The Perlich Post

Saturday, May 30, 2026

That time The Ventures' Nokie Edwards teamed up with Gene Moles

https://youtu.be/grjacIPWMuM

https://youtu.be/s69xLIrk3SA

RIP reggae archivist, writer & champion Steve Barrow, 1945-2026

Sadly Steve Barrow, co-founder of archival reggae label Blood & Fire, has passed away. He'll be greatly missed.

One of the best friends roots reggae and dub ever had, Steve Barrow was a record collector, writer and DJ who ran the Daddy Kool record shop selling Jamaican music in London's Soho district starting in 1975. Building an impressive vinyl collection while amassing a deep knowledge of the breadth of Jamaica's vast musical exports, Barrow lent his expertise to Trojan and Island where he assembled crucial compilations of important overlooked recordings before co-founding the influential Blood & Fire archival label in 1993.

Barrow and his Blood & Fire crew helped kick-start the 90s resurgence of interest in dub by releasing an unbroken string of brilliant collections, showcasing well-chosen gems from King Tubby, Keith Hudson, Horace Andy, Yabby You, Glen Brown, The Congos, and others in tastefully designed packages that were always informatively annotated and drawn from the best available sources with a portion of the proceeds going to artists/producers responsible. The superior quality of Blood & Fire's output forced more established labels to rethink how archival compilations were done. Suddenly, it was no longer sufficient to knock out bootleg quality comps with a slap-dash sleeves, sans accompanying notes and session credits – everyone had to raise their game.

Steve Barrow was also the co-author (with Peter Dalton) of The Rough Guide To Reggae Music, the first authoritative and comprehensive reggae guide covering the entire history of the music and related subgenres as well as providing insightful profiles of key players. Rest in power Steve, you'll be greatly missed. Check out a few interviews with Steve and a few of his boffo collections.

JG Thirlwell just shared a new playlist for your listening pleasure

JG Thirlwell recently put together a set of his favourite tunes – yep, King Buzzo's there – and curated a selection of his remixes.

Listen to JG Thirlwell's May 30th playlist on his tumblr page right here... view the tracklist below. Check out a selection of JG Thrilwell/Foetus remixes created for other artists he has thoughtfully compiled right here.

Playlist 05.30.26

Seefeel Sol Hz. (Warp)

Jehnny Beth You Heartbreaker You (Fiction)

Melvins / Napalm Death Savage Imperial Death March (Ipecac)

Olev Muska My mouth sang / my heart sank (Glitch Please)

Noveller I Am The Weather (Experimentia)

Aja Ireland Moult Mouth (Infinite Machine)

Ital Tek Mind Abandon (Planet Mu)

Lip Critic Theft World (Partisan)

Avett Bros / Mike Patton AVTT/PTTN (Ipecac)

Tak Ensemble Between The Air (Tak Editions)

The Boojums The Boojums (Having Fun)

Speedy J Walkman (Stoor)

Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite (Candid)

Dalek Brilliance of a Falling Moon (Ipecac)

John Luther Adams Horizon (Cold Blue Music)

Hannah Peel Underland OST / The Midwich Cuckoos OST (Invada)

Trigger Cut A History Of Junk (DIY Records)

Fire-toolz Lavender Network (Warp)

Zosha Warpeha I Grow Accustomed To The Dark (Outside Time)

Kneecap Fenian (Heavenly)

Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (Impulse)

Eddy Current Suppression Ring release fifth album "In Light Of Recent Events"

Eddy Current Suppression Ring's much-anticipated new album In Light Of Recent Events is out now in Australia!

Here's the scoop...

Australia's Eddy Current Suppression Ring return with an album we had all been hoping for. Add the recent Total Control reissues (feat. the masterful guitar work of ECSR's Mikey Young) to get closer to free shipping. Plenty of great titles in stock now, treat yourself...

Eddy Current Suppression Ring make a surprise return with their fifth album. True to form, it finds the disinterested careerists sidestepping expectation and working on their own terms, in their own time.

Dialled in through closed-door weekly jams across 2025, that pent-up energy has only leaked via pseudonym-billed small-room shows as Jimmy and the Ringtones and Top Hats, record shop in-stores and country detours, plus a pair of phantom straight-to-YouTube singles (‘Swimming Hole’ and ‘Hard To Be Moved’), each with accompanying films by Chris Middlebrook and Amiel Courtin-Wilson respectively.

Modern-day anxiety and human disillusionment press through the album’s darker, more politically aware subject matter, as suburban melodramas and tender, hard-hitting reflections articulate everything you’ve never been able to.

Taped within the band’s signature close-quarters claustrophobia, Brendan Suppression purges his dome with a newly awakened vocal range, while riff savant Eddy Current bleeds through quicksilver, blood-raw scratches, cut against the tension-wound, locked-in low end of Danny Current and Rob Solid. Get a copy from Melbourne's Strangeworld Records right here.

Friday, May 29, 2026

Nick Flanagan launches his new album Mortal Komedy at Thirsty & Miserable

Nick Flanagan says he'll have vinyl copies of his new comedy record at Thirsty & Miserable on June 3.

Writes the Flanster...

"Can’t even believe this is happening! My new album MORTAL KOMEDY is out June 1st. I just picked up the vinyl copies yesterday. They look really good. I’m so happy with how the album turned out. Thank you to the monarch, Davida Nemeroff for putting out the vinyl on her label Tujunga and to Michael Palumbo for recording the show and patiently mixing and co-producing it with me!Would love to see you at the release show." - Nick Flanagan

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Yes, you've heard those things right. Nick Flanagan! Mortal Komedy! Next Wednesday (June 3)! Tickets very very limited as Thirsty and Miserable (2102 Dundas St West), while being a great bar, is SMALL. That means not many seats! Perhaps you want one of those seats? You should. Tickets are $27.94 advance. Get 'em while you can via Dice right here.

Nick, aka FLANS, will have copies of 'Mortal Komedy' on vinyls! With an S! Brought to you by Tujunga Records!

He will be joined for the show by The Big 3 (Ben Stager, Sam Burns, Nathan O’Hare) & Ahn Phung (flautist). Wow!

Do you like jokes and or laughing? Well. You know what to do.

Eleni Mandell's fab new Tailspin album is out today!

Eleni Mandell's enchanting new album Tailspin was released today (Friday, May 29). Check out the video for "Music and Motion" along with a few tracks.

Writes Eleni...

"Hello!!!!! I made a new record, and I just dropped my new single, "Music and Motion."
I'm so, so, so, so excited!
It's been 7 years since I released a full-length album, and this is my first single from it - Tailspin will be out in the world May 29th, and I am beyond thrilled to share this project with you.
We are living through such tough times. I hope this song will sprinkle a little joy into your lives!
Go stream the hell out of my latest release, "Music and Motion", wherever you stream music, and grab the pre-order link for the new album right here: https://www.elenimandell.com/."

Check out the video clip for the first single "Music and Motion" directed by Manny Marquez below along with a few tracks from the new album: "Teardrop Ghost," "Lemon Tree," "White Car," "Life Is Sometimes," and "Earthly Home." Watch Eleni's charming acoustic duet performance of "Lemon Tree" with Milo Jones right here.