who spent hours and hours creating C90 mixtapes for friends and for my own pleasure would never have dreamed you could create something like this - where you just add songs whenever, in no particular order!As always, I hope you find something wonderful that you've never heard before, or that you…
Just as he opened the new year with a (so far) one-off song, Korean shoegaze maestro Parannoul has welcomed the Summer with another new song. This follows three new releases through the Spring as Mydreamfever, so it’s likely that he – as much as his audience – needed to go back to the loud guitars, […] The post Parannoul – “Remaining” appeared first on Space Echo.
“Oh, it’s just a trick thing.” – Ben Ames Williams, Coconuts Here are six puzzles, some of them classics, that don’t look much alike on the surface. After stating them, I’ll give a hint about what they have in common. Then I’ll present solutions that all make use of the same slick trick in one form or another. Puzzle 1: A wealthy merchant died, leaving seventeen camels to be distributed among three heirs. The merchant’s will stipulated that one half of the camels should go to the eldest heir,…
While I’m still curating a score/soundtrack version of The List, I decided to go ahead and share an edition with artists I’ve never covered before. It can get synthy and… French Inhaler — “TV LOVE” This song caught my attention for a few reasons. Notably the Chicago-based band sounds like New Order, but in a way that isn’t all pastiche or cliché. Drummer Zane Chao in particular has the kinetic abilities of Stephen Morris. But don’t discount Adam O’Leary’s driving, sinewy bass and…
Exploring the Rich History of Funk and Soul Music: A Journey Through Rhythm and Emotion: Funk and soul music aren’t just sounds; they’re vibrant threads woven into the fabric of musical history. Emerging from the rich cultural tapestry of African American communities in the 20th century, these genres have become a cornerstone of musical innovation. They blend gospel’s fervor, jazz’s complexity, rhythm and blues’ groove, and rock’s edge to create a sound that moves both the heart and the feet.…
Pierre-Yves Martel - Weird Studies Vol. 3I’ve been a longtime fan of the Weird Studies podcast — an illuminating program that sometimes surpasses my understanding (still haven’t gotten around to reading Deleuze), but is always a good time. Since the beginning, Weird Studies has been bolstered by its supremely moody soundtrack, created by Pierre-Yves Martel. On the third Weird Studies release, Martel is joined by an array of heavy collaborators: Sarah Davachi, Ben Chasny and Joel Plaskett among…
This week’s theme: Sonny Rollins on RCA. Artists include Sonny Rollins, Jim Hall, Bob Cranshaw, Ben Riley, Billy Higgins, Don Cherry, Coleman Hawkins, Paul Bley, Roy McCurdy, Henry Grimes, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Thad JonesThe post Podcast: Sonny Rollins, the RCA Years first appeared on jazzcollector.com.
THE FORTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY of a volatile and sporadically violent Crass and Poison Girls gig in Perth on 4 July 1981 will be marked by a series of events in the city including “art, forum theatre, talks and debate.” Organisers Terminal Boredom are working with partners Osteria Bau Bau, Tippermuir Books and the Theatre of the Oppressed Scotland to put together a schedule of events across 4 July 2026. On the fourth of July 1981, Crass and Poison Girls played a gig in Perth’s Lesser City Hall.…
A Monthy Python castmate, Elvis, and several world cup soccer players all walk into a $100 million cage… It sounds like the start of a bad joke, doesn’t it? If I told you they were there to play in a 3v3 8-team single elimination goal tournament, all to the sounds of a (then) 34-year-old song remade by a Dutch artist best known for working on Tomb Raider, it’d just get weird, right? But24 years ago, that’s exactly what happened. Henry, Ronaldo, Scholes; they were all there, and they were all…
Last weekend witnessed the Trooping the Colors at St James’s Park, which saw 30 aircraft, 200 horses, the Massed Bands of the Household Division, and 1,400 service personnel of the armed forces mark The King’s Official Birthday. An Army-led event staged annually since 1760, the Trooping has been in its current format since 1889, and has been held in the summer since Edward VII was on the throne. This year saw the King’s Company, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, Troop their colors on London’s…
Graham Moore. UK. The Crave. These are the 3 details I have. There’s a Soundcloud with a bunch of songs, from different periods. All uploaded by Graham. there are other bands here like Geek Theatre, Electrocide, Baby Doll, Wisconsin Terror Project and The Invisible Cowboy. This last one I believe was the band that was just before The Crave as it mentions a 1992 release on a compilation. The other bands I have no clue but if I was to guess they came after. For The Crave the more interesting…
