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Playlist: September 2026
Oct. 1st, 2026 05:40 pmtl;dr A list of "one a day" (-ish) songs I posted on social media in September 2026, each with a short description included below. There is also a YouTube playlist link to listen to them all easily. I am doing this to share exceptional music and/or music videos in hopes you will find something "new to you" that you'll like.
Since I pulled all my stuff down from YouTube in response to the threats they were making to users of ad-blocking technology, and had recently left all the servers I was in on Discord due to their deeply concerning and dangerous business practices that had come to light, I had no place left to share my musical finds and interests. To that end, in March 2026, I started posting one music video a day on the social media platforms I'm still on (Bluesky, Spoutible, Hey.Cafe). I do "cheat" and sometimes post more than one, but I try to stick to just one if I can manage, heh.
For convenience, I have started creating a monthly playlist on YouTube (just a playlist, no new content from me) and plan to make it public early in the following month. I will post the itemized list of songs here as well because YouTube is not a stable hosting platform (in the sense that videos are often removed so the lists break over time). Here is September 2026's playlist (if you would ever like to go on a musical journey):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ9XC7_jj9Oc
There's no particular rhyme or reason (much less musical era or genre) that I'm following, it's what I felt like posting that particular day. I seem to be favouring new music (because I find it hard to find good new music), but I definitely post older stuff as well. Here is the list of songs, in order of posting, including any comments I made (again, since social media platforms are not very good repositories of information, and old posts are effectively gone because "ain't nobody got time to scroll back without very good reason"):
09/01 Enigma - Beyond The Invisible
Perhaps one of the most beautiful and lush music videos ever made. Based around figure skating and... aliens? A project founded in 1990 by Romanian-German producer Michael Cretu. Enigma has created some of my favourite songs and videos. NSFW due to scantily clad dryads.
09/02 Foxes and Fossils - Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (Crosby, Stills, & Nash Cover)
One of the most impressive live covers I've ever seen. I watched one of those "reaction" videos where a music producer listened to this and it literally brought him to tears. Same buddy 🫂. It's made more impressive by the suboptimal venue they're playing their hearts out at.
09/03 Wild Child - Crazy Bird
There's something both off and profoundly wholesome about this music and video. Off their second album (2013). There are so many quirky bits in this and I think this may be one of my favourites (the "band" t-shirts make me laugh plus the TMBG reference). Out of Austin, Texas.
09/04 Aurora - Life on Mars (David Bowie Cover)
Tonight is a young Aurora showing that she's always been an odd duck, but an insanely talented and passionate one. The emotion and power she puts into this Bowie cover has always been awe inspiring to me. She is singing like she feels the music in every fibre of her being! ❤️
09/05 Cifika - Hex
Today's music is out of South Korea by singer, songwriter, and producer Yousun Cho. Her stage name is from Pacifika Ave. in San Jose, California (she lived there for 2 years as a teen). Found the music to be serviceable but a bit meh, however the video is incredible.
Bonus track: Peter, Paul, and Mary - Puff The Magic Dragon
"thelastunicorn" on Hey.Cafe commented there was too much blood in the Cifika video "for this 70 year old", and I apologized, to which they said that they've even had strongly negative reactions for sharing the Peter, Paul, and Mary song "Puff The Magic Dragon", so all was good. I had mentioned I'd just been thinking about that song the previous week, so they posted this video of the song.
https://youtu.be/z4KYsaDYrUg
09/06 Moonchild - The List
Ah, remember when grocery stores used to have transdimensional blanket forts and cooler aisles set to a chill alt. R&B jazz groove with dance? Wait... I don't either... what's going on here?! A vibing trio out of Los Angeles, California.
09/07 Robbie Robertson - Somewhere Down The Crazy River
Robbie Robertson, Daniel Lanois, Tony Levin, Manu Katché, Bill Dillon, Sammy Llanas. Directed by Martin Scorsese and featuring Maria McKee (of the band Lone Justice fame). One of the steamiest songs and videos of the 80s. Sultry from start to finish <fans myself>.
09/08 Atafrava - Juché!
"A genre-fluid Afro-diasporic trio from Weimar born of a shared love for Afrobeats blending DJ artistry with live vocals, saxophone, and viola to create a sonic communal space fueled by driving rhythms." One of the freshest and most creative tracks I've run across lately.
