https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIZHX1-SdiQ Listening to the Diablo soundtrack(s) while working or to relax isn't weird, is it?
"Not Like Us" by Kendrick Lamar Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Post a song that mentions another recording artist or artists. This is the most prominent song that comes to mind. A lot of rap songs mention other rappers but it's been a while since I've seen one blow up like this. They sung it at the Super Bowl! View Mandaris's Crucial Tracks profile Listen to my Apple Music playlist
Paul McCartney is everywhere, it seems. He played 2 big shows in LA in March. He was at the recent closing of The Late Show with Steven Colbert. Not only was he a big part of the 50th anniversary celebration of SNL, but he closed out the 51st season. Now he has a new album … Continue reading On the ubiquity of Paul McCartney
The longest-running parlor game for music fans might be arguing about which era of Van Halen is the best. A close second: what song defines your generation? The answers are almost always a tell: Boomers might point to The Beatles, The Stones, or Dylan. Gen X often lands on something like “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” Millennials, Gen Z, and Gen Alpha…well, the answer gets fuzzier. That’s probably also a tell. (Spoiler: I’m old.) Writing for NPR recently, Hazel Cills flipped the question a little,…
There is one song on my Last.fm list that I could never find on Apple Music or Spotify. Heck, I even had to “scrape” it from Youtube to make it into MP3 version so I can listen to it on my MP3 player. It’s “BKAB” by Ethan Stoller, and the song can only be found on the end credits of the film “V for Vendetta” (2005) In 2006, he produced the track “BKAB” which appeared in the film V for Vendetta. The track featured the unusual mix of Indian beats and Hindi vocals (sampled from the Bollywood films…
The blues is back baby. Or is it the blues are back? Whichever it is, it's back. This just released 2026 debut record comes to us from Ethiopian-born, Connecticut-raised Amani Burnham. Once you listen to this album you'll find it hard to believe that he's only 21 years old. It feels like he's had the blues flowing through his veins for a lifetime. You'll hear Jimi, you'll hear Stevie Ray, you'll hear Muddy - you'll hear all the blues greats being channeled through Burnham's fingers (and thumb -…
Hey there! In this Monday Pressing Concerns, we’ve got new (or new-ish) albums from The Greenberry Woods, Fastener, Ben Auld, and Morningstar. Check them 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. The Greenberry Woods – It’s All Good, Sugar… Release date: May 29thRecord label: Big StirGenre: Power pop, jangle…
"Georgia on My Mind (Original Master Recording)" by Ray Charles Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. A song that reminds you of somewhere you lived. - Georgia on my Mind by Ray Charles It was four degrees above zero the night I started my infantry training at Ft. Benning, GA, a fact I remember because I was assigned to stand outside by a gate, to "guard" it, for two hours on the typical kind of bullshit duty that makes the Army what it is. View Lou Plummer's…
Devin è tornato! E questa volta l'ho trovato meno overprodotto rispetto agli ultimi dischi (per fortuna!)
Best Record of 2001: Day 50 Good morning! Today we’re taking a quick look at Yeah Yeah Yeahs self-titled EP. Yeah Yeah Yeah’s self-titled, 5-song EP was self-released on their own Shifty label in 2001. Their decidedly garage-punk sound featured guitarist Nick Zinner, drummer Brian Chase, and no bassist. No matter; even in these early days, everything orbits around frontwoman Karen O. Her vocals are hard to pin down– she coos one minute, screams the next (see also: the entire chorus of “Art…
It goes without saying that I’m listening to Sonny Rollins and Miles Davis this week. The passing of Sonny Rollins led me to listen to his great album Saxophone Colossus (1957). It’s may well be the greatest hard bop album ever recorded. Everyone knows it, but it’s always worth hearing again: As readers of this blog know, I love The Bridge (1962) and have posted about it multiple times. I’ve enjoyed Sonny Rollins’s work with Miles Davis in the mid-1950s (including The New Sounds). I marveled…
What harm is there in whispering to yourself as you kiss your child, ‘tomorrow, you will die’? – Epictetus Remix Sunday 175 Zipped Up. (84mb zip) pw: palmsout El Sawareekh – “Laa” (Habibeats Remix) Ice Spice & Tokischa – “Thootie” (ADR & Junk Food Edit) Pix – “Mega Put4 Mexicana” (DJ WENDELLSIILVA Remix) Vhoor & D.A.N.V – “Assovio” (Mabrada Edit) Urban Shakedown – “Some Justice ’95” (Arsonist Super Dub) Oppidan & Cutty Ranks – “Armed & Dangerous” (Elliot Keith Bootleg) Lawrence Lui – “Hooked On…
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. ▰ The Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, a jazz foursome, posted a full video recording of a live set, doing their new album, Happy Today, co-released May 15 by the International Anthem and Nonesuch labels — heavy on atmosphere and exemplifying a rich sense of ensemble: ▰ SML, a jazz quintet, revs…
Music I’ve bought in May. Hey, I bought a lot of stuff this month. Let’s see… I’ve seen lots of people dismiss the new Kim Gordon album like “well, the previous album was amusing and stuff, but now there’s a new one with the same thing?! WE”RE DISAPPOINT!!1!” But it’s so wrong. The new album is nothing like the previous album. The new album is pure genius. Almost every single track is a banger. The Prostitute album is really good. Which reminds me that I’ve also got an album by WHORES: And Sex…
This collection of TV music videos with a loose framing story seems more like first-take/b-roll mess. Is it for kids? Was it influenced by The Monkees? They probably explained briefly in Anthology how this turned out so badly, and I already forgot. At least each song gets a different visual treatment and some are nice (like the color-filtered mountainscapes over an instrumental song) and not just over-literal imagery (showing policemen in a row for the line “policemen in a row”). And at least…
Inspired, as so many are, by Robert, I'm going to attempt #Junited2026 — sharing one link to another blogger every day to celebrate some of the excellent writing out there. I may not make it but we can but try. Thanks for reading this post via RSS! Let me know your thoughts by sending me an email: rss@thomasrigby.com.
