Artist: ROB MOSS AND SKIN-TIGHT SKIN Who: Seasoned rocker and his band who played in several Washington, D.C. scene bands. And now after a long hiatus,
he’s fabricating new music for an upcoming album, due for
release September 2024.
TUTV: Moss and his compadres knows every trick in the riff-rock
book to excite and entertain your impatient ears. Right Hook races
full steam ahead, going everywhere fast from the first chord, and
never looks back. A well-aimed right sonic uppercut.
It’s another monthly firecracker from his new, upcoming album, slated
for release in September. Keep your eyes and ears peeled. More hot stuff
to come.
“You didn’t see it coming
Right upside your head
You didn’t see it coming
Full steam ahead”
Happy 79 to the voice/face and maestro of historic travelin’ band CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL (including his brother Tom) who were a hit machine with
multiple classic singles and no less than 7 LPs in 5 years (1967-1972).
The band split up with angry arguing and legal battles.
John started a successful solo career and released (so far) 10 albums.
He’s still active (will see him next July in Belgium at Rock Zottegem Fest).
Band: TA GA DA Who: Experienced trio who is active in the Italian independent scene for many years.
They navigate between The Rapture, The Hives and early Foals,
with incursions into the recent British post-punk sound. Last year
they launched their debut albumThis Is How We Dance. Stream it here on Spotify.
TUTV: From the get-go, your head starts spinning uncontrollably. A voltaic riff-crazy guitarist, a clobbering drummer thwacking his gear with beefy force as if he wants to
smack his demons in the ugly face, a bassist pulling his 4 strings with urgent impetus and energetic vocals are on a maddening mission to shake up your stereo, to impress your ravenous ears and to speed up your bloodstream. And they succeed with invigorating gusto. They’re no boys anymore.
I fell in love with the sweet sensation
I gave my heart to a simple chord
I gave my soul to a new religion
Whatever happened to you?
Whatever happened to our rock’n’roll?
Whatever happened to my rock’n’roll?
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
28 May 2024
World-famous electro-R&B-dubstep artist JAMES BLAKE looks like
he was in a thought fight and took some hard punches. No idea who
he was fighting with and who won.
Anyway, he was still able to record a new track, called THROWN AROUND.
Blake: “‘Thrown Around’ is a nod to some of the music I grew up listening to, growing up in England. It started as an ambient piece that I made with Dom Maker, that connected something very deep in me to the influence of British electronic bands. It’s a defiant song that’s wrestling with where our job takes us, what it does to our life. It deals with the draw backs of spending so much time dedicated to work. We don’t have any drives towards community – we are all driven towards success. Then we feel lonely and Thrown Around. This song brings people together – it is the connection through defiance.”
British pop legend TOYAH WILLCOX and her beloved partner and King Crimson
guitar wizard ROBERT FRIPP are still in the kitchen at parties, for almost 4 years
now. Their weekly Sunday Lunch Cover Sessions started back in April to kill time
in that awful Covid-19 lockdown year.
What they have done since is make us laugh to tears with their both hilarious and
utterly cool performances. They already covered tons of classic songs by classic artists/bands and there is no way of stopping them. Yes, it only takes two to tango.
Band: THE NEW EVES Who: Must hear/see all-female indies from Brighton (where everybody is in a band).
Sound: Astounding, razzle-dazzle, inventive and unique.
Concert: Le Botanique, Brussels, 24 May 2024
Last year I discovered these 4 truly amazing Amazons when their jiving single Original Sin hit my headphones and I saw the accompanying comical clip. Last Friday I saw them live for the first time. It was, by far, the best performance I
witnessed this year.
The New Eves are truly special. They look/dress/sound like a medieval folk-punk combo. And the historic basement of Brussels‘ wonderful Botanique building was the perfect location for them to play.
They design their own clothes. They mix different musical genres with multiple instruments, traditional pop/rock ones (guitar, bass, drum, harmonica) and
less traditional pop/rock ones (flute, contrabass, mini-accordion, violin).
They jump in one and the same song from fervent folk vibes reminiscent of British legends Steeleye Span to classical music fragments, to psychedelic Velvet Underground jangliness, to Dark-Age harmonies, to solo/choir chanting. Your ears/eyes are in constant motion. They make regular rock/pop bands look/sound old-fashioned.
Sonically, visually, and performance-wise, The New Eves are a singular sensation.
A must-hear/see spectacle. I hope they come up soon with their debut album.
Belgian singer-songwriter WOLF VAN WYMEERSH released his excellent solo debut album The Early Years two years ago. A couple of singles followed and now with new track SECOND COMING he offers his first music of the year.
‘Second Coming’ is a hauntingly powerful anthem that delves deep into the shadows of the human psyche. “Sick like a whore, mad like a dog,” Wolf exclaims, capturing the despair of a world on the brink of the abyss. But amid the chaos, there is a glimmer of hope, a refusal to succumb to the darkness that threatens to consume us all.
TUTV: One of the most poignant compositions Vanwymeersch ever wrote. Capricious, bone-chilling, emotionally intense and vocally stirring. The evocative acoustic first part swells slowly but surely into a wall-of-sound eruption that emphasises the dark dynamics at play here. Second Coming is an erratic mind-twister, a striking stroke.
In the 5 of the morning
In the 6 of the moon
is where your 7 died
’cause the 7 lied
I was a morning child
and now I’m a night
howling at the moon
not a second too soon
’cause the beast has arrived
we all know his name
it’s getting very vile now
it’s getting really late
I’ve sick like a whore
mad like a dog
oh my love, I know that the time is short
oh my love, I know that your sun is bound to fade
The beast has arrived
His number we all share
In the code of the money
In the bankers’ mistakes
The beast has arrived now
we all know his name
It’s turned out very sick now
it’s getting really late
sick like a whore
mad like a dog
oh my love, I know that the time is short
sick like a whore
mad like a dog
oh my love, the rumours grow that your sun is bound to fade
for your friends are arriving but at the wrong gate
where the priest are conspiring for a new money fate
The beast has arrived
in the industry of war
in the industry of poverty
In the bankers’ mistakes
The beast has arrived
we all know his name
it’s getting really vile now
it’s getting really late
