Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
28 June 2025
Californian nu metal dinosaurs PAPA ROACH produce roaring racket
since 1993. So far they released 11th longplayers, with Ego Trip as the
latest (2022).
Back in January, they unleashed a new
cluster bomb single with Even If It Kills Me.
Now the roaches follow it with
another nuclear missile.
Band: SWAN HILL Who: Electrifying indie 4-piece
from Swansea, UK that formed
since 2020.
TUTV: Who said guitar rock was dead? Oh, that individual that lives on Mars. Whatever, there’s more axe electricity around than you can absorb. Since the Internet changed our lives, many music freaks started a band, released their stuff on the World Wide Web hoping that record label people and fans would discover them and make them dream
of conquering the world.
Swan Hill are one of those countless post-punk devotees that love to turn up their
amps and create a ton of decibels as you will experience with Longhorn. A melodic
riff-ripper that echoes slacker rock dynamics and sticks in an eye/ear blink. Think Lou Barlow‘s power guitar-pop act Sebadoh. Get the sonic baseball picture?
Lead-single from their umpteenth album, baptized Abomination Revealed At Last, showing up on
August 8th. Tracklist and more details here.
New album artwork
John Dwyer: “Well this album just channelled out of the mist of atrocities swirling
around the planet right now. AI empathy, genocides, social media data collection and
addiction, the alignment of tech billionaires with the fascist overlords and their armada
of dogs, civilians being kidnapped by bootlicking thugs, the death of due process…the list
goes on and on. It’s been a long year already.”
Wake-up people, Osees will riff your sleepy head off
faster than you can say holy molly, this reckless speedball
drives me meshuga.
Happy 70 to The Clash guitar/voice/singwriter legend (1976-1983), who
started dance-orientated band BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE (1984-1997) a year
after Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon fired him.
– SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO –
He had to go in 1983
Iconic garage noizz rockers SONIC YOUTH (1981–2011) released their 6th longplayer, named GOO on 26 June 1990, today 35 years ago. It was produced by the band, Don Fleming and J Mascis and followed their fuzz/buzz and trash/slash masterclass album Daydream Nation.
The working title for the album was Blowjob?, mostly to test the humor of their new
label DGC Records, but ultimately the band was convinced to drop the name in favor
of Goo, a title inspired by one of the record’s tracks My Friend Goo.
The album’s front cover design was created by American visual artist Raymond
Pettibon. He also designed early covers for Black Flag. The band chose his illustration
of two sunglasses-wearing British mods, based on a photograph of Maureen Hindley and David Smith, two witnesses in the trial of the Moors murders committed by English serial killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in the 60s.
By the time Goo was complete, its costs rose to $150,000 (US), five times as
much as Daydream Nation. The figure was staggering for a cost-conscious band.
Despite its universal, critical praise, it reached only #96 in the US and #32 in the UK.
The Los Angeles Times said: “Sonic Youth are The Rolling Stones of noise music.
Their distorted guitars, danceable rhythms and catchy choruses are fit for radio
airplay.”
Baltimore‘s trippy 4-piece ANIMAL COLLECTIVE (active since
2003 / 11 studio LPs) released their most recent new music with
album Isn’t It Now? two years ago.
They also kept busy, inbetween albums, writing
movie soundtracks and working with other artists.
Today, they dropped a standalone single, called LOVE ON THE BIG SCREEN.
It will be released on a limited-edition 7″ on August 1 with B-side song ‘Buddies
On The Blackboard’. You can pre-order it here.
