The other side of the A…
24 September 2020
Artist: Julian Cope
B-side: Umpteenth Unnatural Blues
A-side: World Shut Your Mouth
Released: September 1986
I want to die in solitude
I want to die in pain
On Spotify…
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JULIAN COPE: Facebook
Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…
24 September 2020
THE MEDICINE DOLLS are one of the coolest bands that walk this corona screwed-up
planet, as Turn Up The Volume already screamed about a million times before.
Why? They do what they like, they dress the way they want and they only play music
the way they like. And as it happens that they produce awesome DIY psych-o-billy punk
my ears are hooked on, I can’t stop shouting about these gunslingers from Cape Town.
They unleash – finally – their debut LP, entitled FILTH AND WISDOM on 2 October. Yes!Yes!Yes!
In the meantime the blistering three-headed garage force wants you to dance to new single ‘DANGER! DANGER! DISCO!’. A loud “love letter to the beautiful, destructive and emotionally charged nature of romance and misspent youth.”
It’s a mighty Bang! Bang! Banger! A Link Wray injected Surfin’! Surf! Stunner! A jump up
and down Sizzling! Scissors! Slam! A thunderous Damned! Disco! Dunk! to bang your lockdown head to.
No time to waste. Pogo! Pogo! Pogo!…
THE MEDICINE DOLLS: Facebook
(photo by Mike Hunt)
24 September 2020
One of the best bands ever in my book: The Stone Roses. One of the coolest
frontmen in my book: Ian Brown. The latter has now changed, it reads now:
one of the greatest rock wankers ever: IAN BROWN.
Why? I never thought that a self-declared ‘man of the people’ would tell such
anti-social coronavirus bullshit showing he actually doesn’t give a flying fuck
about other people.
C’mon Brown read your own crap you posted online in recent days:
“IAN ‘wearing a mask in a pandemic is the correct and sensible thing to do! But what
pandemic? THE GREAT RESET the plandemic planned designed and executed to make us
digital slaves. “A survival rate of 99.9% and they are into our work life home life social life
school life love life garden, backyard your body your wife and kids bodies AND THATS OK?.
So I’m a Conspiracy Theorist HA! A term invented by the lame stream media to discredit
those who can smell and see through the government/media lies and propaganda.”
Is this what happens when you smoke weed all your life? Is this the rich rock star way
to promote your new terrible anti-lockdown song ‘LITTLE SEED BIG TREE‘? Or did you
lose your mind after counting the BIG MONEY you got after those ‘let’s get filthy rich on the
back of our hard-working fans‘ reunion gigs? Have some real guts, Brownie, and tell your conspiracy bollocks to the family and friends who lost a beloved one because they got infected by people who don’t care about their fellow men and think Covid-19 is a joke.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…
IAN BROWN: Godlike Idiot
23 September 2020
Five things you should know about Polish turbo IZZY AND THE BLACK TREES
1. They have a great appetite for punch rock.
2. They prove loud and clear that rawk ‘n’ roll has no boundaries.
3. They are guilty of releasing a flamboyant LP called Trust No One this year.
4. I had a cool chat with vivacious frontwoman Izabela. Read it here.
5. They just dropped a video clip playing one of the highlights of the album live.
Shake your hips to Picasso’s Octopuss…
IZZY AND THE BLACK TREES: Facebook
BLUE HEARTS
14th Solo album by ex Hüsker Dü legend BOB MOULD
Out this Friday, 25th September
Singles: Siberian Butterfly / Forecast Of Rain / American Crisis
– SIBERIAN BUTTERFLY –
– FORECAST OF RAIN –
– AMERICAN CRISIS –
BOB MOULD: Facebook
Noel ‘I don’t care‘ Gallagher refuses to wear a face mask while
shopping, in defiance of laws which were introduced earlier this year.
“The whole thing’s bollocks. You’re supposed to wear them in Selfridges, yet you can fucking go down the pub and be surrounded by every fucking cunt. Do you know what I mean? It’s like, ‘oh actually, we don’t have the virus in pubs but we have it in Selfridges?. It’s not a law. There’s too many fucking liberties being taken away from us now” says Noel Wonderwall.
The Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown talks about a government’s
conspiracy to manipulate people’s minds.
“NO LOCKDOWN NO TESTS! NO TRACKS! NO MASKS NO VAX!” shouts
The Stones Roses frontman Ian Brown. “It’s mass mind manipulation.” he adds.
Turn Up The Volume: First things first. Oasis and The Stone Roses are two of
my all-time favorite bands but that doesn’t mean that their rock stars can get
away with talking CRAP!
And egoistic crap they talk. Gallagher and Brown obviously think that all the measures necessary to fight that vicious coronavirus are not for them. Ian Brown even goes that stupidly far that he thinks that there’s a government conspiracy behind the crisis to manipulate the people’s minds. That’s the same guy who reunited his band a couple of years ago, on the back of only 2 new songs, to TAKE THE BIG MONEY AND RUN. Talking about manipulation! And Noel Gallagher is, well, Noel Gallagher. An aging rocker who thinks he’s still cool as fuck when he says controversial shit. Oh dear, oh dear, poor men.
I guess billionaire musicians are above the masses and do not need to be social or show respect for others. Well, you pricks, GO AND TELL THAT TO THE FAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF PEOPLE WHO DIED AS THEY WERE INFECTED BY OTHER PEOPLE WHO DIDN’T CARE!
23 September 2020
Band: The Fall
Album: This Nation’s Saving Grace – 8th LP
Released: 23 September 1985 – 35 years ago today
The Guardian wrote: “As vital as any of the Fall’s 29 studio albums, 1985’s ‘This Nation’s
Saving Grace’ finds them operating just on the edge of the mainstream and at the peak of
their accessibility and yet strangeness. One of the great Fall lineups (Brix Smith and classically trained Simon Rogers augment the holy Hanley/Scanlon/Burns triumvirate) rampage through pop to avant garde to electronica to rockabilly to krautrock, often simultaneously. The band
are so tightly drilled that not a second or sound is wasted, or innovation missed.” Score: 5/5.
Mark E. Smith: “When I was 18, the vision was to make music that
didn’t exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.”
Full album…
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THE FALL: Facebook
Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…
23 September 2020
Toronto‘s hot rod rockers METZ unleash their fourth longplayer ATLAS VENDING
on 9 October via Sub Pop records. More info and pre-order facilities here.
Previous earthquake singles A Boat To Drawn In and Hail Taxi (listen below)
already exceeded the legal decibel standard and third cut BLIND YOUTH INDUSTRIAL PARK is also a clamorous knockout you need a police permit for to play it when your neighbors are at home.
Frontman Alex Edkins blazes again as if it was his last recording ever. You can feel
his anger physically. “I know exactly what you’re thinking/ I know exactly who you are.”
Add their vintage riff-roaring-rage and mad drum hit and run beats and what you
get is a classic Metz uppercut.
Alert your neighbors before you press play…
Also on Spotify …
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Previous singles…
– HAIL TAXI –
– A BOAT TO DRAWN IN –
METZ: Facebook
New album ATLAS VENDING out 9 October. Pre-order facilities here
New sonic impulses…
23 September 2020
After their 2018 LP I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life and
the film score for Sorry To Bother You last year TUNE-YARDS are back.
New single NOWHERE, MAN (not Th Beatles song) is an ecstatic groove
belter sounding like if the pair listened on repeat to soul-funk legends
Sly And The Family Stone
Funky as burning hell…
TUNE-YARDS: Facebook
