30 July 2020
Band: Arcade Fire
Song: Wake Up
Album: Funeral – debut LP 2004
Festival: Rock En Seine, Paris, France – 2007
Ooooh Ooooh Ooooh…
ARCADE FIRE: Facebook
Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…
After their highly praised self-titled debut album Brighton’s ambitious indie rockers
BLACK HONEY – formed in 2014 – led by natural cool born frontwoman Izzy B. Phillips return with sickly sticky jingle ‘BEACHES‘. Again this most thrilling and multifaceted
combo mixes pop and rock into a 3-minute glittering melting pot.
New ripper BEACHES is “a cheeky twisted collage of all things weird, set to a playground
clapping song. It’s all eye rolls, punk gigs & girls in polka dot bikinis. A nonsense filled retro world I wanna disappear into at times like these.” says charismatic frontwomen Izzy B. Phillips
BEACHES is a solid gold holiday anthem. Frisky fun for 24-hour-beach-party-people.
Surf pop rapture for this strange summer will never forget due to that pain-in-the-ass virus.
Clap along, swing and shake along while keeping distance and go gaga…
Also on Spotify…
Charisma in action…
Top singles from the past…
30 July 2020
Artist: Steve Winwood (Birmingham, UK)
Active: He started his career as a 15-year-old
wunderkind with 60s beat band Spencer Davis Group,
played later with Traffic and supergroup Blind Faith
before starting his solo journey.
Single: Roll With It
Note: Winwood wrote the song, but Later Motown
songwriters Holland-Dozier-Holland were credited
with co-writing due to its resemblance to the Junior
Walker hit (I’m A ) Roadrunner.
B-side: The Morning Side
Released: 9 July 1988
Score: Topped the US Singles Chart for four
weeks starting 30 July 1988 – this day 32 years ago
Album: Roll With It
Roll with it, Steve…
STEVE WINWOOD: Facebook
Why Neil Young became a musician…
New sonic impulses…
30 July 2020
The self-declared God of Fuck is ready to wake us all up with his 11th album, entitled
WE ARE CHAOS (indeed, we are). Look out for its 9/11 release. He recorded the fresh
full length before the pandemic hit the world as if he knew what was coming our way.
Manson stated about the new longplayer and its title track “When I listen to ‘We Are Chaos’now, it seems like just yesterday or as if the world repeated itself, as it always does.
This was recorded to its completion without anyone hearing it until it was finished. But just
like an LP, it is a flat circle and it’s up to the listener to put the last piece of the puzzle into
the picture of songs.”
“Making this record, I had to think to myself: “Tame your crazy, stitch your suit. And try to pretend that you are not an animal” but I knew that mankind is the worst of them all.
Making mercy is like making murder. Tears are the human body’s largest export.”
Listen to doom and gloom stomper ‘We Are Chaos‘ here…
MARILYN MANSON: Facebook
29 July 2020
Band: ZOLA
Who: “The band is made up of frontman Diego Solarte, Francisco Rodríguez on
bass and Freddy Olave on drums. A trio of experienced musicians who have been
together since 2012. The group’s commitment is to consolidate this penetrating
music in their home country Colombia, so that their music prepares the way to
reach the international metal scene.”
Album: ZOLA – the band’s debut LP
Released: 2 May 2020
Key phrase: ‘If you look tough, sound tough and scream tough, you’re
definitely tough enough for worldwide metal toughness.” – TUTV!
Key references: Led Zeppelin aka ‘The Hammer(s) Of The Gods’/
Slayer’s slash & trash / Ozzy Paranoid Osbourne / Run to the iron hills,
Sepultura dynamite / Early Metallica / Body Count’s metallic bulldozing rage /
Slipknot’s straight jacket madness / Fuegos artificiales colombianos
Key tracks: Life / Blew My Mind / La Luna / Lies
Go mental here…
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ZOLA: Facebook
29 July 2020
ALEX KAPRANOS (frontman Franz Ferdinand) and French songstress CLARA LUCIANI found each other for a cover of ‘SUMMER WINE‘, one of the many hits of 60s glamorous duo Lee Hazlewood and natural beauty Nancy Sinatra. Seductive pop sensuality at its very best
Kapranos and Luciani‘s take has a sexy touch as Luciani sings French, her native
language (sexiest language on the planet) bringing French fab couple Serge Gainsbourg
and Jane Birkin.
Listen here and watch the fitting video clip…
Original song…
New sonic impulses…
Heavenly voice ANGEL OLSEN just announced her new longplayer WHOLE NEW MESS, out 28th August. Simultaneously she dropped the title track. A moony, stripped-down ballad. Sorrowful, ruminative and vulnerable.
Watch/listen here…
ANGEL OLSEN: Facebook
WHOLE NEW MESS – out 28th August – More info here
(photo on top: FB Angel Olsen)
Striking single sleeves…
28 July 2020
Band: Talk Talk (1981-1991)
Single: Living In Another World
Released: March 1986
Album: The Colour Of Spring – the band’s third LP
R.I.P Mark Hollis: 1955-2019
Official video…
TALK TALK: Facebook
New sonic impulses…
Oh Sees, O C S, Thee Oh Sees, Coachwips, Pink And Brown, The Oh Sees, Osees Damaged Bug . The projects by hyperkinetic punk, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter, visual artist and record label owner JOHN DWYER seem endless. He’s a hyper-productive chameleon. And I have no clue how many albums he made in the past ten years. Nothing can stop the inflammable centipede.
Anyway this time he picked OH SEES as moniker. An album called Protean Threat is planned for September. Lead-single DREARY NONSENSE is a buzzing missile. A 1.34 minute injection of adrenalin.
Oh hear here…
OH SEES: Facebook