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"The Weight" by The Band Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Which song would you use to introduce yourself to someone new? - The Weight by The Band After pulling into Nazareth, the son's narrator get's no relief from people who keep passing the load but in the end, the whole town shares the weight. This is a song about community and its importance. View Lou Plummer's Crucial Tracks profile

The Strictly Come Dancing series opener for 2026 has now been broadcast – and it is something else. The show, which is now in its 24th season, opened with a launch show complete with celebrities, presenters, judges and professional dancers taking to the stage to present an opener which fans will be talking about for years to come. Like another of the BBC’s flagship shows, Doctor Who, Strictly has just undergone something of a regeneration. For readers outside the UK, Strictly is the British…

Which song would you use to introduce yourself to someone new? Has to be rock music based but with a twist. Well, that makes it easy then. “Renegades of Funk” by Rage Against the Machine Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Listen to Gordon McLean's Apple Music playlist View original post on Crucial Tracks Thanks for reading and keeping RSS alive. Visit my site for more.

19 September in Melbourne.We had just left the Footscray Market and crossed the intersection, packed granny trolley in tow, when we heard the unmistakable quality of live music. It sounded pretty good, too. So why not investigate?A band were playing in the Trocadero Arcade outside the Say Cheese sandwich shop. (I have had a sandwich from there before - they are good!)Also good were the band! It was a six-piece which included percussion, keys, violin, clarinet, guitar and bass. Looking at their…

After the graphic and some of the titles ("Lost World", "Black Mist", "Dank") the actual music is fearfully uninteresting - fearfully lacking in fearfulness.

Today’s soundtrack: Delta Airline freebie earbuds and whatever is random shuffling on this old thing:

Album of the Week, September 19, 2026 For all the brilliantly trenchant observations that Laurie Anderson made in her 1980s recordings, there was one topic that was rarely the focus of her songs. Though “O Superman” had the military-industrial complex and the doomsday clock wired into its synthesized “ah ah ah,” the United States had not been in outright war during the entirety of her recorded career. That changed abruptly in January 1991 with the commencement of Operation Desert Storm and what…

This artist has a site in Asheville where I found this cool to me guitar that I want. I also would love to make my own, but I need the specs and it looks like a standard fender body might not be long enough for the top front. That top goes out to the 9th fret. My Fender only goes out to the 13th fret. This is a warlock style guitar. https://www.chalkleymatlack.com https://www.chalkleymatlack.com/product-page/tornado-caster This post (The Guitar I want or want to make - Warlock Style) was last…

Oasis Time Flies... 1994-2009Get It At DiscogsWasting no time in the wake of the Gallagher brothers sudden 2009 implosion, Sony released the deluxe Time Flies 1994-2009 retrospective in the summer of 2010, just in time for the 15th anniversary of (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? The driving idea behind Time Flies is to collect all 27 of Oasis’ British A-sides, a simple idea that would seem to fit one of the great singles band, but sticking to the singles winds up leaving many great songs…

About a year or so ago, I built myself a short scale bass, inspired (aesthetically) by the Kay EB-100 that I had previously restored. I play this bass pretty much daily: it’s set-up with flat-wound strings and I love its smooth richness of tone. However, having recently restored the Westone Thunder Bass which has a long-scale and round-wound strings and spent some time playing it, I have found whole new range of tonal possibilities, which contrast and complement the short scale. So, whilst…

Michaelangelo Matos / Rolling Stone: Some of the biggest music deals in recent years have involved songwriting catalogs, from Bob Dylan in 2020 to Justin Bieber in 2025 to Pete Townshend this spring, many fetching nine-figure buyouts. Most of these have come from private-equity firms looking for reliable investments.But independent labels and artists are fast becoming the focus for a number of recently minted investment firms — companies, and catalogs, of seemingly every size. And one label…

