Tag: music

Top 40 '90s albums, #22: Elliott Smith — XO

A showcase from one of a generation's best songwriters

Bandcamp Friday Recommendations - May 1st, 2026

Welcome back to ULTRAVIOLET-VISIONS, now with a new home! Previously, our blogs were hosted through Tumblr but it's been a while and now there are more blogging tools available than ever. I chose pckt.blog since it's free to use, highly customizable, and connects directly through our Bluesky account through AT protocol. Ideally in the long term we'll have our own website built to host all of our blog posts as well as the UVF music catalog, but in the meantime this is the place to be! While I'll ...

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ULTRAVIOLET-VISIONS

ultraviolet-visions.pckt.blog

Apr 30, 2026

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A Bestiary of the Digital Wilds: The Score

For four voices and one observer. Composed in Lilypond notation after Barry Rountree asked what 32 bars of the bestiary creatures interacting would sound like.

Top 40 '90s albums, #23: Guided by Voices — Bee Thousand

Guided By Voices at their lo-fi peak

All James Bond Theme Songs

Ranked from 24 to 1, by my personal preference

Top 40 '90s albums, #24: Dream Theater — Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory

An all-time great progressive metal album

New Bilmuri's album is bruuutal

Holy guacamole! I've been waiting for this release since he started teasing a new album and it's just so worth it. The first song starts the show with a banger. It's just a super chuggy breakdown with a freaking eagle passing you by, only to tie up the start the second song that follows with a super catchy and pop-infused verse. Doesn't make sense at all but it's great. If you need a visual representation of the lines above, let me show you the video for the second single of the album, ALWAYS LE...

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Acento en la O

scaargo.pckt.blog

Apr 9, 2026

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Top 40 '90s albums, #25: Goldfinger — Hang-Ups

A brilliant ska punk album with a few notable flaws

Top 40 '90s albums, #26: Smog — Knock Knock

Bill Callahan's voice is as captivating as ever

Top 40 '90s albums, #27: Of Montreal — The Gay Parade

A triumph of Of Montreal's sparse indie pop sound

Top 40 '90s albums, #28: Slint — Spiderland

A foundational album in the post-rock and math-rock spheres

Top 40 '90s albums, #29: The Dismemberment Plan — Emergency & I

Anxiety-ridden indie rock that speaks to universal experiences

Top 40 '90s albums, #30: American Football — American Football

Heralds of midwest emo

Who Is AI Music For?

Google's music-making AI makes songs. I just can't figure out why anyone would listen to them.

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Aaron Ross Powell’s Blog

Mar 26, 2026

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Top 40 '90s albums, #31: Belle and Sebastian — The Boy With The Arab Strap

Belle and Sebastian at the peak of their early-career songwriting

Top 40 '90s albums, #32: The High Llamas — Gideon Gaye

'90s chamber pop at its finest

Music & Other Performances in Vancouver during AtmosphereConf

Iva's picks this week in Vancouver

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ATmosphereConf News

Mar 23, 2026

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Top 40 '90s albums, #33: Low — Secret Name

A triumphant, contemplative masterpiece

Top 40 '90s albums, #34: Cornelius — Fantasma

A landmark Shibuya-kei album

vbr files in apple music

ancient errors in itunes

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riz#000000me

Mar 19, 2026

2

Top 40 '90s albums, #35: Ben Folds Five — Ben Folds Five

It's a great debut album with truly infectious energy

Top 40 '90s albums, #36: Bright Eyes — Letting off the Happiness (1998)

Dreary or not, this spoke to teenage me

Top 40 '90s albums, #37: Karate — The Bed is in the Ocean (1998)

Jazz chords, slowcore, post-rock — whatever it is, I love it

Top 40 '90s albums, #38: Heavenly — Le Jardin de Heavenly (1992)

A foundational twee album

Top 40 '90s albums, #39: Mogwai — Come On Die Young (1999)

An excellent post-rock album

Top 40 '90s albums, #40: Silver Jews — American Water (1998)

A classic from one of his generation's greatest lyricist

if i may be a little obsessive…

omfg. this music.

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ren’s letter

Mar 10, 2026

2

music library managers

why is apple music the only sane library app

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riz#000000me

Mar 10, 2026

2

I Love the Blues

I haven't programmed a workflow for updating my Leaflet whenever I make a new blog post. So for now, I'll just add the link. This is mostly a test post to refer back to down the line. :-)

that's my jam

and yours too!

DJ Sets For Your Week

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Stay Woke

Feb 25, 2026

2

track list embeds

bring out your lists!

zettelkasten, flac, and reading

reviewing things i said out loud earlier

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riz#000000me

Feb 13, 2026

3

what's next?

sounds like a bunch of semantics