Month: October 2022

Discover Engrossing Polish Shoegazers PASTRY And Their New Darksome Single ‘EDEN’

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Daily electricity to load your batteriesh

27 October 2022

Band: PASTRY
Who: Up and coming shoegaze/dream pop/post punk quartet
from Poland. In their music you can hear influences from genres
such as indie rock and shoegaze.

New single: EDEN

The 2nd single from their upcoming debut LP Cyan Fabrics
With Stains on Them out on 18th November, following their
2021 debut EP Band Apart.

Turn Up The Volume: Eden progresses like a funeral march.
Darksome and doomy while weeping guitars and mournful vocals
create a sombre atmosphere that causes goosebumps. Here’s a band
confident to make it on the international indie scene. Discover them
here and see/hear them evolve.

Roll the tape for EDEN…

PASTRY: Facebook – Linktree

Video actress: Natalia Ławska
Director: Pascal Buła
Photo band: Maria Jaszczurowska

THE DREAM SYNDICATE Released Their Debut LP ‘THE DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES’ 40 Years Ago

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Back in time

27 October 2022

Band: THE DREAM SYNDICATE
Who: Psychedelic post-punk rockers from Los Angeles fronted by Steve Wynn
Active: 1981–1989, 2012–present / 8 studio LPs with this year’s Ultra Violet Battle Hymns And True Confessions as the most recent one(stream below)

Anniversary LP: THE DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES
Released: 28 October 1982

Uncut Magazine said: “The Dream Syndicate led the way into the ’80s’ “post post-punk universe”, Steve Shelley declares in a booklet of peers’ testimonials. The rehearsals show they had more common ground with the East Coast experiments of Sonic Youth (barely recorded in 1982) than was obvious back then. But the alchemising of the ’60s’ most exciting moments into a lucid ’80s classic is The Dream Syndicate’s singular achievement.” Score: 4/5.

Single: Tell Me When It’s Over

Stream the full album here

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Still going strong.
Ultraviolet Battle Hymns and True Confessions
Released 10 June 2022.

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THE DREAM SYNDICATE: Bio – Discography – Facebook

Wake-Up Call – HOTEL LUX Score With Groove And Move Single ‘NATIONAL TEAM’

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Works faster than caffeine

27 October 2022

Band: HOTEL LUX
Who: Unbridled indies from South-London.

Track: COSTERMONGER

Second single, following the first one Common Sense
from the forthcoming debut LP Hands Across The Creek,
out 27 January 2023 via The state51 Conspiracy

About the song: “The tune was conceived when I was sat watching
England’s National Football Team play on the TV whilst tucking into
a very sad takeaway, watching people my age and considerably
younger #winning at life.”

TUTV: Here comes a drop-dead cool foot stomper that grooves
and moves from left to right and back, activating all muscles in
your lazy body. The man in the middle Lewis Duffin lets his depressed
vocals roll over this striking score before a funky guitar solo ends
the game. Watch your back Fat White Familythis team is ready
to dribble you.

Press play and move your hips…

2023 Tour

HOTEL LUX: Facebook – Instagram

Metal Supergroup HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES In The UK And Germany In 2023

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HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES are a 4-piece supergroup featuring golden oldies
Alice Cooper (1974), Joe Perry (72) from Aerosmith, Tommy Henriksen (58), guitarist/bassist/songwriter with Alice Cooper, and actor Johnny Depp (59).

They already canned/released 2 albums.
Hollywood Vampires (2015) and Rise (2019).

The celebs gonna attack the UK and Germany in 2023
More dates and countries will follow.

UK 2023

July 5 – Scarborough
July 7 – Swansea
July 8 – Manchester
July 9 – London
July 11 – Birmingham
July 12 – Glasgow

Germany 2023

Rock ‘n’ roll! HELL YEAH!

HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES: Facebook – Instagram

Hungarian Songstress VERA JONAS Impresses In Sound And Vision With Pensive Pearl ‘KESERGÉS’

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Artist: VERA JONAS EXPERIMENT
Who: Award-winning artist from Hungary who sways you with
her tender music or makes you dance with her tiger-wild songs.

New single/video: KESERGÉS.

A highlight from her recently released new album HOLD.

