Daily Newsletter, January 23, 2024

Dau was able to use repetitive patterns to his benefit and come up with real musical substance with the six compositions included here.

By Ljubinko Zivkovic, Rock At Night Amsterdam Review: Cage the Elephant’s single ” Neon Pill” – Release date: January 19, 2024 If there is a band out there who knows how the hit the right [...]

Mariano Rodriguez is a far-southern representative of the Takoma school of acoustic-guitar playing. Based in Bariloche, Argentina, he’s been recording original tunes rooted in the same country-blues loam as John Fahey since sometime in the aughts. Alternating between a six-string acoustic and Weissenborn lap-steel instruments, Rodriguez displays an easy command of their emotive and evocative potentialities. His playing is replete with swooping slides, woozy dissonances and fingerpicked melodies that might wander a ways, but they always end up right where they’re supposed to go. 

In 1982, the British new wave band B-Movie re-recorded their early single 'Nowhere Girl'. This version of the song is an underappreciated gem of its era.

"Led Zeppelin played to a crowd of 150,000, but no-one on the bill was looking for a big break or even a record deal"

Whoever compiled the soundtrack to the Netflix film The Kitchen, set in a dystopian version of London, deserves a raise.

In 1957, Warner Brothers released a low-budget teensploitation flick called Untamed Youth, which has the distinction of being the first movie to feature a Here are 10 of the worst soundtracks of all time.

Once there were many, but not any more

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