Wonderful singer/songwriter and Throwing Muses legend KRISTIN HERSCH will hit the
road soon for a 12-cities tour with Grant Lee Philips, but preceded by three exclusive shows with step-sister and fellow Throwing Muses starry-eyed member Tanya Donnelly.
But first here’s the lady’s new video for WONDERLAND, animated by Wyatt True. A truly spellbinding and superfine stand out love song off Hersch‘s latest double album ‘WYATT
AT THE COYOTE PALACE’ recorded over a 4-year period on the island where Kristin grew up. After a moony acoustic intro, emphasizing once again the affecting hoarse timbre of Hersch‘s enthralling voice, the song catches fire and magnetizes you instantly. Here’s
the charming and wondrous clip…
Experience the beauty of ‘WYATT
AT THE COYOTE PALACE’ here…
Weekly vibrations to soundtrack your favorite 48 hours…
Daniel Brady Lynch (synth, guitar and vocals) aka BUMMERVILLE assisted by his brother Derek Lynch on bass guitar, Joshua Sterno on rhythm guitar, and Jonathan Graham on drums is who you can call, without hesitation, a guitar junkie. Someone who puts his whole being into dazzling, buzzing and blizzardy six string slices. He’s totally hooked on razzle-dazzle riff-o-rama rock, creating a multi-layered and highly electrified turbine. Something like this…
I guess you have a loud and clear sound picture by now. The best news is that the Savannah, GA born musician, earlier involved in many other projects, just released
his flamboyant solo debut LP ‘Bottom Feeder‘. A mighty loaded work of turbulent
guitar vibrations and knockout punches. From raw power (Eyesore / Blow Money)
to jingle jangle force (Everyone’s Mutants), from catchy crackerjacks (Closing Off
The View / Time That It Takes) to playful instrumentals (Tick Bomb / Salsa For
Darkstar88). Enough sweltering heat to keep you glowing all weekend long.
STARCRAWLER – Botanique, Brussels – 26 January 2018
Already a red-hot sensation in their sunlight hometown of Los Angeles teenage brats STARCRAWLER came to Brussels yesterday to ROCK AND FUCKING ROLL and continue their insatiable thirst for world domination with their retro firework guitar hullabaloo. Gigantic riffage, pounding drum beats, bawl along choruses and an utterly cool ‘it’s only rock and roll but we fucking like it’ attitude. Imagine The Stooges with Chuck Berry on guitar and fronted by a bobby-soxer Courtney Love. Yes all eyes are, continuously, on charismatic frontgirl Arrow de Wilde, who moves and sounds like a creepy madwoman, spine skinny and tall, with a bloody appetite for straitjacket freakism. De Wilde told in an interview how it all started: “I went through a period of time where I was really angry and frustrated. I wanted to start a band so badly because the band I had with my friends – before Starcrawler – had fallen apart. So I started watching live videos of The Runaways and studying Cherie Currie’s moves as well as Iggy Pop and Kiss. I slowly started to create this character, this alter ego maniac.”
Pretty deranged indeed. Something like this….
The steamy 4-headed turbo released their Ryan Adams produced self-titled debut LP only last week. A record filled with all their 60s guitar rock crackers so far, but to my ears and eyes this band really comes alive when on a stage, when producing non-stop electricity for 40 minutes, when generating crazed hooks, smoking licks, crushing hits and vocal punches to blow the roof off the building. I don’t know where and how far they will go and I’m sure they don’t care much. It’s all about right now, right here. It’s all about having the time of their young lives and making it a once in a lifetime experience for a 12-year old kid, invited
at the very end of the set, by the group’s only 18-year old, boiling guitarist Henri Cash, to play a solo. Fantastic moment! Sensational concert! Hail hail rock and roll!!!!
Band: MIESHA & THE SPANKS (cool name) Base: Calgary, AB, Canada Who: Miesha Louie (vox/guitar) and Sean Hamilton (drums) are “purveyors of the most rough ‘n tumble, energy driven garage-rock possible. Sassy vocals, dirty riffs, pounding drums- this two-piece is overpowering and infectious. Charming hearts and kicking ass four years and counting.” Pick: ATMOSPHERE Score: on the first single from their upcoming debut album ‘Girls Girls Girls‘ this sizzling two-piece bolide sounds like if Courtney Love‘s hot band Hole is back with a glam grunge stomper. A cracking crasher pushed by dynamite drum hits, spiced with sultry vocals and going totally gaga on the scream-along chorus. Catching stuff to energize your adrenalin flow. You already guessed it: the only way to play this powerful hammerhead is LOUD! Here we go, 1-2-3-4…
Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums…
26 January 2018
BAND: THE RESIDENTS
ALBUM: NOT AVAILABLE
RELEASED: 27 January 1978 – 40 years ago!…
ALL MUSIC wrote: “This is one of the strangest and most interesting recordings in rock history, which speaks volumes coming from one of the strangest and more interesting bands in rock history. Not Available used what was referred to as “the theory of obscurity“ (which called for the album to not be released until its makers literally forgot about its existence). It is said to be, questionably, the Residents’ second recorded album (in 1974, only to be released in 1978 after utilizing “the theory of obscurity”). An underrated and forgotten achievement in the Residents’ body of work, Not Available is such an incredible recording to experience that it simply and truly cannot be classified as being like another. While the Residents have experimented within the confines of rock throughout their entire careers, with the exceptions of Eskimo, The Commercial Album, and God in Three Persons, this album achieves like no other. A surreal rock opera resulting in an incredibly weird circus of sound, it is one that simply must be heard to be believed.”
