On a Friday in May we went to Aachen to see Steve Hackett. I have been a Genesis fan since my early teens. So it was kind of a wish come true to witness the music of the golden prog-rock era come to life on a stage. And, boy, did they burn through it. The set was split by a 20-minute break and the first session consisted of Steve's later solo creations with the second session giving focus to the early Genesis years, where Gabriel, Hackett, Rutherford, Banks and Collins all worked together. The…
Book title: The Fountain Author: Casey Scieszka Rating: 3.5/5 Where to buy The Fountain by Casey Scieszka: Bookshop
Logan Moore and Max are back once more to press F to pay respects for the Electronic Entertainment Expo by predicting summer shenanigans from Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox, and Geoff Keighley. Download (58MB) — Episode Transcript Show Notes How Did We Do in 2025? MFP46 - "Spice Up the SEO" with Logan Moore Xbox 2026 Predictions Logan's Xbox 2026 Predictions Asha Sharma continues Phil Spencer's legacy by wearing a bomber jacket and tee-shirt with an Xbox franchise on it. No games, first- or…
The restless Leipzig scene is at it again with this neat new tape of moderately egg-ish garage punk goodness that fits neatly inside established genre parameters but excells nonetheless by the sheer strength and consistency of its underlying song material as well as a sleazy hard-rockin’ edge and a healthy propulsion that reminds me of older shit roughly in the vein of early Kid Chrome or S.B.F.. This shit ain’t trying anything new but it strikes all the right nerves with me and the thing is…
gonna rank from worst to best song ranking system 😇- need to have a looong conversation with whoever made this song 🥹- teared up a little 🥰- i love love love 😊- very good 🙂- good with some issues 🤔- i would let it play in the background ig.. 😪- not feeling it 😠- no this is bad. 😡- this is really bad. 🤬- play this around me and im taking a gun out. for both of us. 7pm 🤔 sure whatever fighting 🥰 imma be real i always skip the song when lee youngji gets on the track...other than that it's a hit!…
The 2026 Indie 500 was this past weekend, and it’s time for my analysis of the countdown. Perhaps it is unsurprising that a radio station broadcasting from the home of one America’s great historical independent record labels – King Records,...
How A Mosquito Operates releases June 26th via Anti Fade Records & Iron Lung Records.
Tangled Up With The Two Tailed Rat releases August 14th via Total Punk Records.
0 (Zero) releases June 5th via Wap Shoo Wap Records.
S.O.36 Berlin Sept ’22 releases June 26th via Iron Lung Records.
gonna rank from worst to best song ranking system 😇- need to have a looong conversation with whoever made this song 🥹- teared up a little 🥰- i love love love 😊- very good 🙂- good with some issues 🤔- i would let it play in the background ig.. 😪- not feeling it 😠- no this is bad. 😡- this is really bad. 🤬- play this around me and im taking a gun out. for both of us. ash 🤬 why would i ruin my day and listen to this...? they get one clap for vernon's verse but that's it. and then towards the end…
Listen on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube My latest mixtape captures my attempt to get over the depression and anxiety that can accompany “The Gulp” in between when you finish something and finally push it out into the world. (Don’t worry, it has plenty of bops!) It’s also the first time I’ve ever given a mixtape an epigraph. (From James Hollis’s Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life.) You can listen to the mix on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube. Filed under: mixtapes
This brought a tear to my eye, but I’m at a funny age (or so I’m told). However, when this video came my way (thank you mysterious YouTube algorithms), it combined two things. First, it’s music from my favourite Disney animated movie, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Secondly, it features my two favourite songs from the film – The Bells of Notre Dame and Out There. They’re not back to back either, the latter segues seamlessly in and out of the latter (and vice versa) in a gorgeous medley. A touch…
I'm a day late but don't worry about it. I updated my Music page to list all the new music I've been making in a dedicated spot. I called it "Jams Season 2" to differentiate them from the stuff I was doing in 2020-2023…not sure if the difference between that chunk of work and this chunk of work is apparent to anyone else but it feels quite different to me! This most recent jam was the first one where I recorded to be edited for interest instead of focusing on a one-take performance, and without…
I love this album. Strange, spacy, dreamy. Perfect use of this era of early synths.
Shrunken Elvis - Barley’s, Knoxville, Tennessee, March 27, 2026Over on Aquarium Drunkard this week, I’m extolling the virtues of Inner Principles, the latest effort from Sean Thompson’s Weird Ears. I’ve been a fan of Sean’s stretching back to the Promised Land Sound days, and it has been extremely fun to follow his every twist and turn. The entirely instrumental Inner Principles goes in a bunch of new directions, from Abercrombie-esque slow burners to Tortoise-y jams to acoustic meditations.…
gonna rank from worst to best song ranking system 😇- need to have a looong conversation with whoever made this song 🥹- teared up a little 🥰- i love love love 😊- very good 🙂- good with some issues 🤔- i would let it play in the background ig.. 😪- not feeling it 😠- no this is bad. 😡- this is really bad. 🤬- play this around me and im taking a gun out. for both of us. i cant run away 🙂 this is actually a pretty good i just gotta be in a certain mood to get it. the bridge is also really good 2 minus…
Released my brandos darbas (graduation project): https://pg.ari.lt/ari/brandos-darbas-2025-2026-informatika
Junge, Junge der Track „Stuck“ von Prop Dylan zusammen mit Fashawn ist mir heute in die Finger gekommen. Das Ganze ist produced by Apollo Brown und somit richtig dope. Prop Dylan gibts jetzt übrigens auch auf wiphopbeatz Radio! Bei Klick wird dieses Video von den YouTube Servern geladen. Details siehe Datenschutzerklärung.
