I had planned to make a mix a month for all of 2026, but nobody seemed to listen to the mix for last May, so I fell off on that. Some projects get left by the wayside.

Welcome to a Thursday Pressing Concerns! We have two albums coming out tomorrow, July 31st (from Mopar Stars and Bondo), plus two albums that came out earlier this week (from Cheekface and Grass Jaw). Check them out below, and if you missed Monday’s blog post (featuring Josaleigh Pollett, Nocturnal Prose, Picastro, and Jake King), check that one out, 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 to support…

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…

Byrd at his best. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Been after this Byrd on Blue Note for a very long time. It’s one of those elusive titles that I’ve never found a clean enough copy of. So, very happy to finally have landed this lovely example.One of Byrd’s best imho. The great combination of Byrd and Adams is well known and here we also get the addition of…

With a regally splendid all new cast, Six the Musical kicks off its third Australian Tour in peak form, with comedy, choreography, and killer vocals all at a premium. Divorced, Beheaded, Died Divorced, Beheaded, Survived This devilishly simplified mantra captures both the self-deprecating humour and the re-seizing of agency at the heart of returning smash hit Six the Musical. Creators Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss tapped into a universally familiar set of women, knowing that a wise and witty…

Paraphrasing the Soul Sonic Force and sorting through today`s releases for tunes that could have graced Alfie & Leo’s Amnesia dance-floor… Asa Tate / Andromeda / Rhythm Section International Rhythm Section International have 4 new tracks from Asa Tate. “Traffic” mixes dub techno textures with a dark, sorta mid-90s New York garage swing. “Andromeda”, a Sound Factory-esque shot of acid soaked robo-disco, manages to be more prog-y, more trance-y, yet still, in part, pay homage to Marshall…

A bowl of plant based udon at Wagamama in Silverburn, a note on why an RSS feed beats an algorithm, and what happens when Stephanie donates her chillies to my tea.

Back last year, I attended my first Fleadh, Irish music festivals with a focus on competitions, as very much an intermediate tin whistle player. So intermediate in fact, that we had an accidental misunderstanding about what was meant by a slow air, which is a required element as part of the four styles of tune in the adult tin whistle category. This year I needed to do better… An unusual opportunity to play music for Irish dancers. I will say that since last year, I’ve continued with my lessons…

Released in 1994 by Musica Jazz for ECM’s 25th anniversary, ECM Story surveys the label through a deep sense of affinity. Produced in close collaboration, it gathers European innovators such as Jan Garbarek, Terje Rypdal, Louis Sclavis, and Dominique Pifarély alongside American masters including Paul Bley, Chick Corea, Gary Burton, and John Abercrombie. Keith Jarrett receives the sustained attention due a central figure, while Kenny Wheeler and Paul Motian represent its commitment to singular…

Hey people! In today’s “Bibiel Hears Things” post, I’d like to feature a song which I have really good memories of. The song itself is great, but what has made it special to me is that I happened to listen to it for the first time during a really nice moment, and the two seem to have been forever connected with each other in my mind, even though shortly after that nice time I actually got into a really shitty period of my life but somehow it hasn’t spoilt it for me. Olivia Reid is not an artist…

Namiki's soundtracks have always drawn from contemporary techno, and this is definitely no exception. This one is from the early 2010s, so he's drawing much more from EDM than he had in his earlier soundtracks and the sound definitely works here. As a sort of farewell to Dodonpachi this is also drawing from and remixing elements of the past soundtracks, which makes for a nice opportunity to be reimagining those through the lens of this newer sound.

Yet another Wednesday, so another post of Boston-centric lists of shows, both impending (as in, within the next 7 days) and newly-scheduled (as in, announced over the previous 7 days). It doesn’t include everything, just those that are on my radar, and maybe on yours, too. If you’re reading this, and you’re psyched about something […]

The album cycle for DIIV’s fourth album, 2024’s Frog In Boiling Water, kicked off with the viral soul-net.co infinite website/single in Fall 2023, while they were touring with Depeche Mode and carried on through 2025 before wrapping with the release of a live document of the album – Boiled Alive – which came out in […] The post DIIV / Boiled Alive appeared first on Space Echo.

[1975]Tuuuuune!Stellar glam rock power pop.Beats The Glitter Band's original version from the same year which was also excellent. I mean how could you go wrong, it's just a crackin' song innit.How this wasn't a number one smash in Britain and Australia is beyond me. However it made the German top 40 reaching number 28.Surely a major inspiration for Lawrence's 90s group Denim.

