the music page

tiny music opinions box

• 23/7/2022 - i love miley cyrus as a singer but i hate the production on her own songs (her covers are great though).
• 18/3/2023 - dry cleaning could make a great cover of eiffel 65's "blue". think about it.
• 2/2/2023 - i don't want to talk about belle and sebastian's new single.
• 30/12/2022 - many rock albums would be better as instrumentals. Lately i can't unhear how a lot of rock singers are way less talented than the rest of the band.
• 18/5/2022 - "crazy on you" by heart needs to stop at around the 3 minute mark.
• 28/1/2022 - i love aurora as a singer but i hate the production on her own songs (her covers are great though).
• 28/1/2022 - (meta) i think i should have logged all the song recommendations, i'm probably repeating myself.
• 1/1/2022 - the optimal album length is between 35 and 45 minutes.

music i like

• classic rock aka dad rock ('60s - '70s): pink floyd, queen, dire straits, led zeppelin, does black sabbath count? creedence clearwater revival, crosby, stills and nash, etc.
• (mostly) '90s electronica stuff: massive attack, fatboy slim, leftfield, underworld, aphex twin, chemical brothers, boards of canada, etc.
• neo-psychedelic rock: king gizzard, kikagaku moyo, derya yıldırım & grup şimşek, wucan, föllakzoid, altın gün
• garage rock / proto-punk / punk: the clash, wire, television, iggy pop, talking heads, the cramps, the modern lovers, etc.
• other genres and things: dark ambient, stoner rock, metal, hip hop, rockabilly, surf rock, jazz, vaporwave, drum 'n' bass
• also a sucker for an interesting cover version or mashup
• and so on and so forth

news

Boards of Canada Continue to Release Nothing

May 18th, 2022

The mysterious duo from Scotland frustrates fans by once again not releasing anything for now. After 2014's Tomorrow's Harvest, BOC fans have only had a few remixes here and there and a mixtape to live off of, and are now scraping at the bottom of the barrel of monitoring the band's (social media manager's) Twitter likes for possible clues on a future release. Meanwhile, BOC themselves continue to owe us nothing and be geniuses in their own terms while getting (I imagine) a ton of royalty bucks.

Steve Vai Creates Monster, Plays It

February 4th, 2022

Virtuoso guitarist Steve Vai and guitar manufacturer Ibanez have created this absolutely deranged instrument amalgam, which you can see (and hear) in detail here. The Hydra does not only have a fuckton different strings, buttons and thingamajigs, it also boasts an ethernet port (!!!!). Does it send and receive email? Personally, I look forward to seeing it on the next Mortal Kombat release as a playable character.