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An Interview with Joe Boyd Unknown Rhythms is a reader-supported publication.

"In music, some people make one album and disappear, some stay around for a short while, some people live a whole life in music, and then there’s Joe Boyd."

An Interview with Joe Boyd:

Before “Electric Avenue,” Eddy Grant Melded Mod & Soul in The Equals The UK group anticipated punk, glam, disco, and so much more.

A few weeks back I sat down for a long chat with living legend Eddy Grant. Here's my piece about The Equals for Bandcamp Daily daily.bandcamp.com/lists/before...

YouTube video by PBS King of Them All: The Story of King Records | Full Documentary | PBS

King of Them All: The Story of King Records | Full Documentary | PBS
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'"King of Them All" is a feature-length documentary about King Records, the scrappy Cincinnati label that reshaped American music. Founded in the 1940s by Syd Nathan, a brash outsider dismissed by the indus...

YouTube video by mmp2010 The Fugs: I saw the best minds...

The Fugs: I saw the best minds...
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'The Fugs cover Allen Ginsberg's poem, Howl.'

Here's an advert for Vic Godard & The Subway Sect's fab Stamp of a Vamp single on the Club Left label - taken from the NME, 28 Nov 81. It was great to see Vic at Edwyn's London show

This Is Fascism

UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction UPS has seen "a significant increase" in the number of shipments that require formal customs clearance since new import rules have taken effect.

Good job everyone
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The Soul Jazz store in SoHo might be worth a visit.

Bought OTD in 1972: and the future. The hits are on the first side but the second is more experimental and far stranger. Postmodern pop with emotion and sound combinations never heard before - oboe with guitar and synth - culminating in the space age torch song Sea Breezes

Lord give us the Democrats that Republicans warn us about.

‘He was greater than Bob Marley’: the shocking tale of Jamaican ska pioneer Don Drummond Inspired by a boxing, DJing nun, the trombonist laid down the foundations of reggae – but he also had schizophrenia and killed his girlfriend, Jamaica’s ‘rhumba queen’ Margarita. A new graphic novel retells their stories

"It’s his trombone playing that gives the Skatalites their heart – a large part of their repertoire comes from him. Everybody knows who Bob Marley is. But I’m going to stick my neck out and say Don was a greater musician than Bob."

The shocking tale of Jamaican ska pioneer Don Drummond:

Golden Age of Hip Hop

Here's a new playlist for you. The Golden Age of Hip Hop boasts tracks by EPMD, De La Soul, ATCQ, The Pharcyde, Main Source, Sweet Tee, NWA, Black Sheep, BDP, Latifah, Gang Starr, Eric B & Rakim, Gang Starr, MC Lyte, Digable Planets etc
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LOST AND FOUND: KAREN DALTON Though she has been dead for more than a quarter-century, Karen Dalton, a staple of the Greenwich Village folk scene, had the sort of voice that still haunts those of us who love music in

LOST AND FOUND: KAREN DALTON
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'Though she has been dead for more than a quarter-century, Karen Dalton, a staple of the Greenwich Village folk scene, had the sort of voice that still haunts those of us who love music in the margins....

Double Bass: 10 For Danny Thompson - Aquarium Drunkard "The only thing I cared about was if I liked it or not, and if I liked it, then I was going to play it. Simple as that.” We’re all lucky Danny Thomson had that attitude. The English double bassist, wh...

Put together a little Danny Thompson appreciation for @aquariumdrunkard.com. (This could've been 100 songs rather than 10, but ...) aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/10/08/d...

The Wild Side of Life | The ARChive of Contemporary Music Now that we're actually living on the wild side of life thought it would be good to thank a very generous donor who has been delighting us with his donations for the past few years. The photo above is...

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We wanted to highlight a fantastic recent donation from a Hudson Valley resident which you should know about. The photo below is the latest from donor William ‘Wilbur’ Houghtaling. Read all about it by clicking the link in the first comment below! And don’t forget to support the ARC!

Dizzy Gillespie did it better

Why should she fear any consequences? There are none for any of them.

You have to give credit to Fox Sports. At least they suck consistently!

The America First movement was tired of seeing American troops deployed in foreign countries. We want them deployed in America First.

by Stephen Miller

There it is

How NOT to write about music – 202. Edwyn Collins My old friend and bandmate Sandra summed it up on Facebook: “Wish I could thank him Jerry. Been singing along for 40 years. That deserves a thanks.” Yes. That sure does. I’d been …

A heartfelt tribute of a live review of @edwyncollins.bsky.social by Everett True (Jerry Thackray)

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Joan Fontaine in the 1940 film adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca.

Last night I dreamt I went to record shops again.

5 stars for the Plasmatics! ***** 😆

The Beat Goes On: Remembering Drummer Clem Burke To celebrate the exhibition at the Roxy, we invited Debbie Harry and several of Clem’s contemporaries to share their memories of him.

The Beat Goes On: Remembering Drummer Clem Burke

To mark the opening of Clem Burke Photographed by Chris Stein at the Roxy Hotel, Richard Boch speaks with Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, Marky Ramone, Chris Frantz, and Jay Dee Daugherty.

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YouTube video by TravisBickle1963 The Human League Being Boiled What's On Granada TV 1978

Happy 70th birthday to the wonderful Phil Oakey. Here are the Human League performing Being Boiled on Granada TV in 1978
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Happy birthday to Richard Hell. Here he is with The Voidoids performing Blank Generation at CBGB

We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.
CARL SAGAN

Sure, it’s the Dems fault 🙄

YouTube video by TheGargantuanSock TGS The Only Ones - Why Don't You Kill Yourself?

My periodic dedication of this classic to you know who.

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