[1967]Roll up roll up for some teenbeat moody and broody garage from Holland Michigan group The New Era. This killer sunshine pop smash has got all the irresistible jangly guitars and hook laden sweetness you could want from an ace 60s pop song yet it's still barely even a cult record.Unknown pop gold right here folks!Rewind.

Cover Art: In Through the Out DIN 1-4 Release Information Artist Alex Ayers Title In Through The Out Din 1-4 Date April, 2025 Download BandCamp: 1, 2, 3, 4 Maybe it’s just a vibe that I don’t have a feeling for anymore, but there is a lot of electronic music coming out these days that just doesn’t really work all that well for me. And I am not just talking about AI Slop music — although that would definitely be one of the bigger lumps of junk that is clogging the internet pipes these days. No,…

I’ll be performing with Greg for the wonderful people of the Fediverse and beyond at NHAMFest26. It’s an all day live streaming marathon parade from the creative, talented, fun and friendly artists and makers from the Fedi. When: Thursday, August 27, 3-4pm EDTWhere: https://live.theindiebeat.fm/Get the full schedule: https://fest.nham.co.uk/ We’ll be playing a set of beautiful, ambient-ish music, a la our monthly spatialized sound bath project The Clearing. Here is a video of our first Clearing…

I was 15 years old when a school friend lent me her cassette of Disintegration. I took it home, slotted it into my boombox and my mind was blown. Your teens can be tough, but a band or an album can help you navigate those tricky years. Disintegration was mine. It stuck with me through a difficult move to the other end of the country when I was 16, and throughout my uni years. It remains my favourite album of all time, and it still sounds incredible 37 years later. There are other great albums…

I think about this all the time. I'm in my 50s, so Gen X. I grew up with great fucking music, y'all. And now all these Gen Z assholes get to discover all my favorite music, plus all the new shit coming out. God, imagine discovering Tool, Nine Inch Nails, and Metallica for the first time. Imagine discovering The Chronic for the first time and all the rest that followed. Snoop, Em, 2Pac, Biggie. Dead. I'm dying imagining that. 💀 Generations now have it better than my generation in that regard. I…

Probably named after Monsieur and Madame Verdurin, the prominent bourgeois couple and salon hosts, from Marcel Proust’s novel In Search of Lost Time, Verdurin only released one 7″ as a band. Which is a shame. The band formed by Olivier Roussilhe on vocals, guitar, bass and keys, Emmanuel Fillon on drums and Sophie Mercier on flute, released “Sur La Moquette” 7″ in 1997 on the French label Plastic Pancake (Plastic Pancake 003). This record had just three songs, “Sur La Moquette” on the A side…

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I usually have a bit of burnout in the week before the semester starts. The summertime grind of research, reading, and writing runs up against the anticipation of the new academic year. It’s stressful, exhausting, and exciting all at once. And, it’s usually a time when I turn to music to help my channel my waning and dispersed energy. The last week was a good music week. First, Strata-East continues to release its catalogue to streaming services and that includes lots of Charles Tolliver. His…

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 26th June 2026 I missed the well regarded ‘Shrines of Absurdity’ debut from New York death metal titans Thætas back in 2020 because, well, the world was falling apart and I wasn’t quite so deep in the modern lore of death metal. Years later, I got wind that their new record was coming out and everyone was really hyped. So I went back and did the research that the world expects before ‘The Irredeemable Age’ comes out and it has a reasonably high bar to clear…

Hey everyone! Rosy Overdrive is up and running again, as you can see. As I get things back to “normal” I’ve realized I can’t spend too much time trying to write about every single album I want to write about that came out during the blog’s hiatus, but I also don’t want to ignore something just because it had the misfortune to come out during the two weeks Rosy Overdrive was down. So, we’re going to quickly run through a dozen albums that probably would’ve been in Pressing Concerns had the blog…

I always chose the repertoire for my community choirs. Most people knew what my taste was, which is why they’d joined the choir in the first place. But every now and then I would introduce a new song and it just wouldn’t take. I used to pride myself on having a sense of what kind of songs my singers liked. Each choir was different, but each had a particular flavour. Occasionally, when I introduced a new song, I could tell very quickly that the singers didn’t like it. Maybe the harmonies were…

Sepulcrum: LaceratorOut 24th July on Chaos Records Chile’s Sepulcrum land the second album with ease, delivering a near perfect elaboration on 2023’s ‘Lamentations of Immolated Souls’ without over stretching themselves. If anything they are an even more efficient beast than before, expanding their expressive range whilst keeping the runtime to a crisp thirty six minutes that somehow feels like a much meatier experience, such is the ease with which Sepulcrum traverse across moods and styles. As…

What’s your favorite song about hope? You can picture the footage, hand held black and white shots of a teeming throng of young women, screaming, jumping up and down, hands in their hair, completely out of control and under the thrall of the new fangled rock music that was starting to impact the lives of, well, all of us. It’s the ’60s, and The Beatles have arrived. My Mum was one such young woman, through her college years, with her college friends, picking their favourites (hers was Paul),…

Friday was my last day at Golioth (and Canonical), and today is my first day at Nordic Semiconductor! It has been an interesting journey to say the least, but before diving into what drew me to Nordic, I would be remiss not to briefly reflect on my time at Golioth. I joined Golioth after a few years at Upbound, where I spent the majority of my time working on the open source Crossplane project, before eventually moving over to lead teams that built Upbound Cloud and the Upbound Marketplace.

