After a somewhat lacklustre first half and a similarly underwhelming resumption, last night’s Prom concert commemorating the centenary of the birth of Miles Davis finally took wing in a sold-out Royal Albert Hall with a sultry version of “Once Upon a Summertime”, Michel Legrand’s melody delivered with understated elegance by the great trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire in front of the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Miho Hazama. Miles recorded the tune with Gil Evans in 1962 for Quiet Nights,…

Reflecting Light from KINLEY—our neighbour here in the C1A 4R4 for a time—was released today:Reflecting Light is a five-song release built on strong pop instincts, lyrics that turn small moments into whole stories, and production that moves easily between dreamy, synth-bright and infectious.Across the record, KINLEY writes in scenes. A relationship can feel like a natural disaster or a happily ever after. A stranger can become a love interest and a big break before the conversation is even…

Hey people! Tomorrow, in the traditional Catholic calendar used until 1969, is the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, which also happens to be the patronal feast of my local SSPX church that has been my and my family’s parish for the last almost six years, so it’s an important feast for us. I thought that, this year, I would commemorate it in “Bibiel Hears Things” by sharing a Marian-themed piece that alludes to the sword of Simeon’s prophecy – which is where the imagery of Our Lady’s…

I saw Miles Davis play live at the Hammersmith Odeon on 21 April 1982. As our first son Freddie was born on the same day I might describe this as the best day in my life, but the trouble with describing one day as the best is it that it downgrades all others, including the day I met my wife, the days when our other children and grandchildren were born, and other days with special, sometimes unmentionable, events. Anyway I was tremendously excited to see Miles, not only because I loved his music…

Dave LarryMy Confession to You(Dave Larry, Barkip Music Pub.)B'n KC 102-B1963 Cash Box, March 30, 1963 *The tiny B'n KC (meaning?) from California had only one other release (101 Dave Cullen : Bye Bye Blackbird). Thanks to Klepsie at 45cat, who found the following clippings in Cash Box, we know that Dave Larry was a pseudo for Dave Yates. "Dave Yates mgr. of AMCO’s one-stop has a new release on the B’nKC label, “Only A Dream” b/w “My Confession to You”. Both the lyrics and music were also…

Another week has come to its conclusion and that means it’s time to blow off some steam with some new metal. Hails! Nekrodawn - death - SwedenAzatoth - death - FinlandStreet Tombs - death - USADeathgrave - death/grind - USANethergate - tech death - USAShabti - death/prog - USANoumena - melodeath - FinlandColliding Worlds - melodeath/goth - GermanyRistridi - melodeath/power/prog - GermanyMartyrium - black/death - NetherlandsMind Affliction - black/death - PolandDysthymia - black - USASylve -…

Another week has come to its conclusion and that means it’s time to blow off some steam with some new metal. Hails! Nekrodawn - death - SwedenAzatoth - death - FinlandStreet Tombs - death - USADeathgrave - death/grind - USANethergate - tech death - USAShabti - death/prog - USANoumena - melodeath - FinlandColliding Worlds - melodeath/goth - GermanyRistridi - melodeath/power/prog - GermanyMartyrium - black/death - NetherlandsMind Affliction - black/death - PolandDysthymia - black - USASylve -…

Women Of Music Volume 25Grace Slick on cover tracklistBaby Doll And Her Royal Swingsters - Down By The Wood Shed.mp3Barbara Evans - Beatnik Daddy.mp3Barbara Hogue & The Countrymen - Specialize In Love.mp3Betty Smith - Yeah- Baby .mp3Betty Spears -Truck Driving Woman .mp3Elie Marty - Leave Me Like You Found Me .mp3Flo Fontana Booze It Up.mp3Grace Slick - Sally Go 'round The Roses.mp3Jeannie Owen - Dumb Little Jeannie From Tennessee.mp3Mari Norleen - Knock Me A Kiss.mp3Paulette Seymour - We Gotta…

I'd gladly follow her into any battle with this song in the lead- a beautifully infectious, somewhat quirky, and highly melodic song (with a long convoluted history) as are many in Sinead's repertoire. Her rendition captivating and life affirming- as was she...

