Coyote are the latest creators to be commissioned by LA label, Pinchy & Friends. The Is It Balearic? boys have risen to the challenge and delivered a seamless 40-minute suite. Titled Nyabinghi the piece dovetails the duo’s biggest musical passions, reggae, dub and Ibiza’s hedonistic heritage. The results are a blissed out blend of Benirrás […]
Miroslav VitousMountain Call Michel Portal clarinet, bass clarinetMiroslav Vitous double bassJack DeJohnette drumsEsperanza Spalding voiceBob Mintzer bass clarinetGary Campbell soprano and tenor saxophonesGerald Cleaver drumsMembers of Czech National Symphony OrchestraRecorded 2003-2010 at Universal Syncopation Studios, Pragueby Miroslav VitousCover photo: Thomas WunschProduced by Miroslav Vitous and Manfred EicherRelease date: March 27, 2026 Mountain Call marks the end of a decade-long wait ...
If you major in music at most universities, you have to take several semesters of aural skills classes. These classes traditionally consist of two main activities: sight-singing and dictation, that is, hearing a melody or chord sequence a few times and then writing it out in notation. Aural skills class was the definite low point … Continue reading "Check out these grooves that I have my aural skills students improvise over"
Music streaming services often advertise their product by highlighting that they have a (more expensive of course) option for uncompressed or Studio Quality audio, because it supposedly sounds much better than compressed MP3 files. Uncompressed just sounds better, it's clearer, has more dynamic range, more depth, better high end and so on, is how the story goes. Frankly, I think this is mostly nonsense. MP3s at high bitrates can be considered transparent (more on this below), which means th...
A Monument I Shall Raise in FlameOut 20th March on Werewolf Promotion Poland’s Deathlike Dawn continue the direction set by their previous album ‘Noc czarna czernią otchłani’, extending their tendrils further into semi-chromatic, dissonant territory for this latest release, sacrificing the hazy atmosphere coating 2024’s ‘Among the Graves of the Archetypes’ for a more stripped... Continue Reading →
NMxZG - Electric Scribbles on the GridGuitarist Nick Millevoi co-founded Basic with Chris Forsyth and Mikel Patrick Avery a few years back and then stepped away from the band after their excellent debut LP. But he explores some similar textures and tones with the perfectly titled Electric Scribbles on the Grid, a recent collab with Zach Goldstein, out now on Island House. The six tracks here take inspiration from the always fresh Fripp/Eno axis (with a little Lanois in there, too) and the kos...
Here we go! It’s a battle for the Midwest as Wilco takes on Slipknot. Good morning! Today we’re taking a look at Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (#1) and Slipknot’s Iowa (#128) Note: As many of you saw, I recently wrote about a Best Record of 2001 challengeand noted that I’d be occasionally writing some of […]
This week’s theme: Pretty simple, John Coltrane on the Atlantic label. Featured artists include John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Eric Dolphy, Don Cherry, Freddie Hubbard, Tommy Flanagan, Cedar Walton, Paul Chambers, Arthur Taylor, Steve Davis, Milt Jackson, Hank Jones, Connie Kay, Reggie Workman, Charles Haden. The post Podcast: John Coltrane, Atlantic first appeared on jazzcollector.com.
We humans are great (mostly). Our amazing minds let us do incredible things. And sometimes, they try to screw with us. When that overlaps with guitars, I find it massively interesting. Check out the story of The Mystery B-String Noise…
A five-part podcast tracing MF DOOM from Long Island to Leeds. I reckon it's worth a listen, even if you're not a hip hop head.
Good morning! Need an antidote for the algorithms? Looking for a place to share the music you love with like-minded people? You’re in the right spot. For those of you who are new, we kick off every week by sharing what we’ve been playing, and the playlist below is some of what’s been in heavy […]
Who were Automobile? There are just three songs on Soundcloud, “Yours Sincerely“, “Watchfiend” and “Stayin’ In” that have been uploaded by a user called Martin McIntyre. There is no information about band members, no information about when these songs were recorded, nor where. The only hint we get here is the other uploads Martin has […]
"People Get Ready" by Eva Cassidy Share a track that has one of your favorite vocal performances of all-time. If I had a time machine, I would ride it straight to this bar on this night to watch the late, great Eva Cassidy perform her signature song. Gone much, much too soon. Rest In Power, Eva. View Lou Plummer's Crucial Tracks profile
A childhood want, a quirky 8 track player, and one of the most playful music machines of the 1970s
I spent big chunks of time typesetting on the weekend, which meant that I had time to enjoy some music (as well as various policy mandated training videos). Last weekend, I listened to Miles Davis’s classic, Kind of Blue (1959). Like most people, I love the album (and I’m quite partial to the mono mix;… Read More →
In an eclectic Monday Pressing Concerns, we’ve got a new album from Swirls, a new EP from Entrez Vous, a deluxe version of the Julianna Riolino album from last year, and a compilation of new Chicago indie rock bands including Friko, Sharp Pins, and Horsegirl. Check them out below! We’ll be back on Thursday! IfContinue reading "Pressing Concerns: Red Xerox, Julianna Riolino, Swirls, Entrez Vous"
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. ▰ “Deep Green” is a fantastic, slow-burn track off Eivind Aarset’s new album, Strange Hands, […]
I haven't recorded or uploaded anything solo in over a year — the last thing I put up was a jam session with Trevor Clay back in November…
To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of their long-player, Inner Space Outta Sound, Nightmares On Wax have entered a friendly clash with groundbreaking post-punk UK dub pioneers On-U Sound. Adrian Sherwood and his ever-evolving collective have reworked 8 of the songs for a new album, due in April, titled In A Space Outta Dub. The set […]
The Wallflowers are touring "Bringing Down the Horse" 30 years later!
"The narrator of HOVEL is trying to defamiliarize the familiar world; she’s trying to see the world anew by probing it from as many strange angles as possible."
ABBA last performed in London in 1979. And yet, yesterday afternoon, I was in an East London arena watching them perform. Except they weren’t really there. ABBA Voyage is not a reunion tour. It’s a new form of live performance, built on a blend of digital production, physical staging, and carefully engineered illusion. Many reviews focus on the music and the spectacle, but that’s only part of the story. As a technologist, what makes ABBA Voyage notable is not that it recreates a band, but tha...
Lee Greenwood – “God Bless the U.S.A.” March 22, 2026 SONG REVIEW OVERALL (OUT OF 10): 0, but only because you can’t get negative ratings on the … Song Review: Lee Greenwood – “God Bless the U.S.A.”, or How Greenwood’s Musical Atrocity Exeplifies What is Wrong With America
