Fabulous Friday Folks!

Hey people! I feel like I haven’t shared anything by Cornelis Vreeswijk in a while. And, as you may know by now if you’ve been around here for some time, Cornelis Vreeswijk is one of my faza peeps, and I generally like to feature my major faza peeps at least semi-regularly. One problem I often face when featuring Cornelis on my blog is that not very many of his songs are really suitable for someone like myself to share publicly as a TradCath, as our respective values, political views and…

It’s as good as it is rare. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Best find of the year for sure. A very rare 1st pressing Japan only promo release by trumpet virtuoso Terumasa Hino and bass master Reggie Workman. Recorded in 1970 for Hino’s own private label Love Records and released in 1971 through the major label Canyon Records. Hard to find but…

I was listening to the Ezra Klein podcast the other day and I think he read out one of the credits as "Executive Producer of Opinion Shows". That's a thing, I thought, maybe I'll do an opinion show.Probably the most satisfying bits of writing I've done in my life have the columns. I wrote a weekly column for an advertising trade magazine called Campaign for about 5 years. And there was a period where for about three or four years, where I wrote a monthly column for Wired Magazine in the UK. And…

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Neil Young - Tanderup Farm, Neligh, Nebraska, September 27, 2014Neil Young’s performance at the Harvest The Hope anti-pipeline benefit in September 2014 has come up on two consecutive All One Song episodes. Micah Nelson mentioned it because it was the first time he played onstage with Neil. Simon Joyner mentioned it because he was in the audience, getting his face fried by not only Old Black but by the harsh Nebraska sun. So hey, let’s listen to the extant audience tape! Neil starts the show…

Here’s the first release from Inferno, the upcoming BoC album. On first listen, I really like it. The beat is a lot more central to this track than any previous work they’ve done; I was always a huge fan of the Big Beat electronica genre, and I would love to see them lead the charge into a new era of solid groove. I tried to preorder the album last week but it timed out on me, so I’ll try again today.

When things start going all Highfalutin,the nerds reappear from their lair, and try and fix the stuff the Alpha-Males did while they were away. Sick of getting ambient sand from the chill out room kicked in their collective spotty visage-s, they normally attach the word 'Intelligent' as a pronoun, enabling them to look down their lengthy olfactory organs at the Rave kids who had reduced electronic music to merely a medium for dancing like the Twats they were.Privileged teen-persons from…

Ahead of their North American tour, Muse have just released the official video for Cryogen. Many fans are agreeing that the song, as well as the official video, show a return to form for the British band (and the space croissant is back too!). The video leans heavily into the band’s well-know sci-fi aesthetic. There’s icy space imagery, themes of isolation and something darker, mor emotional than some of their recent singles. Plus the scale is truly cinematic – this would look (even more)…

I've been really eager to listen to this album from the moment I saw this fantastic front cover: a step further than just encouraging your fans to play MTG during your live show is to adopt the aesthetics of the legendary game. The art of third full-length album No Place of Warmth by Fort Worth, Texas mammoths Frozen Soul features a fantasy-drifting art by James Bousema, who has a stunning RPG-inspired portfolio and has also designed actual MTG cards. As per proper promotion strategy, a few…

[1962]Before the British Invasion there was an even more modern invasion from the British Isles.I feel like Joe Meek must have gone "I really like the futuristic synth-y organ bit in Del Shannon's Runaway. So why don't we do an entire tune in this deliriously upbeat fairground anthem style but even more so." And Meek and The Tornadoes did and it was historic and we're still talking about it today.A gift to carnivals, sideshows, fairgrounds and theme parks across the world to this day baby!

Antony Szmierek Chalk Opening with a deadpan vocal and a low swagger of bass line, Chalk is the latest release from Antony Szmierek. Depicting a game of 8-ball, there is a startling, poetic vividness to Szmierek’s description. Small references to a stack of 20ps (that’s twenty pence pieces, to non-Brits) and the line, ‘The chalk’s just there for comfort’ encapsulate perfectly the feeling of dingy pool and snooker halls. The story telling is combined with a kind of electronic post-punk. Square…

I Think That I Might Love You is my sister Carla's fifth solo album. When you add in the TeenCanteen and Poster Paints albums, she has built up quite a discography since the summer and fall of 2016 when she released debut album Homemade Lemonade (originally under the guise of Ette) and Say It All With A Kiss (TeenCanteen) in quick succession.This, at least for me, is Carla's best album. It's warm, melodic, there is lots of space, it's beautifully produced, sounds lovingly organic, great people…

Alexander Hawkins played two nights at Cafe Oto this week with his new 11-piece band before spending two days recording the pieces they played, to which he gives the title Willow Music. If the set I heard on Tuesday is any guide, the resulting album will be worth considerable study. The opening bars of the first piece the group played made me smile. For a minute I thought that I’d stepped back in time to the Royal Roost in 1948, and here was the Miles Davis Nonet — which became known as the…

Bandcamp Friday may have been last week hit the next best time to support the artists you love is right now and since it’s Friday again, maybe there will be something amongst this lot that you need to add to your collection. Hails! Frozen Soul - death - USAJungle Rot - death - USAVile Desolation - death - IndonesiaLago - death - USAWormlord - death - FinlandIngested - death/deathcore - UKIn Their Sleep - death/deathcore - USASacriversum - death/thrash - PolandAscended Master - death/thrash -…

