In honor of the current state of affairs in the US.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/1273215

Shit. I saw them at Tuska 2018 and they were fire! Looks like it's the end of the road for the band.

It's a long, dark, rough one and worth pulling up some lyrics and maybe Wikipedia alongside. How much you like it will probably depend on your patience for Gareth's wailing and dense storytelling. But I think it's great and it feels ever-relevant.

Haven't posted in a long time; have been enjoying the playlist. My current vibes.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/33521219

Based on "Essential charts" images, I made a bunch of collections in MusicBrainz. I didn't create those images, so I can't explain why some albums are included in these collections and some not.

Included are topics and styles such as "'70s-'80s Post-Punk", "Death Metal (Brutal/Slam)", "deep internet", "Instrumental Metal", "Ambient", and many more.

If you like Italo disco from the 80's this song hits the spot

It's Bandcamp Friday, where 100% of the purchase price goes towards the artist or label.

I'd love to know what people have bought, so please share your purchases. I'll post mine in the comments a little later on.

Billy Bragg has released a new original song to show his support for the people of Palestine. The title of Hundred Year Hunger was inspired by a new book of the same name by E Mark Windle about the history of chronic malnutrition and deprivation in Gaza and will raise money for the Amos Trust’s Gaza Appeal.

Writing on Instagram, the British protest singer said that the song “looks at the current famine that Israel has created in Gaza through the lens of a century of enforced food insecurity and malnutrition imposed on the Palestinian people, firstly by British imperialism, then as a weapon of mass displacement by the state of Israel”.

The song was released to coincide with a new humanitarian aid flotilla – with Greta Thunberg among their number – setting sail from Barcelona to try to “break the illegal siege of Gaza”, organisers said. The intention is to open a humanitarian corridor and deliver aid to an area gripped by famine. It is expected to arrive in mid-September. Israel previously blocked two attempts by activists to deliver aid by ship to Gaza.

Teaser clip from Poppy's IG.

Release date is in one hour: 1pm PT, 22:00 CEST here on the 4th of September 2025:

Spotify instagram post.

I suspect it'll be launched on spotify but it'll also be premiering on Youtube.

During the harshest days of Soviet censorship, it was nearly impossible — and also very risky — to get a hold of Western music. But people in the Soviet Union became experts at devising creative, sometimes extraordinary, ways to copy and share forbidden books and music.

One example was recording music by pressing it onto old X-ray film, instead of vinyl, for underground distribution in the USSR.

London-based audiophile Stephen Coates started collecting contraband Soviet bootlegs, known as “ribs,” more than 10 years ago. In 2023, he published a book called “Bone Music: Soviet X-Ray Audio.”

He spoke to The World’s Host Marco Werman about his collection.