For its August 2002 issue, Musica Jazz turned toward ECM’s Scandinavian constellation and produced a compilation whose geography liquefies under scrutiny. The disc crosses eras and temperaments, yet identity travels freely between leaders and sidemen. Scandinavia becomes a psychic latitude where silence acquires calcium and melody sings in minerals. The opening “Fort Cherry,” connected to Don Cherry’s Dona Nostra (ECM 1448), immediately unsettles expectation. Turkish percussionist Okay Temiz…

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 8th May 2026 While A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers’ name could reference the Van De Graaf Generator song, or the Robert Eggers movie or something else equally esoteric, these Dutch experimentalists have built their sludgy doom on an ambient foundation. But there are so many influences going into making ‘Towers of Silence’ that this doesn’t feel like just another Sunn0))) or Earth knock off, this is something much more interesting. ‘Towers of Silence’ is out…

We seem to have an embarrassment of riches at the moment, with so many great songs to choose from that it’s almost torture to have to rank them at all. And rather curiously, we have a number of songs by “animal” bands, including a mouse, goose, jaguar, dog and elephant. Temper City remain on top for a second week with “Self Aware”. I’m also thrilled to place several songs by independent acts I love near the top of my chart; Los Angeles-based Ships Have Sailed move into second place with their…

"When I Paint My Masterpiece" by The Band Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Share a song that perfectly captures anticipation. - When I Paint My Masterpiece, written by Bob Dylan, performed by The Band at the 30th Anniversary Celebration Bob's song writing along with Levon's voice. It doesn't get better. Promise that you'll be there with me, when I paint my masterpiece. View Lou Plummer's Crucial Tracks profile

Almost Acoustic at Rebellion Punk festival in Blackpool next Saturday- onstage at 6.30 p.m. when I'll be playing a set of brand new songs about the Brighton punk scene in 1977I'll also be interviewing Pete Bentham of The Dinner Ladies on Saturday lunchtime, and Shanne Bradley of The Nips on Sunday lunchtime.

Exhaustive list of actually good cover songs: "Nothing Compares 2 U" Performed by Sinéad O'Connor, original by Prince. "Hurt" Performed by Johnny Cash, original by Nine Inch Nails. Honorary mentions "All Along the Watchtower" Performed by Jimi Hendrix, original by Bob Dylan. "Knocking On Heaven's Door" Performed by Guns 'n Roses, original by Bob Dylan. That's it.

[1974]Quirky, intense and atmospheric circus music glam. Look out for sped up chipmunk ladies doing backing vocals in the insane chorus.This might not actually sound enticing to you but this is a little gem of a non hit and non memory. Check it out. Number one in a parallel universe.

What’s going on, Internet? Love Story is my favourite Taylor Swift song, I’m defintely a sucker for her earlier stuff. I’m an Offspring fan too, so this cover they performed at the recent Hellfest (never heard of it tbh) is pretty much made for me. The Offspring - Love Story (Taylor Swift Cover) live at Hellfest 2026 I know James is a big Swift fan, I wonder if he’d also appreciate this? Hey, thanks for reading this post in your feed reader! Want to chat? Reply by email or add me on XMPP, or…

I heard this lyrical homage to my home State at Dodger Stadium on Friday evening.) I was born and raised in Los Angeles and attended college at UCSB) #GauchoForLife! Below is the “super mega mix” version!

Three weeks at number one from 27th February 1988“This? Is this what people are listening to now? A record with a bleeping digital watch as the chorus? Jesus Christ… the whole thing’s like being trapped in an amusement arcade. It’s awful, I give up, you’ve all gone bloody mad.” - my mother hearing “Beat Dis” for the first time, 1988.I was absolutely fascinated by that reaction when this record first came out. To me, “Beat Dis” was exciting but hardly felt radical at the time – since “Pump Up…

Still the best.

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 17th April 2026 The debut release from Polish black metal project Ageless Gateway is the work of one, mysterious individual known as Apparation, and it takes their homeland’s traditionally fiery and blasphemous black metal into new and more dissonant territories. ‘Corruptor of Stars’ is out now through Godz Ov War Productions, a label that knows all about putting out quality black metal. The haunting intro track ‘The One Who Watches’ really gets you ready…

Sonny & CherIt was on this date that The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour debuted on CBS. In many ways, along with The Flip Wilson Show, it was a last hurrah for variety shows. The format had been popular on American television from their inception in the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s and 1960s, but while the 1970s the majority of variety shows saw only moderate success. Some only lasted a few months or a few weeks.Variety shows were an old form entertainment even as they made their way to…

I built a site for my rave DJ friend, and gave its video player a glow that actually reacts to the set instead of guessing.

The Strokes and Charli XCX both have new indie rock records out in late summer 2026, and everybody including me wants to compare them. Sonically, Casablancas’ vocals gesture towards the heavily-AutoTuned style of Charli’s previous album brat, and Charli’s album...

Listening to another Namiki soundtrack the other day put me in the mood for some more. This is the last of the three CDs that came with Ketsui, and it's a bit more of a straightforward arranged version of the original album. I'm not quite as fond of this as the original; its greater focus on the rock elements means it's missing a bit of the melancholy sound of the original. I do quite like that new opening track though.

