Over the first weekend of July, the United States marked it’s Semiquincentennial – or 250th Anniversary since Independence. The celebrations of such have been rather muted, it seems, and perhaps with good reason with the current Administration, as it doesn’t really feel that the ideals that the USA is supposed to represent are being reflected […]
The latest roundup of new releases in this long, hot summer – and I’ve been reminded this morning that it is six weeks to Infest… This post is a roundup of (relevant to this site) new and upcoming music, a nod to upcoming events and livestreams both from this website and others, and also a […]
Another hot month, another ten tracks – including the 7,000th entry in this series.
“It’s like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black“. Spın̈al Tap had a good laugh at the alternative and metal proclivity for the use of black, and just recently, the blackest black ever is used at the Hayward Gallery as part of the new Anish Kapoor exhibition.
Sometimes, I suggest a subject and get buried in suggestions, and this week was one of those.
This week is – or is it? – about contradictions in song.
The latest roundup of new releases… This post is a roundup of (relevant to this site) new and upcoming music, a nod to upcoming events and livestreams both from this website and others, and also a catchup of what I’ve posted recently. Thanks to everyone who sends me new music and events, keeps me up […]
This one kinda picks up where we left off two weeks ago – but with a bit of a different angle.
It has been a really busy few weeks of music round here, with no less than seven gigs in two weeks taking up a lot of my time – and some of them were a bit of a struggle in the intense heat in the south of England in the past week or so.
A quieter few weeks as we enter festival season and the high summer. This post is a roundup of (relevant to this site) new and upcoming music, a nod to upcoming events and livestreams both from this website and others, and also a catchup of what I’ve posted recently. Thanks to everyone who sends me […]
As we continue the journey to the end of this series in March next year, I seem to be picking up some of the harder subjects now, those that had less suggestions and are more difficult to build a post around.
Are they out to get you? Maybe they are, maybe they aren’t. This week is a grab-bag of ten songs dripping with paranoia and nervousness, about what may or may not happen, and what is real and what is imagined.
The Met Gala last week, a troubled Venice Art Biennale began last week, and the Cannes Film Festival starts today: all events where how attendees look and what they wear becomes as important as the art medium being exhibited or shown, or in the case of the Met Gala, the money raised.
Playing catch-up every week, with yet more releases to keep up with! This post is a roundup of (relevant to this site) new and upcoming music, a nod to upcoming events and livestreams both from this website and others, and also a catchup of what I’ve posted recently. Thanks to everyone who sends me new […]
Fresh from a good weekend up north, including seeing an excellent Mesh and Mari Kattman show, it’s back to normal life and regular programming now the Bank Holiday has passed.
The world’s first adhesive postage stamp, the Penny Black, was issued in the United Kingdom on 01-May 1840, 186 years ago this week. The Royal Mail, however, goes back a whole lot further: Henry VIII created the “Master of the Posts” in 1516, while Charles I made the postal service available to the public in […]
Yesterday was my sister’s birthday – not that I’ve had a chance to wish her happy birthday, she long since decided to cut herself off from much of the family. Her choice, I guess. To be fair, we’ve never really got on. We ended up part of a larger family, with two stepbrothers and twin […]
The reality is that this release roundup is currently a monthly post. I’m trying to give myself a bit more time, so that I can do this more frequently, but it’s not quite working out like that yet! This post is a roundup of (relevant to this site) new and upcoming music, a nod to […]
The human body has long been used in music as a form of percussion, and in popular music, the handclap is a regularly used element. So why not a /Tuesday Ten looking at songs that make great use of the handclap?
Another month, more new music: and no less than twenty tracks this month, as we rush headlong into Spring and everything seems to be released at once.
