What harm is there in whispering to yourself as you kiss your child, ‘tomorrow, you will die’? – Epictetus Remix Sunday 175 Zipped Up. (84mb zip) pw: palmsout El Sawareekh – “Laa” (Habibeats Remix) Ice Spice & Tokischa – “Thootie” (ADR & Junk Food Edit) Pix – “Mega Put4 Mexicana” (DJ WENDELLSIILVA Remix) Vhoor & D.A.N.V – “Assovio” (Mabrada Edit) Urban Shakedown – “Some Justice ’95” (Arsonist Super Dub) Oppidan & Cutty Ranks – “Armed & Dangerous” (Elliot Keith Bootleg) Lawrence Lui – “Hooked On…

On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all. ▰ The Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, a jazz foursome, posted a full video recording of a live set, doing their new album, Happy Today, co-released May 15 by the International Anthem and Nonesuch labels — heavy on atmosphere and exemplifying a rich sense of ensemble: ▰ SML, a jazz quintet, revs…

Music I’ve bought in May. Hey, I bought a lot of stuff this month. Let’s see… I’ve seen lots of people dismiss the new Kim Gordon album like “well, the previous album was amusing and stuff, but now there’s a new one with the same thing?! WE”RE DISAPPOINT!!1!” But it’s so wrong. The new album is nothing like the previous album. The new album is pure genius. Almost every single track is a banger. The Prostitute album is really good. Which reminds me that I’ve also got an album by WHORES: And Sex…

This collection of TV music videos with a loose framing story seems more like first-take/b-roll mess. Is it for kids? Was it influenced by The Monkees? They probably explained briefly in Anthology how this turned out so badly, and I already forgot. At least each song gets a different visual treatment and some are nice (like the color-filtered mountainscapes over an instrumental song) and not just over-literal imagery (showing policemen in a row for the line “policemen in a row”). And at least…

Inspired, as so many are, by Robert, I'm going to attempt #Junited2026 — sharing one link to another blogger every day to celebrate some of the excellent writing out there. I may not make it but we can but try. Thanks for reading this post via RSS! Let me know your thoughts by sending me an email: rss@thomasrigby.com.

A quote from Miles Davis, from a clip used in BBC Radio 4’s Great Lives episode on him. He was asked why he doesn’t revisit his old music. Those songs, to me, don’t exist. You know, we don’t have time for “Body and Soul” and “I Got Rhythm,” you know, or “So What,” or Kind of Blue. Those things are there, they were done in that era, the right hour, the right day, and it happened. It’s over, it’s on the record. You know, people ask me, “Why’d you play this?” Go buy the record. Compare to Marina…

Your Recently Scrobbled history now syncs across all your devices. Scrobble an album on your iPhone and it's there on your iPad — your recent plays follow you anywhere you're signed in with the same Last.fm account. What's new Recently Scrobbled now syncs across every device signed into the same Last.fm account. It's there on launch — no pull-to-refresh needed. Clear your history on one device and it clears everywhere. Fixes Older scrobbles from before this update may show without cover art.…

Unfortunately Chris Watson was ill, but it was still a wonderful evening. I saw the Richard H. Kirk iteration of Cabaret Voltaire in Holland like er five years ago, but I never got to see the Mallinder/Kirk version back in the days. So getting a Stephen Mallinder version farewell concert was really special. Oh, so that’s what they sound like with Chris Watson aboard… funkier, somehow. Anyway, I got a t-shirt.

Aphex Twin Richard D. James, latest in-depth interview Interview with Christian ZingelsTranslated by Kazufumi Taniguchi Aphex Twin, who just released ’26 Mixes for Cash,’ a compilation of his past remixes, has only given interviews to two magazines worldwide. We managed to get our hands on one of them. Here is a rare and valuable interview that reveals Richard D. James’s current thoughts. Bologna, Italy. Richard D. James, the man known for his astonishing electronic innovations as Aphex Twin,…

Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 5th May 2006 When you’re one of the world’s biggest rock bands, coming off the back of a highly acclaimed record and ready to get more music out there, what is your plan of action? Double album? That sounds like an ambitious project, especially for a band prone to a bad song or two on even their best records. But enough about the Foo Fighters in the early 2000s, what about the Red Hot Chili Peppers? Well, turns out they were gonna do the exact same thing…

Family and violence. Memory and silence. Music and noise. On paper, Ché Walker’s The Ètienne Sisters and debbie tucker green’s dirty butterfly make for an intriguing double bill. Both are written by playwrights with a poet’s ear for language, but where one reaches for warmth and connection, the other drags us into darkness and refuses to let go. The Ètienne Sisters centres on three siblings pulled back into each other’s orbit, old grudges and old affections resurfacing as they attempt to…

When Lily was about two she told me she wanted a song about "no". This was ten years ago, and I don't remember why she wanted this, but I made something up: This is a song about no. This is a song about no. This is a song about no, no, no. This is a song about no. The song goes... No no no no no no no no no. The song goes... No no no no no no no no no. The song goes... No no no no no no no no no, no, no. This is a song about no. It's useful anytime the kids want a song about something I don't…

This was the first song I heard (and Shazamed) after landing in Nice, France, last week!

