Now I'm #listening *again* to Rebuffering, a collaboration by Tizzer and krumpet_love, recorded in 2020. I listened to this about 4-5 times after discovering it last night;

https://blocsonic.com/releases/track/bscomp0054-disc-1-tizzerkrumpet-love-rebuffering/

Subsequent releases on Tizzer's BandCamp reveals them as more of a prog metal experiment. But this track is brooding psychedelic rock, like something from Radiohead's later albums. Their 2014 album Contact Light has more of this jammy vibe.

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#music #rock #psychedelic #Tizzer #KrumpetLove

#Listening to Marquee Moon, the classic 1977 album by proto-punk band Television;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0xL0S4NlAY

Television were regulars at the legendary CBGB, famous for being the early stomping grounds of other New York art punk bands who went on to mainstream success, notably Talking Heads and Blondie.

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#music #rock #Television

#Listening to Rich People, a standalone track by Carsie Blanton from 2022;

https://carsieblanton.bandcamp.com/album/rich-people-digital-single

Licensed under CreativeCommons (BY-NC-ND 3.0), as is all the music she's released since on BC. Maybe everything there, but I didn't check every single release.

#HatTip to the @bsots Radio music podcast for introducing me to this song, in part 2 of the interview with @musicman;

https://radiobsots.blogspot.com/2023/07/bsots-180-in-conversation-with-douglas.html

#podcasts #BSOTS

$5 whale listening hydrophone making workshop

https://exclav.es/2025/08/03/dinacon-2025-passive-acoustic-listening/

#HackerNews #$5 #whale #listening #hydrophone #making #workshop #acoustic #marine #life #DIY #ocean #conservation

#Listening to The Enemy from Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, playing "Live at the Beneficiaries";

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua4qPVrI6WI

The Enemy started in 1977 and along with The Clean, they're one of the first bands released on Flying Nun, and widely considered to be forerunners of "the Dunedin Sound". A quick search of BandCamp turns up a lot of bands called The Enemy, but nothing quite like the original kiwi iteration.

#music #punk #TheEnemy #FlyingNun #DunedinSound

#Listening to Citizens of Nowhere, from the 2024 album Dustbin of Empathy by Bilders;

https://bilders.bandcamp.com/album/dustbin-of-empathy

Observational songs, a kind of kiwi musical Jerry Seinfeld, channeling Leonard Cohen's country backyard, no mower, seedheads circling in the rural breeze.

#music #guitar #folk #indie #Bilders

#Listening to the new TISM album, Death to Art, released in Oct this year;

https://tism-this-is-serious-mum.bandcamp.com/album/death-to-art-2

I remember the bass player from my first band, Eddie, coming back from a Big Day Out. Raving about an obscure band of musical performance artists called 'This is Serious Mum'.

Not longer after, (He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River hit music TV and I was hooked (I'm on the drug, I'm on the drug, I'm on the drug that killed River Phoenix);

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cha3qF4xU3w

#music #punk #ArtPunk #TISM

#Listening to Nu Fone, Hu Dis, by Price the Poet;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLUBO860KiM

Just stumbled on this. I like the contrast between the laid-back beats and the rapid-fire wordplay, as well as the relentless positivity of the lyrics. Good stuff.

#music #HipHop #rap #PriceThePoet

#Listening to The Light Within;

https://pitchblack.bandcamp.com/album/the-light-within

A 2020 collection of remixes from Pitch Black's Third Light album, released in 2019;

https://pitchblack.bandcamp.com/album/third-light

Along with Avotor, Pitch Black were one of the first fully instrumental groups I got into. Seeing shows by both bands opened up my understanding of what live music could be. Sadly Avotor were fairly shortlived, only saw them once, but I've seen PB many times, and both members as solo artists too.

#music #dub #PsyDub #PitchBlack

#Listening to Break In The Weather, a single by Jenny Morris. It was the big single from her 1991 album Honeychild, which I remember owning on tape cassette when I was still a child myself;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlAGjOD6cTE

On paper this is a fairly by-the-numbers pop song. But Jenny's delivery is bang on, the backing band is super funky (great live too), and the music video is oddly compelling.

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#music #pop #JennyMorris

Faith No More are best know for their intense, brooding style of funk metal. Becoming increasingly weird with each album after Mr. Bungle singer Mike Patton joined the band.

In 1992 FNM released Angel Dust, their second album with Patton on vocals. As a single, they mystified and delighted both fans and mainstream audiences with a cover of a 1997 hit by The Commodores, Easy;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPzDTfIb0DU

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#Listening #music #metal #FunkMetal #FaithNoMore

#Listening to Who Can You Trust? The opening track of the 5 song EP of the same name by Arden and the Wolves, released in 2018;

https://ardenandthewolves.bandcamp.com/album/who-can-you-trust

Hot take; most provocative album cover ever.

#HatTip to Douglas @Rushkoff for introducing me to this band, by interviewing lead singer Ardern Leigh on his Team Human podcast;

https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/343-arden-leigh-chasing-the-hungry-ghosts

#music #rock #NewWave #ArdenAndTheWolves

#Listening to The Law Of Augmenting Returns. Released by Melbourne, Australian bass fiends The Omnific, in the Year of our Horde 2024;

https://theomnific.bandcamp.com/album/the-law-of-augmenting-returns

This is musicians' music, especially if you're a bass player. Atmospheric mathrock mayhem, loving it.

#music #metal #MathRock #instrumental #TheOmnific

#Listening to The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, specifically their 2012 album Twenty Dozen;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx_yXkB5eD0

"I'm a dirty old man, and I feel like spanking somebody!"

Yeah, more or less 😁

#HatTip to @nevar23, whose October post linking to the Dozen's Cissy Strut introduced me to this fabulously spicy band.

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#music #jazz #funk #brass #DirtyDozenBrassBand

Mozilla: We're going to start listening to our users!

Users: Don't put any more "AI" in Firefox.

Mozilla: Not like that.

#mozilla #users #AI #NobodyWants #firefox #listening

Mozilla: We're going to start listening to our users!

Users: Don't put any more "AI" in Firefox.

Mozilla: Not like that.

#mozilla #users #AI #NobodyWants #firefox #listening