Elina DuniRob LuftReaching for the Moon Elina Duni voice, percussionRob Luft guitars, electronicsRecorded June 2025 at Studios La BuissonneEngineer: Gérard de HaroCover photo: Jean-Guy LathuilièreMastering: Christoph StickelAlbum produced by Manfred EicherRelease date: April 24, 2026 Stranger is the heartIn the shadows it has grown apartLonely dancer, lonely larkYour song is lost, adrift from the start For her sixth foray into the ever-expanding territory of ECM records, singer Elina Duni…

Stereogum: By now it’s widely accepted that the live industry is fucked for 99% of us. Be it artists struggling to cope with growing costs, or fans with diminishing disposable income being met with ever increasing ticket prices at arena and stadium gigs, from a gouging music industry. Bands and Music Biz Insiders are often keen to express their plight, but so often what they say falls short of being interesting because it doesn’t include any detail or tell us anything we don’t already broadly…

Hey people! Today I thought we could listen to something by Loreena McKennitt, specifically from her album The Visit, from which I’ve shared quite a few songs over the years. As is the case with many songs on this album and in Loreena’s discography in general, this one was also inspired by a particular place. She was inspired to create this song while staying in Quinta das Torres – a 16th-century hunting lodge near Azeitão in Portugal, which had a courtyard ringed with orange trees. The place…

Gary Stewart - Headwaters Television (1979)I read Jimmy McDonough’s remarkable Gary Stewart bio this past month and was suitably blown away. I Am From The Honky Tonks is an unflinching portrayal of a singer-songwriter whose abundant talent was only matched by his desire to get well and truly fucked up. Forty years in the works, McDonough’s book is quite an achievement, getting into amazing (and sometimes amazingly sordid) details not only about Stewart and his art but also his family, friends…

Ian Cobiella Have I Been Good to You Opening with a cinematic pulsing bass line that evokes the movies of Tony Scott, LA-based musician Ian Cobiella’s single, Have I Been Good To You, has a pulse quickening magic from the very beginning. That bass line quickly dissolves, however, giving way to bright piano chords and percussion that takes influence from the artist’s Cuban-Bolivian upbringing. The result is an intimate, sexy tribute, Cobiella’s vocals layered and stumbling gracefully over one…

It’s been a fruitful week for synthwave fans who love well-crafted pop songs from talented Scots fowk. A week after we got a new FM-84 track, out comes the inimitable Michael Oakley with the massive single “World of Promises” (with backing vocals by Dana Jean Phoenix) and its impressively executed music video. Oh, and did I mention that Ollie Wride co-wrote the track? It’s been about 8.5 years since the long-time Canada-resident Oakley released his debut album, California, and in that time he’s…

Because bad poems and bad cakes go together like two things that go together and also rhyme. Long like the tromboneare a giraffe's neck bones7 bonesBony bonesBut Phil only had one bone. Sucks to be you, Phil.******* There once was a baker called SmitWhose spelling was never a hitFrom what I have heardHe botched ev'ry wordExcept one: that guy knew his... ...stuff.****Elsa didn't knowUntil blood started flowingWhat she'd created **** DO NOTstandin cake case[whispering] Bakeryyyyy **** Once in a…

By Ben Miller Creating distance and disorienting your audience is usually not what a filmmaker strives for, especially in their feature-length debut. Luckily, director Sophy Romvari is able to utilize her own fractured memories to tell a deeply personal story in her devastatingly exceptional debut Blue Heron, now playing in limited release. In our current entertainment landscape, plot points need to be reiterated, all needs to be revealed, and catharsis must be achieved. Romvari has no…

Kalani – “Lumin” E.VAX – “When I’m gone” Hektor and Teether – “Lickatung” The post New Hots Hots 18 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

Since becoming 25, I've been asking myself one very vital question: Am I an unc now? I googled it and came up with an unc is someone who is in his 30s, which technically disqualifies me, but again, due to the few instances of hanging out with people around 17-21, I feel like I'm too old now. Last Friday, Isaiah Rashad released his newest album, and it's been on repeat. Unlike his previous works, this one tends to be more of a hip-hop neo-soul kind of album, rather than hardcore Memphis rap or…

A ladder leans against the base of a grain elevator in Downtown Sherman, Texas. The post Leaning Ladder appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

"Fire and Rain" by James Taylor Listen on Apple Music "Post one of your favorite weather-related songs. - Fire and Rain by James Taylor" This song is definitely part of the soundtrack of my life. My Mom played this record so many times. The picture of JT on the cover seems like a family photograph. If you aren't familiar with the stories behind the tune, it's essentially a 3-part autobiography detailing the suicide of a childhood friend, depression and addiction and finally the challenges of…

John Paul Mason is a Scottish singer-songwriter whose debut album, Overstory, was released late last Autumn. Originally from Edinburgh, but now based in Comrie, Perthshire, Mason draws inspiration from the natural beauty of his surroundings, and the mountains, rivers, forests, and lochs that define his home. As a breathwork therapist and trainer, Mason integrates his therapeutic work into his songwriting. His stated mission is to create music that seeks to heal, awaken, and inspire. Influenced…

I find it useful to periodically review certain practices, in order to determine when I am doing something out of rote habit rather than intention. In that vein, a couple weeks ago I took the photochromic laser red lenses out of my Rudy Rydon spectacles that I’ve been rocking since 2011. In their place I inserted the Stealth ImpactX Photochromic 2 Black lenses that came with the Z87 Rydons. The difference was immediate. Black (or grey) tinted lenses pretty much suck. They dim the day-star, but…

As I lead a relatively quite life I'm often caught out by what might be going on over there in the wider outside world. So this idea seems to me a new and original way to look at a career arc. Take a well established band and create an album/playlist (call it what you will) made up of the opening tunes from all of their albums. With a band like Yes* there's 26 opening tracks between 1969 and 2026. It creates a unique view of the artist's output; style, line-ups, changes etc. Not my idea of…

I attended a weekend May Day performance, complete with a maypole, in the “Morris dancing” sense of May Day, though not in the “pole dancing” sense of dancing around a pole. I think they should play the music backwards when they untangle the maypole at the end. Also, is Morris dancing music considered a “reel”? Would that mean “un-reeling” (or “reeling out”) the reel?

