Month: August 2020

Sharon Van Etten Is Right! Listen To Brand New Trippy Single ‘WITHOUT YOU’ By Cincinnati Band CARRIERS

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Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…

25 August 2020

Band: CARRIERS

Who: Band built around Curt Kiser‘s sincere and dreamy songwriting,
Carriers are an indie rock band from Cincinnati. They were tipped by
the wonderful singer/songwriter Sharon Van Etten in the notes of her
excellent Remind Me Tomorrow LP as Recommended Listening.

Single: WITHOUT YOU

About: “I wrote it thinking about what I’ve learned and how I’ve grown
in my own life, but I think there is a universal message of reflecting on
relationships you might take for granted and holding close the ones you
cherish.” ~ Curt Kiser


(Photo: Keith Klenowski)

Score: The waterfall pace, the speedy, pulsating drum- guitar-synth sparks
and the spirited vocals turn this poppy doozy in an on-the-spot earworm. And
as the intoxicating beat goes on and on and on your excitement level goes up
and up and up, like if your heart goes bonkers on a roller coaster. The mesmerizing songstress star Sharon Van Etten is absolutely right. Carriers is a must-hear band.

Stream/buy ‘Without You’ right here…


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Check also the band’s heartwarming 2019 debut LP
Now Is The Time For Loving Me, Yourself & Anyone Else…

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CARRIERS: Facebook

Debut Single ‘MY SHARONA’ By THE KNACK No 1 Hit In The US This Day In 1979

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Top singles from the past…

25 August 2020

Band: The Knack (Los Angeles)
Active: 1978–1982, 1986–1992, 1994, 1996–2010
Single: My Sharona – debut single
B-side: Let Me Out

Released: June 1979
Score: #1 in the US on 25 August 1979 – 41 years ago today
(starting a No 1 run for five weeks)
Album: Get The Knack – debut LP

No corona for My Sharona…

THE KNACK: Facebook

The Whole Of Mike Scott – Fourteenth Album ‘GOOD LUCK, SEEKER’ By THE WATERBOYS Is A Solid Songwriter Triumph

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25 Augustus 2020

Band: THE WATERBOYS (Scotland)
Album: GOOD, LUCK SEEKER
Released: 21 August 2020
Artwork: A painting called Taosena Sky by the great American
southwestern artist B.C. Nowlin. A print of which has hung on
the wall of Mike Scott’s various music rooms for almost 30 years.

“An album of passion, wit and spirituality that, like its title, invites
us not only to evolve, but to revel in our evolution” – Uncut

“It’s astonishing how much ground gets covered on Good Luck, Seeker.
A remarkable achievement that sits near, if not at, the top of the band’s
entire catalogue.” – MusicOMH

“An adventurous one with enough standouts and strange magic
to go around.” – All Music

“The whole of Mike Scott in one big-sound-and-big-songs album.”
Turn Up The Volume!

Key tracks: The Soul Singer / Freak Streat / My Wanderings In
The Dreary Land / Low Down In The Broom

– THE SOUL SINGER –

– FREAK STREAT –

– MY WANDERINGS IN THE WEARY LAND –

– LOW DOWN IN THE BROOM –

Full album…

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THE WATERBOYS: Facebook

Tons Of Lust For Life – Red-Hot NASHVILLE Duo THE CRITICALS Will Rock Your Bloody Socks Off

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25 August 2020


(pic via FB The Criticals – press)

Band: THE CRITICALS

Who: A Nashville based rock band formed by Parker Forbes and Cole Shugart in 2018.
The band focuses on energy, first and foremost, looking to The Stone Roses, Jane’s
Addiction, and The Doors for inspiration. They set their sites on creating a band built
on youth, honesty, and lust for life.

Why: If you like your music to be snappy, sultry, and steamy with tons of lust for life
and an insatiable appetite for rocking your socks off then it’s about time you meet these two tough gunslingers from Nashville. Last year they already left their loud and clear mark with a series of top-notch singles.

This year they continue their trip to world domination with a red-hot trio of wham bloody bam rippers, fusing The Strokes‘ swagger, the noisy guts of their neighbors The Kings of Leon and T.Rex‘s hot glam thrills. And when your singer has the brown sugar looks of a young Mick Jagger you know something is about to happen.

Three nasty snakes in a row! Here we go motherrockers…

– HIGH LIFE CLINIC –


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– UNDER YOUR NOSE –


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– KANSAS CITY –


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THE CRITICALS: Facebook

Dream Sequences About Yourself – Here’s New Single ‘SHADOW IN MY MIND’ By PAULINE MURRAY

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New sonic impulses…

25 August 2020

PAULINE MURRAY was the sensuous frontgirl and co-songwriter of 70s British Don’t Dictate punks Penetration and scored afterward a memorable longplayer with her Invisible Girls (with that stellar single Dream Sequence).

Murray kept on making music from there on and next month she’ll share her third solo album, called ELEMENTAL, with our greedy ears. After the synth colored lead-single Secrets last June, another taster comes our way.

SHADOW IN MY MIND is “about the dialogue we constantly have with ourselves both positive and negative and how we can be our own best friend or our own worst enemy,” says Murray.

