Quote Of The Day – Prophetic Words By BILLY CORGAN
Smashing Pumpkins maestro Billy Corgan…
Month: October 2020
Tower Of Sound – Boston Noise Dreamers MOTEL BLACK With New Smack ‘QUOTING THOREAU’
Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…
29 October 2020
Band: MOTEL BLACK
Who: Firm noise band from Boston producing hook-laden rock, atmospheric and noisy soundscapes, embracing elements of post-punk, garage, doomy folk, and psych-rock.
Pick: QUOTING THOREAU
“I wrote this song three years ago while living in Dorchester’s Codman Square. As with most
of the songs that I write, they are about nothing and everything at the same time. What was swimming in my head when I wrote this – and is always there in one way or another – is the idea that change is cleansing and particularly in urban development,” says Brian George (vocals, guitar)
Score: The towering wall-of-massive sound this Boston noise quartet produces is
huge, I repeat huge! From the Metallica-like ‘Nothing Else Matters’ intro on the intensity
and vehemence of this high-voltage passion stroke grows slowly but surely towards a sonic orgasm. Afire guitars, poignant vocals and an overall titanic orchestration with
an overwhelming effect. You’re out of breath when the track suddenly ends. Wow!
The pressure to build
The pressure to grow
Speaking to me
Is like quoting Thoreau
And every complaint
Deserves an excuse
And I wane
Stream/buy here…
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MOTEL BLACK: Facebook
(press photo band via Noisy Ghost PR)
Today Another New Track Tomorrow The New Album – Here’s ‘ANYTHING FOR BOO’ By EELS
New sonic impulses…
29 October 2020
New album EARTH TO DORA by moody crooner MARK OLIVER EVERETT
and his EELS band leaves its pipeline tomorrow.
But in a hurry, we get another new track today, accompanied by a Halloween
inspired lyric video. Here comes love humdinger ANYTHING FOR BOO…
EELS: Facebook
Artwork new album EARTH TO DORA – out tomorrow
The Mouth Mask Race Is On – NINE INCH NAILS Launch Their ‘Modular Face Mask Starter Kit’
Countless bands/artists already launched mouth masks with their logo, pics, or covers of their albums on and now it seems that a money and marketing-driven race has started. Who develops the most original mouth masks? And the winner is (so far)… NINE INCH NAILS with their brand new Modular Face Mask Starter Kit.
“Face masks with interchangeable messages for these uncertain time,” said
the Trent Reznor fronted band in a press statement. More info here.
Who has the next unique idea?
Bubble Pioneers THE FLAMING LIPS Shoot Spectacular Live Video For ‘ASSASSINS OF YOUTH’
Clips that will have an impact on your eyes and your ears…
28 October 2020
(photo by Turn Up The Volume!)
Weird coincidence? In recent years, as part of the fairytale-like concerts of THE FLAMING LIPS their wizard-frontman WAYNE COYNE squeezed himself in a sort of plastic bubble and rolled over the crowd while performing a song. Spectacular indeed, as I witnessed myself a few times. Little did the band know they would perform this stunt in 2020, live
for the making of a video, with 100 spectators each in their own bubble.
The short show was filmed at The Criterion in their hometown of Oklahoma City. One of
the songs they played was ASSASSINS OF YOUTH, a magical ballad from their recent, excellent album American Head.
Watch the bubble pioneers and their bubble audience right here…
THE FLAMING LIPS: Facebook
(Live photos by Turn Up The Volume! Antwerp, Belgium, 2017)
Striking 2020 Album Artwork
28 October 2020
Band: BODY COUNT
Album: CARNIVORE
Released: 6 March 2020 – 7th LP
Kerrang!: “Body Count’s still cookin’,
so get your teeth sunk in.”
Damn right…
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BODY COUNT: Facebook
New SHANE MACGOWAN Documentary ‘CROCK OF GOLD’ Coming Soon
28 October 2020
Early February a new documentary – produced by Johnny Depp – about
brilliant singer/songwriter, Irish folk punk, hard drinker, and survivor SHANE
MACGOWAN, the unique voice and face of the equally brilliant THE POGUES
for years, was announced. And now we have more details.
The docu is directed by renowned filmmaker Julien Temple, who also canned the
Sex Pistols movie The Great Rock ‘N’ Roll Swindle as well as docs on the Pistols
and the Clash.
Crock Of Gold — A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan
is coming to theaters and VOD next December.
Here’s the fairytale trailer…
SHANE MACGOWAN: Facebook
Quote Of The Day – SLIPKNOT’s Front Mask COREY TAYLOR
Family Love Letters – Romantic KEVIN MORBY Already Back With Ballad ‘US MAIL’
New sonic impulses…
28 October 2020
Just a few weeks ago Kansas City singer/songwriter and full-time
daydreamer KEVIN MORBY released new, heart-warming album
Sundowner.
And he’s already back with a new reverie called US MAIL.
“A song I wrote about a mother communicating with her daughter via the USPS
from within an inpatient rehab facility. Restricted from any forms of electronic
communication, the two must rely on postcards carried by the United States
Postal Service to reach one another.”
A touching beauty…
KEVIN MORBY: Facebook
New album SUNDOWNER out now.
Apocalypse Now! ‘FAMINE ASYLUM’ By Hardcore Shoegazers NOTHING
New sonic impulses…
28 October 2020
This Friday the new album The Great Dismal by Philadelphia’s hardcore hammers NOTHING hits the streets. But first this new, third shared, track. A surprising, multi-
guitar-layered shoegaze nightmare called FAMINE ASYLUM about humankind getting extinct.
Apocalypse wanted!
“Send the bombs/ We’ve had enough of us.”
The previous two singles…
– SAY LESS –
– BERNIE SAUNDERS –
NOTHING: Facebook