Well, look who’s back: Yes, it’s Pressing Concerns! After a couple of weeks off for personal reasons, Rosy Overdrive has returned and is ready to run down some of this week’s notable releases: we’re looking at new albums from Lambchop and Eliots Graveyard and new EPs from Foglights and Commit 2 Try. I can’t promise that the blog will be 100% back to its normal schedule now, but I’m going to do my best to get us back on track soon. If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site…

Share a song that captures the feeling of being brave. The album, News of the World, was a seminal moment for my youthful ears. I’d discovered a copy of Jazz in my parents record collection when I was around 10, and my Dad mentioned that I could probably find other albums by the band in the local library. News of the World was the first one I borrowed. A much more stripped back affair than the previous two albums (think Bohemian Rhapsody!), and with the rise of punk, the album has moments of…

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…

Hey, I got out an issue of This Week in Sound, my email newsletter: pickleball noise, novel audiobook production, a long-ish essay about an old film noir and voice technology, sonic weaponry, acoustic rainbows, and much more.

I’ve got no idea how Second Circle found this track, but I’m so glad they did. Gus Till’s “Rainsong” was originally released in 2006, on a CD only compilation, titled “Tribal Matrix”, on the tiny Tokyo-based independent imprint Dakini Records. A label run by Giovanni Fazio, whose reggae and dub work, as Mayko, Ban Ban Ton Ton briefly covered recently. Till is an Australian musician, who’s been making music since punk first hit Melbourne. Amongst many, many other things, Till worked on the score…

# New EP dropping on Friday. That's right, my next release is just a couple of days away. It is called "is, was, and always will be" including 6 acid tracks across different styles. It will initially be available from Subvert.fm for a two week exclusive period, followed by the usual release on Bandcamp and a listening party. I have uploaded the video for "104 and change" to YouTube as a preview.

Jazz & Τζαζ, the prominent Greek monthly founded by Giorgos Charonitis in 1993, chronicled the Greek and international jazz scenes for 245 issues before ending in July 2013. Each issue carried a compilation CD, turning the magazine into both document and doorway. Released in 2006 with Issue #160/61, The Music of ECM gathers 10 recordings from a catalogue whose silences have always seemed as consequential as its fills. Heard together, these pieces form a folded atlas of interior territories.…

Listen to my new mixtape on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube “Fogust Groove” is a mixtape I made of a bunch of yacht rock and blue-eyed soul I played for my kids while we were driving around the coast of California last week: I first heard these songs as a kid listening to my mom’s car radio tuned to “Sunny 95” (94.7 FM) out of Columbus, Ohio, so this mix is a bit of, in the words of the poet, “his nostalgic tale.” You can listen to the mix on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube. Here’s a video of…

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Stan Getz and Dizzy Gillespie were both some of dad's favourite jazz musicians, so I'm not surprised at all he had this album. Really fantastic set of performances. (Note: now that Youtube doesn't show playlists in embeds anymore, I'm experimenting with embedding every video from the album separately in posts.)

Latin silentio ‘in silence’. Where I live now (also vivide ‘vividly, vigorously’, but that’s a topic for another posting). I’ve had profound laryngitis (probably a concomitant of cryptosporidiosus, which I’m otherwise holding at bay), occasionally moderating a bit so I can have actual conversations. But mostly I’m a whisperer, and the people on the reception desk at my facility have begun to ask me to write things down instead of whispering unintelligibly to them. Last week there was a brief…

For this Prom I had a seat at the front of the stalls on the same level as the orchestra. The mostly-sandalled-and-bearded Promenaders, the season-ticket holders who stand every night immediately in front of the orchestra, were just in front of me. This was a good seat for the first performance Skyline (Concerto for three percussionists, timpani and orchestra) by the French composer Edith Canat de Chizy) because I could see very close the extraordinarily complex manoeuvres that the…

What I listened to at the record store. Last night, I baked a batch of chocolate chip cookies to give to The Shopkeeper today. It's a thank you for lending an ear last week and for letting me listen to records even though I only plan on buying one record per month. (Daniel thinks that's a fair deal.) Outfit of the day. I opened the shop door, turned, and waved hello. To my surprise, it was someone else. I made a beeline for the records. There were two men talking in the corner. One eventually…

Trust me #122Like A Motorway by Saint EtienneReleased in May 94 and (inexplicably) reaching only 47 on the UK singles charts, Like A Motorway is one of my favourite songs by Saint Etienne who come the Glasgow Barrowland next month. The Pastels will be supporting. It is set to be a very memorable night.The date is part of Saint Etienne's The Long Goodbye tour, with the trio deciding to bow out from 37-years of creating dreamy, reflective and sublime pop since forming in 1990. Since then, the…

The Grateful Dead - The Matrix, San Francisco, California, December 1, 1966“Welcome to another evening of confusion and high-frequency stimulation, and Sucrets, cold beer on tap, lurid nightclub atmosphere, and more beatniks than you can count on the fingers of two hands.”Over on Aquarium Drunkard this week, I scribbled some thoughts about a Grateful Dead Fillmore Auditorium 1966 tape, which just got standalone 3LP and double CD editions this summer. Primal Dead! Always fun to dip into this…

[1976]Funky psychedelic bubblegum glam in an atmospheric horror pop style. The sort of novelty hallucinogenic glam you'd imagine was a seminal anthem for the hypnagogic pop underground... er... maybe I'm just imagining Ariel Pink doing a cover of this brilliant tune.

