What Are You Listening To?

[Free]

 

[Isabeau]

Amazing ukulele in flamenco style. Listen for a few seconds, you'll see.

Here is some other (new) stuff from her, described as ukulele surf rock.

 

[Noodles]

 

[Isabeau]

Love this!

Cindy Lee’s ‘Diamond Jubilee’ Resonates As A Feel-Good Indie Story

The left-field critical hit is reminder of when the internet felt bigger than it does now.

uproxx.com

If you relate at all to the previous three paragraphs — and if you are also interested in left-field, word-of-mouth indie-rock hits — there’s a good chance you have fallen under the spell of Diamond Jubilee, a 32-song retro-pop masterwork by a songwriter, guitarist and drag performer based in North Carolina named Patrick Flegel, who currently records and performs under the moniker Cindy Lee. On March 29, Flegel released Diamond Jubilee on YouTube and via a “Wild West internet era”-looking GeoCities site, where they solicited a voluntary $30 fee — in Canadian dollars, as Flegel originally hails from Calgary — for the expansive double album. There were no advance singles, no press photos, and no PR campaign of any kind. It was not available to stream on Spotify or Apple Music, and it was not put up for purchase on Bandcamp. Diamond Jubilee was, for all intents and purposes, off the grid for how music is typically heard and discovered in 2024.

And yet, in just a few short weeks, Diamond Jubilee became one of the most critically acclaimed and — among a small-ish but quickly growing cult following — intensely adored indie albums of recent years.

You can buy album only here. REALISTIK STUDIOS

 

[Noodles]

Love this!

Cindy Lee’s ‘Diamond Jubilee’ Resonates As A Feel-Good Indie Story

The left-field critical hit is reminder of when the internet felt bigger than it does now.

uproxx.com

You can buy album only here. REALISTIK STUDIOS

> Geocities

Ummm. What?

 

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[Essence Lumin]

 

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[Free]

I like the music video, but prefer the album version of the song.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I don't think I've consciously listened to the title track on that album in 30 years. I think I could only name it because there's three killer songs carrying it.

 

[Isabeau]

I like the music video, but prefer the album version of the song.

Video’s not available for me. What’s the title?

 

[Free]

Video’s not available for me. What’s the title?

(I wonder why the first one is restricted everywhere but the U.S.... hrm)

 

[Free]

I've been bouncing around The Midnight Special youtube channel over the past several days. Some cool discoveries, and some old favorites rediscovered.

 

[Free]

I just learned Heart is right now on a world tour. With Cheap Trick. Don't these guys ever tucker out. No time for 70's rock bands to fade away?

Oh well, more Midnight Special for ya:



Bonus, my favorite Heart tune:

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

25 year old guy echoing an 80s sound:

 

[Caete]

 

[Ellie]

 

[Ellie]

 

[Essence Lumin]

Todd Rundgren live in 15 minutes.

 

[Free]

Digging through my music collections.