WARREN ELLIS About Working For 30 Years With NICK CAVE
25 November 2023
Songs/albums, soundtracks for documentaries, live shows, poetry.
They do it together for 30 years now.
(Image on top: Cover of Nick Cave & Warren Ellis album ‘White Lunar’)
Month: November 2023
UNCUT Magazine – New Issue With BOB DYLAN As Cover Star And Uncut’s End-Of-The-Year Lists
25 November 2023
This month.
Uncut looks back on BOB DYLAN‘s first world tour,
in 1978, since the ‘electric’ controversy of 1966.
Just released.
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Uncut counts down 2023 with 75 new albums,
top 30 archival releases, 20 films, and 10 books.
Features about The Beatles, Ray Davies, The Kinks,
PJ Harvey, Paul Simon, and much more.
All print copies come with two gifts: a stunning giant-sized Bob Dylan posterzine featuring a rare interview with Dylan; and also a 15-track Best Of 2023 CD starring
Yo La Tengo, Califone, Jason Isbell, Craven Faults, Israel Nash, Modern Nature, Fatoumata Diawara, The Coral, Teenage Fanclub, Lisa O’Neill and more.
You can purchase a copy and let it be send to your home. Info here.
Gone But Not Forgotten – MARK LANEGAN Would Have Celebrated His 59th Birthday Today
25 November 2023
American singer-songwriter MARK LANEGAN was born on 25 November 1964
in Ellensburg, Washington. Happy 59 to the singular artist with one of the most
impressive baritone voices ever in rock.
He was the frontman of grunge band Screaming Trees (1984-2000). He started
a successful solo career and also played/recorded with multiple artists such as
Queens Of The Stone Age, Isobel Campbell, The Gutter Twins with Greg Dulli, Soulsavers
and many more.
In March 2020 Lanegan was infected with Covid-19, went into a coma, he couldn’t
walk for months, and got completely deaf. While recovering he started to write a
memoir called Devil In A Coma. More info about the book here.
On 22 February last year, he passed away. No cause of death was revealed. R.I.P.
Brilliant Screaming Trees track ‘Halo of Ashes’.
MARK LANEGAN: Bio – Discography
ROWSIE Offer Americana Fireworks The British Way With Their Debut Album ‘I’
25 November 2023
Band: ROWSIE
Who: Classic rock 4-piece from London.
Debut album: I
“Each song is a story encased in a startling sonic blanket; taking a swing
at love, lost childhood, salvation and never-ending ironic encounters with
their own defects of character.”
Album artwork
TUTV: Tons of roasting riffs, racy licks and sizzling hooks is what you get
here. Enough rollin’ rippers to make your ears go bonkers with excitement
for a while.
Mind you, it’s not just about turning up the amps. ‘I’ offers catching melodies
embedded in fiery Americana-rock inspired tunes (Hard To Be Me / Willingness /
Itch), amplified country & blues moments (Billionaire Bankers / Fertile Fields / She
Shines Electric), and a tender, gripping and melancholic ballad with closing
pearl ‘So I’m Told‘.
Instrumental to this record are not only the firework guitars, but also frontman
Richard Rothenberg‘s hearty and powerful voice. Think John Mellencamp and Nathaniel
Rateliff. Americana fireworks the British. Classic old skool electricity? Sure, but
oh so timeless.
Stellar acoustic version of Fertile Fields
STREAM ‘I’
BUY ‘I’
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ROWSIE: Website – Instagram
TUTV: Facebook – Instagram – Twitter
Widow Of GEORGE HARRISON Shares Magical Story Related To The Last BEATLES song ‘NOW AND THEN’
The late great George Harrison‘s widow Olivia shared a ‘surprising
and magical story‘ about how the artwork of The Beatles‘ last song
‘Now And Then’ came about, on her late husbands’ socials.
Here’s a surprising magical story about Now and Then.@thebeatles | @johnlennon | @PaulMcCartney | @ringostarrmusic pic.twitter.com/v42YW40R4s
— George Harrison (@GeorgeHarrison) November 20, 2023
NOW AND THEN
WHERE WE SLEEP – British Musical Project Of Songstress BETH RETTIG Spellbinds With ‘BANG BANG’
New striking strokes
25 November 2023
WHERE WE SLEEP is the musical project of London-based
songstress of BETH RETTIG, former front-force of electro
rock band Blindness
Two years ago Rettig released her excellent debut album The Scars They Leave.
Last year Rettig impressed with one of her best pieces ever (to my ears), titled
Broken Bones (awesome bass play).
