🎵 Music
On this page I'm using the Last.fm API to display some of my most listened albums over the past few months. Check out the vinyl label colors that are detected from the album artwork.
Somewhere close to Manchester’s ever changing city centre, as the sun fades and peeks through the newest glass facade, you’ll find Shaking Hand. One part in shadow, the other basking in prisms of light as they sketch out their own sonic landscapes in the dusty redbrick mill they call home. One that is just about clinging on from the encroaching developments that surround them. Against this back-drop where buildings are constantly torn down & built back again, the three piece craft away. Read more on Last.fm
Dry Cleaning are an English post-punk band formed in South London in 2017. The group consists of vocalist Florence Shaw, guitarist Tom Dowse, bassist Lewis Maynard, and drummer Nick Buxton. Noted for their distinctive blend of motorik riffs, angular guitar work, and Shaw’s spoken-word vocal delivery, Dry Cleaning quickly gained attention for their unconventional lyrics, dry wit, and minimalist approach. After initially coming together as longtime friends experimenting with instrumentals Read more on Last.fm
The Heavy Heavy is a British five-piece retro-inspired rock band based in London. Read more on Last.fm
Toby Pazner, long time keyboard/vibe player on many Truth & Soul (record company) releases, has come into his own and delivered a sweet little 45 under the band name, The Olympians. The 45 represents Pazner's musical aesthetic and features El Michels Affair on horns and other members of the NY funk elite from bands such as The Dap Kings, Antibalas and Menahan Street Band. With a mixture of soulful sounds reminiscent of Isaac Hayes, Mickey and the Soul Generation Read more on Last.fm
Tyler Ballgame is an American singer-songwriter from Rhode Island currently based in Los Angeles, CA. Read more on Last.fm
Buck Meek (born in Wimberley, TX, on July 10 1987) is an American musician best known as the guitarist and backing vocalist of Big Thief. Meek 's eponymous solo album was released in 2018. Meek learned his first guitar chords from his mother around the age of six and played jazz manouche and outlaw country as a teen. He graduated from the Berklee College of Music in the late 2000s, finishing just as soon-to-be-collaborator Adrianne Lenker enrolled. Read more on Last.fm
Greg Freeman is an American singer-songwriter, indie rocker and multi-instrumentalist from [placeforned]Burlington, VT, United States. His work has been labelled as alternative country. Freeman was raised in Bethesda, MD, and released his debut studio album in 2022, titled I Looked Out, through the record label Bud Tapes. After the album slowly gained attention, it was reissued in 2024 through Transgressive Records imprint Canvasback Music. Freeman's second full-length album came out in August 2025, titled Burnover. Read more on Last.fm
Silversun Pickups is an American alternative rock band which formed in Los Angeles, California, United States in 2000. The band members are friends who had played together previously or in mutual friends' bands. The name Silversun Pickups refers to a liquor store across the road L.A. rock-scene hang Silverlake Lounge. One of the band’s friends would often arrive at the store late at night to buy liquor, and would be as such making the "Silversun Pickup". Read more on Last.fm
The Cribs is an English 3-piece indie band from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England which formed in 2001 and consists of twins Gary and Ryan Jarman and their younger brother Ross. In August 2008 Johnny Marr, former guitarist for The Smiths and Modest Mouse, became the official fourth member of the band. On April 11th 2011, Marr's departure from the group was announced on their website, and The Cribs now continue as a 3-piece again. They are signed to the Wichita Recordings label Read more on Last.fm
The Stone Roses was an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1983. They were one of the pioneering groups of the Madchester movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The band's classic and most prominent lineup consisted of vocalist Ian Brown, guitarist John Squire, bassist Mani, and drummer Reni. The Stone Roses released their eponymous debut album in 1989. The album was a breakthrough success for the band, receiving widespread critical acclaim, and is regarded by many as one of the greatest British albums ever recorded. Read more on Last.fm
This is Lorelei is the recording project of New York based musician and multi-instrumentalist, Nate Amos. Amos is a ceaseless student of musical craft, especially as it relates to the uncharted areas of pop music experimentalism. He grew up in a musical household in Virginia and then Vermont, and spent many of his formative years in a studio environment. His highly acute ear and fascination for musical composition were imbued at an early age and have perpetually motivated his evolution as a musical thinker. Read more on Last.fm