We had the pleasure of speaking with Zach Boyd, head of AI Policy in Utah this week. They’re really doing something unique and important there! We are hoping their approach get taken up more widely: Apple Spotify YouTube
Sonny Rollins (1930-2026)Word came through yesterday that Sonny Rollins had passed away at the age of 95 — a titan of 20th century music, a real American hero, a wonderfully strange person who shared so much with us over the course of a long life. There’s so much to dig into when it comes to Sonny, whether it’s his 60+ year discography, the fascinating recent biography by Aidan Levy, or his revealing notebooks, which NYRB published in 2024. Decades upon decades in search of some elusive…
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Ferrari has revealed Luce — its first electric vehicle and, perhaps more radically, its first five-seater. The collaboration with Jony Ive's agency LoveFrom marks a significant departure from decades of brand tradition, yet the numbers remain unmistakably Ferrari: four electric motors, 1,050 horsepower, 0–100 km/h in 2.5 seconds. The design language walks a careful line between evolution and revolution. Luce translates to "light" in Italian — an apt name for a machine promising 530 km of range…
Two Albums I have been listening to I think this does what many a tribute album seek but find a hard time reaching. I Am a Pilgrim: Doc Watson at 100 & Bonny. Light. Horseman. Previous
"The Ghost of Tom Joad" by Bruce Springsteen Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. A song from the 1990s that you like or means something to you. - The Ghost of Tom Joad by Bruce Springsteen The Boss won the 1995 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album for the eponymous album that included this track. It was hist first acoustic album since Nebraska and it is a worthy successor. The song and album really cemented his legacy as a successor the tradition of…
Welcome to a “Monday” Pressing Concerns, this time actually on a Tuesday due to the U.S. holiday weekend (hope everyone in the States had a nice Memorial Day, and a nice Monday to the rest of us). Today we have new albums from Chevreuil, Casual Technicians, and Jack Shields & The Mojave Rush, plus a split EP between Christina’s Trip, Mox, and Natasha Sandworms. Check them out below! If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what else we’ve written about…
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[1972]Now for some smoov laid back funk from Manchester City FC. No actual strikers or midfielders or goalies playing on the instruments here, its actually the fellas from 10CC doing a helluva funky jam. Quite prescient as Manchester was indeed a funky city and that.*Funky City was the b-side to Boys In Blue (see below)[1972]I'm Australian and haven't followed English soccer since the 90s and don't know a hell of a lot about it. Is this Manchester City's club song like in AFL where Collingwood…
There’s so much Miles Davis around just now, in celebration of today’s centenary of his birth on May 26, 1926. There are stage plays (I went to one in Southwark, starring the trumpeter Jay Phelps), orchestral concerts at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival and the BBC Proms starring Guy Barker and Ambrose Akimusire respectively, tribute albums like A Supreme Blue by Nicholas Payton and Butcher Brown, and audiophile editions of landmarks such as Birth of the Cool and the soundtrack to Lous Malle’s…
(1979) Directed by Alan Arkush; Written by Richard Whitley, Russ Dvonch, and Joseph McBride; Story by Alan Arkush and Joe Dante; Starring: P.J. Soles, Clint Howard, Vincent Van Patten, Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, Dey Young, The Ramones, and Dick Miller; Available on Blu-ray and DVD Rating: ***½ “…Roger [Corman], during preproduction, was the only one who thought it was still “Disco High,” because his script was the only one with that title still on it. Every other script said Rock ‘n’ Roll High…
As promised, here's your new Soundcloud-exclusive jam: Incoming!
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Interwoven is a collaboration between 2 generations of pioneering Japanese electro-acoustic musicians. Ken-Ichiro Isoda was part of the first wave of artists producing what has come to be referred to as Kankyo Ongaku. Suites of ambient compositions, inspired by Eno, made possible by newly affordable technology, designed to transport listeners from busy city streets to more serene, mediative surroundings. A contemporary of creators such as Hiroshi Yoshimura, Isoda debuted, 1984, on the now…
This is the other A.P.J. album I picked up recently; this one's their latest from last year. Compared to the one I played the other day, this album is quite a bit more upbeat and I'm enjoying the contrast. I especially love track 3, Moonbow, which feels like it has callbacks to compositions on Labyrinthos. The full album isn't available via streaming, but there is a three-track EP version online. The full album's in Japanese record stores and on the drummer's web store.
After all, one did not write a book for other people. Any more than one wrote it for an already existing self. One wrote it, in fact, to renew one’s own self in the process of writing, and creatively go beyond its previous limits. Or in other words: to transcend oneself. Thus it is not for others that each person transcends himself; one writes books and invents machines that were demanded nowhere. I’ve resigned myself to the idea that I will read fewer books this year, because the ones in my…
Ela Bambust: PATREON ESSAY — Irrelevant. I could tell you it’s about the technofascist empire of America polluting Cuba with its blue jeans and pop music during the cold war, Harry Dubois Does Atomic Blonde. I could tell you it’s exactly the same as Disco Elysium. I could tell you it’s nothing like Disco Elysium. It doesn’t matter.
