"Louie Louie" by The Kingsmen Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Share a song that feels like it was written specifically for you. - Louie, Louie by The Kingsmen Ah, I can only hope to be as famously obtuse and mysterious as the lyrics to this classic. I mean, this is a song that was banned BY THE GOVERNMENT because they thought it MIGHT contain obscenities. That sounds like the suspiscions that Mrs. Satz, my 7th grade math teacher harbored about me. View Lou…

[1990]One of their finest pure pop moments. Still sounding remarkably fresh today.This recording is an absolute anomaly for Dinosaur Jr. For one single only they were a five piece. Lou's gone but we've got Donna Dresch on bass, Don Flemming on guitars, J doing his thing and two drummers: Murph in one channel and Jay Spiegel in the other.The Wagon was later remixed by J Mascis with some parts totally edited out for the cleaned up version that appeared on the Green Mind LP the following year..

Angine de Poitrine in May 2026 at the Great Escape by Pauil Hudson. (Via WikiMedia — License: CC BY 4.0) This morning I installed a music player that I am unfamiliar with, and decided that the first thing I should listen to is Angine de Poitrine Vol. 1 and Vol. II since I hadn't listened to them in a while. And then I found, by coincidence that they played the Montreal Jazz Festival last Saturday (June 27th, 2026) and broke the attendance record set by Stevie Wonder in 2009. I cannot imagine…

Music I’ve bought in June. Let’s see… I somehow got quite a lot of stuff in June without really trying. The album from Rosa faenskap is really good. I’ve seen them live a couple times, and it’s great hearing that they’ve managed to capture that explosiveness on tape. I got two new albums from an old favourite — Tujiko Noriko. She’s a lot more ambient these days than in the old and wild days, so there’s a lot of tunes that sort of just are… there… but in a pleasant way. But the album under the…

I first came across the delightful Bity Booker supporting Green Diesel in Brighton last summer. Describing her as “a London-based alt-folk singer-songwriter with beautiful songs, a sweet voice and some hilariously deadpan introductions” her performance certainly left an impression on me. Now she has an album out, which she refers to as her “first non-debut album”. Bity Booker at the Folklore Rooms, Brighton – Photo credit: Darren Johnson Bity Booker: “I call it a ‘non-debut album’ because I…

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Wigan Wallgate This and more in today's update to Northern Folk Archive here - https://northernfolkarchive.pagecord.com/wigan-town-centre-13-august-2016

Welcome to the Thursday Pressing Concerns! It’s a bit of a hodge-podge this week (it’s a holiday weekend in the States, which may have something to do with it), but there’s still plenty to enjoy here with a new album from Smirk, a posthumous release from Shrubs, and new EPs from Eliksa and Mirrorball. Check them out below, and if you missed Monday’s blog post (featuring Fire Man, NAYAN, Lovewell, and The Hobknobs), check that out too. If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site…

Steve Stout Waitin on Mine Steve Stout’s Waitin on Mine opens with a simple instruction, a disembodied voice calls ‘Hit it!’, and the band leap into life. Every time I hear it over my headphones, it makes me jump — the voice seemingly right there. The sound that follows envelopes the listener, slightly steely guitars strum as a piano, played by Walker Igleheart, gently wanders through my mind. Written by Stout, together with M.C. Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger, the song employs a considered…

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…

Proc Fiscal – “Disease Again” Mura Masa – “Handsup” Deniz Cuylan – “No Such Thing” ft. Felbm The post Visual Velcro 57 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

Lowdoses – La Calavera Up first tonight, a shadowy bit of contemplative drum n bass from El Paso, TX-based Lowdoses (real name Samuel Molina). Calavera translates to skull, including in reference to the sorts of celebratory skulls decorated for Día de Muertos to honor ancestors. Where those skulls are usually brightly colored and joyous, I’d guess the skull reference here is a more somber one. The whole EP of which this is a part, Smelter Town, is sinister minimalist stuff — meant to reflect…

For its seventh installment in the Japan-only ECM Special series, Trio Records finally dedicated a compilation to “New Music in Piano.” The expected constellation is present. Keith Jarrett and Paul Bley occupy familiar zones of gravity, while Steve Kuhn moves nearby with his own restless voltage. Yet the album’s first door opens in a particularly inspired direction: Stanley Cowell’s Illusion Suite, represented by the luminous “Ibn Mukhtarr Mustapha.” Cowell moves between acoustic and electric…

Read the full post at - Soul Boom by Rainn Wilson I stumbled across Rainn Wilson’s podcast Soul Boom the way I stumble across most things I didn’t know I was interested in — serendipitously. One episode led to another, and after just a few episodes I had a decent sense of what he’s been up to since The Office wrapped. The short version: he’s been on a genuine, years-long mission to make big philosophical and spiritual questions feel normal to talk about. Soul Boom is the book version of that…

Music From Memory’s next missive is a set of mellow, muted electro-acoustic mediations. Groovy group improvisations featuring Ko Ishikawa, Luis Perez Ixoneztil, Laraaji, Carlos Nino, Miles Spilsbury, Mia Doi Todd and headed up by Maui-based Jesse Peterson. The opening number is “Iseo” is a lullaby. A soothing session of loose chimes and rattles, with a warm, welcoming vibe, whose wordless harmonies, in tone, recall Robbie Basho. “Teamotanto” simulates nature stirring. Synthetic drones swirling…

We are officially into the release month for The Durutti Column’s new record Renascent, which drops on the 31st of July, and today brings a second taste of the new record. I’m not reading too much into the song titles of the previews – “Liars” and now “Scammer” – but maybe Vini Reilly has some […] The post The Durutti Column – “Scammer” appeared first on Space Echo.

