Photo: Alexis Maryon Aphex Twin THE Aphex Twin is a 21 year old sonic crusader from Cornwall. Like some sort of futuristic Mozart prodigy he spews out wigged out ambient tracks and wired, original techno at a furious rate. In the last six months alone he’s released two double albums. THE UK’s leading techno innovator is originally from Cornwall and has been making music since his early teens, frequently creating new sounds by customising pieces of equipment. His first release was a white label,…

“Spacious Heart” is the solo debut from L.A.-based musician Anthony Calonico. Signed to Amsterdam’s Music From Memory, he previously appeared on the label as part of the trio Total Blue. The new 8-track set is split equally between instrumentals and songs. The music has the feel of floating, fluttering, weightless fusion – check the appropriately titled “Ether”. A syncopation of hushed, brushed cymbals, and delicate drum programming, carrying treated textures created from fragile, gentle guitar…

ECM Special VI continues the journey through this rare 1970s compilation series from the Japanese Trio Records imprint, gathering a deepening philosophy of resonance. Across its seven selections, the instrument becomes a hidden intelligence moving through the floorboards, where melody becomes sediment and rhythm grows roots in the dark. “Re: Person I Knew” features Ralph Towner on 12-string guitar and piano alongside Glen Moore on bass in a crystalline selection from Trios/Solos. The Bill Evans…

BTS is currently the biggest musical group in the world. Although I was aware of them for a few years, I only recently took a deep dive into their history and their discography. Below, I want to share a few of their tracks that I came to love, as a fan of hip-hop who slowly but surely turned into a fan of BTS. And below that, if you are so inclined, you can read some more of my thoughts on this very unusual group. Intro: Persona is a RM solo track, with incredible flow and pace in my opinion.…

Son Of Mustang Ford [1990]So I was still in high school when the first couple of Swervedriver EPs came out. These were Rage classics that we taped on VHS months before we could ever get our hands on the records. I mean we lived in the bush mate! This tune to me and my mates was just a grungier, more testosterone fuelled version of You Mad Me Realise. Which didn't make it any less great. I mean it rocked like a high octane drag racing mutha fucka didn't it. Rave Down [1990]Then five or six…

Reviews / June 30, 2026 Integrati… Disintegrati Franco Leprino Eleven, 1977 The work of someone called “McPanda,” who seems to have evaporated after the LP’s release, the front cover art of Franco Leprino’s 1977 Integrati… Disintegrati (“Integrated… Disintegrated,” as you’ve doubtless worked out for yourselves) shows the hexagonal cells of what looks like a honeycomb, an artifact that connotes naturalness but also evokes the same queasy blend of the biological and the mechanical that H.R. Giger…

I've 'laid down' the guitars for the last song of the album, and also re-recorded the guitar parts for another song and made them worse.It's time to watch Boon, nestled as it is between ads for funeral plans, will pledges and stairlifts. How cheery! The approaching full stop of life has never looked so enticing!Might have another go at those guitars after Boon. In the afternoon, after Boon. Ha ha!

Television - CBGB, New York City, June 30, 1976A half-century ago this evening, Television were doing that thing they’d been doing for more than two years — playing CBGB! Since helping jumpstart the Bowery scene in ‘74, they’d delivered dozens upon dozens of sets at the tiny club, sometimes soaring into the heavens, occasionally crashing down to earth. This better-than-average audience tape is almost 100% celestial, letting us listen in on a band on the cusp of greatness. Dizzying / dazzling…

Who are you, and what do you do? My name is Casey Liss. I’m a podcaster, app developer, and writer based out of Richmond, Virginia, USA. I host two podcasts: the Accidental Tech Podcast with Marco Arment and John Siracusa; I also host Analog(ue) with Myke Hurley. ATP is a tech news/discussion show, largely focused around Apple, but we’ll cover anything that interests the three of us. Analog(ue)... I still don’t have a good elevator pitch for, over ten years on. It’s Myke and I hanging out. (I…