"Hold On" by Alabama Shakes Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. A song from the 2010s that you like or means something to you. - Hold on by Alabama Shakes After an eight-year hiatus, Alabama Shakes reunited last year, started touring and they are working on an album - and every album they've ever made has won at least one Grammy. Like most people, this is the song that introduced them to me. It's a classic already. View Lou Plummer's Crucial Tracks profile
Sonny Rollins on the Williamsburg Bridge, October 7, 1961 © Atsuhiko Kawabata (photographer) /Hanako Kawabata. First published in Jazz Times. A subscriber post on Substack, on the late Sonny Rollins.There’s a radio recording from the Half Note in 1966 (or perhaps 1963, depending which discography you use): Rollins with McCoy Tyner, Walter Booker, and Mickey Roker, moving in and out of tunes at will; melody stacked free associatively on melody—rhapsody, in the sense of rhapsōidos, “stitcher of…
It’s a Thursday Pressing Concerns! We have four new albums coming out tomorrow below: new ones from Guided by Voices, The Thirsty Giants, Chaepter, and Patois Counselors. Check them out, and if you missed Tuesday’s blog post (featuring Christina’s Trip / Mox / Natasha Sandworms, Chevreuil, Casual Technicians, and Jack Shields & The Mojave Rush), check that one too. 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…
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…
Jejune were Chris Mendez Vanacore, Joe Guevera and Araby Harrison. A trio formed at Berklee, in Boston, and subsequently tied to San Diego’s post-hardcore scene. Active between 1995 and 1999, they recorded two albums, and at the time of their spilt had started a third. Numero Group’s retrospective, “Wait A Lifetime”, collects everything from all of these sessions. There are a total of 37 tracks, including alternate takes, a couple of remixes*, plus a bonus 7” containing a respectful, faithful…
pureflow i don’t really think these openers make sense unless you’re standing live in a stadium boompala the best part is when sakura sings the macarena. her voice makes sense for it. every other part of the song feels off base. when kazuha says pyjama it’s like, yeah, this song is pointless. you had the macarena!! you had gold! and you made THIS? what a fucking waste. lyrics like AI poetry bullshit; music video sodden with tacky AI imagery. i am worried eunchae can’t actually sing? thats so…
Hey, looks like I might actually get this weekly post thing out on a Wednesday (he writes optimistically as he starts composing this at 5pm). This is where I run down a couple of Boston-specific lists: First, shows ‘n stuff that are happening within the next seven days that I’m into and you might be, […]
"Yellow" by Coldplay Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Pick a song that reminds you of a color. What color? My wife would listen to this song repeatedly. I used to hate it but now I think about it fondly. View Mandaris's Crucial Tracks profile Listen to my Apple Music playlist
NEW RELEASE – THE GHOST, THE KING & I Soothing swing ‘n’ strings from Holland’s finest and Great Scott. [row-start] [half] [/half] [half] Personnel Scott Hamilton (tenor saxophone, alto saxophone), Rob van Bavel (piano), Vincent Koning (guitar), Frans van Geest (bass), Wonyeong Kim (artistic director Salon de Musique), Hyemi Kim (violin), Jieun Kim (viola), Sohyeon Park (cello) Recorded at Studio 1, Hilversum in 2024 Released as Sound Liaison 1084-A in 2026 Track listing I Want To Be Happy / Eu…
Lila Holler Braising The latest single from Liverpool, UK/Seattle, WA artist Lila Holler, Bruising builds slowly. Glassy vocals and muted guitars create a 90s-esque folk-pop sound as Holler rapidly weaves together a series of intimate lyrical couplets. Bruising hits its stride in its chorus, a minute in, fuzzy bass guitar establishing a hooky bed for Holler’s vocals. Increasingly frustrated, she asserts that, ‘you love me like propane, it’s just what kept you going… oh it’s useless, and I can…
In a just world, I think Stray Children would go down as one of the great RPGs, and its soundtrack would be remembered as one of the all-time great RPG soundtracks. Thelonious Monkees (perfect name!) have such range in both style and instrumentation, and such a great sense for silliness too. (I love how the forest theme has a singer quietly singing the Japanese word for "forest" in the background the whole way through.) I especially love the boss themes, which are great right from the very…
