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Better Late Than Never: Laughing Stock's Half Time Roundup 2025
The best things in music of the year so far
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Our half year round up is here, where our writers pick their favourite music based things of the year so far. Feat. the likes of aya, Djrum, These New Puritans, fka twigs, MIKE, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Beatrice Dillion and more! Have a read/like/share: laughingstock.substack.com/p/better-lat...
Good new stuff this week...
Geese - Getting Killed - the remarkable rise of Geese continues apace, no one is sounding as good as this lot at the moment, Cameron Winter on a mad hot streak.
geesebandnyc.bandcamp.com/album/gettin...
Geese - Getting Killed - the remarkable rise of Geese continues apace, no one is sounding as good as this lot at the moment, Cameron Winter on a mad hot streak.
geesebandnyc.bandcamp.com/album/gettin...
Getting Killed, by Geese
11 track album
geesebandnyc.bandcamp.com
September 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Good new stuff this week...
Geese - Getting Killed - the remarkable rise of Geese continues apace, no one is sounding as good as this lot at the moment, Cameron Winter on a mad hot streak.
geesebandnyc.bandcamp.com/album/gettin...
Geese - Getting Killed - the remarkable rise of Geese continues apace, no one is sounding as good as this lot at the moment, Cameron Winter on a mad hot streak.
geesebandnyc.bandcamp.com/album/gettin...
This week's new releases...
Kara-Lis Coverdale - A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever - Coverdale's second album of the year is another absolute gem, a gorgeous piano lead affair with hints of darkness beneath the surface
kara-liscoverdale.bandcamp.com/album/a-seri...
Kara-Lis Coverdale - A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever - Coverdale's second album of the year is another absolute gem, a gorgeous piano lead affair with hints of darkness beneath the surface
kara-liscoverdale.bandcamp.com/album/a-seri...
A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever, by Kara-Lis Coverdale
9 track album
kara-liscoverdale.bandcamp.com
September 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This week's new releases...
Kara-Lis Coverdale - A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever - Coverdale's second album of the year is another absolute gem, a gorgeous piano lead affair with hints of darkness beneath the surface
kara-liscoverdale.bandcamp.com/album/a-seri...
Kara-Lis Coverdale - A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever - Coverdale's second album of the year is another absolute gem, a gorgeous piano lead affair with hints of darkness beneath the surface
kara-liscoverdale.bandcamp.com/album/a-seri...
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Hello! I will now reveal the songs shortlisted for the 2025 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize. Winner wins £20 (cash).
September 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Hello! I will now reveal the songs shortlisted for the 2025 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize. Winner wins £20 (cash).
Time to bring back the new releases update we used to do on that other website. September as good a time as any as new music ramps up…so here are our recommendations for this week
September 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Time to bring back the new releases update we used to do on that other website. September as good a time as any as new music ramps up…so here are our recommendations for this week
Our half year round up is here, where our writers pick their favourite music based things of the year so far. Feat. the likes of aya, Djrum, These New Puritans, fka twigs, MIKE, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Beatrice Dillion and more! Have a read/like/share: laughingstock.substack.com/p/better-lat...
Better Late Than Never: Laughing Stock's Half Time Roundup 2025
The best things in music of the year so far
laughingstock.substack.com
July 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Our half year round up is here, where our writers pick their favourite music based things of the year so far. Feat. the likes of aya, Djrum, These New Puritans, fka twigs, MIKE, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Beatrice Dillion and more! Have a read/like/share: laughingstock.substack.com/p/better-lat...
It's too good 🥹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_ab...
Hold Me In A New Way
YouTube video by Elaine Howley - Topic
www.youtube.com
May 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
It's too good 🥹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_ab...
We went to Rewire in The Hague and had a wonderful time; here are 6 key performances in our 55th edition of Laughing Stock, feat. aya, Moin, @moreeazemusic.bsky.social & claire rousay, Kali Malone, Lord Spikeheart, and Panda Bear: laughingstock.substack.com/p/rewire-202...
Rewire 2025: 6 Key Performances
The Hague brings the best in weird music to justice over three thrilling nights
laughingstock.substack.com
April 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We went to Rewire in The Hague and had a wonderful time; here are 6 key performances in our 55th edition of Laughing Stock, feat. aya, Moin, @moreeazemusic.bsky.social & claire rousay, Kali Malone, Lord Spikeheart, and Panda Bear: laughingstock.substack.com/p/rewire-202...
