Month: June 2020

To Hell With Blue Mondays – Here Are Ass-Kicking Garage Noiseniks CRACKUPS Getting The Vibes

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29 June 2020

These Belgian garage rock motherrockers not only look scary but they also sound scary.
These are a bunch of deranged gunslingers you don’t want to meet in the dark and by the day it’s better to keep a large social distance from them.

The 4-headed bulldozer’s new ass-kicking jackhammer GETTING THE VIBES is a nasty piece of mental exorcism sounding like sonic sex. Oh yeah, this Molotov cocktail’s heated intensity and prurience appetite grows monstrously along its volcanic course until the orgiastic finale hits you in the balls. Get it? Arrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhh! Run and hide before the vibe crushes you.

Go go gol…


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CRACKUPS: Facebook

One Live Track A Day Keeps The Doctor Away – ‘TAKE ME OUT’ By FRANZ FERDINAND

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FRANZ FERDINAND – ‘Take Me Out’ – T IN THE PARK, 2014

Scream along, jump along and sweat along with Scotland’s darlings FRANZ FERDINAND playing a euphoric get-together version of their first big hit TAKE ME OUT in their home country at T IN THE PARK in 2014 …

FRANZ FERDINAND: Facebook

Bittersweet Symphony – Here Are British Rockers REGENT With Brand New Single ‘TIME TO LOOSE THE BLUES’

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Reveries for the laziest day of the week…

28 June 2020

Brit-rock trio REGENT from Southampton dropped their third single of 2020. Hallmarked with the swagger and sonics of 90s flag bearers like Ocean Colour Scene, Oasis and The Verve, TIME TO LOOSE swiftly follows I Told You So and Again.

Frontman Ben Rooke says “the song is about love, devastation,
heart break, and coming back no matter what life throws at you.”

Time To Loose The Blues has all the touching characteristics of a vintage, intimate Noel Gallagher ballad. Epic, captivating, and soul-stirring. A heart-to-heart meditation to cry
your heart out to, a downcast tearjerker making you feel better afterward. It could be the sonic, comforting friend you’re looking for in these days of isolation blues. A bittersweet symphony, indeed. Sit down, relax, close your eyes and let your thoughts float away…

REGENT: Facebook

THE FLAMING LIPS Release Sixteenth Album ‘AMERICAN HEAD’ On 9/11

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28 June 2020

Surreal fairy tale rockers THE FLAMING LIPS have their 16th longplayer AMERICAN HEAD waiting in the pipeline to be released on 9/11. Last month we got the first single, sensitive diamond FlowersOf Neptune 6 .

Here’s a second piece, entitled MY RELIGION IS YOU. A familiar
sounding, emotive ballad. Tender, intimate and romantic.

Watch/listen here…

THE FLAMING LIPS: Facebook

(photo by TUTV – Flamings concert Amsterdam 2018)

RICHARD ASHCROFT – Debut Solo Longplayer ‘ALONE WITH EVERYBODY’ Came Out 20 Years Ago…

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27 June 2020

Artist: Richard Ashcroft
Album: Alone With Everybody – solo debut
Released: 26 June 2000 – 20 years ago

AllMusic wrote: “He still believes that music has a soul, with or without his former band.
He is certainly a rock star and a believer in love, death, musical spirituality, and individuality. That is what made the Verve a great rock band in the first place, but Ashcroft’s superior drive
to do something real only makes him and his music more endearing. He is looking ahead, not wishing for past adventures. He celebrates life, pure and simple.” Score: 4/5

Keywords: Big mouth, big melodies and bittersweet symphonies, the drugs work, impassioned pop spirit, solid gold rock ‘n’ roll star, get-together anthems
Key tracks: A Song For The Lovers / I Get My Beat / Money To Burn /
C’Mon People (We’re Making It Now / Everybody

Full album…

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RICHARD ASHCROFT: Facebook

Psychedelic Mind-Massages – New Album ‘INTERZONE’ By THE VACANT LOTS

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27 June 2020

Band: The Vacant Lots
Who: “NYC duo comprised of Jared Artaud and Brian MacFadyen. The key element
of The Vacant Lots’ minimalist, primitive rock and roll songs is their boundless energy,
which tears up the psych template with a genuine punk spirit. The notion of duality is
also a recurring theme in the band’s minimal means maximum effect aesthetic,
whether in their lyrics or fiercely monochromatic artwork.”
Album: Interzone – their third LP
Released: 26 June 2020

“A perfect stun-blast soundtrack for today’s shattered society.”
Classic Rock Magazine
“NYC synth duo channel Suicide and Burroughs.”
Uncut Magazine
“Explosive psych mixed with the experimental spirit of proto-punk.
Post-Punk Magazine

“I’m bored with that line. I never use it anymore.
My new line is ‘In 15 minutes The Vacant Lots will be famous.‘
Andy Warhol
“The Lots master the art of psychedelic mind-massages just
like The Velvet Underground did in their heyday.”
Turn Up The Volume!

Key references: NEU!, Suicide, Kraftwerk, VU, Can, Spacemen 3
Key phrase: If you can make it in New York, you can make it everywhere

Singles: Rescue / Fracture

– RESCUE –

– FRACTURE –

Stream album here…

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INTERZONE available via Fuzz Club

Rip-Roaring Retro Rock Razzmatazz – Here’s From Glasgow GOLDIE DAWN With A License To Thrill…

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You like it raw and rough, rip-roaring and rollicking? And without any fake
production tricks nor arty-farty bullshit? Look no further here’s from Glasgow
rumbling riff machine GOLDIE DAWN led by the bad-ass punkette Kate Rambo.

The band released their self-titled debut EP some weeks ago. A smashing 4-track
roller coaster containing all the best firework echoes from the best past decades of
Rawk ‘N’ Bloody Roll. Imagine 70s punk queens Runaways being a 90s Riot Grrrl turbo (Gone With The Wild), The Damned fronted by Courtney Love and Sex Pistol Steve Jones on guitar (Crime), today’s Aussie sensation Amyl And The Sniffers going bonkers (What’s Inside Never Dies) and a drunk Nancy Sinatra singing an amplified country lullaby (It’s Nothing To Me). Rip-roaring retro rock razzmatazz from start to finish! Hell Yeah!

Goldie Dawn has a license to thrill and that’s exactly what they do.
Stop drooling, press play, and test your speakers’ resilience right here…


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GOLDIE DAWN: Instagram
GOLDIE HAWN: Facebook


Dressed to kill…

EP available via Drunken Sailor Records
Photo on top via Bandcamp-page Goldie Dawn
Thanks to Colin Steer for the tip