Tag: Popular music
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Mashed Up At The Sock Hop Vol 2
Oh hello…I am alive, as you can see from the latest podcast, but not many things bring me out of blog lurkdom, but a new volume of the Sock Hop Rock n’ Roll mashup compilation from iWillBattle will do it! As before, we have rock, and/or roll mashups of a pre-1960’s flavour, with an album…
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RC 384: Tender Silence of Night – Deep Dive #2
It has only taken me a year and a half to get around to the second Deep DIve (!) – I was going to put this out in a few months after the first Deep Dive but never got around to it. The catalyst for this bonus podcast was a new controller – the five…
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RC 366: May Day Neverlution
Mayday! Mayday! Get out your May Pole and start your Revolutions with this punky pagan podcast. Talking and singing about resistance, riot and revolution for International Workers’ Day, we mash it up with a righteous riot at the front, then a pagan pastoral party at the back. Punk, rock experimental mixes, mashups, jungle, hiphop, dub…
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Lou Hayter – Private Sunshine
Rather late to the party – but my what a party! Listening to Lou Hayter’s Private Sunshine, which I would say quickly has rocketed up to my favourite albums of 2021, but it was released last year. The deluxe was released this year, so sorta qualifies. To the layman they’d probably say ‘chilled 80’s’ but…
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Homebound Kid – Not So World Famous album
It’s finally here! The first Homebound Kid album by departure and butterfly boy on Lemon Hed Records called ‘Not So World Famous’ – and it’s great. If you like William Maranci’s Meat Mountain or the Avalanches you’ll love Homebound Kid and their plunderphonic album of blends – less ‘mashup’ or bastard pop and more experimental…
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Ashley O – On A Roll
Pop versions of Nine Inch Nails aren’t exactly new – PomDeter’s Call Me A Hole *ahem* but nice to see that Miley Cyrus and indeed Charlie Brooker get the pop side of Trent Reznor. As I’ve said about some Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV and Ministry, some industrial songs could be perfect pop – they…