Month: April 2024

VIRGINS – Irish Shoegazers Take You Above The Clouds With Their Supersonic Debut Album ‘NOTHING HURT AND EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL’

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20 April 2024


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Band: VIRGINS
Who: Belfast-based shoegaze band who transcend that reductive tag to deliver a noise which is thrillingly loud and weightily light. Out now is slowly, long, the much anticipated follow up to Transmit A Little Heaven their brilliant debut EP.

Album: NOTHING HURT AND ANYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL

Press info: “Gargantuan walls of dense, beautiful reverbs and dreamy fuzz transport
the listener to a world of abstract beauty and bliss. Michael Smyth and David Sloan’s
guitar complement each other perfectly, adding layers of shimmering choral accents,
glide guitar trem-arm rhythms, reverse reverbs and lush jet plane phaser sounds.

All driven by thunderous drums and anchored by gloriously fuzzed out bass. While
basking in this audio bath, Rebecca‘s vocals offer a guide point to navigate through
the hazy requiem.”

TUTV: Virgins take you on a flight at supersonic speed way up into the sky above the clouds, where reality becomes surreality, where layers of seventh heaven shoegaze symphonies blast from the plane’s speakers. For 40 phantasy-stimulating minutes you’ll forget all about what happens down there, on our dramatically disturbed planet.

We need to escape it all, now and then to stay sane, and that’s when these Belfast daydreamers are a great option to connect with. Layers of glowing guitars, hallucinatory vocals and an overall lyrical sonority will trigger your fantasies and will make you feel
going high(er) forgetting all about the daily, mind-boggling rat race.

Superb single s o f t e r

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Virgins: Linktree – Instagram

On Repeat Since 2020 – THE STROKES With ‘ODE TO THE METS’

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Favourites forever

Band: THE STROKES
Track: Ode To The Mets
Album: The New Abnormal (2020)

Heart-warming, melancholic and magical with an endearing finale.

Up on his horse, up on his horse
Not gonna wake up here anymore
Listen one time, it’s not the truth
It’s just a story, I tell to you
Easy to say, easy to do
But it’s not easy, well, maybe for you
Hope that you find it, hope that it’s good
Hope that you read it, think that you should
Cuts you some slack as he sits back
Sizes you up, plans his attack
Ah-da-da
Drums please, Fab

And I got it all, I got it all
Waiting for me down on the street
But now you gotta do somethin’ special for me
I’m gonna say what’s on my mind
Then I’ll walk out, then I’ll feel fine

Yeah, I’m under his thumb, I’m on his back
I will not show my teeth too quick
I needed you there, I needed you there
But I didn’t know, I didn’t know

Go alone
I’ll go alone
We’ll go alone
I’ll go alone

Back from his trip, he’s at the door
When he gets back, he’s on the phone
Innocent eye, innocent heart
No, it’s not wrong, but it’s not right
Innocent time out on his own
Not got gonna do that, I’m out of control
I was just bored playin’ the guitar
Learned all your tricks, wasn’t too hard
It’s the last one now, I can promise you that
I’m gonna find out the truth when I get back

Gone now are the old times
Forgotten, time to hold on the railing
The Rubix cube isn’t solving for us
Old friends, long forgotten
The old ways at the bottom
Of the ocean now has swallowed
The only thing that’s left
Is us, so pardon the silence
That you’re hearing is turning
Into a deafening, painful, shameful roar

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The Strokes: Instagram

PIERCE THE VEIL Cover RADIOHEAD Classic ‘KARMA POLICE’

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Daily noise that works faster than any stimulant

20 April 2024

San Diego‘s post-hardcore turbine PIERCE THE VEIL, featuring the Fuentes brothers, play/played Radiohead classic Karma Police live for a while now, so they decided to
record it in the studio and share it with their massive following.

“We are products of the ’80s and ’90s MTV era, so songs like Karma Police live deep within our childhood minds. We dug this one up as an opportunity to indulge in something comforting and familiar. Taking inspiration from the memories and emotions the song evokes in us, we created a version that reflects where we come from as a band.“We were happy to discover that the song remained haunting and beautiful even when fed through distortion pedals and loud guitars.”

