Month: June 2021

From Father To Son – Singer/Songwriter DAW-SONG Wrote 11 Letters For His Debut LP ‘for MORGAN’

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26 June 2021

Artist: DAWN-SONG
Musical moniker of Nick Evans, Welsh singer/songwriter,
now based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Album: for Morgan
Released: 28 May 2021 via Ffynnone Recordings

Info: “Come with us on an epic journey from Dark to Light, an extraordinary tale
of total excess to finding ones inner calm, a musical time-capsule ‘For Morgan’ is an
audio letter from Father to Son. Welshman Nick Evans originally from Penarth, South
Wales found himself in the center of London’s consuming Music Business in the 90’s.
His Elemental Records a pioneering Label was home to Alabama 3, Rocket From The
Crypt amongst others.”

Nick Evans AKA Dawn-Song: “I made an album of my songs with some wonderful collaborators over the last couple of years. When I’m gone, I wanted to continue to be
able to sing for my son Morgan if he needed me. My father published a small book of
poetry before he died and if I’m missing him a lot I read a bit of it and I feel reconnected.
I also wanted to make something my mother could enjoy. So the record is for Morgan.”

Turn Up The Volume: for Morgan is a father’s sonic testament for his son.
A gripping, emotional and sensitive collection of characteristic, heart-warming
love songs, an universal language we all understand, feel and cherish.

References: late father and son Buckley, John Grant, Destroyer, Bonnie “Prince” Billy.

Single: She Has Spoken…

Stream/buy full album here…


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DAWN-SONG: Facebook


With a little help of his friends…

(photos via Beast PR UK)

RONNIE JAMES DIO – Posthumous Memoir Of The Hard Rock Hero Out In July

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Read all about it…

26 June 2021

Book: Rainbow in the Dark: The Autobiography
The life of the late hard rock icon Ronnie James Dio.
Still very much loved: more than 2 million followers
on his FB-page.

Publisher: Premier Collectibles
Out: 27 July 2021
Pre-order: here

Ronnie James Dio was a heavy metal icon and frontman of
three of the best-selling, most influential and famous rock bands
in history: Rainbow, Black Sabbath and his own multi-million
selling band, Dio.

Rainbow in the Dark “is a rollercoaster ride through the extraordinary
highs and lows of Dio’s life, and takes us from his early days as a street
gang leader and Doo-wop singer in ’60s Vegas through to his breakout
success with Rainbow and Black Sabbath in the ’70s and the stadiums of
US metal in the ’80s – ending in Dio’s dressing room at Madison Square
Garden, in June 1986, at the peak of his worldwide fame with Dio.

Tragically Dio passed away from cancer in 2010, but had already begun
writing a memoir before his death. Edited by the world-renowned music
biographer Mick Wall, with the involvement of Dio’s wife of over 35 years
and personal manager Wendy Dio, Rainbow in the Dark will honour and
feature Dio’s never-before-seen original manuscript, while drawing on the
extraordinary collection of print and audio interviews with the man himself
to produce a vivid, raw and faithful portrait of one of the world’s greatest
ever rock legends.”

With Black Sabbath…

With his own band DIO…

RONNIE JAMES DIO: Facebook

Have A Great Weekend With New UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA Single

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New sonic impulses…

26 June 2021

Band: UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA
Who: Famous pop rockers from New Zealand
Active since 2010 / 5 studio albums, so far

New single: WEEKEND RUN

Maestro Ruban Nielson: “At the end of the day I don’t
take for granted that I have the perfect job. I truly work
to make music that will set someone’s day right and
I think that shines through on ‘Weekend Run.’”

Weekend Run is vintage UMO. Sounds like, eh, weekend
music. Laid-back, dreamy and trippy with matching vocals
bringing Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young to mind, here and
there.

Have a listen…


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Also on Spotify…

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UMO: Facebook

ROMAN LIONS Roar And Rant And Riot On Their New Uppercut Single ‘NEGATIVE’

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Daily electricity to load your batteries…

25 June 2021

Band: ROMAN LIONS
Who: Post-rock/hardcore hit team out of Northern Californian
that combines the emotional intensity of screamo, the build-and-
break grandeur of post-rock, and the heaviness of hardcore.

New single: NEGATIVE

Justin Tracy (vocalist) says ‘Negative’ : “Is a song about confronting the darker side
of introspection. About embracing those darker feelings in an attempt to regulate your emotional state and become something less chaotic. In the end, realizing that there is
a price to pay for using negativity as the catalyst for self discovery.”

Score: No rest for the addicted hardcore fans. These lions make more noise than
five hot-rods in overdrive. Expect a series of punk punches, a tornado of in-your-face racket, clamorous hardcore energy, and a huge dose of illegal decibels. On top of it
comes loudmouth Justin Tracy. Every single second I thought that he would explode
and destroy my (cheap) speakers. My oh my, his demons push him to the limit. But
let’s stay positive, this is the kind of sonic uppercut your head likes to bang to on
your bedroom wall.

A king-sized knockout!

Kick out the jams here…

ROMAN LIONS: Facebook

A Jazz Festival Without Jazz In NEW ORLEANS

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New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival – 8/17 October 2021

The last time I looked these artists weren’t jazz musicians: Dead & Company, Stevie Nicks, Foo Fighters, Jimmy Buffett, Lizzo, Demi Lovato, the Black Crowes, H.E.R., Brandi Carlile, Norah Jones, Tedeschi Trucks Band, the Beach Boys, Ludacris, Trombone Shorty, Jon Batiste, Ziggy Marley, Chris isaak and more not jazz names.

MODEST MOUSE Score Big Time With New Album ‘THE GOLDEN CASKET’

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25 June 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

Isaac Brock (songwriter) about the new LP: . “I found optimism where it actually existed because I needed it; my friends and family actually needed it. Y’know, I got three kids… I don’t think shit’s gonna get easier for everyone. Just the math alone… There’s seven billion-ish of us and things get easier for people if there’s a lot less of us, but that’s a fuckin’ nightmare. How do you get there? That’s not a good scene. Or they get a lot fuckin’ harder because there’s so fuckin’ many of us.”

NME says: “The Pacific Northwesters have turned in a psychedelic pop masterwork that picks up the positivity they first explored with 2004 mega-smash ‘Float On’… The album is a masterful psychedelic patchwork, bouncing between eerie soundscapes (opener ‘Fuck Your Acid Trip’), knotty post-punk (‘Walking And Running’) and maximalist pop melody (the ludicrously good fun ‘The Sun Hasn’t left’). Sometimes they combine all three elements on the same song, as on turbo-charged indie anthem ‘We Are Between’, the album’s massive lead single.”
Full review here. Score: 5/5.

Turn Up The Volume: Probably the best work ever by the Portland veterans.
Big tunes, big melodies, big score!

Key-single: We Are Between

Full album…

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MODEST MOUSE: Facebook

Full interview with NME OK