Jesus Christ. With such crisp breaks and a vocal delivery like this, what the fuck else do you really need? A delightful piano riff, some warbly keys, and a low-passed reese don’t hurt, but the track might survive without them when those two core elements are so on-point. Maybe I’m being a little hyperbolic–the piano […] The post From the Mailbox 45 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.
12tree / Rolling Deep Dub / Hot Piroski Robin Twelvetree has a new single out, titled Rolling Deep. The digital package includes 3 mixes. One of which is a dub. Lush, languid, with whispered vocals, muted trumpet, a ringing key riff, plus some super laidback guitar, it’s no surprise that this is Cantoma-esque, since Robin’s […]
THE STEVE IGNORANT band head out on the road for a series of live UK dates in the coming weeks, beginning this weekend with shows in Southampton, Birmingham and Derby, ahead of playing a set at Meff-Fest 2026 in Colchester in May. Following several weeks of intense rehearsals, Ignorant promises that the band’s updated live […]
"...the issue is maybe that I love music so much that sometimes I can’t cope with it. I am, like a lot of elder millennials, arrested in the '90s indie scene I first fell in love with."
I am so grateful that I can make music. It’s a language that allows me to speak in the pure vocabulary of emotion with people. It allows me to relate to people in a way that is totally different from every other form of social interaction, even sport, which comes closest. And it allows me to connect with myself as well. A bunch of musicians have put together a short film that aims to tell you why they make music. If you are not a musician, it’s almost impossible for me to tell you WHY I make...
The VitalsRelease date: 26 October 1981UK chart peak: #1Running time: 58:19Singles: N/A Queen’s Greatest Hits proved to be a hit outside of the UK as well, reaching number 1 in Austria, the Netherlands, Germany & New Zealand – plus it hit the top 30 in Australia (#2) and Norway (#21). It has sold consistently in the […]
Can - Salle Wagram, Paris, France, March 19, 1976OK, after Crazy Horse in West Germany yesterday, we’re staying in March 1976 … and keeping it teutonic! CAN! In the spring of ‘76, Michael Karoli, Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit and Holger Czukay were about to have a weird breakthrough hit single with “I Want More.” But what Can really seemed to want around this time was a new vocalist. Tim Hardin and Thaiga Raj Raja Ratnam had already been tried out … in Paris, just about 50 years ago, English ...
The roots of the trumpet-and-piano duo in jazz go back to the day in December 1928 when Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines recorded a piece titled “Weather Bird”. It became a classic, one of the keystones of jazz history. I was thinking about it when Ambrose Akinmusire and Sullivan Fortner took the stage at the […]
"Hungry Heart" by Bruce Springsteen Share the first song you ever heard from your favorite artist. I'd been peripherally aware of Springsteen as pre-teen. My parents subscribed to Time Magazine and I remember when he was on the cover in '75, but it wasn't until I was 14 when Hungry Heart was being played on the radio constantly that I became a fan. My old man HATED the song because of the whole leaving the wife and kids in Baltimore thing. I loved it. I had a hungry heart then and I have one...
Temora: DemoOut 13th March on Blood Harvest At face value this is fairly run of the mill old school death metal, delivered with a pleasing sparseness that presents as authentic as opposed to another empty pastiche. Peeling back the layers reveals a degree of pomp and playful bounce to this material. Many riffs taking on... Continue Reading →
In this Thursday Pressing Concerns, we’re looking at four albums coming out tomorrow, March 20th: new ones from Gladie, Otoliths, This House, and Filth Is Eternal. If you missed Monday’s blog post (featuring Micah Schnabel and Vanessa Jean Speckman, The Notwist, Land Whales, and Corespondents), check that out too. If you’re looking for more newContinue reading "Pressing Concerns: Gladie, Otoliths, This House, Filth Is Eternal"
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 […]
Just hit play.(All about the sound, but visuals also nice.)2026 Mar 18: Benn Jordan [BennJordan YT]: "I'm here to disrupt the finance synthesizer scene." comments
I consider myself very lucky to have picked up a copy of Ghetto Dub for pennies back in the early 90s. At the time I was obsessively Hoover-ing up everything I could find that was On-U Sound related, from London stores such as Daddy Kool, Reckless, and The Vinyl & Tape Exchange. To be honest, […]
"Music, as a subject, occurs infrequently in my new novel, My Lover, the Rabbi, but the book’s method is musical: questions of tone, rhythm, pitch, and volume drive the unnamed first-person narrator’s torrential, obsessive voice."
The New Pornographers “Votive” Back in 2007 it felt like a big swerve when The New Pornographers’ fourth album Challengers was about 55% ballads. Up to that point, the band specialized in up-tempo bops. I saw shows early in their career which ended with a third of the audience dancing on stage with them. Even […]
I really dug the math rock performance by French band duo Angine de Poitrine (Full Performance Live on KEXP on YouTube↗︎) – the (new to me) style of instrumental microtonal music here as played on a double neck guitar and bass instrument with bare feet switching pedals into a loop station and drums set in […]
A screen cap from the video of Thibaut Garcia & Antoine Morinière playing Bach together with tremendous groove. Brian “Ponch” Rivera writes a lot about the OODA loop, learned from his experience as a fighter pilot. His latest post dives into the OODA Loop basketball and Constraints Led Approaches to coaching in sport. I like most of what he writes about but one thing kind of sticks in my craw is his use of the word “harmony.” I’ll quote him here: Before we go anywhere, we need to kill a commo...
Alright, my brain is buzzing, and I should probably crank out this weekly Wednesday Boston-area shows post before my lunch break ends and I get distracted by something that I actually get paid for. So here it is… a run-down of local shows I’m hoping to check out (or that you might be into) in […]
