Alexander Hawkins played two nights at Cafe Oto this week with his new 11-piece band before spending two days recording the pieces they played, to which he gives the title Willow Music. If the set I heard on Tuesday is any guide, the resulting album will be worth considerable study. The opening bars of the first piece the group played made me smile. For a minute I thought that I’d stepped back in time to the Royal Roost in 1948, and here was the Miles Davis Nonet — which became known as the…
Bandcamp Friday may have been last week hit the next best time to support the artists you love is right now and since it’s Friday again, maybe there will be something amongst this lot that you need to add to your collection. Hails! Frozen Soul - death - USAJungle Rot - death - USAVile Desolation - death - IndonesiaLago - death - USAWormlord - death - FinlandIngested - death/deathcore - UKIn Their Sleep - death/deathcore - USASacriversum - death/thrash - PolandAscended Master - death/thrash -…
Boards of Canada – “Prophecy At 1420 MHz” Fever Ray – “I’m Not Done (Therapy Session)” ear – “Real Life” The post Visual Velcro 53 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.
NESYA – PUT THE FRIES IN THE BAG. The intention of an artist like NESYA is not to create pure pop music. The daughter of a Nebraskan preacher and subjected to religious and sexual trauma, her aesthetic is wholeheartedly goth, punk, and a little vampiric–she even has a video that borrows liberally from that famous scene in Blade that I love so much. But even though her vibe is dark, I can’t help but get the same thrill from this song as I would from stuck-in-your-hair bubblegum pop. It’s catchy…
You know when I’m home on my own I don’t watch much TV like actual TV, but I do watch music videos on YouTube on the TV. Sometimes new music but often ones I know really well. Music videos are such a vibe. And it’s social too? I’ve spent many evenings with friends that just turn into swapping music vids on the big screen. I seem to listen to music only while doing something else, e.g.: while watching music videos, as above while running while playing Grand Theft Auto and actually that was the…
RIP Magic “Screwdark” There are moments in “Screwdark” that sound like three DJ Shadows DJing at each other like the Spider-Man meme, or someone trying to Zaireeka the entire Mo Wax catalog. It’s a loud and cluttered sound, but the style is bold and the groove is definitely there. The half muttered, half rapped vocals are mixed so low that you could miss them entirely, but I like the Shy Ronnie vibe in the context of this stylish cacophony. Buy it from Bandcamp. April + Vista “Very Bad News”…
Next month, Josh Davis aka DJ Shadow is reissuing his groundbreaking Mo Wax singles as a lavish boxset. Those records made a huge impression me, so I polled the rest of the Ban Ban Ton Ton writing team, to see if they had experienced something similar. Here, Patrick Syms shares a few memories around 1993’s “Hindsight”. Pukka prose by Patrick Syms. In the corporate world you inevitably find yourself in big meetings designed to establish some facade of consensus among a disparate group of people…
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. Alexa Yasemin Brahme’s novel Good News is a striking debut that thoughtfully explores the confluence of youth, art, and ambition. Publishers Weekly wrote of the book: “Brahme’s appealing voice-driven…
I have mentioned the Beatles on the podcast before, but this is the first episode entirely about one of their songs. It will probably be the first of many. Blackbird singing in the dead of night by Dr. Ethan HeinTake these broken wings and learn to flyRead on Substack Bonus track: a mashup of “Blackbird” by Billy Preston, “Blackbird” by the Beatles, “Blackbird” by Brad Mehldau, “Blackbird/I Will” by the Swingle Singers, “Blackbird” by Crosby, Stills & Nash, “Be Black, Baby” by Grady Tate,…
Music can be an underrated force for good. Let it: Excite you about waking up Coax you into dance Boost your mood when you're down Elevate your highs It's so accessible these days with how ubiquitous computers, phones, and Internet access are. Pick your poison: streaming, radio stations, downloaded music, etc. Enjoy musical art forms including, but not limited to, tracks, songs, albums, mixtapes, sets, and entire artist or band discographies. While accounting for your time and effort…
NEW RELEASE – FLORIAAN WEMPE Lowland post-bopper branches out on the sunny side of the street. [row-start] [half] [/half] [half] Personnel Floriaan Wempe (tenor saxophone, alto saxophone), Rodolfo Ferreira Neves (trumpet), Rob van Bavel (piano), Steven Zwanink (bass), Willie Jones III (drums) Recorded in 2025 Released in 2026 Track listing The Observer / Acquiescence / Quest / Angel Roy / Love Me / October 10 / What To Do / The Glow Of Promise / Gonna Be Alright [/half] [row-end] It’s always a…
