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Thursday 9 March 2017
BLONDIE – Parallel Lines -1979
Month: March 2017
MONSTER MOVIE – Share Title Track From Upcoming New Album ‘KEEP THE VOICES DISTANT’…
Fresh sonic impulses for your ears…
Electronic pop shoegazers MONSTER MOVIE return, after seven years, with their 5th album, titled KEEP THE VOICES DISTANT on 31 March via Graveface Records. Original band founders Christian Savill (guitarist of Slowdive) and Sean Hewson are joined now by drummer James Harrison (of Air Formation) and bassist Nick Chaplin (also from Slowdive).
A few weeks ago a first track ‘Shouldn’t Stray From The Shadows‘ was shared and now
here’s the album’s title track. A melodic, harmonic and atmospheric dreamwave…
MONSTER MOVIE: Website – Facebook
Artwork new album ‘Keep The Voices Distant’ – out 31 March…
THE AFGHAN WHIGS – Back With First Impressive Single ‘DEMON IN PROFILE’ From Upcoming New Album…
Fresh sonic impulses for your ears…
THE AFGHAN WHIGS have a new album ready. IN SPADES will be released on 5 May
via Sub Pop Records describing the new record as: “a searing and soulful rock effort that emphasizes its pop instincts while contrasting with the seductive themes found throughout. From its evocative cover art to the troubled spirits haunting its halls, ‘In Spades’ casts a spell that challenges the listener to unpack its dark metaphors and spectral imagery.” .
Artwork ‘In Spades’…
The whole LP is written and produced by frontman GREG DULLI who stated: “It’s a spooky record. I like that it’s veiled. It’s not a concept album per se, but as I began to assemble it, I saw an arc and followed it. To me it’s about memory – in particular, how quickly life and memory can blur together.” Here’s is the first single, annex video, DEMON IN PROFILE. The song starts slowly and bluesy before growing in intensity and power and exploding almost completely when a steamy horn section joins in. Vintage Whigs! Quite impressive! The surreal and dark clip features singer-songwriter Har Mar Superstar. Let’s roll…
THE AFGHAN WHIGS: Website – Facebook – Twitter
(photo by TUTV!)
FIRST AID KIT – New Hard Kicking Single In Honor Of International Women’s Day.
Swedish folk rockers FIRST AID KIT released their new single YOU ARE THE PROBLEM HERE today – 8 March – in honor of International Women’s Day. A song in which the
duo attack and condemn men who commit rape and sexual assault. A hard kicking, bold and justified outburst, full of anger. The band shared this statement explaining the track:
“Today is the International Women’s Day and the theme of the year is #BeBoldForChange.
‘You Are the Problem Here’ isn’t a typical First Aid Kit-song. It’s angry and direct. It’s a song written out of despair. After reading about yet another rape case where the perpetrator was handed a sentence which did not at all reflect the severity of his crime we felt upset and vengeful. We were, and are, sick of living in a society where the victims of rape are often
blamed for the horrible thing that has been done to them. Our message is clear and should
not be controversial in the least: if you rape, you are the problem. Alcohol is not the problem.
So called ‘youth culture’ is not the problem. You are. And you always have a choice.”
Here’s the audio clip…
U2 – Masterwork Album ‘THE JOSHUA TREE’ Released 30 Years Ago…
‘The Joshua Tree’ by U2
On 9 March 1987 – 30 years ago – U2 released their worldwide masterpiece album
THE JOSHUA TREE. The Irish rockers fifth album, produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian
Eno, made them 24 Karat superstars all over the planet. Influenced by their American
tour experiences, relating literature and Uncle Sam’s politics and probably because of
their commercial and competitive desire to confirm their already huge status in the U.S.
of A., the band chose America as a central theme for the record. Legendary American rock magazine Rolling Stone was undoubtedly impressed with the new LP and journalist Steve Pond wrote this classic review back then in 1987. You can read it here .
