The JESUS AND MARY CHAIN Half WILLIAM REID Is A Big Melody Fan
31 July 2024
William loves to sing/hum/whistle along.
(photo: back cover of their ’21 Singles’ compilation)
Month: July 2024
Best DEBUT SINGLE Of THE MONTH – JULY 2024
31 July 2024
Photo by Francesca Janes
Band: COSMIC ROOM 99
Who: Italian post-punk trio. Their name was inspired by a documentary called Cosmic Room, which tells the story of NATO employee Bob Cohen accidentally discovering a top-secret plan to eradicate part of the world’s population to maintain Earth’s sustainability. The number 99 in numerology represents someone who uses their gifts to make the
world a better place, encapsulating the band’s ethos.
Influences: A different range of artists and music, including The Velvet Underground, Syd
Barrett’s Pink Floyd, The Beach Boys, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Joy Division, and Bauhaus, all linked by a punk attitude.
Debut single: PLASTIC VENUS
“Everything is fiction, everything is altered, everything is seen
through filters, nowadays even Venus is made out of Plastic”.
TUTV: Be ready for a merciless, post-punk brainbreaker that
thunders fast-forward with all cylinders and all burners on.
CR99’s drummer hits like a hyperkinetic octopus assisted by a blood-curdling bassist, psychotic guitar riffs fly all over the place, synths screech in the back and the singer sounds like he just escaped from the set of the movie based on George Orwell’s ‘1984’ classic.
Doom and gloom everywhere. Everything is fiction, except for
Cosmic Room 99. Their debut LP will hit the streets in October.
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CR99: Instagram
AVRIL LAVIGNE Went Bonkers At GLASTONBURY Festival 2024 With ‘SK8ER BOI’
One live track a day all Summer long
31 July 2024
Canadian singer/songwriter/rocker AVRIL LAVIGNE
released her most recent album Love Sux in 2022.
Last June she appeared at Glastonbury Festival in the UK.
One of the highlights came up with her mega 2002 hit SK8ER BOI.
Cool Lavigne and the huge crowd went bonker.
JIMI HENDRIX – Hear New Single ‘ANGEL (Take 7)’ From Upcoming Box Set
Daily electricity to load your batteries
31 July 2024
Artwork box set
A new documentary and box set, titled Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision chronicles the creation of the famous New York recording studio and the late guitar icon’s work.
The box set will be out on September 13.
Press info right HERE.
Ahead of it comes new single ANGEL. It’s a previously unreleased take of the song
that featured on his 1971 posthumous studio album The Cry Of Love, written and
self-produced by Hendrix. He recorded it for his planned fourth studio album just
months before he died in September 1970.
The 7″ vinyl edition can be ordered HERE.
B-side: Message To Love (New York Pop Festival,
Downing Stadium, Randall’s Island, NY – July 17, 1970)
You can stream the song here.
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JH: Website
GOAT – Swedish Masked Psych Pop Priests Drop New Single ‘OUROBOROS’
Daily electricity to load your batteries
31 July 2024
New album artwork
After a hiatus of six years Swedish masked power pop
act GOAT returned for 2 albums in the past 2 years.
And productive juices keep on streaming.
Another new, self-titled, longplayer is ready for
a Fall release, on October 11. More info here.
First taster OUROBOROS is a funky treat. Imagine a mix of The Stone Roses‘
classic Fools Gold and Chic‘s legend Nile Rodgers playing some Le Freak chords.
OUROBOROS
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KAMALA & LISA
Kamala has picked Lisa
as her running mate.
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PUSSY RIOT Grrl NADYA TOLOKONNIKOVA About A Good Song
30 July 2024
1-2-3. Done!
AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS At Freak Valley Festival 2024 In Germany With A Storming Rendition Of ‘GUIDED BY ANGELS’
One live track a day all summer long
I guess you know, punk daredevil AMYL and
her rowdy retro rockers THE SNIFFERS from
down under, by now.
Since the Aussies launched their second album Comfort To Me
in 2021 they’ve been on an endless tour around the globe. And
of course, they hit several festivals this Summer.
Here’s the tornado at Freak Valley Festival in Germany on
June 1, storming through 2021 single Guided By Angels.
A&TS: Instagram
OLYMPICS 2024 – PARIS Playlist Compiled By TURN UP THE VOLUME
I love compiling playlists. Best tracks of the month/year list,
classic crackers list, Summer list, Xmas list, New Year Eve’s list etc.
And is the current OLYMPICS 2024 – PARIS, not a perfect event to
make a fitting playlist? Definitely for my ears.
Run. Swim. Dive. Race. Tennis. Skate. Jump. Etc etc.
20 Tracks!
START!
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PARTY DOZEN – Demonic Australian Duo Shock With New Hellraiser ‘MONEY & THE DRUGS’
Daily electricity to load your batteries
30 July 2024
Photo by Roger Deckker
Band: PARTY DOZEN
Who: Supersonic duo from down under, featuring saxophonist
Kirsty Tickle and percussionist Jonathan Boulet, who love noizzzzz
and improvisation.
New single: MONEY & THE DRUGS
It’s the 3rd shared track (you can stream all 3 singles below) from their new
upcoming, 4th LP titled Crime In Australia, that’ll be out on September 6.
More info here.
New album artwork
Jonathan Boulet: “The first section of this song is inspired by a sound that we heard at the airport pick up zone in Sydney. A small aircraft coming in to land low would project this low bending rumble into the cement car park filling it with resonant frequencies. Sounds like A HIT. ‘Money & the Drugs’ features Kirsty really letting it out into her saxophone void. Then it picks up a coupla gears into a rockin’ frenzy. It’s one of our most fun songs to play live. But sometimes too much of a good thing can land you in deep water. Sometimes this song gets away from us.”
TUTV: OMG! Wowzers! Helter-Skelter! I heard this cast-iron stunner for the first time this morning when I had breakfast. I almost choked on my coffee, my ears were in shock, and my neighbors knocked on the wall. Party Dozen got my awake in merely 20 seconds. If I tell you that they sound even louder than NY’s noise maniacs A Place To Bury Strangers you should have a real loud and clear idea of their deafening havoc.
Money & The Drugs resonates like a demonic cry-out straight from hell. It’s a supersonic fireball going fast-word like a Formula 1 race car. No breaks, no brakes, no mistakes.
Tickle wails like she’s obsessed and treats her saxophone like a weapon to destroy evil. You’ll understand quickly why Boulet says that this new hellraiser was inspired by a sound they heard at an airport. OMG! Let’s fly.
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ALL 3 SINGLES
PD: Linktree