smalltown boy

Kingston Sound System just released an album today that remakes classics from the '70s, '80s, and '90s. Like this Bronski Beat song from 1984, using Jimmy Somerville's original vocal recording.

I send her my love and a bang on the ear

A bang on the ear, is a pat or a gentle touch to the top of someone's head, as a gesture of affection.

Have a nice Sunday :)


The Waterboys, Mike Scott's band, with the legendary violinist Steve Wickham. 1988 studio version.
And live in Glasgow, 2013.


Lindsay was my first love she was in my class
I would have loved to take her out but I was too shy to ask
The fullness of my feeling was never made clear
But I send her my love and a bang on the ear

Nora was my girl when I first was in a group
I can still see her to this day, stirring chicken soup
Now she's living in Australia working for an auctioneer
But I send her my love and a bang on the ear

Deborah broke my heart and I the willing fool
I fell for her one summer on the road to Liverpool
I thought it was forever but it was over in a year (oh dear)
But I send her my love and a bang on the ear

The home I made with Bella became a house of pain
We weathered it together bound by a ball and chain
Is started up in Fife, and ended up in tears
But I send her my love and a bang on the ear

Krista was a rover from Canada she hailed
We crossed swords in San Francisco we both lived to tell the tale
I don't know now where she is oh but if I had her here
I'd give her my love and a bang on the ear

So my woman of the hearthfire, harbour of my soul
I watch you lightly sleeping and sense the dream that does unfold (like gold)
You to me are treasure, you to me are dear
So I'll give you my love and a bang on the ear

Ana Lua Caiano

Portuguese artist and multi-instrumentalist Ana Lua Caiano ( @analuacaiano ) brings her fusion of traditional Portuguese folk music with electronics and urban rhythms.



Here's the song "Adormeço sem dizer para onde vou" (I fall asleep without saying where I'm going) about her wandering dreams.

Adormeço sem dizer para onde vou E fico lá correndo, dormindo, morrendo Mas não me acordes, meu amor Nunca me acordes Nem que grite e que chore Sou uma afónica elegante Acordo e não digo onde vou E ando às voltas fugindo e recuando Mas não me encontres, meu amor Nunca me encontres Nem que grite e que chore Gosto de monologar Leio sem te dizer ondе estou E ando às voltas, desprezando E pеnsando Não me atrapalhes, meu amor Não me atrapalhes Nem que grite e que chore Gosto de monologar Desta vez não vieste atrás de mim P'ra me arrumares Desta vez doaste-me Ao ar que encontro

I fall asleep without saying where I'm going And I stay there running, sleeping, dying But don't wake me, my love Never wake me Even if I scream and cry I'm an elegant voiceless person I wake up and don't say where I'm going And I walk around running and retreating But don't find me, my love Never find me Even if I scream and cry I like to monologue I read without telling you where I am And I walk around, despising And thinking Don't disturb me, my love Don't disturb me Even if I scream and cry I like to monologue This time you didn't come after me To fix me This time you gave me To the air I find

security

Amyl and The Sniffers, live 2022.

this big hush

Shriekback, 1985


Live, 2017.

girl, I love you

... but your loving, it's gone ...

Massive Attack and Horace Andy, live Fuji 2010, album: Heligoland, 2010.

this one's for you

Ed Harcourt, album: Strangers, 2004.

open the floodgates

Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner, the Smile in 2022.

the rat

The Walkmen, 2004.

Farewell, Ozzy, Prince of Darkness

John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne, 3 December 1948 – 22 July 2025.

BLACK SABBATH - "Paranoid", 1970.

Sara Correia. From the people to the people

Sara Correia is a young Portuguese singer of Fado, the urban traditional genre of song of Lisbon.
Fado are mostly soulful songs and were originally created centuries ago by a mixture of local musicians and Portuguese Guitar players with local communities of immigrants, mixing their soulful songs with Portuguese guitars.  
Sara Correia is precisely a descendent from those communities, growing up and living in one of "people's neighbourhoods", Chelas.
Now, that she is a famous artist, she decided to thank her neighbours and friends, giving them a free concert.
Here's her song of proud of her origins: "I come from my neighborhood, from my window I count the stars (estrelas/stellas). I'm not from anywhere else, I'm from Chelas."


