Oxford’s indie stars FOALS unleashed their 7th album LIFE IS YOURS last month.
An elevating guitar-synth-pop party LP filled with funky uppers celebrating life.
For the title track, they HAVE now shared a new vid.
Get up and boogie, folks…
LIFE IS YOURS
29 July 2022
Band: of MONTREAL
Who: Indie pop outfit from Georgia, Athens
orchestrated by Kevin Barnes
Active: Since 1996 / 18 LPs, new one incl.
New album: FREEWAVE LUCIFER F<ck F^ck F<ck
Out: 29 July 2022 – more info here
The third longplayer in 3 years
Turn Up The Volume: Put The Beatles (their dope years), Tame Impala,
Vampire Weekend in a bag, shake real hard for 10 minutes, than open
and empty the content What you get is flipped pop psychedelia with
layers of harmonies and symphonic LSD rainbows. Far-out!
Singles/clips: Marijuana’s A Working Woman / Blab Sabbath Lathe Of Maiden
– BLAB SABBATH LATHE OF MAIDEN –
– MARIJUANA’S A WORKING WOMAN –
Stream full album on Spotify
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oF MONTREAL: Facebook
Works faster than caffeine
Wanna get up with a tickling feeling, thinking about the weekend? The late great singer-songwriter J.J. CALE has a fitting song to do the job. It’s from his album 5 released in 1979.
It goes like this…
J.J. Cale: Bio – Discography
New striking strokes
28 July 2022
Musician-songwriter-producer (and once upon a time the alien lookalike who played
keys with Roxy Music) has a new album out in October. His first since 2017 LP Reflection.
It’s baptized FOREVERANDEVERMORE. Pre-order info here.
It’s the first longplayer in years that he sings on.
The first single THERE WERE BELLS is a familiar-sounding ambient
piece with Eno’s vocals making it resonate like a religious chant.
He wrote it after a performance with his brother in Greece last year.
Eno: “I thought, here we are at the birthplace of Western civilization, probably witnessing
the end of it. Like everybody else — except, apparently, most of the governments of the world. I’ve been thinking about our narrowing, precarious future, and this music grew out of those thoughts. Perhaps it’s more accurate to say I’ve been feeling about it… The music grew out of the feelings. Those of us who share those feelings are aware that the world is changing at a super-rapid rate, and that large parts of it are disappearing forever, hence the album title.”
Listen here…
ENO: Bio – Discography
28 July 2022
With the forthcoming anniversary of their 1972 album EVERYBODY’S IN SHOW-BIZZ,
legends THE KINKS release a deluxe edition for it. It also includes a special reissue of
their 1971 LP MUSWELL HILLBILLIES.
Content: The box set contains 2CD, 1LP, 2LP, 2CD, 1CD x 2 and a 1971’s home movie, narrated by Ray Davies. The songs are remastered from newly discovered Davies’s original master tapes. More details on the box and pre-order info HERE.
Press statement: “The beginning of the 70s marked a shift in the Kinks’ career. Having
signed to RCA Records in 1971, the British band started a new era and gradually formed
a new identity. With their growing American fanbase, the Kinks revised the phenomenon of Englishness and looked back on their London roots. This revision started with the 1971’s album Muswell Hillbillies which combines tales about working-class families from North London and whimsical country sound, associated with American music. Following this trajectory, Celluloid Heroes, the final track from Everybody’s In Show-Biz, reflects on Hollywood as a factory, mass-producing the bittersweet American dream.”
You can listen to the 7″ single 2022 version (included in the Box) of Celluloid Heroes.
Ray Davies about the reissue: “Now with a new record company and a new image,
I could bring some of the old wild western spirit into my music. These albums capture
the re-emergence of The Kinks as a touring band.”
Stream original LPs on Spotify
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THE KINKS: Bio – Discography
90s Britpop heroes PULP‘s main man and voice Jarvis Cocker just revealed
that the band will get together again (1st reunion was in 2010) to invade
podiums in 2023. Details to follow.
To get us in the mood here’s a 1998 version of their
timeless cracker COMMON PEOPLE (like you)
at Glastonbury Festival in 1998.
EuphoricTastic!
PULP: Facebook
28 July 2022
Band: MOTEL BLACK
Who: 4 people from Boston
making post-punk Boston songs.
Two weeks ago these Boston indie crusaders released
their splendid debut album HUMOR BALANCE.
Turn Up The Volume was pretty thrilled about it and wrote: “The avidness
of The Afghan Whigs, the ferocity of Aussie hammers Wolfmother, the blues rock
force of The Black Keys (Humor Balance), the torching tenseness of Pearl Jam.”
The band has a brand new video clip out now for the title track,
one of the highlights of the longplayer. It reflects their red-hot
swagger just finely.
Roll the tape the…
You can stream/buy the album
here below, via Bandcamp.
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MOTEL BLACK: Facebook – Instagram
Great 7″ inches/sleeves/vinyl from the past
28 July 2022
‘Love Of My Life’ by FRANK ZAPPA.
The single featured on his 1981 double live album
Tinseltown Rebellion, but was originally recorded
in 1968.
Mellow Zappa at work…
FRANK ZAPPA: History
New striking strokes
28 July 2022
(Press photo by Grayce Leonard)
Band: THE MURDER CAPITAL
Who: Irish post-punk squad from Dublin, Ireland
FFO: Black Midi, Fontaines D.C., Black Country New Road, Crows
It’s already 3 years since the Irishmen made a profound
impression with their debut LP When I Have Fears.
The good thing is they’re back now with a new single (new albums not confirmed yet).
James McGovern (frontman): “This track for us has been an exciting evolution for the band. It’s so bright. It’s so colorful. This is a part of the narrative of the overall record that we feel reaches a real place of inner calm, inner peace but at its core, it’s a love song. You get a song like this where, the protagonist in this song is quite simply asking – not pleading – just willing to ask their counterpart to rid them of their intrusive thoughts, the devils on their shoulders and to be truly vulnerable. We’re so excited to go to a place like this because perhaps it’s not what is expected of us. It stood out to me during the creation of this record that it is more about the friends that are still here and celebrating those connections, those relationships and being unafraid of life and it’s many seasons. Where ‘Only Good Things’ stands within the record is
at a moment where the sonic and the lyrical narrative especially, are of newfound joy.”
Tune in…
THE MURDER CAPITAL: Facebook
