Month: May 2025

WINGS – Macca & Co Released Their 4th LP ‘VENUS AND MARS’ 50 Years Ago Today

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Longplayers from yesteryear

27 May 2025

In 1971, a year after the Fab Four split up, yesterday beatle PAUL McCARTNEY formed WINGS, featuring his wife Linda on keyboards, and former Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine.

Their 4th LP, titled VENUS AND MARS came out on 27 May 1975, today 50 years ago.
It followed their foremost album Band On The Run, that was released the year before.

It hit the #1 spot in the UK, US, New Zealand, Canada, Norway and Spain.

The record’s cover, which Paul summed up as “a package that would be nice to get, and also something recognizable” was photographed by Linda, depicting two billiard balls in a black background, which are yellow and red to fit the colours of the planets Venus and Mars.

AllMusic said: “One of McCartney’s more consistent listens, even though it’s possible to scan the song listing after several listens and not recognize any song outside of “Listen to What the Man Said” and the opening medley by title.” Score: 3/5.

SINGLES

ALBUM


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All Wings Albums

PENDULUM – Industrial EBM Shockers From Down Under ‘SAVE THE CAT’

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Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine

27 May 2025

Australian industrial shock rockers PENDULUM cause earthquakes since 2005.
Not that many, actually. (Only) their 4th LP, named Inertia is slated for release
on August 22.

Today they give us the 4th beefed-up screamo appetizer.
SAVE THE CAT is a vintage Pendulum headbutt, but one
that also brings Bring Me The Horizon to mind.

Wake up people, swing from left to right and back.


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Live Dates – Website

BLACK MARKET KARMA – British Psych Outfit Release New LP ‘MELLOWMAKER’ On June 6th

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26 May 2025


Photo by Holger Nitschke

Band: BLACK KARMA MARKET
Who: London-born, Dartford-based unit formed
in 2011 by singer-songwriter Stanley Belton.

Album: MELLOWMAKER
Their 12th longplayer overall, their 2nd for Fuzz Club,
following last year’s Wobble LP. It’ll land on June 6th.


Album artwork

Crafted entirely by Stanley Belton —who writes, records, and produces everything himself— the record embraces analogue imperfections and tape wobble, splicing them with modern techniques to create a “cassette-ified” lo-fi psychedelia blending ‘60s pop, ‘90s neo-psych, and crunchy hip-hop breakbeats.

Belton: “Mellowmaker was made immediately after Wobble, I kinda see them as two sides
of each other. With these two albums I’ve attempted to crystallise how it feels to be stuck between a feeling of amnesia of the soul and the earthly experience of piloting a meat suit…
I’m still chasing that longing intangible ‘Hiraeth’ feeling. The sense of wanting to find our way home to a place that maybe doesn’t exist.”

Singles/Clips: Mellowmaker / Adoration / The Sound Of Repetition

– MELLOWMAKER –

– ADORATION –

– THE SOUND OF REPETITION –

All 3 on Spotify


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‘PUMP IT UP’ By ELVIS COSTELLO – 1978

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45prm singles on vinyl

26 May 2025

Artist: ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS
Born Declan Patrick MacManus 71 years ago in London, the supreme songsmith
has released (so far) 32 albums solo and as a band leader. He also has multiple collaborative records to his credit.

Single: PUMP IT UP
Album: This Year’s Model
His 2nd one.
Year: 1978

Costello: “It was a satire. If you listen to the lyrics, it kind of goes against the grain
of hedonism. Well, just how much can you fuck, how many drugs can you do before
you get so numb you can’t really feel anything?”

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PLAIINS – Rackety German Rockers Strike With New Torpedo ‘ROW SHE SAID’

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

 

26 May 2025


Photo by Arne Beschorner

Band: PLAIINS
Who: Deafening noise-rock
4-piece from Germany.

Track: ROW SHE SAID
The third shared single from their upcoming debut album
Happy Faces. Out on August 15th. More info here.


Album artwork

TUTV: Holy bloody holy smoke. Fasten your seatbelt for this blaring belter
which has the brutal puissance of a giant drill hammer. Row She Said is motorized
by a wall-of-frantic guitars, monstrous drumming and aggressive vocals. Think
Wolfmother having a decibels fight with My Chemical Romance. Massive, right?
You betcha. Here comes the torpedo.


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All 3 singles


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26 MAY… This Day Back In Time

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26 May 2025

THE BEATLES released their 8th longplayer, masterpiece
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band on 26 May 1967,
today 58 years ago.

