We’re headed to the beach for sand, sun, and tons of chill summertime VGM. We’ll cover tropical beach vibes and underwater tracks with a guest mix in-between. This episode features returning guest Matt Storm, who hosts a summer VGM mix block. Matt Storm ➡️ https://linktr.ee/dj_stormagedddon 〰️〰️〰️ 🔊 Transistor.fm lets you host unlimited podcasts, automatically distribute your shows to all major podcatchers, and way more. CLICK HERE to try it out! 00:00 Intro/ Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania -…

We’re headed to the beach for sand, sun, and tons of chill summertime VGM. We’ll cover tropical beach vibes and underwater tracks with a guest mix in-between. This episode features returning guest Matt Storm, who hosts a summer VGM mix block. Matt Storm ➡️ https://linktr.ee/dj_stormagedddon 〰️〰️〰️ 🔊 Transistor.fm lets you host unlimited podcasts, automatically distribute your shows to all major podcatchers, and way more. CLICK HERE to try it out! 00:00 Intro/ Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania -…

Hey people! I remember that, back in 2019 or thereabouts, I was listening to Nina Nesbitt a good deal, and a lot of other similar British artists; even shared some of her songs on the blog but have deleted those posts since. I particularly liked her song “The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change”, especially as I was going through a bit of a rough time back then so I did need that message. I still really like that song, actually; that has not changed. And recently I’ve been reminded of…

[1994]More slacker anthems. Catchy singalong indie rock for wasting your days away.

I went to the Montreal Jazz Festival and wrote up reviews of some of my favorite concerts! Check it out!!

Stereolab - October 1993At this rate, we could probably just turn Doom & Gloom into an Aadam Jacobs Collection appreciation blog. The goods just keep on coming (and coming). To wit! The volunteers behind this heroic tape preservation project just rolled out a bunch of early Stereolab tapes, allowing us to follow the Groop across the Midwest in the fall of 1993. What a gift! From the Reptile House in Grand Rapids to a blazing in-store at Reckless Records in Chicago, from the 7th Street Entry in…

This week’s theme: Jazz versions of songs from West Side Story. Featured artists include Buddy Rich, Andre Previn, Shelly Manne, Red Mitchell, Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Joe Morello, Eugene Wright, Rosemary Clooney, Sarah Vaughan, Gerry Mulligan, Art Farmer, Annie Ross, Cannonball Adderley, Richie Cole, Vic Juris, Lou Forestieri, Ed Howard, Tommy Campbell, Ray MantillaThe post Podcast: West Side Story in Jazz first appeared on jazzcollector.com.

This week’s theme: Jazz versions of Rodgers and Hart compositions. Featured artists include Miles Davis, Paul Desmond, Jim Hall, Art Tatum, Ben Webster, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Sheila Jordan, Chet Baker, Sonny Stitt, Anita O’Day, Sonny Rollins, Max Roach, John Coltrane, Johnny Hartman, Lee Wiley.The post Podcast: Rodgers and Hart Jazz Songbook first appeared on jazzcollector.com.

"Growin' Up" by Bruce Springsteen Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What's your favorite song about growing up? - Growing Up by Bruce Springsteen "I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd, but when they said, "Sit down," I stood up" - Man, that describes my Rebel Without a Clue teenage years. I was the embodiment of Brando's famous line in The Wild Ones - "What are you rebelling against, Johnny?" Brando: "What have you got?". View Lou Plummer's Crucial Tracks…

Ben Folds spends a non-stop hour swinging wildly between virtuosic on, and literally violent, with a capital V, to, the piano, while he and his bandmates tear through 15 absolutely unskippable 90s bangers as if they share one brain, twelve limbs, and three perfectly synchronized hearts. Top it all off with a bunch of dancing dudes showing up about halfway through the set in the back of every shot of Ben Folds, looking EXACTLY like every bully I ever had, singing every single word of every…

