Month: February 2025

ONIOROSHI – Italian Noise Experimenting Trio Take You To An Otherworldly Sonic Place With ‘SHRINE’

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25 February 2025

Band: ONIOROSHI
Who: Noizz trio from Italy.

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Album: SHRINE

The follow-up to their 2019 debut album Beyond These Mountains

Shrine is the result of meticulous research into sound and structure, with the three musicians seeking to go beyond the threshold and create new sensations for the listener. Lasting 54 minutes and featuring only 3tracks, the album retains the same influences that characterize Onioroshi‘s sound, but takes the experience to a whole new level of complexity and depth.


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TUTV: My dictionary tells me that a shrine is a place regarded as holy because of
its associations with a divinity or a sacred person or relic, marked by a building or
other construction.

I’m not sure if these three Italian noise-experimenting crusaders want to take us to such
a kind of place, but it sure feels that way. I think, to a degree of certainty, is that they have all Mogwai and Godspeed You! Black Emperor records on their shelves.

They produce a similar kind of prog rock textures, guitar-excessive jams and otherworldly
sonic escapades. Put on your headphones, dim the lights, relax and let Shrine trigger
your darkest phantasies.

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TEARS FOR FEARS Released Their Multi-Platinum Album ‘SONGS FROM THE BIG CHAIR’ 40 Years Ago Today

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Back in time

25 February 2025

English golden synth-pop duo TEARS FOR FEARS – Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal – released their second LP SONGS OF THE BIG CHAIR on 25 February 1985, today
40 years ago.

It was a massive success. A multi-platinum seller.
No. 1 in the US, Germany, Canada and The Netherlands.
No. 2 in the UK.

The 2 anthemic hit singles pushed
the album’s sales in a huge way.

– SHOUT –

– EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD –

NME said: “A calculated and brilliant peak, a quintessence of polished
pop putty. Perfect at its shimmering surface, worthless to its craven core.”

Smith: “We were very introverted on our debut The Hurting. It was a very
dark album. We found the need to be more outgoing on The Big Chair.”

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NEIL YOUNG – ‘LOVE EARTH WORLD TOUR’ 2025

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25 February 2025

Lately, 79-year-old NEIL YOUNG, is all over the news (again). Some weeks ago
Glastonbury Festival announced his presence for this year’s edition. Young let the
world know that he wouldn’t play, but soon after confirmed the opposite.

Early January he played some concerts with a new backing band named The Chrome Hearts featuring Micah Nelson on guitar, Corey McCormick on bass, Anthony Logerfo on drums, and Spooner Oldham on Farfisa organ.

A couple of weeks later he shared their first collaborative recording with a song called
Big Chance. A solid vintage Young rocker propelled by raw guitars and expressive vocals.
It has a similar message as Dylan had with his 1964 classic The Times They Are A-Changin’.

“Big change is coming.
Could be bad, and it
could be good”

Last week, he released another previously unreleased LP from his inexhaustible
Archives, titled Oceanside Countryside. Only available on vinyl. Order info HERE.

And now he has announced the LOVE EARTH WORLD TOUR, with The Chrome Hearts.

All dates (so far).

Ticket Info HERE

ARCHITECTS Share Final Preview From Their Upcoming 11th Album With Gloomy Thunderstroke ‘EVERYTHING HURTS’

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Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine

25 February 2025

British metalcore addicts ARCHITECTS were formed 20 years ago by twin
brothers Dan and Tom Searle. Over two decades they became colossal champions
of the genre with millions of sales of albums and millions and millions of streams
on Spotify.


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As already communicated for a while, their 11th longplayer,
titled The Sky, The Earth & All is ready for release this Friday.

But first, hurry hurry, the 5th and last preview with
gloomy thunderstroke EVERYTHING ENDS.

All 5 singles


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Euro Spring Tour Dates 2025

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Soul Songstress ROBERTA FLACK Passed Away, Aged 88

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24 February 2025

Enchanting American soul voice ROBERTA FLACK passed
away today, aged 88. No cause of death has been revealed
so far.

She scored no less than three number hits in the US with her
gripping performances of songs written by other musicians.

The First Time I Saw Your Face (1969), Feel Like Makin’ Love (1975) and of course Killing Me Softly With This Song from 1973, composed by Charles Fox with lyrics by Norman Gimbel and Lori Lieberman.

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(Image on top: cover of her album ‘Chapter Two’)

LED ZEPPELIN Released Their Double Masterpiece Album ‘PHYSICAL GRAFFITI’ 50 Years Ago Today

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24 February 2025

Today 50 years ago, on 24 February 1975, heavy rock titans LED ZEPPELIN released their masterpiece PHYSICAL GRAFFITI. It was their 6th LP, a double one, probably their best ever. It went straight to the top spot in both the UK and the US.

