I cannot over-emphasize the colossal loser energy of taking a platform where once the biggest stars in the history of popular culture voluntarily posted original content every day because they enjoyed it into a pyramid scheme where the worst dipshits on earth pay to be fake friends with each other.
There's never been a better time to check out our label of love.
For me, this has been the autumn of Keyon Harrold (Foreverland) and Jose James (1978). Jose in the daytime; Keyon at night. Can't remember the last time I was as excited about a gig as I am about Keyon at the Jazz Cafe next month. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fooc...
YouTube video by Keyon Harrold
I’ve just realised that the reason I’m so soothed by Monty Don is that he talks exactly like a children’s TV presenter from the 70s, patiently showing you how to make a radio out of a potato.
I don't even know what Power To All Our Friends by Cliff Richard is and maybe it doesn't either, but it totally commits and I kind of love that about it.
This is pretty much the entire tick-list of what my favourite deep-dive music writing does. @djpunctum.bsky.socialnobilliards.blogspot.com/2024/08/geor...
With every album we've reissued on Needle Mythology, we've tried to make it the definitive, best-case-scenario, did-I-dream-that? version. This extensively annotated 3LP remaster of The Lilac Time's Astronauts is the apogee of that approach. 'Labour of love' scarcely covers it. See link below.
Sarcastic catherine wheel from my Apple watch for getting up off the sofa. Yes Freddie, this is the world we created.
Same. I’ve listened to more Lilac Time and solo SD than any other artist in my life. Astronauts in particular is the thing I will never go a week without, still. On cassette.