What was the first album you ever bought? Pick your favorite song off that album. John Menzies was in the high street of my hometown. An L-shaped store on the corner of the street and the pedestrian part of the Artizan Centre. Make your way to the back of the store, turn a corner and head upstairs. Four racks of LPs, and a wall of singles, greet you. The latest albums, the top 10, are displayed near the counter at the back. From it I zero’d in and plucked Friend or Foe by Adam Ant from the…

In a follow up to our episode on US Power Metal, Joseph walks me through the more obscure corners of 80s European Heavy Metal. Horrors and wonders await.

Eartheater – “Wasp In the Fig” HVAD – “HANDWORK PANDIT” lene 3000 – “Lights Off” The post Visual Velcro 60 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

At some point after the Achtung Baby album I kinda lost track of U2. I look at their last eight albums and don't really recognize much. Fixing that now, starting with Zooropa.

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Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: July 1986 Continuing with our thesis that 1986 was the key year for thrash records, we have another instalment of ‘Albums I Found on that Teutonic Thrash Mega-pack Back in the Day’ with Frankfurt legends Tankard and their classic debut, ‘Zombie Attack’. Born of a scene that consistently rivals the Bay Area as the home of thrash metal, Tankard were to gain a reputation as the fun lads who played fast as fuck and obviously liked to party with the monsters.…

Sometimes I like to listen to lo-fi hiphop while working and reading. A while ago, YouTube suggested to me this one: Morrowind but it's lofi beats | No AI. The same channel also has a video with music from Oblivion and Skyrim here. Both video loop the musics a few times; I find that quite convenient while working. Wanting to more similar (but non game) music to listen, I found about Nujabes, one of the first ones to work in the genre. The following two covers are my recommendations to listen on…

In-depth interview, and dispatch from Ibiza, care of gentleman abroad, Christopher English. I met Yuri on a drab November night in 2011. Manchester United were playing Benfica in the Champions League, and we had both braved the drizzle and ventured out to an English pub in Santa Eulalia to watch our respective teams. I think we were the only people there. It finished 2-2. Our friendship since has been one of life’s greatest gifts. This year marks a decade since he opened his bar Soulgood.…

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 1st May 2026 The second record from Poland’s Meresin promises to be a big step up from their 2021 debut ‘Black Messiah’, taking that album’s industrial and symphonic black metal blueprint and slowly enriching it over the past five years into something bigger, grander and more impressive. ‘Anthems of Hatred’ is out now through Via Nocturna, and focuses on the enraging tendency of humanity towards hypocrisy in all its forms. Polish black metal has a storied…

"Graceland" by Paul Simon Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Share a song that got you through a difficult time - Graceland by Paul Simon Losing love is like a window in your heart, everybody sees you're blown apart. - The album on repeat at the end of my first marriage. View Lou Plummer's Crucial Tracks profile

. Upcoming:Pasta Making Fundraiser at Pastificio Etna / September 26, 2026 Relay-Interview Party at Diversité Artistique Montreal (DAM) / October 21, 2026 The Air Contains Honey album launch at Sala Rosa / November 9, 2026 .

FOLLOWING THE RELEASE of the seven-disc, definitive collection of Poison Girls songs Persons Unknown: The Complete Recorded History, selected material from the collection—not previously released in this digital format—is now available on major streaming platforms. This digital-only twenty-four song collection is named Some of What’s Known: The Selected Sounds of Poison Girls—a riff on the idea of ‘Persons Unknown’ and indicating that this is a selection, not the streaming version of the…

London quintet sadplanet threw their hats into the ring with a trio of singles spread out across 2024 but have waited until now to make their proper first statement via their debut EP Slowing Down, which came out last week. Their output has affirmed their understanding of and respect for the dogma of English dreampop […] The post sadplanet – “do you?” appeared first on Space Echo.

Dean McPhee - Northern EarthBradford, UK-based guitar wizard Dean McPhee returns with a transportive/transcendent new album. As is his usual mode, Northern Earth was recorded live with no overdubs — always an impressive feat of concentration, given the long, layered compositions here. But the process isn’t really the point, it’s the result that matters. And the result is awesome. On the three tracks here, McPhee leans into a bass-heavy, dub-infused sound, while still keeping one foot in ancient…

Marjorie Mitchell, 1953, Sverresborg Trøndelag Folkemuseum Release Information Artist Marjorie Mitchell Title Homage to Marjorie Mitchell Vols. 1 & 2 Date June 26, 2017 & August 20, 2026 Download CRQ075, CRQ703 Introduction For a pianist that was widely acclaimed, according to her obituary1, Marjorie Mitchell seems to have been someone I had missed in all the years that I have been listening to some of the most engaging pianists. But fortunately there is now two volumes of recordings compiled…

Ol' Johnny Boy did a recent live show on Sirius XM at Stephen Talkhouse (on Stephen Talkhouse) and, of course, the community already has a rip of it on the Internet Archive. Goodness gracious John can shred. John and whatever legal apparatus is behind him always seems chill enough with live concerts being recorded and shared online. I wonder how chill Sirius will be with this, but you owe it to yourself to give it a listen. I cannot wait for his next album. Soon. As a side note, Continuum…

We are being prepared for eternity every time we behold beauty.– Martin Shaw, Liturgies of the Wild

