Month: January 2021
‘REWARD’ Single By THE TEARDROP EXPLODES Came Out 40 Years Ago
21 January 2021
Band: THE TEARDROP EXPLODES (Liverpool)
Active: 1978–1982
Single: REWARD
B-side: Strange House In The Snow
Released: 23 January 1981 – 40 years ago
Score: #6 in the UK, #11 in Ireland
Album: Kilimanjaro
Don’t shut your mouth, Julian…
Live version…
TEARDROP EXPLODES: Biography
Quote Of The Day – STONES Drummer CHARLIE WATTS About His Cars
The coolest drummer on Earth…
(image: front cover of Stones live album ‘Get yer ya-ya’s out!’)
Witty Modern Courts – Listen To ‘EMPATHICALLY No’ By L.A. Trio CHEEKFACE
21 January 2021
Band: CHEEKFACE
Who: Indie trio out of Los Angeles with this message
for the world: “there are many entertainment options,
thank you for choosing cheekface.”
Album: EMPHATICALLY No – 2nd LP
Released: 11th January 2021
Turn Up The Volume says: They don’t listen to their hearts, but I’m quite sure they listen to The Modern Lovers and Parquet Courts now and again. They don’t turn their cheek, but in the future, everyone will be their friend for 15 minutes singing along to sickly sticky track best life. They have great ideas and work them out all the time. Jangly indie is what you get. Jaunty thrills are what you feel. Their tunes are all original compositions but have no connection as everything is boring now.
Key tracks: Listen To Your heart / Best Life / Original Composition / Don’t Get Hit By Car
Stream/buy album here…
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CHEEKFACE: Twitter
(Photo by Shab Ferdowsi – via band’s Bandcamp account)
Smooth Strings Groove – WEEZER Shares New Single ‘ALL MY FAVORITE SONGS’
21 January 2021
L.A. rockers WEEZER have two albums waiting in the pipeline to be unleashed.
OK HUMAN arrives on 29th January and VAN WEEZER on 7th May. Originally the latter was the first to leave the gates (and 3 tracks off it already hit the internet) but the band had second thoughts and OK Human gets the honor to go first.
Lead-single ALL MY FAVORITE SONGS, criticizing the time we spend on our phones and social media, is a poppy, smooth and instantly ear-catching groove with a layers-of-strings chorus and the lines “All my favorite songs are slow and sad / All my favorite people make me mad, so mad.”
Let’s roll…
WEEZER: Facebook
OK HUMAN out 29th January
OVER And OUT For The AMERICAN IDIOT…
20 January 2021
It’s OVER and OUT for the worst USA president ever. Why? Because he was
a 24/7 Twitter bully, a totally incompetent me myself and I narcist, a deadly
Covid-19 denier, a megalomaniac, a professional liar, an autocratic, and a
big fan of white supremacy. Hard job, if you ask me.
Fortunately, the majority of the people of the Divided States Of America
had enough of this maniacal and dangerous patriot. More than enough!
To celebrate this ecstatic day let’s ask Green Day to turn up the heat
once more with AMERICAN IDIOT.
Bye, bye…
MAGAZINE THIS!
ROBERT SMITH
THE CURE
Mojo magazine (UK)
Issue March 2021
Coming Soon… New TEENAGE FANCLUB Album
20 January 2021
Band: TEENAGE FANCLUB (Scotland)
Active: Since 1989
Album: ENDLESS ARCADE – 11th LP
Out: 5 March 2021
Single: HOME
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TEENAGE FANCLUB: All Albums – Facebook
Out 5 March 2021 via Merge Records
Self-Titled Debut LP By KATE & ANNA MCGARRIGLE Is 45
20 January 2021
Artists: KATE & ANNA McGARRIGLE
Active: From 1975 until 2010
when Kate McGarrigle passed away
Album: Self-titled debut LP
Released: 20 January 1976 – 45 years ago today
AllMusic/Mark Deming: “Debut albums simply aren’t supposed to be as accomplished and beautifully crafted as Kate & Anna McGarrigle’s first record, which is as lovely and superbly realized as folk-rock gets… Kate & Anna McGarrigle is a record that manages to make all these emotions ring true, and never with one canceling out another. Quite simply a nearly perfect record, and if you’re not a fan, repeated listenings to this album might make you one.” Full review here. Score: 5/5.
Turn Up The Volume: Great voices. Affecting songs. Folk-pop at its best. I’m pretty
sure Kate Bush, Sharon Van Etten, and St. Vincent are inspired by these romantic sisters.
Key track: Complainte pour Ste-Cathérine
Full album…
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KATE & ANNA McGARRIGLE: All Albums
Crazy Guitar Gunpowder With RICH CHAMBERS And New Single ‘I’M SO TIRED’
Daily electricity to load your batteries…
20 January 2021
Artist: Rich Chambers (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Who: Solo artist creating music that meets at the crossroads
of modern rock, retro rock, country, and the blues.
Pick: I’M SO TIRED – brand new single
Rich Chambers: “It was not intended to be political in nature, but after
the events in Washington, DC on January 6th, I realized just how fitting this
song is as social commentary. So, I decided to put together a video for
the song that depicts the unrest that so many of us are feeling.”
Score: If the late great guitar rock pioneer Eddie Cochran would still be
alive he might have sounded like this. Hammering drum hits, crazy guitars
going bonkers, fervent vocals and an overall tremendous catchiness. Get
your blue suede shoes out of the closet, put your leather jacket on, smear
your hair with Brylcreem, and jump up and down for a better future. We
need a better world in order to survive. NOW!
Great video too!
Turn up the heat, here…
RICH CHAMBERS: Facebook