Month: February 2022

Amazing Artwork – Jazz Fusion Legends WEATHER REPORT 45 Years Ago

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27 February 2022

Band: WEATHER REPORT
Who: Praised jazz fusion collective from NYC
Active: 1970-1986 / 14 LPs

Artwork: Cover of their most successful album
HEAVY WEATHER released in 1977, 45 years ago.

The illustration is by Poland born collage artist Lou Beach.

“I was an early adaptor of the computer, saw the writing on the screen and transitioned
to that for many years. It was a very effective tool, but I think it made me lazy, the work
suffered after a time, and I lost touch with my hands. It was great to start making real
collages again, which is all I do now. Family legend has it that I was left in my crib as a
toddler with lots of magazines, which I proceeded to tear into pieces. No glue, however.”

Highlight…

Full album on Spotify

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WEATHER REPORT: History


Back cover

VIOLET NOX Produce Vibes For Your Holidays In Space Where The Moon Shines

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

27 February 2022

Band: VIOLET NOX

Who: Electronic-experimental, dark ambient, sonic
cosmic drone collaborative collective from Boston, MA

New track: MOONSHINE
Actually a remix of a track from their 2020 EP Future Fast.
It’s British indie-electro duo The Deckadent Movement that
signed for the sonic revision.


Great Moonshine artwork

If you plan to spend your summer holidays in space you should take
Violet Nox music along in your rocket ship. They produce cinematic,
mind-relaxing, sky-reaching, and at times hallucinatory and obscure
symphonies with a tranquilizing quality. Just what you need while
watching the stars.

Shine on you crazy moon diamond…


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Original version…

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More Violet Nox vibes on Spotify

‘SEX MAGIK’ – Another Thrilling BLOC PARTY Piece From Their Upcoming Album

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New striking strokes

27 February 2022


(photo by Wunmi Onibudo)

Band: BLOC PARTY
Who: London post-punk
unit led by Kele Okereke
Active: Since 1999 / 6 studio albums, with
Hymns (2016) as the most recent one

New album: ALPHA GAMES
Release: 29 April 2022 via BMG

Okereke: “Alpha Games was conceived on the road,
playing in front of amazing crowds on our last tour
and then brought to life with the fire and the frustrations
of 2020.”

New single: SEX MAGIK
After Traps and The Girls Are Fighting
the third piece of the forthcoming album.

Another thrilling cut that promises
– with what we heard so far –
a new thrilling longplayer…

BLOC PARTY: Facebook

SUN’S SIGNATURE (With Cocteau Twin ELISBAETH FASER) Release Debut EP On RECORD STORE DAY

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

26 February 2022


(Press photo via Partisan Records)

Artist: SUN’S SIGNATURE
Who: Elisabeth Fraser, voice of Scottish legends Cocteau Twins and
her partner Damon Reece (drummer for Spiritualized, Massive Attack,
Lupine Howl and more)

New EP: SUN’S SIGNATURE
The project’s 5-track debut EP to be released on this year’s
Record Store Day on 23rd April. The songs have been around
for a while, live or on rare releases.

Partisan Records: “Highly evolved, yet simultaneously primal.
It’s an utterly original, compelling and genre-defying collection
of songs that has developed through an Alice in Wonderland
journey through life and music.”


EP artwork

One of the tracks is UNDERWATER. A dream song with the same name of a very limited pressed single (only 300 copies) that came out in 2000. But it’s unknown at this moment
if it’s really the same one.

Hear the 2000 song here…

SUN’S SIGNATURE: Who?

Limited Vinyl Edition Of New LIAM GALLAGHER Album

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Eye-catching album vinyl

Rock ‘n’ roll star LIAM GALLAGHER launches his
third solo album C’MON YOU KNOW next May.

An exclusively pressed animated zoetrope picture disc,
hand-numbered on a first-come-first-served basis, comes
via Blood Records. Pre-order here

Nice one, Liam…

The album’s lead single…

LIAM GALLAGHER:

Happy 90 To JOHNNY CASH

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26 February 2022

Johnny J.R. Cash was born 90 years ago, on 26 February 1932 in Kingsland, Arkansas.

An eternal legend who mesmerized several generations and a gigantic cast of old and young musicians. The man in black made almost as many albums – 89 – as his age today.
The monumental voice and songwriter passed away in September 2003, aged 71, in Nashville, Tennessee U.S.

Three great Cash moments…

– MAN IN BLACK –

– A BOY NAMED SUE –

– SAN QUENTIN –

JOHNNY CASH: All Albums

Familiar And Fervent Metallic KORN Drones On New Album ‘REQUIEM’

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26 February 2022

Band: KORN
Who: Nu metal titans from
Bakersfield, California
Active: 1993–present
Albums: 14 (including new one)

New album: REQUIEM
Released: 4 February 2022
Order info: here

Press statement: “It is an album born of time and the ability to create
without pressure. Energized by a new creative process free of time constraints,
the band was able to do things with Requiem that the past two decades haven’t
always afforded them, such as taking additional time to experiment together or
diligently recording to analog tape – processes which unearthed newfound sonic
dimension and texture in their music.”

NME writes: “Requiem’ has brought something new to a discography that, until now,
has been an exploration of human suffering. It’s led to the band’s most nuanced record
to date.” Score: 4/5.

Turn Up The Volume: Heavy, muscular, bombastic havoc
and arrrrrggggghhhhhh howls. Familiar and fervent metallic
drones for their devoted fans.

Single: Start The healing

Stream/buy here


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KORN: All Albums – Facebook

DOWN WITH SPACE – Dance To This Quebec Duo’s New Funky Earworm ‘WE WERE STRANGERS’

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New striking strokes

26 February 2022

Band: DOWN WITH SPACE
Who: Montreal-based indie pop band comprised of
vocalist/guitarist Rob Helsten and drummer Steve Dumas.

New single: WE WERE STRANGERS

“About enjoying the moment when it feels right,
even if you know it’s doomed to fail eventually.”

Turn Up The Volume: Don’t be a stranger in your own house.
Move your furniture and make some space for a sweet little dance.
This new punchy piece by Quebec tandem Down With Space is a funky
pop earworm having an immediate effect on all of your limbs. Its magnetic
catchiness and uplifting dynamism create a blissful state of mind. If your
feet and your hips can resist this vitalizing cracker you need to see a doctor.

Here’s the pick-me-up tune that will make
you smile and shake your booty today…

You can buy the track via Bandcamp…


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DOWN WITH SAPCE: Facebook