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,…
Developer of the ADDAC series of synthesizer modules, André Gonçalves has released an album, Offbeats, that displays some of the potential of the company’s ADDAC406 Clock Bender. The ten tracks, just numbered one through ten, display various ways that pulses and time signatures can become vibrant little ecosystems, from the muggy realms of “Offbeat VII” to the hypnotically phased percussion of “Offbeat III” to sci-fi techno-environment of the closing track. From the module’s description on the…
TV-99-AD are Pieter Lub, Paul van der Lubbe and Hans Veneman. A trio of Lelystad-based friends who, back in the mid-90s, released a handful of tracks on legendary Netherlands techno label, Eevo Lute Muzique. Initially calling it quits at the end of the decade, in 2022 they reunited and activated a Bandcamp page. This brought their work to the attention of Tokyo’s FORM@ RECORDS, resulting in this collection of previously unreleased archival cuts. In keeping with the Japanese imprint’s classic…
The Man-Machine delivers a captivating audio-visual, retro-futurist ode to a connected Europe. Deep techno, joyous melodies, and a touching tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto. Ahead of the show, I’ve been rereading Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany by Uwe Schütte, and I’d highly recommend it as a page-turning primer on German electronic music and the importance of Düsseldorf to the early scene. See also my previous note celebrating Florian Schneider. I may add more notes about tonight’s fantastic…
Okay, I can get on board with ambient techno like I’m working inside the office Lumon of Severance.
I'm continuing my travels through the Finnish #1 singles history, and I've now completed my dig-through of 2002. As always the full list and my thoughts on every song that made it to the top of the charts are found on RateYourMusic, but below you'll find a summary of the year's highlights. >> If you want to read all the thoughts on the full year's chart, check the list out on RYM (2002 starts pretty early into this page) << 2002 is a weird year, with no real discernible trends and instead…
Who's coming to the John Peel Centre in Stowmarket on Tuesday? I'll be showing 'Stories from the She-Punks' after interviewing Gaye Black of the Adverts.Who's coming to the John Peel Centre in Stowmarket on Wednesday? I'll be supporting Charlie Harper there (UK Subs) after interviewing him about his autobiography.
Hello, it’s Monday, let’s see what’s been going on over the weekend: Spencer Pratt misses LA Mayoral runoff: I’ve not lived in California for decades now, and even when I did never lived in the city of Los Angeles proper. Nevertheless as a native son of Southern California, I’ve been keeping up with LA’s mayoral race, mostly because people I know were exasperated by the presence of Pratt, a fellow who as I understand it was best known for dating someone more famous than he and then extending…
Full Size play “The Song”Sometimes what you really need is 30 minutes worth of pummeling, minimalist-to-the-max rock action. And Philly underground supergroup Full Size provide exactly that. “The Song” — what else could you possibly call it? — is a half-hour, one-chord monster, as guitarists Bill Nace and Dustin Burrows groove with the relentless rhythm section thump of Eva Killinger and Ashley Burrows. It’s like “I Wanna Be Your Dog” reduced down to its barest essentials, the end of “White…
Listening to a podcast this weekend, I heard a mention of Wire by U2 featured in a first-season episode of Miami Vice scoring a nighttime car chase, and the host said that it was the most 1985 thing he’d ever heard or seen. I would agree. I have long loved this song, my favorite off an album full of fantastic tracks, and it appears on every driving playlist I’ve ever assembled—at the risk of inspiring a speeding ticket. Now I’m binging the first season of the series (available on Tubi) and it…
Dian Joy is an artist based in London.Founded in 2021, Do Not Research is an independent and reader-supported publication:“Vigil, Hungry”, 2024, Animated video, 00:44 second loopAlexandria’s Genesis, a solo show by British-Nigerian artist Dian Joy, examines how digital folklore shapes self-perception and social ideologies, with a particular focus on the role of the gaze in perpetuating myths about the body. Stemming from a widely circulated fanfiction-cum-copypasta entitled “Purple Eyes and…
Most advice on performance will only help you to get better incrementally. Here are some mantras I think are undervalued for true breakthroughs 🧘.