By Michael Grasso / July 1, 2026 “Even apart from my intellectual convictions, there was this whole matter of California. As a transplanted Easterner, I felt duty-bound not to take anything in California very seriously. I certainly felt no need to understand California; I simply allowed myself to record the usual impressions: millions of Americans breaking away from reality, looking for a dream; everything in excess… When natives told me this was where it was “happening,” when they said…

W.M.D.: Against all WarningsOut 5th June, self-released Tempers the legacy of Vektor into a tighter, more focused entity of progressive thrash. An earthy punk immediacy and even some hints at party metal a-la Municipal Waste are offset by bracing technical flourishes, arriving at something like Watchtower kept in check by a foot stomping simplicity. Although choppy and dense, the bulk of these pieces are direct, focused, and accessible. Complexity arises from the sheer number of parts thrust…

Galaxie 500 - Cabaret Metro, Chicago, Illinois, March 29, 1989 / The Lounge Ax, Chicago, Illinois, October 12, 1990It’s not quite the Fourth of July, but hey, let’s listen to “Fourth of July” by Galaxie 500. If there was ever an Independence Day to stay at home and pull the curtains so you don’t have to see the sky, well, this is it! 🇺🇸That classic G-500 tune kicks off a truly majestic Lounge Ax set from 1990 — yet another treasure from the extraordinary Aadam Jacobs tape stash. Dean, Damon and…

So today is Canada Day, July 1st, a celebration of all things Canadian and, every year since I moved here it usually rains on this day. Well, today may be an exception to the rule as the sun is doing it’s best to fight it’s way through all the heavy thick cloud, and shine. If it does, I just might take the bus into the old part of town and take photos. I have maybe a 2-3 hour window of opportunity before a big storm moves in later this afternoon, because of the humidity out there. It was 70%…

"Bring the Noise" by Public Enemy Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What's a song you only listen to when you're completely alone? - Bring the Noise by Public Enemy No one in my house has any appreciation for the social conscious of 80's HipHop but me. Old white dudes with whiter hair ( the shoe that fits me) MIGHT look a little pretentious chanting "Farrakhan's a prophet, I think you outa listen to." so I avoid all of that by making this song and the album…

I'm really digging their new album, and this performance on KEXP was great too: There's a couple live shows of theirs on my youtube concerts list that are fun. Recommended if you like heavy, fuzzed out guitars.

Keith LeBlanc was the only white boy in the Sugar Hill Gang Village, hence the name. So to win the respect of the majority Black members of America's premier Hip-Hop collective Keith had to show off his technologically enhanced and Electro-influenced Drum style.Just as Robin Hood and Little John fought each other in a sickening display of male machismo flailing staffs over what i can only imagine was the 12th century River Trent?Like two medieval rappers free-styling their way towards a state…

July already, and my late mother's birthday (she'd have been 105 today) – and it's Canada Day, marking the anniversary of the Canadian Confederation, formed on this day in 1867. It was on Canada Day in 1980 that 'O Canada' became the country's official national anthem (and one of the best). Here is the one and only k d lang performing it – And here she is again, referencing 'O Canada' in one of the most beautiful recordings she ever made – her cover of Joni Mitchell's 'A Case of You'...

The Best Record of 1989: Day 27

I like Fano 3-folds. I like them so much that I created Fanography! One thing which I found intriguing in the story one aspect of the details of the Mori–Mukai classification that is not often mentioned. Namely, at the very end of their Classification of Fano threefolds with $\mathrm{b}_2\geq 2$, I, in paragraph (7.33), they introduce an invariant that they need to distinguish between various Fano 3-folds with otherwise the same numerical invariants. For instance, the families 2.22 and 2.24…

Three further weeks at number one from 12th December 1987The way "Birthday" sold in late 1987 was downright peculiar, even by cult indie standards. In a similar fashion to This Mortal Coil's "Song To The Siren" - with whom it possibly shared a few fans - it kept selling modestly week in week out, selling a thousand copies here and there. While other indie records were swift fanbase sellers in their debut week then ebbed away, "Birthday" kept on reaching new listeners who were intrigued by its…

Logging my Crucial Tracks entries for the month here. Visit my profile for all tracks. “Holding Out” by Eleventyseven My first post on Crucial Tracks! I've been playing "Holding Out" on repeat this week. A mood. “Empire” by Jukebox the Ghost A song from your most listened to artist of the last 20 years. A long time ago (2008), there was a music discovery site called thesixtyone. Most of the music was from independent artists. You could stream and/or purchase tracks. Every day, you got an…