R.I.P. IAN CURTIS! Passed Away This Day In 1980
18 May 2021
IAN CURTIS was born in Stretford, Greater Manchester
on 15 July 1956 and took his own life on 18 May 1980,
today 40 years ago. Rest in peace, troubled legend!
Don’t walk away…
Hail Hail PINK FLOYD!
Wham Bloody GREEN DAY Bam – Here’s New Steamy Single ‘POLLYANNA’
18 May 2021
Finally, we can be optimistic about the future, as lockdowns are
abolishing in many countries around the world. A tremendous
relief for humankind.
Green Day agrees: “Better days are looking up the road,
and to celebrate we just dropped a brand new song.”
New steamy single POLLYANNA is a euphoric rocker
you can scream along on the top of your lungs. Yes,
brighter days are ahead of us. Hallelujah!
Wham Bloody Green Day Bam!
“We’re gonna take back the night/ Everything’s gonna be alright“…
A monster USA/UK tour with Weezer and Fall Out Boy
starts this July all the way through 2022. All dates here.
GREEN DAY: Facebook
Single This! RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE
TESTIFY by RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE (2000)
Original video clip…
The single’s image came from the Olympics 1968 when African-American athletes,
Tommie Smith and John Carlos, each raised a black-gloved fist after the race when
the US national anthem played. Alarmingly relevant again today!!!
Read This! New Book About The Late MARK E SMITH And His Legendary Band THE FALL
18 May 2021
Book: EXCAVATE! The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall
About: A book about Mark E. Smith and The Fall – or more precisely, their
ever-influential world. The Fall were so many things, so many worlds, if you
got it (and not everyone did), they represented everything.
Publisher: Faber
Available via Amazon and other renowned online shops.
Bob Stanley (co-editor) in an interview with We Are Cult: “The Fall are an education.
You can take from them what you want. They enrich your life. The book explains that without saying it out loud. We had to leave things out. We didn’t want to cram everything in and we definitely wanted to give it space to breathe so it didn’t look like a scrapbook. Not all squashed down… We didn’t really want to write a book about how many band members there’d been or what fags Mark E Smith smoked or whatever because there’s plenty of books on that already. Talking about M. R. James or H. P. Lovecraft [who were a big influence] though… that’s kind
of what we wanted.”
Louder Than War says: “It’s a book that requires a constant return—coming back to
its fragments over and over again in acts of readerly repetition—to gain new knowledge
with each bit-by-bit encounter. Excavate! feels like a Mark E. Smith version of the Arcades
Project—never finished, and always producing new meaning.”
THE FALL: Facebook
Quote Of The Day – LEON BRIDGES About Who’s Dope
Black Lives Matter is dope too…
(image on top: cover of Bridges’ solo album ‘Coming Home’)
Psychedelic Passion With THE LANCASTERS – Hear Their New Petrifying Love Song ‘GOODNIGHT’
Daily electricity to load your batteries…
18 May 2021
Band: THE LANCASTERS
Who: A band from Italy capable to come up with something of their own,
yet to follow the footsteps of influential acts such as The Rolling Stones,
Led Zeppelin, Pond, T Rex and Black Sabbath.
New single: GOODNIGHT
About: “This is a hymn about two souls far apart and the forces that keep them
together despite everything; their true desire and love create the strongest bond
that holds them together and in balance. It’s a melancholic message of hope: the
darker the night gets, the more the light will shine when we see the dawn rise.”
says the band.
Score: An ongoing chainsaw riff comes and goes like a scary ghost in your worst nightmare, pushing this pitch-black ripper slowly but surely towards a hair-raising
finale. This scorching psych jam moves and grooves like a vicious serpent on a
destructive mission. But don’t be afraid, you’re not alone wails the vocalist with
petrifying passion in the bone-chilling chorus. Soulmates never leave each other
alone. ‘Goodnight’ is the most demonic love song I heard in ages.
Enter the darkness…
THE LANCASTERS: Facebook
LOUDER THAN LIFE!
Back In Time With ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN – PAUL McCARTNEY And THE BEACH BOYS
17 May 2021
Band: THE BEACH BOYS
Album: PET SOUNDS – 11th LP
Released: 16 May 1966 – 55 years ago
AllMusic / Richie Unterberger: “The best Beach Boys album,
and one of the best of the 1960s. The group here reached a whole
new level in terms of both composition and production, layering
tracks upon tracks of vocals and instruments to create a richly
symphonic sound.” Score: 5/5.
Stream the pets here…
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THE BEACH BOYS: All Albums
Artist: PAUL McCARTNEY
Album: RAM – 2nd solo LP
Released: 17 May 1971 – 50 years ago today
Melody Maker: “A good album by anybody’s standards and
certainly far better than the majority released by British groups
and singers. Trouble is you expect too much from a man like
Paul McCartney.”
Stream here…
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MACCA: Solo Albums
Band: ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN
Album: FLOWERS – 9th LP
Released: 14 May 2001 – 20 years ago
Pitchfork: “Another 45-minute expression of the band’s love
of Jim Morrison, Arabic scales, and quasi-religious imagery. Only
Echo and the Bunnymen could have written the bulk of Flowers. ”
Score: 8/10.
Stream here…
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BUNNYMEN: All Albums
Singer-Songwriter-Crooner JOHN GRANT Reveals Third Track From New Album – Here’s ‘BILLY’
17 May 2021
Artist: JOHN GRANT
Born in Buchanan, Michigan, U.S. – now living in Iceland, Europe.
Who: Former member of alt-rockers The Czars (1994–2006) / so far
he made 4 solo albums.
New album: BOY FROM MICHIGAN – out 25 June via Bella Union
New single: BILLY. It’s, after the title track Boy From Michigan
and Rhetorical Figure, the third taster off the upcoming LP.
“‘Billy’ is a song about how many men destroy themselves trying to live up
to stereotypes of masculinity and how this manifests in countless ways.”
Affecting, wayward and reflective.
Enjoy here…
JOHN GRANT: Facebook
