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Hi! It's Jeff here, Said the Gramophone's punk correspondent. Today is the day that my first novel Temporary Palaces is officially out! My book is about three ambitious punks in their twenties making art, dreaming of a better world, and...
Voilà and please enjoy - for the 21st time - Said the Gramophone's favourite songs of the year. One hundred remedies for the year two thousand twenty-five: selected by me, Sean, up in Montreal. Songs I love more than demon-hunters,...
For the twentieth time, I am here on a blog called Said the Gramophone to share my favourite songs of the year. (No, you didn't read that wrong--it's 20: twice ten, one score) Is it time to quit? It isn't...
The tick-tock of time trips on and here we are again, old friends. Said the Gramophone. Best songs. By now I hope you know the drill. This world needs some kindnesses--it wants more peace, liberation, and music shared between strangers....
Hi everyone! Can you believe it's been a year? It's been a year. You deserve a hug, a rest, a fruitcake. Here's some plain green tea, here's a priceless emerald, here are my 100 favourite songs of 2022: songs I...
Hello world! We're still standing. Here are my 100 favourite songs of 2021: songs I love more than sand-worms, insurrections, and successfully traversing the Suez Canal. Said the Gramophone is an old blog and we publish rarely. Writing about these...
Taqbir - "Sma3" [bandcamp / vinyl] The genius of punk is eternally on the move, a fugitive spirit inspiring the crabby, smart, and sensitive around the globe. My favourite new jam is by woman-fronted Moroccan Taqwacore crew Taqbir. Blasting...
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - "Thick Air"[buy on bandcamp] Until the beginning of June, Nova Scotia was under third-wave lockdown, and now we're in Phase 2 of reopening. It seems we're climbing out of the tunnel, or coming round the...
These are my 100 favourite songs of 2020: songs I love more than solitude, take-out and the immune-responses of bats. What a hell year. What a nightmare. What an endless shit parade. 2020 was a fuckin Grand Canyon of Wretchedness...
Jane Inc. - "Steel" "I can finally think," the hum and the vibrating earth. Earth shifted in pillars. Pillars rearranging in patterns and letters and guts. "I can finally hear," the clouds and the piteous sky. Sky part, a...
Yes, something's coming. 💯...
Eleanor Friedberger - "The River (Destroyer cover)" [buy on bandcamp] Tougher times, these days. There's something circadian about it - you're up, you're down, eventually you're up again. "There's something circadian about it!" I've shouted this now: shouted it...
Bad Bunny ft Sech - "Ignorantes". Today I played with my son in the living-room, a game of pigs and yeti, scampering over mountaintops, and as I did so I listened to Bad Bunny, because I have taken to listening...
Shotgun Jimmie - "Skype Date". A child is shrieking through the wall. Every morning someone practices their saxophone. "When have I ever been shaggier?" Joni asks herself. She is undyed and lonely. She has worn her fur coat for the...
Nova Nova - "Prisoner's Song". [buy] "It's like groundhog day," Julie said, every day like the one before, and yet every evening we sit staring at our screens and squinting into the future, trying to envision it, stuck in...