Signs is an extremely pleasant listen.
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Signs is an extremely pleasant listen.
Read MoreEventually indie folk rockers make it clear which Beatle they modeled their approach on.
Read MoreGuess it’s been a while since I touched the dusty old boxes of CDs — I only just found out that CD database FreeDB shut down some time in early 2020.
Read MoreSomething to listen to while tending your greenhouse full of carnivorous and/or poisonous plants.
Read MoreA fun listen if you know who Marsh and Ware are, and it gives you a good idea of how they were thinking.
Read MoreYasutaka Nakata‘s much-anticipated synthwave masterpiece.
Read MoreNineteen years isn’t a bad run, for a baby band that blew up and then fell apart several times along the way.
Read MoreI like to put an R.E.M. mix on while I’m baking. But only the ones that include Man on the Moon.
Read MoreFall Out Boy have once again regenerated. I’m not going to say they’re back, because they didn’t leave.
Read MoreI had an epic musical missed connection when I confused the Happy Flowers with the Happy Mondays, and didn’t realize what had happened until thirty-odd years later.
Read MoreYou’ve never heard of current pop stars because they aren’t actually popular in mainstream culture.
Read MoreYeeeeeahhhh that’s the 2nd floor of Slimelight GOOD STUFF, y’all.
Read MoreI’m sulky mainly because of the band name, which causes me to think muffled cross thoughts about failed social policy. But the name harmonizes well with the band’s overall vibe, which is “skate park during the golden hour.”
Read MoreThe blogging equivalent of sitting in the garage twiddling radio knobs just to see what might be out there.
Read MoreSome of these are old. Some of them are new(ish). They are all songs I listened to, with varying levels of obsessiveness, at various times during 2022.
Read MoreIndigo is RM’s first full solo record, released as BTS starts a brief compulsory-military-service induced break.
Read MoreCan’t wait for Spotify to offer streams of generated nonsense music. And see if the record companies can spot the source tracks it was trained on.
Read MoreIn times past your author would have expressed a positive indifference to most of the bands of these broad British genres of the early 90s, and that opinion largely still holds.
Read MoreIt made perfect sense of course, that a thirtieth-anniversary tour would perform.
Read MoreSome of you may remember his aggressively caustic approach to, well, everything, but I think maybe the man has … mellowed? Perhaps?
Read MoreI am forced to begin with the fact that I began my descent into a Snow Patrol-shaped spiral by confusing them with the Arctic Monkeys.
Read MoreYour mission: document the resonant frequencies, and come up with an enormously popular banger of a tune that hits all of them.
Read MoreAlways great, they have even gained in skill, orchestration, and passion with their latest album.
Read MoreIt seems to be all a little bit disturbing to write shortly after the death of Klaus Schulze, that one must also put finger to keyboard to comment on the loss of Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou, better known as “Vangelis” on May 17th.
Read MoreMusicians who have a casual attitude to the continued use of their eyes may want to look over this advertising image and see if they can spot a single thing right about it.
Read MoreWe should reasonably expect that sizeable books will be released in the near future which in themselves will only provide a summary.
Read MoreIs this thing on? Have a couple of records.
Read MoreTwo are actually from this year!
Read MoreOld industrial musician from way back makes a new album during lockdown; android pop star turns grunge rocker.
Read MoreIt’s blatant advertising time now, with the new CD from Arkady Rose of this parish just released today!
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