And the hits just keep coming, but not the good kind of hits – more the body blow sort. Proving that shoegazers disbanding isn’t a phenomenon restricted to Japan, one of the bright new lights of the shoegaze scene – London’s Whitelands – abruptly announced their dissolution yesterday, effective immediately. Beyond the band’s statement, there’s […] The post Whitelands – “Setting Sun” appeared first on Space Echo.
Wednesday = time for the lists I pull together of Boston-area shows of interest (to me, and maybe you) happening in the next week, and recent announcements of bands coming to town. There’s way too much going on, which is a better problem than nothing going on, but I’d prefer just-a-little-less going on. This is […]
Hey people! Today I’ve got a silly little song for you. The group whose song I decided to feature is Caprice – they are a Russian ensemble who make a sort of neoclassical, ethereal folk, aiming to sound like what the music of elves could have been. The founder of the ensemble, musician and composer Anton Brejestovski, has actually even created a language called Laoris, in which he’s written some songs for Caprice. The tune to this song was composed by him. I have good memories of their music; I…
I’ve had a number of different songs buzzing around my skull over the last couple of weeks, but this one flew in and stuck itself directly into my cerebral cortex. Back In The Day, one of the first of a handful of MP3s I yoinked from Napster was a copy of this song. It still rips.
All One Song - “Change Your Mind” with Micah NelsonI’ve never spoken with Neil Young himself. Maybe that’s for the best — for both of us! (Though, Neil, if you want to talk, just get in touch.) However, over on Aquarium Drunkard, you can check out my interviews with several of Neil’s associates: Guitarist Frank “Poncho” Sampedro; bassist Billy Talbot; and multi-instrumentalist Nils Lofgren. Chatting with these musicians who have spent a good portion of their lives onstage or in the studio with…
[1961]The dude Max Crook who played the Musitron, an early synthesiser, on Del Shannon's Runaway did this instrumental that became a classic at mod discotheques and northern soul shindigs. Crazy funky sounds and hand clap-mania! The coolest.
Best Record of 2001: Day 28 Cover art courtesy of Geffen Records Good morning! Today we’re taking a look at Weezer’s Green album as it takes on Melody A.M. by Röyksopp. In my head, every Weezer fan is one of these two people. Reductive? Maybe. Accurate, probably. At any rate… At the risk of great bodily harm, here’s my tl;dr: Weezer didn’t follow up Pinkerton so much as they ran as fast as they could away from it. This was a good thing. After the (at best) confused reaction to their 1996 album,…
2026 • LP, Limited Edition, Teal/White Smash, Signed To see all 9 photos, visit the article page. This article was originally published at: https://andrei.xyz/records/enter-shikari-lose-your-self/
Hammer's great lost funked-out soundtrack - available at last!
Already with three albums under their belt, the popular East Anglian folk duo, Honey & The Bear, have just released a fourth. Featuring eleven original songs, A Wish & A Tide could well be their best album yet. Once more, the husband and wife team of Jon and Lucy Hart delve deep into Suffolk’s landscapes and legends for inspiration as well as exploring more personal themes of love, loss and resilience. Lucy Hart: “This album has been 14 months in the making. At the start of 2025 Jon hit on a…
Finally I have realistic #ListenBrainz statistics since I managed to sync the scrobbles from iOS! This month my most played albums were: 1. First Came the Shadow - First Came The Shadow I found this album thanks to the Apple “related albums” to Sagor Som Leder Mot Slutet, and I was pleasantly surprised! It is delicate and strong; it has it all. I quickly listened to the whole discography, but it needs more attention. 2. Pinocchio - We Stood Like Kings Bandcamp suggested this to me, and I was…
Lattie Moore - You Can't Make Hay Pickin' Cotton (LP)Derby Town lp 102Derby Town Records2061 Edgewood DriveCharlestown, Ind. 19681 - Lattie Moore - You Can't Make Hay Pickin' Cotton.mp3 2 - Lattie Moore - Tall Man.mp3 3 - Lattie Moore - A Doubt Appeared.mp3 4 - Lattie Moore - Come Back And Be A Wife.mp3 5 - Lattie Moore - A Sadness I Feel.mp3 6 - Lattie Moore - Bottle By Bottle.mp3 7 - Lattie Moore - Here I Am Drunk Again.mp3 8 - Lattie Moore - Juke Box Johnny.mp3 9 - Lattie Moore - Out Of…
Another fine 15-minute slice of ambient modular synth from the appropriately named Modular Ambient station/channel/account/ethos/vibe on YouTube, all shimmering tones and light glitch that throbs and pulses, shifts and drifts, in accordance with the lights of various bits of kit. It’s been a while, for whatever reason, since I added a video to my massive YouTube playlist of (currently 225) live ambient performances, but this one made it immediately.
