Blogs about Music

We’re very excited to be media partners with the truly unique online streaming platform and download store Qobuz. The 14th of our monthly bespoke playlists, which take in all manner of genres and sub-genres, scenes …

Hiya! I’ve got a couple of shows to let you know about. One is a day party in Bristol with a superfun band called Seas of Mirth, and one is at a festival in Kent. …

Got asked to do a manual for Play All Day's PlayFader, and I think I'd love to do more of these. PlayFader is a lovely freeform CV/Gate/MIDI sequencer looper effects controller which you should absolutely …

And so we come to the last of my alternatives of the first four Smashing Pumpkins albums. Considering the dramas that had plagued the band as they recorded their first two albums, they paled into …

The new WiiM Ultra is a fantastic new streamer, dac and preamp from WiiM and at only $329 this is a KILLER piece for Streaming digital music in 2024! [...] The post The WiiM Ultra …

My new book on queer poetry in Boston and San Francisco, Never By Itself Alone: Queer Poetry, Queer Communities in Boston and the Bay Area will be out from OUP soon (index just completed!).In the …

Cold Specks - How It Feels There's no point noting it seems to have been a while since we heard from Toronto's Ladan Hussein (who seems to have dropped the Al Spx identity of yore) …

The epiphany came early at Wembley last night, only a couple of songs into an unbroken three-hour set. That monster freight train called “Seeds” howled into the stadium, carrying with it all the dread and …

Here's another of the compilation cassettes I bought this summer, having taken home a Denon twin-deck hi-fi cassette player from the local charity shop. All Wrapped Up is a 1983 compilation of singles by The …

Deadpool & Wolverine is a brutal buddy movie. It takes that age old story of two people who would never work together forced to do so for the greater good. Its just that it takes …

From Play School Play On to Russell Grant’s Zodiac Jukebox, the story behind every album released by BBC Records And Tapes.Between 1967 and 1991, BBC Records And Tapes released more than seven hundred albums. These …

I was going to wait to do this until Nov. 19, 2024, the 10th anniversary of this site’s launch. However, now’s the right time. Vehlinggo.com, this music website updated with various degrees of regularity since …

This Week’s Must-Listen- To Music Ready to elevate your weekend playlist? Look no further. If you only have time for one album, let Cassandra Jenkins’ profoundly beautiful new album “My Light, My Destroyer” wash over …

Starting next Friday, in the Niles Historic District (of Fremont, CA) where the early cowboy star Gilbert M. “Broncho Billy” Anderson and box-office champion comic Charlie Chaplin made movies for the Essanay Studios, the Niles …

Darryl Dickson wrote on We Are Cult: Death at the Dress Rehearsal by Stuart Douglas ❉ A delicate and compulsive whodunnit that rejoices in all the best aspects of the genre. “This is a beautifully …

At this time of year some of us are haunted by the memory of a man speaking about it being funny how you remember summers by the records. And so, habitually and perhaps subconsciously, we …