Very thoughtful of you, @Junior. I am so glad I’m not in London, Madrid or Paris this week. 38 degrees in the UK. In France they are having to close the schools because of the heat.

Great find @Timbar. They make it look so effortless. One of the YT comments say that they are even better than Los Indios Tabaros. A new name for me, so I had to Google…

Well spotted @mikethep. The clip is taken from a concert that became a live album They write this…. The guest artists’ lineup included country and folk legends like Emmylou Harris and the Everly Brothers, a […]

I’m glad you posted this, Bargepole. The graphics are stupendous and quite heart-wrenching. Mona Miari is something else. What a voice! And the subtitles do a magnificent job of telling us what she is […]

Excellent. That brightened up my Midsummer Eve no end. Please keep them coming, @mikethep.

Good for her. This is a very classy rebuke to that preposterous oaf. A joy to watch.

Another magnificent, witty gem from the Avalanches It’s the first song on this wonderful Plundertronics Playlist….

Mention of Melbourne’s magnificent Avalanches on that NY TIMES timeline made me want to revisit them. I’m glad I did. They describe their music as PLUNDERPHONICS. This is a musical genre which encompasses […]

What a wonderful surprise that was @Gardener. When you wrote FILMS FROM YOUR KIDS, I thought you wanted to know what my offspring seen on Netflix or at the cinema. I got that wrong. THE DANGEROUS BISCUIT was […]

Excellent suggestion @Alias. To my shame I’ve never seen the complete film. But I do know the extraordinary story of how Miles improvised the soundtrack while watching the movie… With his French quintet of […]

I was browsing around about mash ups and came across this excellent NY Times timeline. It names Charles Ives’s CENTRAL PARK IN THE DARK from 1906 as the first sound collage. It also mentions Stockhausen, the […]

The guy who did that splendid Leonard Cohen mash up is called Emmanuel Magdelaine. And he describes himself very modestly as a Bidouilleur Musical. In English that’s a Musical Tinkerer. He p […]

Glad you like it @Pyramid. Here’s some more stuff from MAGDELAINE. Understanding a little French helps to really enjoy them.

Here is Lene .. and Len.

She is indeed something special. Glad you brought her to our attention @mikethep. She’s sung with the wonderful Joshua Redman. Wow! Thanks for posting this list @Mike_H.

That was wonderfully silly @mikethep. At Roskilde last year, my son took me along to see Baloji who was excellent. I took him to Seu Jorge and that was also a big success.

Excellent review, Carl. I’m very pleased to hear that Amanda has got her mojo back. She’s always struck me as a very talented lass. She was in John Prine’s band when he played Stockholm a few years back and made […]

It sounds as though your daughter has inherited your interest in music and a curiosity to discover new artists @dai. I saw Faye Webster out of curiosity at Roskilde last summer and was very taken by her […]

At the weekend I watched a wonderful new Colombian movie: A POET. This Variety review sums it up very well. Both hilarious and poignant and also wonderfully satirical about what it means to be a poet.