Month: September 2022

THE WAR ON DRUGS Present Two New Splendid Songs On Limited Deluxe-Edition Of ‘I DON’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE’

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26 September 2022

Megastars THE WAR ON DRUGS have announced a limited-edition
deluxe box set for their 2021 longplayer I DON’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE.
Out this Friday, September 30.

The I Don’t Live Here Anymore box will contain the album itself
on heavy-weight vinyl and cassette, a 16-page booklet with in-studio
photos, a poster, some postcards, and an embroidered patch.

The deluxe edition is limited to 5,000 copies worldwide.
More info and pre-order info here.

Watch mastermind Adam Granduciel present the box set below.

It also includes a 7″ with two previously unreleased tracks which we can listen
to right now. I wonder why these 2 splendid pieces weren’t on the original LP.

– OCEANS OF DARKNESS –
A zealous rocker

– SLOW GHOST –
A heart-melting ballad

I Don’t Live Here Anymore on Spotify

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THE WAR ON DRUGS: Facebook – Instagram – Tour 2022

TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS – New ‘LIVE AT THE FILLMORE 1997’ Album(s) Out In November

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26 September 2022

The late TOM PETTY (already 5 years gone) and his HEARTBREAKERS played
no less then 20 nights at the legendary The Fillmore in San Francisco in 1997.

Six of the shows were professionally recorded and this special release features some of the high points of the residency. The small venue allowed the band to vary their sets each night. They included re-arranged and distinctive versions of their hits, deep cuts, and many cover versions – paying tribute to the artists that Tom and the band had been influenced by.

On 25 November a special live regsitration album(s) of great moments of said concerts, titled LIVE AT THE FILMORE – 1997 will make their millions of fans happy. More details and pre-order about the 6LPs/2CDs/4CDs formats HERE.

Here’s a taster. The 1978 song Listen To Her Heart.

TOM PETTY: Website

BUZZKILL JOY Shares Intense Video For His Anti-Power Abusers Single ‘MONEY MONEY MONKEY’

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26 September 2022

Artist: BUZZKILL JOY
Who: A genre-fluid lil punk in pink from the North of England that always aims to
energise, inspire and surprise. His rules are: difference is mandatory, meaning is a must, and constant evolution is necessary. fusing genres like rock, indie, pop, punk, folk, hip hop and anything else that takes my fancy, he’ll keep you second guessing and surprised with every new track he puts out – and that’s a buzzkill guarantee.

New single/video: MONEY MONEY MONKEY

BJ: This is the big one. “The one I’ve been dying to share ever since I first wrote it back in 2020. It’s an angry, heartfelt fuck you to the fat cats and big whigs that abuse their power and leave us with scraps. Wwritten 2 years ago but has never been so fuckin relevant.”

Sickly sticky tune. Intense video clip, without arty farty effects nor with a tsunami of
rapid-eye-movement causing shots. Just a clear-cut visualizing of the song’s theme
with Buzzkill Joy going insane in the money-greedy-monkeys’ jail.

Don’t let the money hold you, hostage…

BUZZKILL JOY: Linktree

A Call Me Wake-Up Call

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Works faster than caffeine

26 September 2022

Glam and glitter pop machine BLONDIE scored their 4th Number 1 hit
in the UK this day in 1980 with CALL ME (more than 300 million streams
on Spotify). It featured in the movie American Gigolo, with Richard Gere.

Call Me also topped the charts in the US where
it became the band’s biggest-selling single.

I wouldn’t mind waking up with Debbie
every morning and I’ll definitely call her…

BLONDIE: Instagram

Post-Breakup Album – BECK Released ‘SEACHANGE’ 20 Years Ago

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Back in time

25 September 2022

Artist: BECK
Born Bek David Campbell 52 years ago
Active: Since 1988 / 14 studio LPs (so far)

Anniversary album: SEACHANGE – his 8th LP
Released: 24 September 2002 – 20 years ago

Rolling Stone said: “It’s the best album Beck has ever made, and it sounds like he’s paid dearly for the achievement. He reportedly wrote these twelve wine-dark songs after breaking up with his longtime girlfriend… The Nick Drake and Syd Barrett comparisons are not idle flattery. Just as Mutations was Beck’s homage to Tropicalia — Brazil’s late-1960s revolution in art, sound and romanticism — Sea Change suggests that Beck has been studying the British early-1970s school of psychedelic-comedown melancholy… As a young folk singer at the turn of the Nineties, Beck set out to be his own Dylan. With Sea Change, he has made it the hard way, creating an impeccable album of truth and light from the end of love. This is his Blood on the Tracks.” Score: 5/5.

