Noise
The Wagon
A Saturday Night Video from the beginning of the alternative music surge.
Dream Shake
An under-the-radar band that nevertheless turned in a lovely dreampop performance for tonight's Saturday Night Video.
R.I.P Dave Kendall
Dave Kendall, creator and host of MTV’s 120 Minutes, has passed away. The British-born Kendall conceived 120 Minutes after joining MTV as a producer, pitching the network a dedicated program for the punk, post-punk, goth, synth-pop, ska, and other underground sounds largely ignored by corporate rock
Goran Kajfeš Subtropic Arkestra & Avin Omar
One problem with posting your listening habits on a periodically updated Now page is that those habits can literally change overnight. A couple of days ago, I updated my Now page, only to get deeply into a Swedish jazz EP very shortly after. Though this new 3-song Bandcamp-only
I Set My Face to the Hillside
A veteran post-rock band turns in a fresh performance of a decades-old classic.
A Room You Can't See
What did we lose when music on physical media declined?
Forgotten Favorite
1989-1992 by Velocity Girl Some good news came this week in the form of more Velocity Girl remastering. This time it's a compilation of non-album tracks from various places being released by Slumberland Records. The collection is called 1989-1992 and the contents are precisely what
We Might As Well Be Strangers
Weezer comes back with a strong collaboration.
Jim Carol New Year
With Life in Small Spaces, the upcoming album from Black Marble, the project's creator, Chris Stewart, taps into one of my semi-obsessions. The album's description on its Bandcamp page has further details on the clue we are given with the album title. It is an
Don’t Panic
English Breakfast by Hoops Despite seemingly being designed by a corporation to be mostly inoffensive, sometimes to the point of banality or worse, Coldplay launched into the world consciousness hot, with “Don’t Panic,” the song in the pole position on their debut album Parachutes. Though I feel more generosity