And here’s her only new music for 2023. It resonates as a continuation of Broken Bones with its slo-mo progression growing in intensity along its ambient way. A deep droning synth-bass and subtle drum play back Rettig‘s ever, both poignant and absorbing, voice
and combine all for a magnetic and spellbinding trip.
I guess this will sound weird, but if you speed up this jam you’ll get the same chilling
vibe of Cher‘s 1966 hit Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) (covered by countless artists) or vice versa.
WATCH/LISTEN
STREAM
BUY
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Note to myself: add please more Where We Sleep music
to my 2024 wishlist.
WWS: Instagram – Facebook
TUTV: Facebook – Instagram – Twitter
NEIL YOUNG Shared New Track ‘STAND FOR PEACE’ – His Electrical Version Of The American Anthem
Daily noise that works faster than any stimulant
25 November 2023
For the occasion of this year’s Thanksgiving, 2 days ago, NEIL YOUNG shared his electrical version of the American anthem Star Spangled Banner and named it STAND FOR PEACE.
Just Young, his guitar and lots of feedback.
The accompanying video was made by his wife, actress Daryl Hannah.
The clip ends with the messages ‘Be Brave‘ and ‘Stand With Peace‘, obviously
referring to the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
STAND FOR PEACE
Neil Young: Facebook – Instagram
(Image on top: Cover of Young‘s ‘Le Noise‘ album)
THE SLIGHTEST CLUE – Canadian Post-Punk Indies Take You On A Roller Coaster With ‘WHEN YOU WAKE UP’
Daily electricity to load your batteries
24 November 2023
Band: SLIGHTEST CLUE (Canada)
Who: Vancouver-based four-piece that brings distinct influences and experiences.
A stage actor whose playlists go from Talking Heads to Sonic Youth to Björk, a hook-obsessed recovering choir girl, an electrical engineer whose personal idol is John Bonham, and a guitarist who played for (and left) ten other bands before deciding this was the one for him.
New single: WHEN YOU WAKE UP
“We incorporated a lot of our influences on this track. There’s inspiration from the chord progressions and use of different time signatures that King Krule is known for, the song title which is a nod to My Bloody Valentine’s “When You Sleep,” and some lyrics from Modern English’s song “I Melt With You” which was a big inspiration in terms of storytelling for this song.”
TUTV: The song starts bluesy, smoothly, and mid-paced with sensuous jazzy vocals but,
on the 1-minute mark, a volcanic guitar/drum explosion occurs immediately followed by
a short electrifying bridge back to the first soft part.
That zigzagging process repeats itself a couple of times, taking you on a capricious roller coaster, up and down, forth and back, causing a what’s going on here experience. But give
this brainbreaker a couple of spins, and you’ll want to go back again and again for a seat on this turbulent ride. Trust me, you’ll be wide awake for the rest of the day.
Start.
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SLIGHTEST CLUE: Instagram – Linktree
TUTV: Facebook – Instagram – Twitter
GUIDED BY VOICES – Prolific Ohio Rockers Released Their 3rd LP Of The Year Today With ‘NOWHERE TO GO BUT UP’
24 November 2023
Album artwork
Ohio‘s imperishable rockers GUIDED BY VOICES‘ released their 3rd LP
of 2023. I repeat their 3rd LP of 2023. It’s titled NOWHERE TO GO BUT UP.
Order info here.
It’s their 39th album in their 40-year career. Unquestionably the hardest-working
band in music’s history. Their only contender are Aussie psych-prog rockers King
Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard with 25 LPs in 13 years. The question of course is how
long KGATLW will be around?
PASTE Music says: Everything just fits, and there are only a few stop-and-start, proggy shifts in tempo that Pollard has enjoyed lately—all of which pay off beautifully here. There is no doubt that these songs will blast off live, as Pollard has never shied away from the spotlight. In a true “not leaving the mound until the last pitch moment,” he almost became sick on-stage singing his guts out, as the band delivered an unheard of 100-song set at a New Year’s Eve show in 2019. And there really is no precedent for a band like Guided By Voices, or an artistic visionary like Robert Pollard. With so many essential entries still being released even after his 40th year of piloting the ship, how could you not trust the man at his word when he gives it to you so plain and simple? Full review here. Score: 9/10.
TUTV: The creativity and productivity of maestro Robert Pollard is phenomenal.
I’m sure a day in his Ohio lasts for 48 instead of 24 hours and I’m sure he writes songs
while he sleeps, eats and works out. And it’s not like he produces rubbish. GBV doesn’t make bad albums. Some of them are better than others, of course. But you always get
a rip-and-riff roaring mix of rock/grunge/post-punk entertainment. Just like on this new one.
ALBUM
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GBV: Instagram – Bio – Discography
