Daily Jam - Roscoe

It's hard to believe this year is almost done.  It has very much flown by, both the good parts and bad.  Ponder on that with a classic from Denton, Texas indie band Midlake.  Listen to "Roscoe" below, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Love Yer Brain

I understand that Steven Drozd recently left The Flaming Lips.  With Michael Ivins having departed a couple years back, that leaves Wayne Coyne as the sole remaining original member.  I get the feeling that he may not be the most fun person to work with.  Anyway, here's a track from the band from happier times.  Listen to "Love Yer Brain" below, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Bitter-Sweet

Back in the '90s for the "Velvet Goldmine" soundtrack, the filmmakers put together a supergroup called The Venus in Furs consisting of Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, Suede's Bernard Butler, Grant Lee Buffalo's Paul Kimble, and Roxy Music's Andy Mackay.  Here they are covering Roxy Music's "Bitter-Sweet."  Listen below, our Daily Jam.

SUICIDEWAVE

Here's some dark, brooding, and haunting electronic music from an artist called SUICIDEWAVE.  Listen to "Mistake" below and download the "Something" EP here from Untitled Burial.

Friday Horror Trailer - Wrong Turn 2: Dead End

Daily Jam - Ramona

It's my wife's birthday today, so here's a love song by Beck.  Listen to "Ramona" below, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Christmas Time Is Here (Instrumental)

Merry Christmas everybody!  Do something good today.  Here's the Vince Guaraldi Trio with some holiday music.  Listen to "Christmas Time Is Here (Instrumental)" below, our Daily Jam.

Romance

Fresh off one of my favorite releases of the year, London artist and producer Romance dropped a new seasonal tune today for our Christmastime listening.  Check out the beautiful, melancholy ambience of "All I Want for Christmas Is You" below, and think of snow falling.  And download it here from ECSTATIC.

Daily Jam - Gone the Dream

Irish alt-rock band Ash's 1996 album "1977" is one of those records that always transports me back in time to when i listened to it as a teenager.  Listening now and i'm a senior in high school again with all the ups and downs and good and bad that that entails.  Here they are with "Gone the Dream," our Daily Jam.

Still

St. Louis shoegaze band Still dropped a new single today.  Merry Christmas everybody!  Check out the noisy and dreamy "Disarray" below and download the track here from Sunday Drive Records.

Daily Jam - Your Silent Face

I really need to start wrapping presents today.  Here's some New Order.  Listen to "Your Silent Face," our Daily Jam.

Dimples'

Here's some more music i missed out on from earlier in the year, this time around with some mellow, hazy, druggy psych pop from Dimples'.  Slow everything down just a little bit with "Pluto Return" below and download the band's "Obscure Residue" album here from Laughable Recordings.

Daily Jam - Life's What You Make It

Yesterday i posted a track from Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man, AKA Talk Talk's Paul Webb.  Well, speaking of Talk Talk, here they are with a track from their 1986 album "The Colour or Spring."  This is the album when they started to set a little weird and the segue into their arty post rock period.  Listen to "Life's What You Make It" below, our Daily Jam.

Düül Suns

Here's some groovy new psychedelia from New York band Düül Suns.  Dig on the far-out sounds of "Jealousy" below and snag the self-titled EP here.

Daily Jam - Funny Time of Year

Winter officially starts now, but we've got nothing but 70-80 degree days ahead of us here in the greater Austin area...which i think sucks.  So here's to listening to some music to put me in an appropriately chilly mood.  Here's Beth Gibbons (Portishead) and Rustin Man (Talk Talk's Paul Webb) with "Funny Time of Year," our Daily Jam.

Bono / Burattini

Experimental Italian duo Bono / Burattini have a new album coming our way in March of next year.  Pre-order the upcoming "Ora Sono un Lago" LP here from Maple Death Records and listen to the analog electronic sounds of the title track below.

Daily Jam - The Nurse Who Loved Me

Doing my normal Saturday thing where we clean the shit out of the house while watching college football.  And listening to, what in my personal opinion, is one of the greatest albums of all time, Failure's "Fantastic Planet."  Listen to "The Nurse Who Loved Me" below, our Daily Jam.

Hey! You! It's My Favorite 10 Movies of 2025 that Didn't Come Out in 2025

And now it's time for my quick annual recap of one of my favorite things to do: discover old movies i've never seen before.  My time being what it is, work and family and such, i didn't get to experience quite as many first-time viewings this year as i would have liked, but what i did get to see was wild.  These are my 10 favorites: a Japanese ghost story, a Dirty Dozen aping  Hong Kong action flick, an Australian thriller/adventure with kids in peril, a bizarre "documentary" about witchcraft that plays kind of like an educational film, a trashy John Waters classic i finally got around to seeing, a Peter Bogdanovich character study featuring Ben Gazzara as a man of integrity who also happens to be an expat pimp, a bonkers erotic thriller/sex comedy hybrid, a total fucking fever dream directed by none other than Norman Mailer, Nicolas Roeg's stunning second film, and an insane and exploitative martial arts flick with two, count 'em, two extended, completely nude fight scenes.  Yeah, it was a wild year of movies.  Check out my list below.

1. Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit (1968)

2. Eastern Condors (1987)

3. Fortress (1985)

4. Legend of the Witches (1970)

Couldn't find a trailer for this one.

5. Polyester (1981)

6. Saint Jack (1979)

7. They're Playing with Fire (1984)

8. Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987)

9. Walkabout (1971)

10. Women on the Run (1993)

I'll be back again on New Year's Eve with one more list for 2025, my favorite new movies.

Friday Ho-Ho-Horror Trailer - Black Christmas

Daily Jam - Your Hidden Dreams

One of the perks of my job is that i can take off a full two weeks at Christmas.  It's awesome.  Take advantage of any and every perk your job might offer you.  Well, those two weeks begin later this afternoon.  To celebrate, here's one of my favorite musical genres: weird electronic psychedelia from the '60s.  Listen to "Your Hidden Dreams" by UK group White Noise below, our Daily Jam.

Hey! You! It's My 10 Favorite Songs of 2025 That Didn't Come Out in 2025

Every year i discover a bunch of old songs i've never heard before that get just as much play (if not sometimes more) than all the new stuff i hear too.  This year, i've narrowed it down to my 10 favorites: a mix of prog, jazz, and neo-classical music from a French composer, some Japanese new wave, a solo effort from the guitarist of The Church, an early lo-fi, alter-ego project from a now famous Austin alt-rock musician, Swedish '90s emo, unearthed solo music from the former guitarist to Siouxsie and The Banshees, early '90s garage punk from Austin, Texas, yearning lo-fi instrumental pop from a late, great artist who never got her due, dark Japanese new age, and some Marc Bolan-produced glam and soul.  Check 'em out.

1. William Sheller - "Introit"

2. D'f - "Something in the Air (12" Mix)"

3. Marty Willson-Piper - "Lantern"

4. Drake Tungsten (Britt Daniel of Spoon) - "He Was Soon To Undergo An Experience For Which His Long Training As An Aristocrat, A Gentleman, And An Officer Had Scarcely Prepared Him"

5. Far Apart - Hazel

6. John McKay - "Flare"

7. The Satans - "Ain't Gotta Choose"

8. Q Lazzarus - "Home"

9. Shiho Yabuki - "Samadhi"

10. Gloria Jones - "Sailors of the Highway"

Make sure to put all of these on your next mix-tape or playlist, and come back once again tomorrow for my favorite first-time movie watches of 2025.

ANDY BOAY

New York based artist ANDY BOAY (Andy White) is one half of the weird and wonderful experimental band Tonstartssbandht.  Over the summer, he dropped new album "You Took that Walk for the Two of Us," and it's also a weird and wonderful little piece of art pop.  Check out the excellent "One & One" below and get the album here from the artist.

Cole Pulice

It's that time of year when i start posting about all the music i missed or neglected from earlier this year.  It's one of the best parts about reading all these year-end favorites lists.  I always find something awesome i didn't hear the first time around.  Anyway, here's some what can only be described as ambient jazz from Oakland artist Cole Pulice from his "Land's End Eternal" LP that dropped all the way back in May.  Dig on the lush and soothing pastoral dreamscape of "After the Rain" below and get the album here from Leaving Records.

Daily Jam - The American Metaphysical Circus

He passed away last month, so let's pour one out composer and multi-instrumentalist Joe Byrd by listening to some of his work with The United States of America.  The band's 1968 self-titled album is essential for anyone with even a passing interest in psychedelic rock.  Listen to "The American Metaphysical Circus" below, our Daily Jam.

Hey! You! It's my 5 Favorite Cover Songs of 2025

To make some extra room on my favorite songs list from yesterday, i removed all the cover songs.  And now i'm posting them today.  While outdoing an original can be a nearly impossible feat, though it's been done a few times, these artists certainly give it a go.  And i love them for that.

Andy Bell (featuring Dot Allison and Michael Rother) - "I'm in Love... (Justin Robertson's Deadstock 33s Remix)"

A whole lot of people, including Ride's Andy Bell, singer/songwriter Dot Allison, Neu!'s Michael Rother and producer Justin Robertson come together for this excellent version of The Passions' "I'm in Love with a German Film Star."

Deary - "No Ordinary Love"

Shoegazy London duo Deary have been one of my favorite acts of the last couple years and this year, they made Sade's "No Ordinary Love" their own,

My Transparent Eye - "Candy Says"

Anyone who likes The Velvet Underground is okay in my book, so kudos to New York's My Transparent Eye.

Cody Blanchard - "I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement"

Shannon and The Clams member Cody Blanchard provided the B-Side to a posthumous Jay Reatard 7" released earlier this year.  He takes a Ramones classic and turns it into something haunting and uniquely his own.

SUSS - "This Land Is Your Land"

New York ambient country and Americana band SUSS essentially provided a soundtrack for the appalling state of things back in January with an absolutely devastating instrumental rendition of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land."  It nails the mood completely.

And on that somber note, tune in again tomorrow for some of my favorite songs of 2025 that did not come out in 2025, though for some reason or another i just now heard for the first time in 2025.