But first, this. And, also, because someone on Threads made me think about Dave Pirner, I'm going to force ask you to listen to Soul Asylum's outstanding cover of Victoria Williams' "Summer of Drugs". Soul Asylum was one of many bands that contributed Sweet Relief, a tribute record that was an integral part of teenaged Dave's world. Pearl Jam's cover of "Crazy Mary" and Evan Dando's cover of "Frying Pan" are also standouts. 🌲 gonna 🌼 go 🌱 touch work on feeling okay about only 🌳 grass writing a…

I believe that art only becomes art when it’s exposed to oxygen, by which I mean, when other people interact with it, enjoy it, comment on it, purchase it, or feature it. So it was an honour to be featured in the most recent Art of Travel book, France: In the Footsteps of the Great Artists. Chuffed!

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 12th June 2026 Rising originally from the ashes of Asphyx, and then continuing in between Asphyx reunions etc in the past few years, Dutch black/doom/death metallers Soulburn are a fascinating proposition. Taking fiery black metal, imperious doom and classic death metal and blending them altogether into a cohesive and balanced whole feels like a challenge that I’d only trust to the longest of long term scene veterans. Luckily, ‘Quantifying Cosmic Doom’ is…

Teo Blake Beauchamp is a writer, professor, and musician from Los Angeles, CA. He earned his MFA in Sonic Arts from Brooklyn College in 2020. Beauchamp serves as Associate Program Director of Sound Thinking NYC, teaches courses at Brooklyn College, Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, and Montclair State, and contributes to various music publications. Here, he talks to the legendary musician and spiritual teacher, Laraaji, about his new album “Openness”. On a balmy spring day in 2025, producer…

Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: August 1996 One of the most underappreciated bands, in my mind, from the Florida death metal scene in the mid to late 90s was Monstrosity, probably most famous for being the band that George ‘Corpsegrinder’ Fisher left to join Cannibal Corpse in 1996, just as this record was coming out. But that should not be the band’s only claim to fame, given they were created by former Malevolent Creation and Cynic members as well as from George’s eponymous band. Their…

What’s a song that helps you focus or concentrate? I have a full playlist of tracks like this, it’s called ElectroBurbleWorkTime. This artist features heavily and whilst I tend to lay the full album whenevr I can, this track is one I find great for focus work. “Emerald Rush” by Jon Hopkins Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Listen to Gordon McLean's Apple Music playlist View original post on Crucial Tracks Thanks for reading and keeping RSS alive. Visit my…

Tickets purchased for when we are NYC in October: Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen The final musical with music and lyrics by Duncan Sheik.

Saint Etienne and The Pastels at the Barrowland was an enticing prospect to warm the hearts of fans of independent pop music. It showed, the famous ballroom was sold out and packed out. Saint Etienne are on their final UK tour, but have highlighted that they will continue to play festivals and one-off events. So, who knows when they will be back in Scotland?Has The Pastels ever played the Barrowland before? That was the question on the lips of music fans climbing the stairs to the hallowed…

Alex Dupree - Talking to the DogThe new record from Alex Dupree has an array of classic singer-songwriter touchstones — vintage JJ Cale, the thin, wild mercury of “Tombstone Blues,” Mickey Newbury’s weary poetics, No Other-era Gene Clark, the hobo wisdom of Michael Hurley. And a brilliant re-imagining of Hurley’s quietly cosmic/comic “You’re a Dog, Don’t Talk to Me” provides the LP’s spiritual centerpiece. There’s much more to Talking to the Dog than a tasteful record collection, though. Dupree…

There is one, and only one, universal point of zen musically, where your mind is totally clear and you’re starting from a blank slate. This is when you’re somewhere where there’s an acoustic guitar, and somebody points to you and says, “Hey, you’re a musician. Play something.” Your mind clears. You forget everything you’ve ever known. And it’s as if you’ve never played a song before. How many times has this happened to you? This is all to say that all musical problems come down to not knowing…

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I was traveling over the latter part of the week and this cut into some of my music listening, but I did enjoy three albums this week during my travels. First, I’ve been going back to Paul Motian’s 1977 ECM date, Dance, pretty regularly. It’s pretty free even if it is peppered with plenty of post-bop. Charles Brackeen is really amazing on these albums with his searching soprano saxophone stealing the show. I posted in a few weeks ago, but it feels worth positing again. It inspired me to listen…

Music Catatonia is catatonic...and many other tabloid headlines will ensue. Anyone who saw Cerys fawning over PAUL CLARKE! on 'Big Brother's Little Brother' those few short weeks ago will have known it was on the cards. Cerys seemed at best loopy, at worst deeply fragile. Looks like Gorki's Zygotic Mynci are Wales's number one band again. About time too... ** God, I was little shit then wasn't I?

