In 2014, to mark 20 years since the release of their 3rd LP, the masterwork named The Holy Bible, the band embarked on a sold-out tour performing the album in full.
‘The Holy Bible Live’ captures the record performed at London’s Roundhouse
during that tour. It will be available in Deluxe, 2LP Blue Marble, CD & Blu-Ray,
and Digital formats.
In 2012, the band abruptly finished their journey following
the untimely death of co-vocalist and bassist Adam MCA Yauch
due to cancer.
At 60, former BB MIKE D is back. He returned early this year with his first solo music.
After a couple of singles and some gigs here and there, he launched his solo debut LP, named THANK YOU a week ago.
A bouncy collection of kicky hip-hop tunes without hot Beastie Boys‘ party
anthems but still inviting your body to hop around like a kangaroo.
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Mike D: “It’s been so much fun making this music with people I love and I have grown to
really appreciate in our collaboration. And I just hope it’s fun for others and not overly serious, because let’s be real, I’m releasing this music into a very strange and dark and power-fixated world that really devalues art and feelings and compassion and empathy and equality.”
“We so much loved all three of us being in a band with each other for Beastie Boys. When Yauch died, it was an extremely sad time for me so making music was just not on the table. Then being a dad was something I put myself into and eventually I worked on the ‘Beastie Boys Book’ with Adam (‘Ad-Rock’ Horovitz] and that really helped both of us as we were really able to shine a light on our past together.”
THANK YOU
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Live, he’s backed by his band 5D, featuring 2 sons.
New dates for US/UK and Europe are below.
Taster from her upcoming 13th LP, baptized The Orchard. Out in October.
A song about the intoxicating feeling of longing that comes
when you feel chemistry with someone, but aren’t sure if
it’s all in your head.
TUTV: The song’s footstomping, iterative, groovy drum/bass beat gets you in
a trance from the first listen. On top of the stream comes Nova‘s gentle and
crystalline voice. Transfixing pop ardour.
Band: VEDA RAYS Who: Indie duo from Philly, making ethereal indie rock rooted in dream pop, post-punk, and traditional shoegaze, with lyrics that explore liminality and abstraction, channeling subconscious impulses into the present moment.
TUTV: Veda Rays deliver some glorious guitar pop gusto infused with
a capriously catchy drive here, pepped up with expressive vocals and
a kinetic chorus. Striking stroke.
All the days go careening by
strangers replaced when we tried to hide
All the days went careening right by
capricious fates upending the ride/
capricious fates upending the ride
Artist: E.T. Who: Captivating singer-songwriter Eric Turner from Chattanooga, TN
whose music is built on honest storytelling that comes straight from the heart.
While he has spent time in several notable bands over the years, most of E.T.’s
career has been on the road as a solo acoustic performer.
TUTV: Get ready for some old rock ‘n’ roll time vibrations. A mix of boogie woogie swagger, pelvis-twisting Americana rock, galvanic guitar hooks and spot-on fitting vocals will get you in the mood to jump into a convertible Chevy oldtimer and hit the road, hair in the wind and playing this sepia-colored earworm. I won’t take you long to enjoy the ride.
Band: DIIV Who: Noisy shoegazers
from Brooklyn, NY.
Track: KID
Taster from their new, 5th full-length, entitledZIRP!.
Out October 30th. Tracklist and more info here.
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TUTV: I could have sworn this is a Grandaddy song. Its soft, dreamy tonality, melancholic vocality and romantic timbre assured me of it. But, hey, it’s DIIV at their most relaxed.
rmenian-American heavy metal band SYSTEM OF A DOWN formed in Glendale, California, with Serj Tankian leading the troops, released their
2nd LP, called TOXICITY on 4 September 2001 today 25 years ago.
Categorized primarily as alternative metal and nu metal, the album features elements
of multiple genres, including folk, progressive rock, jazz, and Armenian and Greek music, including prominent use of instruments like the sitar, banjo, keyboards, and piano.
It contains a wide array of political and non-political themes, such as mass incarceration, the CIA, the environment, police brutality, drug addiction, scientific reductionism, and groupies.
It topped the Charts in the US and peaked at #13 in the UK.
Q Magazine (UK) wrote: “It matches Slipknot for manic intensity while employing
a freeform approach to songcraft which invites comparison to the lunatic-fringe
rock of the ’60s”.
Band: THE LIVING PINS Who: Texan outfit started by seasoned
rock chickc/musicians Pam Peltz and Carrie Clark.
Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran icon) is a big fan: ”One of the things I can
really recognize when I hear a bit of their music is the fun that they were
having when they made that. In fact, if you do check out Living Pins, you
will hear that in all of their music. I think it’s wonderful.”
Track: ROXY UNICORN
Newest single and title song from their forthcoming
debut album. It’ll land on November 13th. Tracklist and
pre-order info here.
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TUTV: As long as commited artists come up with riff-rotating turbochargers like this one, rock will never vanish from planet Earth. Roxy Unicorn arouses all of your aching limbs the moment a relentless, non-stop hammering drum/bass beat starts pushing this straight up, in your face corker.
Shiny guitar lines, ardent vocals, and the drop-dead cacthy buzz fuel this voltaic cracker’s energy. Simple, but instantly and tremendously efficacious. A striking skill on its own.
For those about to rock The Living Pins salute you.
Press info: “Interpol’s first album in four years finds the band turning inward while continuing to move forward. Across the record, reflection, distortion and perception become a lens through which familiar shapes are refracted into something slightly
alien, as if seen through a different kind of light.”
Paul Banks told NME: “The drive of the record is a spirit of striving for elation,
enlightenment and clarity. I was born uncertain, that’s what keeps me intact”.
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Mojo Magazine writes: “The results display more radio-friendly polish, while the grooves
are enhanced with percussive syncopation, and strings and woodwind are employed for
added sonic swirl.”
TUTV: Finally, after all these years, Interpol made an album that’s up there with their
first 2 outstanding ones, Turn Up The Bright Lights (2002) and Antics (2004).
This Mirror Weighs a Ton is, as the cliché goes, a return to form, stupendous form that is. The record excels because of its strong, utmost, dark romantic songs. Sterling songwriting, not one dull moment.
It feels like Paul Banks was wandering through his beloved New York City for many nights, absorbing its grandeur and also its shadowy mystique, and translating his observations and thoughts into commanding tunes, vocally, lyrically, and sonically.
The tracks’ pace shifts frequently with slow-progressing reveries (title track / Ever The Actor / Enemy / Sudden), amplified mid-tempo jams (Wounded Soldier / Darling Thoughts / Wake-up) and a couple of straight-up rockers (See Out Loud / Wings Of Fire).
Full aural ravishment for 53 minutes. A striking comeback achievement.
