#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

Baby Shoggoth Is Listening

https://theamericanscholar.org/baby-shoggoth-is-listening/

#HackerNews #BabyShoggoth #Listening #HNStories #HorrorLiterature #AmericanScholar

#Listening to Scared Old Men by Dick Move;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyfX7TtAYeA

Dick Move are ear-shredding, wall-climbing brilliance on stage, and this is the best punk song I've heard for years. The video absolutely nails it too. Highly recommend.

#music #punk #DickMove

#Listening to the Jawbox album For Your Own Special Sweetheart, released in 1994;

https://jawbox.bandcamp.com/album/for-your-own-special-sweetheart

#TIL that Jawbox opened for Fugazi as their first public show. Which makes total sense, now that I finally got around to listening to some Fugazi.

Like their music, this album is hard to classify. It doesn't feel quite right to call it punk, metal or indie, any more than it would feel right to use those terms to describe Faith No More. They're too eclectic for that.

#music #rock #Jawbox

#Listening to the 1990 album Necklace Of Heads by US indie rock bank Lungfish;

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=UAQet0YD7dQ

Stumbled across this today, never heard of it before. I like it! It's got a jaunty groove and great some guitar tones.

It kind of reminds me of the 1994 album Memory Barge by Hardvark, a bargain bin score that I played to death when I still owned a CD player. Here's one of my favourite tracks from that album, Man of Science;

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=IUwoeRJS2us

#music #rock #indie #Lungfish #Hardvark

#Listening to Steady Diet Of Nothing, a 1991 album by Fugazi;

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtd6IjNgRHtB0B-kZuOV4wZghPCLHdIJX

This album puts me in mind of a more melodic version of HDU, or a more math-rocky Jesus Lizard. I loved stuff like this in the late 90s. how did it take me so long to give this band a proper listen?!

#music #rock #punk #Fugazi

https://wetleg.bandcamp.com/album/moisturizer

I love the almost industrial guitar tone on this track. One of the licks reminds me of The Annoying Song, one of my favourite tracks from the Butthole Surfers album Independent Worm Saloon. Meanwhile, the rhythm reminds me of tracks by The White Stripes, Tadpole, and even Rammstein.

#music #guitar #indie#WetLeg

https://leftorright.bandcamp.com/album/trippy

Left or Right released this album when I was living in Ōtepoti, and rapidly became known locally for its idiosyncratic single Gary's Nuggety Neighbour. I don't know how to describe this, except to say that it's weird, and it's fun, and you could have a significantly worse time not listening to it, so ... what are you waiting for?

#music #rock#NerdRock#LeftOrRight

https://mrsterileassembly.bandcamp.com/album/never-mind-the-threat-heres-the-distraction

When survivors of the late 20th century talk about punk or music, we're talking about low-fi, DIY stuff like this, not Blink 182 or Alien Ant Farm covers of Michael Jackson. If enough people pass around hissy, dubbed tapes of this song, it could become our generation's Not Given Lightly.

#music #punk#LowFi#MrSterile

https://omny.fm/shows/kexp-live-performances-podcast/salin-performance-interview-only

This is great organic dance music, reminiscent of the collective who did the original Cowboy Bebop soundtrack. It's fast, fresh, fidgety, fun, upbeat, and not all the appropriate thing to be listening to this close to the witching hour. But I have a podcast to finish and post ...

#podcasts#KEXP#KEXPLive #music #world #jazz #funk#Salin