Massive thanks again to Alberto from Japan for scanning this article in for me. Greatly appreciated APHEX TWIN Aphex Twin’s sixth album is currently “postponed indefinitely” as of early May. Yes, this man has blown us away again. We can only guess what the new album will be like from his latest single, “Windowlicker.” And Richard D. James is the kind of person who puts everything on defying expectations. The delicate, beautiful, mad, fragile, and twisted electronic music he has released so far.…
There are many bands I want to write about. Bands that I was interested back in the day and then never got around finding more information about them. So I was looking at one of them and stumbled upon a compilation called “I’m With Cupid – A Transatlantic POP Valentine”. I didn’t know about this CD comp from 2004. But I knew many of the bands there including big favourites like Action Biker, Would-Be-Goods or Free Loan Investments. So I played all the tracks. There were a few that surprised me…
I keep working my way through Miles Davis’s studio albums this year and as we get to albums recorded in the later 1960s and 1970s, the time commitment necessary listen to the entire album becomes more daunting with most of his 1970s output approaching or exceeding an hour each. Then there is 1969’s In a Silent Way. 38 minutes: For a long time, I accepted that Kind of Blue was Miles Davis’s masterpiece. While I dislike the practice of ranking albums (or books or whatever), it seems reasonable to…
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"Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) [Single Version]" by Sly & The Family Stone Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. **Share a song you love that has parentheses (in the title). - Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) by Sly and the Family Stone" Any time I get a chance to celebrate this band, I'm going to do it. They were ground breakers in so many areas - a mixed gender, mixed race group of musicians who were fronted by a certified genius. View Lou…
New albums from Northeast Regional, Comprador, Josephine Network, and Lirra Skirra. Simple enough for a Monday Pressing Concerns, right? Perhaps. You can be the judge after reading and listening below. The April 2026 playlist is on hold until (probably) next week. The blog will be back on Thursday! 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…
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"Untitled (How Does It Feel)" by D'Angelo Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Share a song you love that has parentheses (in the title). D'Angelo hit this one out of the park. I remember a couple of my friends talking about the music video. I certainly thought that he was going to be a big star. Unfortunately, fame, drugs, and depression cut his career and life short. View Mandaris's Crucial Tracks profile Listen to my Apple Music playlist
scroll down for playlist links... every year i publish a sixty page zine of my best writing over a six month period. the pieces are similar to the writings you'll find on this blog, written very late at night or on buses, but a lot more polished. currently i am editing issue four. in zine-making tradition i always include a playlist of music i consider life changing, life changing for my life at least - every song a world in itself. my taste usually leans towards folk, outsider, alternative…
The longing to produce great inspirations didn’t produce anything but more longing. – Sophie Kerr Remix Sunday 174 Zipped Up. (75mb zip) pw: palmsout Coolio – “Gangsta’s Paradise” (Hyalyte Bandido Baile) Bad Gyal – “Chulo pt. 2” (Bianca Maieli Tethered Edit) Amina vs. Furacão 2000 – “El Hantour x Tire a Camisa” (DJ Sudi Edit) Cardi B & Megan vs. VHOOR – “Rap da UFFÉ x Bongos” (Ballads Blend) Ice Spice – “Actin a Smoochie” ( GOJII RMX) Dora – “дорадура” (orbly Edit) Mikos Da Gawd – “The Whole…
[1968]Didn't know this tune til the other day when I began reading Will Hodgkinson's book In Perfect Harmony (2022). My dad had Dave Edmunds records, which I didn't hate, but he didn't have this one. A fun energetic metallic surf/space rock jam.
¿Qué lleva puesto Davi hoy? Davi lleva puesta una camiseta azul oscuro y calzoncillos azul claro. ¿Cómo se siente Davi hoy? Davi está bien, más o menos. ¿Cuáles son las razones del estado de ánimo de Davi? Es domingo por la tarde y eso explica por qué Dave no lleva pantalones. ¿Por qué escribe Davi en español? Davi escribe en español para practicarlo y porque es misterioso.