Prymek & Sage - ShelterDue to various circumstances, I missed a recent/rare duo performance from Chaz “Lake Mary” Prymek and Matt “M. Sage” Sage this month — just minutes from my house, even! C'est la vie, I guess. But however frustrating that was, I can’t feel frustrated when I hit play on the terrific new Prymek & Sage record. These two have been making music together in an array of configurations for more than a decade now, most recently in the wondrous Fuubutsushi collective; Shelter might…
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Hey people! Today is Whit Monday, or the Monday in the Octave of Pentecost, and I thought we could celebrate it with an appropriately themed piece. I would’ve featured it yesterday, since that would be even more fitting, but it’s only today that I was reminded of it. As some of you might perhaps guess from the title, this is a liturgical sequence for Pentecost, “O Ignis Spiritus Paracliti”, written by St. Hildegard of Bingen, or rather an abridged version of that text. (For the non-Catholics or…
25-years ago The Avalanches blew my mind with their Since I Left You single and album of the same name. Friends and I went to see them at The Arches. Memories are vague. After all, we ended up in Alaska on Bath Lane until closing. I stumbled into work at 11am the following day, with the excuse that I had broken my glasses at a gig and had to get them repaired that morning. My boss just smiled. He knew I'd had a night on it. Thankfully I played fives with him and we had a good relationship.…
I remember anticipating Heldentod eagerly in 2021, due to the great impression I had of German outlet Grabunhold from their 2019 EP, Unter dem Banner der Toten. The debut album proved remarkable, and the band continued on a positive note with 2023's split release with Circle of Shadows, slowly drafting their own continuous landscape of Tolkien-inspired, triumphant and vigorous black metal. Half a decade after the first album, Frostheim is still characterized by mystique of the old world, winter…
"Lunatic Fringe" by Red Rider Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. A song from the 1980s that you like or means something to you. - Lunatic Fringe by Red Rider The 80s encompassed ages 15-25 for me. It was the decade when I listened to the radio more than any other. it was the last thing I did at night and the first thing I did in the morning. Lunatic Fringe got a lot of airplay during my high school days. It's a good tune and one I still add to playlists to…
I’ve developed a slight obsession with Tokyo's train station melodies. Known as Hassha Melodies (literally 'departure melodies'), these carefully composed seven-second jingles are designed to guide commuters onto departing trains on the city's vast, sprawling transit network.Before their introduction, Japanese stations used harsh electric buzzers to signal departures. In the late 1980s, new
Permit me to perform a magic trick. Having not listened to a note of Darkthrone’s latest Darkthrone album, behold, as I begin typing a review: “another fearless, authentic, and infectiously fun tour through classic 70s and 80s metal, track X leans more into the classic doom direction of the last three albums whilst track Y takes us back to the roots of German thrash, retaining elements of crust punk, by now a perennial Darkthrone trademark! The dynamic duo’s enthusiasm for all things metal and…
How can we differentiate AI-music or AI-poetry or AI-whatever from human-made songs, poems, etc.? On this note, I have been debating with myself whether to share this mellow music, which might be AI-generated (see here, for example) and which popped into my YouTube feed in May of 2025. Is it AI? And if so, is it art or just slop?
Well, I may not have provoked a musician to pen a retaliation tune (unlike my own flesh and blood, who recently joined a select pantheon of irritant critics). But I can now bask in having inspired a song, and one made by a well-known and highly regarded group too: electronic act Overmono. Their single "Lockup" - which heralds a new album Pure Devotion - apparently came from reading not Energy Flash, like you would probably have expected in the circumstances, but the other book of mine that…
Shavuot is the holiday about the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai (matan torah). There is a tradition of late-night study called tikkun leil Shavuot, or colloquially, a tikkun. The Pittsburgh community has -- I'm told this is very unusual -- a community-wide tikkun for the first few hours, from 10PM to 1AM. There are about 25 one-hour sessions (spread across the three timeslots) with teachers from across the local Jewish spectrum -- rabbis, cantors, and educators; Orthodox, Reconstructionist,…
This past week has been productive to the point where I’ve not had as much time to listen to music as I perhaps would have liked. I did, however, take some time to listen to some Dewey Redman on and around his May 17th birthday. I’ve always enjoyed his debut album, Look to the Black Star (1966) which showcased Redman’s bluesy and almost Rollinsesque tone. I started to listen to Redman more seriously as I grew to appreciate James Brandon Lewis’s style which like Redman before him anchors his…
Fire-Toolz – “Dear Robin Bears & Love Cloud ’24” Shelf Nunny – “Water Idea” Nathan Fake – “Slow Yamaha” The post Visual Velcro 55 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.