Chris Gervais (drums and percussion), Kevin Colgan (guitar and backing vocals), Jesse Gordon (bass and backing vocals) and Edwin Paroissien (lead vocals, guitar) where The Reds. They were based in the Boston area in the U.S. They were pretty young at the time. They were between 16 and 17 years of age. It was the late 80s. And they were making some fine guitar pop! Chris has a Soundcloud account where he has songs for two of his bands, The Reds (1987-1989) and The Nasties (1997-2000). For The…

Mittags-Abgrund: Mittags-AbgrundOut 15th September on Darkness Shall Rise Productions True to the legacy of Russian black metal, this is a piece of impeccably landscaped material, conjuring a fully scoped out environment before our eyes, vast and inhospitable whilst compelling the listener onward, provoking their impulse for exploration. However, Mittags-Abgrund go further in populating this terrain with activity, life, conflict, struggle. The setting may be sparse in the mould of the…

This is the Monday Pressing Concerns! It features a reissue from Shotmaker and new albums from The Van Pelt, My Pet Fossil, and Carry Ripple. Check ’em 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. Shotmaker – Mouse Ear [Forget-Me-Not] (30th Anniversary Edition) Release date: September 18thRecord label: Solid BrassGenre:…

I recently had family in town, and one of the things they came to see, besides me, was a ukelele festival in Torrance. At that festival, I saw the guy in this video play this arrangement of Billy Jean - the same preposterous one-ukelele version he plays in the video - live. It was extremely nuts. Feng E can actually make the ukelele make these sounds with his hands??? I don't even know too much about ukelele limitations, but I've absorbed enough from friends in college and from my…

What’s your favorite collaboration between artists? My actual favourite is only on YouTube — the cover of While My Guitar Gently Weeps performed by Rock n Roll Hall of Famers and includes THAT guitar solo by Prince — so in lieu of that, the answer is obvious. I was heavy into rock music as a young boy, discovering Iron Maiden before most of my friends, and so one of these bands were on my radar already. I’ve mentioned it before but the local library record department was excellent, providing me…

Richie Havens’ recording of ‘I Can’t Make It Anymore’ is, I believe, one of the wonders of this mad old world. It is possible some know the song as a rare single or some from Richie’s 1966 LP Mixed Bag. Some may have heard it on Paul Weller’s recent Ace compilation That Sweet Sweet Music which, to me, makes perfect sense as the song has got a similar feel to ‘My Ever Changing Moods’. I have to confess that while I admire Richie’s frantic strumming and the rhythmic intensity of some of his most…

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. ▰ There’s a new album out, Friendship Survival Guide, that is a classical-tinged drone collaboration between Adam Wiltzie (of Stars of the Lid) and the late film composer Jóhann Jóhannsson (Sicario, The Theory of Everything, Arrivals). Wiltzie has done several scores, too. Its Bandcamp…

A member of Tokyo’s UNKNOWN ME collective, H. Takahashi released the album “Body Trip” in 2016, with California’s Constellation Tatsu. The cassette contained 12 tracks of gentle chimes, drones and peacefully percolating programming. Theremin-like textures and drops of robotic rain falling in hypnotic, gamelan gong patterns. Mediative, healing minimalist electronica, that relied on the repetition of simple melodic refrains. Machines mimicking ripples and splashes. Organic natural sounds. Bubbles…

tl;dr: Sometimes you get there early, sometimes you get there late - but even if you had a chance you never knew the game Music Monday for September 20th, 2026 Guess what - it’s not Monday! It’s Sunday, and I’m a day early! Ok, reality is that I’m over a year late for the next edition, but shush. In case you’ve forgotten, Music Monday is an idea I cooked up a long time ago to encourage myself to focus and listen to albums in their fully presented manner (front to back, beginning to end as it…

I’m not exactly an avid cinema-goer but I couldn’t resist taking a short trip into Dublin to see Everybody Digs Bill Evans, a biographical drama about the late great jazz pianist Bill Evans, the trailer for which is above. I suppose Bill Evans is best known for his wonderful contributions to what many people regard as the greatest jazz album of all time, Kind of Blue which was released in 1959. This film, however, focuses on the period after he had left the Miles Davis band that made that album…

Words: Chris ArnsbyNicky Campbell: “Oh welcome to Top of the Pops and a classic show tonight. What more could you want? Great videos. Great music. Great live performances as well. What a great start. Brothers in Rhythm, both of whom have been DJs since about the age of thirteen, so they know a thing or two about infectious rhythm. Ah, one, two, three, four.” [25] BROTHERS IN RHYTHM: SUCH A GOOD FEELING. About two thirds of the way through this performance something small but significant…

It’s a third week on top for the beautiful “Rein Me In” by Sam Fender and Olivia Dean, as well as a third week at #2 for “Private” by The Neighbourhood, who’ve spent much of this year on their world tour which began in late March and concludes in their hometown of Los Angeles in December. Fontaines D.C. are the biggest upward movers again this week as their mesmerizing song “Marianne” jumps 10 spots to #7. There are two new entries to my chart again this week, starting with “High Hopes 3000” by…

Got to dive deeper into Teddy Charles’ 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 An elusive New Jazz gem recorded in 1957 and released in 1959. This one flew under the radar for me for a very long time. In process of going back to exploring earlier hard bop stuff again I listened to this and was very pleasantly surprised by how good this album is and what a…

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