Duran Duran RioGet It At DiscogsFrom its Nagel cover to the haircuts and overall design -- and first and foremost the music -- Rio is as representative of the '80s at its best as it gets. The original Duran Duran's high point, and just as likely the band's as a whole, its fusion of style and substance ensures that even two decades after its release it remains as listenable and danceable as ever. The quintet integrates its sound near-perfectly throughout, the John and Roger Taylor rhythm section…

Album of the Week, August 1, 2026 Imagine you’re a music student, and your father is a senior government minister who gets assassinated when you are 24 years old. Your family is part of an ethnic minority in Uganda, the Acholi people, who are economically marginalized and systematically targeted by Uganda’s dictatorial leader Idi Amin. It’s a crazy situation and you’re afraid for your life, so you get smuggled out of the country in the trunk of a car. You seek asylum in Paris, taking odd jobs…

And so, we begin! No context or preamble whatsoever (please ignore this blatant lie)! This is a great time to dust off all those drafts I have floating around. Also, the end of July found me in quite a bit of a funk for various reasons. Sometimes it's lonely and frustrating and infuriating but... I have to remember to keep creating and have fun. scheming meanwhile projects!drafts! writing about that book with bisexual drama! (caveat: it was the 90s)playing with programs, like adding packages…

This post absolutely benefits from musical backing so I’d recommend sticking this on and then coming back here. One day I’ll write about raising boys and how that’s different today than it was 30 years ago, and why it’s strange to see the word “masculinity” without the word toxic before it. But today is not that day. Today I’d like to talk about dudes being dudes. It’s good that they’re smiling My six-year-old son, no doubt encouraged by his metal-loving father, is really into power metal.…

One of my earliest and shortest posts on here in October 2012, was about Annotations of an Autopsy and their second full-length album, II: The Reign of Darkness. A more death metal-related record compared to the band's discography, it was the next step after a straight-up brutal deathcore / hardcore debut titled Before the Throne of Infection, in 2008. Driven by the charming youthful excess of that era, these British lads grew a notorious name for themselves by encapsulating all the best and…

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What’s going on, Internet? I jumped on YouTube and found six new Miley Cyrus videos sitting there waiting for me. Six of them. Was this the rollout of a new album? Why hadn’t I heard about this already? It wasn’t. They’re just videos for Something Beautiful, last year’s record, and they’re the last pieces of the pop opera film that went with it. I caught the film when it came out last year in the theatre but never came back to the album. These were all released 17 hours ago, when were they…

Music I’ve bought in July. Hey, I bought a lot of stuff in July, and the reason is that I decided to buy everything from 99 Records and Spy Records that I didn’t already have. These are two Downtown New York labels that only survived for a short time. Spy Records was run by John Cale, and 99 Records by Ed Bahlman and was known for Liquid Liquid, Bush Tetras, ESG and all sorts of goodness. Of course, I already have all that stuff, so what I got was … er… the stuff that hasn’t been extensively…

Unsure if this has been suggested before: watching a 1981 performance by Masayoshi Takanaka earlier, I was captivated by how the colours and placement of the volume/tone knobs on his custom Yamaha SG are mirrored by the Super Famicom logo and control pad design.Takanaka used this guitar on tour that year, when he released ‘The Rainbow Goblins’, a jazz-fusion, pop-rock album inspired by an illustrated children’s book by the Italian author and artist Ul de Rico, published in 1979.

This is my first album review. Might be also the last. Cindy Blackman Santana’s new album, Coherence was released yesterday July 31st and here is my thorough review of this masterpiece. This album is SCORCHING HELLFIRE NAPALM HAWT! There you have it. Album details: Coherence Tracklist Illumination 4:07 Blue Whale 7:01 The Message Is Love with Carlos Santana 5:54 The Coherence Tapestry :43 Coherence with Carlos Santana 4:40 The Coherence Embrace :47 Peace Please 5:50 Psychedelic Movie House 2:44…

This cover song has an interesting story to it, which is that it’s a song from a video game called “Deathloop.” In the video game, the singer is supposed to have been a huge star but has lately gone kind of venal around the edges, and also there’s a whole time loop thing going on which necessitates the player character needing to kill the singer (and several other people) for, you know, reasons. It all makes sense in the context of the game, and the game itself is a hell of a lot of fun. I…

The Sound of Thinking: A Listener’s Companion to Conceptual Music, a new book by Craig Dworkin, has a chapter “Ut Pictura Musica” about art and music that led me to some great music that is related to my Listening to Art project (now a halfway through its six-year hiatus). Links go to Bandcamp releases. Chamber Works (2020) is several works composed by Luiz Henrique Yudo and performed by Apartment House; one is “The Donald Judd Harmonies.” Dworkin says these “are based on the artist’s…

The Vaqueros, from left: Steve Corona, Tom Corona, Larry Weld and David Heath The Vaqueros had the first release on the Audition Recording label out of Rochester, New York, “Echo” / “Desert Wind”. It hit local charts in early June, 1964 and received a review in Cash Box on June 13, 1964. Audition Label Bows with “Echo” by the Vaqueros, Cash Box, June 27, 1964 The group registered copyright for “Echo” on June 15, 1964, music by Larry Weld (Laurence R. Weld), David Heath & Tom Corona (Thomas J.…