NEW RELEASE – EMMET COHEN Cohen & Co call up the spirits of Miles Davis and John Coltrane. [row-start] [half] [/half] [half] Personnel Emmet Cohen (piano), Tivon Pennicott (tenor saxophone 5-8), George Coleman (tenor saxophone 3, 8), Jeremy Pelt (trumpet 2, 4, 5-8), Yashushi Nakamura (bass 1, 5-8), Ron Carter (bass 2-4), Joe Farnsworth (drums) Recorded on October 5, 2025 at Sear Sound in New York City Released as Mack Avenue in 2026 Track listing Budo / Well, You Needn’t / My Funny Valentine /…
Went to see Laufey in concert, which was super fun. But the truth is that I was there to see my friend Xanthe playing in the string quartet portion of the band. Sometimes, I’m genuinely amazed with what people I know do.
It’s strange that I love EIGHT AND A HALF but was always slightly bored by LA DOLCE VITA. Now, since I’m very glad I saw the former as a teenager so I can keep seeing it two or three times a decade and continually get more out of it, it’s daft that I haven’t persisted […]
Phil Gyford has a fascinating chart in his post Laboriously keeping track; it charts his yearly cash withdrawls from his bank account:I suspect my chart would look very similar. I very rarely need cash: the only regular need is for my haircuts at Ray’s, and for visit to the Charlottetown Farmers’ Market (and even there, the merchants increasingly accept credit cards).On our trip to Europe last month I withdrew cash only twice (which was good, because there’s a $4 surcharge from international…
Power Ballad (2026) • View trailerFour stars (out of five); rated R, for relentless profanity and some drug useAvailable via: Movie theatersBy Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 6.7.26 Irish writer/director John Carney clearly loves music as much as I admire his films. Starting with 2006’s charming Once — with its poignant, Academy Award-winning song “Falling Slowly” — and continuing through 2013’s Begin Again, 2016’s Sing Street and 2023’s Flora and Son — Carney has found fresh…
We have updated Uma’s playlist on her radio. It’s no baby rhymes now. It has carefully selected songs. Currently, U2026 has songs from Kannada, Malayalam, English, and Italian. I have heard all of them and read lyrics as well to make sure it’s friendly. It is tough to filter out songs for toddlers, especially those with some kind of rhythm. Do send me your suggestions if you have any. On the technical side, I maintain the playlists on ListenBrainz and store the exported version in CouchDB as a…
Hello again! Apologies for last week’s missing list but we are back with gusto. As always there’s plenty of new music to check out so let’s get into it. Hails! Embryonic Autopsy - death - USABlood Incantation - death - USABloody Falls - melodeath - FinlandXenosis - death/prog - USADissentient - death/prog - CanadaShiteater - death/grind - UKChurchacide - death/black - USAEdoma - black/death - RussiaVithial - black/death - USAGrabunhold - black - GermanyAm I in Trouble? - black - USAPrimal Cult…
Wonderful words by the ever erudite Adam Turner. Italian ambient maestro Gigi Masin hasn’t made a full-length solo album for five years. In the time since 2020’s “Calypso”, he’s undergone some life-changing events that have led him to “Movement”, a 9-track exploration of humanity and nature. Machine music with nods to techno, jazz, house and kosmische, but music that is also very emotive, empathic and organic. A set of tracks that breathe and sway, that shift and swirl, never settling for long.…
"Once In a Lifetime (Live)" by Talking Heads Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Pick a song that matches what you are really thinking about just now I feel that this somewhat calms me down when I'm facing the questions about what I've done with my life. I'm linking to the live version because I love this concert album. View Mandaris's Crucial Tracks profile Listen to my Apple Music playlist
Stop tittering about the band name, it means "ultra good" in Swedish. Ultra Bra are, however, Finnish - and an era-defining cultural force who are synonymous with the 1990s for certain generations. They were a formidable force as well, with the band's line-up consisting of about 12-13 people - that's 4-5 singers (depending on the album), a full rock band, a pianist, a percussionist, a horn section and other miscellanea. That crowd wasn't just set dressing either, but an integral part of the…
"Chicken Dance" by The Official Oktoberfest Band Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What's a song that you like but most of your friends don't. My daughters used to have a Father-Daughter dance every year and this was one of the songs that would play. It was my favorite because everyone could do and just be silly. I love the lyrics that we made up for the chorus I don't want to be a chicken I don't want to be a duck So, I shake my butt! clap clap clap clap…
A very fun album from the height of the synthwave revival, this one leans into the darker tones and is having some fun revelling in the cornier, most stereotypical parts of the sound. The version I'm listening to today is my wife's vinyl copy, which is an abridged edition with a selection of tracks rather than the whole thing. It seems like every one of the physical editions had a different track selection.