Sol.Hz is Seefeel’s first long-player in 15 years. It finds the founding duo of Mark Clifford and Sarah Peacock with their refusal to revisit old ideas intact. None of the pair’s curiosity or experimentation is dampened. They seem to have no interest in nostalgia, as they continue to evolve further and further away from their post-rock and IDM roots. Fizzing, fractured frequencies and searing drones synthesise dark, sinister, cinematic atmospheres. Slithering sound design mixes intermissions of…
Meditation doesn't work for me. But Yin Tang point does. I feel energized for like an hour everytime after I do it. It's a Chinese technology marvel 😄👍🏻
Charles Kynard’s gospel and blues-drenched first album as a leader didn’t cut a bad figure. [row-start] [half] [/half] [half] Personnel Charles Kynard (organ), Clifford Scott (tenor saxophone), Howard Roberts (guitar), Ray Crawford (guitar A1), Milt Turner (drums), Leroy Henderson (drums A1) Recorded in 1963 at Pacific Jazz Studios, Los Angeles Released as Pacific Jazz 72 in 1963 Track listing Side A: I’ll Fly Away / Amazing Grace / Motherless Child / The Lord Will Make A Way Somehow / I Want…
I thought I had heard everything - but the munificience of all the vintage Top of the Pops episodes on YouTube supplied surpriseHere, in 1977, savagely behind the times, a group I never even heard of: a late glam / artpop outfit called Contempt.I suspect the influence palette includes Queen, Sparks, possibly 10cc, possibly Cockney Rebel, possibly Bebop Deluxe, maybe even SailorCynical wordliness meets a clean frilly guitar sound and a dapper non-rock image.... and a bit of pomo too (the song…
"Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego?" by Rockapella Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. A favorite a capella (no instruments, only vocals) track. I think this is one of the first examples that I can think of. It's stuck with me because it was on the show. I actually am pretty bad about geography, but it was something that was on. But, going back to the song. It's fun and super catchy. It might get you to learn something. View Mandaris's Crucial Tracks…
Photo of Josh Dun and Tyler Joseph taken from their Facebook account. Twenty One Pilots, comprised of singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Tyler Joseph and drummer Josh Dun, have been my favorite music act for the past ten years. This week, their beautiful song “Drag Path” takes over the #1 spot, marking their 15th song to top my chart. They topped my chart three times last year alone, with “The Line”, “The Contract” and “City Walls”. “Drag Path” was originally released last…
Back in 2021, the Artistic Director of Six Points Theater (then called Minnesota Jewish Theatre) Barbara Brooks created a virtual musical revue called Promise of America: A Celebration of Jewish American Song as part of their "Theater Six Feet Apart" season (which also included outdoor programming). I watched it, but have no recollection of it; the COVID years are a blur at this point, five years removed. Barbara noted in the program that she's gotten many requests to bring this show back, live…
The semi-annual “trios sequence” in the weekly Disquiet Junto music community is underway. We’re just past the midway point, with some time left (about a day and a half as of this writing, on the morning, Pacific time, of Sunday, May 3), for the second of the three consecutive projects. The Junto has had many newcomers recently, so here is some background on the Junto in general and the trios sequence in particular: The Disquiet Junto is a series of weekly projects in which a music composition…
Hey people! Today, I originally planned to feature a different piece, though also one played by Lavinia Meijer. This is actually quite common in “Bibiel Hears Things”, that I end up sharing something different than what I initially wanted to. It probably says something about me. I have this gigantic playlist, from which, whenever I want to make a “Bibiel Hears Things” post but don’t quite have a specific song in mind, I always pick out a few songs as a sort of shortlist, do some research on…
Dimension: DaemoniumOut 17th April on Werewolf Finland’s Vargrav return for another bout of outrageously dense symphonic black metal. Resembling Gnipahålan in their attempt to physically overwhelm the listener with impenetrable waves of guitar and synth led noise, layers that create the illusion of activity despite an axiomatic simplicity locatable at the foundational level. Vargrav remain compelling not in their capacity as a sonic throwback – which they very much are – but in their…
"O Death" by Ralph Stanley Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. A favorite a capella (no instruments, only vocals) track. - O Death by Dr. Ralph Stanley The soundtrack to the Coen Brothers classic film, "O Brother, Where Art Thou" was one of the best selling and highly regarded crossover albums of all time. It sold over 8 million copies in the US and was only the second soundtrack ever to win a Grammy for Album of the Year. This track by the legendary Ralp…
Someone on the Phish Facebook group reposted a TikTok overdub. Vanessa Bayer and Paul Rudd at their desks, losing their minds to a song while their coworkers stare. The original was Fleetwood Mac. Whoever made it swapped in “Down With Disease.” That move is Phish fans in miniature. Someone cared enough about the song and the bit that they rebuilt a piece of pop culture around the band. That’s how the scene works. People spend their time doing things like this for free, because the music asks…
This version of the iconic Cuban patriotic song features several Latin legends: Celia Cruz, Isidro Infante, La India, Ray Mercado, Jhony Pacheco, and Tito Puente. I re-post it here in loving memory of my father, Don Francisco Guerra (16 Oct. 1943 — 2 May 2024). P.S.: I will resume my series on the Stoic-capitalist dilemma in my next post.
Solo Output: More than 50 Disquiet Junto community musicians last week created solo pieces, as part of project 0747, with the intention for those to become duets this week and trios next week. Join in! Mid-project Milestone: As of 7:30pm Pacific on Saturday, May 2, just over half of the 54 projects from week one (aka solos project 0747) have become duets (in project 0748), leaving exactly 26 yet to become duets. And we already have 42 duets total in project 0748 (owing to multiple solos having…
Sounds again, of course - what was it with their compulsion to show hard rockers with their kit off? True, they went equally for salacious innuendos and cheesecake pictures of New Wave babes like Gaye Advert and Debby HarryPerhaps it's just equal-opportunity earthinessReaders responded in similar ways too - there was a whole running thing of letters drooling over Peter PerrettPerhaps more honest than say, NME, about the element of concupiscence at work in rock fandomThat dainty,…
More like Sometimes Groove Club, amirite?!I came across this album by pure chance considering how bad Spotify's algorithms have been for a while now, but I'm happy it was recommended. I've listened to the album a handful of times now, and it's likely to stay in the rotation for a while longer. These are old age-old songs about age-old issues, of course, so the lyrics are filled with ships sailing and flowers blooming, handsome lads and lying tongues, long black hair, guys named John, fare thee…
Once again, Theatre Elision is bringing us the regional premiere of a new piece of music-theater, just two years after it's NYC premiere, that most people have probably never heard of. And friends, this one is truly special. In Terce (pronounced ter-chay), NYC theater artist Heather Christian (who was raised Catholic, as I was) has reimagined a 9am mass as a celebration of the divine feminine and connection to nature. Something that has mostly been ignored for the last few millennia since the…
