Love what you love!
I will cite the Rod/Elton clause here; their earlier stuff was best.
Still enjoy their first two albums.

AI-generated videos of upturned dinghies in the English Channel circulate online – Full Fact Six people are known to have died so far in April attempting to cross the English Channel. But viral videos claiming to show overturned dinghies are not real and were made with AI.

Viral videos of overturned dinghies in the Channel have been shared with claims that over 100 people have died.

It’s true that six people have died attempting to cross the English Channel this month, but these videos are fake and were made using AI.

#Yes - The Yes Album: Remastered £13.92 www.rarewaves.com/products/008...

Trump pardons allies who boost his crypto coin.

Trump invests in corporations that he's supposed to be regulating.

Trump cuts deals with autocrats to advance his family's real estate business.

The list goes on.

We must not become numb to this corruption.

a large-scale installation by Nicola Turner inside of Yorkshire Sculpture Park's 18th-century chapel gallery space of a textile form that appears to be crawling or expanding across the room, out of an opening toward the ceiling, with sharp clippers and scythes for "feet"

a large-scale installation by Nicola Turner inside of Yorkshire Sculpture Park's 18th-century chapel gallery space of a textile form that appears to be crawling or expanding across the room, out of an opening toward the ceiling, with sharp clippers and scythes for "feet"

In a converted 18th-century chapel on the grounds of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, a giant wool form by Nicola Turner creeps through openings in the architecture.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/04/nico...

Four mugs featuring retro patterns, cassettes and Pete the cat

It’s #NationalTeaDay
Tea tastes better in my mugs
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/mugs

His carriage awaits!

JUST IN! 'The Complete 'Round About Midnight At The Cafe Bohemia' by Kenny Dorham

Collection of live performances captured at a legendary New York venue from the jazz trumpeter.

www.normanrecords.com/records/2147...

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

Indeed!

“Honorable” is doing some heavy lifting here.

Now playing: The 48 preludes & fugues that are the Well-Tempered Clavier. I’ve read Bach’s pieces, composed as a tutorial for musicians wishing to learn more keyboard skills, as well as “the skeleton of music”. I imagine a sunlit room empty of furniture when I hear this. It’s beautiful structures.

It would certainly have been over sooner.

#5debutalbums7579 Graham Parker - Howlin Wind (1976) You can see why a nominally old wave artist like GP was accepted by the punk movement and press. Angry and bitter hints of Van Morrison and old time rock and roll. Superb debut from the fully realised Rumour. #VinylCommunity

Oblique Strategy of the Day… Is the intonation correct?

Oblique Strategy of the Day… #BrianEno #PeterSchmidt

An Adolescent Alan Partridge?
A Junior Richard Madeley?
Or perhaps a Young David Brent?
😇

Paul Weller, Massive Attack, and Kneecap lead calls for Eurovision boycott over Israel’s inclusion The campaign is led by No Music For Genoicide. The post Paul Weller, Massive Attack, and Kneecap lead calls for Eurovision boycott over Israel’s inclusion first appeared on Far Out Magazine.

Paul Weller, Massive Attack, and Kneecap lead calls for Eurovision boycott over Israel’s inclusion

a hyperrealistic, scale sculpture of a small radio made from white paper, deconstructed to show its inner parts

Using nothing but paper, artist Manabu Kosaka makes scale replicas of cameras, watches, gaming consoles, shoes, food, and more with a preternatural attention to detail.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/04/mana...

BBC Proms 2026: James Bond and Prog Rock among the line-up Concerts celebrating Benjamin Britten, Steve Reich and Miles Davis also appear in the programme.

The name’s Rock. Prog Rock

"Of 22 sites being held on a waiting list, before designation, 14 were at risk from development. That's 64% of potential SSSI's, and the wildlife living within them, at risk of being lost."

They’ve got to do “Knots”!

Ringo Starr - Long Long Road Review: More country rock gold With a little help from Sheryl Crow, Billy Strings and St. Vincent, former Beatle’s collaboration with T Bone Burnett keeps on rolling with new album.

“While he may indeed have travelled a long long road, here he sounds 85 years young – ⭐⭐⭐⭐”

Following last year’s excellent Look Up, Ringo Starr’s collaboration with T Bone Burnett keeps on rolling. With a little help from Sheryl Crow, Billy Strings and St. Vincent. Read MOJO’s review in full 👇

PROMO: Reduced Can Vinyl

Hefty reductions from six releases in Mute’s live series focusing on 1970s performances from the krautrock icons.

@muterecords.bsky.social
www.normanrecords.com/promos/1426

Thankfully it didn’t spread and I remember the firemen arriving quickly. We stayed at my Nan’s and the council repaired the room. She lived in an asbestos house two doors down from where we would live a few years later!

This Bob’s For You: A Guide to Guided By Voices The influence of Guided by Voices has seeped into all corners of pop—here's where to start.

"['Don’t Stop Now'] is a real Guided by Voices song, and one that serves as a readymade mission statement for a songwriter who, over the past four decades, has written literally thousands of tunes and, at age 68, shows no signs of slowing down."

This Bob’s For You — A Guide to Guided By Voices:

The Powerful Messages That Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger Inscribed on Their Guitar & Banjo: “This Machine Kills Fascists” and “This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender” Photo by Al Aumuller, via Wikimedia Commons Like another famous Okie from Muskogee, Woody Guthrie came from a part of Oklahoma that the U.S. government sold during the 1889 land rush away from the Qua...

The Powerful Messages That Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger Inscribed on Their Guitar & Banjo: “This Machine Kills Fascists” and “This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender”

Actually mine was spotted from a blood test, CA 9-99 followed by an immediate operation. 1% survival chance in 2019 but thanks to all find raisers it’s now 13%. Keep going. We’re winning!

“David Bowie was an absolute genius”: Rick Wakeman’s tales of sessions with Bowie, Bolan, Lou Reed and more Former Yes keyboard maestro Rick Wakeman has played with rock’s great and good over the years – and he’s got the memories to prove it

"Former Yes keyboard maestro Rick Wakeman has played with rock’s great and good over the years – and he’s got the memories to prove it."

Rick Wakeman’s epic tales of sessions with Bowie, Bolan, Lou Reed and more:

Marvellous!
They couldn’t get as far as Ruthin presumably.
Prog prom? Any Gentle Giant?

Great view of a wonderful city.
Wish I was there again!