On the Substack today: The Happy Mondays, a couple of remixes and the birth of Madchester. “Anyone who lived in Manchester in the 90s will know that the city belonged not to Oasis, The Stones Roses or New Order but to the Happy Mondays.” open.substack.com/pub/linenois...?
Stereolab's catalogue is strange and endlessly rewarding. Ben Cardew @bencardew.bsky.social picks five deep cuts that prove it thestrangebrew.co.uk/stereolab-fi...
On the Line Noise podcast, @radioprimavera.bsky.social I spoke to Maya Shenfeld and Pedro Maia at the Mira festival about Under The Sun, their stunning audiovisual live show; climate change, deep marble quarries, being friends + what they love about each other’s work. soundcloud.com/line-noise-p...
Today on @outsideleft.bsky.social I’m interviewing @bencardew.bsky.social about his brilliant new book on Stereolab, Space Age Bachelor Pad Music! outsideleft.com/main.php?sto...
On the Substack today, for paid subscribers, 'I like to be surprised' - an audience with Barker. Stochastic Drift, pushy kick drums and more. linenoise.substack.com/p/i-like-to-...
Ever since I upgraded to Tahoe, Apple Music isn't allowing me to play songs that have already been released in pre-release albums (if you see what I mean). If I add them to a playlist, I can play them. But not within the album itself, even if the song has been released. Any ideas?
Si quelqu'un souhaite le publier en français, j'en serais ravi !
It was incredibly hard to get it down to 20 and even now I look back on it and think that song X should really have played a much larger role. If it sells well maybe I will go back for 20 more! or 50, as you say.
thank you! She really is. Fascinating too.
On this week’s newsletter, “A musician and a poet” - 20 minutes with Marie Davidson, in which we speak about Clown bangers, Surveillance Capitalism, squaring dystopia with humour and much more. linenoise.substack.com/p/a-musician...
nah the quality is pretty bad, sadly. If you have a poke around the Daft Punk Reddit you can find links.
this is a fantastic book, do please read it!
OK I have listened to Mrs. GREEN APPLE @musically.com and suffice to say it's not exactly my thing. But, erm, good luck to them and all.
this is a great record!
On the Line Noise podcast @radioprimavera.bsky.social, we welcome Cardedeu's finest, elsas, to speak about her new EP APORIAMOR, love’s contradiction, well-kneaded dough, Medieval music and touring with Sampha. elsas is playing Barcelona’s Caixaforum on March 27. soundcloud.com/line-noise-p...
yeah that's a big plus for me!
Fred Again B2B Thomas Bangalter isn’t Alive 2026… but it’s close enough for now. AKA an emergency newsletter inspired by last night’s London gig. linenoise.substack.com/p/fred-again...
I have a friend who lives in cava country and he always tells me this. Also, he has given me some amazing cavas.
Drink cava instead! Prosecco isn't even made with the méthode champenoise. Good cava is absolutely amazing, although you do have to dig deep in the UK.
Listening to the Thomas Bangalter x Fred Again set. 20 minutes in and we've already had Purcell, One More Time / Aint No Mountain High Enough, Hackney Parrot, Rollin’ and Scratchin’, Spinal Scratch / Renegade Master, Cubik, LFO and Crescendolls. I need a lie down just looking at it.
hooray! I can't wait to read it. For me you're 2 for 2 in the excellent books stakes
ha!!!!! Honestly, I can't. I've listened to far too much trance in my life!!! But thank you
of course you may! Very welcome. Do you have a favourite song?
Today on the Substack, I battle my way between U2, Bruce, Springsteen, the trance revival and the wonders of aging. “I sometimes wonder if the whole process of cultural aging involves getting into music I hated as a teenager…” linenoise.substack.com/p/between-u2...
that, my friend, is a very nice T-shirt. Olympically lush.
do you know what, it was probably a dumb thing to say because I don't want to say who the artist is, as I really love them, but then why say anything at all?
I reviewed the new Nathan Fake album for @pitchfork.com. "It’s an episode of Friends with a spoonful of vanilla ice cream, a familiar joy that won’t trouble the palate. But the record’s first-thought-best-thought spontaneity comes at the expense of ambition." pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
One of my favourite modern artists has teamed up with an avant-garde legend to cover one of my favourite songs by one of my favourite bands and it totally sucks! Funny how music works some times.
thank you Teresa B! Slightly awkward at first, maybe, but I think we soon settle into it.
On the Line Noise podcast @radioprimavera.bsky.social this week, Marie Davidson returns, to talk sexy clowns, IT, Surveillance Capitalism, CAPTCHA and squaring dystopia with humour. soundcloud.com/line-noise-p...