The Artist Ren Doin’ Fine! The Artist Ren is the musical project of Lauren Van Houten, who started creating music in 2020, during the early pandemic. With no label or management, she prides herself on working independently, and creating music that starts with a story. Lauren constantly makes notes on her phone — capturing thoughts, overheard conversations, things from media consumed, and imaginings. Here on The Artist Ren’s latest single, Doin’ Fine!, sunny laid-back guitars meet a grungy…

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Share a song that tells a great story. So many to choose from. Tribute by Tenacious D? Hotel California by The Eagles? Jolene by Dolly Parton? Last Kiss by Pearl Jam? Disco 2000 by Pulp? But no, let’s keep it simple. Never trust a snake. “The Snake” by Al Wilson Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Listen to Gordon McLean's Apple Music playlist View original post on Crucial Tracks Thanks for reading and keeping RSS alive. Visit my site for more.

What can a single musical note teach us about attention? Beginning with the sound of a gong in a Peace Stupa, this is a personal meditation on listening, silence, creativity – and the worlds that can open when we pay attention to seemingly insignificant things. The post Meditations on a Single Note appeared first on Friedrich Zettl Fine Arts.

There’s an endless and growing corpus of live recordings of synthesizer music on YouTube by highly skilled and informed musicians, and I particularly enjoy this ongoing channel called Modular Ambient, named for the modular synthesizers that are the focus of each video. Whoever runs it sets up these inventive and deceptively simple generative (in the pre-LLM sense of the word) or otherwise ever-changing systems of varied sound sources and processing, and then records them for half a day…

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Easily in my top five favorite musicals. l still listen to it often. Thank you Duncanfor all of the gifts you’ve given us.

Music memories is the theme of the Bear Blog Carnival this month, being held by James at with words, wonder. Because I'm listening to music at every possible moment most of my memories are soundtracked. I've got 'Best of' playlists of my most evocative songs for certain times and places, as well as activities like my favourite walking songs. When I hear The Strokes it takes me back to reading Anne Rice on the bus to college. I still have a really visceral memory of the music and the stories and…

Wailin' and Scalin' (dl)Hey! Cobella (dl) both songs published by Gordon & Lefleur Music, Inc. (BMI)ALJA 10021957Record listed at RCS (location unknown)*Real name : Peter J. Veneziano, He was born Sept. 8, 1932, in Clarksburg, W.Va. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1951-1955. A recording artist, disc jockey and radio and television personality known all over Ohio, he sang and appeared on TV on American Bandstand and won a TV Emmy award and appeared in several motion pictures filmed in Ohio…

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I wonder if Ed Sheeran will be the halftime show this year.

Velar Prana Tonight The latest single from Velar Prana, Tonight opens with a lush wave of sophisticated sound. Slithers of brass instrumentation weave in and out of themselves, soaring and fluttering, as warm and crispy bass establishes a feeling of sun-kissed movement. Having spent endless nights at turntables through his years at school, Velar Prana now writes, records and produces music. His focus is on what you hear on Tonight — a kind of warm electro-pop that glitters and captures the…

I haven’t posted an update to this series in such a long time and the longer I put it off, the longer my list of notable discoveries grew. So I decided that I would only talk about the ones that are notable to me right now instead of since the last post. One of the upsides of writing this series myself is that I get to make the rules—believe it or not. In the last month or so, I’ve been listening to a lot of electronic disco and dance music. One of the releases I had been looking forward to so…

I rarely post about the passing of a music artist (though I’ve written a few in the past: Eddie Money, Olivia Newton-John and Tina Turner are three that come to mind), but the passing of singer-songwriter and composer Duncan Sheik yesterday, September 17th, has hit me pretty hard. Perhaps it’s because he was still a relatively young 56, but also because it came as somewhat of a shock, even though he’d spent over a month in the hospital this past summer. I’ve followed him on social media for a…

The famous may be in Toronto right now for TIFF, but the otaku will be at The Horseshoe for the next two nights as this year’s edition of Next Music From Tokyo kicks off. The four-band lineup of Japanese indie acts is always a mix of new and familiar (assuming your frame of reference is […] The post 揺れるは幽霊 -『From』 appeared first on Space Echo.