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…

"Trouble In the Fields" by Nanci Griffith Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What is a song that makes you think of your first job? - Trouble In the Fields by Nanci Griffith I was a farm kid, but my last few years at home were marked by the drought that finally led my family to give up that life after more than 100 years and take what are called "public jobs" - ones where you have a boss, but also a paycheck. This song, by the unforgettable Nanci Griffith…

Lexx launches a new label, titled Unlimited Capacity, with a terrific 12 from an act called The Telomeres. In its original mix, their song “No Phones in The Dance” is a post-punky, punchy, spiky, early LCD Soundsystem-esque synth-pop ode to dance floor escapism. Celebrating the ritual of getting lost in music and hedonistic abandon. A “Nitetime” remix introduces an Italo-disco bass arpeggio and beat like New Order doing Giorgio Morroder. Lexx’s “No Shackles” lick is stripped back, darker, sexy,…

Some 13 years after releasing 'Tomorrow's Harvest' Boards of Canada return with an album that reflects our times whilst retaining the distinct sense of otherness that has characterised their work.'Inferno' is suffused with religious imagery. Beyond it's opening triumphant fanfare, it's first half is bathed in the acid-soaked hallucinatory rapture of the apocalyptic evangelist, it's one moment of light coming in the form of a mutated Hari Krishna chant - the slightly heavy-handed 'Naraka - that…

gonna rank from worst to best song ranking system 😇- need to have a looong conversation with whoever made this song 🥹- teared up a little 🥰- i love love love 😊- very good 🙂- good with some issues 🤔- i would let it play in the background ig.. 😪- not feeling it 😠- no this is bad. 😡- this is really bad. 🤬- play this around me and im taking a gun out. for both of us. fuck my life 😠 and fuck this song april shower 😪 snooze fest. super 😊 i remember watching this at school when this first came out…

I spent most of 2025 pretty high on Tokyo’s The Floatings and their debut album Flowering so it was kind of bittersweet when they pre-empted the big news of making my year-end list by announcing that singer re:caco was leaving the band. What I missed in that announcement was their promise of one more song […] The post The Floatings – “Everlasting Gaze” appeared first on Space Echo.

Billet Doux Maybe Tokyo Hailing from France, Billet Doux take their name from the 17th-century expression, meaning ‘secret love letter’. The duo apply that emotionally charged feeling into their music, creating a tender intensity. The latest single from their forthcoming album Superbloom is Here Again, Maybe Tokyo is a song about escape and uncertainty. Opening with a strummed guitar and tight clipped drums, the pair’s male-female duet creates a playful sense of excitement, amplified by moments…

[2026]This could be a lost Boards of Canada tune from the year 2000. I listened to the whole new album tonight. I'm not having the cargo cult/quasi religious experience some of these others are having. In fact some of the tracks downright sucked. I'm happy to stick with my BOC era as 1995 to 2005. I was only 26 in 1998 when Music Has The Right To Children came out and that was such a fresh and cool cd. You can't really replicate that era and feeling. However You Retreat In Time and Space is…

Neil Young - Pantages Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 26, 2019From its return in the late 1990s to its regular inclusion in late 2000s setlists to its lead-off spot on last year’s Chrome Hearts tour, “Ambulance Blues” has quietly become less of a live deep cut. But it was a little MIA between 2008 and 2025, only getting a handful of airings. But Neil boldly started one of his solo Minneapolis shows with it in the early 2019 — a somewhat uncertain but ultimately powerful version. As…

“There comes a moment in every electronic music fan’s journey when they discover Patrick Cowley.” Andrew Ryce, liner notes for Hard Ware (2025) I’m trying to think of the first time I heard of Patrick Cowley. I highly suspect it was one of the typical routes: from his epic 15-minute remix of “I Feel Love”, created in 1978. It was designed for the clubs, so obviously I get a great deal of enjoyment from listening to it on the sofa, while devouring a Kitkat. Perhaps my favourite track of his is…

Listening to Julian Lage’s latest video on his YouTube channel, I came to realize a subtle quality: He and his quartet are in a meditative state. It doesn’t look like they are performing, nor are they working. Thus, listening to them draws you into that restorative state in which you strip off...

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Doom is the prefix du jour. Doomscrolling, doomposting, doomsplaining, doomspreading, doomgooing, and doomliving dominate discourse. (Ok, I made the last two up.) Doom joins other recent meme morphemes—the suffixes -maxxing, -pilled, and -slop—in giving our discussions about a contemporary life an overtly negative cast. Doomspending, in particular, has become synonymous with the declining fortunes of young Americans. Sean Monahan…

MournholdOut 15th May on True Cult Records Following a promising debut that stitched a foggy haze of thrash and melodic death metal with a thread of black metal, Tyrannus push this loose alliance to breaking point and gamble it all on the second album. Approaching ‘Mournhold’ is akin to taking the first few sips of a dubious pint of craft beer. Has the incongruous flavour concoction paid off as advertised? How does the sensation progress from the initial burst of flavour on the tongue to the…

I spend a lot of time on YouTube watching old Modern Jazz Quartet concerts, as a quartet and as individuals. This is one of my favourites. Milt Jackson, just a few months before he died at 76.