Boards of Canada – “Prophecy At 1420 MHz” Fever Ray – “I’m Not Done (Therapy Session)” ear – “Real Life” The post Visual Velcro 53 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

NESYA – PUT THE FRIES IN THE BAG. The intention of an artist like NESYA is not to create pure pop music. The daughter of a Nebraskan preacher and subjected to religious and sexual trauma, her aesthetic is wholeheartedly goth, punk, and a little vampiric–she even has a video that borrows liberally from that famous scene in Blade that I love so much. But even though her vibe is dark, I can’t help but get the same thrill from this song as I would from stuck-in-your-hair bubblegum pop. It’s catchy…

You know when I’m home on my own I don’t watch much TV like actual TV, but I do watch music videos on YouTube on the TV. Sometimes new music but often ones I know really well. Music videos are such a vibe. And it’s social too? I’ve spent many evenings with friends that just turn into swapping music vids on the big screen. I seem to listen to music only while doing something else, e.g.: while watching music videos, as above while running while playing Grand Theft Auto and actually that was the…

RIP Magic “Screwdark” There are moments in “Screwdark” that sound like three DJ Shadows DJing at each other like the Spider-Man meme, or someone trying to Zaireeka the entire Mo Wax catalog. It’s a loud and cluttered sound, but the style is bold and the groove is definitely there. The half muttered, half rapped vocals are mixed so low that you could miss them entirely, but I like the Shy Ronnie vibe in the context of this stylish cacophony. Buy it from Bandcamp. April + Vista “Very Bad News”…

Next month, Josh Davis aka DJ Shadow is reissuing his groundbreaking Mo Wax singles as a lavish boxset. Those records made a huge impression me, so I polled the rest of the Ban Ban Ton Ton writing team, to see if they had experienced something similar. Here, Patrick Syms shares a few memories around 1993’s “Hindsight”. Pukka prose by Patrick Syms. In the corporate world you inevitably find yourself in big meetings designed to establish some facade of consensus among a disparate group of people…

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Alexa Yasemin Brahme’s novel Good News is a striking debut that thoughtfully explores the confluence of youth, art, and ambition. Publishers Weekly wrote of the book: “Brahme’s appealing voice-driven…

I have mentioned the Beatles on the podcast before, but this is the first episode entirely about one of their songs. It will probably be the first of many. Blackbird singing in the dead of night by Dr. Ethan HeinTake these broken wings and learn to flyRead on Substack Bonus track: a mashup of “Blackbird” by Billy Preston, “Blackbird” by the Beatles, “Blackbird” by Brad Mehldau, “Blackbird/I Will” by the Swingle Singers, “Blackbird” by Crosby, Stills & Nash, “Be Black, Baby” by Grady Tate,…

Music can be an underrated force for good. Let it: Excite you about waking up Coax you into dance Boost your mood when you're down Elevate your highs It's so accessible these days with how ubiquitous computers, phones, and Internet access are. Pick your poison: streaming, radio stations, downloaded music, etc. Enjoy musical art forms including, but not limited to, tracks, songs, albums, mixtapes, sets, and entire artist or band discographies. While accounting for your time and effort…

NEW RELEASE – FLORIAAN WEMPE Lowland post-bopper branches out on the sunny side of the street. [row-start] [half] [/half] [half] Personnel Floriaan Wempe (tenor saxophone, alto saxophone), Rodolfo Ferreira Neves (trumpet), Rob van Bavel (piano), Steven Zwanink (bass), Willie Jones III (drums) Recorded in 2025 Released in 2026 Track listing The Observer / Acquiescence / Quest / Angel Roy / Love Me / October 10 / What To Do / The Glow Of Promise / Gonna Be Alright [/half] [row-end] It’s always a…

I am not a Billie Eilish fan. I'm also not a Billie Eilish detractor. Put another way, I've had limited exposure to the work of the Grammy-winning artist whose distinctive style tempers disaffection with rebellious assertion. Eilish's music has been used in movies such as No Time To Die, Barbie, and Turning Red. She takes charge of her image, embracing desexualized, oversized clothing that evokes a youthful Hip-Hop sense of freedom. Eilish shares directing credits with James Cameron for Billie…

And so the weekly Wednesday post has become a Thursday post. I saw too many shows over too few days, and the last thing I wanted to do yesterday was write about seeing more shows. Hell, I didn’t even want to listen to any music. I mean, all the shows were great, every one was […]

Cat Power & Loren Mazzacane Connors - Tonic, New York City, October 7, 1999Thanks to Jordan for alerting me to the recent upload of this classic, one-time-only (?) team-up — Chan Marshall and Loren Mazzacane Connors in NYC at the turn of the century. I’ve known and loved the audio for many years now, but had no clue that there was a video! Somehow, seeing it all go down is even more transfixing than hearing it all go down, the two players weaving in and out of songs, finding notes within notes,…

They said you sound like an owl.

Hey people! Today I’d like to feature a traditional English ballad. Like a lot of traditional songs, it exists in quite a lot of versions that differ only slightly from each other and are known under varying titles – “I Will Give My Love An Apple”, “I Gave My Love A Cherry”, but also “The Riddle Song” or “Peri Meri Dixi” (and all sorts of spelling variations thereof). “The Riddle Song” title, as you can expect, is because the song is part of the riddling tradition – solving riddles within a…