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Month: April 2019
SHIT GIRLFRIEND Has Proposal For Record Store Day… ‘DRESS LIKE CHER’
Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…
London’s DIY glam punk duo SHIT GIRLFRIEND (Natalie Chahal & Laura Mary Carter) will release an exclusive 7″ in the UK for Record Store Day next Saturday, 13th April. Maybe the girls’ DRESS LIKE CHER proposal is not a good idea but it sounds awesome. Totally wham glam bam punk. Bingo! More info here and this way to go nuts…
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SHIT GIRLFRIEND: Twitter – Instagram / Label: PNKSLM Recordings
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD Share Heavy Psych Prog Rock Track ‘PLANET B’ From New LP…
Brand new sonic impulses…
The hardest working band in rock ‘n’ roll I hear you ask? Must be KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD. Their creative flow is unstoppable. After releasing 5 (!) albums in 2017 the Aussies will launch their fourteenth LP in 7 years. FISHING FOR FISHIES on 26th April. Ahead of it here’s new track ‘PLANET B.‘. A metallic psychedelic prog rocker that will do your head in. Here’s the hilarious and also horrific video clip…
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD: Facebook – Website
FISHING FOR FISHIES – out 26 April – info here.
HISTORY – 9 April 1969 – BOB DYLAN Releases His NASHVILLE SKY Album 50 Years Ago…
9 April 2019
Living legend BOB DYLAN released his ninth LP NASHVILLE SKYLINE on 9 April 1969,
50 years ago today. It included the beautiful track and hit single Lay, Lady, Lay. The country influenced album hit the top spot of the UK charts and peaked at #3 in America.
Full album here…
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BOB DYLAN: Website – Facebook – All Albums
Back sleeve…
Quote Of The Day – Here’s MC5(0)’s WAYNE KRAMER…
Here’s Wayne Kramer original co-founder of Detroit‘s legendary punks
MC5 and touring since last year with special band MC50 to celebrate the
50th birthday of their live powerhouse longplayer Kick Out The Jams…
Full MC50 feature here / photo on top: FB WK (source unknown)
50 years ago…
Steamy Synth Pop Act OPERATORS Drops Brand New Booming Single… ‘FAITHLESS’
Brand new sonic impulses…
8 April 2019
(photo: Britt Kubat)
Dance act OPERATORS, the Montreal based project created by Daniel Boeckner (Wolf Parade, Handsome Furs, Divine Fits), Devojka, and Sam Brown (Divine Fits, New Bomb Turks) back in 2014 released its critically acclaimed debut LP Blue Wave in 2016. Now they are ready to release the follow-up, titled Radiant Dawn, next month.
Ahead of it here’s the first splendid single ‘FAITHLESS‘. Make some room because here comes an irresistibly booming synth banger that will activate all of your limbs and will make you move in ecstatic ways from the get-go. The 80s are back and the sound is
crazily beatific and terrifically levitating. C’mon, shake your booty right here.
OPERATORS: Website – Facebook – Instagram
Scottish Post Punks MEMES Hit Hard Twice With Double Debut Single ‘BLAH BLAH BLAH’ And ‘FUNNY MAN’
Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…
8 April 2019
Band: MEMES
Who: A noisy Glasgow duo called John and Paul – not that John and Paul, obviously.
And as band name John Paul II would be ridiculous, they called themselves MEMES.
Tracks: ‘BLAH BLAH BLAH’ / ‘FUNNY MAN’ – brand new double A-side single
Score: ‘Memes‘ is one of those faceless bands you stumble into now and then on the Internet. As long as their havoc makes my hair stand up in the back of my neck I really don’t care actually how a band looks like. And this fresh Glaswegian John/Paul tandem succeeds in getting my sonic attention directly with their double A-side debut single.
Both smoking tracks, ‘Blah Blah Blah‘ and ‘Funny Man‘ resonate gloriously infectious, crackingly jingle jangle and rumbly creaking. If The Fall would release their 1978 debut
EP Bingo-Master’s Break-Out! today, it would sound as tumultuous and blustery as this…
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MEMES: Facebook – Twitter
HISTORY – 8 April 1977 – Debut LP THE CLASH…
8 April 2019
THE CLASH issued their classic self-titled debut album 42 years ago today, on 8 April 1977. The band translated their social commitment and political discontent into a razor-sharp, full-throated longplayer. A historic uppercut LP as a new generation raised its voice. Original, loud, fierce, speedy, and straight in the right-wing establishment’s ugly face. The LP peaked at #12 in the UK. Unfortunately, the right-wing curse is bigger than ever today.
Here are Turn Up The Volume!‘s three favorite knockout tracks …
– WHITE RIOT –
– I’M SO BORED WITH THE U.S.A. –
– JANIE JONES –
Album in full…
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THE CLASH: Facebook – Discography
HISTORY – 7 April 1969
7 April 2019
On 7th April 1969, yes, a half century ago today LEONARD COHEN, the late, great Canadian singer/songwriter released his second LP, titled SONGS FROM A ROOM. American music weekly Rolling Stone wrote “Well, it looks like Leonard Cohen’s second
try won’t have them dancing in the streets either. It doesn’t take a great deal of listening
to realize that Cohen can’t sing, period. And yet, the record grows on you…”
This review says a lot about how the early Cohen records, before he became a bona fide icon, were perceived. Nobody really understood what this weird artist and his dark, lazy voice was about back then, although many understand this guy had something special.
The album reached #63 on the US Billboard Albums Chart and #2 on the UK charts.
Album in full…
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LEONARD COHEN: Facebook – Website
Back sleeve…
Electro Pop Tandem UMMAGMA Shares Brand New Starry-Eyed Single ‘CARAVAN’…
Brand new sonic impulses…
6 April 2019
Artist: UMMAGMA
Who: The duo of Canada born Shauna McLarnon and Alexander Kretov from Ukraine started their electronic pop project back in 2003 in Moscow. Now based in Peterborough, Ontario, the pair released two albums so far and have their third full length, after a 7-year gap, entitled ‘Compass‘ ready for release on 21st June. In a press statement, the longplayer is described as “an album of grace and change, of familiarity and exploration, of emotion and euphoria, of sky-scraping cinematic highs and intimate and intriguing lows. This is the sound
of a band allowing themselves to jump creative divides, to kick down musical barriers, and rip up the rule book or perhaps just ignore the fact that there ever was one in the first place.”
Track: CARAVAN – first single, officially out on 8th May, off the new LP
Score: There’s so much happening here. After a tribal jungle like drum intro, an ongoing glimmering guitar riff kicks in, an enchanting synth-pop melody develops with starry-eyed alternating vocals by the duo taking you to dreamland, until tantalizing guitars grab your attention just before the drums and that sparkling riff take over again for the trippy outro. The overall whirling dynamic of this flashing escapade will tickle your senses! Capture the blissful vibes right here…
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UMMAGMA: Facebook – Twitter
New album COMPASS out 21st June – all info right here