PIXIES Still Fly Around The World To Promote Their Zombies
Last October PIXIES released their 9th LP with The Night the Zombies
Came and hit the road right away to promote it. And they still are flying
around the world to do the job.
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Month: August 2025
PICTURE OF THE DAY – Tuesday 26 August 2025
IDLES‘s voice/face Joe Talbot lighting up at Pukkelpop Festival – Belgium last week.
Photo by Turn Up The Volume
PREWN – Intriguing Massachusetts Songstress Puzzles With New Preview ‘DIRTY DOG’ From Her Upcoming 2nd LP
Daily electricity to load your batteries
26 August 2025
Photo by Harry Wohl
Artist: PREWN
Who: The moniker of Massachusetts‘ intriguing singer-songwriter
Izzy Hagerup. She released her debut album Through The Window
in 2023.
Track: DIRTY DOG
The second preview, following the top-hole title track
from her sophomore full-length, slated for release on
October 3rd.
Hagerup: “‘Dirty Dog’ is a song that lives in the nightmarish dreamscape
of the unconscious, a place of fear and fearlessness, freudian and a little evil.
The song is about a self-serving man who’s abandoned his needy mother and
comes crawling back when it’s a little too late.”
TUTV: Dirty Dog makes me think of Kim Gordon‘s recent solo work.
Industrial-related, enigmatic, but rougher in execution. A nightmarish
stroll.
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SYD BARRETT – New Book On The Late PINK FLOYD Legend Out In 3 Weeks
Yesterday, this message was posted on the socials of SYD BARRETT,
the legendary co-founder and inspirator of the early Pink Floyd years.
No title, nor further info, so far.
From 1965 until 1968, he was the band’s frontman and primary songwriter,
known for his whimsical style of psychedelia and stream-of-consciousness
writing. As a guitarist, he was influential for his free-form playing and for
employing effects such as dissonance, distortion, echo, and feedback.
He got fired by the group as his increasingly erratic behaviour, partly due
to his heavy use of psychedelic drugs, got worse and worse. He developed
a blank, dead-eyed stare. Barrett did not recognize friends, and he often did
not know where he was.
When his health got somewhat better, he wrote/recorded
and released 2 solo LPs, The Madcap Laughs and Barrett.
Both came out in 1970.
BARRETT
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THE MADCAP LAUGHS
Aussie Rockers AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS Steamed-Up The Crowd At READING LEEDS FESTIVAL Last Weekend
26 August 2025
Album cover
Since last year’s Cartoon Darkness, their 3th album, the out-of-their-heads
rocking Aussies AMYL AND SNIFFERS went on the road and they have clearly
no intention to go home yet.
Last weekend they steamed-up the crowd at Reading Leeds Festival.
Never a dull moment with roisterous front Amazone Amyl Taylor. FACT!
PSYCHIC SALAMANDER FESTIVAL In CARNATION WASHINGTON – 13/14 September 2025
BLUR Scored Their First Number One Hit In The UK With ‘COUNTRY HOUSE’ 30 Years Ago Today
Top singles from the past
26 August 2025
Britpop luminaries BLUR scored their first UK No.1 single with
COUNTRY HOUSE from their 4th LP The Great Escape.
It went straight to the top spot on 26 August 1995, today 30 years ago.
They won the media-pushed battle with Oasis who came in 2nd with
their new single Roll With It
It sold 270,000 copies on day one,
50.000 units more than Oasis did.
“He lives in a house, a very big house in the country
Watching afternoon repeats and the food he eats in the country
He takes all manner of pills and piles up analyst bills in the country
Oh, it’s like an animal farm, lots of rural charm in the country”
Rapper JAY WORTHY, Funk Legend GEORGE CLINTON & R&B Star LEVEN KALI Shake Their Booty Together
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
25 August 2025
Artist: JAY WORTHY
Who: L.A. rapper who operates solo
as well as half of duo LNDN DRGS.
Track: P FUNKENTELECHY
His newest single from his forthcoming album, titled Once Upon A Time (out Sept 26)
featuring colorful funk pioneer George Clinton (84 now) and R&B star Leven Kali.
Let’s all shake our booty.
The Late Great CHRIS CORNELL’s Favorite Band As A Child
25 August 2025
Yesterday.
(Image: cover of his solo album ‘Carry On’)
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Released Breakthrough Album ‘BORN TO RUN’ 50 Years Ago Today
Significant longplayers from the past
25 August 2025
75-year-old rock legend BRUCE SPRINGTEEN released his grand,
breakthrough longplayer BORN TO RUN today 50 years ago, on
25 August 2025.
It peaked at #3 in the US and #36 in the UK.
Over the following decades, the album has become widely regarded as
a masterpiece and one of his’s best records. It has appeared on various
lists of the greatest albums of all time.
The photo of the LP’s cover art was taken by the photographer Eric Meola. Springsteen’s busy recording schedule meant he kept missing shooting dates. When he finally showed up, he brought his saxophonist Clarence Clemons (1942-2011) whom he wanted on the cover.
Meola shot 900 frames in the three-hour session, some of which showed The Boss under
a fire escape, tuning a radio, and with a guitar. Unused shots were used for advertising.
Pitchfork: “Elvis had hit merely 18 years prior; Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix,
and the Beatles had died or called it quits only three or four years earlier. Bob Dylan
had been at it for a while and potentially seemed dated, though he was still only 33.
The weight of pop music history was something that could be shrugged off, and with
so much unexplored territory, bands felt an obligation to see where rock music might
yet go.
Born to Run is a distinctive record, even in the Springsteen canon. Its world is one of impossibly romantic hyperrealism, where the mundane easily becomes fantastic, and it all happens line by line.
Born to Run lies entirely on the dreamy and reckless side of maturity and is all the better
for it. Every young person should be so lucky, to have a time in his or her life when the
inflated romanticism of Born to Run makes perfect sense.”
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