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Casha Mour – Toluca I wrote about London’s Casha Mour (real name Daniel Alan Smith) a couple of years ago. The song I featured then had this wonderful, drunken, meandering quality to it; I remarked at the time that under that comforting tilt seemed to be lurking something sorrowful. In the time since, getting to know Casha Mour’s music, that sorrow rises to the surface. The first of these two new singles he sent over a few weeks ago, “Toluca” reminds less of the pleasant warmth of the first…
Staples of classic rock radio in every era - are these musics on the verge of rediscovery by today's generations a-la Fleetwood Mac was a couple years back?
Relocating to London, Yu Su has also switched labels, putting her latest long-player in the hands of Sheffield’s Short Span. The set, titled Foundry, sees the DJ / producer further develop her complex sound design. Creating mini musical worlds rich with swirling swooning synthetic strings, dub techno textures and bionic bass. The latter mutating, booming, buzzing, rumbling. A Jewel, a collaboration with Miyako Koda, of Dip In The Pool, is an increasingly trippy tone poem, constructed from…
themes include serenades, heartbreakers, interludes, and legends. regrettably made shortly before a neighbor was inconsiderate. JNB files, now on tape now on CD now on the internet
The legendary underground musician Elle Barbara presents ‘One Man Show’ on May 22, 2026 at Montreal’s iconic Theatre Outremont. More than a concert, ‘One Man Show’ is an on-stage exploration of Elle Barbara’s Black Space’s 2025 album ‘Word on the Street,’ in a spectacle created in collaboration with noted choreographer Raja Feather Kelly. Sure to be one of the events of the summer. Purchase tickets: https://theatreoutremont.tuxedobillet.com/web/elle-barbara Listen and order: Elle Barbara’s…
A Muse gem. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize From doing a little research, all white label promos of this title comes with some kind of cut corner/saw cut. So in this case it was fine with me. Great condition otherwise for the cover and the vinyl is in great shape as well. The Muse label has it’s gems, that’s for sure. This one is one of the best on the label for me. The brilliant but short-lived group…
Where my 80s kids at?! The Karate Kid was trying hard to bring the High-T Bloodsports Underdog Story energy of Rocky III to a teen audience, right down to getting Bill Conti to do the score, and trying to get an anthem that hit as hard as “Eye of the Tiger.” But even though it was co-written by Conti and the great Allee Willis, “You’re The Best” by Joe “Bean” Esposito could never live up. Lowered expectations is built into the song. “You’re the best… around” is the kind of back-handed…
This is a followup of sorts to an album I've played here previously. Some very classic jazz, and fun experimentation with time signatures too.
Hey people! For today I chose to feature quite an improvisational, experimental piece. It comes from a 2019 album called “New Rain Duets”, which is a collaboration between two American musicians, Mary Lattimore and Mac McCaughan, who might seem like a rather unlikely duo as their musical backgrounds are quite distinct from one another. Mary Lattimore is an amazing harpist who does the most wonderful and weird things with her instrument, and I’ve featured her music many times before in this…
Set in Leeds in 2034, GENER8ION’s new video for Storm, with Swedish rapper, singer, and songwriter Yung Lean taking the lead, is something very, very different. It is immediately reminiscent of “If…” the 1968 satirical drama set in a strict boys’ boarding school where the students rebel and things escalate into chaos. I’m not sure if that is where the inspiration for this video came from, but I was also reminded of the character of Mondain, the older, aggressive student who arrives partway…
Thanks so much to Olof for the interview! I had written about the great Gothenburg band Dreams End on the blog not that long ago. Im a fan of the handful of songs I knew by them, especially the ones that were released on vinyl. To my surprise I learned there were more, and they were really nice too. Olof shared some with me and it seems at some point many of them will end up being online which is great news. I had the honor to ask him questions, and I have really enjoyed the answers and…
Best Record of 2001: Day 27 Good morning! Today we’re taking a look at beautiful garbage as it faces off against Andrew WK’s I Get Wet. 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…
In the first Tuesday Pressing Concerns in a “hot minute”, the blog is looking at new albums from Loto and Shapes Like People, a compilation from Softjaw, and a new EP from Big Bluestem. Check ’em out, and if you missed yesterday’s blog post (featuring TV Star, Urq, Dipper Grande, and Lupo Citta), load that up 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…
"Rapper's Delight (Hip-Hop Remix Long Version)" by The Sugarhill Gang Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What song is your current obsession? Rapper's Delight by Sugarhill Gang On a recent camping trip with six of my grandchildren, I was horrified to learn that none of them had ever heard Rapper's Delight, one of the seminal songs of modern hiphop. Well, all of them have heard it now - multiple times. I take my responsibilities seriously. View Lou Plummer's…
Via the YouTube channel Yesterday's Papers, a motherlode of musicians guest reviewing the Singles for Melody Maker and New Musical Express and Sounds - all from the 1960s or the early 1970sSlightly reduced in impact by the host of the channel reading them out himself in his mild tones. I reckon he should have tried to imitate these rock stars - ribald Scouser for the Fab Four, irascible East Ender for Ginger Baker, etc etc. Perhaps he could get AI to do it now? There's a huge number below and…
