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…
It's that part of time in my life where I feel very lost. I recently lost a relationship, came to terms with some realities about my sense of self and brokenness, and just feel so uncertain about myself and the future. I have so much I need to figure out and work on. It has been very overwhelming for me in the last few weeks. This also happened to me in 2023, at the back of my first ever relationship breakup. That led to a lot of changes in my life and I am a different person today because of…
Gurley gorgeousnessNice 'n' slinky Ray Keith (+ Nookie) remixin two partsand then the Shades of Rhythm version, the "Hard" halfway through the "Menace" diva sample appears - much closer to its original speed rather than the ooh oohing whipped soul-cream of the Rufige Cru trackBut where oh where is the "Peace Sign (Classic Piano Mix)"?Ah seems it Was reissued by Kniteforcehttps://kniteforcerevolution.com/store/product/peace-sign-ep-12-vinylAr least you can hear the original demo…
Well, it’s still Wednesday, so the weekly post where I run down impending Boston-area rock shows and recent event announcements of (my/your) interest is not technically overdue… BUT it is a little late to be useful for the insane amount of things happening on this very weeknight. Seriously, there’s a lot going on for a […]
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 10th April 2026 The third album from Swedish post metallers Dimwind is their first to chart their new course as a vocal driven trio, and ‘The Carrion Waltz’ takes a lot from the more atmospheric sludge and post doom scenes of Atlanta, Georgia, as well as their homeland legends Cult of Luna as well. Driven by personal experiences of fighting and surviving cancer, it has the potential to be an intense experience, and the album is out now self released. Opener…
During the 1980s, guitarist Barry Reynolds was a member of Island Records’ legendary Compass All Stars. Together with his colleagues Sticky Thompson, Robbie Shakespeare, Sly Dunbar, Mikey Chung and Wally Badarou, he helped create countless ground breaking hits for the label, from their state-of-the-art Nassau-based studios. In the process, the group also created a distinctive and hugely influential – oft copied, never matched – sound. Reynolds collaborated closely with Marianne Faithfull, but…
Released in 2013, this two-disc set is a welcome addition to ECM’s obscure constellation of compilations, not least because it draws generously from the label’s New Series imprint. Such recordings are often omitted when anthologies favor the jazz-oriented catalogue. Here, written music and improvisation pass into one another with scarcely a seam. A year appears through fragments, each marking a different nuance of time. My delight is immediate when the sequence opens with “Un Dia De Noviembre,”…
DOOM is getting closer to my sensitive spot. DOOM Now Runs in R?! Incorrigibly persistent readers of this Crummy Little Blog That Nobody Reads (CLBTNR) know that we’ve followed with some amusement the attempts to port the game DOOM to increasingly absurd hardware platforms (e.g., PDF files with internal Javascript, the Domain Name System, and so on). Up until now, it’s all been good, clean fun. On somebody else’s platform. But now… they’ve made it run (using FFI, which cheating, but only sorta)…
Laurie Johnson's great lost soundtrack for Hammer's original Vampire Slayer - available at last!
Sinead O'Connor - Cabaret Metro, Chicago, Illinois, April 11, 1988OK, fine, another Aadam Jacobs tape — this one taking us back to a fiery gig on Sinead O'Connor’s first American tour. Sinead was just about 21 years old at this point, but she commands the stage effortlessly, whipping the Chicago crowd into a frenzy as though it’s no big thing. O'Connor kicks things off alone onstage with a proto-PJ Harvey rendition of “Jackie” before her band joins for an ecstatic “Mandinka.” Oh and the rhythm…
Newport Street This and more in today's update to Northern Folk Archive here -https://northernfolkarchive.pagecord.com/bolton-town-centre-08-june-2022
[1981]I thought back in the 80s 'Geez this dude from Mr Mister is pretty old. What's he been up to? Where's he been till now?' Forty years later I've finally found out the answer, he was the dude in Pages. Turns out two of the dudes from Mr Mister were in Pages. Pages were a soft rock duo, consisting of Richard Page and Steve George, who formed in LA in 1977. They did three LPs of sweet soft rock with jazz and soul inflections, I guess the kids would call this breezy AOR shtick Yacht Rock these…
Defiled: Altered StateOut 12th June on Season of Mist The latest effort from this long standing Japanese entity offers flashes of brilliance between long stretches of uninspired number crunching. Similar to Krisiun in the sense that they champion shortform death metal. But where Krisiun – love or hate them – make known their urge to flatten death metal off into a relentless churn of violence in every bar they play, Defiled at this point feel tired, falling back on generic grooves and…
What’s going on, Internet? Olly wants a physical-digital music experience: browse the racks at your local record store, chat to the staff, listen to stuff, but instead of bagging the vinyl, pay them for a FLAC download and have the store clip the ticket. I think I’m into it… While I still buy records physically, I often don’t have the time to get into the local record store weekly to dig through the crates. I purchase my records through a few stores online, often lining up with sales as vinyl…
BLAOW! BLAOW! What’s going on, Internet? This banger of a track, Rowdy (BLAOW!), was introduced to me as part of Les Mills SPRINT release 43. We’re only up to release 44 but have been enjoying this track every other SPRINT class. I’ve been playing it a bit for the kids, and I love in the mornings when we get ready for a ROWDY drop off. Hedex ft. Eksman - Rowdy (BLAOW!) Hey, thanks for reading this post in your feed reader! Want to chat? Reply by email or add me on XMPP, or send a webmention.…
I find myself forgetting I have a music streaming subscription, or end up using it to listen to the same things.This is my fault. The recommendations are good, and the depth of content is incredible. For me, though, it had become like an unused gym membership: you know it’s good for you, but you don’t use it.I’ve ditched that, and I’m trying curated albums.I’ve subscribed to Cantilever. It’s ten albums to stream each month. The oldest one drops off, and a new one is added every few days. (Ten…
Mike Forde – lead vocals Jimmy Collins – lead guitar Geoff Chinnery – bass guitar/vocals John Turner – rhythm guitar/vocals Lindsay Bex – drums This west London band was formed in April 1961 and were originally called Mike Forde & The HiFi’s but were renamed the following year as Mike Forde & The Fortunes. Over the next few years, the group played many well-known venues in west London and Middlesex, including Eel Pie Island in Twickenham, Botwell Hall in Hayes, the Clay Pigeon in Eastcote and…
Oh, there’s more than just guitar. How many of these other air classics have you pulled off? 1. Air drums. Riding shotgun and nailing solos on the dashboard or cooking dinner and feeling the beats on the kitchen counter, you either go with the My-Fingers-Are-Drumstricks method or the My-Fists-Are-Holding-Air-Drumsticks method. Both sound excellent. 2. Air Keyboard. No Air Resume is complete without some strong Air Keyboard experience. Nail it by squeezing your eyes shut, raising your brows,…
I discovered this track a number of years ago. I don’t know where I originally heard it, but I find it to be very chill and a little haunting. It’s a vibe I enjoy. I don’t know much about Christine and The Queens, other than that the name is a pseudonym for French singer Rahim Redcar. Here’s Christine and The Queens with “Tilted (Paradis Remix)”.