And now, Sara expressing her gratitude to her most important reference, Amália Rodrigues.  

the wandering

Patrick Watson and MARO.

bonsoir

Je te laisserai des mots. En-dessous de ta porte. En-dessous de les murs qui chantent. Tout près de la place où tes pieds passent. Cachés dans les trous de ton divan. Et quand tu es seule pendant un instant.
Ramasse-moi. Quand tu voudras.
Embrasse-moi. Quand tu voudras.
Ramasse-moi. Quand tu voudras.

I feel your pain

You're also dying. You're also safe.

Caspian Tiger by Beirut, from the album A Study of Losses, released on April 18, 2025.

Vino Dragostea

Sofia Leão, only 18 years old, is a Portuguese composer and musician and daughter of our known Rodrigo Leão. She released her 1st album "Mar" (Sea) one month ago. Most songs are sung in Portuguese, one in English and this one, in Italian, Vino Dragostea, a very nice song, kinda old traditional troubadour song about some loose ideas like: Dragostea Wine, weak current of Satan, you go with this current ... The sea embraces the moon, the moon embraces the sea ... and you depend on yourself.

Sharon Van Etten and The Attachment Theory

Full Performance, KCRW Live.
A masterpiece. Hard to tell which songs I prefere:
Live Forever, Afterlife, Idiot Box, Trouble, I Can't Imagine (Why You Feel This Way), Somethin' Ain't Right, Southern Life (What It Must Be Like), Fading Beauty, I Want You Here.

My today's song

Bon Iver singing the heartbreaking song Love More with his friend and the song composer Sharon Van Etten.
SO touching, SO beautiful.

Don't Do It, a take two

This was my yesterday's song.
It was posted 1stly here
Sharon said to KEXP: "I definitely wrote it with people in mind. Suicide is obviously immediate. People that have mental health issues, that don't take care of themselves or don't know how to, or don't know how to reach out for help, and how helpless they are and how helpless you feel as a friend. ... Even though sometimes I get embarrassed of how, when you just look at lyrics on a page without the music, I'm like, 'if you want to do it, you want to do it, even if I don't want you to.' Like, alone looking at those lyrics, I get embarrassed. But a lot of it is the emotion behind it that makes it feel that much more tangible, and maybe elusive at the same time. It's still a complex thought, to be honest."

Violet ornaments

Ornatos Violeta. Live, Oeiras 2025-06-14.


Coisas (Things). It's just things. I'm fine. Almost so fine. See how good it is to live again.


Dia Mau (Bad Day). The bitter taste of loneliness! It's just another bad, bad, day.

Ana Moura

Ana Moura is a Portuguese singer of the music genre Fado. She is related to Africa and its culture due to her parents living in Angola and to her African grandmother Guilhermina. Casa Guilhermina, is the title of Ana Moura's last album where she embraces all her ancestral cultures with some mix of new urban rhythms. Here's some videos I recorded from her last concert, 3 days ago.

To America and to the Moon

Os Azeitonas (The Olives) is a band from Porto, Portugal. This song, entirely composed by Miguel Araújo, is their biggest success. It's a love song about a boy promising his girlfriend, he's gonna sell his guitar to take her to America and to the Moon, and other things. Amazing :)
This is my video recording made a few hours ago. Enjoy :)

Psycho Killer, 50 years

... plus one.
Psycho Killer was 1stly performed live in 1974 by the band Artistics, which became the Talking Heads.
Supposedly, Talking Heads 1st live show in CBGB, happened precisely 50 years ago, on 5th of June 1975.
And so, the Talking Heads just released a video commemorating that ... fact. The video shows a disturbed woman in her daily life.

And now, one of the some (3?) Talking Heads performances in CBGB on 1975.

ouros

"Era do Ouro" (golden age) Samuel Úria, Portugal, 2025.

... and it was over

Orelha Negra, "Última Volta" (the last turn). Portugal, 2016.

De-Evolution 45 years ago, the DEVO

Live at the Phoenix Theatre, during DEVO's Freedom of Choice tour, 1980.
Absolutely amazing.


The line-up: "Freedom of Choice Theme Song", "Whip It", "Snowball", "It's Not Right", "Girl U Want", "Planet Earth", "S.I.B. (Swelling Itching Brain)", "Secret Agent Man", "Pink Pussycat", "Blockhead", "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", "Uncontrollable Urge", "Mongoloid", "Be Stiff", "Gates of Steel", "Freedom of Choice", "Jocko Homo", "Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA", "Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy", "Come Back Jonee", "Tunnel of Life", "Devo Corporate Anthem".

elastica, 30 years

Here, the songs: Connection (studio version and live at the last video), and Line Up.

it's all over now baby blue

Them and Van Morrison in 1966, brilliantly covering this Bob Dylan song released only one year before.

