A Guide to (Nearly) Four Decades of Dutch Punks The Ex
Surveying the sizeable discography of the shape-shifting combo; my favourite is their second LP, History Is What’s Happening. #link
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Surveying the sizeable discography of the shape-shifting combo; my favourite is their second LP, History Is What’s Happening. #link
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Here’s a genuinely heartwarming tale of triumph against the odds (and the music is great, too). #link
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This album came out today and it’s brilliant stuff. I don’t know what it’s doing on Relapse Records but that’s not a complaint. #link
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There I was thinking to myself, I wonder if anyone’s done a round-up of Weasel Walter’s multi-faceted musical catalogue? Of course they have, and props to Brad Cohan for a great one. Now, should I pitch something along the lines of ‘Weasel Walter’s No Wave picks’? #link
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Fascinating to me, more for the concept than the execution. Who would’ve thunk Moby of all people pioneered hyper-speed machine drums? #link
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Just the ticket to beat these persistent winter blues. #link
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“…I make do with what little downtime I have, even if it’s just eight hours a week of time to work on recordings at home or going to my practice space. I make those hours really count.” That puts me to shame. (Her new album is very good, of course.) #link
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I dig Power Trip and Iron Reagan; I can dig this. (Also, maybe it’s something peculiar about the metal features on Bandcamp Daily, but they tend to get way more than average social media shares and comments, the latter of which are often along the lines of ‘you forgot Band X!’. I want to look at that as a positive sign of the genre’s health; that there are more artists doing things that excite listeners than what will fit in a given article.) #link
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Consider this a supplement to my previous link on PSF Records. #link
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Leaving aside the pseudoscience of plants ‘hearing’ music (though it’s worth musing on the notion that we humans are not that far removed from vegetable matter), this here is a great selection of ambient music inspired by our photosynthesising, CO2-respiring friends. #link
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No more words from me; just click through, read and listen as you like. #link
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Another one for the inspiration pile. #link
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My second feature for Bandcamp Daily and one I still can’t believe I was commissioned to write — but that is the point of the site, to surface and celebrate smaller genres and scenes, no matter how far from the mainstream they might be. (Also, the overlap with that other article on Belfast music was inadvertent.) #link
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I will never not be impressed by the sheer variety and freedom in the Japanese cultural approach to music, and there are some fine examples here. #link
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Great recommendations for avant, experimental and heavy jazz here. #link
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I’m delighted to share this — my first feature for Bandcamp Daily, the publishing side of my favourite music downloads and streaming platform. #link
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It’s not all to my taste — I like my music more drone-ish, rhythmic or atonal than folky — but any underground music scene here needs cultivation. #link
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The Kentucky noise band in digital streaming form. #link
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