Sometimes I wonder if there live non-musicians in Nashville, Tennessee.
Anyway, country rocker MARGO PRICE lives and works there to and is ready
for plenty of action. She just finished her memoir, she restarts her radio show
and she has a brand new single out, calledBEEN TO THE MOUNTAIN.
A stompin’ guitar-fueled groove with warm organ sequences Price‘s mountainous vocals reaching for the sky. Rollicking hit.
(Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Pukkelpop Fest – 20 August 2022)
Band: DE STAAT Who: Dutch wham bam droners Albums: 6 – discographyhere
This is not a new song (2015), nor a new video clip, but as I saw the band performing last Saturday at the Pukkelpop Festival (Belgium) this spectacular video clip came back to mind.
Band: The Vacant Lots Who: Minimalist post-punk/synth-pop duo – Jared Artaud and Brian MacFadyen – from NYC. They gouge into the city’s immortal outsider spirit and underground cultural tropes, set against a pulsating backdrop of modern apocalypse. Active: Since 2010 / 4 studio LPs so far (new one incl.)
“Created under isolation, ‘Closure’ is the fourth album from Brooklyn duo The Vacant
Lots and is Jared Artaud and Brian MacFadyen’s most fully realized work to date. The record
packs 8 minimal is maximal salvos into 23 minutes that coalesce into a stun-blast soundtrack for today’s shattered society. Laced with evocatively concise and lacerating lyrics delivered detached and deadpan, ‘Closure’s spine-chilling onslaught of towering guitar shrapnel, ethereal metallic synth melodies and cold electronic turbulence comes infused with shades of New Order and Jesus And Mary Chain.
The kind of modern disco and post-punk grooves that pillaged New York clubs in the 80s. Inevitably, the penetrating spirit of New York electronic trailblazers Suicide haunts the new record with its subterranean gravitational pull, having previously manifested physically when the two-piece befriended the late Alan Vega, leading to collaborations and support spots. “
Expect an electronic toe-tapping banger with a speedy repetitive drive that makes your eager head rotate and drones in your head on repeat. Razzle-dazzle Kraut-psychedelia bringing German pioneers Can and Faust, but in a modern-day modus.
This instant sticking mind-twister has a stimulating effect
on your bloodstream. Thank you for that, Vacant Lots. Score!
Far Out Magazine says: “Tired of liberty is an exciting mix of ideas that documents
the band’s kerosene lurch to prominence while offering a succulent platter for future
direction. What shores this young, intriguing quartet will sail to next is anyone’s guess,
but my ears will be sure to follow.”Full review here. Score: 4.5/5.
TURN UP THE VOLUME: Songs about growing up in a scary world, about confusing emotions, about abuse of political power, about having more questions than answers, about this messed-up world. Nervous guitars, pumping bass, rock steady drums, haunting vocals, capricious tunes that weirdly stick, wayward twists and turns. You won’t get tired of this rad record.
Get the picture? Yes, with this ace debut LP The Lounge Society joins the already
impressive cast of the British post-punk rebirth with young gunslingers such as Ditz, Silverbacks, black midi, Shame, The Murder Capital and New Country Black Road.
UK indie is working its way back to its prominent place in music for
a couple of years now and getting close to its peak. Don’t miss it!
“”It’s difficult seeing friends succumb to addiction. A double entendre, “Cellar” juxtaposes
the perspective of the ‘cellar’ who provides refuge with the ‘seller,’ or enabler, who doesn’t
have someone’s best interests at heart. The droning guitar in the last chorus is in homage to Placebo’s “Every You Every Me,” from their album Without You I’m Nothing, which addresses a similar theme.”
Turn Up The Volume: Ferfent fervor and avid ardor lift this flabbergasting, slow-burning
belter to an epic emo peak. Its vocal boisterousness causes goosebumps, Its skyscraping power is overwhelming its high-strung spunk and the immense wall-of-electricity developed here leaves you behind aghast.
Unbridled passion. Stunning stroke. Just wrote Cellar down
in my best-tracks-of-the-year notebook. Stunning stroke.
LED ZEPPELIN‘s red-hot smoking stunner WHOLE LOTTA LOVE
(from their 1969 Led Zep II album) was voted the greatest guitar
riff ever in rock history in 2014 by listeners of BBC Radio in the UK.
The riff topped a list of 100 classic ones.
Ashrita Kumar (front Amazon): ““GET OUT” is an anthem to be utilized to
take space where it’s not inherently given to us. It’s a blatant attack against
the white supremacist and patriarchal colonizers of our bodies, homes, and
ways of life, and it’s an expression of pure and unapologetic rage that stands
in defense of our autonomy.”
“Get out of my face! I don’t want you here, that’s what I said!”.
The message is very loud and crystal clear in sound and vision. This metallic
cannonball detonates from the kick-off to the fiery finale in just 138 seconds.
Yes, the average length of a 1-3-4 Ramones firecracker. Don’t even try to mess
with peppery punkette Ashrita Kumar, she’ll scream your ears off if you do.
The ladies of L.A. band WARPAINT
released their 4th LP RADIATE LIKE THIS,
last May, their first in six years.
For funky tune HIPS, one of the album’s singles
they canned a video clip with director Jim Hosking.
“’Hips’ has a scuttling intensity to it. It sounds like someone desperately trying to find
something. Or at least that’s what it seemed to me. I listened to it repeatedly and kept seeing women desperately searching for each other in a seaside town. Ideas present themselves and it’s not about logic or reason, it’s about emotion. And here the emotion suggested identically dressed women finding each other in an old seaside town in England called Southend On Sea.”