I had an acoustic live set epiphany this morning. Obviously it’s going to be me and an acoustic guitar, because it’s being billed as an acoustic set by me. I have the Fender Highway dreadnought, and I love it. The battery-powered preamp is good. In a pinch, I can plug straight into a mixer. I can also plug straight into something like the MPC to record. For the gig, I’ll use a DI, because it’s always better to plug into the floor. For reasons I don’t fully understand, DI even with a preamp is…

Crucial Track for July 7, 2026: “Rebellion (Lies)” by Arcade Fire Share a song that makes time feel like it’s standing still. The repetitions in the music and lyrics give me that feeling like time isn’t passing. ∞ via Crucial Tracks

“Morning Star” is Jura Soundsystem’s follow up to 2022’s “Return To The Island”. While that record was founder Kev Griffith`s COVID lockdown tribute to his rural South Australian home, influenced by the native fauna, ambient, classic Balearic and `90s street soul, this new set has much more of a skank in its step. The title track, for example, is a cool and breezy, tropical groove that seems to take its cues from the music that scored KU’s `80s “Look de Ibiza” video – firm White Isle favourites…

“My Song” isn’t my favorite song from English poet and musician Labi Siffre, but it is the one that makes me the most intensely nostalgic for the 1970s. The instrumentation, the vaguely Burt Bacharach-ian quality of the melody, and the earnestness of the whole thing immediately reminds me of the generally pleasant if unremarkable music that seemed to surround my childhood. But it becomes especially powerful when we can hear Siffre performing it now that he’s in his 80s. The hint of defiance in…

Across this Autumn ’99 sampler, ECM offers a varied excavation. The label’s familiar spaciousness becomes an instrument of light caught under glass. These tracks are drawn from different points in time and space. Some are lit by candles, some by exit signs, and some by their own bioluminescence. What unites them is a kind of human candor that refuses to be costumed even when it dreams. “Blame It On My Youth / Meditation,” from The Melody At Night, With You, opens from within. Few entries in the…

NEW RELEASE – LINUS EPPINGER / SAM BRAYSHER QUARTET This year’s crop of kisses is for me. [row-start] [half] [/half] [half] Personnel Linus Eppinger (guitar), Sam Braysher (alto saxophone), Daryll Hall (bass), Eric Ineke (drums) Recorded in 2024 Released as Fresh Sound Records 5147 in 2026 Track listing A Smooth One / I Told You So / Put On A Happy Face / Spooky / Roundabout / Never Let Me Go / Room 608 / That Sunday That Summer / A Sinner Kissed An Angel / Relaxin’ At Camarillo / [/half]…

Hey people! Such a long time without a “Bibiel Hears Things” post! It’s been quite a rollercoaster over here in Bibielland. So I thought I’d feature a song I’ve been listening to a lot over this past rollercoaster-y month, from an artist who’s relatively new to me. Swedish musician Esther (Esther Lennstrand) is based in Stockholm, and has been making music for quite a few years now, but it’s only last month that she released her debut LP, “Fragmentality”. It’s the kind of album that Bibiel…

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Kathleen Rooney’s novel Man Overboard! is insightful, moving, and funny. Booklist wrote of the book: “Each of Rooney’s enthralling novels are shaped by her astute insights, poetic…

Jack Scott : Baby She's Gone Double CD issued by Castle Music (UK) in 2003.Sessionography For original release and date see Rockin' Country Style or new linkAfter so many years of hard work serving rockabilly fans, Terry Gordon has just passed the RCS torch to Luz Buri. Let's wish Terry a well-deserved rest and a warm welcome to Luz.

