Quote Of The Day – JOEY RAMONE Names The First Record He Bought
The late great gabba gabba hey Ramone…
Month: March 2022
Gothic Post-Punk Legends BAUHAUS Return With Brand New Ghostly Piece ‘DRINK THE NEW WINE’
New striking strokes
24 March 2022
British post-punk Goths BAUHAUS enjoyed the first part of their bumpy journey
from 1978 to 1983. Afterward, several reunions/splits occurred, with a new album
called Go Away White in 2008.
Back in 2019, they got together once again after 13 years.
And just now the band announced their first American shows in a long
while and dropped a new piece of music called DRINK THE NEW WINE.
An obscure and eidolic slow-moving trance-like procession sounding like
one of those Jah Wobble‘s bass impelled tracks from P.I.L’s sinister debut LP,
but Peter Murphy‘s tenebrous wailing reminds you that this is a vintage
Bauhaus performance.
Lyrics
Bell bottom blues
No pain, no pain
I’ll never see the boys again
‘Cause I’m off to the funny farm
Drown out the blues with booze
Now it’s off to the funny farm
I got news for you
Now I’m off to the funny farm
Casket of crisis
Too much tension and tears
I’ll never see the boys again
‘Cause I’m off to the funny farm
I’ll never see the boys again
‘Cause I’m off to the funny farm
Dreaming of a perfect world
Dreaming of a perfect world
The roulettista rolls the dice
The roulettista rolls
The roulettista rolls the dice
The roulettista rolls
Listen here…
05/14 – Pasadena, CA @ Cruel World Fest
05/15 – Pasadena, CA @ Cruel World Fest
05/17 – Portland, OR @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
05/20 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre
05/22 – San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic
05/25 – Denver, CO @ The Mission Ballroom
05/27 – Tempe, AZ @ The Marquee Theatre
09/08 – New York, NY @ Kings Theatre
09/09 – New York, NY @ Kings Theatre
Now Playing… 14th THE FALL Album ‘CODE:SELFISH’ – It Came Out 30 Years Ago
Back in time
23 March 2022
The late troubled genius MARK E. SMITH and his band THE FALL
had their 14th studio LP out 30 years ago today, on 23 March 1992.
AllMusic: “An underrated and hard-to-find Fall album, this 1992 release returned to
a harder, more caustic band than found on the previous year’s Shift Work. The centerpiece
and only single off the album was “Free Range,” a bit of Mark E. Smith’s “prepsicognition”
about the coming Balkan wars… An album that improves with age.”
Single: Free Range
Full album on my stereo now…
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THE FALL: All Albums
Irish Maverick SKINNER Will Get You Out Of Your SLUMP
New striking strokes
23 March 2022
Artist: SKINNER
Who: DIY slouch rock musician based in Dublin, Ireland, who writes,
records and produces songs about growing up and overcoming a
dirt-flecked 21st century existence.
References: The B52s, James Chance and the Contortions,
ESG, Pixies and Morphine
Releases (so far): Gunge EP featuring his 5 first singles
New Single: THE SLUMP
Turn Up The Volume: The combination of a nasty Gang Of Four bass riff,
frenzied Keith Levene guitars here and there and Skinner hip-hop-rapping
like Beck used to do works like an ecstatic upper.
This funk-punk stunner has an immediate intensifying impact on all of your
limbs and your bloodstream’s flow. Add some sexy sax thrills to the mix and
you’ll have all you need to jump out of your slump. Capice?
Make your move here…
Buy THE SLUMP here via bandcamp…
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SKINNER: Facebook
Move Over CLINT Pussy EASTWIOOD
The real Dirty Harry…
SOFT CELL & PET SHOP BOYS Take Us Back To The Disco 80s With Dancefloor Knockout ‘PURPLE ZONE’
Daily electricity to load your batteries
23 March 2022
Band: SOFT CELL (Leeds, UK)
Who: Vocalist Marc Almond
and instrumentalist David Ball
Active: 1978–1984, 2001–2003, 2018–present
Five studio albums, including the new one
New album: *HAPPINESS NOT INCLUDED
Out: Spring 2022
Marc Almond: “In this album I wanted to look at us as a society: a place
where we have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality
and decency, food before the rights of animals, fanaticism before fairness
and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others. But
in the album there is also a belief that there is a utopia if we can peel back
the layers and understand what really matters.”