TURN UP THE VOLUME! says: After all these years I still have no clue about who these weird eyeballs really are and I actually don’t want to know as it would spoil the mystery. The Residents are classical avant-garde wackos, telling unearthly stories while producing soundtracks on Mars, their favorite planet. Although they’re more accessible than so-called intellectual critics want you to believe. Just try these aliens and discover their fascinating universe. Switch off the TV, turn off your smart-phone, ignore social media and open your mind for this ‘NOT AVAILABLE’ musical, right here, right now. A surreal journey sounding like Mozart on LSD, sounding like their very own Space Odyssey. Step into their eccentric galaxy…
NOEL GALLAGHER and his HIGH FLYING BIRDS just shared a clip for 2nd single IT’S A BEAUTIFUL WORLD off numero uno album WHO BUILT THE MOON? One of the many highlights of The Chief’s third longplayer, the one with the short French spoken sequence (not Noel). The way ex-Oasis mastermind sings this romantic beauty he makes you actually believe that this troubled world is beautiful. Attention! Attention! Roll it…
On 6 April MIEN will release their self-titled debut album. Who, I hear you ask? Mien features frontman Alex Maas (The Black Angels), Tom FurseThe Horrors), Rishi Dhir (mastermind Elephant Stone) and John-Mark Lapham(The Earlies).. The psychedelic partners in crime and experienced mind-explorers just launched 1st single BLACK HABIT. A darkened vision, a neon phantasy, a nightmarish daydream. Capture the sonic altered state of consciousness here…
The Jukebox Series: only the greats can fill a Wurlitzer…
25 January 2018
This episode was actually planned to be featured in a couple of weeks. But by now all fans definitely now that Mark E. Smith, the wayward mastermind of incomparable Manchester post-punk outlaws THE FALL died yesterday – 24 January – only 60. Smith was no less than a troubled genius. A fascinating wordsmith, a modern poet and made more records in his short lifetime than Radiohead would ever be able to complete in a full century. In memory
of this once in a lifetime artist and the countless brill line-ups of his band here are not the 15 usual picks, but 25 standout eruptions. R.I.P. Psycho Mafia Smith.
Sonic havoc hat thrills us in a way we want to scream out loud…
Band: WOOD CHICKENS Base: Madison, Wisconsin Who: A caffeine fueled cowpunk outfit burning down barns across the U.S. of A. Track: SKUNK APE – brand new 3-track single… Score: If Irish/English folk punks The Pogues would have been from Madison, Wisconsin and lived on tons of speed instead of barrels of Guinness beer they would have exactly sound like this. Crazed, rapid-fire, out of their heads and completely gaga. I dare you to dance to ‘Skunk Ape’ without falling over your own feet within 30 seconds. This lunatic firecracker is made to start and end all psychiatric parties. The badass Godfather of illegal cowpunk Lee Marvin would have been very proud. Now get out of your straitjacket and go apeshit…
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I know you would come back and beg for more after this short adrenalin shot. No worries. The single has two extra dynamite tracks (Rollin’ and Third Eye Blues) to keep your limbs going bananas. Here we go, motherrockers…
Band: VETO Base: Aarhus/Copenhagen, Denmark Who: Much acclaimed art rockers from Denmark, formed in 2004 and about to release their fourth album. Members: Troels Abrahamsen – vocals, synth / David Krogh Andersen – guitar / Mark Lee – guitar, synth / Jens Skov Thomsen – bass guitar, backing vocals / Mads Hasager – drums Track: A PIT – brand new single from upcoming album ’16 Colors’ – in a press statement the band says the song is about “that circles the psychological problem around one only having symbols available to understand, experiencing a sort of alienation against the world, as a result. There is a reality that we cannot reach which is outside of our language, our symbols. We can’t get a pure reprieve from the constant stream of news that floods us daily. Could it be that the stream alters to “fit” us? Or do we involuntarily see all impressions through a prism that transforms to our symbols, languages, and interpretations?” Score: Here’s a dazzling symphony designed with grand arrangements, driven by melodramatic orchestrations with a truly special vox on top of it. Imagine the best enigmatic moments of Radiohead fronted by the haunting voice of otherworldly singer/songwriter Scott Walker. Yes, that good, that magnetizing. Classical splendour
and epic quality. Experience the mystic spirituality here…
