On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all. ▰ A characteristically deep and enveloping solo live set by Dave Seidel, aka Mysterybear, recorded in Manhattan at Waterworks 2026: Festival of Experimental Sound back in April. Absolutely drone-tastic. ▰ A quintet lead by bassist Reza Askari plays super still chamber jazz, featuring…

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. – E.B. White Remix Sunday 177 Zipped Up. (116mb zip) pw: palmsout Fearful & Mtwn – “Careful” ft. Riko Dan (Kimbr Remix) pcq – “stronger” (TATYANA remix) Rejjie Snow – “Snow” (Sterlo Edit) Addison Groove – “Footcrab” (Joel Deep 130 Edit) Leikeli47 – “Girl Blunt” (Garneau Bootleg) Akhenaton & La Fonky Family – “Bad Boys de Marseille” (Badjokes Bootleg) Serge Gainsbourg – “Initials B.B.” (Remix by Monstera) Money Lang – “Mean Something”…

Magical musical musings care of the marvellous John Matthews. The Durutti Column formed in Manchester in 1978 and were one of the first acts signed by Tony Wilson to Factory records. Originally a short-lived group, over the last 40 years the band has transformed into the singular vehicle of gifted, elusive guitarist Vini Reilly. A truly unique and gifted musician whose ethereal, delicate playing has always distinguished him from his post-punk peers. On Renascent, the Durutti Column’s first…

Holy Smoke! Nice juxtaposition on a Donegal beach. Quote of the Day ”A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.” Thomas Mann Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Paul Simon | Graceland Link Triggered by a marvellous BBC Prom the other night Long Read of the Day Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same This a fabulous, insightful essay by Lauren Leek, a great data scientist, on a question that has puzzled me for ages: why do so many…

Book now for my tours through August, September & October There is Roy on the far right with his left hand stuck in his pocket, to indicate the appropriate air of nonchalance befitting a street-wise man of the world of around twelve years old, on a hopping expedition with his family from Hoxton. Roy went hop picking each year with this relations until he reached the age of eighteen and, at this season, he always recalls his days in Kent. Still in touch with many of those who were there with him…

🎵 Listening to Diagnosis by Noa Bar. Been really enjoying Noa Bar’s music after hearing the song Diagnosis on NPR. The vocals are funky and the strong bass gets me.

I will not be surprised if Black Bag wins the Booker Prize this year. This was the book on the longlist I was least excited to pick up, the sixth one I've read so far, but enough people had told me how much fun they were having with it that I made an effort to go in with an open mind. I didn't want my preconceptions to colour the whole experience before I'd even opened it. I wanted to be pleasantly surprised. And for the first hundred pages or so, that's exactly what happened. I put up a post…

Crucial Track for August 16, 2026: “Like a Stone” by Ben Thornewill New single from Ben Thornewill (of Jukebox the Ghost). ∞ via Crucial Tracks

perhaps the first of who knows how many- (1/?) surf vidsbeen watching a lot of surf videos. just rented a garage studio at the beach with my homie and we've surfing and bumming around the beach and bay a ton over the last month and a half. personally i think surf lags behind the skate scene when it comes to making important videos. videos which convey more than just the sport itself. but i've been seeing a lot of sick stuff recently so I'd like to share. survival stance - gliding barnacles…

Photo of Gloom is Okay by Arran Dawson Media Scottish rock band Gloom is Okay hold the top spot for a second week with their exquisite “Repeat Offender”, while Malaysian artist extraordinaire Lyia Meta moves into second place with her powerful anthem “Raging Halls”. She just released another great single “For You” a week ago. “Doors” by Noah Kahan advances a spot to #3, and “Rein Me In” by English singer-songwriters Sam Fender and Olivia Dean, and “Private” by LA-based alt rock band The…

Do you like to listen to music that sets your mood for writing? I do. This playlist inspires me to create. Give it a try, if you have ideas for additions, let me know. Writing Music by Heurista on Spotify Writing Music by Dan Murray on Apple Music Reply to this post.

