Month: December 2016

Let’s Drink To Legend SHANE MACGOWAN’s 59th Birthday And The Best Christmas Anthem Ever…

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24/25 December 2016

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FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK is without a shadow of a doubt the best Christmas song ever.
It is, isn’t it? THE POGUES‘ banjo player Jem Finer came up with the gorgeous melody and the original concept for the anthem in 1985 – two years before its release – while infamous frontman, full-time drunk and extremely gifted songwriter SHANE MACGOWAN wrote the song’s magical story, containing some of the best (egoistic) love lines ever when the late, wonderful late Kirsty MacColl sings “You took my dreams from me / When I first found you” and Shane answers with “I kept them with me babe /  I put them with my own / Can’t make it all alone / I’ve built my dreams around you…”

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MacGowan himself was born on Christmas Day 1957 in Kent, England! Happy 59 to one of the most colorful, talented & troubled (broke his pelvis last year) musician in history! Let’s toast and listen once again to this timeless, melancholic diamond…

Shane on writing the lyrics in 1985: “I sat down, opened the sherry, got the peanuts out
and pretended it was Christmas. It’s quite sloppy, more like ‘A Pair of Brown Eyes’ than ‘Sally MacLennane’, but there’s also a céilidh bit in the middle which you can definitely dance to.
Like a country and Irish ballad, but one you can do a brisk waltz to, especially when you’ve got about enough drinks. But the song itself is quite depressing in the end, it’s about these old Irish-American Broadway stars who are sitting round at Christmas talking about whether things are going okay.”

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With thanks to British music magazine NME check
25 facts about Fairytale in New York right… here 

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10 Historic Debut Albums Turning 40 in… 2017

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Looking back in time… monumental moments in sonic history!

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Here are 10 memorable debut albums from 1977. A 24 Karat Gold year for alternative music. The undisputed heydays of Punk and New Wave it was, with remarkably inventive and new sounding music coming, mostly, out of the UK and America. No more mega stars, no more special effects to hide the ‘safety and money first’ attitude, no more old-fashioned and unworldly rock and oll pricks acting like doped gods. It was the blessed year when a new generation of young, unexperienced but open-minded and highly talented musicians came out of their smelly basements with impressive longplayers. Unknown adolescents who had the guts and the immense creativity to explore different sonic fields and/or vitalize older vibes with a totally fresh, modern & most exciting approach. Check these
ten masterpieces – turning 40 next year – they still shine LOUD and CLEAR…

1/ ‘Marquee Moon’ by  TELEVISION
Guitar rock never sounded so revolutionary and innovatory. Electrifying garage poetry…
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2/ ‘Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols’ by THE SEX PISTOLS
The grinning filth and the working class fury. Best punk rock album ever to my ears…
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3/ ‘The Clash’ by THE CLASH
Machine-gun riffs, radical sloganeering and kick ass anthems for the desperate ones…
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4/  ‘1977’ by TALKING HEADS
A landmark LP in sound and rhythm with a psycho killer like voice on top of it. 1977 indeed!
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5/ ‘New Boots And Panties!!’ by IAN DURY
Dury’s razor sharp observations on British life wrapped in stellar pub-rock-disco tunes…
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6/ ‘My Aim Is True’ by ELVIS COSTELLO
Before turning in a more classic singer-songwriter Costello showed his Zeitgeist teeth too…
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7/ ‘In The City’ by THE JAM
Angry young man Paul Weller and his sidekicks talked fiercely about their generation…
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8/ ‘Suicide’ by SUICIDE
Martin Rev‘s deranged electro machines and Alan Vega‘s chilling vocals. S-C-A-R-Y!…
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9/ ‘Pink Flag’ by WIRE
Probably the most adventurous and unconventional album of all this 1977 madness. ACE!
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10/ ‘Damned Damned Damned’ by THE DAMNED 
First punks to release a single (the brill New Rose), first to release an LP. Underrated havoc!
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MY 2016 ALL STAR TEAM – 20 Captivating Crackers

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21 Outstanding Killer Tracks
Dancing Inside My Head
This Past Scary Year…

The Best of All in 2016
21 Knockout Number Ones
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Start the party! HELL YEAH!