Two years ago I wrote about Mark Cavendish beating Eddy Merckx’s stage win record at the TdF: Until today, the record for Most Stage Wins in the Tour was held by cycling god Eddy Merckx, a Belgium rider who dominated the sport in the 60s and 70s. He won the Tour 5 times outright, and bagged the points prize 3 times and the mountains award twice, all on his way to winning a stunning 34 stages, a record he set 49 years ago. I could go on and on here, but suffice it to say that Merckx dominated…

Cover version of the month #122The Rolling Stones cover The TemptationsI stumbled across The Rolling Stones 1978 album called Some Girls in a lovely bar in the old town section of Malia while on holiday with my wife (then girlfriend) back in 2003. The guy serving behind the bar was also DJ-ing and he played a song that captured my attention.Me - Who is that?Barman - The Rolling Stones.Me - No way?He passed the CD case across the bar. The song was Miss You, the lead song on (and single from) the…

The only time I can remember seeing the 19th century abolitionist John Brown mentioned in a jazz context was in a piece called “The Day John Brown Was Hanged”, written by George Russell for the altoist Hal McKusick’s 1956 album Jazz Workshop. In that intricate seven-minute composition for quartet, Russell interpolated lines from the melody of “John Brown’s Body Lies a-Mouldering in His Grave”, the marching song sung by Union soldiers during the American Civil War, a conflict whose prefatory…

Diamond Rainbows is the fifth album from the Julie July Band and their fourth album of original material. Their first, back in 2018, was a tribute to the late Sandy Denny, representing a foundational plank of their live show. Although Denny herself drew on a much wider range of influences than the folk rock label usually given to her would imply, with each successive release the Julie July Band have been on a mission to broaden the palette of musical textures they draw from. The results have…

Listen and purchase at pinkhydrangea's bandcamp here The artist pinkhydrangea has released a new album, and since I was absolutely in love with their last album, Ethereal K-Pop Noise, which you can read about if you click here, I was hopeful that this one would be good too. It's good! Ethereal K-Pop Noise (henceforth EKPN) hit me so hard in just the right place at just the right time that I couldn't help but be gushingly effulgent in my adoration for it. "all my feelings buried" is a great…

“Introduce yourself with five albums that have shaped you.”, writes Martin. Here’s my pick, by release year: Guns N’ Roses – Appetite for Destruction (1987) Megadeth – Rust in Peace (1990) Nirvana – Nevermind (1991) AC/DC – Live: 2 CD Collector’s Edition (1992) The Offspring – Smash (1994) It’s basically a shortlist of the 12 albums that defined my teenage years. See also: One album for every year of my life.

Tssssssssssssss. AWESOME! There’s even more awesome here: Photo from: here The post #643 The sound of steaks hitting a hot grill appeared first on 1000 Awesome Things.

Tags: #music #essays #platformsI remember the first time I heard Daft Punk, and saw it too. It was in Gianfranco’s parents’ living room in 1997, in the summer. Almost thirty years ago. The room was dark, the shutters were drawn or it was night. Hard to tell sometimes in a memory. “Around the world” was playing on MTV Europe, and I had no idea what I was listening to. There were neon outlined astronauts doing a weird march on a circular staircase, and other electric pink and green and yellow…

This week’s Disquiet Junto project has worked out well, tracks by dozens of musicians who take as their compositional and production inspiration the way gauze might be interpreted as a sonic effect. This image, shot from a hotel room in DTLA, was an alternate option, while I went with this one.

Well, this has been a day, hasn’t it? I’m going to be brief about all of it: Graham Platner Accused of Rape: I think Chris Kluwe got the right of this one on Bluesky: Well, at least the fifteenth red flag finally convinced people— Chris Kluwe (@chriswarcraft.bsky.social) 2026-07-06T22:27:52.565Z I personally kinda tapped out with the Nazi tat, because I was pretty sure at that point that nothing good was going to come of things after that. But then, I’m in Ohio, not Maine, and they really…

Tomo Katsurada and Jonny Nash spent 2025 touring. Accompanying one another on acoustic and electric guitar. At the end of the year, over a 3-day period, the pair hit the studio to record what they’d learned and experienced. The resulting album, “At The Emerald Pool”, consequently has the feel of a diary. The 10 tracks flowing between polished pieces and looser, more Lo-Fi songs. Something like “Scent Of Limestone”, for example, is constructed from carefully crafted echoed, acoustic chiming and…