A hundred death metal albums not from the USA Between 1993 and 1994, death metal popped its head above the underground parapet to peek into the mainstream. From airplay on MTV’s Headbangers Ball, to Morbid Angel being the first death metal band to get major label backing with a signing to Giant Records, to bloody Ace Ventura. At the time, the music industry was actually an industry as opposed to the glorified PR network it is today. It had real power. And could often bend the zeitgeist to its…

Talking Heads + Television - CBGB, New York City, July 29-31, 1976A little expanded 50th anniversary repost! I first shared these recordings … 15 years ago?! Let’s take a trip back in time, shall we? Not too long a trip, just 35 50 summers ago, to NYC’s Bowery, where great rock ‘n’ roll was being created on a frighteningly regular basis. This particular run featured two sets apiece each night from Talking Heads and Television. We don’t have every last note played, but it’s an embarrassment of…

Like many others1, MEEK’s Fabulous has been stuck on-loop in my head for most of this year. What a fucking banger of a track, amirite? And yet… somehow, today was the first time I figured I’d watch the music video. If you’ve not seen it (or perhaps not even heard the song), go do that now; I’ll wait. The outdoor shots start about 20 seconds in, and… they’re instantly-recognisable by what they aren’t. They aren’t London, where singer-songwriter Georgia Meek hails from, that’s for sure. You don’t…

“So Grebo was a short-lived genre, and each of these tracks feels very much of that (narrow) place and time. The good news is that it was a thrilling time, and the sound here reflects that; it’s kinetic, busy, and confident. The songs all kinda sound alike, but it’s okay because the song rips.” Grebo vs. Folk? 1989 Truly Had Something For Everyone

FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS: French DJ ​and electropop ‌musician Kavinsky found dead aged 50. Sometimes known as the “father of synthwave”, his track “Nightcall” played over the opening credits of Ryan Gosling’s 2010 Drive, and was performed at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Toaplan invented the bomb. In the now-defunct company’s first shooter, 1985’s Tiger-Heli, the limited-use bomb was introduced to the genre, with the idea being that it gave players an aggressive and exciting way to attack enemies. Instead, something unexpected happened: as players got better at Tiger-Heli, they intentionally left their bombs alone — there were scoring bonuses for not using them, for one, and second, there were bragging rights to win. If a bomb had to be used, it was purely as a…

I was only able to catch the tail end, but Jose-Miguel Yamal, alongside Thomas Helton and Sam Knight, did an awesome tribute celebrating the 50th anniversary of Ryo Fukui’s Scenery at Echoes in Houston. Jose-Miguel is the pianist who played on my senior recital, and Ryo Fukui is the pianist I discovered from the visit with Hishashi at Bar Gyu in Niseko, so it it was a cool confluence! I snapped a few photos with my new Nikon D6 setup.

I was suddenly confused, on SoundCloud, about how to add a track to a playlist — because the interface has changed. You no longer hit the three dots and then select the option to add something to a playlist. You instead now click the plus sign as shown here outlined (by me) in red.

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Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 22nd May 2026 Brought together under the banner of the most classic of heavy metal sounds, Canadian/Swedish heavy metal heroes Sandstorm have returned with a brand new mini-album/EP called ‘Dungeon of Death’, and continue to make you rock like it is 1982 all over again. Following on from their 2021 EP ‘Desert Warrior’, we’re about to be taken right back to the glory days of the NWOBHM’s birthplace by this trio. ‘Dungeon of Death’ is out now through Dying…

Most film albums feature a variety of themes from different films and title their album with the key theme, such as "Theme from the VIPS and other Film Hits".... but this album struck me as unique because Ferrante and Teicher decided to focus strictly on the music of Cleopatra (1963). Or so one would think with the title "Love Themes from Cleopatra" but if you read the back liner notes you will find that there are really just two songs from the 1963 Elizabeth Taylor epic ("Caesar and Cleopatra…

Today’s musical question: how to describe the music that came to me this morning on my Comcast cable’s channel 942, “classical masterpieces”, this morning. Well: some delightful band music in a thick Viennese pastiche of Mozart’s melodies. It turned out to be: Franz von Suppé’s (1819-1895) Overture from the incidental music for Leonhard Wohlmuth’s (1823-1889) play Mozart, about the life of the composer (produced at the Theater an der Wien on 23 September 1854). Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra,…

Rose Keeler Schaffeler is probably best known by the alias Keel Her, which she assumed in 2012 to release smart collections of Sarah Records-like indie rock. 2019’s “With Kindness” saw Schaffeler move more toward electronica, while the single, “Surrender Rah”, a collaboration with producer Daniel O’Sullivan, is a brilliant hit / bit of post-punk dub. Last year O’Sullivan and Schaffeler contributed a set of voice-based pieces to the Standard Music Library, and their new album, “Universal…

Issued by the Italian magazine Musica Jazz, this sampler was released in 2019 to commemorate ECM’s 50th anniversary. Its source was the label’s “Touchstones” campaign, a group of fifty albums returned to circulation in two waves of twenty-five, first in January and again in June. Luca Conti and Sandro Cerini selected and sequenced the tracks with care, producing more than a commemorative digest. Earlier archival efforts, including the “Re:Solutions” series begun in 2014, had stalled after a…

jakub dominé - synthesis There are supertasters, but are there superlisteners? Often when listening to music with people, I realize that I'm hear details in the music that don't consciously register to non-musicians: the subtle off-beat bassline.. the tasteful thickness of it. Then people like Jakub come along and show me how far there is to go still. He dials in synth tones with loving precision and inspires me to find and emulate my own grail patches.

i shall fill out each entry later, just placing a placeholder post for now! antidepressants by suede it seems i've been extremely lucky to only know them as a goth band! from back in the day i remembered only "europe is our playground" and this 2025 album sounds like it's straight from the 90s. "impressively consistent sound," i'd say, if not for every review and write-up highlighting their status as brit-pop staples and their winding genre-journey. but i'm happy to have randomly found this in…