Singles/clips: Lost Cause / The Golden Age

– LOST CAUSE –

– THE GOLDEN AGE –

Stream full album below

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BECK: All Albums

Psych-Rock Turbo THE ENDORPHINS Rock In Space With Brand New Missile ‘VOYAGER OF A DAYDREAM’

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

25 September 2022

Band: THE ENDORPHINS
Who: Psych-punk rockers from Boson

New single: VOYAGER OF A DAYDREAM
First shared piece from their upcoming
the second longplayer, landing in November.

TUTV: Nobody told me that Minnesota‘s buzz and fuzz legends Hüsker Dü
are back with a new name and with a new line-up of Boston psychedelic
noisemakers who rock themselves into space with this brand new jagged
jackhammer.

Voyager Of A Dream is a multi-guitar-layered missile stoked up by four
full-on cylinders. Whipped-up stuff for pandemonium-addicted ears.

Turn up the flaming fever…

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THE ENDORPHINS: Facebook

7-Inch History – THE ADVERTS 1977

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Great 7″ singles/sleeves/vinyl

25 September 2022

Band: THE ADVERTS
Who: 4 punks from London, with
pin-up punkette Gaye Advert on bass
Active: 1976-1979 / 2 studio LPs

Single: GARY GILMORE’S EYES
Released in 1977. Peaked at #18 on the UK Singles Chart.

The song was written from the point of view of a person who got an
eye transplant and discovers that he has the eyes of an American
criminal named Gary Gilmore, who got the death penalty for two
murders. Gilmore wanted his eyes be donated to science after his
execution as “they’d probably be the only body part usable”.

Look out…

THE ADVERTS: History

SOULFUL SUNDAY – 15 Musings For The Laziest Day Of The Week

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25 September 2022

The 7th day is one to be lazy, to relax, to walk in slow-mo from your bed
to your couch, to have a glass of wine and heartfelt musings/reveries/ballads
that massage gently your ears and mind.

One Sunday like this

Turn Up The Volume picked 15 to create the fitting
atmosphere to lose yourself in a blissful trance.

Old and new.

This Sunday’s musers

Elbow
Stevie Nicks
Mavis Staples
Oceanography
Elk City
Peter Gabriel
The Pogues
The Suncharms
Nory-J
Wilco
Beach House
Nick Cave
Karamelien
Justine Blazer
beach House
Abby Shreve

See/hear you next week

Impassioned Blues Veteran HERMAN HITSON Lets The God Sings

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Standout longplayers

25 September 2022

Artist: HERMAN HITSON
Who: Veteran blues/rock musician born
79 years ago in Atlanta, Georgia.

Hitson has lived a wild life, learning the blues growing up and then starting in a doo-wop band, hitting the chitlin circuit with the likes of James Brown, Joe Tex, Bobby Womack, Wilson Pickett, Sam Cooke, Lee Moses;, collaborating with his close friend Jimi Hendrix, and then mourning his loss. Converting to the Nation of Islam and hanging with Mohammad Ali, getting clean from hard drugs; working as an actor in films. Getting wrongly accused of murder. Painting as well as performing and opening for the Allman Bros with Lee Moses.

He’s in a renaissance the last few years with the brand new album LET THE GODS SING
 as the clear-cut result. The rousing 60s are all over it. Electrifying Hendrix-like wah-wah jams, sultry James Brown howls, lots of psychedelic Hammond organs and an overall
soul-and-heart spirit. There’s no expiration date whatsoever for impassioned blues
passion like this.

Video clip for the title track Let The Gods Sing

Stream full album on Spotify

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Buy via Bandcamp

HH: Facebook

Waking Up… With LOU REED On A Sunday Morning In 2004

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1967 classic Sunday Morning – written by Lou Reed – is the best-known song
by The Velvet Underground (more than 300 million streams on Spotify).
It featured on their intoxicating debut LP.

I stumbled by accident on this mesmeric version with the late genial Lou Reed playing
it live in 2004 on The Late Show With David Letterman’ at the Ed Sullivan Theatre NYC.

Riveting!

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND: Bio – Discography