It’s an instant pop earworm activating your aural antenna on the spot. Elevating, flourishing, and pithy with glorious 60s organ sparks and Murray‘s voice as vitalizing
as ever.

For the video clip Pauline filmed in Polestar Studios, the recording and rehearsal space she set up in 1990 in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and still runs to this day. “I am rocking my new suit, which was bought just before lockdown, for the first time.”

Listen/watch here…

In case you missed it here’s lead-single Secrets…

PAULINE MURRAY: Facebook


New album ELEMENTAL out 25th September. You can pre-order right here.

 

‘EVERY 1’S A WINNER’ – Music Junk TY SEGALL Covers HOT CHOCOLATE

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24 August 2020

Since his self-titled 2018 debut album Californian multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and producer TY SEGALL has released, continuously, at least one album a year. The sonic junk breathes, dreams and hallucinates music. Non-stop 24/7 maniac. And the man also knows tons of pop classics from the past. Five years ago he even filled an album, called
Ty Rex with covers of the late 60s / early 70s glam hero Marc Bolan and his band T.Rex

He also doesn’t look the other way for cheesy pop earworms like Hot Chocolate‘s 1978
hit EVERY 1’S A WINNER. He turned the disco stomper into a dashing drone on his 2018 LP Freedom’s Goblin. Check it out right here…

The original…

To Hell With Trump – Help WRECKLESS ERIC & AMY RIGBY To ‘VOTE THAT FUCKER OUT’…

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Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…

24 August 2020

Legendary British punk pop songsmith WRECKLESS ERIC (you’ll definitely remember his classic cracker Whole Wide World) and his wife, the awe-inspiring American voice and compelling songwriter AMY RIGBY live in the beautiful Catskill Mountains located in southeastern New York.

Just like many millions of people, in and outside the US, the musical couple wants to get
rid of that lying hate-preacher and ‘Me, Myself and I’ idiot in the White House. He divided the USA so badly that it will take the country years to recover from this evil lunatic. Eric & Amy turned their burning anger into a steamy uppercut rocker the whole wide world should scream along to. A firm middle-finger slam. Let’s get together and VOTE THAT FUCKER OUT. Exit Trump is the world-saving goal, ladies and gents! Let’s act! Let’s sing…

I never want to see his stupid face again
I never want to hear his name
Except for January 2021
When I yell shame shame shame
Goodbye

C’mon and vote that fucker out
Vote that fucker out
We gotta vote that fucker out
Let’s go!

C’mon, on the top of your lungs right here…

You can buy the track here…


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All proceeds from the purchase of this track will be
donated to the American Civil Liberties Union

Leaders Of The Pack – Discover Glam And Glitter Pop Longplayer ‘BEAUTIFUL AND TRUE’ By Portland Trio THE CRYSTAL FURS

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24 Augustus 2020

Band: THE CRYSTAL FURS
Who: An queer indie pop band based in Portland, Oregon
making energetic, sonically layered indie-pop tunes with
emotionally charged lyrics.
Album: BEAUTIFUL AND TRUE – third LP
Released: 26 June

Info: “Beautiful And True” is not just our third album – it’s a new start for us. Our
first album in Portland, Oregon. Our first album out and living as our real selves.
We’ve poured a lot of ourselves into the music you’re going to hear on this album,
and we hope it brings you as much joy to listen to as it gave us to make it. It’s so
very good to be here.” says the trio about the new record.

Keyline: “And Then He Kissed Me” – The Crystals

Keywords: Modern-day Shangri-Las / Crystal(s) clear jingles / 60s sunlit pop harmonies / Tune paradise / Shake and swing extravaganza / Jangle exultation / Riot grrrl daydreams / Catchy ditties for lovers / Spicy retro organ sparks / Glam and glitter guitars / To kind to be cruel / Earworm melodiousness / Tambourine girls / Truly beautiful / Leaders of the pack

Key tracks: Comeback Girls / Burn Us Down / Hey Maxine / Like You / Second Time Around

Stream/buy full album here…


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THE CRYSTAL FURS: Facebook

Go Your Own Way – Listen To The Inspiring Contemplation ‘TOMORROW IS A BIRD’ By GIULIA MILLANTA

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New sonic impulses…

24 August 2020


(Barbara FG Photography)

Singer-songwriter GIULIA MILLANTA is a native-born Italian from Florence
who lives now 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. Her seventh longplayer, entitled
Tomorrow Is A Bird will see the day of light on 16th October.

“While she may be seven albums into her recording career, Giulia Millanta has
never sounded more relevant or exciting than she does right now, if tomorrow
is a bird, Giulia Millanta is ready to take flight.”

After lead-single Sugar Home we can enjoy now the title track TOMORROW IS A BIRD from the upcoming longplayer. A song about putting pressure on yourself all the time
and wondering how we want to live. It’s a sweet shining pearl, a graceful humdinger, a sparkling lullaby. Imagine the bluesy musings of Bonnie Raitt, the romantic introspection
of Joni Mitchell, the mixed emotions of Fleetwood Mac‘s classic gem ‘Go Your Own Way‘, and the glowing melancholy of Chris Isaak. Yes, I know, Millanta’s sonic aura lights up brightly.

Here’s why…

Listen to previous single Sugar Home…

GIULIA MILLANTA: Facebook