14 November 2022
Michael Alden Hadreas aka PERFUME GENIUS has recorded four
songs performed live for Spotify’s series of Live At Electric Lady EPs
(stream below).
One track is a cover of a RADIOHEAD
song 4 MINUTE WARNING from their
2007 album In Rainbows.
Hadres has a similar vulnerable vocal
timbre as Thom Yorke, causing goosebumps.
Perfume Genius
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Radiohead
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Full EP
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PERFUME GENIUS: Facebook – Instagram
9 November 2022
Band: THE WILD THINGS
Who: British rock band fronted by lead singer Sydney Rae White, star
of the hit Netflix/BBC show Uncle and blockbuster movie American Assasin.
The band do everything themselves because they have a clear, definitive
idea of who they are.
This is how massive Swedish hit machine ABBA would have sounded if they were
a pop-punk quartet. Spiced-up, pepped-up and turned-up with crystal synth touches, battering drum/bass, vigorous guitars and lively vocals. Go tell your mother about it,
I’m sure she still is an Abba fan.
The Wild Things take it all.
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Also streaming on Spotify
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Original version
THE WILD THINGS: Facebook – Instagram
28 October 2022
Artist: KATE CLOVER
Who: A singer-songwriter-musician from Los Angeles, CA. From the local lineage
of bands like X, Germs and The Gun Club to the glamorous poverty of the streets
of L.A. Clover is inspired by the city that raised her and she explores the intricacies
of self-discovery, self-creation and self-preservation, in the city where dreams are
born to die.
Just a couple of weeks ago she released new single You’re Phone’s
Of The Hook. A brisk head-over-heels rockin’ ripper. Check it out here.
And earlier this year she recorded, featuring Warren Thomas, a cracking
cover of Nancy Sinatra‘s classic THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKING .
Her glorious take is pretty special. Its rotating rockabilly riff brings The Cramps
back to live and injects the classic with a psychedelic vibe. But there’s more to it.
Midway a reverberating six-string creeps into the song, here and there I hear
sultry echoes of a 60s Hammond organ and Clover sounds as sensual as 60s
icon Nancy Sinatra. Top version.
Tomorrow Clover plays at the Badlands Festival in my hometown of
Ghent, Belgium. I wouldn’t mind if she walked with her boots all over me.
Here we go…
The original…
EUROPE/UK TOUR
KATE CLOVER: Facebook – Instagram – Linktree
8 October 2022
There are so many Leonard Cohen tribute albums already around, and
as mentioned before another one will see the day of light on 11 November
via the iconic jazz label Blue Note (in business since 1939).
Here It Is: A Tribute To Leonard Cohen will feature covers of 12 of his countless pearls performed by artists such as Peter Gabriel, Norah Jones, James Taylor and Mavis Staples.
IGGY POP also covered a COHEN gem, the title
track of his final album YOU WANT IT DARKER.
Iggy‘s voice resembles Cohen‘s one
in a truly spine-chilling way.
Just when you think that TOYAH & FRIPP can’t top their most hilarious
moments anymore, the fabulous YouTube stars come up with this new
Sunday Lunchperformance that made me burst out laughing.
This week the lovers picked Mr. Brightside, the ace debut
single by Los Angeles’ glam pop darlings THE KILLERS.
And they let British mega idol Chesney Hawkes do the signing
so they both could concentrate on moving in mysterious ways.
You bloody clowns!
Roll the tape.
The original killer
Toyah & Robert‘s ‘Sunday Lunch’ YouTube channel HERE
21 September 2022
(photo by Noël McGrath)
Joshua Michael Tillman (41) aka Father John Misty
shared a 6-track live EP recorded last March at the
famous New York studio ‘Electric Lady‘.
The EP includes reworkings of songs from this year’s longplayer
Chloë And The Next 20th Century and his cover of a Stevie Wonder
pearl, I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever) from his 1972
LP Talking Book.
A truly stirring and affected version.
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The Stevie Wonder original
FJM: Facebook – Instagram
17 September 2022
Photo credit: Jade Ashley Yong
Band: SYLVETTE
Who: Manchester five-piece Sylvette, formed 6 years ago. They have built a cult fan base around the country with their dynamic blend of emotive art-rock and Kafkaesque lyrics. Describing themselves as “Björk meets Black Midi, Nine Inch Nails and Black Country New Road”, the band’s name is inspired by the enchanting muse who appears in many of Picasso’s famous paintings.
They’re ready to go on the road. But first, their goosebumps cover of RIGHT WHERE
IT BELONGS, a pearl of a ballad by Nine Inch Nails (from their 2005 With Teeth LP).
“”Right Where It Belongs’ is the first cover we’ve ever played together that really felt like we made it our own. The song is about questioning your reality and how going through change
and trauma can distort the way you perceive yourself. It really felt appropriate for the theme
of our upcoming album ‘Single Thread’, so we made it the closing track on the record.”
Whereas mastermind Trent Reznor‘s performance is eerie Sylvette‘s take resonates fragile, sending shivers down your spine. like Sigur Ros does so wonderfully. I’m sure Reznor will like it.
Tune in.
NIN’s original.
SYLVETTE: Facebook – Instagram
5 September 2022
Los Angeles’ darkwave act COLD CAVE, the brainchild of
Wesley Eisold are ready for some live action (tour dates below).
Ahead of it they shared their terrifically bouncy cover of GODSTAR.
A 1985 PSYCHIC TV (British influential electro-dance legends conducted by
the late great Genesis P-Orridge) classic about the late blonde Rolling Stones’
God Brian Jones.
Feel the heat, capture the beat here…
Psychic TV original
COLD CAVE: Facebook – Instagram
Heroic Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham (now 72)
joined mega stars The Killers on stage last weekend in Los Angeles.
One of the three songs they played together was global FM hit
Go Your Own Way (almost 800 million streams on Spotify)
from their 1977 blockbuster LP Rumours.
Let’s go our way.
The original studio version
FLEETWOOD MAC: Bio – Discography
23 August 2022
Artist: HEARTS & HAND GRENADES
Who: Towering American hard rock group from Buffalo, NY
fronted by Stephanie Wlosinski on lead vocals and bass guitar.
These thunder and lighting metalheads have guts. Covering Rage’n’Bone Man‘s
global 2017 blockbuster hit Human (more than 715 million streams on Spotify)
isn’t without risk, but they nail it with their speed-up, cast-iron, and riff-insane take.
A totally different beast. A hammer blow with a grenade explosion impact.
I’m sure a duet of Rag’n’Bone‘s killer voice and the titanic pipes
of frontwoman Stephanie Wlosinski‘s would shock the world.
Metal junks are human too…
Also storming on Spotify
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The R’n’B man’s original