JACK WHITE is back! Today he officially announced his new solo album,
titled BOARDING HOUSE REACH. A precise release date follows later.
Accompanying the news White also launched the first single & its b-SIDE.
CONNECTED BY LOVE
Passionate & soulful love cry out with a big organ sequence. Intense stroke.
RESPECT COMMANDER
Sounds like two/three songs in one. Far-out blues electricity. AWESOME!
IAN MCCULLOCH, charismatic frontman of legendary Liverpool band ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN is just one of the thousands of (famous/not famous) artists who was influenced by the late, genial THIN WHITE DUKE who died two years ago today – on
10 January 2016. This is what McCulloch once said in an interview with Mojo magazine: ““Bowie changed the face of music and the world. Everybody’s got dyed hair or mad clothes now, but until he kicked in ’72, it was rare to see that kind of flamboyance. I was 12 when ‘Starman’ came out and I remember hearing it on the radio before going to school. It connected with me in a way no other ever had. I saw him on Top Of The Pops, it was like ‘bloody hell’. The presence of it. I’ve met loads of people since who say it changed their life as well. He met me a few times (laughs). We supported him as ‘Electrafixion’. He was lovely, looks amazing, I preferred his old teeth though.”
Back in 2012 McCulloch released his fourth solo album, titled ‘Pro Patria Mori’. One of the most enthralling songs on that record is ‘ME AND DAVID BOWIE’. A wonderful tribute to one of the greatest artists/performers of all time. Rest in peace, Hunky Dory…
Hey now David Bowie
Thanks for all you showed me
Like how to smoke a cigarette better than anyone
And how to wear my overcoat so cool that I could freeze the sun
The school of David Bowie
Was where I learnt to know me
You taught me how to sparkle, and to realise what darkness means
You’re the man who told my world
And understood my stardust dreams
Tell me, tell me, what’s gone on
Tell me, tell me nothing’s wrong
Tell me, tell me
Tell me nothing’s wrong
Remember when you met me
Time took one of my ciggies
And put it in your mouth while your fingers pulled on my destiny
I remember when I met you by the Mediterranean Sea
So tell me, tell me, what’s gone on
Tell me, tell me nothing’s wrong
Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me
Tell me nothing’s wrong, tell me nothing’s wrong
Tell me nothing’s wrong, tell use nothing’s wrong
Now hear this David Bowie
Thanks for all you showed me
Like how to smoke a cigarette better than anyone
And how to wear my overcoat so coot that I could freeze the sun
Tell me, tell me what’s gone on
Tell me, tell time nothing’s wrong
Yeah tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me
Tell me nothing’s wrong
Seems so long ago now
You were the start of my story
So long ago now
You were the heart and the glory
Just want you to know now
All you did for me
Just wanted to know now
If you’re hunky dory
Just want you to know now
All you did for me
Just wanted to know now
That you’re hunky dory
Just wanted to know now
That you’re hunky dory
Awesome vibrations that thrill us in a way we want to scream out loud…
Already a stirring sensation in and out of their hometown Los Angeles young brats STARCRAWLER are totally ready to conquer the world with their flaming retro take
on what rock and roll is all about: big riffs, boiling beats, scream along choruses and
an utterly ‘it’s only rock and roll but we fucking like it’ attitude. Led by charismatic frontgirl Arrow de Wilde, who looks and sounds like a mental madwoman, this 4-headed monster engine reinvent the nastiest moments of legends New York Dolls, The Stooges and Joan Jett and The Blackhearts gloriously. Next week, 19th January, the future stars will release their self-titled debut LP produced by, yes, the great Ryan Adams. And a week later, 26th January I’ll be right in front of them when they play Brussels (one of their only six UK/Europe dates). Here’s one of the steamy reasons that already makes me euphoric right now, right here!…
After more than 20 years shoegaze legends RIDE returned in 2017 year with the excellent ‘WEATHER DIARIES’ album. And their adrenalin keeps streaming this year. They will release an EP titled ‘TOMORROW’S SHORE’ on 16 February, with songs from the Weather Diaries sessions. The band just shared the first track. CATCH YOU DREAMING“is written from the perspective of being one of the last two people alive, watching as the Universe is ending” says Andy Bell. It feels and sounds like synths paradise. Soothing, melancholic and starry-eyed. Like a rainbow up there in the sky. Here’s the audio-clip…
THE BREEDERS will release their first album in ten years ‘ALL NERVE‘ on 2 March. After sharing first flaming single Wait In The Car last October , the band now launched the title track. A fragile and profound love musing. Discover the gracious song here…
MANIC STREET PREACHERS‘ new clip for monumental single INTERNATIONAL BLUE, described by Nick Wire as “a European ‘Motorcycle Emptiness’ as a video, rather than
being in Japan”, shot by Manics‘ longtime visual collaborator Kieran Evans is a tribute
to legendary French artist Yves Klein (1928-1962) a pioneer of performance art and a forerunner of minimal art, as well as pop art. He was from the city of Nice, the beautiful town at the French Riviera. And as I spend my summer holidays, for several years now, in
a small village near Nice, this beautiful widescreen video makes me long (again) for that impressive creation of nature, the Mediterranean Sea aka the Côte d’Azur. Once there at
the beach looking at that big blue wonder, you just feel nostalgic, romantic and happy. Best therapy you can get…
The band has also revealed the tracklist for upcoming album RESISTANCE IS FUTILE:
People Give In
International Blue
Distant Colours
Vivian
Dylan & Caitlin
Liverpool Revisited
Sequels Of Forgotten Wars
Hold Me Like A Heaven
In Eternity
Broken Algorithms
A Song for The Sadness
The Left Behind
Who: A bombastic Boston garage rock n’ roll band that appeared out of nowhere about two years ago. They have managed to build a hype for themselves with fuzz-drenched, fun-loving, energetic shows filled with some smashing crackers…
Track: BETWEEN THE LINES
Score: If Debbie Harry and Chris Stein would have been into brawny garage rock instead of bubblegum punk Blondie would have sounded just like this. Hefty, robust, provocative and with an unstoppable appetite for lively tumult fueled by organ orgasms. Here we go…
Scottish melancholic pop experts BELLE AND SEBASTIAN are in the middle of the release of a trilogy of new EPs under the umbrella title ‘How To Solve Our Human Problems’. The first one came out last month with the second planned for 19th January. Here’s THE SAME STAR, its first track sung by Sarah Martin and designed with all Belle characteristics we know and love: moodiness, catchiness, nostalgia and romanticism. It sounds exactly like the very early days of a new year: hopeful, lively and electrical. Music, maestro, please…
From Buffalo, New York here is three-headed bolide MADE VIOLENT. They rock, they roll and they scream and shout like early The Strokes. With punky panache, with thrashy energy and a world-conquering attitude. Press the button, here’s some much-needed ‘SUNRISE’ to raise up the temperature…
