28 July 2020
Band: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Song: Red Right Hand
Album: Let Love In (1994) – ninth LP
Festival: Glastonbury Festival, UK – 1998
Haunting seeds…
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS: Facebook
You know who the idiot is!
28 July 2020
Singer-songwriter GIULIA MILLANTA is a native-born Italian from
Florence who now resides in Austin, Texas. A creative and prolific
artist, she has released six solo albums so far, touring nationally
throughout the USA and internationally. She has been called smart,
pensive and cool, a female Tom Waits and a deeply evocative singer
Giulia’s 7th solo album TOMORROW IS A BIRD, out 16th October, is about
re-evaluating life, about endings and beginnings, failures and opportunities,
about changing direction, trusting that the wind will support your wings and
get you where you need to go.
Lead-single SUGAR HOME is a vocal heart and soul musing. A country-pop beauty.
A goosebumps experience with weeping lap steel melancholia and heart-rending resonance. Both mixed emotions and yearning hope for a new beginning are at
play here. Moving, stirring, and romantic with Millanta’s touching vox balancing
between 60s glamour voices Linda Ronstadt and Tammy Wynette and today’s
impressive ladies Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen. Wow!
We’ll fly so high…
GIULIA MILLANTA: Facebook
(Barbara FG Photography)
Top singles from the past…
28 July 2020
Band: Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias
Who: A comedy/satire rock band,
formed in Manchester in 1973.
The name of the band is a corruption
of the Latin American band Alberto Y Los
Trios Paraguayos.
Active: 1973-1982
Single: Heads Down, No Nonsense, Mindless Boogie’
B-side: Thank You
Released: 1978
Album: Skite (1978)
Co-founder CP LEE passed away yesterday, 70 years old.
A legend on the Manchester music scene. He was a writer,
broadcaster, lecturer, and beloved performer. Rest in peace.
Here’s to CP Lee…
ALBERTO Y LOST TRIOS PARANOIAS: Biography – Discography
Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…
28 July 2020
Prepare yourself for blistering havoc by Melbourne‘s roasting rockers THE VENDETTAS
who master their obstreperous craft – for ten years now – to every beer-soaked wall and sticky floor their city has to offer. They produce a sound influenced by all the greats of the genre; Stone Temple Pilots, Black Crowes and The Rolling Stones to name a few.
Their new single FACE TO FACE is a high-voltage knockout. It all starts with electrical foreplay before exploding into a wall-of-ferocious juggernaut. Harum-scarum dynamite that makes your hair in your neck stand up and triggers your appetite for mindless headbanging. Siren-like guitars, ruthless drums, and inflamed vocals will make your neighbors alarm the police.
For those about to rock The Vendettas salute you. If this monstrous
riff beast doesn’t excite you, you need to see your shrink… pronto!
Turn up the decibels here…
THE VENDETTAS: Facebook
New sonic impulses…
28 July 2020
Last month American singer-songwriter and compelling storyteller BILL CALLAHAN announced his new album GOLD RECORD, only 12 months after his double LP Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest. Simultaneously he promised to drop one new song every week, until the longplayer comes out, on 4th September. And he kept his promise, so far. He gave us already four tracks: ‘Pigeons’,’Another Song’, ’35’, and ‘Protest Song.‘ (you can stream them all below via the Bandcamp-link).
The troubadour now shared a fifth composition. ‘THE MACKENZIES’ is a typical Callahan musing. It’s about meeting his neighbors for the first time after a car problem and about lost father-son relationships. The way he tells/sings the story with that arresting voice of him is pretty special. Yes, a riveting pearl!
Listen here…
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Listen to all five songs here…
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BILL CALLAHAN: Facebook
27 July 2020
Band: Editors
Who: Post-punk/new wave group out of Birmingham
Album: The Back Room – debut LP
Released: 25 July 2005 – 15 years ago
Note: To my ears, undoubtedly their best work,
from there on the goal was world domination
with an (too) accessible, commercial sound
as the disappointing result
Score: #2 in the UK
Key phrase: “Orchestral manoeuvres in the joy division dark.”
BBC Music wrote: “Editors are a Birmingham based band for the here and now. If you’re a fan of Coldplay block your ears and look away now, you’re not going to like this record. The snarling aggressive vocals, edgy high pitched guitar action and violent drumming will be too much for you… The excitement, energy and passion on display here dismisses any lazy comparisons to
Joy Division and Echo And The Bunnymen. This album grabs you by the scruff of the neck and demands your attention. This widescreen rock will soon be filling the biggest venues in the land.”
Key tracks: All Sparks / Munich / Bullets
– ALL SPARKS –
– MUNICH –
– BULLETS –
Full album…
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EDITORS: All Albums
Clips that will have an impact on your eyes and your ears…
Baseball team The New York Mets play their first game of the pandemic-shortened
2020 Major League Baseball season, today. To celebrate the moment vivid fans THE STROKES have shared a new, animated clip for their moody tribute ballad ‘ODE TO
THE METS’ from their superb The New Abnormal album.
The video is directed by the band’s collaborator Warren Fu.
Watch here…
THE STROKES: Facebook
Memorable festival flashes to heal this summer’s ‘no festivals’ pain…
27 July 2020
(photo by Turn Up The Volume!)
Band: Amyl & The Sniffers
Who: Australian tornado sensation with prima punk donna
Amyl messing with her and your head from start to finish
Song: I’m Not A Loser – from 2018 LP Big Attraction & Giddy Up
Location: Los Angeles – 2018
Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhh…
AMYL & THE SNIFFERS: Facebook
Top singles from the past…
27 July 2020
Band: Jesus Jones (Bradford-on-Avon, UK)
Who: Indie-dance-rock act founded
in 1988 by frontman Mike Edwards
Active: 1988-present
Single: Right Here, Right Now
B-sides: Are You Satisfied?, Damn Good At This
and Move Me
Released: 11 September 1990 – 30 years ago
Score: Only #31 in the UK but a big hit in
the US where it reached #2 on 27 July 1991,
29 years ago today
Album: Doubt – their second LP
Here’s the original clip…
JESUS JONES: Facebook
