TUTV: I don’t know much, but enough to listen, to this musician. He mailed me some songs that sit “somewhere between indie rock, alternative and indie folk, with influences ranging from
Bon Iver and The Neighborhood to The 1975 and David Kushner.” and who writes songs as he quotes for the almosts, the maybes & the memories.
Won’t Let Me Go is the musing that caught my ears’ attention. Its darkish acoustic tone, reflective moodiness, and melancholic vocals got me in a self-rumintive headspace.
Band: SIMPLE MINDS Who: The Scottish pop-rock vets, fronted by
singer-songwriter Jim Kerr, active since 1977
Track: BEGINNER BOYS
First single from their upcoming 20th full-length.
It’s titled Sacrosanct and will show up on Jan 29th.
Pre-order info here
Jim Kerr (frontman): “The song is about watching my grandsons grow up. How strength tenderness, courage, and gentleness might still belong together, even when the wider culture around them can send mixed signals. It’s less a statement than a question I hope they’ll spend their lives answering for themselves.”
TUTV: They will never write classic anthems like Don’t Forget About You, On The Waterfront or Alive And Kicking, too hard to match, but the orchestral pop Scots still know what pop-ular music needs to sound like to please their fanbase. It’s as simple as that.
I’m sure if you remove the masks of this band, you’ll find the key members of Deftones. President‘s wall of nu-metal noise sounds that familiar, and it gained them thousands and thousands of fans during their summer festival appearances.
French Painter Eugene Delacroix
The album’s front cover artwork is a replica of a painting by French artist Eugene Delacroix. It depicts a scene of the Battle of Poitiers from 1830.
The battle, part of the Hundred Years’ War between France and the British Empire.
It was the decisive victory for the English forces led by Edward the Black Prince against
a French army commanded by John II of France, who was captured in the fighting.
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.
Album artwork
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.
New album artwork
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”.
