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…

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…

I can’t get enough of Midnight Radio from James Reeves. His twice-monthly mixtape drops might just be musical prisms of my brain. His anti-bullshit music app, Spite, is worth trying in tandem with Midnight Radio (and all the owned music you’ve ever accumulated). It’s fast becoming my go-to player.

Simon James is a well respected sound designer. Working solo, and in collaboration, for decades he’s been involved in countless art installations and community projects. He’s also released music on labels such as Castles In Space and Lo Recordings. I’ve known Simon since the early 2000s, when we were both part of a crowd that hung around Brighton’s bespoke clothing boutique, The One40Five Store. Back then Simon was a hip hop fanatic and budding producer. He’d just invested in his first bit of…

A loose review of an album that was released in 1994. Currently Listening: Milla “The Divine Comedy”Reply via email

Two musical worlds and two icons meld their respective styles into a unified canvas of artistic subtlety and beauty. Source: The Perfect Note over at AllMusic 💿 Stream

Amidst the flurry of band dissolution announcements last week, I was alarmed to see this Twitter thread from Tokyo shoegazers COLLAPSE (not to be confused with Tokyo Shoegazer, although singer Shoko Inoue was once part of Tokyo Shoegazer, as you know), announcing: “As of April 2026, Gt.YU will be leaving the band, and going forward, […] The post COLLAPSE – “Path” appeared first on Space Echo.

This song means more than just childhood orchestra memories to us. During our lowest of lows as the pandemic happened, we were ready to give up. As part of a last hurrah, we were invited to play a Christmas party in somebody's barn in the middle of Texas, and we said sure, why not? It was a four-hour gig, and after about two hours, we started running out of tunes to play - and in a moment of inspiration, Jon summoned this fiddle tune from deep within his soul and for the next minute and a half,…

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It's very strange when they actually say the bluetooth messages: @string.and.tell Are these the voices in your headphones? @kdimerc and @Tawny Platis | Voice Actor get into voice matching, IVR voices, rave culture, jump-scaring yourself with your own voice in public, and what it’s like hearing yourself everywhere #funny #voiceactor #voiceacting ♬ original sound - String and Tell I bet this works really well @jasonkpargin ♬ original sound - Jason Pargin, author - Jason Pargin, author Also this,…

All One Song - “After the Gold Rush” with Simon JoynerPretty much every All One Song guest complains about one thing: having to pick just one Neil Young song. And yeah, it’s a catalog of such consistency and strength that it can feel virtually impossible to have a single favorite. So as a disclaimer, all of our guests could’ve chosen maybe a dozen other songs. Or more. We just cruelly forced them to whittle it down to one.But I’ve often wondered … what is Neil Young’s favorite Neil Young song?…

Released: 8th May 2026 “We were spellbound by her ability to highlight unique perspectives with her songwriting” – Maverick magazine “Duffy’s first-class writing shines through” – RnR magazine The double A-side ‘Lock Up Your Daughters’ / ‘He Wore Rose Oil in his Hair’ is the fifth and final single from the warmly-anticipated new album by London-based singer-songwriter, Little Lore aka Tricia Duffy. Inspired by the work of Tennessee Williams, the full album, Being Serafina, will be released in…

"House of the Rising Sun" by The Animals Post one of your favorite standards. - House of the Rising Sun by The Animals Eric Burdon has one of the greatest rock and roll voices of all time. Enjoy! View Lou Plummer's Crucial Tracks profile

My 9th year at SXSW. A good time to name the top performances since 2016 and go a little deeper into my 2026. · 2016: Tickle Torture @ The Iron Bear with a lubed up set more erotic than Prince. · 2017: Duckwrth @ Banger’s playing a most vibrant day-party set. · 2018: Joey Dosik @ Zilker Park. A pop up in the park was picnic perfect. · 2019: Celeste @ St David’s Church. One of the greatest voices of our time, performing at a church. · 2022: Annabelle Chairlegs @ The Creek and The Cave. What fun…

Alex Zhang Hungtai – Mother These two pieces from Alex Zhang Hungtai (of Dirty Beaches, among other projects) are alchemical. From his upcoming double album Orion/Mother, Zhang describes the music as “like something that was dormant is starting to awaken.” True to its title, the second disc’s second track indeed feels as if it is being wrenched from the primordial soup, Zhang’s trumpet sounding sustained, exhausted birth calls over halting percussive clatter, as if marking the last stretch of…

Major thanks to Ethan Hein for writing about the Disquiet Junto music community I’ve moderated for the past 14 and a half years (or more to the point, the past 748 consecutive weeks). Here’s a link to Ethan’s newsletter issue (from which the above quote was extracted) about the Junto, in which musicians respond each week to a composition project that I send out.

Josh Davis aka DJ Shadow is about to reissue his Mo Wax singles as a deluxe boxset . This gives me a good excuse to share a few thoughts on his landmark Mo Wax debut… “This is a song about life, death, love, hate, wealth, poverty… just a few things that have been running through my head…” There’s no denying that DJ Shadow’s “In / Flux” was groundbreaking. When I interviewed Shadow recently and asked if, back in 1993, there was any precedent for a 12 minute long instrumental hip hop track, he…

Best Record of 2001: Day 32 For a hot minute, I had a weird streak going: I’d make the drive from Portland to Seattle and tune into 107.7 The End as soon as it came in. And sure as shit, every time I did, I’d hear The Clash’s “Train in Vain.” They certainly made more tracks than that, and certainly made ones that are more resonant, but my point here (besides some musing about the universe working in mysterious ways) is that it was incredibly catchy and stuck with you long after you heard it. It…

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. Ana Kinsella’s novel Frida Slattery As Herself is a spellbinding debut delivering poignant themes of art, power, and achievement. Elif Batuman wrote of the book: “Frida Slattery As Herself is a deft,…

Last night we checked off another required item to become official Los Angeles residents, by going to see a show at the Greek Theatre. It was a celebration of the 40th anniversary of Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, as part of a Netflix comedy festival.1 2 All credit to my husband for finding and planning it and getting the tickets, because I would’ve noped out just at the thought of trying to park at a packed event in Griffith Park. And I would’ve been wrong, because the show was fantastic. Patton Oswalt…