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1/ ‘Whitest Boy On The Beach’ by FAT WHITE FAMILY (Sheffield, England)
Smacked out Götterdämmerung disco drive. Irresistible groove to keep Satan happy…
Album:  Songs For Our Mothers fwf7

2/ ‘Trippin’ On Your Love’ by PRIMAL SCREAM  (Scotland/UK)
Saturday Night Fever rapture with an elevating gospel feel. Magical pop spirituality…
Album: Chaosmosis primalscremblog

3/ ‘Black Hanz’ by THE MOONLANDINGZ (London/Leeds, UK)
“You can hit the outsiders, but you can not beat them!” Let’s dance before we’re all doomed…
EP: 4-track here on iTunes
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4/ ‘Zipperface’ by THE POP GROUP (Bristol, UK)
Imperishable post-punk legends with an adrenaline injection to activate your lazy limbs…
New album: Honeymoon On Mars
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5/ ‘Disco Glove’ by EXPLODED VIEW (Berlin/Mexico City/UK)
Twisted rhythmic machinery & singer Anika ranting about Robert De Niro. Screwdriver!…
Album: self-titled debut ‘Exploded View’ – here on Bandcamp

6/ ‘Step Up’ by White (Glasgow, Scotland)
Deranged funk madness pushed by an incendiary engine. Mind-boggling score!…
EP: Cuts That Don’t Bleed

7/ ‘One’ by  PSYCHO COMEDY (Liverpool, England)
Unstoppable psych steamroller getting more stormy with every second. Glorious debut…

8/ ‘Gonnawanna’ by DEAP VALLY (Los Angeles, CA, US)
Hammering Californian duo returned this year with tons of red-hot blues rock dynamite…
New album: Femejism
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9/ ‘Disco’ by DEATH VALLEY GIRLS (Los Angeles, CA, US)
Doom punk boogie to set fire to underground discotheques around the globe. Killer cut!…
Album: Glow In The Dark

10/ ‘The Itch’ by CROWS (London, UK)
These sinewy blusterers turn grimness into forceful energy. Apocalyptic thunder!…
EP: brand new 4-track titled ‘Cold Comfort’ – here on iTunes
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11/ ‘If AT&T Drank Tea What Would BP Do’ by FUTURE OF THE LEFT (Wales/UK)
Andrew Falkous’ biting, verbal virtuosity and smashing hacksaw drones! Kick ass havoc…
Album: ‘The Peace & Truce of Future of the Left’ – here on Bandcamp

12/ ‘Hypnotised’ by SLAVES (London, UK)
The 2-piece punk army will thrill all your senses while messing up your unaware brain…
New album: Take Control
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13/ ‘Now You’re Gonna Listen’ by DEUX FURIEUSES (London/Glasgow)
This outspoken powerhouse duo demands your attention with razor-sharp panache…
Debut album: Tracks Of Wire
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14/ ‘Whirling Eye’ by THE KILLS (UK/US)
Jamie & Alisson alive and kicking again in 2016. Magnetic, swirling and catchy…
New album: Ash & Ice
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15/ ‘Cu Cu Cu Cool’ by THE GLÜCKS (Ostend, Belgium)
The mental Bonnie & Clyde of garage trash produce slashing tumult for psychobillies…
Debut album: Youth On Stuff
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16/ A-OK by COSMONAUTS (Los Angeles, CA, US)
Dazzling firework rock fueled with flashing guitars and vivacious vocals. Smoking punch!
New album: A-OK

17/ ‘Blink Your Eyes’ by BIG BAD ECHO (Brisbane, Australia)
Hypnotizing serpent turning scary and frenzy, slowly but surely. Superb mind fucker!…
Mini-album: It Takes a Big Dog To Weigh a Tonne

18/ ‘Garden Of Love’ by THE LIMINANAS feat. Peter Hook (Perpignan, France)
Garage pop splendor with a sexy French touch & sensual bass lines by a famous friend…
Album: Malamore
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19/ ‘Loaded’ by Rich Girls (New York, NY, US)
Gripping sadness to accompany your tears. Gloomy gem Karen O would sell her soul for…
EP: Love Is The Dealer

20/ ‘Intern’ by ANGEL OLSEN (St. Louis, MO, US)
Soul touching electro ballad and one of the most compelling voices in years. Breathtaking!
Album: MY WOMAN

21/ ‘Flags From The Old Regime’ by PETER DOHERTY (London, UK)
“But I don’t want to die anymore / Any more than I did want to die before” Magnificent!….
Album:  Hamburg Demonstrations

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When MARIANNE FAITHFULL covered LEONARD COHEN in PARIS Last Month…

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When great artists cover great artists…

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On her excellent 1999 album Vagabonds Ways the former 60s Rolling Stones connected celebrity & tremendous voice Marianne Faithfull covered the late Leonard Cohen’s classic Tower Of Song (1988) in a truly captivating and serene way with lots of respect and love
for the author. Only last month she included the song in her set at the Bataclan venue
in Paris. A now, unfortunately, world-famous concert hall because of the awful terrorist attack of last year when gunmen killed 90 people inside the building. The 69-year old singer’s (partially living in France’s capital) tribute to Cohen on 25 November was really special. Find out here why…

MARIANNE FAITHFULL: Website – Facebook

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Here’s the master himself with an intimate live version…

To Hell With Blue Mondays – Dance To… THE B-52’S

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Weekly firework to splinter Blue Mondays into a thousand pieces…

