On August 29, 1994 it will be 30 years since Manchester‘s rock rascals OASIS launched
their turbulent journey with their staggering debut longplayer DEFINITELY MAYBE.
On 30 August, a deluxe anniversary edition will
be available. Info about all formats right here.
OASIS LIVE FOREVER
Noel Gallagher had a half-hour chat with British music site Louder Than War
about the recordings of DM. A half-hour of funny quotes and crazy anecdotes
and even praise for his brother.
“When I would sing the song, it would sound good,
when Liam would sing it, it would sound great.”
Band: LONELY LITTLE KITSCH Who: Two-piece alt-rock band from Niagara, Canada featuring
vocalist Kristen Goetz and drummer Nolan Jodes. What started as
a way to pass the time during the pandemic, soon became a more
serious project as fully formed songs took shape.
Goetz: “I had been playing around on a keyboard and came up with something
that felt catchy. Nolan immediately created a killer guitar riff based on that, I sang
a melody with it, and that was that! The bones and structure of the song came
together extremely quickly.
The song is about bad habits, and how we all have them. Some can be serious,
and some are innocent and fairly innocuous – and, in some cases, our vices are
other people. But no one is vice-less. “Vices” is about recognizing that, and coming
together and being open about it. Perfection is a farce. Let your freak flag fly!”
Jodes: “We’ve described it as Veruca Salt meets Jack White, with a little (a lot) of
Cobain in the bridge. But somehow it comes out sounding very LLK. It’s 3 minutes
of rock… hopefully that’s your Vice.”
TUTV: I’m sure perfect people don’t like rock ‘n’ roll and they are definitely
boring (in my experience that is). Two things you can’t say about LLK. They
know how to raise the sonic temperature, they know how to create a buzzing
fuzz and be totally cool at it at the same time.
Enter Vices, a grungy headbanger propelled by hammering vigorousness, some
edged Grohl riffs and exploding when the crashing chorus crushes in. Right in the
middle of the song and the video, vocalist Kristen Goetz, draws your attention with
her Shirley Manson-like vocal tone and her subtle moves.
Original SEX PISTOLS, Paul Cook (drummer), Glen Matlock (bassist) and Steve
Jones (guitarist) played their one and only album Never Mind The Bollocks
(still the best punk LP in my book), in its entirety at a fundraiser for London’s
historical, small Bush Hall venue in Shepherd’s Bush last week. It was a blast.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
And due to popular demand, they announced a handful of gigs in September in the UK.
As communicated a couple of months ago British crooners TINDERSTICKS,
led by midnight hour voice Stuart A. Staples will have their 14th longplayer,
baptized SOFT ISSUE out September 13th.
Impressive album artwork
The new, 4th shared track LOVE IS A STRANGER is
unmistakably Tindersticks. Gloomy and darkly coloured.
Stuart Staples: “Some of the songs I write, I understand their reference points.
But some songs I don’t understand where they come from at all. They just kind of
happen. ‘Always A Stranger’ is one of those songs, it holds a kind of mystery to me
at the very centre of it.”
Today 55 years ago, on 23 July 1969, rock giants THE ROLLING STONES
occupied the top spot of the US Singles Chart with piquant jackhammer Honky Tonk Woman.
A single-only release, although a honky-tonk version entitled ‘Country Honk‘,
with some different lyrics, appeared later in the year on their Let It Bleed LP,
which also went to number one in the States.
Here’s the boiling live rendition at the legendary Hyde Park Concert in London, that same year.
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of coffee
23 August 2024
Band: CHAT PILE Who: Hefty noisemakers from Oklahoma who entered the scene with a big
bang when they released their debut LP God’s Country two years ago.
Single: MASC
Second new cut from their forthcoming
2nd full-length Cool World, out October 11th.
Album artwork
Raygun Busch (vocalist): “Unlike the rest of the album, this song deals with
horrors of interpersonal intimacy, yet it is connected with the rest of the record
through the overarching theme of oppression, despair and malaise.”
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Bristol’s PORTISHEAD, one of the pioneers of trip-hop, released their innovative debut album DUMMY on 22 Augustus 1994, 30 years ago today. An experimental piece of work where blues, soul and jazz were drenched into a sort of ambient sci-fi soundscapes transferring you to an otherworldly sonic universe.
NME Magazine wrote at the time: “This is, without question, a sublime debut album. But
so very, very sad. From one angle, its languid slowbeat blues clearly occupy similar terrain to soulmates ‘Massive Attack’ and all of Bristol hip-hop’s extended family. But from another these are avant-garde ambient moonscapes of a ferociously experimental nature.”
And today the sizzling Aussies announced the upcoming release of their 3rd longplayer, named Cartoon Darkness. It’ll hit the streets on October 25th. Pre-order info here.
Amyl: The adversity of life is desire never fulfilled. Doing the dishes cleaning, but never the one eating the meal, so close but it’s never enough, and trying to celebrate the ignorance of youth despite it being robbed away, so choosing ignorance, choosing to be dumb and choosing love, despite everything, choosing bad decisions for love, for life, because it is short, or is it long?