PIERCE THE VEIL

RADIOHEAD

PTV: Instagram

LAS NUBES – Miami’s Volcanic Superheroines Overwhelm With Dynamite Juggernaut ‘WOULD BE’

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

19 April 2024

Band: LAS NUBES
Who: Miami‘s music mainstays Ale Campos and Emile Milgrim. Their fuzzy, bilingual,
90s-influenced Punk Rock meets Dream Pop sound earned them opportunities to
with the likes of Shannon and the Clams, Jens Lekman, The Coathangers, Sheer Mag, Mark Sultan, Torche, and Alice Bag.

Iggy Pop: “Las Nubes are far and away the hottest band in Miami, and the most socially relevant. Like the children and the young at heart across North and South America, they rock from the soul, covered in tattoos and attitude. They represent an uncompromising lifestyle trend that is the future. They’re fucking loud, too.”

New single: WOULD BE

Ale Campos “There was a rumor going around about a live-action The Power Stuff Girls series being made by Diablo Cody. It was going to be set in the future and have them portrayed as adults looking back on their lives as crime-fighting little girls who missed out on being kids. I grew up in the ‘90s and PPG was one of my favorite cartoons, so I was really excited about this.

One day Emile [Milgrim] and I were talking about how cool it would be to write the theme song for the show, so ‘Would Be’ was the result of that. It took about 20 minutes to write. At the time I felt like my best years were flying away before my eyes and I used that as inspiration for what it might feel like to be an aging ex-superhero.”

TUTV: Wowzers! Imagine Hole playing Smells Like Teen Spirit with all cylinders and all burners on. Would Be starts like a starry-eyed dream pop tune and explodes 60 seconds later like a flaming volcano with immense forcefulness and overwhelming oomph.

Expect a scorching mid-tempo juggernaut motorized by hysterical guitars and spiced with adrenalized vocals. If the  Power Stuff Girls were a riotous Grrrl punk band, they would sound exactly like this. Pure dynamite!

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LN: Instagram – Bandcamp

PEARL JAM – Seattle’s Grunge Rock Veterans Bite Like Young Punk Dogs Again On New LP ‘DARK MATTER’

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19 April 2024


New album artwork

Seattle‘s grunge rock veterans PEARL JAM led by titanic voice Eddie Vedder are back
in business with their 12th album, their first in 4 years, baptized DARK MATTER.

Press info: “PJ 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.”

Rolling Stone says: “Dark Matter is jam-packed with fist-pumping rockers, stunning songwriting, and melodies tailor-made to be shouted with the windows down.”

TUTV: My oh my, is this 2024 or 1991, the year that Pearl Jam shook the grunge world
with their debut blockbuster Ten. The veterans bark and bite again like young punk dogs. Even when they slow down (Wreckage / Won’t Tell / Waiting For Stevie) the decibels fly around.

The band go berserk on several nasty barnstormers such
as Scared Of Fear, React Respond, Running and Got To Give.

In the eye of the ruthless storm is Eddie Vedder’s sky-scraping vox sounding at times
like the young Springsteen‘s one, as monumental as the Empire State Building. Never expected that, in their 50s they would steam like in their 20s, with unbridled confidence and the amps to the max. Holy smoke! Definitely alive again

Key singles/clips: Running / Dark Matter

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TOUR 2024

PJ: Instagram – All Albums

BUFFALO TOM – Passion Is The Keyword Again On New Single ‘AUTUMN LETTER’ From Their Forthcoming 10th LP

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New striking strokes

19 April 2024


New album artwork

Early this year came the news that Boston’s veteran rockers, who started their journey back in 1986, BUFFALO TOM recorded their 10th LP, their first in 6 years. They titled it JUMP ROPE and it’ll come out of the its pipeline on May 31. More info here.

Along with the news came the solid passion rock lead single Helmet followed by the equally heartfelt New Girl Singing and with the 3rd new piece, the Springsteen-esque Autumn Letter they score a hat-trick. Bring on the album, Tom.

BT: Instagram