Hi! I'm playing a show in Toronto tomorrow with Auto Feeder, Death Kneel, Richard (Montreal), Ciro Vitiello (Italy), and Moss Harvest (Halifax). Death Kneel and I have made a short split tape for the occasion. You can listen to the whole thing here, and it'll be available on bandcamp as well. Information and tickets for the show are available here, and you can of course pay at the door as well.

music for a flow state Listening to DLZ by TV On The Radio from Dear Science 🎵

Every few years The Matches reunite for a couple of shows to celebrate the anniversary of one of their albums. For as many times as I've seen them, this was the first time I get to listen to some of the less played songs from Decomposer.

I know there is a lot of hate regarding this subject, but honestly, I really don't fucking care what other people think regarding music and AI... OK, that's not true... I have some concerns... but feel like it's up to the individual to determine how they feel about the two worlds of music and tech colliding. I have been a musician for over 40 years. I still perform live, even at 60, in multiple bands. I have recorded a few albums with bands over those years, and have released a couple solo…

Marty Gino - That Feelin' (direct link)Record listed at Rockin' Country Style (no location). Victor J. Mendolia, president, announced in Cash Box the formation of his R&M Records with their first release by Marty Gino. The label operated out of offices at 1705 Royal Road, East Meadow, Long Island, N.Y. Cash Box adMarty Gino had further releases on Time (1959), Wink (1961) and Amy (1962)

Women Of Music volume 30Linda Hopkins on covertracklist Barbara & The Boys - Hooty Sapperticker.mp3Betsy Spokes - You Are My Live.mp3Blinky - Money (That's What I Want).mp3Debbie Carter - What Goes On In Your Mind.mp3Delores Banks - Who Do You Think You Are.mp3Kayla Ray - Be My Baby.mp3Lara Mitchell - Day After Never (The Day After Never)..mp3Letha Jones - I Got That Feeling.mp3Linda Hopkins - Rock And Roll Blues.mp3Louise Rogers -We're Rockin' To The Blues.mp3Maggie Morgan - The Sugar…

Hey people! I totally didn’t intend to feature Griff today in “Bibiel Hears Things” and didn’t even think about it. I didn’t think about doing “Bibiel Hears Things” today at all. But then in the middle of the day something switched in my brain randomly – and here we are. I realised I’ve only shared two songs from “Blas Melysa’r Mis” (Flavour of the Month) – Griff’s debut album which came out last year – ever since its release (though, in my defence, I did share most of its singles before the…

Sam Fender & Olivia Dean from the “Rein Me In” video San Fender and Olivia Dean remain on top for a second week with “Rein Me In”, while Los Angeles alt rock band The Neighbourhood hold the #2 spot again with their captivating “Private”. “Online” by British Columbia, Canada-based artist Western Jaguar advances two spots to #3. In addition to Western Jaguar, two other Canadian acts are represented on this chart – The Beaches, whose song “Edge of the Earth” sits at #21, and Bealby Point, whose…

Buffalo Bop CD 55201(Germany, 2026)After such a long absence, here is a brand-new CD from Buffalo Bop. It seems they are struggling to find good tracks and have to dig into their back room to find a few songs that can pass for rock and roll.And, oh, look at that poorly designed cover—rather amateurish, if you ask me.tracklist01 - LLOYD JONES - Hurricane Hoop.mp302 - SAM CEE - Johnny B. Goode.mp303 - LONNIE MACK - Rock N' Roll Music.mp304 - TROY ONTEARE - Matchbox.mp305 - MCKINLEY MITCHELL -…

Ricky Dean - Blue Tears [1963]The lovelorn dreamy teen sound of Ricky Dean's Blue Tears was on the label Del-fi who had previously brought the talents of Richie Valens to the world. This is the sorta thing you could imagine being in either a cheesy nostalgia movie or a David Lynch film.

Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades. Tay Zonday was the Chocolate Rain guy (5 minutes, over 143 million views!), and his voice is still as deep as ever. He’s made a new song, (5½ minutes) with Dave Days and Gary Brolsmo, reminding us all about the long and strange journey the internet has carried us through. It’s only had 19 thousand views so far, but maybe we can do something about that?

Mahler write his Ninth Symphony, which he never heard performed, in1909-10. At the time he wrote the symphony there was much suffering in his life. Maria, his eldest daughter, had died of scarlet fever. He’d been forced out of his job as the Artistic Director of the Vienna Court Opera and diagnosed with a serious and potentially life-threatening heart condition. And both he and his wife Alma, who was 19 years younger than Mahler, were unhappy in their marriage. This unhappiness is to be heard…

i love art as a sequence. i love music albums and my medium is photography books and zines. i am still facinated with audio and video as art forms. i think its scratching the same itch that theatre does, art through time. a photogrph exists wholey in time, a song or video has very little meaning at a single point in time. and just like a sequence of photos has to be percieved seperately as points in a story, audio-visuals have to be percieved through time rather than just through space.