The album had an immediate cross-generational impact and was associated with numerous touchstones of the era’s youth culture, such as fashion, drugs, mysticism,
and a sense of optimism and empowerment.

It topped nearly all album charts around the world.


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All Fab Four Albums
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Goth gods THE CURE released their 7th album
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me today 38 years ago,
on 26 May 1987.

Robert Smith: “It’s like an end to what we’ve been doing for the last 10 years.
This one is taking bits from everything we’ve done, all the bits that I’ve liked. But
there’s a single album’s worth of that and a single album’s worth of stuff we’ve
never really attempted before.”

No. 6 in the UK. No. 4 in Germany and Austria. No. 35 in the US.


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Instagram – All Albums
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THE ROLLING STONES reached the top seat of the UK Singles Chart
with Paint It, Black on 26 May 1966, today 59 years ago.

I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colors anymore I want them to turn black
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes…

Instagram – Discography
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BLONDIE hit the top spot of the UK Singles Charts on 26 May 1979,
today 46 years ago with pop pearl Sunday Girl. It was part of their
splendid Parallel Lines LP.

The song was written by Chris Stein, inspired by Debbie Harry‘s cat, who was named
Sunday Man. The cat had recently run away, inspiring the song’s “plaintive” nature.

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UNIVERSITY – British Punk Smart Arses Drop Another Splinter Bomb With ‘GTA ONLINE’

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Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine

26 May 2025


Photo Credit Steve Gullick

British post-hard-core-punk smart arses UNIVERSITY are
knocking hard and loud at the iron gates of indie madness.

Back in 2023 they presented themselves to the world with their 5-track debut
EP Title Track. A ferocious hellraiser of an extended play. Think Pigs x 7 x 2.

From there on, the Crewe, Cheshire- based turbine started to write/record their debut
full length, titled McCartney, It’ll Be OK . It’s now ready to be unleashed on June 10th.
More info here

But first taster #3, called GTA ONLINE. Nearly four minutes of gargantuan rock akin
to the cult early Biffy Clyro records. The band say: “I tire an old, sick man, tedious dreams
of Bosch, oh do not ask what is it. I do not want to know.” Come again!

Wake up people, time for school.


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All 3 tasters


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TOUR


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UNCUT Magazine Presents The Ultimate Music Guide to LOU REED

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25 May 2025

English glossy music monthly UNCUT presents another Ultimate Music Guide.
This time the late genial LOU REED is the focus of attention.

This 148-page deluxe edition celebrates 60 years of Lou’s mature songwriting.
Whether it was the influential sedition of his early work, his unexpected rebirth as
a pop star via the intervention of David Bowie, the adversarial, unexplained soundworld
of Metal Machine Music, through to Lulu, his album with Metallica and his last ambient works, his was a career to keep you on the edge of your seat.

Outside of the music there was clearly a lot going on. For all Laurie Anderson’s efforts
to posthumously rehabilitate Reed as a dog lover, Tai chi master and amateur watch repairer, loving partner, family member and electronics whiz, we’re still compelled
by the jaggedness of the man. The horrifying onstage schtick. The interviews that
make your blood run cold. It’s rage-filled, often misanthropic and it’s complicated.

These days, Lou’s archives (his tapes, his doo wop records, college accreditations, and clippings archive; his swords, but not his hats) are in the special collections department of New York Public Library. One of the most interesting artefacts to be discovered, however, may have been one of the first, found behind Lou’s work desk.

You can purchase a copy and have it sent to your home. Info HERE.

WAVES OF FEAR
(One of my Reed’s favs)

NEIL YOUNG And THE CHROME HEARTS Talk To The Trees

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Reveries for the laziest day of the week

25 May 2025

Every NEIL YOUNG fan (including me) knows for a couple of months now, that their
79-year-old rock idol has recorded an album with his new band The Chrome Hearts .
It’s namedTalkin’ To The Trees, and shows up on June 12th.

Press info: “Talkin To The Trees is a personal and powerful album featuring ten new compositions by Young. “Big Change”, the first song from the album, was released in January 2025, with a message that left no doubt where Neil Young stands in these challenging times.

The Chrome Hearts are Spooner Oldham (Organ); Micah Nelson (Guitar and Vocal); Corey McCormick (Bass and Vocal); Anthony LoGerfo (Drums); with Neil Young (Guitar, Harp, Piano, Vibes). The album is co-produced by Lou Adler and Young, and recorded at Shangri La Studios in Malibu.”

Following the racy lead single Lets Roll Again we can enjoy a vintage,
heart of gold ballad with the LP’s title track TALKIN TO THE TREES.


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