Coaster: A Happy Sad

Dutch folk-tinged slowcore duo Coaster are dipping their feet into slightly louder and harsher music on their new album A Happy Sad. Guitarists Paul Dijkman and Bart Appel let their instruments growl a bit more every now and then, with Dust and Fear as the prime examples. Bedroom pop meets shoegaze, once again proving that the sum can be greater than its parts.

Their music is about connection, an invitation to step into their world wherein it is safe to dream and worry without anyone judging you. That could have led to a faceless, sugarcoated collection of songs, but their quiet intensity pulls the listener back in. A Happy Sad is gentle and sturdy at the same time.

Phish 2026 Fall tour SBD + torrents: 2026/10/09 Jacksonville, FL

Jacksonville, FL 2026 poster by Showdeer

Phish
2026/10/09
VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena
Jacksonville, FL

Set 1:

1. Tweezer >
2. Runaway Jim
3. Reba[1]
4. Tweezer ->
5. Plasma ->
6. Tweezer ->
7. Plasma
8. Pebbles and Marbles
9. Dirt >
10. Chalk Dust Torture[2]

Baby Scream (feat. Eze Gruber): Limbo

Valencia-based Argentinian power pop musician Juan Pablo Mazzola planned to release the material for the new Baby Scream album as Limbo as a collection of acoustic tracks, a concept had explored on his Castell de Pop. He invited his fellow expat and keyboard player Eze Gruber, with whom he had recorded the Loco Club 2023 live EP, to fill out the sound and slowly but surely the pair gravitated to a louder sound, sharing the feeling of being lost in a country where people speak the same language, but is also quite different.

Wandering in an environment that never feels like home, even after living in Spain for so long, inspired Mazzola to dig into his own experiences as well as others who share likewise emotions, with some of them trying to find solace by smoking a lot of pot (Puppets). He also looks at the world at large that is going to shit in ways nobody could have predicted (21st Century Bullshit), with nutjobs in office who don't give a fuck (The Jester).

Bill Evans: "Across The Alps - The Lugano & Pescara Concerts" Black Friday release

Jazz pianist Bill Evans played with his trio in Lugano, Switzerland, in 1967 and in Pescara, Italy, in 1969. Eddie Gomez played bass at both shows. Arnie Wise was on drums in Lugano and Marty Morell had taken over in Pescara. Recordings from these shows have been rounded up for the 2LP Across The Alps - The Lugano & Pescara Concerts which be released on Black Friday (November 27). 3750 copies worldwide. Track listing not yet known.

» billevansofficial.com

Steven Wilson: the Innerviews interview

photo: Kevin Westenberg

Anil Prasad interviewed Steven Wilson about his new album Requiem for a Village for his Innerviews website. They also talk about his work with No-Man, Porcupine Tree and Storm Corrosion, and his work as a sought-after ATMOS mixer. His love for folk horror, under the influence of British TV shows he watched as a kid, is all over his new album:

This idea is very relevant in the age of social media because this community is relatively cut off. It’s not part of the digital highway. These people are very insular. That’s the great thing about folk horror—the idea of going into a community that’s idyllic on the surface, but there’s something very perverse, peculiar, and eccentric underneath. Some might say pagan. The idea of having your own religious beliefs, which have no bearing on the rest of the world, is at the heart of a lot of folk horror.