09/09 Sia - Buttons/Distractions (Live on KCRW, 2007)
I debated whether to include Buttons+Distractions or just a clip with Distractions, but chose the double feature music because it really showcases Australian Sia Furler's incredible vocal abilities in two different ways. Distractions (a Zero 7 song she performed with them at the time) reaches out and crushes my heart every time. 💔 (Confession: I almost never get celebrity crushes, but this performance overcame my barriers in this case... she sings from her toes and with every fibre of her body).
09/09 Susumu Hirasawa - The Girl in Byakkoya – White Tiger Field (Version Used For The Film "Paprika")
Today is a music two fer in the sense that I wanted to share the gorgeous opening credits animation and music for the utterly unique and amazing movie Paprika by Satoshi Kon (RIP). If you've already seen the movie (this has so many spoilers, so I suggest you do not watch it unless you've seen the movie), there is a fan vid that uses scenes from Paprika over the song "The Devil Does Drugs" by My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult that is a masterpiece of editing imo.
Bonus track: Susumu Hirasawa [平沢 進] - Byakkoya/White Tiger Field [白虎野] (Original Version)
With original music video!
https://youtu.be/3Ogdux8c9IY
Another bonus track: My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - The Devil Does Drugs
According to the description on the video, "The music is from the movie Cool World. The scene where Jack first enters Cool World and meets Holli dancing". Spoiler alert: this fan vid is all scenes from Paprika, I recommend not watching if you haven't already seen the film.
https://youtu.be/gdjjJKqr-sA
Apparently had a bit of a moment and did a Goldfrapp spotlight this day (too much to say on the subject I guess). I only put Pilots into the playlist though... six seemed a bit much in one gulp. I had provided the videos in the comments, so I will provide the links to the videos here if you would like to watch them.
09/10 Goldfrapp - Pilots
Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory. Their albums have been on rotation for me (the whole albums) since I first heard them. One song isn't enough, I will post this one and then a few in the comments. One other I will wait for Halloween to post (can you guess which?). Starting suave and sultry...
09/10 Goldfrapp - Utopia
Off the same album, a dystopian science-fiction tale of medical life extension and cybernetic human integration. I fantasize about doing a cover of this some day...
youtu.be/QUB7e3BtnvU
09/10 Goldfrapp - Strict Machine
Off their next album (which doesn't have a mediocre song on it) and is an utter bop, with a video uncomfortably playing on the theme of Red Riding Hood and the Wolf. My friend was dying (heart stopped briefly), and when they brought her back she said this was playing in her head.
youtu.be/YeawPUpTHJA
09/10 Goldfrapp - Ride A White Horse (Live at Brixton Academy, London, 2005)
Off their third album, a live performance at the Brixton Academy in 2005. I think my favourite song off Supernature is "You Never Know" (there is a live performance video of it from the same concert, but it is not on YouTube anymore 😭), but the best known one is "Ooh La La".
youtu.be/79zyHzwy7G0
Bonus track: Goldfrapp - Ooh La La
In case you haven't seen this glam rock homage video... the song is an absolute banger as well.
youtu.be/uco-2V4ytYQ
09/10 Goldfrapp - A&E
A recurring theme is her long-suffering backup dancers (see the horses in the previous video, for instance) and here we have them again. A deeply beautiful song and video (a mix of practical and digital effects) about winding up in the hospital. Channeling Kate Bush imo...
youtu.be/p7Ptai9I6eo
09/10 Goldfrapp - Rocket
And to end this journey (pun intended) on a truly weird note (okay, she's a freak in a lot of her work)...
youtu.be/rJppnG1tflU
09/11 No Joy - Süki & Amadeus
I've been posting a lot of slick music and video productions and I think it's time to do something a little more homespun and raw (in the production sense, not in a content sense). Out of Montreal, off their new EP "Big Life, Big Leaf (Hand Drawn Dracula & Sonic Cathedral)".
