GIF OF THE DAY
“Je T’aime Moi Non Plus”
Month: May 2022
JEFF TWEEDY And WILCO Launched New Double Album ‘CRUEL COUNTRY’
New longplayers
JEFF TWEEDY and his band WILCO
launch their 12th studio album today.
A double one called Cruel Country.
It features 21 Jeff Tweedy-penned tracks,
made almost entirely of live takes,
created with all six members together.
Pitchfork says: “On a 21-track double album recorded live in the studio, Wilco embrace
a simple, buoyant approach that hearkens back to Jeff Tweedy’s earliest work… There may
be a gentle current flowing through its 21 songs, but the sheer abundance can also feel overwhelming. As lovely as they often are, the songs seem to drift and float, and Cruel
Country plays less like a sculpted double album than a vividly detailed snapshot of a
particular moment in time.” Score: 7/10.
Turn Up The Volume: Chicago songsmith Jeff Tweedy and his amigos are experts of electrical country music as they prove once more on this double LP. But as it often happens with double albums they’re too long which makes the quality go downwards.
Also here, it would have been a lot better to select the 11 best songs on 1 longplayer.
Singles/clips: Falling Apart (Right
– FALLING APART (RIGHT NOW –
– TIRED OF TAKING IT OUT ON YOU –
Stream the full album here…
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WILCO: Facebook – Albums
Waking Up With… A Siouxsie Swan
Yesterday the drop-dead gorgeous Goth Queen of punk
counted 65 candles on her birthday cake. Hurray!
I already celebrated yesterday with 3 big Banshees strokes.
And this morning I wanna hear one of her supreme songs
from her underrated solo LP Mantaray (2007). Here we go.
Into A Swan
SHIIINE ON FESTIVAL
SHIIINE ON
Indoor festival
Minehead, Bustling, UK
11/12/13 November 2022
Three TUTV tips
(one for each day)
– HAPPY MONDAYS –
– THERAPY? –
– TEENAGE FANCLUB –
Happy 65 SIOUXSIE SIOUX
27 May 2022
Susan Janet Ballion, best known of course as SIOUXSIE SIOUX
the voice and face of her band The Banshees was born on
27 May 1957 in London.
Happy 65 to the Goth queen of punk. One of the most
charismatic and drop-dead gorgeous rock stars ever.
With The Banshees she recorded/released 11 studio albums.
With her husband Budgie, she made two LPs under the moniker
of The Creatures. And in 2007 she released her only criminally
underrated, solo longplayer Mantaray.
Three magic Siouxsie moments…
– HONG KONG GARDEN –
– KISS THEM FOR ME –
– SLOWDIVE –
What? 65?
No Future For Brexit – ‘GOD SAVE THE QUEEN’ By SEX PISTOLS Released 45 Years Ago And Relevant Again
Top singles from the past…
27 May 2022
Band: Sex Pistols
Active: 1975 – 1978
(Reunions in 1996, 2002 – 2003, 2007 –2008)
Single: God Save The Queen
B-side: Did You No Wrong
Released: 27 May 1977 – 45 years ago today
Score: #2 in the UK, with rumors that the BBC
intervened in order to avoid that the single went to #1
Album: Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols
Original clip…
Live in London 30 years later (2007)…
SEX PISTOLS: Facebook
KRANKENHAUS FEST 2022
KRANKENHAUS FESTIVAL
Ravenglass, Cumbria, England
28/29 August 2022
Three TUTV tips
– PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS –
GIF OF THE DAY
“Hello, I’m Jack, Jack White.”
Exploring The Dark Electronic Side Of The Moon With CODE And Their New Symphony ‘ACHERON’
New striking strokes
27 May 2022
Band: CODE
Who: British electronic quartet that earned their
stripes in the electronic scene of the early 1990s.
New album: CONTINUUM
Release: 24 June 2022 – pre-order info here
“Continuum’ has been assembled by remodelling material from archived studio sessions and sounds like it could have been made yesterday. Emotionally engaging and exquisitely produced, it is timeless music that, although carrying traces of influences such as Kraftwerk, The Blue Nile, Talk Talk, David Sylvian and Depeche Mode, also has a romantic techno intensity all of its own.”
New single: ACHERON
The follow-up to lead single Pleasure
Acheron is known in Greek mythology as the ‘river of lost souls, although sci-fi fans are likely to be more familiar with Acheron (LV-426), one of three moons orbiting the gas giant Calpamos. It was here that a crew member of the USCSS Nostromo first discovered the eggs of a species of alien that would go on to spawn a highly successful movie franchise.
Turn Up The Volume says: If Pink Floyd would have been a full synth orchestra
they would have sounded like this. Ambient, atmospheric, spacey, and futuristic.
Acheron moves and grooves like an eagle flying in slo-mo high up there in the sky.
The song’s layered symphonic orchestration creates a cinematic sound trip. This is
what chimeric dream music is about, music to lose your psyche in.
Ladies and gentlemen, we’re floating in space
towards the dark electronic side of the moo.
Get on board…
CODE: Facebook
Sometimes Indie Soul Quartet ONISM E Wants To Scream – Hear Their New Single ‘LIN MANUEL’ Here
Daily electricity to load your batteries
27 May 2022
Band: ONISM E
Who: Full-hearted indie quartet based in New York, fronted
by impassioned singer/songwriter voice Eline Chavez
New single: LIN MANUEL
Eline Chavez: I wrote it during the pandemic. It’s about the everyday struggle
where I question my place in this industry. “What am I doing? Should I keep playing?
Should I keep working towards this goal?” I know it’s a common artist struggle but
during the pandemic, that voice got louder and I started questioning my next steps.
Turn Up The Volume: First things first. With last year’s glorious crackerjack Stay
Onism E topped Turn Up The Volume’s best-knockouts list of 2021. A titillating tower
of a song from their excellent debut LP Survivors and still frequently playing on my headphones.
And here comes their first new music of 2022 with fresh piece Lin Manuel.
An introspective Chavez quest in which she questions her artistic future while
a sparkling guitar gently weeps. The tone is blue, and the timbre is shady.
This is modern-day indie-soul music with Chavez‘ anxious vocality
as the driving force of a band that cares. Stay, guys.
Stream/buy here…
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ONISM E: Facebook – Instagram