Live! Live! Live! WILCO And Friends In Mexico
WILCO’S SKY BLUE SKY concerts – 21/23 January 2022 – Riviera Maya, Mexico
Jeff Tweedy and Wilco are pretty smart.
They organize their own festival to make
sure they’re top of the bill.
Month: May 2021
MODEST MOUSE Shared New Track From Upcoming Album – Hear ‘LEAVE A LIGHT ON’
25 May 2021
Band: MODEST MOUSE (Issaquah, Washington)
Former The Smiths guitar hero Johnny Marr was
a band member for 6 years (2003 – 2009)
Active: Since 1992 / 6 albums so far
New album: THE GOLDEN CASKET – 7th LP
Out: 25 June via Epic
New single: LEAVE A LIGHT ON.
We’re leaving, we’re leaving,
we’re leaving, we’ll be home soon
Check the vibrant vibe here…
MODEST MOUSE: Facebook
An Enchanting Pocket Pop Musical With CHARLYNE YI And LEM JAY And Their New Album ‘THE GHOST’
24 May 2021
Artists: CHARLYNE YI and LEM JAY (Los Angeles, CA)
Charlyne has yelled in the punk band The Rangdangs, sang in the cartoon Steven Universe, and released her heartfelt vinyl “Open Your Heart.” She writes books, performs standup on Conan, paints, and has appeared in numerous TV shows and films including Knocked Up, House, Lucifer, and more.
Lem Jay has played on street corners with actress Jena Malone as The Shoe, made music for a coat closet at the Hammer Museum, and produced karaoke tracks for an ice cream truck. He composes music for many brands like Pokémon, Honda, Nike and more.
Album: THE GHOST
Released: 20 May 2021
Turn Up The Volume: Pop music comes in an endless variety of sonic flavors
and moods: sweet and mellow, spirited and uplifting, captivating and playful,
dreamy and moony, starry-eyed and kooky. You can hear/enjoy all this and
more on this pithy pocket pop musical.
Sit down, relax and join the show…
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Label: Obscure Sound
They Were Made For Loving You – New Documentary ‘BIOGRAPHY: KISStory’ Premieres In June
24 May 2021
Celebrating one of the most iconic bands of all time, A&E announces
the new definitive documentary film Biography: KISStory telling the
stories behind the KISS phenomenon.
A two-episode, four-hour film will feature interviews with Gene Simmons,
Paul Stanley, Dave Grohl, Tom Morello and more.
“After 50 years of rocking and rolling all night and partying every day,
the #1 Gold Record selling band of all time, KISS, shares their story of
success before finally smashing their last guitar and extinguishing the
fire-breathing demon.”
The movie is directed by D.J. Viola.
It will premiere on Sunday, June 27 and
Monday, June 28 from 9-11pm ET/PT.
The trailer…
Meanwhile, the band prepares for their final world tour. All dates (so far) here.
Single This! BUZZCOCKS
24 May 2021
‘Harmony In My Head’ by BUZZCOCKS
Original video clip…
Stand-alone single 1979 – written and sung by Steve Diggle
R.I.P. Pete Shelley
The Smell Of Leather Jacket Rock – Welsh Turbo JAMES AND THE COLD GUN Nail It With ‘PLUG ME IN’
24 May 2021
Band: JAMES AND THE COLD GUN
Who: Up and coming rock desperados from Wales
Pick: PLUG ME IN
Score: Don’t you love the smell of leather jacket rock ‘n’ roll in the morning?
I certainly do. These 180 seconds of red-hot-blistering racket take my breath
away. These 180 seconds of ravaging razzmatazz triggers my desire to go out
and kick some corrupt politicians up the arse. Muse once plugged in, but these
wild Welshmen raise the real feel of plugging in to an illegal guitar-crazy level.
Turn up the heat here…
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JAMES AND THE COLD GUN: Facebook
Happy 80 BOB DYLAN
24 May 2021
Living legend, eternal troubadour, and once-in-a-lifetime singer-songwriter
Robert Allen Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan was born on 24 May 1941 in
Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.
Happy 80, tambourine man.
May God bless and keep you always
May your wishes all come true
May you always do for others
And let others do for you
May you build a ladder to the stars
And climb on every rung
May you stay forever young…
Dylan is my all-time fav
singer/songwriter.
