8Sided Blog
a zine about sound, culture, and the punk rock dream.
By Michael Donaldson.
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Updated a month ago
A Degree of Randomness: A Conversation With Joseph Branciforte
Joseph Branciforte pops up on my computer monitor as we begin our chat. He’s in an austere studio chamber, pristine and wooden, with racks of audio gear and a familiar Juno-60 behind him, all by …
By M Donaldson, 4,131 words
12XU | Verspannungsmusik!
A DIY music blog about underground punk, noise & garage.
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Verspannungskassette #73 (C-60)
+ Tracklist Factoids AssociationWesley & The Boys Beep Bop Beep Boop BopPaulo Vicious Acorda Bebê 2Gurk Me And My FriendBusted Head Racket Buried AliveKlint Somebody Cut Out My BrainThe Death Sentence The Death SentenceObedient About …
333SOUND
Short books about albums. Published by Bloomsbury.
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Updated a week ago
Édith Piaf is alive and well and living . . . just about everywhere
Édith Piaf is France’s most celebrated and mythified singing star. Professor David Looseley takes a look at Edith’s past and shares how she continues to be a global icon today. Piaf Then 2023 was a …
By 33 1.3 Admin, 853 words
Across the line - BBC Blogs
This is the home of news, reviews and features on the Northern Irish music scene, courtesy of Team ATL.
By Gemma Bradley.
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Updated 7 months ago
modernlove. take on the world
This tour is massive, the excitement must be wild, what does it mean to you to be able to do this? It’s what we’re always waiting to get back to on our time off to …
By Across The Line, 540 words
Add To Wantlist
Music worth exploring.
By Dennis, Nick.
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Updated 19 hours ago
New album: Extra Arms || RADAR
For years, we wrote about releases recorded during the pandemic, acknowledging the profound impact of remote recording, isolation, and prevailing dread on the music’s sound and themes. But we rarely mention that an album was …
Alex McLean – Making music with text[ure]
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Updated 3 days ago
Why we bleep podcast
This was a fun chat with Mylar Melodies for his Why We Bleep podcast, about algorave, tidalcycles/strudel, live coding and patterns. Listen wherever you get your podcasts or on youtube below !
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1990 was twenty years ago. Ten years ago.
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Updated 8 months ago
The Complete Fantastic Adventures of Adam Ant
This doesn’t need much of an introduction, I’ve written about it before but to get up to speed this was a comic strip appearing in issues of DC Thomson’s (TV) Tops comics in 1982. A …
Ban Ban Ton Ton
A music website / blog, run out of rural Japan. “Ban” ( バン) and “Ton” (トン) are Japanese onomatopoeia – like “Bang” or “Crash”, the sound of a child hitting a drum.
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Updated 2 hours ago
Nilton Castro / Mes Mains / Miss You
Nilton Castro, was, I think, a Brazilian percussionist working in Europe. Polish, state-run, label, Pronit released his first – perhaps only – solo single, Śpiewa Swoje Piosenki, in 1966. At some point he definitely relocated …
By Banbantonton Com, 390 words
BBC Music Introducing - BBC Blogs
It features advice for under-the-radar artists, the latest music from BBC Music Introducing acts and guest posts from our DJs and figures from around the music industry.
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BBC Music Introducing Mixtape: 15 April 2024
Hello, it's Tom Robinson with my final BBC Introducing Mixtape before handing over to my friend and BBC colleague Emily Pilbeam from Monday 22 April 2024. This the second of two retrospective programmes showcasing a …
By Tom Robinson, 276 words
Bradley's Almanac
A Boston-Based Music Blog.
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Updated 5 months ago
[The Almanac Radio Show!] Episode 3 Stream & Rundown: December 2023
December brought episode number three, the last of the calendar year 2023. This edition of “The Almanac” first aired on Wednesday the 6th at 8pm Eastern over on Uncertain.FM, and got a replay the following …
By Brad Searles, 67 words
Breakfast and Travel Updates
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Day 20: Las Vegas, NV
WelcomeYesterday we played a show in Las Vegas. The mornings were always spectacular in Palm Springs and yesterday’s was no exception. It was clear and cool, and the tops of the palm trees had barely …
By Benjamin Sinclair, 1,590 words
Breaking More Waves
An independent unfunded music blog from south-central UK.
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Updated 2 weeks ago
Song of the Week - Imogen and the Knife - Mother of God
Song of the Week this week could so very nearly have also fitted into an artists new / introducing type post, as on first glance Imogen and the Knife is a brand new artist, with …
By Breaking More Waves Blog, 290 words
CardrossManiac2
A blog about music and pop culture.
By Tim 'Space Debris'.
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Master C & J - In The City (Devil Mix)
[1987]Impeccable restrained minimal disco-funk of the future... There's still something rather inexplicable about certain early Chicago house tracks and In The City is no exception with its liminal unnamed vibe. Bleak lyrical content delivered via …
By Tim 'Space Debris', 101 words
Daily Records and Other Auditory Musings
A music blog serving up a daily record recommendation, by Pulin Kothari.
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Updated 2 weeks ago
266. COME DANCING WITH THE KINKS: THE BEST OF 1977-1986 by The Kinks
I've made it a rule not to cover compilations, best of's, greatest hits, etc. as I'd rather introduce you to records released as discrete snapshots of a band or musician at a particular point in …
By Pulin Kothari, 338 words
Dangerous Minds
A compendium of the new and strange-new ideas, new art forms, new approaches to social issues and new finds from the outer reaches of pop culture.
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Extreme Record Collecting: Confessions of an analog vinyl snob
Sorry, but this is not going to be one of those analog vs. digital rants that goofball audiophile types like to indulge in at the drop of a hat. In fact I probably should have …
Darren's music blog
News, reviews, interviews and more. From classic rock to contemporary folk.
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Album review/live review: Praying Mantis ‘Defiance’ + album launch, The Carlisle, Hastings 25/4/24
One of the advantages of living in Hastings, now the adopted home-town of Praying Mantis founder Tino Troy, is getting the chance to see the band performing tracks from their new album, Defiance, down the …
By Darren Johnson, 603 words
David Hepworth's blog
"World-class thinking about music, business, publishing and the general world of media" - Campaign.
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Updated a year ago
Robert Caro's editor comes out to take his curtain call
If, like me, you've been waiting years for the fifth and final volume of Robert Caro's Lyndon Johnson biography the announcement of the release of "Turn Every Page" can only be taken as a hopeful …
By David Hepworth, 150 words
DGM Live
The aim of DGM is to connect music, musician and audience in a way that supports the power of music, the integrity of the musician and the needs of the audience.
By Robert Fripp, David Singleton, et al.
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Updated 2 days ago
Louise's Tiny Bard
Singer-songwriter Louise Patricia Crane, who recently released a single featuring her take on KC's Ladies Of The Road. Entitled Tiny Bard, it features Jakko Jakszyk and Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson. Tiny Bard comes from Louise …
Disquiet
Listening to culture. Playing with audio. Sounding out technology. Composing in code.
By Marc Weidenbaum.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0644: Event Horizon
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. …
By Marc Weidenbaum, 315 words
DNA Lounge: DNA Sequencing
A late-night, all ages San Francisco nightclub featuring live music, DJ dancing, burlesque shows, and private parties.
By Jamie Zawinski.
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Wherein the Millennial influencers weigh in on staying until last call
Someone posted this in a comment on my "sleepy seaside town" post, but this rant goes so hard that I think it deserves its own post: