Author: JL
DAFT PUNK – French Electro Disco Duo Released Second Album ‘DISCOVERY’ Today 25 Years Ago
Significant longplayers from yesteryear
12 March 2026
French electro disco tandem DAFT PUNK released
their 2nd full-length DISCOVERY on 12 March 2001,
today 25 years ago.
The album marked a shift from the Chicago house style of their
debut Homework from 1997 to a house style more heavily inspired
by disco, post-disco, garage house, and R&B.
Thomas Bangalter (hamf of DP) described the LP as an exploration
of song structures, musical forms and childhood nostalgia, compared
to the “raw” electronic music of Homework.
Q Magazine (former reknowed British music monthly): “Discovery is vigorous
and innovative in its exploration of old questions and spent ideals. Aa towering,
persuasive tour de force that transcends the dance label with no shortage of
ideas, humour, or brilliance.’
KEY SINGLE
ALBUM
BOURBON & BEYOND FESTIVAL – LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY – 24/27 Sept 2026
Famous Producer MARK RONSON About Today’s Music
12 March 2026
Hello, hello?
R.E.M. Released Their Magnificent Album ‘OUT OF TIME’ Today 35 Years Ago
Significant longplayers from yesteryear
12 March 2026
It seems like ages ago since R.E.M. (1980-2011) was one of the greatest bands on
this planet. After 31 years and 15 LPs they went into history as a once in a lifetime
rock and pop sensation.
One of their best and most successful longplayers is, undoubtedly, their 7th one,
named OUT OF TIME. It was released today 35 years ago, on 12 March 1991.
It featured their giant hit Losing My Religion (almost 2 billion – !! – streams on Spotify).
It was the group’s first No. 1 full-length in the UK. It also topped the charts in the US
and several European countries and sold over 18 million copies worldwide.
Rolling Stone praised the record for achieving a balance between new mainstream
appeal and the band’s original identity, writing, “R.E.M. have managed to simultaneously branch out and consolidate their strengths.”
STREAM
MODEST MOUSE – American Rock Vets Drop Boisterous Banger ‘LOOK HOW FAR…’
Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
12 March 2026
MODEST MOUSE were conceived in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington, and are
currently based in Portland, Oregon. They have released, with changing line-ups,
7 albums, with The Golden Casket from 2021 as their latest.
In 2024 they issued an Expanded 20th Anniversary Edition of their 4th longplayer
Good News For People Who Love Bad News and toured extensively throughout
2024 and 2025, they even played on a cruise ship.
And they don’t get tired of the road. More dates
for 2026 have just been announced (see below).
Lately at their shows, they’ve been playing an unreleased song called LOOK HOW FAR….
To huge fan demand they have the boisterous banger shared online now. Only 115 seconds long, but you know what the repeat button was invited for.
New Tour Dates
ADRENALINE SHOTS – Today: THE HIVES In A Sweaty New York City Club In 2012
12 March 2026
A storm is gonna come. Watch Swedish punk cuckoos THE HIVES turning a tiny club
into a moshpit with a boiling performance of their breakthrough slam dunk I HATE TO TELL YOU I TOLD YOU SO (almost 300 million streams on Spotify) in New York City in 2012.
Mad band, mad frontman, mad song, mad crowd.
WELCOME TO ROCKVILLE In FLORIDA – 7/10 May 2026
REALLY GOOD TIME – Irish Punk Rock Dropouts Have A Weirdo Single Out Named ‘BOB DYLAN WAS ON PAWN STARS IN 2010’
Daily electricity to load your batteries
11 March 2026
Band: REALLY GOOD TIME
Who: 3 Irish punk rock
dropouts from Dublin.
Track: BOB DYLAN WAS ON PAWN STARS IN 2010
Wastefellow (frontman): “The seed for ‘Bob Dylan Was on Pawn Stars in 2010’ was planted
on a bus home, after seeing “A Complete Unknown” at the beginning of last year. While draining the internet for pointless information about and around the film, I discovered Bob Dylan had appeared on Pawn Stars in 2010.
I found this shocking, like an affront to a truth that, while difficult to pin down, I had up until this point felt that I understood about the world. For a moment I was fifteen years old and Bob Dylan was supposed to be mine, and I was never going to live in that world again.”
Pawn Star’s Chumlee got a Bob Dylan LP signed by the legend himself
“Ultimately, its a very serious, stupid, earnest song about getting out of your own head and letting the world around you in. Most of the lyrics were written as myself and Jacque were trying to run up a hill in Cork, and I hope the spirit of finally getting up over that last rise can be heard in the track.”
Single artwork
TUTV: First things first. Bob Dylan is my all-time favorite singer-songwriter (saw him
live 15 times, I’m not 15 anymore). Damn you Chumlee, you’re not even a Dylan fan,
I deserved that signature.
That said, Really Good Time are manic motherrockers, groovin’ and movin’ like a revved-up bulldozer. Chop. Chop. Chop. They railroad their way through this king-sized, punked-up wallop with pelvis-waggling vim and vigour.
Screwy guitars, battering drum & bass, brusque vocals, and a cocksure chorus. Get out of your straitjacket, jump on your pogo-stick, and twiddle around like a complete unknown, with no direction home, like a rolling stone.
Here. Now. Wow.
WEATHER REPORT – Jazz Fusion Legends Released 6th LP ‘BLACK MARKET’ Today 50 Years Ago
Significant longplayers from yesteryear
11 March 2026
WEATHER REPORT was a jazz-fusion collective formed in New York City in 1970.
The band started as a free improvising group with avant-garde and experimental electronic leanings, but along their path, with changing line-ups, they increasingly
steered towards a funky, edgy sound incorporating elements of R&B and native
music from around the world.
Archives WR
After 14 LPs, the curtain fell in 1986.
Their 6th album, named BLACK MARKET, came out
on 11 March 1976, today 50 years ago. It got raving
press reviews.
AllMusic in retrospect: “While it goes without saying that most Weather Report
albums are transition albums, this diverse record is even more transient than most,
paving the way for WR’s most popular period while retaining the old sense of
adventure.”
ALBUM