Month: March 2019

Los Angeles Noise Rockers INDIAN SUMMR Release Brand New Heated EP ‘YOU NEVER SAY WHAT I WANNA HEAR’…

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Brand new sonic impulses…

16 March 2019

Los Angeles‘ frantic hot rod INDIAN SUMMR has just released their new 3-track EP, titled ‘YOU NEVER SAY WHAT I WANNA HEAR‘. What you get are three full-blooded ripsnorters driven by a merciless rhythm section and electrified by merciless guitar riffs with ferocious vocals, sharp as a jagged knife, all over it. If Nirvana would have been a hair-raising garage punk band they would have sounded exactly fired-up like this mind-blowing three-piece. Discover the rousing hullabaloo right here…


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INDIAN SUMMER: Facebook

Noise Junks PINK ROOM Do Not Have A Clue What They Do – Here’s New Single ‘???’

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Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…

16 March 2019

Belgian noise junks PINK ROOM will catapult their debut album ZUM KOTZEN in your
face next week. But before doing so they want to damage your ears with one more single from that LP. ‘???‘ is 2 minutes and eighteen seconds of punk schizophrenia, messed-up havoc, sonic paranoia and hysterical racket. Probably inspired by the Tom Waits video for
‘I Don’t Wanna To Grow Up’ the threesome fabricated a cool, claustrophobic clip. Get out of your straight jacket, folks, and join the clattering party right here…

PINK ROOM: Facebook


ZUM KOTZEN – debut LP out 22nd March – all details and pre-order facilities here

HISTORY – 16 March 1965

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16 March 2019

On 16 March 1965, 54 years ago today, THE ROLLING STONES
scored their third Number One hit on the UK singles chart with
the Jagger/Richards cracker THE LAST TIME. C’mon Keef, give
us that magical riff…

THE ROLLING STONES: Facebook – Wesbite

THE STONES release another ‘Best Of’ titled HONK on 19th April – more info here

Why? Why? Why? – CHRISTCHURCH

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Violence in the air, damage everywhere
Murder in my dreams, waking up to screams
I just can’t explain the way I’m feeling sad
Hits me like a train, eating me alive
Walking with the beast, walking with the beast
You can’t get no peace walking with the beast
You can’t get no peace, you can’t get no peace walking with the beast
There goes another man, his future’s in his hands
Doesn’t know he’s going down, he still alive as he drowns
His pain heals as disease, handsome every time we breeze
Hits some sufferring everyone, he’s sucking on loaded gone
Walking with the beast, walking with the beast
You can’t get no peace walking with the beast
You can’t get no peace, you can’t get no peace walking with the beast

Guitar/Synth Pop Duo RUBBER VELVET Drops Desirous Single ‘MINE TO OWN’…

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Brand new sonic impulses…

15 March 2019

After releasing their notable debut EP Rest In Vain last summer and their second EP
Little Wild early this year fresh Welsh duo RUBBER VELVET now dropped a new single. MINE TO OWN is a delicate, slow-mo pop reverie with glittering guitars, ambient synths and desirous vocals reminding me both of the moodiest moments of American electro duo MGMT and English veteran daydreamers Slowdive. Melodic, gripping and longing.

Tune in here…

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RUBBER VELVET: Facebook – Instagram – ‘Mine To Own’ on iTunes

Garage Punk Misfits MOGO Twist And Shout About Their Cool ‘BOYFRIEND’…

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Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…

15 March 2019

Band: MOGO

Who: Four Belgian oddballs making a lot of noisy stuff to go bananas to and who write
daft songs about former President Richard Nixon and the late actor Patrick Swayze.

Track: BOYFRIEND – lead single from upcoming EP

Score: While looking and acting like nutcases – just being themselves I suppose – this
thunderous 4-piece engine rocks like an out-of-control meteor on its way to destroy the future Mexican Wall. I don’t have a clue who their cool boyfriend is, but I guess he’s one of their mental kind who knows that punk rock was actually invented to put a gigantic grin on your face. And that’s what these blazing motherrockers do tremendously well. They roar, they roll, they rattle and they make you smile! Hallelujah! Release the bats…

MOGO: Facebook

PORLOLO’s Frontwoman ERIN ROBERTS Shares Her Decisive ‘I QUIT’ Mantra…

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Brand new sonic impulses…

14 March 2019

Denver’s singer/songwriter ERIN ROBERTS and her artistic vehicle PORTOLO just
dropped new track ‘I QUIT‘. Unhappy with her full-time career, Roberts quit her job in January and headed into the studio to record the song with her musical collaborators

“Singing this song puts power back in my hands when the going gets rough. I’ve used it as a mantra to sing repeatedly to myself when faced with tough situations. Dehumanizing bosses, turgid gatekeepers, class ceilings, blind eyes. Sometimes when there’s nothing nice left to say, you can just say ‘I QUIT’…” says Roberts.

‘I Quit‘ is a sparkling, retro guitar led earworm that sticks instantly. Whether you sing
along, hum along or whistle along to Robert‘s mantra-like confession it will give you that mind-confident and soul-warming feeling of having changed the course of your life in the right direction. Still doubting? Catch the sonic inspiration right here…

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PORLORO: Facebook – Instagram

Brooklyn’s RUSSIAN BATHS Going Paranoia On New ‘PARASITE’ Single…

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Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…

14 March 2019

Blustery tandem RUSSIAN BATHS from Brooklyn, New York shared their new kick-ass hammer called ‘PARASITE‘. This is what the band’s Luke Koz has to say about the track: “Have you ever had an insect burrow into your brain and force you to drown yourself? Cured
a headache with a hand grenade? This song is about these legitimate questions.”

Well, it seems like this is not your average love song, folks, rather the paranoid hangover
of a surreal and mind-damaging nightmare. And the sick result is bloody smashing! Like
a Sonic Youth eruption coupled with an exploding Nirvanesque chorus and injected with doomy male/female vocals. Play this damn loud, crush that insect in your brain and keep your hand grenade ready to erase your headache. Lots of deranged fun! Press the button right here…


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RUSSIAN BATHS: Facebook

BLUR Released Their Sixth Longplayer ’13’ Twenty Years Ago…

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Great albums from the past…

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14 March 2019

Band: BLUR

Album: ’13’ named after Damon Albarn‘s London studio – the band’s sixth LP

Released: 15 March 1999 – 20 years ago – it went straight to Number One

ALL MUSIC wrote: “Blur’s penitence for Brit-pop continues with the aptly named 13, which deals with star-crossed situations like personal and professional breakups with Damon Albarn’s longtime girlfriend, Justine Frischmann of Elastica, and the group’s longtime producer, Stephen Street. Building on Blur’s un-pop experiments, the group’s ambitions to expand their musical and emotional horizons result in a half-baked baker’s dozen of songs, featuring some of their most creative peaks and self-indulgent valleys… 13’s strange, frustrating combination of expert musicianship and self-indulgence reveals the sound of a band trying to find itself. With some closer editing, this could have been the emotionally deep, sonically wide album Blur yearns to make.” Full review here. Score: 3.5/5

TURN UP THE VOLUME‘s highlights: Tender / Swamp Song / Coffee And TV

– TENDER –

– SWAMP SONG – (vivid live version)

– COFFEE AND TV –

ALBUM in full…

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BLUR: Facebook – Website – All Albums