Clash Magazine (UK): “What’s In Between’ was mostly recorded with producer Peter Katis (Interpol, The National) at his studio in Connecticut. He has added a widescreen dimension to their music. Radio Free Alice were ripe for this approach and the result is a body of work which sees them take a giant leap forward. It’s a breathtaking debut and one which no doubt will add to their ever-growing fanbase.”
Band: BATHING SUITS Who: Fresh abrasive noise-pop, industrial freak-punk, and
dance-noise collective from Leeds, UK. Last April, they launched
their smashing debut EP KILL Bathing Suits.
TUTV: WTF! This latest British hype is here to show why we should trust the hype
this time around. Never heard of them? Start here with new sassy stomper Do Ya?
with its non-stop pulsating disco throbs that grab you by the throat and intoxicate
your whole body from then on.
Sexy nightmare music for (il)legal EBM nightclubs.
If you’re done with Do Ya? go straight to their EP on Spotify and keep on moving in mysterious
ways.
Band: PIXIES Who: The Boston oldtimers fronted
by the imperisable Black Francis.
Track: Brackish Boy
One of the 2 previously unreleased tracks that was released
on 7″ along with the vinyl reissue of their 35-year-old album Trompe Le Monde.
TUTV: Since their reunion back in 2004, they have been omnipresent with
new music (5 albums) and incessantly touring. I suppose chief Black Francis
is still looking for his mind.
TUTV: A striking stroke from their must-hear
brand new, superb debut album 1,2,3.
Clash Magazine (UK) says: “A rock record without guitars, it moves between sounds
and styles with an unpredictability that keeps you guessing, with its sharp shifts often
feeling like being thrown into an entirely different world.
That ability to pull together seemingly unrelated ideas and make them entirely
their own is what makes RIP Magic one of the most exciting bands around right
now.”
Band: DUTCH UNCLES Who:English indies creating a dynamic blend of catchy
melodies and intricate musical arrangements. Doing their
whoopy thing since 2008.
Track: NO NOTE
Lead single from their 7th LP, called Polygon Hotel.
It’ll show up next year on Feb 19th. Tracklist & pre-order
info here.
Album artwork
The band’s singer-songwriter Duncan Wallis wrote the songs in a quiet suburb of Manchester, where he, after more than a decade on the road, settled with his family.
The fixed location charmed him, with his observational eye spinning Dutch Uncles’
songwriting in different directions.
TUTV: Expect a trippy pop ditty you just
can’t resist to hup and hop along. Yeah!
Artists: PORPLE PILGRIMS Who: 2 dream- pop angels/sisters
from New Zealand.
Track: LOOK TO THE MOON
Newest piece from their forthcoming 3rd album,
titled Given The Night. Out Nov 27. Tracklist and
pre-order info here.
While making the record, Valentine and Clementine gently pushed away from the world, deleted social media, retreated into the trees of their native New Zealand, and only invited a couple of people in during the recording process. From that space, the album came together in an eerily easy way.
TUTV: These starry-eyed nightingales made me instantly think of
the fabulous sisters CocoRosie. Music for day and nightdreaming.
AMERICAN II: UNCHAINED, the 2nd part of JOHNNY CASH‘s American Recordings series came out on 5 November 1996, today 30 years ago. Like the others, it was produced by Rick Rubin.
Unchained‘s featured only 3 Cash compositions, and covers
of songs by Jude Johnston, Tom Petty, Spain, Beck, Soundgarden,
Hank Snow and others.
AllMusic in retrospect: “If Unchained didn’t seem like an event or an instant classic
like its immediate predecessor, it confirmed Cash was still a vital artist with plenty of
life in him, no mean feat for a man of 64 who’d been making records for more than
40 years.”
He’s like The Beatles to me and I mean that in every way.
At times instead of singing in a whiney accent he’s sort of
just lying out the facts in a monotome whisper. I always gravitated towards that type of performance. It’s almost
a little bit apathetic sounding, and I love that. If someone doesn’t like his music, I actually feel like I’m not going to
agree with them about anything.
At the end of the 70s, jewish-born BOB DYLAN became a newborn Christian.
He made 3 records in a row, expressing his new found beliefs. Slow Train
Coming (1979), Saved (1980) and Shot Of Love (1981).
In 1997 he performed for John Pope II.
Watch footage of that concert below.
And today, amidst an European tour, Dylan had a brief
encounter with the new, Chicago-born, Pope Leo XIV at
the Vatican in Rome.
Info: “The album grew out of several years of collective and personal isolation, when distance gave the four members time to reconsider relationships, identity and parts of themselves that once seemed fixed. Experiences around gender and sexuality surfaced alongside the creation and loss of important relationships, while old memories began looking different from the other side of change.
Rather than turn those years into a record about despair, the band became interested in what happens afterward: the uncomfortable work of letting go of what no longer serves you without knowing exactly what will replace it.
‘In The Hollow’ takes the volatile punk Bad Waitress built their name on and stretches
it into something darker and more expansive: jagged art-punk, post-punk tension and garage-punk abrasion colliding with moments of eerie space and reflection.”
TUTV: 10 reasons why you should buy and digest
this longplayer, twice daily, for a long time.
1. These former nude dogs bark at the right rock
tree with a nirvanesque L7 gusto and fiery Hole flair.
2. They produce a lot of thunder and lightning hullabaloo forceful
enough to catapult that orange lowlife out of the White House and
into oblivion. Keep your hands off Canada, corrupt charlatan.
3. No fillers, all titanic killers motorized by 100 guitars, an octopus drummer
and Courtney Love‘s unknown young sister. BW only serve bitchy barnstormers.
The repeat button was invented for jaw-dropping records like In The Hollow.
4. You don’t need to pay a lot of money for your primal scream therapy
anymore. Bad Waitress helps you out of your straitjacket for just 26$.
Order your medication right here.
5. If you’re 45 and you want to be a better guy, there’s a
chanche the avid Amazons could give you another try.
6. If you want them to like you
buy them manyyyy drinks.
7. With last year’s freaky single video, Plan B the Canadian gang introduced Gay Jesus to
the world.
8. In The Hollow is what badass punk
is all about, sonically and lyrically.
9. They never give up. There’s always a bad waitress
light at the end of the hollow tunnel, for all of us.
Kevin Shields experimentied with glide guitar technique, non-standard tunings,
digital sampling, and meticulous production methods. The band recorded at nineteen
different studios and hired several engineers during the album’s prolonged recording.
Since its release, Loveless has been widely cited by critics as one of the greatest albums of all time, a landmark work of the shoegaze subgenre, and a significant influence on various subsequent artists.
NME said: “Loveless fires a silver-coated bullet into the future, daring all-comers to try
and recreate its mixture of moods, feelings, emotion, styles and, yes, innovations.”
The cover was designed by Sharon Fitzgerald. When Kiss memberGene Simmons,
who had trademarked the logo of a moneybag with a dollar symbol, was made
aware of the record, he sent a letter to Geffen Records, who in turn gave in and
sent Simmons a cheque.
AllMusic said: “Although its incandescent harmonies, lazily immediate
songs, and crunching guitars earned it endless comparisons to vintage
Big Star, Bandwagonesque is in every way a product of its own time.”
The now 48-year-old electric folk troubadour KURT VILE was born in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, and lives now in Philly. He’s so happy with his state that he wrote
an album about it, named Philadelphia’s Been Good To Me last May. His 10th.
Stream it below.