Every so often I’ll search for a rare album and find a link to a Bandcamp page and get momentarily excited about it. But, sadly, it’s clear upon clicking the page that the page is a garbage spam page that has no actual music, no affiliation with the artist, and an album description that just points off to another site. What’s funny, though, is that I never expected a random tape I self-released in 1997 (and re-released on CD in 2003) that literally maybe 15 people have a copy of would wind up…
When Scott Hamilton (a minor but well-respected player who's been in and out of the limelight for decades) entered to play the melody here (I've queued it up to the right point, but fyi it's 2'40"), I felt conflicting emotions. First: NICE! Like, yeah, that's the feeling! That's the craft! No bullshit, just proper thickly-spread jazz tenor saxophone butter. Nice! But then, as he kept going, it grew uncanny. I knew everything he was going to do. It was jazz butter, yes, but the pre-portioned…
I’ve just added a couple of new charts to the self-absorbed Stats section of the site. Both are on the money page, and those will be updated at the end of each year. § First I’ve got one showing how much I’ve spent each year on music over the past 30 years: CDs, downloads, and streaming. Here’s an image of the current state of it: Amount spent on music listening per year This doesn’t include spending in cash, which I didn’t track, and was more common in the early years when buying CDs. I mainly…
Best Record of 2001: Day 54 Cover art courtesy of London/Reprise Records Good morning! Today we’re taking a quick look at ‘Get Ready’ by New Order It took 8 years to get the band back together for what would ultimately be their final record in their original form. Get Ready isn’t a bad album; it just feels like watching a show that ran for a season too long. With the exception of “Crystal,” and ”60 Miles an Hour,” I’m not sure I could ID any other track by sound alone. It just never established…
This here Thursday Pressing Concerns features new albums from Labrador, American Cream Band, and Prathloons that are coming out tomorrow (June 5th), plus an LP from Leah Callahan that came out earlier this week. Check them out, and also check out Monday’s blog post (featuring The Greenberry Woods, Fastener, Ben Auld, and Morningstar) if you missed it. If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what else we’ve written about lately. If you’d like to support Rosy…
Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. (A SoundCloud account is helpful but not required.) There’s no pressure to do every project. The Junto is weekly so that you know it’s there, every Thursday through Monday, when your time and interest align. Tracks are added to…
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It’s pretty common that when I’m talking with someone about the Disquiet Junto, the weekly music community I have moderated since January 2012, the question arises as to where Junto projects come from — how is it that the ideas originate, week after week, some 753 in a row as of this writing. I’ve answered this question various ways over the years, and one key explanation is that the Junto projects rarely if ever originate because I’m trying to come up with an idea. I have a huge backlog of…
Jake Back – keep it simple/rytm start New music from Jake Back, the LA-based artist I covered a few months ago. I hesitate to call these two new ones from Back ‘outsider house’ — partly because the term was always reductive, but also because these are really more in the world of ‘lofi house’ with their shared focus on bleached chords, romantic vocals bits, and comparatively clean drums. But I have a hard time using that term either; don’t get me wrong, I do love when sound gets distressed and…
Just found out that Jared Leto is in He-Man. It changes how I feel about the film.
i’ve been collecting records for the last two years. i love the medium, the gatefolds and how special they are. last weekend i purchase a beats pill. i’ve wanted one for a while to play music that i can’t get on vinyl. but ever since i bought it i’ve been feeling some type of way. have i wasted my money investing in a turntable, speakers and a record collection of the music i enjoy? a bluetooth speaker is portable, a turntable less so. i’d like to say i haven’t wasted my money. it’s brought me…
I have gotten out of the habit of commenting on the news of the day here, mostly because, as I have said before, when it comes to the current governance of our country, there’s only so many times I can yell “it’s because they’re fascists, what did you expect” before I bore even myself, and also, frankly, the time I have to babysit comment threads these days is minimal. I’m not entirely sure how I managed it back in the day because it feels like I barely have time to keep up with my actual paid…
This one arrived direct from Japan this morning includes a interview a short biography and an review of Richard’s show at Tokyo’s Liquidroom many thanks to my brother for the scans. Cheers Paul! Interview with Richard Q: This time you’re coming to Japan for a live performance, but have you been able to overcome the problem of your customised equipment always breaking down? R: “I changed my live setup and now I’m using a laptop computer, and that solved the problem.” Q: Don’t you customise your…
5/5 golden merles Sam Hirst’s single “Little Thief” is gracefully askance lo-fi rock, lyrically inventive in its casual utterances, hooks solidly hooking as honed from the various instrumental and melodic turns. It’ll feel a lot like summer even after the summer is gone. There’s a kind of free-form fragility you expect to combust early doors but instead it thrives within the habitat of that gentle rumble and tonal canton. Sometimes the drums stagger, always finding their feet. The specimen of…
Songs vs Grooves by Dr. Ethan Hein When you learn the difference, Anglo-American pop make a heck of a lot more sense Read on Substack
My brain is abuzz with far too many concurring thoughts at the moment, so forgive what may be a frazzled and error-filled weekly Wednesday post of impending Boston-area shows and recent announcements. I’m just going to cruise through this thing on auto-pilot and see what happens. If you haven’t visited here lately, here’s the deal: […]
The official video for Berghain by ROSALÍA featuring Björk & Yves Tumor was an emotional roller-coaster (and probably one of the best of last year). Now, Jan Ravnik (above), Slovenian professional dancer director and choreographer has released a dance video of the track – and its as startling as the original in its own way. Ravnik strips away almost all the symbolism - no forest, animals, orchestra, or religious imagery—and focuses entirely on the body as the storyteller. From the opening,…
When RAY dropped a new standalone single in “Sagittarius” in the last days of 2025 I was quite excited, not just because it was another release in a busy year from the alt-idol group, but because it was an unexpected songwriting collaboration with Kurayamisaka, who themselves were capping a great and busy year, and it […] The post Kurayamisaka – “Sagittarius”/RAY – “Sagittarius” (live) appeared first on Space Echo.
