SUPERHEAVEN – Philly Grungers Alive And Kicking With Self-Titled Comeback LP

18 April 2025


New album artwork

Band: SUPERHEAVEN
Who: Philly‘s veteran grungers (2008–2016, 2022–present
and a couple of reunions in between)

Album: SUPERHEAVEN
Their 3rd and first in 10 years.

Press info: The music unfolds like an unspoken conversation between the respective players (and old friends), revolving around post-hardcore grit, full-bodied and fuzzed-
out distortion, and hazy alternative melodies… After a pair of quietly influential albums, hundreds of millions of streams, and countless shows, a longstanding sonic and spiritual union underscores the band’s third full-length offering.

NME: “The power of Superheaven’s previous records came from the immediacy and tactility that nodded to the band’s punk roots. On ‘Superheaven’, it comes from this enormity. While the new style sacrifices some fire, it creates a sense of maturity: heightened stakes, and the accrued wisdom to cope with them.”

TUTV: Grunge is still alive and kicking. Enter the new album by Philly bombers
Superheaven. They are at their noizzy best when all their earthquake cylinders
and burners go nuts. Their titanic wall-of-Herculian-rock ballyhoo challenges
the scale of Richter non-stop. They produce a brisk melodiousness embedded
in a metal pool of aggressive guitars, brawny drum attacks, and layered vocals.

Key Singles: Staring At The Void / Long Gone

– STARING AT THE VOID –

– LONG GONE –

ALBUM


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US TOUR

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18 April 1985 – 40 Years Ago Today WHAM! Was The First-Ever Western Pop Act Having An LP Released In CHINA

18 April 2025

Former massively adored duo WHAM! – the late George Michael and
Andrew Ridgeley was the first Western pop act who released an album
in China, 40 years ago today. It happened with their 2nd LP MAKE IT BIG.

It featured their gigantic hit WAKE ME UP BEFORE YOU GO-GO.
More than 1,1 billion streams on Spotify.

LEG PUPPY 2.0 – Underground Techno Maverick Causes Transfixing Experience With New Piece ‘CODIFY’

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17 April 2025

Artist: LEG PUPPY 2.0
Who: Prolific underground
techno act from London.

Track: CODIFY
Following the Telephone Box Tour LP 2.0 returned
to the studio and nailed this one, featuring poet MB
aka Kerry Coburn

Press info: “Codify depicts the gradual loss of self and identity; the control that we have over our own decisions, choices and lives ultimately. It speaks to how the sort of tech based society that we live in is not even hiding the fact that it’s manipulating and controlling representation
of ourselves and what we should find important so that our own autonomy is blatantly and unashamedly diminished.

TUTV: This techno maverick never lets your ears and your dark side of your mind down. No copy/paste for Leg Puppy. With this new ambient sci-fi hallucination – think Leftfield in slo-mo – he paints a pitch-black soundscape that drags you in his psyche and with poet MB’s hypnotizing spoken word performance Codify turns into a transfixing experience.

Codify,
Codify,
my decisions,
so I may not, I do not,
rely,
on myself,
integrity,
my breath,
judgment,
my breath,

pick the through the patterns, flick,
away,
irrelevance, experiment,

potential,
you may crawl, through,
the intimate,

fought tongue hiding,
no longer,
beneath,
the flower,
you have the power,

knowledge,

penetrate,
once private
disregard,

intuition,
please do

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BOB DYLAN Topped The UK Charts With His Second Album ‘THE FREEWHEELIN’ BOB DYLAN’ 60 Years Ago Day Today

Significant longplayers from the past

17 April 2025

Imperishable legend BOB DYLAN (now aged 83) topped the UK Charts with his
2nd LP THE FREEWHEELIN’ BOB DYLAN today 60 years ago, on 17 April 1965.

Except for 2 songs Dylan‘s debut album featured performances of traditional folk tunes. Here on his 2nd one 11 out of the 13 songs were penned by himself. Some of them, such as ‘Girl from the North Country’, ‘Masters of War’, ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’ and ‘Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right’, became timeless classics.

In the US the LP peaked at #22, but went platinum over the years.

The cover features a photograph of Dylan with his then Italian girlfriend
Suze Rotolo. It was taken in the West Village, New York City, close to the flat
where the couple lived at the time.

SINGLE

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FONTAINES D.C. – Stream Deluxe ‘ROMANCE’ Edition Featuring Brand New Track ‘BEFORE YOU JUST FORGOT’

17 April 2025

Irish celebs FONTAINES D.C. released
their stellar 4th LP Romance.

And, of course, the album gets his deluxe edition.
Except for fanatic fans, I wonder who buys deluxe
editions?

It features their standalone single It’s Amazing To Be Young, which came
out last February and a new moody one, titled BEFORE YOU JUST FORGET

“‘Before You I Just Forget’ is a song that started with a vision of this really blown
out sound, something that heaved and shifted with new details becoming apparent
every time you would listen.”

NEW TRACK

DELUXE


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17 April 1960 – Today 65 Years Ago Rock ‘N’ Roll Pioneer EDDIE COCHRAN Died In A Car Crash

17 April 2025

Today 64 years ago, on 17 April 1960, rock ‘n’ roll pioneer EDDIE COCHRAN,
born Ray Edward Cochran in 1938 in Albert Lea (Minnesota), was killed, during
a UK tour, when the taxi he was travelling in crashed into a lamppost in Wiltshire,
South West England
. He was only 21.

Fellow singers Sharon Sheeley and Gene Vincent survived the crash. The taxi driver
was convicted of dangerous driving, fined £50, disqualified from driving for 15 years,
and sent to prison for six months.

Cochran was SOMETHIN’ ELSE.

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(Image: cover of his Memorial Album)

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD Horn It Up On Their New Swirling Retro Rocker ‘DEADSTICK’

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16 April 2025


Photo by Maclay Heriot

A couple of days Australian marathon psych-rockers KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD told us in a press statement that they recorded a full LP with an orchestra simultaneously with their 2024 album Flight b741.

British historical keyboardist, conductor, and arranger
Chad Kelley helped flesh out tracks that needed more
gestation.

Stu Mackenzie: ““He brings this wealth of musical awareness to his chameleon-like arrangements. We come from such different worlds. He plays Mozart and Bach and uses
the same harpsichords they did, and tunes them the exact same way. But he’s obsessed with microtonal music, too, and all this nerdy stuff like me. 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.”


New album artwork

It’s their 27th in 15 years, called PHANTOM ISLAND, and it comes
from down under to the world on June 13th. Pre-order info here.

The title track was already launched back
in October and here’s comes appetizer #2.

DEADSTICK is a steaming and swirling,
60s-echoing, rocker spiced with an army
of horns.

BIG TUNE! BIG FUN!

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