New artist I’m obsessed with: Gabriel Dawe. I love the colors and craft, very Mesh. If his site were on WordPress, we’d definitely commission some pieces. Hat tip: Jason Nichols.

“Are you wearing the—” Mirage is the name of the dress, Dior Haute Couture F/W 26-27 via Yahoo “The airbrushed T-shirt version of the 1974 artwork Lynda Benglis ran as a two-page advertisement in Artforum that sparked an editorial protest and eventually led to the founding of October Magazine, printed as an almost unrecognizably ethereal palimpsest on a sheer, beaded, short-sleeved dress in Jonathan Anderson’s Benglis-inspired Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2026-27 collection? Yeah, yeah I am.”…

This guitar is still looking for a new home. My skills as a player are sadly lacking, perhaps because I spend so much time building guitars at the expense of time devoted to practising, but I've posted a short clip to YouTube anyway to give some idea of what can be expected.For those interested, I recorded the clip using my Zoom H4n recorder - adequate, but not ideal, I know. I suggest you listen to it through headphones.Contact me for pricing and details.Cheers, Pete.

I’m a day late for a Music Monday, but I had to share this! Drumeo is such a fun channel for learning drums, and the drum theory behind popular songs. My favourite series involves the team playing the melody and vocals for a drummer, then asking them to produce a drum line. The twist is the drummer has never heard the song before, and often its a genre in which the drummer has no familiarly. I only just got around to watching Kristina Rybalchenko’s video from seven months ago, but hers might be…

AuthorqntmOverview(from back cover)An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from spreading it.Antimemes are real. Think of any piece of information which you wouldn't share with anybody, like passwords, taboos and dirty secrets. Or any piece of information which would be difficult to share even if you tried: complex equations, very boring passages of text, large blocks of random numbers, and dreams...But…

A few current favourites, jazz and world vibes mainly, care of Secret Soul Society’s Cal Gibson. Highlife | Alpacas Collective The Goss One & Cali remix of Highlife is subtle, sweet and dancefloor primed: irrepressible guitar lines and beats that shimmer in the sun from this Belgian collective. A joyful Afrocentric noise that works a wonky magic. Music for Iwuda | Iwuda First nations bassist Davin Ojala swings his way through eight short pieces that foreground his 4 string jazzual flex. Pick…

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens by Dr. Ethan Hein Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens Read on Substack Last week I was at the International Society for Music Education conference, which is by a wide margin the biggest academic conference I have ever been to. I presented about teaching pop music theory and aural skills. While I was mentally gearing up for it, I came back to a song that I first encountered when we sang it in elementary school, “My Favorite Things” from The…

An entire review dedicated to just a Watch band, you say? Where I could spend 1,500 words writing about the Apple Watch itself, why would I choose to spill about Apple’s own Titanium Milanese Watch band?Because it’s that good. TL;DR: The Titanium Milanese Loop is the only Apple Watch band you need. Titanium keeps it light, durable, and understated. The latching clasp is genuinely secure — no magnets to fail — and micro-adjusts to your wrist whether you're mid-workout or standing in the cold.…

NEW RELEASE – CHRIS HAZELTON Oscillations and vibrations on repeat. [row-start] [half] [/half] [half] Personnel Chris Hazelton (organ), Brett Jackson (tenor saxophone, bariton saxophone), Peter Schlamb (vibraphone), John Kizilarmut (drums), Recorded on February 1 & 2, 2024 at Massive Sound Studios in Shawnee, Kansas City Released as Cellar Music in 2026 Track listing A Sound For Sore Ears / Summer In Central Park / Voodoo Village / Paris Of The Plains / First Snow / Brisk Breeze Through The…

Ooof, this is a tough one. Mark Lanegan (of the Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, and an extensive solo career) did a cover of Alice In Chains’ Nutshell about six years ago: a song about addiction—but really, what AiC song isn’t about addiction? He dedicated it to the memory of Layne Staley and Mike Starr, who both overdosed at different times. Lanegan and Staley were good friends, and Lanegan was also an addict, and was apparently clean—but died of unknown causes two years after…

A hundred death metal albums not from the USA The final period in this series is also the ultimate motivation for this little exercise. There are few who would deny that death metal peaked between 1991-92. The established narrative has it that the genre then wobbled throughout the rest of the 90s, with some bands undertaking ill conceived commercial ventures, and many more simply calling it a day. In Decibel’s book on Scott Burns, the chapters from 1996 onwards do have a very…

I’d been hoping that Malcolm Whitehead’s Snaps might be made public eventually, and here it is, a 25-minute film documenting the northern end of a British book-signing tour undertaken by three artists and their publisher in October 1979. Not only that, there’s also this shorter compilation of footage that didn’t make the final cut. The artists were three of the four whose work is showcased in the book known as The Studio: Jeffrey Catherine Jones, Mike Kaluta and Bernie Wrightson. The other…

Absolute Grey - CBGB’s 1985A very cool archival release from the undersung 1980s band Absolute Grey, capturing a particularly fiery set from the Rochester, NY quartet at the legendary CBGB. Front and center are Beth Brown’s powerful vocals, which call to mind a winning blend of Michael Stipe and Grace Slick — and hey, Absolute Grey encore with a killer rendition of “White Rabbit.” The band behind her leans more in the R.E.M. direction though, with sharp interplay between bassist Mitchell Rasor…

In a few days time, I shall embark on a music listening project like I have done twice before involving songs or other pieces of organized noise that have strong associations to points in my past. I shall choose a few albums that were mainstays in different epochs of my life and write about the associations that emerge as different songs or other pieces of organized sound emerge from not exactly the niggulum but from another ethereal dimension. As I wrote, I’ve done this twice before and both…