09/12 Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Constipation Blues
In honour of what is likely going to be a truly terrible Sunday for me (purging my digestive tract from one end to the other ahead of my first colonoscopy on Monday... preventative medicine, not in response to any symptoms, fyi), I present music about the opposite of what I'll be dealing with (although the end of the song is probably accurate, heh). Dark humour for sure, but the musicianship of Hawkins and band is absolutely next level! 💩
Update: I deeply underestimated the impact this procedure would have on my life. I was not able to poop properly until September 29... with several days being incapacitated by constipation (wasn't able to get over it until I got a recommendation from a pharmacist for a "violent" [my words] laxative, and it still took a week after that point to get back to anything normal). I do wonder if I cursed myself by posting this song. Anyway, they didn't find anything of immediate concern up there when they went in, which is worth it to me to have gone through it for. A good friend of mine was not so fortunate.
09/13 BALTHVS - Liminal Stages (Dark Session)
I've just taken my first dose of Purg-Atory™ ahead of my procedure tomorrow afternoon (have been on a clear fluids diet so far today, and a low bulk diet this past week). In case I forget, here is the music for today: out of Columbia (the country), a skilled and chilled vibe.
09/14 Danielle Ponder - God of You
Holy heck wow, what a voice, what a song (and what a video)! Trained a lawyer who worked as a "public defender" in New York state for a decade before making music her full time pursuit in 2022.
09/15 Triggerfinger - On My Back
I've seen a few videos by this Belgian band and was never quite sure what to make of them. They seem to go more for vibe than punch, and to always have weird "dance" moves in their videos. I did like this one more than the others. Now a 2 piece (RIP bassist Van Bruystegem).
09/16 Death Cassette - Cheaper to Die
So much good music comes out of Winnipeg! If you can't guess from the thumbnail for the video, this is pretty much straight up punk (with a guitar solo for good measure). She has the voice to pull it off (not everyone does), and the band is solid and sounds great.
09/17 Flore Laurentienne - Fleuve I (CBC Music Live)
Streamed way too late today, but here's is the music for Thursday anyway. A live performance combining orchestral acoustic stringed instruments with electronics and percussion. I wish they had given the strings parts more complexity, but I would have loved to have seen this performance.
09/18 Poppy - Metal (Gary Numan Cover, San Diego, 2019)
Today music is an unexpected cover of an amazing Gary Numan song, in the sense I'm surprised this was something she would bring to the stage. The guitarists are definitely the stars, but she delivers a solid anime inspired (I presume) performance. Edit: this song gives me chills every time. Even this cover.
09/19 Hooverphonic - Danger Zone (Live at Koningin Elisabethzaal, 2012)
How about some symphonic and sultry trip hop music today? Not enough for you? Wow... Okay, in the comments: Hooverphonic was commissioned by Brussels Airlines to take their safety warning and turn it into a song and video with imagery inspired by Belgian artist René Magritte.
Bonus track: Hooverphonic - Brussels Airlines Safety Video 2022
As mentioned above... This safety video commissioned from Hooverphonic, which used the standard text from the airline, ran on Brussels Airlines flights between 2022 and 2025. The band has released 12 studio albums (from 1996 to 2024) and represented Belgium at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2020/21.
youtu.be/wcDDxty3zdA
09/20 Gabrielle Cavassa - Diavola
Let's stay sultry but go film noir with this Usonian jazz vocalist for today's music and video (dropped 3 days ago). Actually shot on 16mm film. Having a martini glass at hand (doesn't need to be alcohol) seems fitting. CW: implied violence, dancers at end are flimsily clad.
09/21 Audrey LeCrone - I Wish You Love
What's happening to me? More sultry music but this time more of a torch song by this New Orleans jazz diva. I don't tend to resonate with breakup songs, but this one is how I tend to feel myself: "it was good but it didn't work out, and I honestly wish you all the best". ❤️🫂
09/22 Crash Vegas - Inside Out
Moving away from the sultry songs with an only slightly sultry song by Canadian band Crash Vegas (formed in Toronto, this is off their first album in 1990). I do like this song, but Moving Too Fast off the same album is probably my favourite vibe on it (see comment).