Hello You. It’s been a while, but I’m delighted to announce that FOGFEST returns for one last ride on Saturday August 1st at IKLECTIK, live from their new home at Peckham levels. Absolutely killer line-up too. Tickets available here via DICE. FOGFEST returns to Iklectik for another explosive lineup of tunes, tape loops, turntablism, techno and trash. It’s our most packed line-up yet, featuring a four-way ‘audio-visual quest to further the exploration of rhythm, sonic groove theory and the…

Hailing from Philadelphia, lead singer Patti LaBelle first toured Britain with her backing group The Bluebelles featuring singers Nona Hendryx, Sarah Dash and Cindy Birdsong in January 1966. The tour was arranged by promoter Roy Tempest. For this first British tour, Patti LaBelle & The Bluebells were backed by northwest London group Bluesology who featured a very young Elton John known as Reg Dwight at the time on keyboards. It’s not clear whether Bluesology backed them on all the gigs, so we’d…

Percussion, in the ECM imagination, rarely behaves as ornament or engine alone. On ECM Special V: New Music in Percussion, rhythm functions as a conduit for revelation, each struck surface opening into an interior geography where hands and skins communicate in infinity signs. The compilation gathers music that feels carved from threshold states, hovering between human gesture and some older grammar of vibration. Its deepest theme may be contact: the instant when one body addresses another…

Attempting to recreate the golden yesterdays of Jose Padilla’s White Isle sunsets with the tunes of today… John Beltran / Sunrise And The Life We Live / Music For Dreams A few weeks ago I met Music For Dreams founder, Kenneth Bager, for lunch in Tokyo. It was our first physical meeting, after way over a decade of corresponding. We talked of many things including, of course, recent releases. We both raved about John Beltran’s latest album, “Canada”, at which point Kenneth also shared that he had…

NEW RELEASE – ALESSANDRO FLORIO Four to the Florio. [row-start] [half] [/half] [half] Personnel Alessandro Florio (guitar), Troy Roberts (tenor saxophone), Kyle Koehler (organ), Carmen Intorre Jr. (drums), Laura Taglialatela (vocals 6) Recorded in October 2025 at Tedesco Studios in Paramus, New Jersey Released as Self-Released in 2026 Track listing Reginella / Fratm Fa / Come Pioveva / Taneda / Will You Still Be Mine / Born To Be Blue / Punta Germano / Trouble #2 [/half] [row-end] How sweet it…

Today I discovered by accident that in Apple Music, if you swipe on the name of the currently playing track on the Now Playing screen, you can skip to the Next/Previous track.

Reviews / June 29, 2026 Atlantis Paul Williams Parry Music Ltd, 1987 Paul Williams’ 1987 Aquarius is, simply put, one of the most beautiful library music albums ever made. It would never have been described that way when it came out, of course. Library or production albums were released exclusively to media producers who would buy certain tracks or entire catalogs to score commercials, TV and radio shows, films, documentaries, educational programming, and so on. And these were not the programs…

As much as it delights me to live in a world where Slowdive are a constantly touring entity, I won’t pretend I’m not waiting for them to get off the road and back into the studio because, well, I live in a festival-less market so it’s highly unlikely they’ll be stamping their passports in Canada […] The post Slowdive @ RMMF 798, Beijing – April 2026 appeared first on Space Echo.

Fun and fascinating - with fabulous fotos - Danceteria oral history by Joy Press, aka the missus, who was a regular at the legendary New York club in the 1980s. Everyone from Madonna and Fab 5 Freddy to Mark Almond and Michael Musto to Beastie Boys and Butthole Surfers makes an appearance. Something in the air clearly - in freaky synchrony the final Soft Cell album is titled Danceteria, while Madonna has a single out called "Danceteria". Joy was working on this story for months for discovering…

Heute darf ich euch einmal Physical Graffiti näher bringen. Habe ich schon länger auf dem Schirm und erschreckenderweise festgestellt, dass ich sie hier auf dem Blog noch gar nicht gefeatured habe. Das hole ich heute mit dem Track „Ava“ nach. Zusammen mit Wilczynski und damaa.beats hat sie hier einen wunderbaren Track gebastelt. Wie immer meine Empfehlung: Hört euch das an! Bei Klick wird dieses Video von den YouTube Servern geladen. Details siehe Datenschutzerklärung.