The Starfires first recordRecord listed at RCS (no location, no evaluation, not comped)Location found : Wilkes-Barre, PennsylvaniaThe Starfires, later known as The Star Fires on Laurie Records in 1966, were a garage rock band from Wilkes-Barre, PA. The group was originally formed by junior high school friends Richard Grumbravich (drummer) and Rodger Griffith (bassist). Next to come on board were Bob Gardner (saxophone); Howard Dymond (piano); Freddie Kirkendall (guitar); and Charlie McCuen…

Discovering old obscure releases with little or no recognition is a great past time of mine. As much as I like to boast about how much of this genre I've listened to, records always skip through the cracks, not to mention all the demos and EPs that I'm still, after all these years, clueless of. Furthermore, older releases also usually have that sound, you know what I'm talking about. As of today, we're looking at the first and only record by Athenian black metal band Mournblade, self-titled and…

On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all. ▰ I covered the Ambrose Akimusire episode of Bridges, the Jazz at Lincoln Center collaboration with the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, in the debut Throughline entry in my This Week in Sound email newsletter late last week. In that paragraph, I mentioned the Elena Pinderhughes…

Jamaican saxophonist Cedric Brooks had a long, and industrious career. Brooks began his musical journey as a pupil of Kingston’s legendary Alpha School for Boys, where underprivileged youth were taken in, and to keep them out of trouble, given an instrument to learn. The school subsequently cultivated scores of students who would become maestros and shape the sound and course of the island’s reggae legacy. In the mid-60s Brooks joined fellow Alpha alumni, including Tommy McCook and Don…

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 18th August 2026 The second EP from Shrewsbury-based death/doom band Drowning Hour, ‘The Pain of Loss’, is definitely channelling some Opeth ‘Morningrise’ with that cover art, before I even put the record on to listen. I quite enjoyed their 2025 debut ‘Sanger fra dypet’, and look forward to some more morose heaviness on their new EP. It is out now via Bandcamp. The bleak, cold guitar tone that shimmers beneath a miserable fog and spoken word soliloquy, the…

Heiner GoebbelsWalden Ensemble Modern OrchestraPeter Eötvös conductorBob Rutman voiceRecorded November 1998at Philharmonie Köln and Alte Oper FrankfurtEngineer: Udo WüstendörferRecording engineer: Wolfgang PackeiserCover photo: Gérald MinkoffExecutive producer: Manfred EicherRelease date: June 6, 2026 A cabin can become a machine for myth. Once built, it gathers meanings faster than wind and rain can darken its boards. The small house Henry David Thoreau raised beside Walden Pond in 1845 no…

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This was a very lucky chance find the other day. I'd previously played the second album on here, but that one's available on Youtube and I wasnt sure I'd ever stumble into the first. Well, lo and behold, I happen to find a physical CD shortly afterward! This is very much in the same vein as the other album; it's gentle electronic music, VGM-adjacent and very much on the relaxing side. (A friend compared it to the Ragnarok Online soundtrack.) Since it's not available online I don't have much to…

Long Gone Daddies32 tracks+booklet For tracklist, date and labels see Rockin' Country Style Hot rock'n'roll and rockabilly including previously unissued material from the Modern label, one of the leading independant labels of the 1950s,

Women of Music - Volume 26Sabine Paturel on cover Alice Ball - The Party Last Night.mp3Amy Beth - My Baby Thinks He's Elvis.mp3Barbara Dane - I'm On My Way.mp3Betty Jean Morris - Shack Daddy.mp3Elaine Mitchem - Wine, Women, & Song .mp3Irral Berger -Take My Hand.mp3Margie Hampton - Big Black Eye.mp3Patti Deutsch - Ode To The Great Society.mp3Sabine Paturel - Les Bêtises.mp3Sayaka Alessandra - Be Bop A Lula.mp3Suzi Jane Hokom - Need All The Help I Can Get.mp3 Yvonne - Teenage Blues.mp3

Photo of Lyia Meta taken from her Facebook account. Malaysian artist Lyia Meta is a highly accomplished, award-winning and Grammy-nominated Renaissance woman in every sense of the word. She’s not only an insanely talented singer, songwriter and musician, she’s also a writer, teacher, vocal coach and visual artist whose work spans multiple media formats (she surprised me with a pencil-drawn portrait of myself in 2019, which I proudly hang on my bedroom wall). Possessing a rich contralto singing…

I'll be playing an all-new set of songs, The Darkside Truth, about the early days of punk. Support from Glaswegian songwriter and music entrepreneur Lorraine LucasTickets: https://wegottickets.com/f/26674

A closer look at specific metal tracks at the granular level, this week we look at Burzum’s ‘Key to the Gate’, and unpack why Burzum’s music is integral to understanding the essence of black metal to this day.

Over the years on Bandcamp I’ve amassed a few hundred digital releases. I’ve purchased vinyl, tapes and merch from there too but they’re for another day. You know how it goes, you find a band, check them out and decided you have to buy it. So I do. A lot of the time after this though I don’t go back to them. Especially the older stuff. It’s nice to own it but it’s way down there at the bottom of my list and when I’m trying to select something, I never think to explore that particular well. So…