It was a multi-faceted work, covering multiple genres. Hard rock (‘Custard Pie’, ‘The Rover’, ‘The Wanton Song’, ‘Sick Again’, ‘Houses Of The Holy‘), eastern-influenced bombast (‘Kashmir’), progressive rock (‘In The Light’), rip-roaring funk ( ‘Boogie With Stu’, ‘Black Country Woman’) acoustic songs (‘Then Years Gone), a love ballad ( ‘Ten Years Gone‘), blues electricity (‘In My Time Of Dying‘), soft reverie (‘Down By The Side’) and a country ripper (‘Night Flight‘).

The two five-storey buildings photographed for the album
cover are located at 96 and 98 St. Mark’s Place in New York City.

Rolling Stone said: “Led Zeppelin’s Tommy, Beggar’s Banquet and Sgt. Pepper
rolled into one: Physical Graffiti is Led Zeppelin’s bid for artistic respectability”.

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GUSH – Barbed Wire Belfast Post-Punks Strike On New Muscular Slam ‘LIKE THAT’

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

24 February 2025

Band: GUSH
Who: Fresh and frantic Belfast 4-piece who launched their
cooking 5-track debut EP Exposure Therapy last summer.

New single: NOT LIKE THAT

The release finds Gush refining and expanding upon the sound they established on
their EP. The songwriting is sharper and more focused which is reflected in the production. The result is a gargantuan thunderous stomp; bass and drums are foundation shakingly massive, while watery chorus guitar melodies add sparkle before the speaker shredding fuzz kicks in for the chorus.


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TUTV: Wham bloody wham damn bam. Be ready for this evocative eruption of both distorted and cathartic guitar explosion supported by a kinetic big bang drummer, while foreboding vocals get in your face and a towering chorus attacks the Richter scale.

Barbed wire stroke- Bang-on. Stoner grunge rock at
its agitated best. Trust me, you’ll love it like this.

“When I said
That I’d be better off dead
I didn’t mean it
No, not like that
No, not like that”

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Happy 75 To American Boogie Blues Rock Legend GEORGE THOROGOOD

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24 February 2025

American rocker GEORGE THOROGOOD was born February 24, 1950.

Happy 75 to the high-energy boogie-blues legend who released 15 LPs (so far)
with his red-hot-blooded band The Destroyers , still alive and kicking as we
speak.

Two moments to celebrate.

– BACK TO THE BONE –

His timeless 1982 classic.
More than 260 million
streams on Spotify.

– MADISON BLUES –

A.w.e.s.o.m.e performance at Live Aid in 1985
with Chicago‘s late blues hero Albert Collins.

Still rockin’ in the free world.
2025 US Tour Dates HERE.

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CANYONS AND LOCUSTS – Boston’s Two-Motor Diesel Kick Ass On New Pyrotechnic Album ‘THE GOAL GIGOLO’

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24 February 2025

Band: CANYONS AND LOCUSTS
Who: Two-piece act, Justin Keane (vocals, guitar) and Amy Young (drums, backing vocals), from Boston, MA. Fueled by the current chaos of the world and an urgent need to be part of the conversation, the two took the indie rock foundation they built in previous bands and upped the ante by adding new levels of noise via pervasive, edgy guitar sounds, low and thundery drumbeats, and emotional vocals.

Album: THE GOAL GIGOLO

Press info: The record draws together several storytelling narrators underneath the
duo’s unhinged wall of fuzzed-out rock and roll. Each of Canyons and Locusts’ 10 songs
in The Goal Gigolo, tabbed by WBUR, Boston’s NPR, as one of the most-anticipated New England records of the winter, point to the album’s storyline as a north star, developing
a narrative path forward as the eponymous anti-hero comes to life in cinematic ways.
It’s not exactly linear storytelling, but it’s no less gripping.

Keane: “Broadly speaking, The Goal Gigolo is the story of a guy who makes his living solving others’ emotional problems while trying not to get entangled with them romantically. It’s set
in the 1970s, so I guess we weren’t calling those people life coaches yet.”

TUTV: C&L hit harder and rougher than The White Stripes (Motorwall Oil / Anna Save A Life / Detain The Piano Man) in their early days. At times the DIY tandem turn up the roasting heat as if they want to kick Dinosaur Jr‘s ass (Trapped In The Trigger / Moriarty The Serpents / It’s A Long Goodbye) and they make your limbs twist around with a salvo of AC/DC riffs.

No fancy production nor redundant studio tricks for Keane/Young. They’re for real and leave all their sweat on the floor to make their loud and clear mark. Jello Biafra should
take this two-motor diesel on his label. Now.

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