Music Quiz: Last Last Last #1
Well done to Tony, who just pipped EclecticMusicLover for the best score in last week’s music quiz. Last week’s quiz was Last Last Last #2, so let’s keep working our way back to the first in the series. As before,…
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Graham Fyfe has been writing this website since his late teens. Now in his forties, he's been obsessively listening to albums for years. He works as a web editor and plays the piano.
New Music Reviews: Avalon Emerson and James Holden
This week I cover two solo artists – neither of whom I was familiar with before this year. It’s my favourite brace of records so far this year. Avalon Emerson & the Charm 2023, 9/10Avalon Emerson has spent her music…
Nuggets: Can’t Seem To Make You Mine by The Seeds
Before he became Patti Smith’s lead guitarist, Lenny Kaye compiled the 2 album set, Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era. Released in 1972, the two-LP set covered American garage rock and psychedelia from the years 1965-1968 and was…
Music Quiz: Last Last Last #2
Welcome back! Last week, quite a few people managed to score 21/21 in the Last Last Last #3 quiz, but Rich Kamerman was fastest. It’s more of the same this week, with Last Last Last #2. Your challenge is to…
10 Best Grant McLennan Solo Songs
In tandem with Robert Forster, Grant McLennan was a vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist for literate Australian jangle-pop band The Go-Betweens. While The Go-Betweens were on hiatus during the 1990s, Grant McLennan embarked on a solo career, releasing four solo albums,…
Music Quiz: Last Last Last
Last week’s debut album quiz proved a little tough – Tony snuck through with a 19 This week your challenge is to identify an artist by a portmanteau of the last words of three of their songs. Whoever made it…
New Music Reviews: Anna B Savage and The New Pornographers
For better or worse, there’s far less sex and violence this week than the names New Pornographers and Anna B Savage imply. The New Pornographers Continue as a Guest 2023, 7/10You could make a strong case that Vancouver’s The New…
Nuggets: Why Do I Cry by The Remains
Before he became Patti Smith’s lead guitarist, Lenny Kaye compiled the 2 album set, Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era. Released in 1972, the two-LP set covered American garage rock and psychedelia from the years 1965-1968 and was…
Music Quiz: Pick the Debut Album
Congratulations to Rich from KamerTunesBlog, who scored the only 30/30 in last week’s quiz. This week, your challenge is to correctly identify the title of a debut album when given three choices for each artist. As a hint, the self-titled…
New Music Reviews: Tiny Ruins, Rosalía, and Fever Ray
It’s a week of milestones this week – we have marriage and motherhood and an engagement. Meanwhile, Fever Ray’s Karin Dreijer is inscrutable about their private life, but returns with more unsettling music. Tiny Ruins Ceremony 2023, 9/10New Zealand singer-songwriter…