Vera Jones: “For me, Kesergés is about a kind of cycle. Everything comes full circle, the
wheat ripens, the heart heals after it’s been hurt. The intro to the music is not coincidentally
a ‘uroboros’, a symbol of a snake biting its own tail. The fragmented but circular syllables also symbolize that everything we do will be reflected in our relationships, our living environment, but also in nature. This film is an impression of our brutal summer of 2022, where we had a very hot summer, so we tried to take many showers, while the Great Plain was severely damaged by drought. When I first saw this footage, I thought it was taken on another
continent, or at least in Southern Europe. This is happening now”

TUTV: Intruiging song. Intriguing voice. Intriguing artist.

Kesergés is a meditative reverie about the unexceptional hot summer we just experienced, confirming once more that our climate is messed up in an alarming way. Vera Jones creates an atmosphere of urgent reflection embedded in a mesmeric melody.

This pensive pearl is sung in her native Hungarian language. To be honest, I had no clue how Hungarian actually sounded until now, and its, yes, exotic resonance surprised me.

Watch the impressive accompanying video clip.
The images speak for themselves…

VERA JONAS EXPERIMENT: Facebook

STEVIE WONDER Released His 15th Album (In 10 Years) ‘TALKING BOOK’ 50 Years Ago

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Back in time

27 October 2022

Soul/funk virtuoso STEVIE WONDER (born 72 years ago) released one of his masterpiece LPs TALKING BOOK on 28 October 1972, 50 years ago, just after touring with The Rolling Stones.

It was his 15th album in only 10 years. Talking about a stream of creativity.
Afterward he slowed down with only 11 longplayers until this day.

It peaked at #3 in the US, #12 in Canada, and #16 in the UK.

Rolling Stone said: “Ambitious and richly-textured. Even at its dreamiest, the music has
a glowing vibrancy. An exceptional, exciting album, the work of a now quite matured genius.” Score 5/5.

Singles/clips: Superstition /

– SUPERSTITION –
Awesome master blaster

– YOU ARE THE SUNSHINE OF LOVE –
Pure soul splendor

Stream the full album via Spotify

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STEVIE WONDER: Bio – Discography – Instagram

Manic Mavericks THE ENDORPHINES Attack The Algorithm On New Slam ‘MYOPIC DYSTOPIA’

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New striking strokes

26 October 2022


(Credit: Matt Bass Media)

Band: THE ENDORPHINS
Who: Psych-punk indie rockers
from Boson, MA

New single: MYOPIC DYSTOPIA
Another new piece from their forthcoming
album Nothing Is Real, out 11 November

About: “A blistering single from the Boston psych-punk band rages against
the algorithms and how the digital content machine is changing how we
create art and expression.”

TUTV: After a short intro with menacing guitars and vocals this cranked-up
corker erupts into a brain-breaking groove that aims to destroy the digital
content machine as we know it. This Nirvana-esque grunge hammer blow
confirms what my greedy ears already registered before, These guerilla
rockers kick ass.

Attack!


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THE ENDORPHINS: Facebook

7-Inch History – PENETRATION 1977

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Great 7″ singles/sleeves/vinyl

Band: PENETRATION
Who: Legendary punk misfits from County Durham, England fronted by
the charismatic Pauline Murray – arresting voice, arresting presence – who
also stood out on her own escapades, with her Invisibles Girls.
Active: 1976–1980, 2001–present

Single: DON’T DICTATE
Their debut, that came out in 1977.
It was part of their first LP Moving Targets.

Audio

Live

PENETRATION: Bio – Discography – Facebook

Wake-Up Call – ACE OF WANDS With Their New Capricious Power Pop Single ‘DESIRING YOU’

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Works faster than caffeine

26 October 2022

Band: ACE OF WANDS
Who: Dream pop/rock trio from Ontario, CA

New single: DESIRING YOU

Lee Rose (AOW): “The song was inspired by a toxic relationship and the addictive and sometimes destructive nature of desiring what is not good for me. I was trying to put music
to the feeling of being completely un-seen by the person I most desired being with. The song explores the tension, the anger and my ultimate refusal to be strung along.”

TUTV: Throughout the edged power pop stream of this capricious tune, you feel
both the yearning libido and fear the protagonist experienced while being in a
hazardous relationship. I’m not really sure why, but almost from the song’s start
the 1988 movie The Unbearable Lightness of Being where desire is a tricky affair
too, popped up in my mind.

Desiring You creeps under your skin with its agitated vocals, its flustered sonority,
and its turbulent rock dynamism. You’ll desire to hear this on repeat for a while.

Here we go.


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Also streaming on Spotify

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ACE OF WANDS: Instagram – Facebook