Bonus track: Crash Vegas - Moving Too Fast
There's no video for this song, but here it is anyway. I always got a bit of a Sugarcubes feel from this one. Love the energy and drive (pun intended) of it!
youtu.be/gKkaxcPAq4M
09/22 National Velvet - Sex Gorilla
Okay, Can-con music two fer today. Video and lyrics are fairly tame given the title of the song... In fact, the song was originally written as "sarsaparilla" but fans kept mishearing and so they just leaned into it, heh. Bring on The Goddess (Amazon?) Maria Del Mar... 🔥
09/23 Kalandra - Lost in the Dark
I finished out August with one of their songs, but I am posting more of their new music today. So beautiful and heartbreaking in its power and emotion. A video that captures the feeling of being shocked to the core by experiencing a piece of art that resonates far too deeply.
09/24 Kate Nash - Spilt Milk
Off her new album (her sixth), coming out early 2027, today's music and video has a definitely punk aesthetic to it. "Well, how come they're in charge? / How come they get to say no?". I need more anger at the status quo in my life and really enjoyed this! Out of the UK.
09/25 Son Lux - Out Into Us
Truly evocative music and video with r&b, jazz, trip hop, and electronica influences. An oppressive landscape where community and family and love still thrive, and transcendence awaits those brave enough to see the path. Off their 9th album (2 of which are movie soundtracks).
09/26 Los Sara Fontán - Fats Cobra/Wall-e/Visita de Obra/Elektra (Les Feres! Session)
I absolutely love the ferality, passion, improvisation, and skill of this performance (4 songs). Sara Fontán and Edi Pou bring a punk ethic (if not in sound, then in attitude) to their music grounded in place and mood. Shot at the Museu del Ciment de Castellar de n'Hug, Spain. When she starts wielding her violin... chef's kiss!
09/27 Pere Ubu - George Had A Hat
I've been building up to this one: George Had A Hat is one of the most important songs in my life: it made it clear to me there were no rules for music and no one aesthetic to make a song great (or grate perhaps for most that might listen to this, it is extremely chaotic and more than a little silly). Makes me think of Curious George and The Man With The Yellow Hat 🙂. Audio only.
09/28 TOMORA - Celebration
A while back I posted an article that discussed the music of TOMORA (Tom Rolands of The Chemical Brothers and Aurora), but I haven't posted a standalone piece. Dropped last week, an absolute bop. Every time I see the band name though, my brain goes "Tomorrow! Tomorrow! I love ya tomorrow!" 🎵
09/29 Heart - Sylvan Song/Dream of the Archer (Off "The Road Home" Live DVD, 1995)
From one of my favourite concert videos: some of my favourite music of all time. This particular performance of these pieces is beyond next level. I have watched it so many times (I even found a copy of the DVD) and it takes my breath away every time. Nobody is more inspiring.
09/30 Dee Long with Randy Cooke - Little Neutrino (Klaatu Cover)
For my birthday, I am posting music that either a) ruined my life, or b) gave my life purpose. I had listened to the original of this song from the Klaatu album "3:47 EST" on repeat for two weeks in my late teens on a Walkman in the 80s lying on the dorm room floor of my girlfriend at the time and realized what the universe is under the hood (no joke, and no drugs... what quantum mechanics and general relativity actually describe). The original was written by Dee Long, and this is his solo cover of it 15 years ago, and 55 years since the original release... it's good, but not close to the said same, but it has a spiffy video and the session drummer is amazing). Because of this song... in 2009, I quit my six figure job (which, admittedly, was pure hell) and went to university as a physically mature student to get an undergraduate degree in theoretical physics (which I did, with honours). I had presumed that understanding better what we know about the universe would finally put the idea out of my head as nonsense; however, it did nothing to suggest I was wrong (distressingly, quite the opposite, in fact). However, I have spent all my time since trying to keep a roof over my head and food in my pantry, and have had zero time to pursue this revelation I am burdened with and will probably take this framework with me to the grave. And on that note, one more year behind me... still doing crazy interesting things, but I remain haunted by the knowledge that has been wasted by giving it to me.
P.S. Did you know that 100,000,000,000,000 neutrinos pass through your body every second and that their mass oscillates as they travel through space and time [they morph between their three "flavours", the electron neutrino (ν_e), muon neutrino (ν_μ), and the tau neutrino (ν_τ)]. We know they have mass (experiments like the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory proved it... and yes, I got to visit there once), and we have detected them, and we actually send human-made beams of neutrinos through the Earth as part of experiments trying to uncover their nature (e.g. DUNE and CNGS) but we have never measured what their masses are (it is too small for our instruments).
