Blogs about Music

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 …

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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 …

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 …

If you are looking for answers to the question posed by UK-based Silicone Values on their debut full length How To Survive When People Don’t Like You And You Don’t Like Them, look elsewhere. This …

I’ve been a bit behind on blogging in general, but made five posts in the Algorithmic Pattern blog yesterday.. On tangible pattern notation (khipu-inspired open hardware for coding with with Dave Griffiths and Paola Torres …

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 …

In 2008, Primal Scream promo’d their new album, Beautiful Future, with an Andrew Weatherall remix of the song, Uptown (1). Lyrically concerned with dead ends kids, whose only escape from 9 to 5 drudgery, is …

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 …

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 …

WelcomeYesterday we drove from Tucson to Palm Springs. We had a day to make it back to the Coachella Valley, a 600km drive across the Sonoran Desert. We also had two hundred dollars’ worth of …

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 …

[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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Tomorrow at 13:00 CET, a brand new Sunday Lunch, Growing Up! ...and today, at 19:00 CET, in the latest Upbeat Moments episode, Toyah and Robert are reunited at home, after Robert's GC adeventures in Argentina...

I do this manually at the end of each week: collating (and sometimes lightly editing) most of the recent little comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. …

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: