We were lucky to catch Elim Chan’s debut at SF Symphony last Fri after she was named the next music director, and it was really special. She conducted La Mer, one of my favorite orchestral pieces, and one I’ve probably heard them play a dozen times. She said she felt humbled and grateful at taking on the role, and she exuded a really direct, open, youthful energy. She also conducted Sascha Cooke, a long time collaborator of MTT’s, and they had a pretty emotional passing-the-torch moment in his…
You know the song No Limit by 2 Unlimited, from the album No Limits!? Ever since I was a kid I’ve always wanted to like this song, but there’s one critical flaw: The song begins with the iconic line “Let me hear you say yeah”. What’s followed is SFX of a crowd audibly not saying yeah. Boy I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
Neil Young - TransTour 1982What we talk about when we talk about Neil Young’s 1982 tour is usually those strange performances of the Trans material — especially the choreographed dance routine with Nils Lofgren on “Transformer Man.” “Here I am singin’, and every time I open my mouth, it would trigger a synth version of Neil’s voice,” Nils recalled in Shakey. “It was so wild. Neither of us had instruments, so we were like walking videos.” Funny to think that the last time Lofgren had toured with…
"That's the Way (I Like It) [Single Version]" by KC and the Sunshine Band Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Describe your favorite summer as a kid using a single song. - That's the Way I like It by KC and the Sunshine Band I was 12 years old in 1977, living in New Bern, North Carolina, spending days beside the pool at our apartment complex, Friday night at the skating rink. I delivered newspapers, so I had some extra money for comic books and baseball cards.…
What? Friday again? David Hockney, the artist whose brightly colored renditions of California would go on to make him one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, died on June 12, his publicist Erica Bolton said in a statement. He was 88 reut.rs/4e5R6xd— Reuters (@reuters.com) 2026-06-12T11:23:19.039Z David Hockney, dead: Hockney was one of those artists who I didn’t know who they were until I was adult, and then realized I had been surrounded by his work all my life. This…
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Looking forward to supporting Pauline Murray at the Prince Albert in Brighton, 2 p.m. tomorrow afternoonTickets: https://www.seetickets.com/event/pauline-murray-helen-mccookerybook/the-prince-albert/3616963
Another week is in the books and that of course, means it’s time to unleash more metal into the world. Let’s dive in. Hails! Saprobiontic - death - GermanyFleshcrawl - death - GermanyGoetia - death - USANacxit - death - MexicoDefiled - death - JapanGoreworm - tech death - CanadaKa’aper - melodeath - CyprusBloodhunter - melodeath - SpainNuclear Tomb - death/prog/thrash - USABalashToth - death/thrash - IrelandSoulburn - death/black/doom - NetherlandsFires in the Distance - death/doom - USAKhemmis…
We have featured the amazing gymnastic twins, the BilakBrothers, on Kuriositas before, but this new video of theirs tempted me to include the Ukrainian performers Andrii and Misha again. In it, they cosplay as Nintendo's Super Mario Bros and take to their local park to astonish and entertain. It takes a while to get the attention of their audience apparently – this looks like it was done completely unannounced – they simply turned up and did their thing. Some of their moves are pretty…
Brand new Evanescence album! Exciting times! This Arkansas symphonic metal band pioneered the noughties alt-metal boom by blending American stadium rock sensibilities with cherry-picked classical elements to create something that failed to satisfy fans of either genre. However, following their Grammy winning diamond certified debut, a steady release schedule over two decades signals a consistent audience. Lee's vocals are strong and are well layered with the more classical elements of the…
Prelude as engine, fugue as debate. 08h55 from Berlin / Germany
"Jump Around" by House of Pain Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. I was watching Ticket to Paradise and this song played. View Mandaris's Crucial Tracks profile Listen to my Apple Music playlist
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Chantel Acevedo’s novel Cages is a moving and thoughtful book about forbidden love in a totalitarian society. Publishers Weekly wrote of the book: “This illuminating novel from Acevedo (The Distant…
Tom Sharkett is the guitarist with jangly, vibrant, Mancunian, indie-rock 5-piece W. H. Lung. His debut solo EP, “25”, signed to Test Pressing, finds him exploring a more synth-pop side, and enlisting vocal assistance from Hong Kong native Eva Liu aka Mui Zyu. The productions are definitely 80s flavoured, but done in a modern manner, with a more timeless feel. The music has its fair share of deft drum and arpeggio programming, while the songs’ personal / honest lyrics tackle the tricky course…
Back in November, my partner and I got to see Yellowcard open for A Day To Remember on their Maximum Fun Tour↗. We were somewhat disappointed by ADTR's performance (and their over-reliance on those giant distracting video screens that I've been complaining about lately) - but rather blown away by Yellowcard's set. So we jumped at the opportunity to see Yellowcard on their own headline tour, this time accompanied by New Found Glory. I've listened to both band's latest releases (Yellowcard:…
