Turn The Light Out

Based in Poland, Michal has brought us a blog with a nice mix of some quite hard to find modern country and alt. albums, along with others that have received plenty of coverage on other sites.

Examples from Bonnie Prince Billy to Red House Painters to Grant Lee Buffalo running the gamut from the earlier days when the new sounds emerged from the Paisley Underground to more up to date stuff.

He hasn't got loads of stuff there so it's well worth a half hour checking his lists. If alt.'s your bag then he's got some interesting sounds for you.

Turn The Light Out

PQP Bach

This classical music malarky's a very confusing and complicated business.

First off, like I said before there's nothing like TotallyFuzzy to help you find what you're looking for. You end up having to find "a" classical blog and then working through the band of borthers that forms the links to the other classical blogs(and they are, indeed, the same links on every blog!). This is one of the ways in which I have found myself AWOL for nearly 2 months.

Secondly, if you were looking for music by a modern artist you wouldn't be looking for music by, say, Dylan as sung by someone else. You'd be looking for Dylan, mostly, right? In El Mundo Dos Classico this is impossible much of the time, thr music being well over a century old for the most part. So, you have to find the recorded interpretations and this is a MINEFIELD!!! There is a vast difference between the very many recordings of each piece, both in terms of quality of recording and quality of playing.

What I've found is that the best bet, if you haven't been recommended a specific recording (as Seb Hunter often does) is simply to plump for a good blog and find what you can there. This is where PQP Bach comes in.

Despite being in Portuguese (I think), PQP Bach is yer very own one-stop-shop for classical music. What he hasn't got isn't worth listening to, from 141 recordings of the work of J S Bach himself to 3 by Zelenka (whoever he is/was). There's even a bit of Zappa (3 to be precise).

Whilst unless you're fluent in Portuguese it's very difficult to read, if you're looking for, for example, Brahm's 4th Symphony, it'll be there. As will pretty much everything you want of a classical bent.

I have no doubt we'll be back with PQP Bach before I'm done but meanwhile, I recommend you go have a look.

pqpbach.opensadorselvagem.org/capelladeministrers

Young Moss Tongue

Michael Dust Devil recently brought his astounding blog back to us after "going private" for a time, an event for which we can only thank him.

I've looked a Very Large Number of blogs over the years but YoungMossTongue is truly awe inspiring, not least for the sheer quantity of uploads.

Primarily looking at inependant music, he doesn't restrict himself to a decade or a genre but covers a vast number of artists from throughout the history of popular music.

Clearly a muso himself he's drawn to those on the outskirts of the industry who may have had critical acclaim but remained "cult" figures and the blog is all the better for it. A quick look down his band tags will give you some idea of the enormity of the site and the work that's gone into it.

There's no chat (at all) but there's no need here.

Pay Michael a visit, but be prepared to spend A LOT of time with him.

youngmosstongue.blogspot.com/Cornershop

Iz Prve Ruke

Clearly a massive fan of Neil Young, Bob Dylan and The Beatles, Tonics has a blog here that'll get anyone with similar tastes salivating.

Chock full of goodies, he's got a seemingly endless list of bootlegs from all of the above, along with other major players of the same ilk whilst also, on occasion, throwing in another sound from somewhere out of left field (The Exploited anybody?).

If you like your music primarily from the rock/folk stable and you want to find some high quality boots you haven't got, or if you just want a rummage to see what Tonics has thrown into the mix on a whim, check him out.

izprveruke.blogspot.com/neil young & crazy horse-weld

what i like (The House Of Fun)

JP likes, in (it seems) no particular order, ska, reggae, punk, balearic beats, dance music and skinhead girls.

What you'll like is the VAST collection of stuff he's got on his blog, stuff that covers all of the above and more.

There's loads of hard to find compilations on there, from that below to the Street Sounds hip-hop collections of the late 80s. Very much worth your while checking his site for an eclectic mix of tunes.

whatilike-jp.blogspot.com/20 Of Another Kind

Wilfully Obscure

Spavid of Wilfully Obscure claims to dedicate his blog "to the freaks and rejects. The lonely and awkward. The last picked. Never picked. The hopeless romantic dreamers". That must be a very big club 'cos the site's got something for everyone who likes their rock alternative and with a twist and a bite.

If you're a student of US hardcore and alt-rock this blog's going to keep you interested for years, bursting with bands you don't (yet) know and love, precis to the fore. It's like rifling through the racks of an independant record shop with a wallet full of cash.

If this don't boost your listening pleasure nothing will!

wilfullyobscure.blogspot.com/pods its a bummer about bourbie

Blogger's Delite

The most inappropriately named person in blogbiz, Lazy's a sweet guy. All he wants is to be appreciated. And, boy, is he appreciated in this neck of the woods.

Classic reggae and dub, soul, a splash of mod and psych and some great white boy rebel rock, Lazy's got 'em all. He's got a couple of sister sites too to check out.

Like the man says, "it doesn't hurt to say thanks".

Thanks, Lazy. Stay free...

bloggersdelite.blogspot.com/time boom x de devil dead

A-Fluor

So you like your music circa 79? You like the edgy experimentalism of Rough Trade and its ilk? You like The Fall, The Smiths, Dexys, DAF, PiL, The Banshees?

This is the blog for you.

None of that wordy chatty crap (see below) - straightforward links to some great sounds to expand your horizons.

afluor.blogspot.com/searching for the young soul rebels