Here is a band called Popfish. Not sure where they are from, but do know they were playing and recording around 1987 and 1988. There’s a Soundcloud by them. The songs have no description either. But there are quite a few. Some are rockier, but then there are the indiepop ones that are really enjoyable. The songs here are: “Man on My Shoulder”, “Baby’s Lost Her Head”, “It’s Up To You”, “Up and Down”, “Black on Eyebrows”, “Two Heads (dub)”,”Drop Me in to Wood”, “Sometimes”, “Sugar Candy Kissing”,…

This week’s theme: Ella Fitzgerald, Live in Helsinki, 1963 and 1965, The Lost Recordings. This show features Ella Fitzgerald in two concerts recorded live in Helsinki. The music had not been available but was “rediscovered.” We purchased the record to get a sense of the quality of the recordings on this relatively new French label that specializes in finding live performances that have never appeared on vinyl and music that was often never heard or heard once. The label has been primarily…

12 September 2026 in Melbourne, supported by Bananagun.One thing I can tell you is that I am not the only Belle and Sebastian tragic. There are at least enough of us to fill the Palais Theatre, and probably more.On this tour Belle and Sebastian were playing the album If you're feeling sinister in track order to celebrate its 30th anniversary, and then a second set of other songs.The support act was Bananagun, a very apt choice as they are not dissimilar in musical vibe to Belle and Sebastian,…

The centenary of John Coltrane’s birth in Hamlet, North Carolina falls later this month; many commemorative events will take place. Yesterday afternoon at Cafe Oto, in the first of four monthly Sunday matinee concerts, Evan Parker led something he titled ‘A Ritual for John Coltrane’, which turned out to be the sort of tribute that summons the spirit of the dedicatee without trying to mimic the substance. I may have mentioned before that the first time I interviewed Evan, at his home in the…

V bažinách vědomíOut 10th September on Me Saco Un Ojo / Dark Descent Records It’s been a long time coming, but finally Czechia’s Sněť deliver on the second album. The upgrades to the debut may be modest given the five year gap, most notably some cosmetic tweaks and slicker production values, but it’s enough to re-announce this entity to the underground, a force for honest, down the barrel death metal values. Drab is the presentation and drab is the design. For all the muscular speed runs, Sněť…

I love intense, provocative, and challenging music, but I also really like hard bop, and its descendants soul jazz, modal jazz, post-bop, and fusion. So sometimes, especially when I’m feeling stressed out, I want to hear good music, well played, and not to have to worry about it provoking a spiritual awakening or calling into the question the nature of my soul. This is when I turn to guys like Cedar Walton. Readers of this blog know that I like Cedar Walton. His 1975 albums Mobius and Eastern…

This Monday Pressing Concerns features new albums from Dagwood, Soda Gumball, and Plum, and a new EP/cassette from Blimps. Check ’em 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. Dagwood – So What / So What Else Release date: September 8thRecord label: Self-releasedGenre: Power pop, pop punk, alt-rock, fuzz rock, garage…

I was recently invited to join a WhatsApp Album Club group chat by my friend Josh. I admire and respect Josh's music taste and record collection, so I was delighted to accept the invitation.The concept is simple. Going in alphabetical order (by forename), members choose an album of the week on Sunday and it is discussed throughout the week. A new album is then chosen for the following week.1-month in and I have already been taken out of my comfort zone on several occasions. Album club started…

Share a song that got you through a difficult time. Someone has a video of me miming along to this. Someone has been a rock through my darkest times recently. Someone is my best friend, my soulmate, my love. She knows who she is. My Girl “My Girl” by The Temptations 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 site for more.

On Saturday one of my favorite local bands played just a few blocks from home (in San Francisco, down Balboa Street). A few times a year there’s a street festival on that stretch, and this time around the line-up included the Heavy Arts Ensemble, whom I’ve mentioned previously. Their first EP came out late last year. The lineup is a pretty standard jazz quartet formation (saxophone, guitar, bass, drums), except that a fifth member, Diego Munguia, does live sampling (of the guitar and saxophone)…

Johannes BrahmsAndrás SchiffKlavierstücke András Schiff Blüthner pianoRecorded March 2021Kammermusiksaal Hermann J. Absdes Beethoven-Haus, BonnEngineer: Stephan SchellmannProduction coordination: Guido GornaCover photo: Péter NádasProduced by Manfred EicherRelease date: September 18, 2026 The distance between Johannes Brahms’s early and late piano music supplies the organizing principle for András Schiff’s latest addition to his ECM New Series traversal of the 19th-century German composer.…

In 2019, Clipping released “Run For Your Life,” a song built around field recordings of cars passing while blasting bass music. I recently took a deep dive into how they made this song, why this technique fits the theme, and how the Doppler effect plays a role in the final product. TL;DR: While the Doppler effect is less noticeable with low-end frequencies like bass and drums, you can still hear a slight increase and decrease in the speed of the music as the vehicles move toward and away from…

Super selections and wonderful words by our favourite four-to-the-floor expert, The Insider. FLAMINGO PIER / WOVEN TOGETHER Flamingo Pier’s Woven Together is a confident, radiant leap forward for the New Zealand born, London forged trio. Long considered one of the southern hemisphere’s most joyful dance acts, the group sharpen their identity here, distilling a decade of evolution into a warm, groove-led album that feels both expansive and deeply personal. Their history in London’s warehouse…