It Starts With a Birthstone...

We truly live in a strange time and place in 2018. One in which you can come across something like this, ostensibly a record by a bunch o...

Lou Reed in his mulleted prime goes funky over Kurt Waldheim, (he of the dubious past), and meanwhile conducts a related conversation wi...

Now here's something quite phenomenal. Deus E Mulher  the latest album from a genuinely legendary figure, Brazilian Elza Soares, bo...

The legendary Argentinian novelist, short story writer and essayist, best known perhaps for Hopscotch , gets an appropriately enigmatic ...

One of my very favourite discoveries of 2018, South Koreans Say Sue Me are back with a new and altogether suitably wonderful single Jus...

I can tell you little about Jaromil Sabor except that they're, (he's?) French, very Indie and have been putting out stuff like ...

Not my selection but that of Davie Green, one of the finest of the regulars at Rosie's.

Lead song from album In the Break, out in mid-September. Very Kevin Morby-ish, appropriately from a former Morby collaborator in Babies...

1979. Romulus in Birmingham.

The Love-Birds, furry young freaks from San Francisco, draw their music from the well of fifty years of jingling jangling guitars, almo...

Soho, 1966.

Blazing early Punk Rock single from Australia's The Victims, and it sounds very Australian. Featuring Dave Faulkner, who went on to...

Keep Up,  the first full album from Melbourne, Australia's Loose Tooth is an utterly fabulous pop confection. Released just last Fr...

Band named after Feelies song title release appropriate sounding song.

Back to Walt, and the last track of Reminisce & Grill. * This btw is my 8,000th post on here. Nothing if not determined!

Walter Martin, once of Jonathan Fire*Eater and The Walkmen and now a solo act, has released one of the classiest albums you could want ...

Another reason why the new Rock*A*Teens album, Sixth House, featured on here a couple of days back,    is worth a listen. Full on melod...

A song with real personal childhood memories for me.

New jersey's Spider Bags have a new album out. Very much in the Reigning Sound way of doing things. Here are two songs from it. ...

To tie up this Blue Velvet mini-series. Possibly not the most inspiring thing you'll hear all day, but you should have heard the Is...

Clanging. Not dissimilar to prime time Sonic Youth in the best possible way. Seattle based Versing warm up for their second album with ...

A song that gets more magnificent every time I hear it!

Great artwork for a forthcoming gig headlined by a great band!

Part Two of the mini Blue Velvet series. A waltz for Dean Stockwell.

Georgian band  The Rock *A*Teens returned at the end of June with a new album, their sixth in all (and first for the best part of twent...

In the absence of Hot Pants, by own personal favourite James Brown song which still hasn't shown up on the jukebox at Rosie's. ...

Short three-part Blue Velvet feature on here starts with Hopper. And his sunblock.

'Life in the hive puckered up by night...'  I can find little trace of Chicago's Cafe Racer and their second album Famous D...

To bring down the curtain on It Starts With a Birthstone  a July of absolute baking heat, that  seems to have lasted forever, we have a...

Ahead of a forthcoming album called Deportation Blues. With a slightly alarming video to boot!

Surely Comet Gain mean our Una!

Chicago band Clearance lay down their cards fairly early on for their second album At Your Leisure. They're clearly fond of The Fee...

A large part of America seems to be yearning for a Norman Rockwell world at the moment so this seems apt.