God save the queen.

Punk queen Vivienne died.

Merry Christmas, take 2

MARO Mariana Forjaz Secca from Portugal and and Laufey Lín Jónsdóttir from Iceland, singing The Christmas Song, composed by Mel Tormé & Robert Wells on 1945.

Merry Christmas, take 1

The Beatles on 1965

Amazing Agnes Obel

The Curse, from the album Aventine (2013)

and Camera's Rolling from Myopia (2020)

And it doesn't stop raining around here ...

Terry Hall, best known for being the lead singer of the legendary ska band the Specials, left us yesterday. He was 63.
"Friday Night, Saturday Morning" was composed by Terry:

Here's the Specials recreating the Toots & the Maytals song "Monkey Man" ...

... and criticizing one of the greyest times of England with "Ghost Town":

here we go

May the Sound be with you

P.S.Y. and the previous Psychedelic Jam by the Butthole Surfers live 1991 and 1985

Badalamenti

Angelo Badalamenti will be always remembered for working for David Lynch. Both were masters of creating atmospheres and suspense.
It's been a terrible end of the year, so many great artists are dying lately and I haven't mentioned most of them like Wilco Johnson, who was a reference in a totally different style and I even have one of his records ...
So Julee Cruise, who sang for Twin Peaks, left us six months ago and now, on December 11th, Badalamenti also left us. He was 85.

Rosie Alena

Rosie Alena is almost unknown. Somehow she resembles Angel Olsen, one of Rosie's influences. Here's this breathtaking Adore Me.