What song makes you want to write poetry? Has to be Guy Garvey, a wonderful weaving wordsmith. And while there are many songs to choose, and while I already feel the tears creeping to my eyes, it has to be Scattered Black & Whites. Why? This is why: Been climbing trees I’ve skinned my knees My hands are black, the sun is going down She scruffs my hair in the kitchen steam She’s listening to the dream I weaved today Crosswords through the bathroom door While someone sings the theme-tune to the…

Baychimo – Magical Keygen Brilliant piece from Danish artist Baychimo (Frederik Meyer), from his latest full-length Personality Computer. The album is an ode to the optimism of nascent Y2K internet culture, its atmosphere of exploratory hopefulness, and lack of cynicism. Specifically, this song pays tribute to the often gorgeous — but anonymous and completely ephemeral — songs that accompanied software keygens, which were presumably made by the crackers themselves or their friends. While this…

Recent highlights from Steve Barker’s legendary On The Wire radio selected bySecret Soul Society‘s Cal Gibson. Sometimes, just sometimes, when a radio show has been broadcasting for forty-two years like Steve Barker‘s beyond legendary On The Wire has, then you may find yourself having inevitably missed a few episodes. This would doubtless be a mistake as each and every programme over the decades is packed full of esoteric, shape-shifting, dub-adjacent sounds hand-picked by Steve and wingman…

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 21st March 2026 The debut demo/EP from Swedish atmospheric black metal newcomers Vassal State, ‘The Withering Wreath’, is out now and features David Nilsson of death metallers Feral on vocals. Now, you’d think that would be an interesting choice for an atmospheric black metal band, but Vassal State don’t really follow a huge amount of the genre’s most obvious tropes, so I think that should work out well. ‘The Withering Wreath’ is out now via Bandcamp.…

As those of you subscribed to this humble blog have likely noticed, I’ve recently been working my way through a small mountain of ECM rarities: out-of-print anthologies, obscure compilations, promotional samplers, and other releases dwelling in the margins of the label’s already expansive catalogue. Some are deep cuts in the truest sense; others seem determined to remain off the record altogether. I’ve wanted to tackle these elusive items for a long time. If Between Sound and Space is to come…

The ECM 40 Years collection originated as a special promotional compilation released in 2009 with Issue #200 of the Greek magazine Jazz & Τζαζ. Compiled by Giorgos Charonitis with evident care, it considers how ECM reshaped modern jazz and contemporary classical music through minimalist restraint and the intimacy of “chamber jazz,” while freeing improvisation from inherited borders. Across these 16 selections, the label’s history becomes a study in passage. Musicians cross between idioms while…

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard “Level 5” I’ve noticed that when King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard make their most radical genre shifts, like their album-length forays into metal and electronic music, they stick closer to their recurring lyrical obsession with manmade disasters. This could just be a response to the extremity of the sound – it makes some sense to pair metal with lyrics about environmental catastrophe, and for that to extend that into techno-based meditations on extinction.…

In 2023 we were lucky to have the Grey Cup visit our house. We gathered the Argonotes Alumni Choir around my piano to serenade the Cup with a rousing chorus of Go Argos Go I had sort of forgotten about that but came across the video of the event on social media, and was amused by the auto-generated-by-AI lyrics that had been added to the song. Sing along! Incorrectly! It’s the rarely performed third verse! Go, Toronto Marcos, go go go Go together, fight the Bo, Bo Bo! Story touch us for the…

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Very fun, feel-good 80s-style fusion jazz. Energetic and very much on the pop side; it's a good start to the day. And don't you just love that cover art?

