No, I have not insinuated myself into a new show, creeping like predatory mold on an unwary Senator; The 1940s Radio Hour1 in 2014 was the last time I trod...
20 years ago today I uploaded Capture to YouTube. At 38,000 views it is my most popular YouTube video by an extreme margin, but I think the only thing that is remarkable about it is that it has been around a long time!
Before Sunset, Street Corner, Cafe Fabre is a collaboration between 2 generations of electronic innovators. Yasushi Yamashita is a member of the duo, Inoyama Land, who have been producing groundbreaking music since the early 1980s. ASUNA is the alias of Naoyuki Arashi, a currently Kanazawa-based sound designer / artist, who has been prolific since the […]
Joseph walks me through the basics of heavy metal from across the pond. Plus a quick chat about the current state of “trad” metal, and why it’s popularity seems to be on the wane.
Rounding off the 2026 London Soundtrack Festival was the aptly titled Rachel Portman & Friends – Beyond the Screen, as the celebrated composer was joined on stage at Cadogan Hall by friends and collaborators Gill Graham, Niklas Liepe & Nils Liepe to talk and play through her illustrious career to date. Not only was Portman […]
Of Montreal “When” I say this with the greatest admiration and respect: Kevin Barnes is a messy bitch who lives for drama. Following his career over the long term means you get the highs and lows of his love life as it progresses through stages happiness and despair. He’s exceptionally good at capturing the best […]
There’s something good going on with music these days. Romance by Fontaines D.C. is a perfect album. I have listened to it almost every single day for weeks and have not gotten sick of it once, which is – and I mean this clinically – a medical miracle. Jack White is on SNL. The Strokes are touring. There is a band called Angine de poitrine who are the most aggressively anti-AI band I can imagine existing, out here doing absolutely Weird Shit™, and I don’t even normally listen to math rock like…
This week’s theme is pretty much what it says: Tracks from 10 random Blue Note records, Artists include Lee Morgan, Art Blakey, Wynton Kelly, [...] The post Podcast: 10 Random Blue Notes first appeared on jazzcollector.com.
The Best Record of 2001: Day 16 Good morning! Today we’re taking a look at It’s a Wonderful Life by Sparklehorse as it takes on The World Won’t End by the Pernice Brothers. Sparklehorse- It’s a Wonderful Life Sparklehorse often feels like a car crash. Some of that (okay, a lot) had to do with […]
Hihihi people! 🙂 Today’s “Bibiel Hears Things” feature, as a few others before it in the history of My Inner Mishmash, is inspired by Griff Lynch’s show on The Boat Pod. Griff Lynch is a musician who happens to be my faza peep, and in his shows on the Boat Pod he presents all … Continue reading Bibiel Hears Things: The Bug Club – “Have U Ever Been 2 Wales?”
Matt Kivel - Escape from L.A.Matt Kivel gets specific on Escape from L.A., his latest LP, which was released earlier this year on Scissor Tail Editions. He sings about watching his dad act in “The Natural”; he sings about his twin brother; he sings about being in a 2000s band that could’ve been as big as Vampire Weekend. But it’s to his credit as a songwriter that the album’s 11 tracks never feel overly-diaristic or indulgent. Like a great memoirist, Kivel manages to take wholly…
Q: Over the last decade I’ve been seeing an uptick in the use of “drop” to mean something new being released, like a podcast episode or music album. Where does this come from? A: Something must be in the air. Two people have asked us this same question within a week. The use of “drop” […] The post ‘New albums drop like leaves in the fall’ first appeared on Grammarphobia.
I don’t watch a lot of TV series, but when I find something I like, I’m all in. Very few shows get to this rarefied air for me- mostly because I have the attention span of a fruit fly. To get me to sit down and stare at a screen (without scrolling) for an hour? […]
I have written about many of the Shelflife CD-R series releases on the blog. It is a beloved series of 12 CDRs that the American label released between 2002 and 2003 where they introduced a lot of bands that at the time weren’t well known. The first of these releases was from a band called […]
This weekend was very relaxed. I spent time grading, reading a couple manuscripts, doing some writing, and watching sports. It was a good weekend and productive without feeling like I was being buried. I’ve been working my way through the Miles Davis discography and listened to Nefertiti for the first time in a number of… Read More →
On Saturday I went into London to see Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore play at EARtH, and it was as marvellous as I hoped. On…
"Here I Go Again" by Whitesnake Which artist did you discover thanks to a music video? - Here I Go Again by Whitesnake I was just a mild fan of hair metal bands, but being male and alive in the 80s meant I was definitely a Tawny Kitaen fan. This, I think, is the most iconic of all the videos she appeared in. View Lou Plummer's Crucial Tracks profile
We’ve got new EPs from Sacred Heart Academy and Cashier and new LPs from Market and Black Beach in the Monday Pressing Concerns! Check them out below! We’ll be back on Thursday. If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what else we’ve written about lately. If you’dContinue reading "Pressing Concerns: Sacred Heart Academy, Market, Black Beach, Cashier"
Melanie Crew & Ross Palmer are a South London-based duo. Their personal partnership also became a musical one when Crew turned her hand to songwriting and started performing them live. Palmer, already a songwriter himself and a veteran of the folk and roots scene, began sitting in on live performances, contributing guitar and occasional harmonies … Continue reading This week’s featured artists: Melanie Crew & Ross Palmer – new album ‘Some Other Stories’ →