Tracklist Hand Helds SlopSnarewaves PrescriptionKlint Infects My VeinsBlaskapelle Chancentod Rien Pour MoiSeason 2 LuckyEddy Current Suppression Ring I Need Some SpaceMr. [Redacted] EvaporatedEvil Eye RottingSmarm Lick The Fist700 Club Black Iron PrisonSubtle Turnhips Stupid Agita American DietDumb Posh Hippies ScumboYleiset Syyt Saitte Mitä HalusitteGötri Check Your HeadTermite Go to WorkCrash Kill The ShillMock Execution Defiant PoseBequest Threshold Of HellZero Rat Your Future In…
I am not a Billie Eilish fan. I'm also not a Billie Eilish detractor. Put another way, I've had limited exposure to the work of the Grammy-winning artist whose distinctive style tempers disaffection with rebellious assertion. Eilish's music has been used in movies such as No Time To Die, Barbie, and Turning Red. She takes charge of her image, embracing desexualized, oversized clothing that evokes a youthful Hip-Hop sense of freedom. Eilish shares directing credits with James Cameron for Billie…
And so the weekly Wednesday post has become a Thursday post. I saw too many shows over too few days, and the last thing I wanted to do yesterday was write about seeing more shows. Hell, I didn’t even want to listen to any music. I mean, all the shows were great, every one was […]
Cat Power & Loren Mazzacane Connors - Tonic, New York City, October 7, 1999Thanks to Jordan for alerting me to the recent upload of this classic, one-time-only (?) team-up — Chan Marshall and Loren Mazzacane Connors in NYC at the turn of the century. I’ve known and loved the audio for many years now, but had no clue that there was a video! Somehow, seeing it all go down is even more transfixing than hearing it all go down, the two players weaving in and out of songs, finding notes within notes,…
They said you sound like an owl.
Hey people! Today I’d like to feature a traditional English ballad. Like a lot of traditional songs, it exists in quite a lot of versions that differ only slightly from each other and are known under varying titles – “I Will Give My Love An Apple”, “I Gave My Love A Cherry”, but also “The Riddle Song” or “Peri Meri Dixi” (and all sorts of spelling variations thereof). “The Riddle Song” title, as you can expect, is because the song is part of the riddling tradition – solving riddles within a…
Good morning! Today we’re taking a look at Pete Yorn’s Musicforthemorningafter. Note: As many of you saw, I recently wrote about a Best Record of 2001 challenge and noted that I’d be writing some of these up. The plan is to do quick hits on each first-round matchup and post them directly to the page. Some will be longer, some won’t, and some might just be a handful of sentences. There’ll probably be a few typos. We’ll also have a few guest posts along the way, so make sure to stay tuned for…
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Asenheim: ElbenblutOut 24th April on Dominance of Darkness Somewhere beneath this bloated mess sits an intriguing and flamboyant iteration of blackened folk metal. Extended interludes of symphonic darkwave curate us with a degree of mysticism despite the hammy delivery, effectively and regularly resetting the tone before we are furnished with another metallic segment. The issue is not so much quality as it is quantity. The riff palette veers from heavy to black metal with ease, officiated by…
Hello everyone! We're dropping the dispatch a little early this week, mostly because I am ahead of the curve after a hectic Golden Week holiday. Due to the aforementioned vacation, I have done next to zero gaming this week. I played some more Dark Souls for about two hours, and Titanium Court has been launched, and laughs were had, but I am not quite ready to share my thoughts on it because... well I still don't quite know what it is yet. So let's get to what you should be playing this weekend.…
Welcome to the Thursday Pressing Concerns! We’ve new albums from Rural France, The Sleeves, Cola, and Unwed Sailor in this one. Check them out below, and if you missed Monday’s blog post (featuring Northeast Regional, Comprador, Josephine Network, and Lirra Skirra), check that out too. 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…
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Special Request – “Uncanny Valley” (gyrofield Remix) O’Flynn & Swordman Kitala – “Sekete” VHOOR – “Assombrado” The post New Hots Hots 19 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.
This song is all over my Instagram Reels for some reason and it is such a vibe I can't get enough of it. Thanks for still believing in RSS! Feel free to get in touch.
Jacana People & Vraell – Paper Thin A pristine slice of organic electronica from UK duo Jacana People, with vocals and guitar by Vraell (Alessio Scozzaro). This is sunshine on a cold spring morning, melting the frost, and turning dew to vapor. I’ve also included their previous single–bouncier but still pillowey and soft around the edges–it lands more as a modern take on what might have been a B-side of an off-album Orbital 12″. Both songs are from Jacana People’s upcoming EP, Breaker, out June…