Toronto’s Otsyuda have been making a name for themselves both as one of the city’s promising new shoegaze/dreampop acts and as an international supergroup of sorts – their collective resume including Russia’s Blankenberge, Colombia’s Encarta 98 and TALES, and Canada’s Group Therapy. Following a couple of singles last year, the band have readied their debut […] The post Otsyuda – “As Above, So Below” appeared first on Space Echo.

2026/08/20 Thursday I was working with my cousin this weekend, we were listening to this mixed playlist I made, a guy had recommended some modern [Brazilian] rap groups to me because I have no idea of what came out in the last 20 years. Rap now is very mainstream and it's pure crap, the rap I knew wouldn't play on TV or big radio stations, it was too disturbing, the lyrics were very heavy on social issues, and the crap that would appear on TV were viewed as badly by hip-hop fans as punks would…

Neil Young - Letter From ‘NamOver on Uncut this month, I wrote a little overview of Neil Young’s “lost” albums — many of which have been “found” since the last time I did this kind of thing. Semi-miraculously, you can buy official versions of such previously mythical records as Homegrown, Oceanside / Countryside, Chrome Dreams, Toast and so forth. But you can’t buy Letter from 'Nam! Here’s a quick rundown from the Uncut piece: A few years later and a lot of water under the bridge, Neil was…

The weekly Wednesday Boston-area shows post has become a Thursday post as I rush to prep for a long-awaited trip. Probably should skip this week, but let’s see how fast I can rattle this one off. The basics: Two lists, one of about-to-happen Boston-centric shows ‘n events that I’m into (or you might be), the […]

[1973]Hey!More of the great glam rock white disco sound. And what a sound.Hard as fucking nails.Lascivious. Electrifying.Agro.Psycho.All sorts of echo drenched production insanity. The greatest glam beat of all. Caveman call and response delirium.So many "heys" I couldn't keep count. Dance to the music...

Thank you Loud Women for 'seeing' me, or maybe that should be 'hearing' me. I am loud in my head and in my heart!https://loudwomen.org/2026/08/20/rebellion-2026-saturday-highlights/'Helen McCookerybook on the Almost Acoustic stage on Saturday, bringing decades of DIY music history into a setting made for songs and stories rather than sheer volume. From punk beginnings to a long solo catalogue, she is a reminder that the history of women in independent music is much wider than the names that…

I am seeing some music sharing posts around the small web, and I decided to throw in. You may find something you like or haven’t heard before. RAYE - This Music May Contain Hope Sienna Spiro - Visitor Jon Hopkins - Music for Psychedelic Therapy Brian Eno - Apollo The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Parcels - Day / Night Thomas Bangalter - Mythologies HUNTR/X and Saja Boys - Kpop Demon Hunters Tchaikovsky - Sleeping Beauty DRAMA - Gallows Love - Reel to Real Daft Punk - Random…

2 Mello's lyrics are pure poetry. Blaugust week 3 prompt: Top five (or 10 or 20) musical artists. I'm just gonna do one. I pick: ◀◀ ◼︎ ▶︎▶︎♫ 2 Mello Since trying to move away from streaming platforms, I've been trying to listen to individual albums. Memories of Tokyo-To is what I play on repeat at the gym. It's easy to workout when you're listening to this: I learned about 2 Mello from Daniel, of course. 2 Mello mostly creates music for video games. Memories of Tokyo-To and Sounds of Tokyo-To…

The final album by the Spanish war metal horde didn't diverge even to the slightest from delivering exactly what was expected, and exactly at the same manner: bestial chaos in reverb and echo. As daring this style inherently is, Proclamation had decide to fully compromise to its definition parameters with a record that sounded like their previous works, sounded like well-known war metal, focused on efficient simplicity and primitive aggression you already know of. It's hard to tell tracks…

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. Secret Machines were one of the first artists I discovered through the medium of the MP3 blogs — sites like Fluxblog.org that got their start by hosting MP3 files of new music, and talking about them. At the time, these sites seemed too good to be true. Perhaps they were — ironically, whilst music is still abundantly available for free, quality journalism…