gonna rank from worst to best song ranking system 😇- need to have a looong conversation with whoever made this song 🥹- teared up a little 🥰- i love love love 😊- very good 🙂- good with some issues 🤔- i would let it play in the background ig.. 😪- not feeling it 😠- no this is bad. 😡- this is really bad. 🤬- play this around me and im taking a gun out. for both of us. shake it off (mingyu) 🤬 this song doesn't exist. skyfall (minghao) 😠 i've tried with this song i really have, but it's just not for…
Most of the music I write about ranges from well known to iconic. I am not one of these people who takes pleasure in knowing about obscurities that other people don’t. However, I do have one intense fandom for a couple of guys who you are likely not to have heard of, Tim Eriksen and Peter Irvine. I took the family to see them recently in a converted church in Kingston, NY, and the music sounded like it could have come from any time in the last five thousand years, or the next five thousand. My…
Miles in a experimental mood. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize A different Miles album for sure from what I’m used to, where he steps into his electric period. The music is stretched, experimental and is very much jazz fusion.I like this stuff and we still have Shorter, Hancock and Williams from the second great quintet. Some other great jazz cats as well in Dave Holland and…
Listen on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube Every Friday night around 5PM, before I’m about to make our pizza night martinis, I turn on KUTX and listen to “Old School Dance Party” — the “Happy Feet Dance Party with ever-lovin’ John E. Dee playing the music that got you in trouble.” (More recently, Confucius Jones has been taking over as host.) One of the things I absolutely love about Old School is that the DJs never try too hard to be hip or obscure or anything like that. Most of the tracks…
At this point, you basically know what you’re getting from Japanese post-rock heroes MONO. Unlike some of their peers, they haven’t executed any dramatic reinventions (relative within the parameters of the genre, at least) but instead just grown and evolved naturally, their records and music reflecting who they are at the point in their lives […] The post MONO – “Gerbera” appeared first on Space Echo.
Like many avid record collectors my first awareness of Michael Tilson Thomas were the Deutsche Grammophon recordings which arrived in the wake of his appointment as assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the age of just 24. As recipient of the Koussevitsky Prize in 1969 it was almost a foregone conclusion. The word ‘auspicious’ didn’t even begin to cover it. One of those DG discs – a sensational pairing of Ives, Ruggles, and Piston (start as you mean to go on) – was tantamount…
Hugely impressed by Ava Bahari here. She is truly a storyteller. There is untold generosity and cleanness to the playing and the best way I can express what sets apart her reading of this oft-performed piece is the value with which she imbues every note, be it part of a singing phrase or a driving rush of pyrotechnics. Nothing is ‘incidental’, every note has a purpose. And it’s generous too, expansive in the best sense with natural sounding rubatos. Her partner in this endeavour – Santtu-Matias…
Wednesday 29 July 2026 6.30pm Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel Comparing Notes brings stars of the West End and Broadway to Crazy Coqs, Live at Zedel. In a lively and informal mix of performance and conversation host Edward Seckerson will be getting up close and personal with these musical theatre luminaries and emerging stars, exploring the stories behind the songs and the personalities behind the artistry. Fresh from winning the 2025 Tony Award for Best featured Actor in a Musical, Merseyside-born…
Two mythical birds – the one immortalised by Villa-Lobos – Uirapuru – an endangered species in our musical universe. All kudos to Dudamel for realising the songful connections with it and Stravinsky’s Firebird and rejoicing in them so wholeheartedly. They were written within a decade of each other and you might even say that in the rarely heard Villa-Lobos ballet Stravinsky’s immortal bird was reborn in the Brazilian rain forest. Its ear-wormy chant, heard across flute and soprano saxophone, is…
Osmium House - Dawn ClubYou may know Aesop Adams from his work with excellent Denver groups such as Totem Pocket and Aaron Dooley’s the International Disassociation of. Under the Osmium House moniker, Adams sets out entirely on his own, crafting luminous instrumentals that are guaranteed to send listeners spiraling into a blissful daydream. With lush guitar atmospherics a la Robin Guthrie, minimal drum machine rhythms and subliminal synths, Dawn Club is a solar-powered beauty from start to…
I wrote about our 8-track player last Friday: Therefore, it seems fitting that the next item in our Hi-Fi stack would be the pinnacle of analogue tape format quality: the 8-track! And further down on the post, emphasis added: For those unaware of the history of 8-track, my comment about quality was most definitely tongue in cheek. You weren’t buying 8-track carts for their quality At least five comments, summarised: Ummmmm errrrr, 8-track wasn’t great quality, what are you even talking about?…
Dire Garden of the AgesOut 29th May on Naturmacht Productions The second album from this Irish solo project could be framed as a transfer of styles from one zone to another. Whilst the debut behaved like an epic fable heavily rooted in Viking and Celtic metal stylings, the follow up offers a rather dramatic volte-face into industrial and electronic territory. But both expressions are characterised by a swirling, atmospheric panorama that creates a clear continuity within this project despite…
gonna rank from worst to best song ranking system 😇- need to have a looong conversation with whoever made this song 🥹- teared up a little 🥰- i love love love 😊- very good 🙂- good with some issues 🤔- i would let it play in the background ig.. 😪- not feeling it 😠- no this is bad. 😡- this is really bad. 🤬- play this around me and im taking a gun out. for both of us. pinocchio 😡 you're not serious. 96ers 😡 you're not serious. stupid idiot 😠 you're not serious. overall this is what happens when you…
gonna rank from worst to best song ranking system 😇- need to have a looong conversation with whoever made this song 🥹- teared up a little 🥰- i love love love 😊- very good 🙂- good with some issues 🤔- i would let it play in the background ig.. 😪- not feeling it 😠- no this is bad. 😡- this is really bad. 🤬- play this around me and im taking a gun out. for both of us. cbz (prime time) 😪 i sat here for most of the song wondering when it was gonna start....disappointed. it sounds like music for an ad.…
The Kate Rays is Kim Floyd’s current project. You can find the music she makes with Tony Chance on bass and Mark Hubbard on drums on Bandcamp. I recommend it. But I discovered some tracks on Soundcloud that predate The Kate Rays and that got me curious. Kim who usually sings and plays guitar is now based in Jacksonville, Florida. I believe at some point she was in New York City. I wonder where she was in 1997. The tracks from her project Tintern Abby date from that year. There are three songs…
Via my parents. Found in my suit pocket after resting there for nine years.
