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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, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Helen Benedict’s novel The Soldier’s House is a spellbinding look at how war effects both families and individuals. Booklist wrote of the book: “The characters’ journeys are candid and vulnerable,…
I don’t use Spotify or TikTok but apparently Cocteau Twins’ song “Cico Buff” is now the most popular song in their catalog on the former thanks to the latter. In investigating this little bit of trivia, I learned a few other things about the song. One, it was never released as an official single from […] The post Cocteau Twins – “Cico Buff” appeared first on Space Echo.
Exported to Malta in CKD form as a lorry chassis, this Mercury was instead bodied locally as a 34-seat bus by Michael Barbara.
Before the Juno and Polaris award nominations, before the anniversary tours of beloved albums that have become a cultural touchpoint for a particular generation, before the performances all around the world - there were just two guys in a small New York flat, converting their ailing dreams in their respective arts into gentle, heartfelt pop songs. Nightsongs is one of those kinds of debut albums where the gap between the artist then and the artist as we have come to know them is wide enough…
Nesya Put the Fries in the Bag Born in Nebraska and raised the daughter of a preacher, Nesya’s youth was spent hiding her sense of self — an embrace of the gothic — whilst surviving sexual abuse, infidelity, and social isolation. A move to Sacramento at the age of 12 saw her find the alternative and darkwave scenes that felt like they reflected something she felt inside. Having garnered attention via TikTok, her single Delulu was a breakthrough moment that arrived against the backdrop of the…
June 10th John Peel Centre https://johnpeelcentre.com/JohnPeelCentre.dll/WhatsOn?f=505371June13th Prince Albert Brighton https://www.seetickets.com/.../the-prince-albert/3616963June14th Golden Hinde, London https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pauline-murray-penetration-helen-mccookerybook-live-on-the-golden-hinde-tickets-1984895127759July 18th Da Da Da, Sheffield https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Sheffield/Channing-Hall/DA-DA-DA-party/42375316/July 19th Grayston Unity, Halifax…
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I’ve been a fan of Talking Heads since I was a child, but I didn’t know about the special edition of Speaking in Tongues until, like, last year. Designed by Robert Rauschenberg. And I was shocked to find that it was still cheapish!? So I bought a copy which finally arrived today, and… Err… that’s a lot of yellowing… Perhaps it wasn’t the best idea to make it out of very plastickey plastic… And perhaps the vinyl itself wasn’t supposed to be that dark? But that looks OK, I guess… This is what…
Hello! This is a quick blog post to say: I'm playing a gig on Monday! it's at Folklore, near Hoxton (in London). Tickets available here: Ultra Process 2 · LumaIt’s all about the process. Come experience experimental live music, visuals, and sculpture you can move and dance to! As processed and crafted as the…Evan RaskobIt's a cool lineup! I've not seen Epiloke as Epiloke, but I have seen a bit of Alex's stuff performing with Carnatic rhythms and I dig it – and Lucy is great too, excited to see…
“A man in a skirt” by AxoSync is a song that was recommended by Arie Klerk in a comment on another post. Thank you for the recommendation! Since I’ve never seen a song written about the topic, I thought it would be great to feature it here. It’s a rock song that feels a bit like a country song. There isn’t much to see in the video below, but I thought it would be the most accessible way for everyone to listen to it. It’s also available on Spotify and Apple Music.…
Neil Young w/ Poncho and The M.G.’s - Fox Theater, Redwood City, California, May 10, 2002Since the latest episode of All One Song dealt with the early 2000s, this week’s bootleg bonus is drawn from that era. Poncho and the M.G.’s! Is this Neil’s shortest-lived band? Maybe! They only played four shows in the wake of Are You Passionate?’s release in early 2002. Of course, it’s not like this was a totally new group — Neil and the M.G.’s go back to 1992 and Poncho goes back to the mid-70s. And…
Ah. Britpop. Some of it was good. Blur. Sleeper. Suede. Supergrass. The Divine Comedy. Dodgy. And some of it was, well, not so much. Menswear. Drugstore. Northern Uproar. Salad. You get the idea I’m sure.Whenever I think of Britpop I always think of the bloke who lived in the flat above me. Stan, his name was, and he’d play Robbie Williams every night before he’d go up the town. I reckon he only had the one single, “Angels”, as it was all he ever played. After a night out you’d hear him…
This might interest a cross-section of folks here: A Greek Orthodox priest has released “Paradise Metal.” From the review site: “microtonal Byzantine modes with DIY electronic modernism,” “sublime new age ambient to shoe-gazy basslines and mountaintop guitar shreds to techno incantations.” Bandcamp
"Annabelle" by Gillian Welch Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Post a track by a solo artist you haven't yet posted. - Annabelle by Gillian Welch Gilliam Welch is one of the best song writers alive today. She's been crafting amazing songs since the 90s. I saw her live at the NC Art Museum a few years back View Lou Plummer's Crucial Tracks profile
I went to see three bands last night, and all of them were playing Fender Jaguars.