PUR100 – Nobody Can Ice-cold and club-ready cut from Parisian producer PUR100 (Florian Jozefowicz). This is one of those tracks that could work just as well as a transition tool as it could as a peak time roller. Falling somewhere between midtempo throwback UK hardcore and breakbeat-driven electro, this has all the puzzle pieces in their right place: sharp drums, gritty reese, minor-key synth melodies, and nicely detached vocal sample. Big choon here. PUR100 was kind enough to offer this up…

Super review by Cal Gibson, of The Secret Soul Society. Emil Jonathan‘s Copenhagen-based group of musicians tread lightly on their third longplayer, channeling Miles and Teo, Chick and Zawinul: all warm textures and sweetened, straight-lined melodies, moods conjured up and memories re-flickered, moments of solace for those of you scrambling for footholds amongst the madness. It’s not a million miles away from London’s equally brilliant Lophae and it’s a lush brew of symphonic salvation that…

Valfi – elsi.Hasht More micro-tonal perfection from Berlin’s Valfi, who describes his music as crafted for three settings: on the metro, in the club, or while ignoring texts. Built around darbuka drums, Arabic maqamat, and samples from pre-revolutionary Iranian commercials, my impression of this brilliant new one is that it might well work in any of the three aforementioned settings. As crisp as the drums are here, though, it would probably take a special club night to lend itself well to the…

Lene 3000 – “Body Language” Lorn – “Memory Management” Elskavon – “Dreymir Aftur (Fragments)” The post Visual Velcro 52 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

I was a teenager in the ’90s, fully immersed in the Alternative Nation explosion at the time, reading every music magazine I could get my hands on and exploring the wild, weird corners of the internet of the time for new sounds, and to my recollection I had never heard of Swallow. If I squint, […] The post Swallow – “Blow” appeared first on Space Echo.

My current jam is Sexy Lemon by Freak Slug.

Phish isn’t my jam. But Daft Punk is. This piece resonated with me. We’re all still figuring this out.

Otoliths - LithosI saw guitarist/vocalist Tom Smith play a few times well over a decade now with the great, under-heralded Bay Area band Social Studies. Smith takes center stage with Otoliths — and their new debut album is a crackling collection of slightly skewed jangle pop, packed with sweet melodies, endless hooks, and crunchy guitars. Those elements provide a killer backdrop for Smith’s lyrics, which expertly walk the line between wry and lovestruck, witty and heartbroken. Occasionally, an…

It's April - spring is making its moves, the plant gunk flying everywhere has brought the traditional hayfever fits with it, and I heard some new music and bought some less new music. Not as much as last month in the latter department, thank god. New Music Immediate ImpressionsAmerican Football - American Football [LP4] The on-and-off US indie legends return again after a long period of absence, and they're more tightly wrapped up in their own world than ever. LP4 is a dense listen: in its core…

Best Record of 2001: Day 31 Good morning! Today we’re taking a look at Le Tigre’s Feminist Sweepstakes as it takes on New Problems by k. Note: As many of you saw, I recently wrote about a Best Record of 2001 challengeand noted that I’d be writing some of these up. The plan is to do quick hits on each first-round matchup and post them directly to the page. Some will be longer, some won’t, and some might just be a handful of sentences. There’ll probably be a few typos. We’ll also have a few guest…

Today is Mrs N's birthday – and that of the inventor of the piano, Bartolomeo Cristofori (born 1655). One of his pianos, built in Florence in 1720, survives in playable condition, and this is what it sounds like (the pianist is Dongsok Shin, and the piece is a Scarlatti sonata, D9). Having a wooden rather than a metal frame, a Cristofori piano is a delicate instrument, compared to what came later, but the action (a fiendishly complex affair) is essentially that of a modern piano...

Happy (choose one):A) Star Wars DayB) Dave Brubeck DayC) Sluttering DayD) Any combo of the above One of my mom’s favorite stories to tell is about the time she managed to grab some Star Wars action figures for me as a kid. This was at the peak of the (first) movie’s fame, and to hear her tell it, it was something like emerging victorious from a great battle. The reality is that she worked at a clothing store, and her boss let her bail a little early so she could walk down to a nearby toy store.…

Two new interviews for you. The first is with Eris founder Barbara Herman, in which she discussed her latest release – Mother’s Milk, composed by Antoine Lie – as well as her thoughts on the current state of the industry. The second is with journalist Jo Fairley, and it covers the launch of the new […] The post Barbara Herman and Jo Fairley live interviews appeared first on .

Massive thanks again to Alberto from Japan for scanning this article in for me. Greatly appreciated APHEX TWIN Aphex Twin’s sixth album is currently “postponed indefinitely” as of early May. Yes, this man has blown us away again. We can only guess what the new album will be like from his latest single, “Windowlicker.” And Richard D. James is the kind of person who puts everything on defying expectations. The delicate, beautiful, mad, fragile, and twisted electronic music he has released so far.…