CTE celebrate their 20th anniversary
as a band this year. Congrats.
New album: DYING IN REVERSE.
Their 7th. It’ll drop on 5 Feb 2027.
More info here.
Nearly twenty years into their career, Cage The Elephant have accomplished just about everything a rock band could hope to achieve. They’ve won GRAMMYs, built a catalog of generation-defining alternative hits, and graduated from clubs to arenas and stadiums around the world.
Drawing on the ragged spirit of garage rock and flashes of psychedelia, Dying In
Reverse is full of infectious melodies, fuzzed-out walls of guitar, and the restless
energy that has always distinguished the band. Matthew Shultz moves between
singing, rapid-fire rhythmic delivery, and moments of startling vulnerability, bringing
a new sense of urgency to songs that are as unpredictable as they are catchy.
Beneath the immediacy of the music is a deeper emotional current supported by lyrics that grapple with fractured reality and self-examination. The result is a record that feels simultaneously raw and assured.
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Hitherto, the guys dispatched
2 easygoing singles.
– MAKE IT EASY –
Live on Jimmy Kimmel
– DYING IN REVERSE –
TOUR 2027
So far, only UK/Euro dates.
US shows TBA.
Boomtastic techno act LEG PUPPY 2.0 and bass pressures FirtyHurtz are doing some pelvis-wobbling stuff together
lately.
SUSHI TIME is the raving result of their newest collab.
The track is inspired by The Daily Adventures Of Mixerman. According to
the Londoners one of the funniest books ever written about the music industry.
A glorious tale of incompetence, huge egos and all the bullshit that goes on
behind the scenes. Sounds more like a book on the Tories to me.
Move and groove, people.
Here’s some hip-hop-bass
to get you going from left
to right, forth and back.
Alright, now that our muscles are awake
let’s continue the party with these guys’
full EP.
Notorious funk legends SLY & THE FAMILY STONE (San Francisco / 1966-1983 / 10 LPs) released their single FAMILY AFFAIR today, 55 years ago, on 6 November 1971.
The late great Billy Preston (who played quite some
time with The Stones) featured on electric piano.
It topped the US Singles Chart. It was
their 4th and final No. 1 in America.
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.
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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.
