Month: April 2024
Imperishable 90-Year-Old Country Icon WILLIE NELSON Still Entertains With Chirpy Tunes – Hear New One ‘MADE IN TEXAS’ Here
New striking strokes
27 April 2024
It feels like Texas-born country star WILLIE NELSON is around like forever.
At the blessed age of 90, he still does what he did all of his life, writing easy
going, romantic tunes.
His 75th (!!!) solo album (his 152nd overall, including collaborations, soundtracks, and compilations), named THE BORDER will be shared with his millions of fans on May 31.
One month (29 April) following his 91st birthday.
Album artwork
Willie Nelson recorded the album with producer and long-time collaborator Buddy Cannon. It includes four new songs that they wrote together, as well as some new ones written by songwriters that Nelson admires, including Shawn Camp, Mike Reid, and Bobby Tomberlin.
Following first taster The Border we get a second one.
MADE IN TEXAS is a simple, but terrifically chirpy tune.
Nelson entertains my eclectic ears again.
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Nelson: Story – All Albums – Instagram
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DEAD FLOWERZ – Join These Peppy Welsh Indies On Their Brand New Upbeat Earworm ‘CHEERS TO THE WEEKEND’
Daily electricity to load your batteries
27 April 2024
Band: THE DEAD FLOWERZ
Who: A Welsh outfit which formed near the end of 2023 when chance encounters at open mic nights around Cardiff brought these kindred spirits with a shared passion for creating sonic magic together. It was Kyle, the band’s visionary songwriter, who ignited the flame that would set their journey ablaze.
New single: CHEERS TO THE WEEKEND
Only the second one, following their striking debut Woke
“Cheers To The Weekend is a cryptic expression about the frustrations of a survival to live
at the weekend mentality that I found myself in for so many years, disguised as a party anthem. It explores the perils that come with living such a hedonistic lifestyle and the toxic relationships and habits that came with it. Most importantly, I’d like to think that its overall message is to hang in there and don’t quit on your dreams.“
TUTV: I love the smell of euphonious tunes all weekend long. Enter this vivacious
earworm which has an instant impact on your hungry ears. Expect 160 seconds of
upbeat friskiness and sickly sticky catchiness with echoes of 60s garage pop buzz.
Jangly guitars, banging drums, mixed emotions vocals, handclaps and a sing/hum/whistle along refrain. These indie rockers are far from dead, on the contrary, they’re totally alive and kicking. Join the jaunty nun to start the weekend.
– CHEERS FOR THE WEEKEND –
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TDF: Instagram
On Repeat Since 2013 – YEAH YEAH YEAHS With ‘DESPAIR’
Favorites 4 ever
27 April 2024
“Your sun is our sun
Your sun is our sun
Your sun is our sun
Your sun is our sun”
Warning: the video can be
disturbing for people with
fear of heights.
LIVE
Magical
YYYs: Instagram
IMUST BE LEONARDO – Italian Singer/Songwriter Spellbinds With New Album ‘NOT TO BE SCARED OF WEEKEND’
Rad longplayers
27 April 2024
Artist: IMUSTBE LEONARDO
Who: Berlin-based Italian singer-songwriter who, since 2016,
has composed, recorded, and played songs around Europe and
America. He has, so far, 2 albums and 2 EPs on his résumé.
And here’s number 3.
NOT TO BE SCARED OF WEEKEND
TUTV: As usual the Italy-born singer/songwriter alternates acoustic tracks with
electrical renditions while his voice spellbinds throughout. He starts with moody
musing All The Poets Here about numb poets hiding in their empty brains. Next up
is a bold song that criticizes, rightly so, Nick Cave for attending King Charles’s
coronation.
The star crooner gets an electrically powered mid-tempo treatment. Another legend
is also in the spotlight on Kim Gordon. “Why should you need gods when you have John
Peel or PJ Harvey or Meryl Streep and Stanley Kubrick and Kim Gordon?”. Can’t agree more.
He tackles war-greedy politicians with sparkling as well as distorted guitars on the pretty catchy Government Press Office’s New Rattle. He has the Perfect Pop Song with string-picking playfulness. Vocally and Berlin melodically, Lou Reed comes to mind. Yes, the late musical genius Lou Reed.
Leonardo closes this notable record with the 17-minute introspective reverie It Was Taking
A Long Time which resonates like a funeral procession with its mourning horns. The track goes silent around the 3-minute mark for about 7 minutes and then restarts with an invitation to support musicians.A bit weird, but honest and spot-on..
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IMBL: Instagram
MÖTLEY CRUË – Glam Metalheads Are Back In Business With Brand New Headbanger ‘DOGS OF WAR’
Daily noise that works faster than any stimulant
27 April 2024
Until 2022 Los Angeles‘ glam and glitter metalheads MÖTLEY CRUË featured all 4 original members who started the band in 1981. Bassist Nikki Sixx, vocalist Vince Neil , drummer Tommy Lee and guitarist Mick Mars (real name Robert Alan Deal).