A centenary conversation celebrating a great conductor and an outstanding Mahlerian The conductor Klaus Tennstedt was born on June 6, 1926. After his arrival from East Germany to the West, he held chief conductor posts with the NDR Symphony Orchestra in Hamburg (1979-81), and with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (1983-87), with whom he recorded extensively, including a Mahler symphony cycle (of which No 8 won a Gramophone Award back in 1987). To mark the anniversary Warner Classics has issued…
Monday 7 September 2026 6.30pm Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel Comparing Notes brings stars of the West End and Broadway to Crazy Coqs, Live at Zedel. In a lively and informal mix of performance and conversation host Edward Seckerson will be getting up close and personal with these musical theatre luminaries and emerging stars, exploring the stories behind the songs and the personalities behind the artistry. French-born performer Lily Kerhoas is recognised as one of contemporary musical theatre’s…
"Wonder Woman" by John Legend Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What song would you use to describe your current relationship? - Wonder Woman by John Legend As if there was another possibility, LOL. View Lou Plummer's Crucial Tracks profile
Hello, and welcome to a Monday Pressing Concerns! We’ve got new albums from Sun Kin, National Photo Committee, and Wade Easy, and a new EP from Chorus Truly. Check ’em out below! If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what else we’ve written about lately. If you’d like to support Rosy Overdrive, you can share this (or another) post, or donate here. Sun Kin – Bobby’s Voice Release date: June 5thRecord label: Self-releasedGenre: Folk rock, indie pop,…
Marcie, in her last blog, wrote about our visit to Pioche, Nevada—a quiet little town tucked into the mountains of Lincoln County. We strolled past historic buildings, admired old mining relics, and snapped photos of the famous Million Dollar Courthouse. It’s hard to imagine that this peaceful place was once considered one of the bloodiest towns in the American West.During the silver boom of the early 1870s, Pioche exploded from a remote mining camp into a thriving boomtown. Along with miners,…
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We're no strangers to the glory of the Icelandic black scene, which has always aimed for production of music with ever-present ferocity, and continental significance. Most of the bands active during the previous decade dominated my playlists of favorites, some of which I still consider recordings or such magnitude that elevates the whole genre. One could argue that one of the perpetrators of the movement was Svartidauði with their earliest demos in the mid 00s, then continued by numerous…
I eked out a little more listening time this week (but still not enough!) to Abdullah Ibrahim who passed away last week. I find his discography confusing, and I don’t know of any real guide to it. As a result, I’ve always restlessly scrolled through it listening to things that I like rather than trying to get a sense for his development as a musician. I have always had a soft spot for Ibrahim’s unusual 1977 recording The Journey which featured among others Don Cherry and Hamiet Bluiett (and Roy…
The nature of fatherhood is that you’re doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified when you do it. – John Green Remix Sunday 176 Zipped Up. (120mb zip) pw: palmsout TRMA – “Little Pieces” (Remix) Kelela – “Rewind” (Tony Quattro Bootleg) Youngstar – “Pulse X” (DJ ADHD Refix) Mez – “Woiya” (Kami-O Remix) KARAN! & Mc Mary Maii – “VAGABUNDO” (Izumo Remix) ASAP. Rocky – “Praise the Lord” (Frythm Reprise) MAV – “Drift” (BOP Remix Instrumental) Mona Matsuoka x Tim…
From a penis peek to lingering glances, Bryce and Zach are Love Island USA’s most compelling pair. Are they more than just friends, or is the fandom riled up because male intimacy is so rare on reality TV?
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 12th June 2026 US death metal newcomers Goetia have risen from the ashes of Washington DC’s Perpetuated, and have been getting talked up by a number of people I respect online so I thought I’d give their debut full length record ‘Mortuary Cult’ a go. Based on experiences they had in an old graveyard in the city’ suburbs, expect some super fast and tight death metal carnage. ‘Mortuary Cult’ is out now through the venerable Carbonized Records. After the…
Magical musical musings and insightful interview conducted by the marvellous John Matthews. It has been what feels like a very long weekend at Convenanza, the boutique electronic music festival that takes place annually in the beautiful surroundings of a medieval castle in Carcassonne in the South of France, and I’m starting to feel the pace (and my age). Over the past three days I’ve witnessed some amazing live acts and DJs and eaten and drunk to my hearts content, but now it feels as if it’s…
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Press photo of The Strokes “Going Shopping” by American rock band The Strokes ascends to #1 on this week’s Top 30. Formed in New York City in 1998, The Strokes consist of singer Julian Casablancas, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr., bassist Nikolai Fraiture and drummer Fabrizio Moretti. Backed by a lighthearted, bouncy groove, Casablancas muses about materialism, growing older, societal alienation and the never-ending push and pull of city vs. country living. The song is from their…
