Daily Newsletter, April 1, 2024

Bumper Easter Monday edition with sunshine pop and much more

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Ljubinko Zivkovic
April 01, 2024

Seven sunshine pop albums that deserve more love

Maybe sunshine pop wasn't supposed to be full albums of music, but these records are certainly worth your listen.

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The Best Albums of Winter 2024

Looking back at the first quarter of 2024.

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The Quietus | Features | Quietus Charts | Music Of The Month: The Best Albums And Tracks Of March 2024

Footwork, industrial acid techno, synth pop, art rock, Brazilian funk, psych folk, industrial, hip hop... we've got you covered for the best sounds out there right now

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What The High Llamas’ Sean O’Hagan Is Doing Now

After a brush with cancer, the Irish songwriter discusses why his new R&B-tinged LP Hey Panda might be his last with the project—and what he has in store for the future.

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Terrascope Album Reviews

April 2024

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March 31, 2024

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The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, March 2024

Our guide to the month’s crucial ambient releases.

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How Frank Zappa Embraced the Mainstream with Apostrophe (') - Rock and Roll Globe

Satirist, guitarist, composer, humorist and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Frank Zappa (class of ’95, inducted by Lou Reed) was many things to many people.

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10 best songs rejected by The Beatles that became solo hits

Magic moments forgotten by the band.

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The Consumerist Melancholy that Inspired "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" by Roxy Music

Legendary British art rock group Roxy Music may best be known on these shores for the silky smooth Avalon, but across their eight studio albums they explored an expansive range of sounds and took on some bold music journeys. One of the boldest was “In Every Dream Home A Heartache,” a cut from their second album For Your Pleasure in 1973. There’s already something unsettling about the music right from the start, but once the listener realizes that frontman Bryan Ferry is singing to an inflatable doll it takes on an even creepier resonance.

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Bring that beat back: why are people in their 30s giving up on music?

It would have been unimaginable in our 20s, but these days more and more friends are disengaging from a passion we once shared. Surely this is premature?

www.theguardian.com/music/2022/aug/16/bring-that-beat-back-why-are-people-in-their-30s-giving-up-on-music?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FMy+music

Hold Your Horses: A Brief History of Popular Black Country Music Ahead of “Cowboy Carter”

With Beyoncé’s yeehaw era launching this week, we explore the genre’s long-suppressed and -overwritten history of Black performance.

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10 Unusual and Surprising Cover Songs - Best Classic Bands

Our writer veered toward songs that might have some oddball elements but really reinvented the song, or made you hear it in an altered state

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The Notebooks Of Sonny Rollins - 3 Quarks Daily

Dwight Garner at the New York Times: It is possible to imagine the jazz musician Sonny Rollins’s life as a novel, pitched between realism and surrealism in the manner of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man.” The settings would include Harlem, where Rollins grew up poor in the 1930s and ’40s, and the decadence of clubland in…

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