New single: PURPLE ZONE
The third shared piece from the forthcoming LP
Dave Ball (Soft Cell): “‘Purple Zone’ is probably our finest pop moment since the early 1980s”.
Pet Shop Boys: “We are thrilled to collaborate with such an inspirational duo as Soft Cell on this gorgeous song.”
Join the night-disco-club experts and sway yourself
into euphoria with this swirling dancefloor knockout…
Keep on moving. Here are the remixes…
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SOFT CELL: Facebook
MOJO #342 With A Special 15-Track CD ‘The Songs That Jack White Taught Us’
23 March 2022
New monthly MOJO magazine issue out now.
#342 features Jack White, T. Rex, Bonnie Raitt, Talk Talk, Cypress Hill, Mudhoney, and more. Full info here.
This month’s covermount CD: ‘The Songs That Jack White Taught Us‘.
A compilation of 15 originals that inspired Jack and White Stripes covers.
Starring: Johnny Cash, Son House, Love, Otis Redding, The West Coast Pop
Art Experimental Band, Pentagram, and many more
Have a copy sent to your HOME.
Newest White single feat rapper Q-Tip…
BODEGA – Put On Your Blue Suede Post-Punk Shoes And Pirouette Yourself Dizzy With Their 2nd Album ‘BROKEN EQUIPMENT’
23 March 2022
Band: BODEGA
Who: Indie team from New York that scored
one of the best albums of 2018 with their cracking
debut Endless Stroll.
New album: BROKEN EQUIPMENT
Out: 11 March 2022 – order info here.
Album info: Inspired by a book club. In the early months of 2020, the Brooklyn
art-punk incendiaries gathered together with close friends to study the works of a
wide range of philosophers. Passionate debates lasting long into the night became
a regular occurrence, motivating the band to become as ideologically unified as the
weighty tomes they were reading. Broken Equipment is Bodega’s attempt to interrogate
the external factors that make them who they are, propelling existential quandaries
with tongue-in-cheek humour, highly personal lyrics, and irresistible grooves.
The female Bodega voice
NME says: “The New York band’s second album sees their wiry, sceptical post-punk slowly giving way to warmer, more romantic ideas… For a band with complex philosophies and
critical theories to burn, BODEGA’s most vital moments come when they lower their guard
down and just let it all out.” Full review here . Score: 4/5.
Turn Up The Volume: The New Yorkers still operate on Parquet Courts’
playground (not a bad thing), but here on their second full length they funk-up
their post-punk disco beats, they turn up the temperature and they activate every
muscle and every nerve in your itching body even more than on their debut LP.
A fucktastic touchdown!
The male Bodega voice
Singles/clips: Statuette On the Console / Doers
– STATUETTE ON THE CONSOLE –
– DOERS –
Put on your blue suede post-punk shoes and
pirouette yourself dizzy without falling over
your own feet…
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BODEGA: Facebook
(Photos by Turn Up The Volume)
Poster This! SOCIAL DISTORTION
Great concert posters from the past
Anaheim, CA,
01/11/1980
Amazing Artwork! Cover Of New Album By Hardcore Bullies NO/MÁS
Eye-catching album cover art
23 March 2022
Band: NO/MÁS
Who: Hardcore bullies from Washington.
“No/Más dispenses a face-ripping combination of grindcore, metal, death, and thrash that would cut deep a decade ago or a decade from now. The Washington, D.C. group — Roger Rivadeneira [vocals], John Letzkus [guitar], Patrick Merson [bass], and Henry Everitt [drums, vocals] — engage an uncompromising sensory assault, barreling forward like a runaway
freight train only bolted to the rails by deft riffing, explosive drumming, and vocal brutality.”
Artwork: Cover of new album CONSUME / DENY / REPENT
Out: 29 April 2022 via Closed Casket Activities,
Here’s lead single EXILE.
A stone-cold ballbreaker…
NO/MÁS: Facebook