Marginalia is a series of short interviews with music lovers from small corners of the internet — bloggers, reviewers, and listeners worth knowing about. Who are you and what do you do?I maintain a blog under the pseudonym of Scholarch. I started blogging in December 2025 as I was (and still am) going through some life changes. Writing is how I figure things out, and I've been reflecting on my relationships with time, hobbies, the work I want to do (I'm currently in academia but am not fully…

"Children of Children" by Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit A song off the last album you paid money for - Children of Children by Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit This 135 song compilation of rarities and collectables by various artists benefits victims of Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina. My wife and I were in the Appalachian Mountains, just north of Boone, NC when the storm caused a 1,000-year flood in the region. We made it back home on the only road open out of the area, but many mountain…

This month the #ListenBrainz stats are not up to date yet. I recently discovered some black metal from the ’80s and spent the last few days listening to it. I especially appreciated To Mega Therion. Wow! I also found a very interesting label(?) of Italian artists: New Udine Hardcore. You can stream their full catalog both on their independent platform and BandCamp. I particularly love Fool Front’s textual adventure to promote their EP! In general the band’s style I appreciate most is…

I got to perform on stage for my second highland dance show this weekend with two performances: Friday evening and Saturday afternoon. I dance with the Pam Dignan school of highland dance in Westhill and although the show is really for all the young dancers at the school rather than us adults I do feel very privileged getting to dance and participate with them all as a student at the school and enjoyed it immensely. It’s very much a novelty for me as it wasn’t something I did when I was young…

One week at number one on 29th August 1987Sometimes, amidst a string of often more noble efforts, one particular single becomes a catchphrase in a band’s career. It’s not necessarily their best single, or the most advanced, or even their biggest hit; it’s the one that seems, rightly or wrongly, to define their whole ethic to the Mums, Dads and "squares". While watching “The Chart Show” in the summer of 1987, the video for “Girlfriend In A Coma” came on and my parents immediately began…

After 17 years of anticipation, the dream has finally become reality. Among the countless bands and albums of the "cavernous" death metal movement throughout the 2010s, Funebrarum's first two albums have been endlessly cited as predecessors and essential points of reference. Their 2009 masterpiece, The Sleep of Morbid Dreams, in particular (alongside Dead Congregation's Graves of the Archangels), is so complete that it almost renders further listening of this genre unnecessary. You don't feel…

DJ Plead – “Stucco” Daniel Avery – “Neon Pulse” (Midnight Version) Clark – “Who Booed the Geese” Clark – “Who Booed the Goose” The post New Hots Hots 22 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

Berlin-based label, ELSI, recently reproduced a little bit of dance music history. At the imprint’s request, legendary Italian DJ Leo Mas, took a step back in time, and recreated one his sets from during his residency at Ibiza’s Amnesia. Giving us an authentic hour long mix of some of the sounds that shaped the summer of 1987. An eclectic selection that, when exported back to the UK, subsequently sparked and ignited “The Second Summer Of Love” and rave. Leo’s remit was indie and rock. Don’t…

Having finished my exam marking the previous day and with a Bank Holiday weekend ahead, I had a spring in my step as I walked through a sunny Dublin yesterday evening for the season finale of concerts by National Symphony Orchestra Ireland of 2026. The guest conductor for the evening was Jonas Alber. As usual for the closing concert of the season there was a very full house. There were only two items on the menu, but it was a substantial feast, so much so that I only just made it back to Pearse…

This year marks the 100th birthday of Marilyn Monroe. I thought I would take the opportunity to share the five film performances that I consider to be her best. Here are the other five films that would make my Marilyn top 10: Clash By Night(I’m in awe that she stole this from Barbara Stanwyck), Some Like It Hot, Don’t Bother To Knock, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and River Of No Return. I’ve always loved this shot of Marilyn outside the Actors Studio in New York. Marilyn as Rose Loomis in Niagara.…

Hey people! Today I’d like to feature an artist whom I discovered very recently. Mika Akim is a solo project of singer, songwriter and violist Mika Persdotter Svensson, who has over the years been involved in a lot of other projects as well, be it on the experimental or Baroque music scene. She is Swedish, but based in Copenhagen. What makes her music particularly interesting is that she plays viola d’amore, which you certainly don’t hear very often in popular music, and which is a very…

For this past week, we went to Jakarta for Eid al-Adha and Java Jazz 2026. Java Jazz is one of Indonesia’s prominent music festivals since 2025, also one of the largest jazz festivals in Asia, even though I would say it has been… debatable, considering there have been non-jazz performers taking center stage. It used to be all-jazz festival, but due to market demand and catering to a wider audience, more variations are understandably needed. This was my third time attending the Java Jazz…

Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar.–Gloria Anzaldúa Echoes from the Borderlands is a collective comprised of Valeria Luiselli, Ricardo Giraldo, and Leo Heiblum. It also names the 24-hour sound piece that explores and gives voice to areas of interstate violence along the U.S.-Mexico border. At the core of this sonic experience is a living canvas of sorts, a vibrational palimpsest built from binaural and quadraphonic recordings. Into this are woven archival recordings and other…

“Gentlemen, for the first 60 feet, that was a hell of a pitch.” Warren Spahn, joking about allowing Willie Mays his first Major League hit, a home run.

Od kiedy pracuję zdalnie, a więc gdzieś tak od 2011, jestem wyczulony na jakość dźwięku podczas rozmów video. Podobnie jak poziom języka (słownictwo, akcent), jakość dźwięku bardzo mocno wpływa na odbiór człowieka podczas videocalla. Nie wiem jaka dokładnie stoi za tym psychologia, w każdym razie jeśli zrozumienie wymaga wysiłku to człowiek jest odbierany jako głupszy. "Do you know how smart I sound in Spanish?" jak to doskonale podsumowała Gloria z "Modern Family".Nie chcę zanudzać historią…

Album of the Week, May 30, 2026 Following Mister Heartbreak, Laurie Anderson continued to develop and tour shows based around her unique combination of performance art and music, as well as technology. In 1986 that led to an unexpected place: a theatrical release of a movie capturing the touring show that she mounted in support of the 1982 album. The movie flopped, grossing only $1.25 million at the box office, but it spawned a video release and a soundtrack, which provide a fascinating picture…