Bonus Track: Klaatu - Little Neutrino
Here is the original (still brings tears to my eyes)...
youtu.be/pSfCQNW00dk
Since I pulled all my stuff down from YouTube in response to the threats they were making to users of ad-blocking technology, and had recently left all the servers I was in on Discord due to their deeply concerning and dangerous business practices that had come to light, I had no place left to share my musical finds and interests. To that end, in March 2026, I started posting one music video a day on the social media platforms I'm still on (Bluesky, Spoutible, Hey.Cafe). I do "cheat" and sometimes post more than one, but I try to stick to just one if I can manage, heh.
For convenience, I have started creating a monthly playlist on YouTube (just a playlist, no new content from me) and plan to make it public early in the following month. I will post the itemized list of songs here as well because YouTube is not a stable hosting platform (in the sense that videos are often removed so the lists break over time). Here is September 2026's playlist (if you would ever like to go on a musical journey):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ9XC7_jj9Oc
There's no particular rhyme or reason (much less musical era or genre) that I'm following, it's what I felt like posting that particular day. I seem to be favouring new music (because I find it hard to find good new music), but I definitely post older stuff as well. Here is the list of songs, in order of posting, including any comments I made (again, since social media platforms are not very good repositories of information, and old posts are effectively gone because "ain't nobody got time to scroll back without very good reason"):
09/01 Enigma - Beyond The Invisible
Perhaps one of the most beautiful and lush music videos ever made. Based around figure skating and... aliens? A project founded in 1990 by Romanian-German producer Michael Cretu. Enigma has created some of my favourite songs and videos. NSFW due to scantily clad dryads.
09/02 Foxes and Fossils - Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (Crosby, Stills, & Nash Cover)
One of the most impressive live covers I've ever seen. I watched one of those "reaction" videos where a music producer listened to this and it literally brought him to tears. Same buddy 🫂. It's made more impressive by the suboptimal venue they're playing their hearts out at.
09/03 Wild Child - Crazy Bird
There's something both off and profoundly wholesome about this music and video. Off their second album (2013). There are so many quirky bits in this and I think this may be one of my favourites (the "band" t-shirts make me laugh plus the TMBG reference). Out of Austin, Texas.
09/04 Aurora - Life on Mars (David Bowie Cover)
Tonight is a young Aurora showing that she's always been an odd duck, but an insanely talented and passionate one. The emotion and power she puts into this Bowie cover has always been awe inspiring to me. She is singing like she feels the music in every fibre of her being! ❤️
09/05 Cifika - Hex
Today's music is out of South Korea by singer, songwriter, and producer Yousun Cho. Her stage name is from Pacifika Ave. in San Jose, California (she lived there for 2 years as a teen). Found the music to be serviceable but a bit meh, however the video is incredible.
Bonus track: Peter, Paul, and Mary - Puff The Magic Dragon
"thelastunicorn" on Hey.Cafe commented there was too much blood in the Cifika video "for this 70 year old", and I apologized, to which they said that they've even had strongly negative reactions for sharing the Peter, Paul, and Mary song "Puff The Magic Dragon", so all was good. I had mentioned I'd just been thinking about that song the previous week, so they posted this video of the song.
https://youtu.be/z4KYsaDYrUg
09/06 Moonchild - The List
Ah, remember when grocery stores used to have transdimensional blanket forts and cooler aisles set to a chill alt. R&B jazz groove with dance? Wait... I don't either... what's going on here?! A vibing trio out of Los Angeles, California.
09/07 Robbie Robertson - Somewhere Down The Crazy River
Robbie Robertson, Daniel Lanois, Tony Levin, Manu Katché, Bill Dillon, Sammy Llanas. Directed by Martin Scorsese and featuring Maria McKee (of the band Lone Justice fame). One of the steamiest songs and videos of the 80s. Sultry from start to finish <fans myself>.
09/08 Atafrava - Juché!
"A genre-fluid Afro-diasporic trio from Weimar born of a shared love for Afrobeats blending DJ artistry with live vocals, saxophone, and viola to create a sonic communal space fueled by driving rhythms." One of the freshest and most creative tracks I've run across lately.