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‘Rock Lobster’ by THE B-52’S

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A brilliant golden oldie to dance this blue Monday away with. From their self-titled 1979
debut album here are THE B-52’S with the weirdly swirling, adventurous, crazy & flipped
ROCK LOBSTER. Already appeared as a 7″ single in April of 1978 reaching #56 in the US…

THE B-52’S: Website – Facebook – Twitter

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THE FLAMING LIPS – Vintage Moodiness With New Track…

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Video clips that will impress your eyes and ears…

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‘Sunrise (Eyes Of The Young)’ by THE  FLAMING LIPS 

The psychedelic Oklahoma veterans THE FLAMING LIPS, led by eccentric frontman Wayne Coyne, will release new album Oczy Mlody on 13 January. Here’s the video for the second track they just unveiled. SUNRISE (EYES OF THE YOUNG) is a truly beautiful, moody ballad reminding me of their spaced-out 2002 ‘Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots’ longplayer. Dreamy and melancholic splendor. In the clip you’ll see Coyne and cohorts playing in a small pink room along footage of the rising sun. The natural visuals are intercut with a nude woman – draped in rotoscoped bikini and devil horns – serving as the solar deity who orchestrates the rising and setting of the sun. Enjoy the heavyhearted reverie here…

Probably just like me, and everybody else, you have no idea what the title of the Lips’ new LP ‘Oczy Mlody’ means. No worries, Wayne Coyne will tell you all you need to know here…

THE FLAMING LIPS: Website – Facebook – Discography

CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH – New Track Now & New Album in February…

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Fresh from the recording studio…

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Brooklyn indie rockers CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH led by singer-songwriter Alec Ounsworth will release new album ‘The Tourist‘ on February 24 via Undertow.  Here’s        the first track FIREPROOF. Playful and funky…

US tour dates –  Facebook –  Twitter

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On a roll in Brussels… (2014 – pics by Turn Up The Volume!)

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DEUX FURIEUSES – New Single In Aid Of ‘Phone Credit For Refugees’…

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Music that thrills us in a way we want to scream out loud…

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British socially dedicated post punk duo DEUX FURIEUSES walk it like they talk it. After contributing one of their songs to a compilation album in aid of HOPE not hate – a charitable trust challenging Hate and trying to build communities of Hope in the UK –    Vas and Ros will release their brand new single TIME TO MOURN/FROM FEAR TO FURY on 20th January to support grass roots charity organisation Phone Credit For Refugees. Time To Mourn and  From Fear To Fury are actually the last two tracks – a compelling unity   of profound emotions – on their splendid debut album Tracks Of Wire dealing with “the journey of refugees but also their own life’s journey as females and musicians in a society that doesn’t value either.” The single is accompanied by a video directed by Dan Donovan which tells the story of a young man forced to flee his country. Here’s daily reality…

“We chose Phone Credit for Refugees after meeting our Labour MP Stella Creasy at a ‘Walthamstow feminist Bootcamp’ and she put us in touch with voluntary aid workers who
knew the group. Their direct aid of phone top ups for refugees worked well with our video’s central theme of mobile phone as a lifeline. This is our way of combatting the rise of the so called Alt-right!” explained the two committed savages in a press message. All proceeds from the single will go to phone top ups for refugees & displaced people desperate to connect with their families and to access the latest information on open borders and asylum rights.

Time To Mourn/From Fear To Fury is available for pre-order here on Bandcamp

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DEUX FURIEUSES: Website – Facebook – Twitter

To Hell With Blue Mondays – Here’s… IGGY POP & Friends

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Weekly firework to splinter Blue Mondays into a thousand pieces…

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IGGY POP returned this year with excellent album Post Pop Depression, recorded with some famous friends and the former Stooge went back on the road again to play highly praised gigs around half of the planet. Not bad for a 68-year old who had his (giant) share of the excessive side of good old rock and roll. And to crush Blue Mondays we still can trust on the man’s most notorious (solo) outburst ever. Here’s a thrilling live version of LUST FOR LIFE performed with his new buddies on BBC‘s ‘Later with… Jools Holland‘ show…

IGGY POP: Website – Facebook – Disocgraphy

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THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN – Back With Brand New Electrifying Track ‘AMPUTATION’…

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Fresh from the recording studio…

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As already announced a few weeks ago THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN return soon with new material. After last longplayer ‘Munki’ (1998) – the Scottish noisemakers will release new album DAMAGE AND JOY early 2017. It’s co-produced with Killing Joke’s Martin Glover, who also plays bass on the record. Just now they shared first track AMPUTATION. Steamy, electrifying, highly catchy harmonies and a chorus going ‘I’m a rock and roll amputation‘. The brothers are definitely back in town. Find out here…

THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN: Website – Facebook

 

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