Daily Newsletter, November 29, 2023

All those winter parkas aside, the music is truly fitting not only for the warm weather the album title refers to but for any weather conditions that the listener might experience.

Referencing two new albums, the compilation Synthetic Bird Music and Kate Carr's A Field Guide To Phantasmic Birds, plus Daphne du Maurier's avian horror and one of England's oldest documented songs, Summer Is Icumen In, Daryl Worthington asks how the rich interlinked history of bird song and human music has changed over the centuries and what it now means in a time of climate crisis

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December 2023

Acetone, one of the '90s' great lost bands, boxed up for long-overdue reappraisal with all their studio album

Sharing his favourite albums of the 1960s, the famous gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson described one jazz record as "the best album ever cut by anybody".

'Yes Album' is getting a super deluxe edition with a newly remastered version along with rarities, two previously unreleased concerts, and fresh mixes by Steven Wilson.

Iggy Pop has a regular Sunday radio slot on BBC’s (British Broadcasting Corporation) Radio 6 and for an upcoming show he'll be joined by Tom Waits.

David Bowie's lyric sheets containing the drafts for "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" and "Suffragette City" will be auctioned off on November 28th.

While arthouse may seem inaccessible, there are several films that reward open-minded newcomers to the genre.