Month: March 2024

PEARL JAM – Seattle’s Rock Giants Alive Again On New Barnstormer ‘RUNNING’ From Their New Upcoming LP

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

22 March 2024


New album artwork

Seattle‘s rock giants PEARL JAM led by towering voice Eddie Vedder
are back in town since the release of their Gigaton album 4 years ago.

They canned their 12th longplayer, called it DARK MATTER
and they will share it with the world on April 19.

Last year the band retreated to the Shangri-La Studios in Malibu where they simply plugged
in and played under the watch of producer Andrew Watt. Writing and recording in a burst of inspiration, Dark Matter was born in just three weeks. As a result, it channels the shared spirit of a group of lifelong creative confidants and brothers in one room playing as if their very lives depended on it.

Following the boisterous title track PJ present another badass barnstormer, named RUNNING. Sounds like Vedder & Co found their young razor blade rock legs again.

Alive again.

PJ: Instagram – All Albums

THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM Turn BILLIE EILISH’s Mega 2017 Hit ‘OCEAN EYES’ Upside Down

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22 March 2024

Last October New Jersey‘s lauded indie rockers THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM released
their 1st album in nearly 10 years with the excellent HISTORY BOOKS.

Two weeks ago they started their UK/Europe tour. For the occasion they shared a new
4-track EP with some acoustic versions of album tracks (stream below). It also includes a cover of OCEAN EYES, the 2017 massive Billie Eilish hit (more than 1,325 billion streams on Spotify).

Brian Fallon (frontman): “I was driving my daughter to school and she played it for me
on the way and I really took to the song. Then one day we were talking ideas for a cover with our friends and I said, wouldn’t it be cool to do a heavier version of ‘Ocean Eyes’? I tried it out and everybody loved the idea.”

TGA turned the tender musing upside down into a whipped-up
belter with the chorus going sky-high. Bingo!

COVER

ORIGINAL

EP


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TGA: Instagram

22 March 1980 – THE JAM Scored Their First No 1 Hit Single In The UK With ‘GOING UNDERGROUND’ 44 Years Ago

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Top singles from the past

22 March 2024

Band: THE JAM
Single: GOING UNDERGROUND
A stand-alone one.

Released: 14 March 1980
Score: #1 in the UK on 22 March 1980 – 44 years ago
The band’s first No. 1 hit in the UK.

Note:  The song was actually released as a double A-side
with ‘Dreams of Children’, which originally was planned to be
the only A-side. After a mix-up at the pressing plant, the single
eventually became a double A-side, but radio stations played
the melodic ‘Going Underground’

Jam it up.

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THE JAM: Bio – Discography

PAPA JUPE’S T.C. Offer Disco Punk Party Stomper With New Steaming Single ‘HIGH VALUE MALE’

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New striking strokes

22 March 2024

Band: PAPA JUPE’S T.C.
Who: Group founded in Cardiff in 2017 by frontman and lyricist Harry Willicombe
and multi-instrumentalist Sam Butcher. Together, the pair undertake the majority of songwriting duties in a partnership dating back to 2013 with indie-rockers
“Mirror Gorillas”.

New single: HIGH VALUE MAN

Harry Willicombe (frontman): “There’s an epidemic of young impressionable boys being influenced by narcissistic figures on social media. We decided to approach this issue with satire so wrote the song in the first-person, from the perspective of a “High Value Male”. We recite the type of nonsense they often come out with, and then let Gem come in with a rejection before the final chorus.”

Gemini Anderson (co-vocalist): “We based the takedown on actual quotes by the worst one of the bunch. We don’t want to say his name, but I think we all know who he is. It felt right using his own words against his cause.”

TUTV: This disco-punk sucker-punch is just perfect to start and end all (il)legal club nights with. It’s a jiving bass-insane jackhammer that doubles your adrenaline production on the spot and triggers your craziest body contortions.

The orgastic ‘dance with me’ chorus rev up the sultry temperature and invites you to go mental, like a kangaroo on E. London‘s cooking dancefloor wackadoos Warmduscher should take these Welshmen/woman on the road with them. Frisky fun guaranteed. Machos not allowed.