Dating from 1987, ECM Spectrum Vol. 1 appeared during one of the most fertile and experimental periods in the label’s history, as the music and musicians gathered here readily attest. More than a sampler, it functions as a compact atlas of the ECM imagination, moving between invented landscapes, political memory, electronic possibility, and inward forms of solitude. “The Rapids” brings us into Oregon’s self-titled ECM debut (ECM 1258), carried by Paul McCandless’s soprano saxophone and the…
Sneak peek at Thursday’s Disquiet Junto project
This evening I listened to Peter Gabriel’s New Blood, after seeing the album mentioned on Thomas’ blog. As I listened, I kept thinking “this is my favourite song so far!” There were so many tracks that I liked. Downside-Up, Wallflower, and Mercy Street were all terrific.Toward the end of the album there is a track called “A Quiet Moment,” which is mostly silent unless the volume is turned up, in which case the sound of a flowing river and birds singing emerges. The song creates a moment of…
Regardless of whether you think Sonic the Hedgehog is cool, it’s clear that he was designed to make you think that.Pop in the first game and the effort is apparent almost immediately. He’s got that smirk. He’s got that authoritative finger waggle. He even taps his foot impatiently if you let the controller sit idle too long. It’s almost as if Sonic thinks you’re lucky just to spend time with him. He could, after all, leave you in the dust if he wanted — blast processing and all. Subsequent…
Sometimes I think it’s a shame that I grew up in the 1970s, because I’ll suddenly and randomly get an AM Radio hit stuck in my head out of nowhere. It’s worst when I find that I’ve unconsciously memorized all the lyrics. But even with something like Gordon Lightfoot’s “Sundown,” I’ll remember an entire verse of a song that I never particularly cared about one way or the other, and wonder how it got stuck in my brain, and what more important knowledge it’s keeping from lodging in there. It’s…
Trust me #119Calico Skies by Paul McCartneyMcCartney by the campfire - Calico SkiesCalico Skies is a gorgeous mid-period Paul McCartney song from 1997's Flaming Pie album. It's one that I always come back to and regularly discuss with my good friend Dougie.In case, like me, you wondered what a calico sky is, here is what google returned - it is a meteorological term for a sky covered in patchy, high-altitude clouds, typically cirrocumulus or altocumulus. These clouds break up into small,…
Last Saturday Alicia and I went to see Songs of the Bulbul at Sadler’s Wells East. Everything about the performance was incredible. The simple stage design was visually stunning without distracting from the beautiful performance by Aakash Odedra. This was our first visit to Sadler’s Wells East and, despite it being the other side of town we know we’ll be back. A well designed, modern theatre, without the rigidity and formality that I often feel with in some of the more traditional venues in…
That is Vida Chenoweth; the picture was taken when she was in the second of her three careers. Her first career was as a pioneer of the marimba as an instrument for classical music. Chenoweth may have been the first person to play the marimba in concert at Carnegie Hall, in 1959, when she performed the world premiere of Robert Kurka’s Concerto for Marimba. (Kurka was a highly promising composer who had died two years earlier, of leukemia, at the age of 39.) Reviewing the performance for the New…
Paulee Alex Bow makes bleakwave with OctaMED, Amigas and retro synths. The post OctaMED, Amigas and Dark 80s Music – The Retro Hour EP539 appeared first on Retro Hour Podcast.
I saw Noisy Deadlines' recent post entitled "5 Albums," and it reminded me of fun "getting to know you" viral copypasta posts on social media before social media turned into a pile of garbage 😄. So, here's five albums to get to know me, based on release date. Note that the last two are religious in nature. Michael Jackson — Thriller This was one of the first albums I ever owned, and I had it on vinyl (before vinyl was cool! 😄). I was a big Michael Jackson fan when I was a kid (before his image…
Golden Brown / Silverness / Melodies Never Lie - The Let It Be Stage, Denver, Colorado, June 12, 2026We’ve been digging into the Aadam Jacobs Collection for over a year now … but of course, Jacobs is just one (extremely prolific) taper. Another extremely prolific taper? Lance Stack, who has been been bolstering his Archive.org offerings in recent months, uploading hours upon hours of his recordings stretching back more than two decades. A lot of the artists featured aren’t exactly household…
