Month: June 2018

Danish Singer/Songwriter LINE MARIANNE Mystifies With Brand New Musing ‘CALLING YOU’…

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Relaxing musings for the laziest day of the week…

3 June 2018

Danish singer/songwriter LILE MARIANNE just released new single CALLING YOU.
A both, appealing and bewildered song that creeps slowly under your skin. Marianne‘s seductive voice has a mesmeric effect reminding me of Mazzy Star‘s Hope Sandoval darksome and vulnerable vox, while poetic guitar lines add to the mystifying tone of
this heartfelt gem. Capture the marvellous mood right here…

We don’t need to wake up
We don’t need to fight
Every Inch of us
Quiet as the night

LINE MARIANNE: Facebook – Instagram – Twitter

Back in time, Birthday albums

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Released Cutting Album ‘DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN’ 40 Years Ago…

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Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums… 2 June 2018 Artist: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Album: DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN Released: 2 June 1978 – 40 years ago ROLLING STONE wrote at: “Occasionally, a record appears that changes fundamentally the way we hear…

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Join THE FLAMING LIPS On Their Starry-Eyed ‘GREATEST HITS VOL. 1’ Trip…

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Weekly vibrations to soundtrack your favorite 48 hours…

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2 June 2018

After 14 studio longplayers, released since 1983, eccentric Oklahoma psychedelia adventurers THE FLAMING LIPS just released a GREATEST HITS VOL. 1. A highly
relaxing collection of 11 of their sonic fairy tales. This Volume 1 is obviously about
these daydreamers’ most romantic and moony side. I guess a future Volume 2
selection will feature their more surreal, more chaotic & hard hittin’ symphonies.

Put on your headphones, dim the lights and join the Lips’ starry-eyed trip…

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THE FLAMING LIPS:  Website – Facebook – Discography

SMASHING PUMPKINS Released Underrated ‘ADORE’ Album 20 Years Ago Today…

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Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums…

2 June 2018

Band: SMASHING PUMPKINS

Album: ADORE

Released: 2 June 1998 – 20 years ago

ROLLING STONE wrote: “Imagine that Bruce Springsteen had released his stark
‘Nebraska’ after the towering ‘Born In The U.S.A.’ For Corgan, ‘Adore’ represents a
deflating of expectations even as it broadens the boundaries of his band. If the
Pumpkins seemed to be turning into stadium-rock behemoths on their last tour,
the new album presents Corgan, bassist D’Arcy and guitarist James Iha as pop
changelings who are bolder, quirkier and more versatile than anyone may have
imagined.” Full review here – Score: 3.5/5

TURN UP THE VOLUME says: “Instead of copying double cd bestseller ‘Mellon
Collie and the Infinite Sadness’ frontman Billy Corgan went for a softer, more
reflective and more sensitive approach to deal with his demons. ‘Adore’ is
an underrated work of vulnerable profoundness.”

TOP TRACKS: Ava Adore / Perfect / One Upon A Time

* AVA ADORE – nasty groove, freakish love song…

* PERFECT – ‘Perfect strangers down the line / Lovers out of time’

* ONCE UPON A TIME – touching ballad…

Full album here

THE UNDERTONES – ‘Get Over You’ – LONDON 1979

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Smashing live performances of smashing knockouts…

‘Teenage Kicks’
THE UNDERTONES
The Lyceum, London
20 May 1979

The Undertones became immortal with timeless Teenage Kicks‘ anthem. But these Irish pop punks had much more than just one killer tune. Like this sickly catchy ‘GET OVER YOU’.

THE UNDERTONES: Website – Facebook – All Albums


GET OVER YOU was on the band’s self-titled 1979 debut LP

British Indie Gunslingers SWINE TAX Slam Hard With New Thwack ‘TORY WATER’…

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Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…

1 June 2018

Newcastle upon Tyne‘s rowdy indie trio SWINE TAX just shared new track TORY WATER, their rawest cut so far. “Part disjointed character study, part sardonic commentary on the local music industry, ‘Tory Water’ is unflinching in its account and unrelenting in its intensity.” says the band. Oh yes, this manic stroke hits like a hell-raising explosion driven by fierce frustration, heated anger, and biting discontent. I guess there are enough love songs out there. What we need – again – is more young, committed and opinionated bands, like this rowdy engine, coming out and question unjust issues with furious energy and razor-sharp knockouts. This scorching thwack does the job exquisitely. Open your windows and doors and share this electrical flare-up with your neighborhood. Hell yeah…

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SWINE TAX: Facebook – Twitter – Instagram


TORY WATER available on Bandcamp

Stream 5 Brand New MUST-HEAR Albums Right Here…

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Just released: 5 brand new longplayers that will impress your ears and your speakers…


1/ ‘God’s Favorite Customer’ by FATHER JOHN MISTY (Los Angeles, CA, US)
Already singer/songwriter Josh Tilman‘s fourth album. Another collection of touching reflections and affecting musings about love, life and the troubled world we live in.