09/09 Sia - Buttons/Distractions (Live on KCRW, 2007)
I debated whether to include Buttons+Distractions or just a clip with Distractions, but chose the double feature music because it really showcases Australian Sia Furler's incredible vocal abilities in two different ways. Distractions (a Zero 7 song she performed with them at the time) reaches out and crushes my heart every time. 💔 (Confession: I almost never get celebrity crushes, but this performance overcame my barriers in this case... she sings from her toes and with every fibre of her body).
09/09 Susumu Hirasawa - The Girl in Byakkoya – White Tiger Field (Version Used For The Film "Paprika")
Today is a music two fer in the sense that I wanted to share the gorgeous opening credits animation and music for the utterly unique and amazing movie Paprika by Satoshi Kon (RIP). If you've already seen the movie (this has so many spoilers, so I suggest you do not watch it unless you've seen the movie), there is a fan vid that uses scenes from Paprika over the song "The Devil Does Drugs" by My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult that is a masterpiece of editing imo.
Bonus track: Susumu Hirasawa [平沢 進] - Byakkoya/White Tiger Field [白虎野] (Original Version)
With original music video!
https://youtu.be/3Ogdux8c9IY
Another bonus track: My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - The Devil Does Drugs
According to the description on the video, "The music is from the movie Cool World. The scene where Jack first enters Cool World and meets Holli dancing". Spoiler alert: this fan vid is all scenes from Paprika, I recommend not watching if you haven't already seen the film.
https://youtu.be/gdjjJKqr-sA
Apparently had a bit of a moment and did a Goldfrapp spotlight this day (too much to say on the subject I guess). I only put Pilots into the playlist though... six seemed a bit much in one gulp. I had provided the videos in the comments, so I will provide the links to the videos here if you would like to watch them.
09/10 Goldfrapp - Pilots
Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory. Their albums have been on rotation for me (the whole albums) since I first heard them. One song isn't enough, I will post this one and then a few in the comments. One other I will wait for Halloween to post (can you guess which?). Starting suave and sultry...
09/10 Goldfrapp - Utopia
Off the same album, a dystopian science-fiction tale of medical life extension and cybernetic human integration. I fantasize about doing a cover of this some day...
youtu.be/QUB7e3BtnvU
09/10 Goldfrapp - Strict Machine
Off their next album (which doesn't have a mediocre song on it) and is an utter bop, with a video uncomfortably playing on the theme of Red Riding Hood and the Wolf. My friend was dying (heart stopped briefly), and when they brought her back she said this was playing in her head.
youtu.be/YeawPUpTHJA
09/10 Goldfrapp - Ride A White Horse (Live at Brixton Academy, London, 2005)
Off their third album, a live performance at the Brixton Academy in 2005. I think my favourite song off Supernature is "You Never Know" (there is a live performance video of it from the same concert, but it is not on YouTube anymore 😭), but the best known one is "Ooh La La".
youtu.be/79zyHzwy7G0
Bonus track: Goldfrapp - Ooh La La
In case you haven't seen this glam rock homage video... the song is an absolute banger as well.
youtu.be/uco-2V4ytYQ
09/10 Goldfrapp - A&E
A recurring theme is her long-suffering backup dancers (see the horses in the previous video, for instance) and here we have them again. A deeply beautiful song and video (a mix of practical and digital effects) about winding up in the hospital. Channeling Kate Bush imo...
youtu.be/p7Ptai9I6eo
09/10 Goldfrapp - Rocket
And to end this journey (pun intended) on a truly weird note (okay, she's a freak in a lot of her work)...
youtu.be/rJppnG1tflU
09/11 No Joy - Süki & Amadeus
I've been posting a lot of slick music and video productions and I think it's time to do something a little more homespun and raw (in the production sense, not in a content sense). Out of Montreal, off their new EP "Big Life, Big Leaf (Hand Drawn Dracula & Sonic Cathedral)".
09/12 Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Constipation Blues
In honour of what is likely going to be a truly terrible Sunday for me (purging my digestive tract from one end to the other ahead of my first colonoscopy on Monday... preventative medicine, not in response to any symptoms, fyi), I present music about the opposite of what I'll be dealing with (although the end of the song is probably accurate, heh). Dark humour for sure, but the musicianship of Hawkins and band is absolutely next level! 💩
Update: I deeply underestimated the impact this procedure would have on my life. I was not able to poop properly until September 29... with several days being incapacitated by constipation (wasn't able to get over it until I got a recommendation from a pharmacist for a "violent" [my words] laxative, and it still took a week after that point to get back to anything normal). I do wonder if I cursed myself by posting this song. Anyway, they didn't find anything of immediate concern up there when they went in, which is worth it to me to have gone through it for. A good friend of mine was not so fortunate.
