Month: May 2025

SUEDE – London’s Glam Rock Veterans Sound Like Revved Up Dogmanstars On Their New Badass Single ‘DISINTEGRATE’

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

20 May 2025


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Back in 2022 London’s glam rock/pop veterans SUEDE (in the US still known for legal reasons as ‘The London Suede’), led by the never aging Brett Anderson, released their
9th, quite remarkable album Autofication.

And now the news just came in that they have bagged album #10.
It’s titled Antidepressants and will land on September 5th.


New album artwork

Tracklist

01 “Disintegrate”
02 “Dancing With The Europeans”
03 “Antidepressants”
04 “Sweet Kid”
05 “The Sound And The Summer”
06 “Somewhere Between An Atom And A Star”
07 “Broken Music For Broken People”
08 “Trance State”
09 “Criminal Ways”
10 “June Rain”
11 “Life Is Endless, Life Is A Moment”

Anderson: “If Autofiction was our punk record, Antidepressants is our post-punk record. It’s about the tensions of modern life, the paranoia, the anxiety, the neurosis. We are all striving for connection in a disconnected world. This was the feel I wanted the songs to have. The album is called Antidepressants. This is broken music for broken people.”

First single DISINTEGRATE is a badass barnstormer revved up by radioactive guitar riffs,
a colossal drum beat, and, of course, Anderson‘s feverish vocals. Suede sound like young dogmanstars once again. Take notes, all you ambitious rock snotnoses out there.

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Rock Oldtimers RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS Released ‘CALIFORNICATION’ Single 25 Years Ago Today

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Top singles from the past

20 May 2025

Funk-punk oldtimers RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS released their 7th LP
Californication, one of their most successful, in June 1999.

The album contained no less than 6 singles, including the title track that came out a year later, on May 20th, this day 25 years ago. It peaked at #69 in the US and at #16 in the UK.

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MCLUSKY – British Noizz Bulldozers Welcomed Like Heroes From The Past In Brussels

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20 May 2025

British notorious post-punk bulldozers MCLUSKY, featuring diabolic loudmouth
Andrew Falkous, made a loud and clear mark on the indie list of decibels-producing
acts between 1993 and 2005 with three ear-piercing and politically outspoken albums.

The break-up wasn’t clearly a happy one.

Falkous told the world: “The three piece rock band known as mclusky have disbanded,
as of Friday 7 January 2005. The reason for this parting is private, though probably not
as entertaining as you’d imagine. Personally, I would like to thank all the people, places and times that occurred on or near us. I’m grateful for the love and to a lesser degree, the hate. There’ll be more music soon, from all of us.”

Then Falkous formed another significant, blaring group, named Future Of The Left,
including his wife on bass. They shook the planet with 5 full CDs (so far).

In between, in 2014 Mclusky returned with new bassist/vocalist Damien Sayell for a benefit gig in London and played some more here and there. In 2023, they released a new 4-track EP, called Unpopular Parts Of A Pig / The Digger You Deep to fund a delayed US tour.

And only 2 weeks ago, they launched brand-new LP THE WORLD IS STILL HERE AND SO ARE WE. A splendiferous chop-chop-chop record, which they’re now about to present to half of the world on an extensive tour.

last Sunday, they landed in Brussels at Les Nuits Botanique
festival in Brussels and they smashed it big time.


Andrew goes Aaaaaarrgghhhh

They were greeted with rapturous cheers by their old and new fans as
heroes who suddenly and unexpectedly came back from what seemed like
an eternity.

And the trio were, clearly, impressed and entranced with the ecstatic reception. In return, they delivered a bloodcurdling set stuffed with old and new sucker-punches that came out of the gigantic speakers as exploding Molotov cocktails. They produce an amount of illegal decibels that cause a sort of electric chair experience.


Bass/voice freak Damien

Mclusky is one of those noizz bullies that wield their bass/guitar/drums battleaxes with a fearless ferocity that makes your body and mind go ballistic and out-of-control. They have no mercy. They slash, trash and crash, and aim for your brain and your psyche.

Most of the crowd screamed the old and the new words along with well-oiled vocal
cords that almost matched Falkous and Damien Sayell‘s immense, clamorous, badass voices. Gloriously deafening. Everybody, all ears included, was extremely over the
moon with this exorcistic happening. One of those rare reunions that feels/sounds
totally relevant and AWESOME. They did Brussels instead of Dallas this time.

SETLIST

1. Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues
2. Without MSG I Am Nothing
3. Collagen Rock
4. What We’ve Learned
5. Unpopular Parts of a Pig
6. Falco vs. The Young Canoeist
7. She Will Only Bring You Happiness
8. Autofocus on the Prime Directive
9. You Should Be Ashamed, Seamus
10. Kafka‐Esque Novelist Franz Kafka
11. The Battle of Los Angelsea
12. Alan Is a Cowboy Killer
13. Chases
14. People Person
15. Whoyouknow
16. To Hell With Good Intentions

THE WORLD IS STILL HERE AND SO ARE WE


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TOUR 2025

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YOUTH CODE – Industrial EVM Duo Pulverize Your Brain With Single From Their Brand New Earthquake EP

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Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine

20 May 2025

Los Angeles‘ hellish industrial EBM duo YOUTH CODE – partners Sara Taylor and Ryan George – started to torture stereos around the world in 2012. So far they fabricated 2 LPs and after a long break they’re back now with a 5-track EP, named Yours, With Malice.