"Four Seasons" by Vivaldi What is the oldest song you like? - Four Seasons by Vivaldi I don't know much about classical music, but I know what I like. The opening movements of Vivaldi's Four Seasons instantly transports me back to the early 90s when my kids were in elementary and middle school. All of them loved this CD and we played it all the time when cleaning house on Saturdays. It made the weekly chores something they looked forward to. Magic. View Lou Plummer's Crucial Tracks profile

On a Friday in May we went to Aachen to see Steve Hackett. I have been a Genesis fan since my early teens. So it was kind of a wish come true to witness the music of the golden prog-rock era come to life on a stage. And, boy, did they burn through it. The set was split by a 20-minute break and the first session consisted of Steve's later solo creations with the second session giving focus to the early Genesis years, where Gabriel, Hackett, Rutherford, Banks and Collins all worked together. The…

Book title: The Fountain Author: Casey Scieszka Rating: 3.5/5 Where to buy The Fountain by Casey Scieszka: Bookshop

Logan Moore and Max are back once more to press F to pay respects for the Electronic Entertainment Expo by predicting summer shenanigans from Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox, and Geoff Keighley. Download (58MB) — Episode Transcript Show Notes How Did We Do in 2025? MFP46 - "Spice Up the SEO" with Logan Moore Xbox 2026 Predictions Logan's Xbox 2026 Predictions Asha Sharma continues Phil Spencer's legacy by wearing a bomber jacket and tee-shirt with an Xbox franchise on it. No games, first- or…

gonna rank from worst to best song ranking system 😇- need to have a looong conversation with whoever made this song 🥹- teared up a little 🥰- i love love love 😊- very good 🙂- good with some issues 🤔- i would let it play in the background ig.. 😪- not feeling it 😠- no this is bad. 😡- this is really bad. 🤬- play this around me and im taking a gun out. for both of us. 7pm 🤔 sure whatever fighting 🥰 imma be real i always skip the song when lee youngji gets on the track...other than that it's a hit!…

The 2026 Indie 500 was this past weekend, and it’s time for my analysis of the countdown. Perhaps it is unsurprising that a radio station broadcasting from the home of one America’s great historical independent record labels – King Records,...

gonna rank from worst to best song ranking system 😇- need to have a looong conversation with whoever made this song 🥹- teared up a little 🥰- i love love love 😊- very good 🙂- good with some issues 🤔- i would let it play in the background ig.. 😪- not feeling it 😠- no this is bad. 😡- this is really bad. 🤬- play this around me and im taking a gun out. for both of us. ash 🤬 why would i ruin my day and listen to this...? they get one clap for vernon's verse but that's it. and then towards the end…

Listen on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube My latest mixtape captures my attempt to get over the depression and anxiety that can accompany “The Gulp” in between when you finish something and finally push it out into the world. (Don’t worry, it has plenty of bops!) It’s also the first time I’ve ever given a mixtape an epigraph. (From James Hollis’s Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life.) You can listen to the mix on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube. Filed under: mixtapes

This brought a tear to my eye, but I’m at a funny age (or so I’m told). However, when this video came my way (thank you mysterious YouTube algorithms), it combined two things. First, it’s music from my favourite Disney animated movie, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Secondly, it features my two favourite songs from the film – The Bells of Notre Dame and Out There. They’re not back to back either, the latter segues seamlessly in and out of the latter (and vice versa) in a gorgeous medley. A touch…

I'm a day late but don't worry about it. I updated my Music page to list all the new music I've been making in a dedicated spot. I called it "Jams Season 2" to differentiate them from the stuff I was doing in 2020-2023…not sure if the difference between that chunk of work and this chunk of work is apparent to anyone else but it feels quite different to me! This most recent jam was the first one where I recorded to be edited for interest instead of focusing on a one-take performance, and without…

I love this album. Strange, spacy, dreamy. Perfect use of this era of early synths.

Shrunken Elvis - Barley’s, Knoxville, Tennessee, March 27, 2026Over on Aquarium Drunkard this week, I’m extolling the virtues of Inner Principles, the latest effort from Sean Thompson’s Weird Ears. I’ve been a fan of Sean’s stretching back to the Promised Land Sound days, and it has been extremely fun to follow his every twist and turn. The entirely instrumental Inner Principles goes in a bunch of new directions, from Abercrombie-esque slow burners to Tortoise-y jams to acoustic meditations.…

gonna rank from worst to best song ranking system 😇- need to have a looong conversation with whoever made this song 🥹- teared up a little 🥰- i love love love 😊- very good 🙂- good with some issues 🤔- i would let it play in the background ig.. 😪- not feeling it 😠- no this is bad. 😡- this is really bad. 🤬- play this around me and im taking a gun out. for both of us. i cant run away 🙂 this is actually a pretty good i just gotta be in a certain mood to get it. the bridge is also really good 2 minus…

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Junge, Junge der Track „Stuck“ von Prop Dylan zusammen mit Fashawn ist mir heute in die Finger gekommen. Das Ganze ist produced by Apollo Brown und somit richtig dope. Prop Dylan gibts jetzt übrigens auch auf wiphopbeatz Radio! Bei Klick wird dieses Video von den YouTube Servern geladen. Details siehe Datenschutzerklärung.