This week’s underrated album… open.substack.com/pub/tomberry...

Yarni – Boro (2021)

One of the great joys of listening to music is the friendships it creates.

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Here's something useful - an amazing archive of BBC Essential Mixes to play and download. Features sets by Andrew Weatherall, Massive Attack, Portishead, Bukem, DJ Shadow, Daft Punk, Goldie, François Kevorkian, Coldcut, Optimo, Frankie Knuckles, Greg Wilson, Gilles etc ▶️ archive.org/download/BBC...

This week’s under appreciated gem…

Irene Reid, The World Needs What I Need (1970)

As I’ve said previously, we all have our musical preferences.

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This month’s mix heads straight for the dance floor and features Wham, Octo Octa, Overmono and Mike D-lock in! www.mixcloud.com/Monobrow73/s...

This month’s mix is rooted in the dance floor and features Wham, Octo Octa, Overmono and Mike D-lesssgo!

Another great underrated album-subscribe to my Substack for further updates….

The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms (1980)

Hoboken is best known as the place of Frank Sinatra’s birth.

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Another underrated lp-any love for this one?

Skitz – Countryman (2001)

A new millennium.

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’m a bit tired of campaigning to save state-run stuff only to be asked “ok do you want to run it then” - like, didn’t we *already* invent a model where people pool resources to provide services, you know, called democracy? Why do we have to reinvent it on a shoestring?

New Substack focusing on underrated albums number one Big Sun by Chassol open.substack.com/pub/tomberry...

Chassol - Big Sun (2015)

2015, a year that saw the release of Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly and Kamasi Washington’s Epic – both records that had a huge impact on me.

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I started a Substack! It’s had a really good response so far-get involved 🙏

Got something that's been bugging for a while (25 years!!) off my chest for @thelineofbestfit.com There are musical revolutions bigger than punk and acid house happening in front of our eyes and the culture press just shrugs.

The Monday Meeting

Despite critics hailing this as an age of cultural stagnation, a quiet, globalised explosion of taste is happening right now led by teenagers, writes Joe Muggs.

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I’ve started a new writing thing. If you like music you might like it! -read the first article here and get it direct to your inbox each week by following my Substack 🙏

Its time to reclaim music criticism

and a new venture from yours truly...

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What our country is coming to….absolute disgrace

My main take on the new Boards of Canada album is that you don’t have to have a definitive take on it after a week…

Sonic Stew - this month #balearic plus! King Crimson, Alex Kassain, Scott Groves and many more-lock in! www.mixcloud.com/Monobrow73/s...

Sonic Stew May 2026

This month's mix welcomes the sunshine with a collection of slowly grooving heaters to get you on your feet... I talk to the wind (Ole Smokey’s Instrumental Edit - King Crimson Autumn Love (Future 3)...

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If you know the story behind Edmonton Recording Studio Boom Box then this HBOMax doc is essential viewing. But if you *don't know the story behind Boom Box then don't Google it. Watch this four-part doc instead. Even the trailer gives too much away! roganproductions.co.uk/project/boom...

Does anyone else ever have the thought ‘what if I die before I get it all done?’

just do it

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Lisa Nandy says that the government is now considering quitting X. "The first job of government is to deal with the really serious issues around regulation" ... "But I do think symbols matter - the question you ask is very much up for debate. Its a debate we are having"

v1.117 is live! We rolled out support for Bandcamp embeds. Now you can play songs right inside posts! We're big fans of Bandcamp and everything they do to support artists. Upgrade to the newest app version and give it a try 👇 caribouband.bandcamp.com/album/butter...

Butterfly, by Daphni

16 track album

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'The band uses sound itself to think through ideas. Ellie Mason’s access to vintage Kraftwerk synths at Mute Records, Stokes’s PhD work on extreme-volume composition, Imogen Mason’s sound art practice, are the tools of their songwriting' Voka Gentle - Domestic Bliss buff.ly/Oo8EdjU

The new Sonic Stew is my hour long set last weekend to a crowd on a Boeing 747! Thanks to everyone who came along and grooved ✈️✈️✈️ www.mixcloud.com/Monobrow73/s...

Sonic Stew February 2026 Live At Loose Joints Night Flight

This month's Sonic Stew is my hour long set live on a Boeing 747 - a lovely night - hopefully this captures the mood! Tracklist Its Just Begun - Jimmy Caster Bunch Don't Push It Don't Force It - Leon...

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A new mix featuring Mary Lattimore, Poolside and The Gossip-as ever eclectic-as always share it if you like it 🙏

Sonic Stew January 2026

Happy new year everyone. Here's this month's mix which has a strong female contingent...kicking off folkie before upping the gears...enjoy and share 🙏 Big Sun (Introide) - Chassol Perpeptual Adoratio...

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Skint? Have vinyl records you never listen to? Looking for collections of all genres. We pay fair, honest prices and will let you know if there is anything of value. Contact Soundvinylrecords@gmail.com or call Tom on 07984 146359. Grateful if people could share this post 🙏

Tunes from Joe Pass to Kano via Little Simz-share it if you like it 🙏

New Sonic Stew-Joe Pass, Little Simz, Kano-yep-it’s eclectic-like n share please 🙏

Sonic Stew December 2025

Welcome to listeners new and old - this is a typically eclectic mix to soundtrack the festive period - as always like and share if you like it! Tracklist Cristo Redentor Harvey Mandel Time For Us -...

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From UK hardcore to Uruguayan future-ancient complexity, from Texan dancehall poetry to utopian Uzbek electro, French ambient house bliss to politicized Colombian arena-techno punk I GOT YOU.... Again, abundance, abundance, afuckingbundance, let's go.

The Best Electronic Music of 2025

Our guide to the year’s crucial electronic LPs.

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Great to get a visit from Stewart Lee today - he lives a bit of Wicked Lady 👊

Another great joy of #brexit at #berlin this morning…

'Perhaps we are now only really re-imagining Another Green World to fit our modern day concerns.' Many Happy Returns to #BrianEno's Another Green World, which turns 50 today! buff.ly/NE2Aa9Y

Newly reissued to mark its 40th birthday, ‘Ring The Alarm’ continues to rattle speaker boxers. Wrongtom charts the history of its Stalag rhythm, from overlooked origins in the early 1970s to Tenor Saw’s 1985 masterpiece and beyond Reissue of the Week: Tenor Saw’s ‘Ring The Alarm’ buff.ly/MBpzm8Z