Sara Taylor said to Kerrang: “It felt like coming back after a nine-year absence with a full record was way too much information in a day and age where people expect singles that carry them over until the next single.

“I wanted to test the waters to make sure that, you know, are there people still out there? Are there people who haven’t discovered us? Why launch back in with a full LP when you can do an EP to be like, ‘Hey, this is us. There’s more coming.’”

The EP’s single CONSEQUENCE is what YC is about. Their Doomsday approach to industrial-techno katzenjammer pulverizes brains. Sounds like big fun, right? Does it?

Wake up people, here’s
a merciless way to
crush your hangover.

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THE CHELSEA CURVE – Boston’s Mod-Pop Trio Make Your Day On The Spot With Upper ‘HEY SAH-LO-NEY’

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

19 May 2025

Band: THE CHELSEA CURVE
Who: Swinging mod-pop trio from Boston.

Track: HEY SAH-LO-NEY-COVER
A cover of Mickey Lee Lane‘s 1965 firecracker, which, along with a remix of their 2022
song Jamie C’mon went digital last weekend and will be out on 7″ vinyl this summer.

TUTV: This is the kind of instant-affecting tunes that get all of your lazy limbs excited,
that energizes your blue Monday moody state of mind and makes your day on repeat.
165 swirling seconds of punchy punk ‘n’ roll. An irresistibly uplifting upper.

Bass and drum produce a battering beat, guitar riffs fly around and Linda Pardee‘s vivid vocals trigger you to get up, stand up and scream your lungs out when the ridiculously catchy chorus pops up.

Join the peppy party, folks.


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Picture This – Belgian Turbo PEUK Nailed It In Brussels Last Weekend

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Never mind Nirvana, here’s Belgian turbo PEUK – they have 2 smoking longplayers
on their mantelpiece, Peuk (2019) and Escape Somehow (2023) – who nailed it last
Friday in Brussels at Les Nuits Botanique

Never heard of Peuk? Here’s their STUPENDOUS hellraiser CAVE PERSON.

PICTURE THIS


Charismatic frontwoman Nele


Photograph this


Nele in trance


Smoking set


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EZRA FURMAN Opens Up All Of Her Heart And Soul On New Expressive And Ardent Album ‘GOODBYE SMALL HEAD’

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19 May 2025


New album artwork

Artist: EZRA FURMAN
Who: Flaring singer-songwriter from Chicago. She started
her career with a band called The Harpoons who released
3 albums.

New album: Goodbye Small Head.
Her 7th one.

Furman: “Twelve songs, twelve variations on the experience of completely losing control, whether by weakness, illness, mysticism, BDSM, drugs, heartbreak or just living in a sick society with one’s eyes open. These songs are vivid with overwhelm. They’re not about someone going off the rails, they are inside that person’s heart.

The songwriting here is a revision to William Wordsworth’s famous proclamation that “Poetry
is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.” I can agree with that, except for the tranquility part. This poetry, my poetry, arrived in the midst of the storm. It was written as I teetered toward the edge.”

DIY Magazine says: “It’s a textured tapestry of overwhelm that’s as desperate as it is defiant. She employs a string section across much of the record, and yet also dabbles in sampling for the first time; with its skittish drums, eulogic cello, and haunting vocals, ‘You Mustn’t Show Weakness’ is the potent pinnacle of this new frontier. Lyrically, too, ‘Goodbye Small Head’ is some of her finest work.”

TUTV: Furman‘s records are all soaked in emotional tenseness and troubled sensitiveness, lyrically and sonically. Her all-consuming voice is the perfect instrument to emphasize all her ardent eagerness.

And it works thoroughly on expressive highlights Jump Out, Power Of The Moon, You Hurt
Me I Hate You, A World Of Love And Care and closer I Need The Angel. Ezra Furman puts all of her heart and soul in her mesmerizing music. It makes Goodbye Small Head a formidable accomplishment.

Singles: Grand Mal / Jump Out / Power Of The Moon

– GRAND MAL –

– JUMP OUT –

– POWER OF THE MOON –

ALBUM


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THE BLACK KEYS Didn’t Take Time Off For A Holiday – With ‘NO RAIN NO FLOWERS’ They’ll Release Their 2nd LP In Two Years

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Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine

19 May 2025

Although Ohio Players wasn’t a great selling LP, Ohio‘s robust blues tandem THE BLACK KEYS – singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney – released one of their best albums ever to my ears with it. I guess its more melodic approach, less raw and rough than their traditional retro blues puissance, even poppy at times, wasn’t what diehard fans wanted to hear.


Photo by Larry Niehues

And the duo didn’t take time for a lazy holiday in the sun. They just announced the
upcoming issuance of another longplayer, their 13th. It’s called No Rain No Flowers
and will see the day of light on August 8th.

First single is the title track that leans more
to Ohio Players than to their early work.
And I like it again.

Wake up people,
black keys hit you
with a flower.

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