This is my church
This is where I heal my hurts
"God is a DJ" - Faithless

If you've seen VNV before, then I'll just summarize by saying that Ronan was absolutely on and the sold-out Sinclair audience was totally into it. The tour was specifically built out of two of their albums (Automatic and Empires) so I didn't get to hear some of my favorites ( Read more... )

Once upon a long ago I used to merrily blog music. Yay, it was fun. Sometimes people would leave comments telling me they liked this or that or otherwise indicating that I wasn't just blogging into the void. That's always nice.

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Almost a month between music entries. Some reasons for this - work is busy. I'm busy. Politics continues to suck. And then there's the recent trend among artists and DJs I'm following to do weird-ass electronic glitchy dub-wub what-the-everlovin stuff. I'm listening to a track and mostly enjoying it when the DJ decides "Hey, look at what happens ( Read more... )

Continuing to originate music posts on LJ for now. Unfortunately most of these tabs have hung around long enough that I've forgotten where they originated. Apologies if I'm not giving proper credit somewhere. Generally I find things first on Soundcloud or in one of the email lists I get. If I'm looking up a specific track there's a good chance I'll ( Read more... )

I still haven't dealt with the tags thing over on Dreamwidth so music posts will still originate here for a while longer. I have a bunch of open tabs but politics and life stresses have eaten a lot of hours when I'd normally be listening and filtering material. Fortunately I have some help this time around.

The first two items come from sovay and they' ( Read more... )

There is NEW LONDON GRAMMAR out ( Read more... )

Work has been dead but I've not posted music. Sue me. I still haven't sorted out the tags issue on DW so I'm going to originate this post on LJ ( Read more... )

That is to say, the next four years are going to give American punk artists the chance to become a Western Pussy RiotI am not a big fan of Amanda Palmer's music. But I'm on her Patreon and every so often she writes stuff like this, which I'm just going to bucket-quote. (ETA: in some views it's not clear what are my words, above, and what are afp's ( Read more... )

(for some reason I'm having trouble changing my profile icon choice in the LJ UI today. Some other things like embed are also not working. Not sure whether that's new OS, new work firewall, or new LJ issue ( Read more... )

I've been holding onto this post for a while, due mostly to the first track. Everything else should be considered "bonus material ( Read more... )