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…
Best Record of 2001: Day 48 Good morning! Today we’re taking a quick look at Ladytron’s 604 as it faces off against At Dawn by My Morning Jacket. There was a time when I would buy records based solely on the label. Dischord never missed. 4AD? Odds were high you’d love what they were issuing. K Records? Whether or not it matched my tastes was up for grabs, but you could bank on it being something quirky, and that screamed “Olympia.” Wax Trax! was the gift that kept on giving for a kid who was…
The hands out and slides for a talk at Bridges 2026.
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All One Song - “Ambulance Blues” with Zachary CaleWelcome back to All One Song, a Neil Young podcast presented by Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions. What are we doing here? We’re talking to some of our favorite musicians and writers about their favorite Neil Young songs. And we have got a doozy of a Neil Young song to talk about today — “Ambulance Blues”! First appearing as the closing track on Neil’s 1974 masterpiece On the Beach, this is one of the man’s major works, a long, dark dirge that…
WoM V 15 Connie Stevens - Hey, Good Lookin' .mp3 Dorothy Pay - Smooth Operator.mp3 Effie Smith - Be Bop Boogie.mp3 Elaine Stritch - Let It Snow- Let It Snow- Let It Snow.mp3 Jackie DeShannon -Trouble.mp3 Juanita Hall - Baby Won't You Please Come Home.mp3 Marion Colby - Dim, Dim, the Lights.mp3 Pony Sherrell - Jungle Ungle, Um, Bai .mp3 Scooter Lee - Barefootin'.mp3 Skeeter Davis - It's So Easy.mp3 Sue Brubaker - Well Ride Again.mp3
Möhrkvlth: Gwenojennoù An Ankounac’hOut 5th May on Antiq Sickly sweet post hardcore rendered in black metal form. Every riff geared toward emotional catharsis, achieving nothing as a result given the fact that no room is left for conflict, tension, strife, contrast. The total lack of patience demonstrable in the melodic signature of modern black metal is perhaps indicative of a general lapse in attention spans across metal’s listener – and by extension creative – base. An ethos unwilling to…
Hey people! Today, I thought I’d share with you something Estonian. I’ve only come across MiaMee very recently but I was quickly able to conclude that I like their music. And I feel like Estonian music is quite underrated – including by me as I know very little of it – so I thought it would be nice to feature them. MiaMee are an Estonian ensemble whose music is a sort of mix of jazz and alt/indie pop, quite folky as well. The founder and singer of the band is Liina Saar, who also plays the…
"S.O.B." by Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. A song from the 2000s that you like or means something to you. - S.O.B. by Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats I am absolutely the cliche who almost never listens to anything new and I have been that way for the entirety of the 21st century, just about. Every once in a while, someone will break through because of a video I see on social media or an earnest recommendation…
Like Bob Dylan, Rickie Lee Jones gives a great deal of ongoing thought to how she presents her songs in terms of musical arrangement. Such care is never allowed to outweigh the feeling of freshness and spontaneity, even when the material concerned is getting on for half a century old, as were the five songs from her debut album, written when she was barely into her twenties, included in last night’s 90-minute set. Her current touring band includes the brilliant Ben Rosenblum on accordion, piano…
The Blue Hour: Stellar Music, Exoplanets, and Canada’s MOST Telescope My third interview of the spring season of The Blue Hour is now available as a podcast. In this conversation, I speak with Dr. Jaymie Matthews about stellar seismology, exoplanets, space telescopes, and the hidden lives of stars. Jaymie Matthews is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of British Columbia, and played a leading role in MOST — the Microvariability and Oscillations of…
Inspired by a whirlwind trip to Vegas some time ago, this is 'Down to the Courthouse'! Fun fact: the most profitable place to busk in the country is in front of the 'Welcome to Las Vegas' sign. There is a constant stream of rotating tourists with plenty of cash to blow. It's hot but well worth it! Enjoy our bluegrass-inspired anthem, filmed on a shoestring budget from the studio! Stream 'Down to the Courthouse' here: Spotify Apple Music Bandcamp Amazon Tidal Lyrics: We're going down to the…
asteraceae – apparitions Tonight’s mailbox roundup is focused entirely on succinct cuts of online jungle–the type of thing I keep finding my way back to, most of which is less homage to the East London forebears than it is an embodiment of internetcore and perpetual ode to WipEout 2097. First up is two minutes of celestial pads and breakbeats that are as much phaser as they are drum. This is honestly a bit more refined than most of the neo-jungle/neo-breakcore I encounter, and genuinely…
A shout out to Neil Turner. Please get well soon.