Two wonderful songs by local folk music legend and forest protector Andy Mahler. 🎵
Coincidental timing. Over on my music review site I've just started talking about the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and here the RNG provides me with a solo album from their most iconic guitarist. In my discography run I've still got a bit to go before Frusciante makes his entrance and a lot longer until he truly transforms into the John Frusciante we know and love, but in terms of my life with the Peppers overall, this appeared relatively early on. The Peppers were one of my defining bands around the…
Hutcherson is dope. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Found this 1st US original pressing with the shrink on (but opened) and also the Japan direct import OBI and insert present. Pretty cool. It opens breezy and up-beat with a take on Ornette’s ”Una Muy Bonita”. A wonderful opener. Then we enter post-bop land a la Hutcherson, starting with ”8/4 Beat”, which is a superb example of how great…
Tomora “Ring the Alarm” Tomora is a collaboration between the Norwegian indie pop singer Aurora and Tom Rowlands of The Chemical Brothers. It’s an interesting combination that pushes both artists to unexpected extremes, mostly resulting in harsher and more abrasive music than either typically creates. “Ring the Alarm” is particularly bold, a clanging ultra-urgent banger that dials up the intensity on Rowlands’ usual Chemical Brothers tricks and nudges Aurora fully out of her ethereal comfort…
I'm trying out Cara.app after all this time. It seems to be by artists for artists which is nice - no influencers or content creators, just artists giving feedback to each other. 🩶 Playing with Procreate textures is fun! And I just got amazing news so I'm in a wonderful mood.
Summer is almost here, which means — among other things — that it's vinyl variant season.Craft Recordings will celebrate the upcoming 60th anniversary of It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown with an impressive variety of new releases. The centerpiece is an eye-catching 45 RPM zoetrope LP, arriving August 7, which will feature memorable scenes from the special on each side, along with a new essay from Sean Mendelson.Additional pumpkin-shaped color options will be available on August 21 from…
Sleepy Doug Shaw - 360 Record Shop, Red Hook, Brooklyn, March 8, 2024 / Tubby’s, Kingston, New York, January 14, 2024 / WFMU Frow Show TributeAmidst the sadness of 2026, the recent, much-too-soon passing of Doug Shaw has to be one of the saddest things. I didn’t know him, but the overwhelming outpouring of love for the London-born/NYC-based musician over the past week or so tells me the world is a lesser place without him. An underground mainstay, Shaw played with White Magic and Gang Gang…
Thanks so much to Mark Bryceland for the interview! I had written about the Perth, Australia, early 90s band Wash on the blog back in March. I was surprised to hear that the band is planning to reissue their songs thanks to Chapter Music! And I needed to learn more about the band. Mark also shared with me his new project and was happily surprised as well. Clearly he likes the music I also like! So it made total sense for this interview to happen. So if you haven’t heard about Wash, please hear…
One of the best theme songs known to man, the theme from “Dallas” was a marching band staple back during my junior and senior high school days. The French Horn lead and then supporting instrumentation when the trumpets take over is something I find to be just beautiful. I’ve played the French Horn only a few times and that was over four decades ago, but I still find its sound to be a beautiful experience.
Fournier: DemoOut 22nd May on Caligari Records Angular, tangential death metal chases the dragon of compositional unity meshed with explicit complexity in the spirit of Immolation or Morbid Angel. The production is relatively tinny by modern standards, even for a demo. With a metallic snare cutting through the factory settings distortion, and choppy bass lines making frequent bursts into the foreground as they challenge the guitars for dominance. All of which lends this release an “in the…
2025 • LP, Limited Edition, Splattered Gold To see all 6 photos, visit the article page. This article was originally published at: https://andrei.xyz/records/e-an-na-nomad/
In this Thursday Pressing Concerns, we’ve got new albums from Bellows, The Cowboys, Horse Lords, and Yea-Ming and the Rumours, all of which are out tomorrow (June 12th). Check them out below! The May 2026 playlist went up earlier this week, so also queue that one up if you missed it. 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.…
Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. (A SoundCloud account is helpful but not required.) There’s no pressure to do every project. The Junto is weekly so that you know it’s there, every Thursday through Monday, when your time and interest align. Tracks are added to…
Frau Truth Coming from Nashville-born, Brooklyn-based alt pop newcomer Frau, Truth is the second single taken from her forthcoming debut album, Flutter. Anchored around a dream-like vocal, Truth leverages glitchy vocal techniques to accentuate Frau’s extended overdubbed harmonies, her vocal pulsing as they mutate into additional layers of instrumentation. Synth pads surround those vocals, splashes of cool blue and warm yellow atop Frau’s clean robotic soundscape. The overall effect invokes the…
