Top singles from the past…
20 April 2021
Artist: PRINCE
June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016
Single: KISS
Score: Topped US Singles
charts 35 years ago today.
Album: Parade
Kiss in peace, Prince…
PRINCE: Facebook – Website
AMY LEE from EVANESCENCE
Kerrang! Magazine
New, 5th, album
The Bitter Truth
out now…
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Evanescence: Facebook
20 April 2021
Band: WEEK NEEZ
Who: A musical act of some kind from
Wollongong, New South Wales
Pick: JENNY – brand new single
About: “A romantic tale of deep longing and unrequited love.”
Score: Holy moly! Wham bloody wham bam! This jagged jackhammer explodes from
the badass kick-off with propelling force working its way to the knockout chorus with
fired-up dash. Can’t remember hearing such a smoking love song. Sounds like Green Day on ecstasy, like Black Sabbath if they had been a pugnacious punk band in overdrive, like The Clash if they had been a white-riotous hard rock band. This a fucktastic sucker punch with a volcanic climax. Red-hot-blooded stroke!
Start the engine here…
WEEK NEEZ: Facebook
Legendary graphic designer Peter Saville created the iconic
front sleeve of Joy Division‘s hugely influential debut LP
Unknown Pleasures back in 1979.
He made some changes to the image destined for a charity t-shirt
to support the No Music On A Dead Planet campaign initiated by
Music Declares Emergency.
A group of artists, music industry professionals and organisations that
stand together to declare a climate and ecological emergency and call
for an immediate governmental response to protect all life on Earth. We
believe in the power of music to promote the cultural change needed to
create a better future.
No one than better Peter Hook – JD’s heroic bassist –
is the man to promote the project
He explains: “The truth of the matter is that the world is in terrible
trouble now and if we don’t look to address the climate emergency
facing the planet immediately then ourselves and all future generations
face tremendous problems. If everyone can look to make changes,
we could all have a huge impact.”
Contribute to the charity campaign by ordering the tee here.
(photo credit: MDE/Press)
20 April 2021
Artist: JULIAN COPE (Welshmen, 63 years old)
Album: PEGGY SUICIDE – 7h solo album
Released: 22 April 1991 – 30 years ago
ALL MUSIC wrote: “Casting the ill-advised attempts at too-clean modern rock from his late-’80s days firmly aside and fulfilling the promise of Skellington and Droolian, Cope on Peggy Suicide produced his best album to date, overtopping even his Teardrop Explodes efforts. Showing a greater musical breadth and range than ever before, from funk to noise collage — and more importantly, not sounding like a dilettante at any step of the way. An absolute, stone-cold rock classic, full stop.” Score: 4.5/5 – Full review here.
TURN UP THE VOLUME‘s favorite tracks: Pristeen / Double Vegetation / East Easy Rider / Soldier Blue / Hanging Out & Hung Up On The Line / You / Beautiful Love / Las Vegas Basement
Album in full (#1- #18)
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JULIAN COPE: Facebook – Website – All Albums
Weller not happy about the poor royalties he receives for his music on Spotify…
(image on top: cover ‘True Meanings’ album)
20 April 2021
Band: ENTER SHIKARI (St Albans, Hertfordshire, England)
Who: Noise-core-rockers active since 1999 / seven albums (so far)
Album: MORATORIUM (BROADCASTS FROM THE INTERUPTION)
Released: 16 April 2021
Info: A companion album to their 2020 LP Nothing Is True & Everything
Is Possible. As the pandemic prevented the group from touring the album the
band soon started their Live At Home series playing songs from ‘Everything‘.
All those Live At Home sessions, a couple of covers (Bowie’s Heroes is pretty cool),
some solo performances by frontman Rou Reynolds and more special moments
are now collected on this new record that landed out of the blue last Friday.
‘Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible’ artwork
Rou Reynolds (frontman): “With no live shows, and no real contact with the rest of the band, it was nice to at least be able to do some remote sessions together,” reflects the vocalist. “It was also interesting to develop acoustic and alternative versions of some of the new tracks. These performances went some way to filling the gaping hole in our lives!”
Turn Up The Volume: This is an awe-inspiring, intense and feverish record. Most of all the acoustic versions of recent songs (and a couple of covers) burst with passion, melancholia, and ardency. Lockdown blues at its emotional best. Fantabulous surprise.
From the Live At Home sessions…
– HEROES –
(David Bowie cover)
– STOP THE CLOCKS –
Full album…
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ES: Facebook
19 April 2021
Nottingham’s dream-pop act LONDON GRAMMAR – the new Sade –
released their brand new album CALIFORNIAN SOIL last Friday.
NME wrote: “Fizzing with club sounds and filled with bright lyricism,
London Grammar are more confident, and more fun, than they’ve ever
been.” Score 4/5.
To promote the LP the band took the stage, without
public, at Alexandra Palace in London over the weekend
and played all 12 songs.
Watch the full album/show…
Studio album on Spotify…
LONDON GRAMMAR: Facebook
19 April 2021
You just can’t stop TOYAH WILLCOX and her husband ROBERT FRIPP
from having a ball every Sunday around lunchtime. Their weekly cover
sessions (since April 2020) made them huge YouTube stars.
But yesterday the comic couple couldn’t get satisfaction…
The rollin’ original…
TOYAH: Facebook
PAUL WELLER is the guest editor of the new
MOJO (British monthly music magazine) issue.
MOJO says: “He’s been a reader since Issue #1 and a MOJO cover star 11 times. Qualifications that make Jam legend Paul Weller an ideal MOJO Guest Editor. He asked for features on Paul McCartney, The Coral, CSNY, My Bloody Valentine and Funkadelic, gave us the lowdown on his new LP, and recommended new bands and buried treasures for you to check out. We added a summit with St Vincent and the exclusive inside track on a new Jeff Buckley biopic. Plus: Tony Joe White, Jayne County, Manic Street Preachers, Peggy Seeger, Mdou Moctar, Spiritualized, The Who, The Fall and John Lennon. Then it’s all back to KISS’s Paul Stanley’s for some rock and soul all nite.”
You can buy a copy here.