2 years ago Mars retired from touring with the band due to back problems. But soon
after he left he sued his mates for kicking him out the group. Meanwhile MC recruited guitarist John 5 (Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie) and have their first new music out with
brand new single DOGS OF WAR.
Neil: “It’s like old school meets new school. It’s got that old school vibe about it,
but it’s new music. Nikki came up with it and he sent me the music and I thought
it was really cool. So I started singing it and we got in the studio and it turned
into the song I think the fans are really gonna like it.
We want to keep putting out new music, too, so we don’t get stagnant. We
recorded ‘(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)’ by the Beastie Boys and
we recorded this song, too, and I thought it turned out pretty good. There’ll
definitely be new music out next year, for sure, ’cause we recorded
a couple of other songs, too.”
Wake up people,
and bang your head
right here, right now…
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MC: Instagram
LONELY LITTE KITSCH Go Their Own Way On New Power Pop Piece ‘STUCK IN PLACE’
Daily electricity to load your batteries
26 April 2024
Band: LONELY LITTLE KITSH
Who: Canadian indie duo – Kristen Goetz and Nolan Jodes who took their name
from “…just another future song, lonely little kitsch” from the late genial Bowie‘s song Diamond Dogs, the title track of his 1974 LP that turns 50 next month.
Single cover art by Alex Heidbuechel
New single: STUCK IN PLACE
Kristen: “On the surface, “Stuck In Place” seems like a song about hating your hometown.
But it’s actually about waking up one day and realizing that everyone else has moved on without you. They left to pursue their dreams and passions, while you don’t seem to have
any. You’re stuck where you’ve always been, feeling left behind without a purpose or drive.
Musically, I wanted my vocals to have lots of layers and harmonies to fit with Nolan’s guitar riffs. It’s one of our mellower songs, and we aimed for a sort of ethereal, fuzzy feel to it. We started with a 90s-style wall of sound, and Ryan (McDonald) did a wonderful job editing it
down to let the song shine through.”
Nolan: ““Stuck In Place” is a tune that underwent many transformations – it started
as a moody, dark kind of distortion-soaked Jar of Flies – Alice in Chains-era kind of jam…
and over time in the studio we changed the key, the tempo, and length to find a sound
we felt was authentic Lonely Little Kitsch.
Ryan McDonald (The Honest Heart Collective) really helped clean up the song with an
incredible mix. When we heard the first playback we knew we were onto something we
wanted to share with people – it’s a song that fits somewhere between 90s grunge and
70s Fleetwood Mac… I call it Fleetwood Grunge”
TUTV: Expect a captivating bluesy and moony slice of music that grows slowly
but surely in ardency and fervency along its Springsteen-esque strumming way. Wistful
and impassioned alternating/duet vocals flow upfront and lead us, beat by beat, into a glowing and electrical finale. Lonely Little Kitsch do it their own Fleetwood grunge way.
Let’s start spreading rumours about this enthralling duo and their new notable score.
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LLK: Instagram – Linktree
BILLIE EILISH About Girls
26 April 2024
Girls just want to have fun.
(Image: Cover of her ‘Happier Than Ever’ LP)
MOJO Magazine Have 132-Page Deluxe RADIOHEAD Special Out
26 April 2024
British music monthly MOJO has a deluxe RADIOHEAD
special issue out, titled Radiohead Fade Out 1985-2024.
Mojo: “It was 30 years ago that an unfashionable guitar group from Oxford suddenly
found themselves international stars on the strength of an extraordinary song called Creep, which on its initial release in 1992 had been largely ignored in their native Britain.
Touring relentlessly to promote the single, Radiohead feared they would become one-hit wonders; instead, Creep would kickstart a stellar career that would see them transform into revered sonic visionaries, with the albums OK Computer, Kid A and In Rainbows redefining how experimental rock music could be made.
To salute their genius, MOJO has brought together its extensive archive of in-depth Radiohead features and exclusive interviews in a deluxe bookazine. Beginning with an entertaining account of their formative years at Abingdon School as On A Friday and their signing to Parlophone in 1991 on the condition they changed their name, we chart the turbulent journey to The Bends and OK Computer – timeless albums that revealed an uncompromising, doggedly original approach to their art, as well as Thom Yorke’s uncommon gifts as a songwriter and vocalist.
Having in the 1990s redrawn the blueprint of what rock music could achieve, Radiohead’s next pair of albums, Kid A and Amnesiac (released in 2000 and 2001), all but ditched guitars in favour of ambient electronic sounds, confounding many critics and fans. Yet today, they are regarded as landmark recordings, setting a course for the experimental mix of electronica and rock that followed, most successfully on 2007’s In Rainbows and their last album to date, A Moon Shaped Pool in 2016. But as our stories show, life in Radiohead was never easy and almost every release was attended by backstage tensions and dramas that threatened to sink the group.
Illustrated with dozens of rare and iconic photographs, this sumptuous 132-page special tells the group’s complete story and is a must-have for all Radiohead fans and music connoisseurs.
You can order your copy and let it be sent to your home. Info here.
More than 1,6 billion streams on Spotify.
Radiohead: Instagram