Cannot get enough of this at the moment. Thrilling stuff, can't wait to see it presented live at Rewire next week
aya's excellent new album hexed!' is out today - LP/Digital. Goes without saying that she has made an incredible album here, beautifully made and performed and confrontational Buy DL here - support new music: aya-yco.bandcamp.com/album/hexed #newmusicfriday #hyperdub
aya - hexed!
Listen to hexed! by aya.
ayahexed.lnk.to
March 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Cannot get enough of this at the moment. Thrilling stuff, can't wait to see it presented live at Rewire next week
fka twigs astonishing last night in Manchester. An incredible show of physicality, scope, scale, bangerz, emotion, and that voice, it will be hard to top this year. Sell yer organs to get a ticket
March 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
fka twigs astonishing last night in Manchester. An incredible show of physicality, scope, scale, bangerz, emotion, and that voice, it will be hard to top this year. Sell yer organs to get a ticket
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“I had to sneak in my keffiyeh and bring it out on the red carpet” - sheer joy to chat to Aram Sabbah, breakout star of To a Land Unknown, a Sidney Lumet-inspired thriller about two exiled Palestinian cousins urgently seeking a way out of Athens @dazeddigital.com www.dazeddigital.com/film-tv/arti...
To a Land Unknown charts the tough path of two Palestinian refugees
We speak to Aram Sabbah, star of To a Land Unknown, about his first major acting role and sneaking a keffiyeh onto the Cannes red carpet
www.dazeddigital.com
February 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
“I had to sneak in my keffiyeh and bring it out on the red carpet” - sheer joy to chat to Aram Sabbah, breakout star of To a Land Unknown, a Sidney Lumet-inspired thriller about two exiled Palestinian cousins urgently seeking a way out of Athens @dazeddigital.com www.dazeddigital.com/film-tv/arti...
Our rolling 2025 playlists have been updated with very excellent songs from the likes of Quiet Husband, Barker, Darkside, Joy Orbison, Destroyer, fka twigs, AIOA & Iceboy Violet, and many many more. Listen and follow here on Sp*tify: open.spotify.com/playlist/22n...
Laughing Stock 2025
Playlist · Will Palmer · 30 items · 7 saves
open.spotify.com
February 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Our rolling 2025 playlists have been updated with very excellent songs from the likes of Quiet Husband, Barker, Darkside, Joy Orbison, Destroyer, fka twigs, AIOA & Iceboy Violet, and many many more. Listen and follow here on Sp*tify: open.spotify.com/playlist/22n...
Sunday reading - a night in Stockport (the New Berlin) with Milan W: laughingstock.substack.com/p/all-the-wa...
February 2, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Sunday reading - a night in Stockport (the New Berlin) with Milan W: laughingstock.substack.com/p/all-the-wa...
All the Way: Milan W. Comes to Stockport. Edition 54 of Laughing Stock sees @dickiewalker.bsky.social head to MØ6B in Stockport to watch Milan W play songs from his stunning Leave Another Day album. Have a read/share/like pls thx
laughingstock.substack.com/p/all-the-wa...
laughingstock.substack.com/p/all-the-wa...
All the Way: Milan W. Comes To Stockport
An intoxicating evening at MØ6B
laughingstock.substack.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
All the Way: Milan W. Comes to Stockport. Edition 54 of Laughing Stock sees @dickiewalker.bsky.social head to MØ6B in Stockport to watch Milan W play songs from his stunning Leave Another Day album. Have a read/share/like pls thx
laughingstock.substack.com/p/all-the-wa...
laughingstock.substack.com/p/all-the-wa...
Very sad to see Longform Editions end, but what a library they leave behind
After more than 160 releases, Longform Editions will be releasing its final handful of experimental offerings on February 12. We spoke to the project's founder about the legacy they're leaving behind
Longform Editions, a Bastion of Experimental Sounds, Is Shutting Down
After more than 160 releases, the project’s founder talks about its legacy, why it’s ending, and what’s next.
www.hearingthings.co
January 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Very sad to see Longform Editions end, but what a library they leave behind