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What song reminds you of your first love? It was our song. I bought her the single when it came out, went to John Menzies to buy it and then, I think, walked to meet her at her new (first?) job? Vague memory indeed. “Sweet Child O' Mine” by Guns N' Roses Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Listen to Gordon McLean's Apple Music playlist View original post on Crucial Tracks Thanks for reading and keeping RSS alive. Visit my site for more.

Mattr – Walk / Take / Tessela Three hypnotic new ones from Londoner Mathew Clugston, aka Mattr, who I’ve featured several times over the past couple of years. The first was released earlier this summer; it feels like a glide down a glass staircase and has me imagining Fred Astaire in the future, reincarnated as an android, more nimble than any high-rise pleated trousers could impede, just about floating above the clouds. The second two are the A/B of Clugston’s latest single, out last week on…

daisy* “Sunbleach” The glitchy hook of “Sunbleach” is so melodic and mesmerizing that it took me several listens to notice that the lyrics are just the artist introducing herself and telling you how to spell her name, including the * after the y. It’s cute, but as it turns out, it’s somewhat necessary as she recently had to change her name from BABii. The rest of the song is vaguely unsettling – she’s hiding from the sun like a vampire, living in fear of someone, and mostly feeling dazed and…

Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 26th July 1986 Crossover thrash was a genre that, much like hardcore in general, I came to much later in life than I should have and I have spent less time with it than I should have. But when I did delve into it, amongst the names I was always prodded to spend some time with was Cryptic Slaughter. Californian merchants of incredible speed and fury, their 1986 debut ‘Convicted’ is regarded as a foundational pillar on which the whole genre is based (even if…

A while back I lamented to Sacred Harp singers Leigh Cooper and Mark Godfrey (wife and husband; some of us come in couples) over no longer being able to sing face to face, in one another’s company (instead, having to sing along alone at home via Zoom). Leigh took my lament to Paul Kostka, who acts as arranger for our twice-monthly singings in Palo Alto, and they picked a day (9/10) and time (11 am). That turned out to be the exact time I was scheduled to get flu and covid vaccinations, and…

I was thinking of a friend. Before I knew it, I flashed on a poster of a project we collaborated on.I have the poster in my home office space. (no attempt at alignment made 🤷🏿‍♂️) I went online and came upon a radio interview we did for ‘Freedom Work’ back in 2015. Lenny Tischler and I. I thought it would be nice to share it and let my readers ‘Hear My Voice’!(Morgan Freeman, James Earl Jones and Paul Robeson ain’t got shit to worry about! ). Enjoy. Radio Cafe w\host Mary-Charlotte Click to…

Sixty years ago today, on September 12, 1966, The Monkees debuted on NBC. The Monkees would go onto become a cultural phenomenon, resulting in a highly successful recording career, a movie, and two television specials. It has also been my favourite sitcom since childhood. The Monkees also remain my favourite American band of all time. I already wrote an extensive post on the occasion of The Monkees' 50th anniversary, so today I will simply write my personal remembrance of both the show and the…

I had a draft saved from 2 years ago about my media diet. Some may say it’s too late to finish and publish it, but I say let’s sit with what I was peeping back in 2024. 🎵 Music The Shape of Punk to Come—Refused I’m late to this, but my roommates showed me this album and I was blown away. Varied, aggressive, and distinctive, even all these years later, I highly recommend it if you like hard or underground music and you’re like me and somehow missed it. Good Together—Lake Street Dive I didn’t…

The Killers Hot Fuss Get It At DiscogsThere are so many garage rock/dance-rock tunes perfectly stylized and glamorous for the pop kids in the city and in the suburbs of new-millennium America. What's nice about these the bands producing these songs is how they strive so desperately to individualize themselves. On a commercial level, they do quite well in delivering catchy pop hooks. When it comes to having actual talent, a select few actually do possess attention-worthy integrity. But there are…

Album of the Week, September 12, 2026 Following Weaving My Ancestors’ Voices, Sheila Chandra continued her exploration of voice and drone, of the interconnections between breath and thought, of voice and listener. She noted in the original liner notes to The Zen Kiss, “My last album … illustrates crossing between different musics within a single vocal line. The Zen Kiss has moved on. The structure of my songs have become more challenging now that those connections have been absorbed into my…

On The Road With Rock 'n Roll File includes the 12 tracks of their 1957 Golden Crest LPplus both sides of the Rio 78 issued as by Armando Almandarez Y Su Conjunto Mexico (tracks #13 & #14)* Following text is from The Ponderosa Stomp website : Mando and the Chili Peppers have perhaps inspired more fantasy and fancy than anyone else in the hallowed halls where the Mystic Knights of the Mau-Mau dream up their doings. They've topped the wish list from day one; their shrine is bowed to daily in the…

Enzo FavataRitornare Enzo Favata soprano saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinetDaniele di Bonaventura bandoneónMarcello Peghin ten-string guitarSalvatore Maltana double bassU.T. Gandhi drumsRecorded January 2026Bavaria Musikstudios, MunichEngineer: Stefano AmerioCover photo: Jan KrickeProduced by Manfred EicherRelease date: September 18, 2026 Every return contains a betrayal. The place may remain where it was, yet the person approaching has been revised by distance, while memory has moved the…

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