"Once In a Lifetime" by Talking Heads Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What song makes you want to dance alone in your room? - Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads The beat is nervous and jittery in exactly the way that makes it impossible to stay still, and the lyrics are about the same disorientation the herky-jerky rhythm creates. David Byrne's own dancing pretty much proves the point. View Lou Plummer's Crucial Tracks profile

If YouTube could produce a top 10 list of videos I've watched over the years, then I dare say that The Charlatans blistering appearance on Channel 4's The White Room, broadcast on 16th August 1996, would be up at the top. Just behind the last few minutes of Manchester United's dramatic Champions League win back in 1999!I can't believe this footage (full video at the end of the blog) is thirty years old! The Charlatans performance is pure raw energy and emotion. Super charged from the grief of…

“I Want You” by The Silencers Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What song makes you want to dance alone in your room? Many songs make me want to dance. Plunder my playlists for Basement Jaxx, Chemical Brothers, Disclosure. Visit my memories of 90s rap blaring from my car stereo. Grab my love of disco and my rendition of I Will Survive from a friends wedding. I love dancing, I love losing myself in the music and moving my body. I don’t do it enough. But I…

Dance Fountain – “Boxing News” Djrum – “I Wander (IV + V)” Iguana – “Chora” The post New Hots Hots 28 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

Promotional samplers are made with an expiration date hidden inside them. They announce new releases, then yield to the next campaign. The four rare ECM/Polydor records gathered under the “New Music” banner have resisted that planned obsolescence. Originally pressed for radio stations and in-store programming, they now reach us as documents of a label defining the dimensions of its own voice one release at a time. Each track has been lifted from its native sequence and asked to speak in…

I was out on a walk yesterday, listening to the ’70s Hits Radio Station on Apple Music, when “Don’t Leave Me This Way” came on. I pulled my phone out of my pocket to look at a text while the song was playing and was surprised at what the Music app told me about the song. I’m pretty sure George Benson never covered “Don’t Leave Me This Way,” but even if he did, that’s not the version I was listening to. It was the version everybody knows by Thelma Houston, with her incredible voice and that fun…

Emilee Hackney mentioned pineapple casserole so I had to find out more. Turns out, it’s pretty good!

Here’s some good juju. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize I’ve been after the classic Hancocks, Hendersons and Shorters on Blue Note for a long time and managed to secure some of them. Just completed my top three Hancock must haves and have some of my favorite Hendersons. My top three Shorters have been extra difficult to source and I have had one of them, ”Speak…

Spending a weekend with your boyfriend’s parents is remarkably emotion packed as well as insightful. My heart is swinging like a pendulum from feelings of gratitude to frustration that my own family dynamics will never look or feel like this. Jealousy? No. Is this grief clutching to a dream? That seems more like it.Yet here I am, trying with very little energy to put my best foot forward on this tightrope, at times questioning why I should even try.And that’s when I look at my own parents’…

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Album of the Week, August 15, 2026 When Peter Gabriel released his new album Us on September 28, 1992, it seemed like an eternity had passed since his last pop album, So, in 1986. (How little we knew!) Over the past weeks we’ve looked into some of what he was doing during the period—the Passion soundtrack and sister album Passion – Sources, massive world tour, WOMAD, and starting the Real World label and launching the western careers of some of his key contributors. But it has to be said that…

My reaction to receiving the family photo album. On Thursday, I received an email notifying me that a package from the US had arrived. "It's here!" I shouted. My sister had mailed me the box about a week ago, but we spent months discussing what she would send me¹ so I've been waiting for some time. The photo album was carefully wrapped in white tissue paper, stowed beneath a few gifts and my childhood things. I placed the album on my chair and gingerly peeled back the paper. The cover was…

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I have been spending quite some time at Xiaohongshu, a Chinese-based social media, and on one video, I heard this song (slowed and reverb). Someone asked on the comment section what song was this, and another kindly replied with the song title. The lyrics’ translation, from the Youtube comment: Fly. It's time you wish to fly.Fly. When you liberate from your own misfortune.At the top of mountain of hope for freedom.Fly now. Fly now. Fly. If you wish to find that authentic consciousness, fly.If…

In this post, I’ll present a selection of podcasts and radio programmes produced in Esperanto. If you’re an Esperantist looking for up-to-date audio content, a learner seeking listening practice, a radio enthusiast, or just someone curious about what Esperanto sounds like, the following will be a useful resource.

Preview of a two-part Substack post on jazz and hip hop poetics. The next two posts here will explore some background to two book chapters I worked on in the past few years, both just published in edited collections. In the next post, I’ll write more about “A Question of Form: Jazz in Joans, Kaufman, and Cortez”, a chapter in The Cambridge History of African American Poetry, a monumental volume edited by Keith Leonard. This first post, though, focuses on “Nation Time(s): Jazz and Hip-Hop’s…

Some shows are difficult to review because the performance in the room is not quite the performance that was intended. Unfortunately, audience disruption significantly affected the opening of TITCLOWN: daddy’s little girl, breaking the fragile compact that clowning relies upon. Clown is perhaps the most responsive of theatrical forms, constantly negotiating with the audience in real time, and regaining momentum after interruptions is no easy task. Even allowing for that, however, Jessica…