Today at Crucial Tracks: Across the Wire, by Calexico Share a song that sounds like your favorite weather. What a provocative prompt. I think one of my favorite weathers is a clear sky in pre-dawn light, a cool morning before a warming day.

I heard someone talking—or maybe I read it—about how, if you’re writing books and stuff like that, the older you are, the more respected you are. But if you’re writing contemporary music, you’ve got to be young. I didn’t write much when I was young, and what I did write was horrible. And when I’m in a writing groove now, I know it’s better. My demo performances are off sometimes. I’m cleaning out SoundCloud right now, and listening back to all these old recordings is, of course, horrifying. But…

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I discovered Sallow Moth through last year's Mossbane Lantern, a truly captivating exercise in tech and prog death metal whose complex songwriting set it apart from the genre's overcrowded landscape. It also somehow marked a rebirth for the project, which had limited its activity between 2022 and 2024, but since then Garry Brents has been quite active. Hydrophilous Brood arrives less than a year after its predecessor, a short turnaround considering the ambition of both records. Sallow Moth…

Johnny Bond : Put Me To Bed Cyrus Whitfield "Johnny" Bond (1915-1978) was active in the music industry from 1940 until the late 1970s.Bond was born in Enville, Oklahoma, and grew up on several small farms in Oklahoma. As a youngster, he was influenced musically by records that his parents played. He learned basics of music as a member of his high school's brass band. While in high school he bought a ukulele, but soon he switched to playing the guitar.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Bond

Album of the Week, July 11, 2026 Laurie Anderson might have started the 1980s as the definitive performance artist who also happened to sing, but her last album of the decade posited her as a singer who also happened to be a performance artist. Like Kate Bush’s The Sensual World, released just a week before Strange Angels, the album centered Laurie the person in an emotional space that she had never really occupied, showing her with fewer electronic tricks and more heartfelt songwriting in an…

2026-07-11Hello!I resisted music streaming for a long while. The appeal of listening to music in the background never sat right with me. But it has its uses.When I signed up for a Spotify account, I configured my algorithm and listened to several jazz tracks. Some classy track came up, and it gave me the tasty colors, but I was doing my homework at the time; I didn't bother to check the name of it.The next day, I replayed that same playlist. It seemed to work out okay, and I didn't bother…

Over the past two years, I've published interactive tours for five Go releases, from 1.22 to 1.26. I know some of you have read them, and I've received a lot of kind words from you (even some core Go team members reached out) — thank you so much for that! Tour history: Go 1.22 • 1.23 • 1.24 • 1.25 • 1.26 + Go features by version Unfortunately, at some point, writing these tours stopped being fun and started to feel like a part-time job. I'm not really excited about that, so I've decided to…

I loved CHiPs when I was little, even had CHiPs pyjamas. This theme is much more way out than I remember. Crime-funk going wildly cosmic. Check it out.

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 19th June 2026 This is the second record from Iceland’s Vafurlogi, and ‘Gneisti af eldi Guðs’ had a different gestation from their 2024 debut ‘Í vökulli áþján’. That came from a short but intense period of creativity, whereas ‘Gneisti af eldi Guðs’ was built on material that had been in the works for many years, left to grow and evolve in the deep. ‘Gneisti af eldi Guðs‘ is out now through Norma Evangelium Diaboli. Grandiose Icelandic black metal is always…

These days, Sam Bisbee is an Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated producer of film and television, but at the turn of the century, he was trying his hand at being a musician, releasing a few alt-rock albums that I thought were pretty good, even if rock and roll stardom eventually eluded him. One of my favorite songs of his from that era is “Miracle Car,” which was a catchy, poppy song with ambiguous lyrics. It feels like a love song, but I don’t think it actually is; you don’t ask your eternal love to…

Words: Chris ArnsbyBruno Brookes: “Good evening. Welcome to another sizzling Top of the Pops. All hot stuff on the show tonight. Later on we’ve got Bryan Adams for you. INXS, Billy Bragg, and Bros to name a few. First of all at number twenty eight is D.J.H. featuring Stefy. You need it. And you love it!” [28] D.J.H. featuring STEFY: I LIKE IT. The shape of the new-look Top of the Pops is being assembled in the background. We’ve had Michael Hurll’s changes to the way the charts are presented.…

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Atmos Bloom It’s Enough Opening with low slung bass and bright guitars, the latest song from duo Atmos Bloom sits somewhere between post punk and shoegaze. Atmos Bloom is the product of Tilda Gratton and Curtis Paterson. The pair met when Gratton auditioned to play bass in Paterson’s band at university in Manchester. What started as a musical journey, channeling the likes of Sonic Youth and Pavement, evolved into something bigger. The pair are now life partners, based in London. It’s Enough…

Hailing from Los Angeles, US soul vocal group comprised Jimmy Johnson (lead); Carl Fisher (lead and tenor); Dave Govan (lead and baritone); Ricky Owens (lead and tenor); and Don Bradley (bass). In spring 1966 promoter Roy Tempest brought them over to Britain for the first of two nationwide tours that year. Often Tempest deployed one group that was signed to his agency as the main backing band but, if they were supporting another soul artist that he had brought over on a particular night, he…

Goodbye Bonnie Tyler – and thank you for all your wonderful, gutsy over the top performances. You will most certainly be missed – although we still have your music. Without wanting to sound maudlin, when you reach a certain age and pop and rock icons shrug off their mortal coils, it does lead to a little reflection – and I have very fond memories of Bonnie Tyler. Like a lot of people, I first came across her music with Lost in France – while not her first single, it did see her first entry into…

I previewed sundayclub’s new dreamy janglepop gem of a record via its first two singles in May, and with their self-titled debut out today I’d be remiss if I didn’t also share the third part in their trilogy of videos, released a couple weeks ago as the final preview of the record, or the fourth […] The post sundayclub – “Sad Summer”/”Croydon Ave (To Meet You)” appeared first on Space Echo.

