It's WEDNESDAY, so let's have a teaser look at this week's Other People's Music. This thread will contain the first line of each review, plus links to music, socials and the full review. Don't want to wait? Dive into the full selection right here, right now:
https://www.etherdiver.com/2025/03/21/opm-gods-and-vampires/
Time for the Wednesday teaser of Other People's Music! This thread contains just the first line of each review I wrote in the most current batch of OPM, plus links to the music, socials and the full writeup. Don't need to be teased? The full writeup is here:
https://www.etherdiver.com/2025/03/07/opm-kraut-psych-noise-rock-and-pop/
Lot of bad news and horror on the ol' TL and, while I am not encouraging anyone to look away, it is good to leaven all that stuff with a little bit of joy, some art or maybe a cat pic. In that spirit, here's my weekly look at independent music. Enjoy!
https://www.etherdiver.com/2025/02/28/opm-dwellers-in-the-dark/
This week's Other People's Music takes a dive into the darkness! A couple different takes on dark, moody industrial; high-energy, eclectic electronic dance music; instrumental power pop; and a retro acid house flashback!
Read and listen within:
https://www.etherdiver.com/2025/02/28/opm-dwellers-in-the-dark/
Let's look at this week's Other People's Music with our weekly teaser thread. Just the first line of each entry, plus links to the music, artist's socials, and the full writeup. If you want to just dive into the full post, you can read it & hear the music, here:
https://www.etherdiver.com/2025/02/21/opm-minimalism-abstraction-and-experimentalism/
Have YOU discovered any new music today? Well, good news, I'm here to help with 5 selections of Other People's Music for you to check out. Abstract electronic explorations, deep drones, dope breakbeats, spoken word sound art, and all-shaker academic compositions!
https://www.etherdiver.com/2025/02/21/opm-minimalism-abstraction-and-experimentalism/
A new batch of Other People's Music is ready, and it's a wild one! Experimentation, abstraction, minimalism are the order of the day, and if you *don't* like it weird af, there's also a nice breakbeat track for ya.
Read it and listen here:
https://www.etherdiver.com/2025/02/21/opm-minimalism-abstraction-and-experimentalism/
A Monday off from work, should you be so blessed, is a great day to spend some time discovering indie music! Here are this week's 5 entries in the Other People's Music series:
https://www.etherdiver.com/2025/02/14/opm-hidden-gems-hauntology/
Mid-'00s indietronica, chill lo-fi hauntology, chiptune, DnB and a little alt-rock!
Lethal Sister – Demon Tapes
A three-track EP of contemporary stoner rock – heavy, heartfelt and swaggering from beginning to end.
https://lethalsister.bandcamp.com/album/demon-tapes
https://www.etherdiver.com/2025/02/07/opm-stoners-delite/#LethalSister
TempKnight Harrison – Sermon for Sinners
Stony hip hop with solid beats and tight raps, straight out of Sin City.
https://lvtrillgod.bandcamp.com/album/sermon-for-sinners
@sincityabsente.art
https://www.etherdiver.com/2025/02/07/opm-stoners-delite/#TempKnight
b psycho – “Canopy”
A hard-hitting hip hop instrumental with an intriguing lo-fi aesthetic.
https://m.soundcloud.com/b-psycho/canopy
https://www.etherdiver.com/2025/02/07/opm-stoners-delite/#bpsycho
DigitalDruid – “Do You Dream in Color?”
A slinky and exotic sounding guitar-led instrumental that would sound right at home playing in a smoky tent somewhere in a moonlit desert.
https://on.soundcloud.com/t62W46c5fXZD1yPz7
https://www.etherdiver.com/2025/02/07/opm-stoners-delite/#DigitalDruid
Here's the weekly teaser thread of Other People's Music. This thread contains the first line of each artist's writeup from this week's Other People's Music blog, a link to their socials, a link to the music and a link to the artist's full blurb.
Complete post:
New Other People's Music just dropped! This week offers stoner-friendly selections of hip hop and garage rock, plus some electronic chamber music and exotic downtempo!
That's all for this week's post! Remember, these are just teasers of the full coverage -- just the first lone of each, so there's more to read about all of these acts! You can find the full post here:
https://www.etherdiver.com/2025/01/24/opm-experiments-soundtracks-and-synth-pop/
And remember, you can subscribe to Other People's Music as a newsletter! Free Sign up link at the bottom of the post!
The world's a mess but there's still new music to discover, so let's set the mess aside for a few minutes and look at this week's Other People's Music teasers. Multiple flavors of experimental music, some ambient synth pop and an orchestral videogame score await! Here's the full post, in case you didn't want to wait:
https://www.etherdiver.com/2025/01/24/opm-experiments-soundtracks-and-synth-pop/
This week's Other People's Music is a lovely batch of weird experimental music, ambient synth pop and an orchestral score to a text game. Read about them, and hear them, here:
https://www.etherdiver.com/2025/01/24/opm-experiments-soundtracks-and-synth-pop/
The most recent Other People's Music marks the 200th piece of music covered in this series, and as usual, there's some good stuff to be heard! Lovely folk, minimal ambient, dramatic goth rock, downtempo breaks, and experimental electronics await you! Read it all here:
Here's our weekly peek into the most recent Other People's Music roundup! Like every Wednesday, we're posting the top line of each writeup, along with a link to the music.
Of course, if you'd rather read the whole thing, here's the link:
https://www.etherdiver.com/2025/01/10/opm-tape-noise-spoken-word-and-more-weird-sounds/
The latest batch of Other People's Music is ready for you! Includes contributions from Mastodon pals @DubiousCandy and @ruralgloom in the fields of drone and spoken word, plus sound collages, nostalgic post punk and indie freak folk!
https://www.etherdiver.com/2025/01/10/opm-tape-noise-spoken-word-and-more-weird-sounds/
