Album covers don’t often merit discussion in music reviews, but Bite Down, the Merge Records debut from Rosali Middleman, who performs as Rosali, has a particularly strange one. It’s a color ...

One of my favorite singer-songwriters working today is Rosali Middleman, a 41-year-old Michigan native who records and performs as Rosali. I became a fan in 2021 upon the release of her tremendous ...

Rosali Middleman’s new album, Bite Down, is canonically not a break-up album. “I was single for seven years while writing it,” the North Carolina-based musician tells me over Zoom. “The cohesiveness ...

Here’s a hint: You’re not going to do much better than “inner searching that is hellbent on rollicking.” This is the magic of Rosali Middleman’s music, at least at this point in her career, which ...

Rosali released Bite Down, her first album for Merge, back in March. Like her 2021 album No Medium, she made it with David Nance and Mowed Sound as her band and the mix of acoustic and electrified ...

Sam Beam released his first album as Iron & Wine in seven years, Light Verse, back in April, and he’s on a North American tour supporting it now, which stopped in Atlanta on Monday (8/5) for a show at ...

Rosali Middleman marked the beginning of her partnership with Merge Records by releasing a cover of George Harrison’s “Stuck Inside A Cloud” last summer. Today she’s announcing her first album for the ...

Last month, Rosali announced her first album for Merge Records, Bite Down, and shared its lead single “Rewind.” Today, she’s back with another new song, “On Tonight.” “Being ‘on’ is something akin to ...

Indie music has grown to include so much. It’s not just music that is released on independent labels, but speaks to an aesthetic that deviates from the norm and follows its own weirdo heart. It can ...