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The Global Music Inn

Our menus consisted of musical dishes from many corners of the world, composed by our world wide web of contributors, presented every full moon from November 25th 1996 to January 12th 2017. We're now on permanent vacation. However, our HQ Jukebox lives on, with moonthly music recommendations.

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"I'm not a rock star. I'm a soft person. I'm not a rock." (Captain Beefheart)

L u n a K a f é H Q J u k e b o x J u n e 2026

[ S i n g l e s ]

Kiwi Jr.: "Pure Michigan"
Haakon Ellingsen: "Thank You For Your Letter" / "Dear Old Sun"
Robyn Hitchcock: "Yesterday's Rain"
Ducks Ltd.: "Easy Come, Easy Go (feat. Martin Courtney)"
Ole Johannes Åleskjær: "World Interest"
Carla dal Forno: "Under the Covers"

[ A l b u m s ]

Azalia Snail: Gentle Mental
Orange Doors: Corn Planet
Chanel Beads: Your Day Will Come
Fruit Bats: The Landfill
Maya Ongaku: Nothing Space Music
Seabuckthorn: Never the Same River
Cole Berliner: The Black Door
Death Cab for Cutie: I Built You a Tower
Aaron Martin: Batiledhu
Zoh Amba: Eyes Full
Muna: Dancing On The Wall
Iceage: For Love of Grace & the Hereafter
Elephant Kind: More Time
Nighttime: Looking Glass
HOLY WAVE: i'm DADA
J and the Woolen Stars: Puff
Fiver: Fiver Trois presents Cleaning House
Gast: Pond

[J u b i l e e s : reappearances, recurring & reoccurring moments]

It was 60 years ago this very moonth. . . Happy Anniversary to the two very first double LPs in the history of pop and rock Blonde On Blonde by Bob Dylan and, the debut album in addition, Freak Out by The Mothers Of Invention, the four debut albums Volume One by The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, the self titled one by The Incredible String Band, Red Rubber Ball by The Cyrkle and Dirty Water by The Standells, the EP Instrumental Asylum by Manfred Mann, the debut single Psychotic Reaction/They're Gonna Get You by Count Five and the non-debut singles Sunny Afternoon/I'm Not Like Everybody Else by The Kinks, Making Time/Try and Stop Me by The Creation, 5D (Fifth Dimension)/Captain Soul by The Byrds and Bus Stop/Don't Run And Hide by The Hollies.
Happy 50th Anniversary to Alice Cooper Goes To Hell by Alice Cooper, Yes We Have No Mañanas (So Get Your Mañanas Today) by Kevin Ayers, Softs by Soft Machine, the three debut albums Unorthodox Behaviour by Brand X, Tales Of Mystery And Imagination by The Alan Parsons Project and the eponymous one by La Düsseldorf, ...That's The Way It Is by Harry Nilsson, Farther Along by Spirit and the debut single X Offender/In The Sun by Blondie.
Happy 40th Anniversary to The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths, The Divine Punishment by Diamanda Galas, The Seventeenth Century by Felt, Daring Adventures by Richard Thompson, As Close As You Think by Kevin Ayers, the debut album Giant by The Woodentops, the soundtrack album Labyrinth by David Bowie and Trevor Jones, the live album Home And Abroad by The Style Council, Invisible Touch by Genesis, The Seer by Big Country and the comeback single That Was Then, This Is Now/(Theme From) The Monkees by The Monkees.
Happy 30th Anniversary to Odelay by Beck, the debut album Tigermilk by Belle And Sebastian, Load by Metallica, Spiritchaser by Dead Can Dance, Gone Again by Patti Smith, Peace At Last by The Blue Nile, The Light User Syndrome by The Fall, Morningrise by Opeth, Dust by The Screaming Trees and the debut single Wannabe/Bumper To Bumper by Spice Girls.
Happy 25th Anniversary to the self titled one and only album by Major Organ And The Adding Machine, The Invisible Band by Travis, Bodily Functions by Herbert, A Celebratory Arm Gesture by Summer Hymns, It's A Wonderful Life by Sparklehorse, Origin Of Symmetry by Muse, Amnesiac by Radiohead, Curse Of The Hidden Mirror by Blue Õyster Cult, the EPs Jonathan David by Belle And Sebastian and 19-2000 b/w Left Hand Suzuki Method and Hip Albatross by Gorillaz, the debut single Hard To Explain/New York City Cops by The Strokes and the single 2001 A Pop Odyssey, Flight Six by Astroburger.
Happy 20th Anniversary to Chemist by The Necks, Victory For The Comic Muse by The Divine Comedy, Fast Man Raider Man by Frank Black, Rather Ripped by Sonic Youth, Under The Iron Sea by Keane, Riot City Blues by Primal Scream, The Same Old Blood Rush With A New Touch by Cute Is What We Aim For and the EP Models Of Virtue by Evil Beaver.

[Photo above by Dave Heath, from Street Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography, 1940-1959. The Jukebox lists are also published at our LunaKafeHQ on Facebook.]