We were psyched to have Becky Jaffe on again, talking about how artists are dealing with AI: Apple Spotify YouTube

A particular kind of magic happens when three unrelated stories start rhyming. You're scrolling the news, and suddenly a Chinese artist sketching under an ancient oak, a Caribbean poet's obituary, and a debut album announcement from a two-man New York project all sound like verses in the same song. Underneath sits a pattern worth pulling on: what we leave behind, and how people who refuse the rules of their era keep reinventing the shape of it.Start with the tree.Ai Weiwei, Drawing AgainOn the…

This week’s theme: Jazz and vocal versions of songs written by Irving Berlin. Featured artists include John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, Ray Bryant, Max Roach, George Bryant, Charles McPherson, Jackie McLean, Rosemary Clooney, Ed Bickert, Scott Hamilton, John Oddo, Scott Hamilton, Warren Vache, Bill Evans, Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Lamott, Duke Jordan, Walter Bishop Jr., Oscar Peterson, Dinah Washington, Lockjaw Davis, Paul Quinichette, Clark Terry, Lou Donaldson, Horace Silver, Arthur…

Good morning! This week I spent a good deal of time listening to the earlier part of Heart’s catalog. As I noted last week, my better half came home from a garage sale with quite a haul, and, well, those records weren’t going to play themselves, you know? No one needs to know my take on Bebe Le Strange (“Even It Up” is a top-five track from them), Private Audition (you can probably skip this one), or the deep cuts on Dog & Butterfly and Dreamboat Annie. I’ll just say I’m always surprised at how…

I cannot get enough of these tunes recently: Blues in the Night (Dinah Washington), See See Rider (Ernestine Anderson), T’Ain’t Nobody’s Biz-Ness (Dinah Washington), and You’d Be So Nice to Come Home to (Helen Merrill). They’ve been on repeat for more than a month.

Amber is a band I know very little about. I found about them on an Instagram post by an account called diversesvenkst and got me curious. Then I notice the great David Chalé had posted one of their songs, “Yatzy”, on Youtube and well, it is time then too try to find any details we can. The band hailed from Malmö, a city I visited once and which I hope I return some day. Good times. Not sure which period they were active, but in 1996 they put out a demo tape called “A Face in the Crowd”. This…

This week had some desultory work on various projects, a bit of reading, and some travel. I’m working to adjust my expectations in terms of what I can and need to get done before the start of the fall semester. My classes are mostly set up even if I’ve not quite figured out all the content and assignments. Anyway, my listening was interrupted and inconsistent. Since I was heading toward North Carolina, I had to enjoy some Coltrane (plus, it’s his centennial and I’d be remiss). For whatever…

It’s a Monday Pressing Concerns! We’ve got new records from The Chutes, Inland Years, and Me, You, & My Metronome, plus a reissue from Great Plains. 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. Great Plains – Naked at the Buy, Sell, and Trade (40th Anniversary) Release date: June 5thRecord label: Tone…

Both Oceano and deathcore had entered a transitional phase around the time Ascendants was released, one that, for the band at least, was necessary after the release of the weaker Incisions in 2013. As increasingly polished production and cinematic orchestration was slowly entering the genre, the Chicago outfit has always tried to stand behind the same formula of testo-chug: lay down a set of monotonous, simple riffs and let Adam Warren sound like the apocalypse. I'm a big fan and own both…

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Super selections and wonderful words by our favourite four-to-the-floor expert, The Insider. PETE HERBERT / FAR FLUNG / MUSIC FOR SWIMMING POOLS Pete Herbert distils 3 decades of globetrotting disco, Balearic and house wizardry into Far Flung, an album that feels like postcards from everywhere he’s ever played, lived or daydreamed. It’s Herbert in full widescreen mode: sunkissed, unhurried, and effortlessly classy. The set drifts through Legzira Sunrise and South Seas with that trademark Music…

Louie Zong with this sublime concept album. Not a surprise either since Louie made another favorite concept album of mine—It's Black Friday, Charlie Brown. Louie clearly understands the feel and sound of his banger ideas. You can download them on Bandcamp, but I definitely recommend checking out the video for Nintenhogs.

Country/blues tune, a little bit risqué, popular with the novelty acts in the 40's and 50's. The 1933 release by Bill Carlisle of "Rattlesnake Daddy" is generallty credited as the very first and original version. Two years later bluesman Blind Boy Fuller recorded a similar song by the name of "I'm a Rattlesnakin' Daddy." Though the lyrics and melodies are different in these two songs, they share similar motifs and song structure. I think that the song, though previously unrecorded, widely…

E. Azalia Hackley Collection, Detroit Public Library.Roland Hayes pictured with a diamond tie pin presented by King George V, of England on April 23, 1921. I sang a composition arranged by Roland Hayes this Sunday at church. Our church’s regular choir doesn’t do the summer services, so I sometimes sign up to sing a solo one week. This year I learned that we would be preaching from Luke 2, which tells stories of Jesus as a boy, and went looking for solos that drew from those stories. I found…

For its August 2002 issue, Musica Jazz turned toward ECM’s Scandinavian constellation and produced a compilation whose geography liquefies under scrutiny. The disc crosses eras and temperaments, yet identity travels freely between leaders and sidemen. Scandinavia becomes a psychic latitude where silence acquires calcium and melody sings in minerals. The opening “Fort Cherry,” connected to Don Cherry’s Dona Nostra (ECM 1448), immediately unsettles expectation. Turkish percussionist Okay Temiz…