09/13 BALTHVS - Liminal Stages (Dark Session)
I've just taken my first dose of Purg-Atory™ ahead of my procedure tomorrow afternoon (have been on a clear fluids diet so far today, and a low bulk diet this past week). In case I forget, here is the music for today: out of Columbia (the country), a skilled and chilled vibe.
09/14 Danielle Ponder - God of You
Holy heck wow, what a voice, what a song (and what a video)! Trained a lawyer who worked as a "public defender" in New York state for a decade before making music her full time pursuit in 2022.
09/15 Triggerfinger - On My Back
I've seen a few videos by this Belgian band and was never quite sure what to make of them. They seem to go more for vibe than punch, and to always have weird "dance" moves in their videos. I did like this one more than the others. Now a 2 piece (RIP bassist Van Bruystegem).
09/16 Death Cassette - Cheaper to Die
So much good music comes out of Winnipeg! If you can't guess from the thumbnail for the video, this is pretty much straight up punk (with a guitar solo for good measure). She has the voice to pull it off (not everyone does), and the band is solid and sounds great.
09/17 Flore Laurentienne - Fleuve I (CBC Music Live)
Streamed way too late today, but here's is the music for Thursday anyway. A live performance combining orchestral acoustic stringed instruments with electronics and percussion. I wish they had given the strings parts more complexity, but I would have loved to have seen this performance.
09/18 Poppy - Metal (Gary Numan Cover, San Diego, 2019)
Today music is an unexpected cover of an amazing Gary Numan song, in the sense I'm surprised this was something she would bring to the stage. The guitarists are definitely the stars, but she delivers a solid anime inspired (I presume) performance. Edit: this song gives me chills every time. Even this cover.
09/19 Hooverphonic - Danger Zone (Live at Koningin Elisabethzaal, 2012)
How about some symphonic and sultry trip hop music today? Not enough for you? Wow... Okay, in the comments: Hooverphonic was commissioned by Brussels Airlines to take their safety warning and turn it into a song and video with imagery inspired by Belgian artist René Magritte.
Bonus track: Hooverphonic - Brussels Airlines Safety Video 2022
As mentioned above... This safety video commissioned from Hooverphonic, which used the standard text from the airline, ran on Brussels Airlines flights between 2022 and 2025. The band has released 12 studio albums (from 1996 to 2024) and represented Belgium at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2020/21.
youtu.be/wcDDxty3zdA
09/20 Gabrielle Cavassa - Diavola
Let's stay sultry but go film noir with this Usonian jazz vocalist for today's music and video (dropped 3 days ago). Actually shot on 16mm film. Having a martini glass at hand (doesn't need to be alcohol) seems fitting. CW: implied violence, dancers at end are flimsily clad.
09/21 Audrey LeCrone - I Wish You Love
What's happening to me? More sultry music but this time more of a torch song by this New Orleans jazz diva. I don't tend to resonate with breakup songs, but this one is how I tend to feel myself: "it was good but it didn't work out, and I honestly wish you all the best". ❤️🫂
09/22 Crash Vegas - Inside Out
Moving away from the sultry songs with an only slightly sultry song by Canadian band Crash Vegas (formed in Toronto, this is off their first album in 1990). I do like this song, but Moving Too Fast off the same album is probably my favourite vibe on it (see comment).
Bonus track: Crash Vegas - Moving Too Fast
There's no video for this song, but here it is anyway. I always got a bit of a Sugarcubes feel from this one. Love the energy and drive (pun intended) of it!
youtu.be/gKkaxcPAq4M
09/22 National Velvet - Sex Gorilla
Okay, Can-con music two fer today. Video and lyrics are fairly tame given the title of the song... In fact, the song was originally written as "sarsaparilla" but fans kept mishearing and so they just leaned into it, heh. Bring on The Goddess (Amazon?) Maria Del Mar... 🔥
09/23 Kalandra - Lost in the Dark
I finished out August with one of their songs, but I am posting more of their new music today. So beautiful and heartbreaking in its power and emotion. A video that captures the feeling of being shocked to the core by experiencing a piece of art that resonates far too deeply.