Hypnolovewheel - Parallel UniverseReintroducing Hypnolovewheel! This excellent band made several albums worth of impeccable indie pop from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, sharing stages and labels with that era’s cream of the crop, from Galaxie 500 to Superchunk to Yo La Tengo. And it’s that latter band’s James McNew who has helpfully compiled Parallel Universe, a best-of that’s packed with sweet melodies, crunchy guitars and lyrics that walk a fine line between heart-on-the-sleeve and…

Shelley and Joseph walk through four picks apiece from Q1 and Q2 2026, followed by a discussion on a couple of the bigger releases of the year thus far, Darkthrone, Immolation, fanatics, and the limits of a viable career.

gonna rank from worst to best song ranking system 😇- need to have a looong conversation with whoever made this song 🥹- teared up a little 🥰- i love love love 😊- very good 🙂- good with some issues 🤔- i would let it play in the background ig.. 😪- not feeling it 😠- no this is bad. 😡- this is really bad. 🤬- play this around me and im taking a gun out. for both of us. 8dm 🤬 ? beat 🤬 this lowk might be the worst chorus i've ever heard friend 🤬 a mess.... rat race 🤬 oh just have a day off.... mia 😡 i…

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Some 90 years ago today. Fort Riley, Kansas, 29 June 1936. The 13th U.S. Cavalry Regiment is seen returning to garrison from its last march as a horse cavalry outfit before shipping off their mounts, trading horse shoes and oats for tires and tracks. The regiment’s colonel at the time was Charles “Lutie” Lewis Scott (USMA 1905), a noted horseman, prominent in the Cavalry Branch as a across an array of organized horse shows, polo matches, fox hunting, and endurance races. Note, they are…

Many times in Germany. But never in the south of Germany. Munich remains a place I would like to visit. That’s where we are heading today on the blog. It is possible that the band Bismarck Idaho best known fact is that Momus produced four out of 5 tracks of the band’s one and only release, the “Beckenbauer EP” CD from 1994. The EP was released by the label Blickpunkt Pop (BP 001) ran by Marc Liebscher, also Munich based. This label is well known for having releasing the band Sportfreunde…

[1992]Back to the good ole days when I was twenty. Me and my mate Tony would stay up late, drink and smoke, listening to all the new and groovy sounds on cd. I'd totally forgotten the epic grunge-gaze and kaleidoscopic ambient sax haze of Never That Feeling/Never Learn. What a jam. Glorious.[1993]Unbelievably this tune, one of their greatest, was exclusively tucked away on the import only US version of The Last Train To Satansville cd EP.Cars Converge On Paris might be Swervedriver's most…

Connie Francis & Harve Presnell.When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965). What possessed a Hollywood producer to pitch a 1960s update of the George and Ira Gershwin stage musical Girl Crazy starring Connie Francis, Liberace, Louis Armstrong, Herman's Hermits, and Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs? We may never know. But shockingly, the movie was made and now we can experience When the Boys Meet the Girls.The "plot" sends a wealthy college student named Danny Churchill (Harve Presnell) to Nevada to avoid…

In this Monday Pressing Concerns, we’ve got new albums from Fire Man, Lovewell, and The Hobknobs, and a new EP from NAYAN. 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. Fire Man – How to Erase Everything Release date: May 8thRecord label: Self-releasedGenre: Punk rock, post-hardcore, post-punkFormats: Vinyl,…

Every time I think about how I’ve been making music for 16 years, it blows my mind. I’ve messed around with hardware and software, gathered machines to gather dust, and seen the evolution of Logic Pro and Ableton throughout that time. But one thing has always remained: making music (except a weird period between 2015–2017; … The post FOMU and groove boxes as musical sketch pads appeared first on Sampleface.