Stream here…

FJM: Facebook

2/ ‘Lump’ by LUMP
LUMP is a collaboration between captivating Brit Award winning singer/songwriter
Laura Marling and Mercury Award nominated Mike Lindsay (Tunng, Throws). Expect
some mystifying splendour that will grab your attention firmer with every spin. Top!

Stream here…

LUMP: Facebook


3/ ‘Maps’ by SOFT SCIENCE (Sacramento, CA, US)
Third LP by Californian 5-piece. Amplified psych pop strokes with shoegaze echoes.
Melodic rainbows colored with multi-layered guitar sequences and dreamy vocals.

Stream here…


SOFT SCIENCE: Facebook

4/ ‘Hell-On’ by NEKO CASE
Eight solo album by Virginia singer/songwriter, getting better with every LP. Varied
moods, varied sounds, varied paces, but always first-rate result. Gripping work!

Stream here…

NEKO CASE: Facebook

5/ ‘Frogressive Punk’ by DETIETI (Moscow, Russia)
This experimental and adventurous outfit mixes post-punk, prog rock, funk, art pop
and more into an exciting Frank Zappa-like cocktail that will please all of your senses.

Stream here…


DETIETI: Facebook

See/hear you next week, music junkies…

THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN Released Sixth Album ‘MUNKI’ 20 Years Ago…

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Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums…

1 June 2018

Band: THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN

Album: MUNKI

Released: 2 June 1998 – 20 years ago

ALL MUSIC wrote: “As befits an album bookended by tracks titled “I Love Rock’n’Roll” and “I Hate Rock’n’Roll,” the Jesus and Mary Chain’s Sub Pop label debut, Munki, is schizophrenic and impassioned, a record that both summarizes the band’s career to date and cleans the slate for their future. Virtually each of the 17 tracks here echoes a prior moment in the Chain’s existence, moving at breakneck pace from the volcanic noise of their earliest material to the bleak grace of Darklands, through to the sleek, supercharged pop of Automatic.”

TURN UP THE VOLUME says: Munki sounds like a career-spanning jukebox. An avalanche
of barbed wire pop crackers.

THREE TOP TRACKS: I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll / Perfume / Stardust Remedy

* I LOVE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL

* PERFUME

* STARDUST REMEDY

Album in full…

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EXPLODED VIEW’s Magnetizing Frontwoman ANNIKA HENDERSON Puts A Spell On Brussels…

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EXPLODED VIEW – Brass club, Vorst, Brussels – 30 May 2018

Mexico based quartet EXPLODED VIEW scored one of the boldest & most intriguing albums of 2016 with their self-titled debut LP. A puzzling collection of darksome pop
songs with awkward structures, psychotropic rhythms and claustrophobic vibes. An audacious record revealing new sonic secrets with every spin. Yesterday the quartet
played Belgium again, this time in Vorst, Brussels. It’s almost impossible not to look
the whole concert to charismatic German frontwoman Annika Henderson aka Anika.

Her staring eyes have a spellbinding effect! She has Bette Davis‘ eyes! Mysterious,
ominous and truly hypnotic! A natural-born femme fatale who almost whispers
the darksome songs, therefore adding some more enigma to the curious picture.
At times I wondered what was exactly going on in her mind. No way to figure that
out. Her seductive presence is a closed book. Fatally attractive and unfathomable,
but at the same the perfect vocalist for Exploded View‘s adventurous and contrary approach to pop-ular music. Enthralling band, mind-affecting sound and a totally
mesmerizing frontwoman with a magnetic vox. Special! Like listening to a David
Lynch movie. If you never heard of them here’s ‘Summer Came Early’, a tempting
musing from their same-titled 2017 EP…

EXPLODED VIEW‘s debut in full…


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Picture this…


Bette Davis’ eyes…


Spellbinding presence…


Entrancing view…

EXPLODED VIEW: ‘Summer Came Early’ EP on Bandcamp – Facebook – Instagram