Why? He was/is a…
virtuoso storyteller
exceptional wordsmith
unique rhyme expert
universal musician
wayward tunesmith
rare nasal voice
(hated by many)
unpredictable performer
fuck-fame personality
enigmatic human being
master of metaphors
a musical centipede
a rolling stone
Here’s a brilliant video for a brilliant song.
It was a hard job to do but finally, I managed
to pick 50 of his most unforgettable songs.
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So far, he made 39 studio albums.
For every mediocre one (yes, he wasn’t
perfect at all) he had a brilliant one.
My TOP-5 DYLAN LPs…
– Highway 61 Revisited – 1965
Stream here…
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– Bringing It All Back Home – 1965
Stream here…
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– Blonde On Blonde – 1966
Stream here…
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– Blood On The Tracks – 1975
Stream here…
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– Desire – 1976
Stream here…
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Bob Dylan: Website – Facebook
Boston Rockers MISTER VERTIGO Look Forward With Post-Pandemic Vibe ‘YOU ARE CLEARLY THE REASON WHY’
23 May 2021
Band: MISTER VERTIGO
Who: Alt rockers from Boston, Massachusetts
Pick: YOU ARE CLEARLY THE REASON WHY
A piece from the band’s 5-track EP Indie Nerd Strikes Again
About: “I think we all know that this industry will never be the same
after the pandemic, and I’d like to think we’re all at the point where we
have to approach it with a bit of humor to survive it. Combined with the
images of a sort of “bygone era” we think the words really reflect how a
lot of us are feeling about the future of our scene, but with a snarky
willingness to move forward and start over, to rebuild it better than it
was before,” says lead-vocalist Jonathan Scanlon.
Score: With jingle-jangle joyfulness à la The Byrds and melodic melancholia
à la Band Of Horses these Boston rockers muse about the post-pandemic future.
The corona aftermath isn’t clear yet, so why not keep on rockin’ in the free world
and just see what happens. The soul-stirring power of music helps to fight our
viral demons and to enlighten our worried minds. Enter Mister Vertigo. Turn it up,
folks.
Is it right to just concede
To never feeling content?
Like, maybe just surviving
Is a great accomplishment
Is it good to just accept
That this is all that will be?
Like, maybe I should bail
On all the stale hypocrisy
Oh, I don’t know…
MISTER VERTIGO: Facebook
Single This! DINOSAUR JR.
CHRISSIE HYNDE Honors BOB DYLAN With Covers Album ‘STANDING IN THE DOORWAY’
23 May 2021
Artist: CHRISSIE HYNDE
Album: STANDING IN THE DOORWAY
Chrissie Hynde sings Bob Dylan who
turns 80 tomorrow(24 May)
Released: 21 May 2021
Chrissie: “A few weeks into lockdown last year, James sent me the new Dylan track ‘Murder Most Foul’… I remember where I was sitting the day that Kennedy was shot – every reference in the song. Whatever Bob does, he still manages somewhere in there to make you laugh because as much as anything, he’s a comedian. He’s always funny and always has something to say. That’s when I called James and said, “let’s do some Dylan covers”, and that’s what started this whole thing.”
Rolling Stone writes: “Chrissie Hynde proved the bona fides of her Bob Dylan fandom
decades ago. She sang “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” with him onstage at London’s Wembley
Stadium in ’84 and serenaded him with her own jaw-dropping, gospel-tinged rendition of “I Shall Be Released” at his 30th anniversary concert in ’91… So an album like Standing in the Doorway, which collects nine Dylan cover songs, must have felt like second nature to her… What’s most striking about Standing in the Doorway is how easy the recordings came to Hynde and Walbourne. The Pretenders have always been underrated covers artists, going back to their first single, a cover of the Kinks’ “Stop Your Sobbing,” and Hynde has always had a rare knack for figuring out what she has in common with the soul of song and playing that up. “
Full review here. Score: 4/5.
Turn Up The Volume: As much as I love Chrissie Hynde‘s voice and artistic persona,
and her bold choice – not the obvious ones – of Dylan songs she covered to celebrate
the living legend’s 80th birthday, only Dylan can really sing Dylan.
Stream album here…
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CHRISSIE HYNDE: Facebook