A quote from Miles Davis, from a clip used in BBC Radio 4’s Great Lives episode on him. He was asked why he doesn’t revisit his old music. Those songs, to me, don’t exist. You know, we don’t have time for “Body and Soul” and “I Got Rhythm,” you know, or “So What,” or Kind of Blue. Those things are there, they were done in that era, the right hour, the right day, and it happened. It’s over, it’s on the record. You know, people ask me, “Why’d you play this?” Go buy the record. Compare to Marina…
Your Recently Scrobbled history now syncs across all your devices. Scrobble an album on your iPhone and it's there on your iPad — your recent plays follow you anywhere you're signed in with the same Last.fm account. What's new Recently Scrobbled now syncs across every device signed into the same Last.fm account. It's there on launch — no pull-to-refresh needed. Clear your history on one device and it clears everywhere. Fixes Older scrobbles from before this update may show without cover art.…
Unfortunately Chris Watson was ill, but it was still a wonderful evening. I saw the Richard H. Kirk iteration of Cabaret Voltaire in Holland like er five years ago, but I never got to see the Mallinder/Kirk version back in the days. So getting a Stephen Mallinder version farewell concert was really special. Oh, so that’s what they sound like with Chris Watson aboard… funkier, somehow. Anyway, I got a t-shirt.
Aphex Twin Richard D. James, latest in-depth interview Interview with Christian ZingelsTranslated by Kazufumi Taniguchi Aphex Twin, who just released ’26 Mixes for Cash,’ a compilation of his past remixes, has only given interviews to two magazines worldwide. We managed to get our hands on one of them. Here is a rare and valuable interview that reveals Richard D. James’s current thoughts. Bologna, Italy. Richard D. James, the man known for his astonishing electronic innovations as Aphex Twin,…
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 5th May 2006 When you’re one of the world’s biggest rock bands, coming off the back of a highly acclaimed record and ready to get more music out there, what is your plan of action? Double album? That sounds like an ambitious project, especially for a band prone to a bad song or two on even their best records. But enough about the Foo Fighters in the early 2000s, what about the Red Hot Chili Peppers? Well, turns out they were gonna do the exact same thing…
Family and violence. Memory and silence. Music and noise. On paper, Ché Walker’s The Ètienne Sisters and debbie tucker green’s dirty butterfly make for an intriguing double bill. Both are written by playwrights with a poet’s ear for language, but where one reaches for warmth and connection, the other drags us into darkness and refuses to let go. The Ètienne Sisters centres on three siblings pulled back into each other’s orbit, old grudges and old affections resurfacing as they attempt to…
When Lily was about two she told me she wanted a song about "no". This was ten years ago, and I don't remember why she wanted this, but I made something up: This is a song about no. This is a song about no. This is a song about no, no, no. This is a song about no. The song goes... No no no no no no no no no. The song goes... No no no no no no no no no. The song goes... No no no no no no no no no, no, no. This is a song about no. It's useful anytime the kids want a song about something I don't…
This was the first song I heard (and Shazamed) after landing in Nice, France, last week!
Marginalia is a series of short interviews with music lovers from small corners of the internet — bloggers, reviewers, and listeners worth knowing about. Who are you and what do you do?I maintain a blog under the pseudonym of Scholarch. I started blogging in December 2025 as I was (and still am) going through some life changes. Writing is how I figure things out, and I've been reflecting on my relationships with time, hobbies, the work I want to do (I'm currently in academia but am not fully…
"Children of Children" by Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit A song off the last album you paid money for - Children of Children by Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit This 135 song compilation of rarities and collectables by various artists benefits victims of Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina. My wife and I were in the Appalachian Mountains, just north of Boone, NC when the storm caused a 1,000-year flood in the region. We made it back home on the only road open out of the area, but many mountain…
This month the #ListenBrainz stats are not up to date yet. I recently discovered some black metal from the ’80s and spent the last few days listening to it. I especially appreciated To Mega Therion. Wow! I also found a very interesting label(?) of Italian artists: New Udine Hardcore. You can stream their full catalog both on their independent platform and BandCamp. I particularly love Fool Front’s textual adventure to promote their EP! In general the band’s style I appreciate most is…
When I was young, I was a huge AC/DC fan. I started listening to them probably around the time I got my driver's license, maybe a year or so earlier, and I remember driving around in my Dad's tiny blue Ford Fiesta blaring AC/DC at full volume. I loved it, while everybody else probably thought I was a complete dork. Good times. Fast forward 25 years, and I recently realised that apart from hearing the occasional song here and there on the radio, I haven't really put on an AC/DC record in years.…
I got to perform on stage for my second highland dance show this weekend with two performances: Friday evening and Saturday afternoon. I dance with the Pam Dignan school of highland dance in Westhill and although the show is really for all the young dancers at the school rather than us adults I do feel very privileged getting to dance and participate with them all as a student at the school and enjoyed it immensely. It’s very much a novelty for me as it wasn’t something I did when I was young…