Top tracks…
I STILL HAVEN’T FOUND WHAT I’M LOOKING FOR
WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME
WITH OR WITHOUT YOU
Album in full…
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U2: The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 – Website – Facebook
See you in Brussels next August…
VIVE LA FÊTE – Belgian’s Coolest Dance Act Ever Back With Irresistibly Funky Disco Gem… ‘YOU CAN SLEEP IN MY BED’
‘You Can Sleep In My Bed’ by VIVE LA FÊTE
The Belgian Bonnie & Clyde of the international dance scene – Danny Mommens and
Els Pynoo – alias VIVE LA FÊTE entertain us and the greatest part of this planet now
for nearly twenty years. Their own designed Saturday Night Fever electricity was/is unique as they never cared about trends, etiquette, ‘good taste’ or flawless French grammar (their choice of language to sing) and yet, despite or just because of their weirdly cool ‘je m’en fous’ attitude, combined of course with a series of albums filled with punchy, inflammable and sexy dance crackers they pushed thousands and thousands of electro pop addicts to ecstatic rapture over the years, on record and on stage.
After their 2013 album the pair is now back with a quite surprising new English sung single YOU CAN SLEEP IN MY BED. After a bouncy piano intro you’re limbs get vitalized instantly with a catchy disco drive spiced with an irresistible funky touch, Els Pynoo’s unavoidable, sensual voice and some orchestra-ted arrangements in the back. New single, new style, new kitsch, new thrill, new vibe! Press the button and start la fête…
VIVE LA FÊTE: Website – Facebook – Twitter
(pic on top by TUTV!)
MOON DUO – Another Mind-Boggling Animation Video For New Track… ‘LOST IN LIGHT’
Clips that will impress your ears and your eyes…
‘Lost in Light’ by MOON DUO
Portland’s psychedelic explorers MOON DUO released the first of their two concept albums, titled OCCULT ARCHITECTURE VOL. 1 early last month. You can stream the fascinating journey here on Spotify. The second volume, the yin to the first LP’s yang,
will be launched on 5 May via Sacred Bones Records. All details here on Bandcamp.
The band just shared the first track LOST IN LIGHT. An atmospheric & hazy trip, again tremendously visualized by the highly talented animator (also musician) Micah Buzan.
The adventurous duo already worked with Buzan for the creepy and haunting video of COLD FEAR, the single of the first volume. This is, according to the band, actually the follow-up to that clip. Take a seat for this dazzling animated avalanche of psychedelic
fantasies and weirdness from an unknown universe. A truly eye-catching experience…
MOON DUO: Tour – Facebook – Twitter
Occult Architecture Vol. 2 – out 5 May…
(photo on top by TUTV!)
To Hell With Blue Mondays – Here’s… GRINDERMAN
Weekly firework to splinter Blue Mondays into a thousand pieces…
NICK CAVE released the first of two albums with his inflammable blues injected side project GRINDERMAN ten years ago (5 March 2007). This explosive live rendition of
one of the maddest tracks on that record will kick this Blue Monday right in the face.
Here’s NO PUSSY BLUES…
Released 10 years ago…
THE FLAMING LIPS – In Their Own Weird Fantasy World in New Video For ‘THEIR SHOULD BE UNICORNS’…
Clips that will impress your ears and your eyes…
Last January, Friday the 13th, on the 56th birthday of charismatic frontman Wayne Coyne the Oklahoma psychedelic eccentrics THE FLAMING LIPS’ released their new spacey opus, titled OCZY MLODY. “Syd Barrett meets A$AP Rocky and they get trapped in a fairy tale in the future” said Coyne about the new album. It’s a remarkably moody promenade with both fantastical images and also dark melancholic musings straight from their Flaming universe where not all is glamour and glitter. A great record to play on your earphones at night with the lights dimmed. The new video for one of the finest moony tracks THERE SHOULD BE UNICORNS will give you a wondrous look into the Lips‘ unearthly world…
On 3 February the band landed in Antwerp (Belgium) with their phenomenal fairytale circus. I saw them live before but this show was just the best. Tremendously spectacular and just unforgettable from start to finish. Here are some of my pics…
Happy 60 To THE FALL’S Eccentric And Genial Mastermind… MARK E. SMITH
MARK E. SMITH, the controversial, eccentric, unpredictable and ingenious frontman
of legendary Manchester indie punks THE FALL was born on 5 March 1957. The widely famous cult hero, the razor-sharp, sarcastic commentator on society who had definitely more band members than he can remember himself since The Fall‘s debut back in 1977,
is 60 today! Yes indeed, the seventies punk/new wave generation is getting old(er). To celebrate the contentious genius here are 3 classic tracks and quotes…
FREE RANGE
BIG NEW PRINZ
CONTAINER DRIVERS
MARK E. SMITH: The Fall biography – The Fall discography – Facebook