Bit of a palaver to find this on the site, but the £5.99 digital bundle of the latest Divine Comedy album is well worth it. The instrumentals alone are worth the price. #NowListening

Starting XI: #SaintEtienne @bobpetesarah.bsky.social As they bow out with their final album, here are 11 songs that hopefully encapsulate what made Saint Etienne such a remarkable group. @heavenlyrecordings.bsky.social www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/09/23/s...

I've just used Good Law Project's tool to let Virgin Active know they're following transphobes, not the law. You can do it too here: goodlaw.social/638d25

Oh my God this is so wonderful. Bra-fucking-vo UCL www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

dudes rock

Hmmm, this is 'Let The Music Play' by Carroll Thompson from The Crying Game soundtrack... * Disco 5? * As produced by Pet Shop Boys? * The Crying Game OST reissue/coming to streaming? * Something else entirely...?

After having - not unpleasantly - Jamelia's Superstar on a loop in my brain all weekend, this morning it's the turn of Ringo Starr's 1973 US chart-topper, Photograph. #Earworm youtu.be/IhDKHo2wapM?...

A forthcoming treat from Soda Blonde + National Symphony Orchestra. Dream Big Live, Dec 12, 2LP. youtu.be/3vhTv6wmd5U?...

So proud of Claire, Dan & Maddie for sharing their stories in our BBC Lifeline Appeal. 💛 Thank you to Angela Barnes, BBC and to everyone who tuned in. Watch again online or BBC iPlayer bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #BBCLifeline

Quite a thrill to finally reach transmission date today for this @sarcoma.org.uk BBC Lifeline appeal film. It's just 9 mins long but it's been M O N T H S in the making! As you can imagine, the BBC are a very well oiled-machine as a working partner.

I thought there would be a lot more #5DebutAlbums0004 love for this very fine - ok, pretty much perfect - album from The Avalanches, which was released in 2000.

Even more wow… Annie Lennox revisits Why? complete with a new, powerful, ending. youtu.be/l1RkUE8YG5Y?...

Wow… Portishead revisit Roads in 2025 (Live For Palestine) You can donate here: togetherforpalestine.org/

“They funk you up, your mom and dad” - James Brown sings the Phillip Larkin songbook.

This is funniest possible headline for a song literally called "Song for Bob Dylan"

“What also gets lost is the role of queer optimism. Not the Hallmark-card kind of rainbow inclusion, but the radical, stubborn hope that survives repression, that laughs in the margins, that believes in better even when the evidence says otherwise.” Beautifully put. Apply to any kind of optimism.

Happy 73rd birthday, musician, songwriter, and record producer, Nile Rodgers. 🎂

@sentimentbot.bsky.social How am I doing?

Yay! The spoils from the @brighterdayvinyl.bsky.social Sunday Service have landed. I asked Joel to give me his motherf**king Manilow and he did. IYKYK. Sign up for his vinyl flick-through on Sundays - who knows what treats you might happen upon! #Vinyl

This was a lot of fun to do - my interview with Neil Hannon of @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social for @super-deluxe.bsky.social, ahead of the release of their great new album, Rainy Sunday Afternoon, which is out tomorrow: superdeluxeedition.com/interview/th...

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Víkingur Ólafsson (35) David Bowie (33) Glenn Gould (22) Thompson Twins (20) Aimee Mann (15). #myweekcounted 233 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue

Artists can join the boycott and find out how to geo-block their music in Israel here: nomusicforgenocide.net#page-2

Had no idea Karen Carpenter and Ella Fitzgerald had sung together. Hooray for YouTube! youtu.be/3VegqiJqnls?...

Currently the theme from Peacemaker S2. Oh Lord by the wonderfully-named Foxy Shazam is the sort of ludicrously OTT American rock that is strangely life affirming. @froyster.bsky.social x youtu.be/Om_VWBua0_M?...

Beautifully done. #London

You're unlikely to find a more succinct explanation of the Overton window anywhere

I see the tracklist of this has been rejiggled for the latest Bowie box set, so let's use that as an excuse to give the original 2004 version a spin. He was in magnificent form, and the then-new material holds up well alongside the classics. #Vinyl #NowListening

PREORDER: 'Fire of God's Love' by Sister Irene O'Connor Cult classic from 1973 and first time on vinyl since '76 for this curio of psychedelic pop meets devotional music from the Australian nun. www.normanrecords.com/records/2117...

In London, hate will never win.

On October 18, @discogsofficial.bsky.social invites you ‘to join music lovers everywhere in skipping the stream, silencing the scroll, and giving your full attention to the ritual of listening to records’. #NowListening #DisConnect www.discogs.com/digs/music/d...

Chappell Roan to Bill Evans and probably back. All four Let There Be Music shows now available on YouTube and Mixcloud. youtube.com/playlist?lis... #NowListening

Still a bit eye watering at £70 for the 3LP set, at least the fourth Beatles Anthology collection is now being sold by itself. ukstore.thebeatles.com/products/ant...

40 years of Hounds Of Love. Still pinching myself every time I remember seeing Kate Bush bring The Ninth Wave to life in London in 2014. Magical. #NowListening

As Hounds Of Love turns 40, Toby Manning explores how Kate Bush suffused 80s pop with the pastoral and evoked both the allure and the terror of nature, allowing her to both capture the uncanny and make it commercial No Greater Wonder: #KateBush’s Hounds Of Love, 40 Years On buff.ly/B1GSAn1

Any vintage stereo lovers out there in the #spéirgorm world? I'm trying to find a home for a 1960s Murphy stereogram, preference is to donate it to a non-profit org with an interest in restoring or preserving them. Electronics need some work but it's in great nick cosmetically. Reposts appreciated

Hundreds of reels of Chicago history filmed by Bill Stamets are now digitized and accessible via @chicagofilmarchives.org: www.chicagofilmarchives.org/news/2025/09...

A nod for Dying For Sex would have been superb, but pretty much all the the winners are deserving this year. #Emmys www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

CURTAINS FOR ZOOSHA?

OK, I think it's time to start rowing back the amount of X, the Everything App screenshots on here. I feel sufficiently aware that many posting there have hypocritical, even incoherent, views on current events.

#NowListening Aimee Mann’s most recent album, Queens Of The Summer Hotel, featuring songs from a scrapped musical based on Susanna Kaysen's 1993 memoir Girl, Interrupted about her experience as a young woman in a psychiatric hospital with borderline personality disorder in the 60s. As you do.

only a few days away...! wegottickets.com/event/671633/

Dana ran to be elected President of Ireland. Our current actual President is at no. 3 in the Irish album charts this week: bsky.app/profile/iris...

bread time let's have a bread

All too rarely heard on the airwaves.

Is the mispronunciation of ‘Schadenfreude’ part of the point of the track?

‘English pop pioneers Saint Etienne sink a third Top 10 album, and their highest charting in 31 years, with International this week (8). The 12th studio LP from @saintetienne.bsky.social joins 93's So Tough (7) and 94 record Tiger Bay (8) in their Top 10 tally, now with 11 Top 40 albums overall.’

We need to treat social media as humanity's demented id - which is pretty much what it is - and stop feeling like everything on here is a thought out policy position that requires a response. Everyone on the internet is basically mad & drunk & has a real job/family somewhere they're neglecting.

Great price £9.34 C Duncan - The Midnight Sun LP #ad #vinylrecords #CDuncan amzn.to/3IkB6KC