Press play.

SINEAD O’CONNOR’s Daughter ROISIN WATERS Sang Stunning Version Of ‘NOTHING COMPARES 2 U’ At Tribute Show In New York

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Last Wednesday, a tribute show for SINEAD O’CONNOR, who passed
away last July, was staged at the iconic Carnegie Hall in New York. Also
Shane MacGowan (who died last December) was celebrated at the event.

At one point, her 28-year-old daughter ROISIN WATERS, also a musician,
took the stage and sang a stunning version of her mother’s greatest hit,
written by Prince) NOTHING COMPARES 2 U.

Goosebumps.

Sinead.

LENNY KRAVITZ Celebrates Life On New Chipper Tune ‘HUMAN’

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Daily noise that works faster than any stimulant

22 March 2024

Rock luminary LENNY KRAVITZ (born Leonard Albert Kravitz in New York City 59 years ago) has bagged his 12th album, a double one, baptized BLUE ELECTRIC LIGHT. It arrives on
24 May.

We already got two appetizers at the end of
last year with TK421 and Road To Freedom.

And the third one just came in. HUMAN is a chipper tune with
Kravitz embracing and celebrating life. Do you hear cowbells
in there too?

“I’m gonna keep my head to the sky
Gonna walk each step with pride
‘Cause I came here to be alive
I am here to be human”


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LENNY KRAVITZ: Instagram – Bio – Discography

DAIISTAR – Texan Daydreamers Shine On A Perfect ‘CLEAR’ Day

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21 March 2024


Photo by Sheva Kafai

Band: DAIISTAR
Who: Noise-pop upstarts from Austin, Texas.

Last year they launched their debut album Good Time. An 80s/90s-indebted
blend of narcotic noise and melody produced by Alex Maas of The Black Angels
and engineered by White Denim‘s James Petralli.

New single: CLEAR

The song will be released on a limited neon-pink 7″ due out May 10th via
Fuzz Club. I’ll be backed by a Sonic Boom remix of ‘Good Time’ album track
Velvet Reality on the B-side. Pre-order info here.

Alex Capistran (guitar/vocals): “The idea behind ‘Clear’ was to write the perfect song
for a perfect day. A song that comes to mind on a warm and sunny afternoon; inspiring thoughts of attainable bliss and encouraging you to dream up something nice for your
future self.”

TUTV: Life should feel like this soothing sonic reverie, once in a while.
Far away from our grim reality, far away from the restless times we
live in.

Clear sparkles and shines like a rainbow colouring the sky. Its symphonic
Sigur Rós sonority created by shoegazy guitar layers and angelic vocals
transfers you to la-la land. It feels like drinking Sangria in the park on
a perfect day as Lou Reed once sang, gently and tenderly.

Dream pop at its romantic best. There’s always a light at the end
of the tunnel, even how small it can be. You know where the repeat
button is.

VISUALIZER

STREAM


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EU/UK TOUR

DAIISTAR: Linktree

YOKOPHONO – Finnish Stoner Blues Rock Tandem Hit Hard Again With New Corker ‘TRYING’

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New striking strokes

21 March 2024


Promo picture by Jan Trygg

Band: YOKOPHONO
Who: Finnish power duo formed in 2020. Their music consists of energetic
dance-punk/indie rock songs. Consisting of just drums and guitar they also
rely on their catchy melodies.

New single: TRYING
It follows their disco-punk juggernaut Red.

“The second single to be released by Yokophono this year is the hectic sounding
Trying, which is a mixture of Finnish melancholy and an exploding reggaeton based
chorus. The single is a bit more serious in nature compared to their earlier release this
year, but still carries the same hooky energy and catchiness that gets under the listener´s
skin.”

TUTV: This is how British blues rock titans Royal Blood would sound if their producer
is a fanatic post-punk fan. Trying is a riff-rough roller coaster going forth and back.

The crude combination of hammering drums, stoner rock electricity, and yearning vocals create a shocking effect that bangs on and on. Yokophono not only try, they succeed with bold brio.

STREAM

BUY
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Yokophono: Instagram – Facebook