I have only one rule here : always offer you music that meets the highest standards of good taste and quality. No exception today with Bob Krass who was certainly from the class of Mickey Katz, Jerry Lewis and other talented Jewish singers. Must be in the blood. Ben Krass in 1961 Hippie Of The City Yes, I want more Krass Clothing tycoon turned crooner, Ben Krass was one of the owners of Krass Brothers, a store on South Street in Philadephia. Ben became a celebrity locally because of his short…

He may strike a passing resemblance to David Koresh, but Paul Kelday made better ambient electronic lunar landscapes than the long deceased leader of the Davidian cult in Waco could manage inbetween impregnating as many female followers as possible, and writing misspelled gospels for the US Customs. Not to say, that Paul Kelday didn't have any ambient groupies himself, but we'll probably never know.Especially as any fact finding mission would be severely hampered by the sad truth of Paul's…

during the ecstasy, the lovely, the i-forgot-life-can-be-so-lively lovely

"Into the Mystic" by Van Morrison Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What's a song you'd want to hear while watching the sunrise? - Into the Mystic by Van Morrison The song is built for exactly that moment; foghorns, tide turning, "let your soul and spirit fly" is dawn imagery even though it's technically about a boat coming into harbor. View Lou Plummer's Crucial Tracks profile

Sallow Moth: Hydrophilous BroodOut 24th July on Willowtip Records Surrealist brutal death metal redrafts elements of ‘Obscura’ and post 2000s Suffocation, but as with most contemporary avant-garde progressive extreme metal, it conflates stylistic incontinence with a density of ideas. Sure, for solid stretches of this album Sallow Moth work the Rubik’s Cube of tightly packed riffs and accents around with alacrity. Achieving a pleasing, multi-dimensional interplay of motivations, like a heated…

What’s a song you’d want to hear while watching the sunrise? Songs are memories. I was a bleary eyed 17 year old, pulling his first all-nighter. I’d visited clubs that are now legendary —Amnesia, Space, Ku— that at the time were just places to go and drink and dance and connect. Even as a horny teenager I kinda knew that those places weren’t for hooking up. They were for shared moments. I can’t recall which club it was we eventually stumbled out of, but suddenly night had retreated as the…

Released by ECM in 1984, 15 Jahre ECM Works has become a largely forgotten branch of the “Works” series, whose better-known volumes offered compact portraits of individual artists. This compilation widens the aperture across the label’s first 15 years, arranging nine recordings into an oblique self-portrait. Keith Jarrett opens with “Country,” housed on My Song (ECM 1115). His piano and Jan Garbarek’s tenor saxophone establish the theme with lucid conviction, while bassist Palle Danielsson and…

The Watergirls is a one-off, one-time, musical project lead by Alan “Teamy” Thomson. It features a global array of collaborators – lead vocalist Mhairi McClymont, Shellac’s bassist, Bob Weston, CC:Disco, Fantastic Twins, LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy on backing vocals, in Bowie mode, plus producers and engineers Mary Kani, Pablo Morales and Pearl M. Wong – all paying tribute to Optimo’s JD Twitch aka Keith McIvor. The press one-sheet states that as the project evolved, “anyone who asked to add…

Murphy’s Law strikes: Just before I’m about to leave for the weekly Tuesday happy hour for beer with the neighbors, the synth I ordered arrives. And a day early, too (this is beginning to sound like one of those “My steak is too juicy and my lobster too buttery” kind of complaints)! The synth in question is pictured above: an FM-1 desktop synth made by a company called M-VAVE. For a mere US$79, it emulates the Yamaha DX7, the most 1980s of all the 1980s synths… …but now in a package that’s…

A rare bird and gem in the Strata-East catalogue. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize This one has been one of my most wanted Strata-East titles. Been after it for quite a while. Hard to find album. Have seen it though in a couple of record store drops online and also at a local store but I’ve been too late on every occasion. This time I was first in line and…

Alex HoustonandElmer Burn Your Bra, BabyWillex Records 45-72-14Willex Products, Inc.Omaha, Nebraska1972From I've Got a Song to Write--Kent Westberry's Story: 60 Years in Country Music as a Songwriter, Singer, Record Producer, and EntertainerI was booked on a date for a Willex party. They had all kinds of products like soap, cosmetics, and cleaners. We went over so well that Mike Peavyhouse, the head of Willex, came over and asked us to play some more shows for them. I took Dale [Dale Turner,…

Logic1000 & Jam City – “Jersey” Young Muscle – “Looney Choon” Fellsius – “HIGHNOTE” The post New Hots Hots 29 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

Thanks again to my brother Paul for scanning this, cheers Paul! APHEX TWIN Pic by: Steve Double Dangerous Didgeridoo Aphex Twin I DON’T know, some bloody odd trends crop up in the wondrous world of techno. A recent one has been the use of that amazing aboriginal wind instrument, the didgeridoo. Yothu Yindi, the first minute of E Lustrious, that thing on red vinyl by Martin Lever, and now the ultimate tribute: ‘Didgeridoo’ by The Aphex Twin on Belgium’s R & S techno label. The original white…