As I mentioned yesterday and the day before yesterday, it's my birthday tomorrow. The big four-eight. [deletia] ^^ that paragraph was about a bunch of stuff including but not limited to a lot of bad shit that happened on my birthday when I was a kid, but I deleted it because, like, sure, maybe past is prologue, but maybe it doesn't matter. Sidebar: the [deletia] bit is from Microserfs: I learned a great new word today: “deletia.” When you get an e-mail and reply to the sender, you simply…
"Forever Young" by Bob Dylan Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What song best captures your current phase of life? - Forever Young by Bob Dylan I am still enthusiastic, still curious. I still don't like following rules or being told to be quiet. Maybe I've learned a few life lessons, maybe. View Lou Plummer's Crucial Tracks profile
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Cinelle Barnes’s memoir A Way Home shares the mesmerizing story of her recovery from a ruptured brain aneurysm. Aimee Nezhukumatathil wrote of the book: “In this stunning memoir, Barnes…
Sensible Soccers are a Portuguese trio, whose music could be loosely described as rock. Sometimes it’s spiky and punky, at others its “post-“, borrowing from classical minimalism and jazz. Often it leans toward the sounds you might hear scoring a contemporary White Isle sunset. Here, however, they’ve been remixed by the mighty Mad Professor, whose mixing desk virtuosity has bent the band into all sorts of different shapes. “Dub de Saia Travada” effectively dissects the players, separating their…
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Interpol “This Mirror Weighs A Ton” Interpol is a band that works within very narrow aesthetic constraints, so the most exciting thing they can do 25 years into their career is move to the outer boundaries of their style. “This Mirror Weighs A Ton” is as far out as they’ve ever ventured from their agitated, tightly-wound default sound, but even when they lean this much on soothing atmosphere and gentle rhythm, the music is still immediately identifiable as Interpol. The vibe may be different…
I've known Washington D.C.'s Goetia for a while now and have enjoyed their series of highly regarded EPs from 2023 to 2025, bursting into the underground scene with a sort of boosted ferocity considering a band that barely existed a few years prior. Debut full-length album Mortuary Cult takes advantage of the momentum and embraces a straightforward yet highly volatile take on death metal, influenced by the classic era of the genre's birth and the style of heavy thrash's bands from the late '80s…
Andy Brewer turns pink noise into a polyphonic sine synthesizer using only the EQ (via) #
As every Tuesday winds down, I think “Hey, I should really get a jumpstart on the weekly Wednesday shows post so I’m not scrambling tomorrow.” And every Tuesday, I … don’t do that. So here I am on another work-busy Wednesday pulling this thing together during my lunch break, when I should really not be […]
Best Record of 2001 Day 58: The story of an unappreciated pop masterpiece and the demise of a great band that never got their due. Cover art courtesy of Velocette Records Good morning! For the last guest post in Round 1, Matty C takes the wheel and shares his take on Beulah’s The Coast Is Never Clear. If you ask him, Matt Carlson will likely answer that he’s “a musician.” That’s of course very true-I’ve been lucky enough to hear him play. But he’s also a writer, podcaster, hosts a radio show,…
2011 (2026 Re-issue) • 2xLP, Limited Edition, Yellow To see all 4 photos, visit the article page. This article was originally published at: https://andrei.xyz/records/omu-gnom-ai-grija-sa-n-ai-griji/
All One Song - “Berlin” w/ Matt ValentineWe’re coming dangerously close to the end of the road for this latest season of All One Song — the one true Neil Young podcast! And the end of the road is the topic at hand when it comes to today’s song — “Berlin”! Now, we’ve covered some deep cuts over the course of the past two seasons. But “Berlin” has to be one of the deepest. It was passed over on the recent Archives Vol. III box and you can’t even stream it via Neil’s site; the only official way to…
Best Record of 2001: Day 57 Cover art courtesy of EMI Records. Good morning! We’re in for a treat today, as Sam Colt takes the wheel and shares his take on Radiohead’s Amnesiac LP. If you’ve been here for a minute, you’ve seen Sam’s work before. He and I did a Top 100 Series, are part of a group that shares our year-end lists, and, of course, have a monthly series on, well, whatever we find interesting. You likely also know my feelings on Radiohead, and Sam’s quest to get me to come around on…
A couple years ago I put together a Secular Solstice Songbook, a compilation of all the songs we've sung at Boston Solstice. Anna Tchetchetkine and I led a session of group singing at LessOnline, following up from an informal one the year before, and I noticed several annoying things with its chord handling: Despite being digital, it didn't support transposition. Some songs didn't repeat the chord if they were unchanged, which meant that when scrolling new lyrics into view you'd lose the…
2026 • LP, Limited Edition, Transparent Red To see all 7 photos, visit the article page. This article was originally published at: https://andrei.xyz/records/damian-brothers-ursitoare-drumul/
From the island of Grimsay, in Uist in the Outer Hebrides, Pàdruig Morrison is an acclaimed accordionist and composer. Performing around the country with fellow Uist musicians as part of Beinn Lee, the six-piece band have received many plaudits for their impassioned interpretations of traditional Gaelic music. Morrison himself was a finalist in the 2020 BBC Radio Scotland Young Musician of the Year and also picked up a Celtic Connections New Voices commission that same year. Equally comfortable…
