Blogs about Music

Bob Dylan & Martha Quinn - Wembley Stadium, London, England, July 7, 1984Next week, Bob Dylan has another birthday. He’ll be 83! What a thing. I don’t know how Bob is celebrating, but this Sunday, …

Listening to this door at a low volume while I catch up on my emails. I must say, it's a peaceful and sunny morning of what will be a long day – This is 148, …

When working on the last series of posts, I stumbled on a signal that caused an FFT analysis to look a little strange to me. This post is about that strangeness. If I make a …

Shostakovich’s Sixth and Ninth symphonies clearly belong together – flip sides of the same coin, the composer wrong-footing the Soviet establishment with an irony bordering on insanity. The opening Largo of the Sixth is one …

Bright Light Bright Light’s fifth album, “Enjoy Youth,” has been released at a particularly opportune moment. This week has presented a myriad of challenges on various fronts, and the arrival of Rod Thomas’ new album …

For our last day of pop aural skills class, I did a crash course on historical tuning systems. This involved a brief introduction to harmonics. As I was talking, I realized that my verbal explanation …

As the stage build nears completion, the remaining tickets for each of the nine live shows which make up the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 are set to be released. Tickets will go on sale at …

I was beginning to slowly piece together an entry about some comparatively ancient doings along the stately byway of Grand Street (which may still see the light of day) but got sidetracked by another item …

Hello everyone,Some of you already know that I'm currently taking a break from blogging. I've posted about it on Twitter, but the algorithms are fucked on there, so I don't actually know if it's been …

Back to our regularly scheduled usual flash-forward, with Old Clavdivs guzzling wine in his study while writing and occasionally scratching his wig with a stylus. The voiceover recaps have returned, although he does appear to …

I was singing along with my electric shaver the other day – as you do. I realised that it was a great way to explore harmonising in the privacy of your own home. Many of …

Or have you? If you haven't, and you want to, you can now do so in paper or screen form, on either side of one of the oceans. It comes out in June from Canbury …

In the 1960s there was a variety of “underground” newspapers published in cities across the U.S. The Berkeley Barb. New York’s East Village Other. The Fifth Estate in Detroit. All of these “counter-cultural” publications included …

A heady, emotionally raw new EP(?) from the dream team Joanne Robertson + Dean Blunt, highlighted by a soulful and poignant vocal turn from Elias B Rønnenfelt of Iceage... Continue reading…

From the Whitney Museum of Modern Art: On the occasion of Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith, we spoke to Greil Marcus about the reverberations felt around the world after the …

Non-vout but a lot of fun:

What a labour of love! Here they are, the test pressings of our album! Ironically, I've just been at James's because I expected these yesterday and had arranged to go there to listen with him.The …

My first student occupation took place shortly after arriving at the University of Kent at Canterbury (UKC), and it was a short one. As the the anti-apartheid struggle raged in South Africa, Barclays Bank was …

In the shimmering realm of psychedelic folk, Anandammide emerges once again, unfurling the kaleidoscopic tapestry of their sonic odyssey with ‘Eura.’ Led by the enigmatic Michele Moschini, the Parisian collective embarks on a sonic odyssey …

Frankly preposterous from the word go.