Everson is a city in Whatcom County, Washington, United States. The population was 2,888 at the time of the 2020 census. It is the fifth largest city within the Bellingham Metropolitan Area. That’s where the next band/song takes us. It seems the band was called Supersonic. And they recorded a very nice track called “Hush” in 1993 in a studio called Seventh Heaven in Everson, Washington State, on the Pacific coast. This I have found on the Supersonic soundcloud account of Ben Walker. There are…
A really great conversation at Hyperallergic between Valentina Di Liscia and artist Jamie Nares. Come for the essence of the brushstroke—one of Nares’s most intensive interests—stay for the incredible visuals like the wall of handmade brushes in her studio in Chatham, or the still from an early experimental film where Roman togas were doing a lot of long-unacknowledged gender work. Besides Nares’s own work and story, there are a couple of moments where the difference between generations really…
Cover version of the month #121Ella Fitzgerald and Ash cover The TemptationsReleased on Motown Records in 1966, The Temptations Get Ready, written by Smokey Robinson, is a sub 3-minute gem, with horns, bass, strings and drums creating a driving energetic riff from the off. I never met a girl that makes me feel the way that you do (you're alright)The relentless bassline is the engine for the song, with Eddie Kendriks taking lead vocals, instead of David Ruffin. Kendricks soaring falsetto is…
If you had dealings Haemoth's second full-length album, Of Vice, Suffering and Destruction in 2004, you're certainly one of the bookworms of this scene. The band's run of demos and few records since the late '90s is of a semi-legendary status, yet I've always felt they never got the recognition they deserved due to numerous French black metal bands operating at the time. When they signed up with Debemur Morti Productions for the release of the excellent In Nomine Odium (2011), I thought things…
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 17th April 2026 After a couple of demos and singles, the first proper EP from Glasgow sludge/doom/hardcore newcomers Gout is out now. Coming from members of gloom poppers The Ninth Wave and indie band Lucia and the Best Boys, ‘Actual Bastard’ couldn’t sound any more different, loaded with knuckle dragging riffs and nihilistic grimness. ‘Actual Bastard’ is out now self released. Ugly, dragging, visceral sludge is what Gout specialise in, with a penchant for…
Welcome to the May 2026 playlist! We’ve got a bunch of songs on here that I enjoyed last month; some from earlier this year, a few are older pulls, and whatnot. Check them out below! Me at the Zoo and Labrador have two songs on this playlist. Here is where you can listen to the playlist on various streaming services: Spotify (missing three songs), Tidal (missing two). Be sure to check out previous playlist posts if you’ve enjoyed this one, or visit the site directory. If you’d like to support…
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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. ▰ Beautiful live session with lightly glitched and always shimmering piano samples from Andrew Tasselmyer. Watching him at work is always a pleasure. ▰ There is little I enjoy as much as I do music that combines more recognizable musical elements with field recordings and found sound,…
A very enjoyable day spent dodging the rain and shooting the drifting action from the Gassed on Track event at Silverstone. This is part two (of three), part one images can be viewed on this post Images shot with OM1-II, 40-150 f/2.8 & MC-14.
Closer and The Warning are absolutely the best songs on the album but the whole thing wrenches itself out of your speakers and greases its way into the dark corners of your mind and it’s so intense and fun.
Reviews of Boards Of Canada’s “Inferno” have all searched, and struggled, for the album’s deeper meaning. The duo’s 13 year absence and deliberate, persistent air of mystery produced peak anticipation and put a whole lot of weight on the recordings. However, it seems clear that the set is a dose of darkness, reflecting the times in which it was birthed. I’m not sure if we should have expected anything else. It would have been more of shock if the pair had returned in 2026 with something light…
If I had a vial of blood for every 1980s vampire movie that prominently includes a musical artist who established themselves as an artistically significant performer in the 1970s but hit their peak of commercial success in the 1980s and whose strikingly androgynous aesthetic made them icons of gender noncomformity, by my count I’d have two vials of blood. Let’s pop them open and see how they’ve aged… The Hunger Miriam and John Blaylock (Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie) are a duo of vampires…
I have been worried that the brothers’s new effort has not received the amount of attention it deserves. So to boost its profile a bit, here is a little something I prepared earlier (actually for their label, local indie imprint Warp Records). ^^^^^^^^^^^^^We live in an age of over-exposure. Too many artists actively strip away their mystique, promoting a public persona first and the music a distant second. Going against the grain of our time, Boards of Canada remain an enigma. Rarely…
Good advibe. [row-start] [half] [/half] [half] Personnel Terry Gibbs (vibraphone), Kenny Burrell (guitar), Sam Jones (bass), Louis Hayes (drums), Recorded on January 16, 1964 at Rudy van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey Released as Impulse A-58 in 1964 Track listing Side A: Take It From Me / El Fatso / Oge / Pauline’s Place / Side B: 8 LBS., 10 OZS / Gee Dad, It’s A Deegan / All The Things You Are / Honeysuckle Rose [/half] [row-end] Terry Gibbs is actually Julius Gubenko, born in…
"In My Hour of Darkness" by Gram Parsons A song from your most listened to artist of the last 20 years. - In My Hour of Darkness by Gram Parsons I was just a kid when Gram Parsons died, but I feel like I grew up with him. Unlike most of my life's soundtrack, I discovered him on my own, not from my Mom's records. I'm so glad he recorded with Emmylou Harris because she feels like the cool aunt who has always been around. Their voices together...sublime. View Lou Plummer's Crucial Tracks profile
A very enjoyable day spent dodging the rain and shooting the drifting action from the Gassed on Track event at Silverstone. Images shot with OM1-II, 40-150 f/2.8 & MC-14.
Jean Harlow was Hollywood's first platinum blonde bombshell. Behind the glamour was a domineering mother, three troubled marriages, a husband's suspicious death, and a body quietly failing at 26.
Photo of Death Cab for Cutie by Ryan Russell After a two-week hiatus due to being on vacation in Georgia and western North Carolina, I’m back with my latest top 30 chart. American indie pop-rock band Death Cab for Cutie jumps four spots to take over the #1 spot with their pensive single “Riptides”, displacing last week’s top song “Slumber Party” by Brigitte Calls Me Baby. Formed in 1997, Death Cab for Cutie currently consists of Ben Gibbard (vocals, guitar, piano), Nick Harmer (bass), Dave…