A tribute to Robert Wyatt, written and recorded for remote participation in a 2025 birthday celebration for the Great Man, organized by Sukhdev Sandhu at NYUAnother great Englishman Mark E. Smith once said “I hated The Soft Machine and that kind of thing. Rock was ruined when the students took it over”.Having been a student once, and middle class through and through, it falls to me to mount a defence of the bourgeois contribution to rock Let’s start with Canterbury, in the south of England –…
Back in 2000, “Summer” was Glaswegian artist Pub’s sophomore single. Released on London label Vertical Form, he joined a roster that included innovative electronica names such as Arovane, Corker / Conboy and Pan*American. A 16-minute mixing desk meditation, the track was a diaphanous cloud of treated clicking and clacking. Its bottom-end booming like a mother’s heartbeat, heard from within the womb. A warm, relaxing, reassuring drift, deeply textured with lightly dancing details and diffuse…
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 7th May 1996 One part of the Anniversary Series that I’ve enjoyed the most is when I get to spend time with important albums and bands that I have little to no experience with, and British industrial metal band Pitch Shifter (soon to be Pitchshifter, this becomes very confusing to type) is a perfect example. Known to me by name and that’s about it, in researching this piece I’ve discovered that their sound is an incredibly important of industrial metal’s…
Dawn, bleak and grey, illumines the giant brutalist pillbox-residences of this Roman suburb. The pimp is berating the sex worker for not fixing a price. She makes it plain that the clients didn’t even need her, they took over the bedroom while she had to CC Baxter it on the couch. But, as Anouk and […]
One of the things that surprised me the most about The Wicker Man was that it seemed to be almost a musical. There were entire scenes devoted to a song, often pivotal to revealing something about the island or its plot. My favorite is “Willow’s Song,” which the lovely young innkeeper’s daughter sings to herself to help fall asleep and for no other reason. I love it for many reasons, including how her movements emphasize the pounding of the drum beat. But mostly for the lyrics, which have the…
photo cred: my dadHere’s a story from 30 years ago that would make no sense today.It’s 1992. Pearl Jam’s debut album Ten is selling well. But then MTV puts the music video for their song “Jeremy” in heavy rotation, and the band rockets into superstardom—shows suddenly sold out, fans smashing record store windows, the whole shebang.That’s familiar enough, but what happens next is not. Pearl Jam responds to this hullabaloo by refusing to make music videos for the next five years. They decline…
The Grateful Dead - ‘75 Grooves Regrooved (Vol. 1 / Vol. 2)Like a lot of Dead freaks, I’ve been spending some time swimming around in the deep end of the 1975 Ace’s Sessions, which showed up in new/improved form a few months back. You can do the same by downloading all 24 hours of this unreal stash on the Save Your Face blog. The details from SYF: At long last, the chaotic, circulating tapes from these sessions have been sorted into a uniform, complete collection. A devoted band of…
Released: 12 June 2026 “In the 21st century it’s refreshing to know that there are still artists creating unique albums. The London-based Little Lore is a fine example of that and her latest release Being Serafina is a work that stretches the imagination and reveals a conceptual depth outside the normal approach.” – RnR magazine (5 stars) Being Serafina is the new musical project from acclaimed, London-based singer-songwriter, Little Lore aka Tricia Duffy. Released in June this year the albumis…
A rough week before the start of the elementary school summer.
This week’s theme: Miles Davis centennial celebration continues with Miles and Bird, 1947 and 1948. Featured artists include Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, JJ Johnson, Duke Jordan, Tommy Potter, Max Roach, John Lewis, Curly Russell.The post Podcast: Miles With Bird, Part Two first appeared on jazzcollector.com.
It’s hard to imagine a Beach Boys fan — a real Beach Boys fan, that is — who doesn’t have a warm place in his or her heart for 15 Big Ones and The Beach Boys Love You, the two widely ignored and often derided albums they recorded and released in 1976 and ’77 respectively in their new Brother Records studio in Santa Monica. The superficial view took them as acts of desperation following years in which only greatest-hits albums like Spirit of America and Endless Summer kept their name alive. The…
2026 • LP, Limited Edition, Transparent Red To see all 7 photos, visit the article page. This article was originally published at: https://andrei.xyz/records/damian-brothers-saraiman-visul/
A very enjoyable day spent dodging the rain and shooting the drifting action from the Gassed on Track event at Silverstone. This is part three (of three), part one images can be viewed here and part two, here. Images shot with OM1-II, 40-150 f/2.8 & MC-14.
Anna Lysis & F. Sonore – Smashed Sweetness Isn’t it nice that we’ve gotten away from that 90s and 2000s thing where anyone singing in English would put on an American accent? Part of what makes the vocals so nice in this track by French artists Anna Lysis & F. Sonore is how much Lysis’s French accent comes through in her delivery — and not in the ironic or too-cool-for-school way often heard in mid-naughties French electro. Lysis’s lyrics and delivery are earnest — naive almost — sailing,…