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You don’t fucking hate them enough. – “Officer” Michael Kennedy I’ve always counted Warner Brothers’ Merrie Melodies as the first music videos (short films intended to market a song), but I recently discovered this video, which pushes the mark back almost as far as it can go, to barely after the advent of sound movies. This is a sequence from King of Jazz (1930), a two-strip technicolor feature which is apparently a compilation of such videos; this is an abridged arrangement of Gershwin’s…
After a seven-year void, Texas pioneers of brutal death metal, Devourment, have returned with a surprise new 12-minute EP that emphatically proves they haven't diminished an ounce of their purpose: absolute heaviness. The '10s saw the band releasing two albums with fairly different responses from the audience, yet I fully enjoyed both Conceived In Sewage (2013) and Obscene Majesty (2019), the latter being of course better. As with everyone else, I didn't see Pious Impiety coming, a three-track…
Hello there, and welcome to “roughly halfway through the year 2026”. Below, you’ll find forty records that RO loved more than anything else so far this year. As always, there’s a bunch of good music I wasn’t able to fit on here (check the site directory for other records we’ve written about recently), but I’m quite happy with this list. I think you will be, too! The list is unranked, ordered alphabetically by artist name (last year I did it reverse-alphabetically, and I alternate it every…
Ruby vs. Missy Elliott Good morning! Today we’re taking a quick look at Ruby’s Short Staffed at the Gene Pool as it faces off against Missy Elliott’s Miss E: So Addictive! Imagine, if you will, a world where, instead of venturing to America’s Dairyland, Shirley Manson decides to make a record with, say, Tricky or Thievery Corporation. Feel free to substitute Curve’s Toni Halliday here if you prefer. If you squint hard enough, you can see it—and when you do, you’ll have a pretty good idea of…
Quentin Tarantino movies have always been known for their killer soundtracks. The music selection is a mix of powerful rock, blues and soul and fits in perfectly with the movie storyline. With so many good tracks to choose from, this is part one. Part two to follow.1 Everybody Be Cool - George Clooney (From Dusk Till Dawn) 2 Misirlou (Remastered) - Dick Dale and His Del-Tones (Pulp Fiction) 3 Dark Night - The Blasters (From Dusk Till Dawn) 4 Goodnight Moon - Shivaree (Kill Bill Vol. 2) 5 Across…
Working at Isthmia gives me less time to listen to music than working in Cyprus, but this weekend, I did have time to listen to the latest Ambrose Akinmusire and Mary Halvorson album, Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings (2026). I have to admit that I don’t know many albums that feature a duet between a trumpet and a guitar (although the concept seems to align with ECM’s mid-1970s sound). This album, though, is nothing like mid-1970s ECM. Akinmusire’s trumpet is too assertive—maybe along the lines of…
Psychic Driving – This Devil Ship First up tonight, rage bathed in tranquility — or maybe more accurately, a representation of the sort-of relieved quality that the frustration of resignation can sometimes take on. This piece by Scottish producer Psychic Driving (real name Ross Drummond) centers around the final transmissions from Vladimir Komarov, the Soviet cosmonaut who boarded Soyuz 1 despite knowing it was critically compromised, furious at the people who sent him to his death (his was the…
Hatchback’s latest set for Lo Recordings takes inspiration from the music of his youth. Consisting of 4 “side-long” tracks (i.e. 18 to 20 minutes in duration) of “Californian Cosmic” it draws on jazz, kosmische, prog rock and albums by Miles Davis, Pink Floyd, Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream and Yes. The collection opening and closing with temple chimes, and each peaceful piece evolving organically from an extended, atmospheric intro. “And The Walls Became The World All Around” starts with slow,…
Not in any order, list is from me going through my entire spotify liked songs playlist and pulling the ones I'm most interested in. In fact, I don't even know if all of these bands are still touring or not.... If you end up checking any of them out and you like em, let me know! Mastodon or email, either work :)
Scream & Writhe just updated with a ton more new stock including releases from Mouhoi such as one of my latest tapes, Notation Knives! He's also got one of the last 2 remaining copies of Opaline Scale. You can get them here. I've been plugging away at some new material to play at the upcoming shows with Lucas Abela, as well as at Initial Shock. I'll have a new tape available for those shows documenting material that I played at the show with Death Kneel and knifedoutofexistence in London a…
