Month: April 2025
BEZ About The First HAPPY MONDAYS Performance At Glastonbury (1990)
14 April 2025
24-hour party people.
Still twistin’ their melons, man.
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD Announce A Full Orchestral Album Titled ‘PHANTOM ISLAND’
14 April 2025
Australian marathon rockers KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD
told us in a press statement that they recorded a full album with an
orchestra simultaneously with their 2024 LP Flight b741.
It’s their 27th in 15 years, and baptized it
PHANTOM ISLAND. Details TBA soon.
New album artwork
Stu Mackenzie: “A lot of love and time and energy and patience
and growth went into this one. Can’t wait to grow wings and fly with
all of you.”
The first taster is title track
already released last October.
LIFE COACH – Scottish Dropouts On Fire Again With Kinetic Kick ‘SQUADDIES IN HAIR NETS’
Daily electricity to load your batteries
14 April 2025
Artist: LIFE COACH
Who: The musical project of singer-songwriter-poet Jamie Cameron. Hailing from
the Scottish Borders, the music blends lo-fi beats, synths and guitars with spoken word lyrics in which he discusses subjects ranging from politics and premonitions to self help culture, and a modern society obsessed with economic thinking.
Jamie Cameron
Track: SQUADDIES IN HAIR NETS
Second shared single, following puissant stroke Cringe, taken from the upcoming
2nd album A Love Letter To Your Yearning Heart which is due for release on May 30th.
Press info on the upcoming LP: “It takes influence from a diverse blend of sources
ranging from the bubblegum-pop era nineties to East Coast lo-fi indie pop bands like Swearin’, Free Cake For Every Creature and All Dogs to fellow Scottish artists Arab Strap
via Kneecap and Sleaford Mods.”
TUTV: Life Coach are on fire, again. This new rattling rap ‘n’ punk roll crackerjack
swings you forth and back, left and right and Jamie Cameron’s adrenalizing word-flow
energizes all of your insatiable limbs before he relaxes the way to the synthy end.
Another kinetic kick. Hands up for the coach.
Let the siren blare, right here.
14 April 1975 – RONNIE WOOD Presented As The New ROLLING STONES Guitarist 50 Years Ago Today
14 April 2025
No solo albums anymore, Ronnie
After Brian Jones drowned in his pool in July 1969, The Rolling Stones replaced him with the young guitar wizard Mick Taylor who played at the time with blues hero John Mayall (who passed away last year, aged 90).
In 1975 Taylor left.
The search for a new 6-string man started once again. Rumours spread names such as Jimmy Page, Steve Marriott, Jeff Beck and Chris Spedding. But it was former Faces riff-roaster Ronnie Wood (aged 77 now) who was presented as the Rolling Stones‘ new guitarist on
14 April 1975, today 50 years ago.
The first LP Wood played on (3 songs) was, Black And Blue from 1976.
Watch THE KILLERS And BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Do 3 Flabbergasting Encores At The Garden In NYC In 2022
14 April 2025
Last Saturday on Record Store Day one of the countless special releases
was a 12-inch containing the 3 encores that Bruce Spingsteen played with
The Killers at their massive concert in Madison Square Garden in NYC in
October 2022.
They performed two Springsteen crackers, Badlands
and Born To Run, and one Killers one with Dustland.
The 12-inch was only pressed on 5000 copies. I guess those are all long gone.
But you can enjoy the flabbergasting performances, officially posted on YT now,
with Badlands as the overwhelming stunner, in 5-star HQ, right here.
Rock ‘n’ roll at its euphoric best.
Badlands
Dustland
Born To Run
COMING UP ROSES – London-Based Power Pop Punchers Are In Bed
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
14 April 2025
Photo by James Bassett
Band: COMING UP ROSES
Who: Formed by singer/bassist Emily Sera, she and guitarist Darius Oon
relocated from Singapore to London in late 2022 so they could pursue their
dream of being in a band as a full-time career.
So far they released 2 EPs.
Track: I’M IN BED
Cut from their upcoming debut
album, out in June.
“It’s about feelings of being overwhelmed, with a more direct message about
how this is brought about by mental health issues but also that this is a result
of our experiences and we should not blame ourselves for going through them.”
This guitar-jammed, power pop punch
is what you need, in or out of your bed,
to wake up.
WATCH
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BEN KWELLER Dedicates New Ballad ‘KILLER BEE’ To The Unfortunate 17-Year Old Songstress NELL SMITH
13 April 2025
Press
Back in 2021, highly skilled UK-born and US-based, musical teenager NELL SMITH recorded at the age of 13-year an album, named Where The Viaduct Looms with Oklahoma’s eccentric legends The Flaming Lips.
Frontman Wayne Coyne spotted her at one point as she attended several gigs with her father. They got in touch with each other and after Coyne found out that she’s a singer he proposed her to work with the band on a Nick Cave tribute album he already had in mind for some time.
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Last October, the worst happened when Nell died in a vehicle motor crash,
only 17. Her debut LP, titled Anxious was released posthumously last Friday.
Also now, San Francisco songsmith BEN KWELLER has shared a goosebumps ballad, named KILLER BEE. A track from his upcoming 7th full-length Cover The Mirrors. It features backing vocals by The Flaming Lips.
His first new music since the sudden passing
of his 16-year-old son Dorian Zev in 2023.
Kweller: “Today we release the song ‘Killer Bee’ in memory of Nell Smith. Nell was
a gifted artist who marched to the beat of her own drum. Like my son Dorian, she was
taken from us out of nowhere, driving alone, freak car accident, 17 years old. Grief makes
us feel isolated and the weight seems too heavy to carry alone. Community reunites and
lifts us up. Love on your people today and every day.”
Heartbreaking.
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TOUR
Superstar LANA DEL REY About The Early Days
13 April 2025
And now, Lana?
Del Rey will launch her 10th LP ‘The Right Person Will Stay‘ later in the
year. But you can already country-flavoured single ‘Henry, Come On’.
Picture This – TUTV’s 5 Favorite Bowie Albums
13 April 2025
Ziggy Stardust 4ever.
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