I've always wanted to make music. I belive I'm a very creative person dog, and I just generally love making things. It's part of why I enjoy computer science so much, because it gives me the skills to create projects and be creative with computers in a way many people can't. Recently I totally legally aquired a copy of Ableton Live 12 Suite, and spent the majority of my day messing around with what I could do with it. I was in a discord call with my friend, and they spent quite a bit of time…
Sonny Rollins, the Saxophone Colossus, has passed. He is probably my favorite saxophonist, and while the aforementioned album is one of the five I would take to a deserted island, he has so many other good ones like The Cutting Edge which also has bagpipes, or Sonny Side Up with Sonny Stitt and Dizzy Gillespie. WordPress 6.7 in November 2024 was named in honor of Rollins. We rarely choose a living musician for a release so the team actually prepared a gift we sent to him with the names of all…
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 8th May 2026 The debut release from one man Minnesotan death metal project Vanishing Grasp, ‘Pang of Phantom Self’ is being released through Rotted Life Records, and is the brainchild of Andy Schoengrund who has done work in loads of underground bands such as Unsouling, Feral Light and Wolvhammer in his time. That gives me a lot of hope for what I’m likely to find in this record, as those are some bands I can definitely recommend checking out. ‘Pang of…
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 3rd May 1976 Hard rock icons Aerosmith are one of music’s biggest bands, with a back catalogue of massive hits, hard rock classics and cross over mega anthems in their 50 year plus career but I think you would struggle to tie their sound into the history of heavy metal on first glance. They don’t have quite as obvious a link as the likes of Led Zeppelin or Kiss, but I think ignoring the formative groovy blues of their early records on what classic heavy…
Formed in 2014, Visible Cloaks have helped to highlight the work of the ambient avant garde. Through their own music, mixes and curation they have brought wider attention to musicians such as Nuno Canavarro, Lino Capra Vaccina, Iury Lech, Pep Llopis, Lena Platonos, and especially that of Hiroshi Yoshimura and Inoyama Land. It’s the latter Japanese artists that, to my ears, have the greatest influence over Visible Cloaks’ new long-player, “Paradessence”. One half of the Cloaks, Spencer Doran has…
My roommate had Santana live at tanglewood 1970 concert and it’s so good. High energy locked in the groove. 🎵
Shards continues the sonic excavation the trio of Jason Moran, BlankFor.ms, and Marcus Gilmore began with Refract, though excavation may be too archaeological a word for music so hip to its own aliveness. Everything arrives mid-combustion, pieces of a shattered mirror refusing ordinary alignment. These performances fold time against its own grain until memory and anticipation become indistinguishable textures rubbing against the skin of the present. The band approaches improvisation as the…
Sonny Rollins took flight. I always felt good around his music. His aura of intensity with integrity. On this occasion, I’m listening to his music now. Newk’s Time, Saxophone Colossus, Sonny Rollins vols 1& 2. That’s what I got in my collection. That’s all I need. Art Kane’s 1958 Iconic photograph! That’s what I got on my home office wall.Newk was the last survivor of those great musicians!(my finger slipped; he’s 2 heads above Marian McPartland) Sonny Rollins; our Love for you continues. Rest…
Charlie Puth’s song Cry features Kenny G. Puth explains how that came about.
I woke this morning to the sad news that the great tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins passed away yesterday at the age of 95. He was one of the most influential and creative musicians of his time and there are many justifiably glowing obituaries of him. I can’t add much that hasn’t already been said by them, other than say that I consider myself deeply privileged to have been able see and hear Sonny Rollins play live, not once but twice, during the 1980s. The first was in the relatively intimate…
Back in 2011, when Sonny Rollins finally received his long-overdue recognition from the Kennedy Center Honors, I wrote the follow words on Jazz Collector, expressing what I felt should have been expressed at the tribute: “Jazz is a unique art form in that it enables – in fact, it requires – the artist to perform on the fly, as part of a unit of other musicians and without a safety net, and it demands not only immense technical skill, but a mind that can constantly plumb the depths of creativity…
Another recent Daisuke Nagata soundtrack, this one's the soundtrack to a game I haven't actually played yet. Like with all of these games, these soundtracks are just as much about having an album to listen to for me; I don't need the context of the game to enjoy it. The Illvelo soundtracks in particular have always had a wild mix of techno styles, and this new one is very much continuing that tradition. This is another album that isn't available via streaming, but the label has a preview…
“I haven’t been getting a lot done” is not how I’m going to start this post. And yet I just did. The good news is discovering that what weeks and months like these are perfect for are things that require... Read More ›
I tend to respect the music of Tune-Yards more than I actually enjoy listening to it. They are fully committed to being avant garde and experimental with finding new sounds, and they also know how to turn them into an unforgettable hook. But I’m rarely compelled to listen to much of it. But it makes Tune-Yards doubly perfect to make the score for a Boots Riley movie, as they did with Sorry to Bother You, and now with I Love Boosters. Not just because they’re Oakland-based, and Riley seems to be…
The VitalsRelease date: 6 May 1996UK chart peak: #1Running time: 61:52Singles: Kung Fu (#57), Girl from Mars (#11), Angel Interceptor (#14), Goldfinger (#5), Oh Yeah (#6) This was the studio album debut from the North of Ireland outfit, and it garnered a mixed response across the world in terms of chart positions – it did, however, reach the top 40 in Australia (#18), Finland & Norway (#26), New Zealand (#14), and Switzerland (#40). By 1996, Britpop had taken hold of the country as a response…