"Summertime" by Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Share a song that captures the moment when seasons change. - Summertime by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald Summertime and the living is easy, Catfish are jumping , That old cotton is high, Your Daddy's rich and your Mama's good looking, Hush pretty baby, don't you cry View Lou Plummer's Crucial Tracks profile

Thanks so much to Darran McCrann for the interview! Some months ago I discovered a couple of songs on Soundcloud. There was no band name, but the credits of the two songwriters, McCrann and Firmager. I found they had been based in Ireland and Australia. Lots of things weren’t clear. But the songs were good. I wanted to know more. Not too long ago Darran got in touch and was kind enough to answer all of my questions with detail. I’m very happy to have learned a bit about their story. Check…

This is simply amazing. Very strong Pink Floyd vibes for me. I feel like Zimmer has stepped out of the shadow of John Williams and may now be the premiere movie soundtrack guy. There are some parts that feel like something Williams would do and then there are other parts that feel like it stepped out of Year Zero / Ghosts era Nine Inch Nails. Just brilliant, also kudos to whomever put it all together for Youtube. This ones a playlist keeper.

Hey people! Today I’d like to share with you a song which is six years old, but I’ve only discovered it recently. More precisely, the original by Cezinando is six years old and Randi Oline’s cover is three years old, but both are similarly new to me. I’m honestly not sure which one of these I like more; they’re both so different from each other and both are really good, so I just thought I’m going to feature both. Cezinando has actually been featured on my blog some years ago, with the amazing…

The barbershop that I usually go to employs two barbers: one who plays oldies, and the other who plays no music when the one who plays oldies isn’t around. Today, both barbers were present, and there was a customer in each chair, so I took a seat and waited. It took a few moments before I noticed that no music was playing, which is unusual when both barbers are on duty. Each barber spoke to his respective customer until there was no speaking at all, and then all I heard was the two industrious…

The Harry Partch Ensemble, via Wikipedia, under a CC 0 License. Listening to Harry Partch is like going on a surreal archaeological dig through history. Only this is history reinterpreted by someone who has been taking shrooms for two decades. Yet, with the emergence of microtonality in the music of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and Angine de Poitrine his works are more relevant today than ever. Harry Who? Harry Partch was born on June 24th, 1901 to Virgil Franklin Partch, and his wife…

Lou Reed: “Coney Island Baby” - St. Mark’s Church, New York City, January 1, 1976It’s been far too long — almost two months! — since we took a trip into the Louniverse. And anyway, we’ve somehow yet to really celebrate the 50th anniversary of Coney Island Baby, Lou Reed’s semi-mellow late 1975 masterpiece. But then again, I’ll celebrate this LP any day of the week; sometimes, it’s my favorite Lou solo album. I’m having a very vague memory of my infamous brother buying it on an early 1990s…

Brighton-via-New-Jersey artist Lonnie Gunn has announced her debut EP, 2013 horsemeat scandal, out independently August 6th, led by new single “Babytooth”. Co-written with Oscar Lang, the track pushes further into pop-rock than her earlier work, with vocal turns and glitch textures that recall Mitski and Caroline Polachek. Gunn says it’s about becoming so dependent on someone’s approval that you shrink around them, losing your own shape entirely. The title comes from her childhood toy, a…

Unmasking the UnnamedIf you’ve spent any time in the retro scene, you know the drill. You’re browsing through old demos or cracktros, and a killer tune starts playing - the kind that stays stuck in your head for days. But there's always that nagging question: Who actually composed this?Historically, these tracks rarely had credits, and in many cases, they never will. As the scene grows and more people try to catalog this digital history, identifying these “anonymous” gems has become a massive…

The Temples of Offal/Return of the AncientsOut 10th June on ATMF (originally released in 1991) One often forgets that – along with the likes of Massacre and Napalm Death- Absu were another Trigger’s broom band. (That’s bands whose latest incarnation features none of their original members for any none UK readers). But with this latest issue of Absu’s first era we are presented with a stark reminder of how quickly many bands were dropping death metal in favour of a new direction around 1991-92,…

Listening to AA Williams and feeling blown away. Gothic dark rock music. A slick and polished wall of bassy distorted guitars, solid drums, and plaintive piano leaving room for Williams' vocals that sit in that Tori Amos space. At times sweeping and epic, others painfully introspective — sometimes both in the same song. Try "Wolves" for a taste of what I mean. Kiki Rockwell's "Faery Queen" (can't fault that old-timey spelling) is genuinely unsettling. The sequel to Faery King from "Eldest…

Xiu Xiu - Eraserhead Xiu Xiu This is a log of my experience of listening to Xiu Xiu's new album, Eraserhead Xiu Xiu, for the first time, song by song in chronological order as they're played from the album. Viento Scrapy plastic/metallic objects, compressed sound, dragged over a surface near a mic. Distorted. Train whistle. Drone-like harmonies. Minor-key synths. Horns in the distance? Sounds like compressed air is blown through a hose. Bass. Bass. Controlled sounds. Back to calm. The scrapy…