Assuming a 12-month best-before, I drank these Lough Gill beers six days after they came off the canning line. It's not a metric I pay a whole lot of attention to, in fact I think the importance of freshness is massively overstated by a certain sort of beer geek who are marks for the breweries, but I thought I should mention it on the rare occasion it happens."NEIPA" proclaims the headline on Nectaron Drift, even though its 4.5% ABV might boggle the minds of any visiting Vermonters. The "drift"…
If you missed my performance on Sunday, watch the recording on YouTube or listen to the audio on SoundCloud. Go on! Play it while you read! Could be fun! Nobody actually "missed" the performance, because I decided not to do it live. There's a level of stress around playing live that can be kind of constructive, and I was planning to stream up until about an hour before it would have been time to go live, at which point I just decided not to! I had already been thinking that it might be nice to…
The dust has now settled on another week and as the weekend arrives, so does all the new music it has to offer. Once again it may not be Bandcamp Friday but there is one on the horizon so take note of anything here you like so you can support where you are able to. Let’s dig in! Xorsist - death - SwedenDysmorfectomy - death - FranceCorrosive Agent - death - GermanyDevoid of Thought - death - ItalyPig’s Blood - death - USANecrotted - death - GermanySix Feet Under - death - USAUndercroft - death…
At what point does organic consistency become its own form of artistic statement? Seven full-length albums in (not thinking of all the demos, splits and EPs in between) since 2009 clearly accentuate Black Cilice’s absolute indifference to expectations of progression, a project convicted to a certain vision from day one, and having stood its ground from that very moment. I discovered this Portuguese hermit somewhere around Banished From Time (2017) and Transfixion of Spirits (2019), and worked…
‘Back In My Neighborhood’, our summer anthem for those sweet visits with family and friends, is out into the world! Hear it now: Bandcamp Spotify Apple Music YouTube Music Amazon Tidal SoundCloud We wrote this song after visiting Clara's small hometown of Grand Bend, Ontario, recognizing that even after having played in some of the most amazing cities in the world, there's nothing like bringing it back to your roots. Be on the lookout for the upcoming live music video we shot for this one -…
Because the song’s been rattling around my head for the last couple of days, particularly the Bryan Ferry cover version. So when I got home I thought I would give it a whirl. I hope you like it. — JS
Swiss gentleman Lexx returns to Ibiza’s International Feel with a fine 4-track EP. The music is varied but slots together as a sympathetic cohesive whole. The collection could even be described as a journey. The A-side contains a couple of tracks that seem to hark back to 90s chillout rooms. Acknowledging but updating that sound. For example, the beat and computerised sighs of Another Beach borrow from the ethereal pop of acts such as Enigma or Deep Forest. Guitars duelling, both delicate and…
# Now that I have the randomelements site up and running, the best way to keep up with music news is to follow the RSS feed over there. I don't think I'll focus on posting all new release details on the blog.
After listening again to Rufus Wainwright’s cover of the whole album at the weekend, this week, as I left the office, I put on Judy Garland’s concert at Carnegie Hall. By the time I’d made it to the train station I’d been moved to tears twice. It’s that amazing. Serendipitously, I just found out it was recorded 65 years ago today.
At last an Acid 12" with an actual sleeve, albeit in a strange sort of K-Tel trend cash in style,complete with smiley faces.It's the French pressing, licenced from Trax in Chicago,that's why. 'Tis also the reason why, out of dozens of re-releases and re-mixes, this one was the only one to feature the Original, and vastly superior 'Original' mix ,by Maurice himself.The K&T mix, is surprisingly a tad light on the Acid, despite the title. And very heavy on the House side of things.The S&T…
Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life, The Wombats 🎧 Joy Next Door, The Maine 🎧 If That Makes Sense, Spacey Jane 🎧 Transatlanticism, Death Cab for Cutie 🎧 Bittersweet 16, Mckenna Grace 🎧 Plans, Death Cab for Cutie 🎧 Beyond Mediocrity, 9m88 🎧 Radio, 9m88 🎧 The Suburbs, Arcade Fire 🎧 Spot the point at which Ethan came home and asked for something more in keeping with a birthday.
https://insitze.com/blog-posts/ Setting a new frame around some old songs. [Where to listen] In Retrospect: It’s been over a decade since posting my first track online: a loop cover of “Another Routine Day Breaks” by Brokeback, uploaded to Soundcloud in 2015. Over the following two years, five tracks were released with my friend Ian under B-Side 1-1, and in March 2020, I published my first original, “Halfway to Home.” This song marked the outset of a renewed confidence in my journey as an…
This is a complicated background to a mishearing posting that has itself turned out to be more complex than I first imagined — a mishearing of the title word in the song “Cardinal” as recorded in 2024 by Kacey Musgraves. This posting is about the song; the titular bird, the northern cardinal; KM the singer-songwriter; KM’s wonderful performance of the song; and the song’s moving background story, inspired by the late country / folk singer John Prine. The song. “Cardinal” is from KM’s 2024 album…