Perfect Day with Anohni

those who cannot watch the video above, try this one

Perfect day by Wenders

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Beth Gibbons at Tiny Desk

SOOOOO beautiful!

Panda Bear on Tiny Desk

Noah Benjamin Lennox or "Panda Bear", born in USA, is long ago "refugee" in Lisbon (Portugal, Europe) where he raised a family and where he works with the help of many local musicians. Here, he performs at the Tiny Desk with some of his musician friends.
Songs: Ferry Lady and Defense from the new album Sinister Grift. And Song for Ariel released in 2007.

Revisiting Lou's New York

And Lou's messages and stories. They are more current than ever. Anyone who doesn't like this is not a good human.


"Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor I'll piss on 'em. That's what the Statue of Bigotry says"

"... To you who don't have anything at all ... Does anyone really need a billion dollar rocket? Does anyone need a $60,000 car? Does anyone need another president?"

BALEBALE

BALEBALE is a song composed by Adjalme Noronha and included in Despertar, the new album by the trio Blacksea No Maya. This trio comes from Lisbon's African community. They create contemporary dance and club music.

John Glacier

Like a Ribbon is the debut album from quirky British rapper John Glacier. Enjoy.

Fat Old Sun, 55 years.

Welcome, April.

Mr. November

the National.

pink rabbits

Animation by Cuca Maron and live on The Current.

have a nice week :)

Bat For Lashes (Natasha Khan), The Dream of Delphi, a song premiered one year ago.

Have a beautiful Valentine's Day

My wife is not mine, she is of her mind. Even though she thinks so, she doesn't need me. That's what I like about her.
She doesn't want to be my world, but she has me in her desires. I can see it in her eyes, the clear presence of our adventures.
She flies with her fantastic birds, agnostics, friendly, by fields of reasons. And when she comes back she brings me sweets.
She does not show herself in the window, with her body illuminated. But she shows the universe, to hunting animals, when she goes down to the market.
She descends from the hair of the stars, right under the ghosts' noses, that she learned to disassemble. And she ends up turning them into toys.
My wife is not mine, she is of her mind. Even though she thinks so, she doesn't need me. That's what I like about her.
She is the captain of her ship.

god gets you back

From "The Bad Fire", the new and eleventh studio album by Scottish band Mogwai, released on 24 January 2025

Let us also remember the song "Portugal" from the soundtrack of the TV series "Les Revenants":

Talking Straight and Mainland

The Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever in 2018.

boa noite, bom fim-de-semana

OITO//OITO - Ceifeiras

Two Portuguese graphic designers, passionate about music, created this dance music mixed with a harvesters' folk song.
Good night, have a nice weekend :)

the song for Speedy Jean Marie

Jean Marie Walsh or Jean Thompson, ex-wife of Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson aka Frank Black aka Black Francis.
Composed and released circa 31 years ago, in 1994.

Carminho at Tiny Desk

Carminho is one of the finest singers of Fado, an old portuguese music genre. 
I'll just leave this video here. Please use the subtitles to understand the lyrics, they are pretty accurate. 

Heart of Gold revisited

"Heart of Gold" is a treasure.
Jane Weaver's version of that song, is undoubtedly one the best covers of all but, it is shamefully forgotten even in covers lists about this song. It was recorded in 2010 for the album Harvest Revisited released by Mojo Magazine in February 2011, celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Harvest.

On 21st September 2024, Neil Young performed "Heart of Gold" at Farm Aid.

And here, Neil Young again, playing it at BBC Radio Theatre, London, on 23th February 1971. This BBC concert was included in the album "Harvest 50th Anniversary Edition" released on December 2, 2022.

David Lynch

David Lynch, 1946/01/20 - 2025/01/16.
A multitalented artist and the filmmaker of dreams and nightmares.
Suffering from emphysema since at least 2022, Lynch was evacuated from his home due to the Southern California wildfires happening since 7 of January. "These events preceded a terminal decline in his health", Deadline Hollywood reported.
He wrote many songs, mostly lyrics for songs to be played in his movies.
"Sycamore Trees" and "The World Spins" were some of those songs brilliantly used in his weird dreams put in films.






Thank you very much Mr Lynch.

we haven't turned around

Gomez, 1999.

Have a great year ahead.