Month: February 2019

Swiss Foursome ANNIE TAYLOR Eager To Get ‘UNDER YOUR SPELL’…

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Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…

23 February 2019

Band: ANNIE TAYLOR

Who: “Girl grunge meets psychedelic rock with a touch of cheesy dark pop. Imagine ANNIE TAYLOR as a rusty dog searching for his bone in the expanding universe. Pandora’s Box opened in end of 2016, when Gini (singer & guitarist) forced her flatmate to rehearse in the living room, until the neighbours came by to sing along or shut them up.”

Track: UNDER YOUR SPELL – brand new track from upcoming EP ‘Not Yours‘, out in April

Score: Annie Taylor‘s new cut feels like a twofold story. In the first half frontwoman
Gini, backed by her electrifying band, tells us joyfully that she’s under someone’s
spell but almost midway the tempo drops down, the mood gets darkish, the drums
start rattling and a feverish guitar solo kicks in as if the process of ‘I’m gonna make
you mine’ isn’t as innocent as it first appeared. Enigmatic electricity all around. Tune in…


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ANNIE TAYLOR: Facebook – ‘Under Your Spell’ available on Bandcamp

JOHNNY MARR Goes Disco To Ignore The Imminent Apocalypse – Here’s New Track ‘ARMATOPIA’…

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Brand new sonic impulses…

22 February 2019

JOHNNY MARR‘s productivity is unstoppable. After releasing Call the Comet, his best
solo album so far last June, followed some months later by new spiky track Jeopardy
the Manchester legend just dropped another new one. Marr feels that the Apocalypse
is just around the corner and proposes to get-together and have fun in order to forget about the imminent collapse of our troubled planet. Great idea! Here’s the soundtrack
to escape the fatal downfall. ARMATOPIA is a dance floor disco filler to get up to and
fight for our right to party one more time. Shake your booty, folks…

JOHNNY MARR: Facebook

ALBERT HAMMOND JR Launches New Sparkly Single ‘FAST TIMES’…

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Brand new sonic impulses…

22 February 2019

While THE STROKES are rumored to release a new album later in the year their guitarist ALBERT HAMMOND JR doesn’t wait for that to happen or not and does again what he does best as a solo artist, producing effervescent guitar pop. Oh yeah, new single FAST TIMES is bouncy, breezy and blithesome. Spring is in the air. Enjoy its first sonic sign here…

ALBERT HAMMOND JR: Facebook

Norway’s INSOMNIAC BEARS Excite With Sizzling Single ‘PASSING TRAINS’…

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Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…

22 February 2019


(photo by Anne Valeur)

Band: INSOMNIAC BEARS

Who: The band is a vibrant combination of established Norwegian musicians from different bands. “Since the release of their debut EP ‘Hypercolor last year, the band have continued to deliver lyrical vulnerability, sonic experimentation and honest pop-anthems.”

Track: PASSING TRAINS – brand new single – out via Fysisk Format

Score: Despite the fact that this song is about loneliness the sonic performance is tremendously high-spirited and enormously energizing reminding me immediately
of the sparkling liveliness of folk rockers The Waterboys led by amazing voice and frontman Mick Scott. ‘Passing Trains’ is amplified pop vivacity with multiple layers, stimulating vocals and a grand finale. Abundantly orchestrated and infused with a
high dose of adrenalin. Check the vibe right here…


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INSOMNIAC BEARS: Facebook – ‘Passing Trains’ on Bandcamp

THE UNDERGROUND YOUTH Drops Another Blistering Cut From New Album – Here’s ‘LAST EXIT TO NOWHERE’…

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Brand new sonic impulses…

On 29th March Berlin via Manchester cult post-punks THE UNDERGROUND YOUTH
will release their 11th LP, named NOSTALGIA CLASS via Fuzz Club.

After launching inflammable lead single The Death Of An Author the band shares another furious track. LAST EXIT TO NOWHERE is a 24 karat knockout. A blistering
blast sounding like THE VELVET UNDERGOUND on speed instead of heroin. Ominous, threatening and sinister. A wall of repetitive riffage with vocalist/guitarist Craig Dyer’s
mind-boggling vox accentuating the cutting gloominess of this rabid ripper. Hell yeah!

Get doomed right here…


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THE UNDERGROUND YOUTH: Facebook – Tour Dates


New album MONTAGE IMAGES OF LUST & FEAR out 29th March via Fuzz Club

London’s MADONNATRON Back With Their New Gusty Belter… ‘SUCKER PUNCH’

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Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…

21 February 2019

London‘s turbulent indie rockers MADONNATRON are back. Here’s, after their self-titled 2017 debut album and the steamy 2018 single Mermaids, new spooky single ‘SUCKER PUNCH‘. Think “Red Sonja Vs Paris Hilton in the Thunderdome” says the band. In other words this is a flamboyant belter pushed by a solid drum/bass beat, electrified with bloodthirsty guitars while the high-pitched vocals cause that typical, sensual Madonnatron voodoo feel again. The infectious chorus and multiple-voiced gusty finale ensure that ‘Sucker Punch‘ will invade your brain and wander around for some time without asking permission.

Listen/watch right here…

MADONNATRON: Facebook – ‘Sucker Punch’ available via Bandcamp

PATTI SMITH – ‘Piss Factory’ (1974)…

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Sonic knockouts from the past…

21 February 2019

‘Piss Factory‘ by PATTI SMITH
The first recording of a song she wrote herself (with music from her pianist Richard Sohl).
It was actually a poem which recounted her teenage experiences in a baby buggy factory, expressing her assurance that she would not let this awful time kill her ambitions. It was the B-side to her cover version of ‘Hey Joe‘ and released independently in 1974. It was ten minutes of what seems like a free jazz piano driven performance with Patti Smith reading, actually half-spitting, her poem over it. Pretty spellbinding, pretty special. Lyrics here.

PATTI SMITH: Facebook

TEENAGE FANCLUB Shares Brand New Catchy Jangly Single ‘EVERYTHING IS FALLING APART’…

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Brand new sonic impulses…


(artwork new single)

Scottish pop veterans TEENAGE FANCLUB just shared a brand new track since their 2016 album Here and one year after bassist, vocalist, and founding member Gerard Love left the band. The title of the new song EVERYTHING IS FALLING APART doesn’t sound optimistic but sonically it has that vintage Fanclub swagger and catchy melodiousness. Tune in here…

TEENAGE FANCLUB: Facebook – American Tour Dates

Psych Collective THE DREAM SYNDICATE Returns With Mind-Bending Single/Clip ‘BLACK LIGHT’…

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Brand new sonic impulses…

20 February 2019


(Photo by Linda Pitmon)

Veteran psych act from Los Angeles THE DREAM SYNDICATE will launch their first album since 2012. THESE TIMES is out next May. Frontman Steve Wynn says about the lyrical content of the new record: “There is no avoiding the existential panic of a world that’s hurtling somewhere quickly, evolving, and shifting course by the hour,” he says. “It seems like a lie to not address or reflect the things that we can’t stop thinking about — the whole world’s watching indeed. The lyrics are just a mirror of the dread, panic, mania, speculation, melancholy and ultimately shrugging abandonment that just might follow. It’s just all about where we are.”

Here’s lead single ‘BLACK LIGHT‘. A repetitive trance-inducing groove that sticks instantly…

DREAM SYNDICATE: Facebook


THESE TIMES – out 5 May via ANTI-