09/24 Kate Nash - Spilt Milk
Off her new album (her sixth), coming out early 2027, today's music and video has a definitely punk aesthetic to it. "Well, how come they're in charge? / How come they get to say no?". I need more anger at the status quo in my life and really enjoyed this! Out of the UK.
09/25 Son Lux - Out Into Us
Truly evocative music and video with r&b, jazz, trip hop, and electronica influences. An oppressive landscape where community and family and love still thrive, and transcendence awaits those brave enough to see the path. Off their 9th album (2 of which are movie soundtracks).
09/26 Los Sara Fontán - Fats Cobra/Wall-e/Visita de Obra/Elektra (Les Feres! Session)
I absolutely love the ferality, passion, improvisation, and skill of this performance (4 songs). Sara Fontán and Edi Pou bring a punk ethic (if not in sound, then in attitude) to their music grounded in place and mood. Shot at the Museu del Ciment de Castellar de n'Hug, Spain. When she starts wielding her violin... chef's kiss!
09/27 Pere Ubu - George Had A Hat
I've been building up to this one: George Had A Hat is one of the most important songs in my life: it made it clear to me there were no rules for music and no one aesthetic to make a song great (or grate perhaps for most that might listen to this, it is extremely chaotic and more than a little silly). Makes me think of Curious George and The Man With The Yellow Hat 🙂. Audio only.
09/28 TOMORA - Celebration
A while back I posted an article that discussed the music of TOMORA (Tom Rolands of The Chemical Brothers and Aurora), but I haven't posted a standalone piece. Dropped last week, an absolute bop. Every time I see the band name though, my brain goes "Tomorrow! Tomorrow! I love ya tomorrow!" 🎵
09/29 Heart - Sylvan Song/Dream of the Archer (Off "The Road Home" Live DVD, 1995)
From one of my favourite concert videos: some of my favourite music of all time. This particular performance of these pieces is beyond next level. I have watched it so many times (I even found a copy of the DVD) and it takes my breath away every time. Nobody is more inspiring.
09/30 Dee Long with Randy Cooke - Little Neutrino (Klaatu Cover)
For my birthday, I am posting music that either a) ruined my life, or b) gave my life purpose. I had listened to the original of this song from the Klaatu album "3:47 EST" on repeat for two weeks in my late teens on a Walkman in the 80s lying on the dorm room floor of my girlfriend at the time and realized what the universe is under the hood (no joke, and no drugs... what quantum mechanics and general relativity actually describe). The original was written by Dee Long, and this is his solo cover of it 15 years ago, and 55 years since the original release... it's good, but not close to the said same, but it has a spiffy video and the session drummer is amazing). Because of this song... in 2009, I quit my six figure job (which, admittedly, was pure hell) and went to university as a physically mature student to get an undergraduate degree in theoretical physics (which I did, with honours). I had presumed that understanding better what we know about the universe would finally put the idea out of my head as nonsense; however, it did nothing to suggest I was wrong (distressingly, quite the opposite, in fact). However, I have spent all my time since trying to keep a roof over my head and food in my pantry, and have had zero time to pursue this revelation I am burdened with and will probably take this framework with me to the grave. And on that note, one more year behind me... still doing crazy interesting things, but I remain haunted by the knowledge that has been wasted by giving it to me.
P.S. Did you know that 100,000,000,000,000 neutrinos pass through your body every second and that their mass oscillates as they travel through space and time [they morph between their three "flavours", the electron neutrino (ν_e), muon neutrino (ν_μ), and the tau neutrino (ν_τ)]. We know they have mass (experiments like the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory proved it... and yes, I got to visit there once), and we have detected them, and we actually send human-made beams of neutrinos through the Earth as part of experiments trying to uncover their nature (e.g. DUNE and CNGS) but we have never measured what their masses are (it is too small for our instruments).
Bonus Track: Klaatu - Little Neutrino
Here is the original (still brings tears to my eyes)...
youtu.be/pSfCQNW00dk
