Music
I’ve become a big fan of WFMU over the last few months and having unlimited fast broadband means I can listen in for hours everyday. Knowing that the station has a listeners birding group makes me love it even more. 🎵
Read: ‘They didn’t go round the corner for beer’: Lou Reed and John Cale’s Songs for Drella (The Guardian) 🎵
I saw Marillion in Edinburgh. It was a fantastic night and felt like a real celebration. They were clearly very happy to be back on tour. Lovely old venue too. 🎵
This a great little story.
A rock star’s favourite guitar was stolen. One of his biggest fans tracked it down in Japan.
I love Steely Dan and this is a great interview. Donald Fagen is supposed to be working on a new solo album. 🎵
Talking Nabokov and Judaism with the Steely Dan co-founder, whose first live album comes out today.
A great unreleased (as far as I know) live version of my favourite Genesis song. 🎵
Genesis Live at the Rainbow (1973) - Cinema Show (2009 Remaster) - YouTube
Keep The Change by Mattiel. 🎵
It’s my birthday and I’m at work alone today. The good thing about lone-working is that I get to choose the radio station and I choose BBC Radio 3. Classical music is “depressing” according to my usual colleagues. I find it anything but. 🎵
There must be something magical in Lyon, France, that makes it produce so many great bands. This is one of my favourite albums from last year (Bandcamp link). Odessey & Oracle - Crocorama 🎵
Bob has been on a run of fantastic albums recently. I’m looking forward to the new one very much.
The former Hüsker Dü and Sugar frontman is back with a career box set and an incendiary new album, having come to terms with childhood trauma, his sexuality and the death of his bandmate
Via: Bob Mould, alt-rock’s gay icon, takes on American evil: ‘My head’s on fire!’ | Music | The Guardian
Earworm of the day: Troublemakers by Lavinia Blackwall. 🎵
It’s been a while since I fell in love with a song I heard on the radio. Love this one.
🎶I grew up on buying vinyl records but I’m not wholly back into the resurgence of the format. I’ll buy the odd special edition but I just don’t have the energy to care about looking after a new collection.
Cardiacs' Tim Smith: a one-man subculture who inspired total devotion | Music | The Guardian:
Tim Smith, who has died aged 59, made a bizarre kind of rock music that was so wrong it was right – and his boundless enthusiasm was so infectious it created an army of followers.
Kraftwerk: their 30 greatest songs, ranked! | Music | The Guardian:
From cycling soundtracks to anti-nuclear protest music, we celebrate the work of the late Florian Schneider and the groundbreaking group he co-founded
Good list.
Oh, won’t you stay
We’ll put on the day
And we’ll talk
In present tenses
Joni Mitchell, Chelsea Morning 💬🎵
Sad to hear that Dave Greenfield of The Stranglers has died. The Black and White album was one of the first records I ever bought and I still have the same copy.
Fantastic show by Dweezil Zappa and band in Glasgow tonight. Perfect antidote to the December doldrums. 🎶
This “mistake” is more interesting than the other photos I took at the Drygate Brewery in Glasgow last night. I was there to see the great Norwegian band Wobbler play in the city for the first time. I hope they come back very soon.
