Veteran rockers MELVINS (in business since 1983 / so far 28 albums) teamed up with British grindcore legends NAPALM DEATH (busy for 45 years now / so far 16 albums)
for a collaborative LP, titled SAVAGE IMPERIAL DEATH MARCH.
MELVINS
NAPALM DEATH
And? Surprising combination, but it works pretty fireworks
well at times, with key tracks Rip The God, Stealing Horses and Death Hour.
Yes, it was the album’s artwork that caught
my attention first and made me listen to it.
GRAHAM NASH (born in Lancashire, England 84 years ago), former
member of iconic quartet got himself a solo career, although not
as productive as his famous compagnions. And he’s not done yet.
In 2023 he has released his 7th LP, called Now and…
now he has started a new North American tour.
Californian heavyweight rockers VAN HALEN (1972–1999, 2003–2020)
scored their first No. 1 album in the US with their 7th, named 5150.
It topped the charts on 24 March 1986, today 40 yearsago.
It was the first of 4 LPs with red rocker Sammy Hagar on vocals,
replacing David Lee Roth, who left to pursue a solo career. He
would return in 2007.
Many called the new incarnation Van Hagar. The nickname was so ubiquitous that,
as Hagar later pointed out in a book, record label Warner Bros asked to consider
renaming the band as such. The Van Halen brothers refused.
The LP’s artwork features an Art Deco depiction ofAtlas
kneeling while holding a mirror-polished metallic sphere
on his shoulders.
Rolling Stone‘s verdict: “Part of Eddie Van Halen’s cheeky genius lies in his ability to think in terms of both complex orchestration and rock banalities. Eddie can still split the atom with his axe, and he knows it. It’s a Van Halen world with or without David Lee Roth, and 5150 shoots off all the bombastic fireworks of a band at the peak of its powers.”
In his first in-depth print interview in 4 years, former Nirvana drummer DAVE GROHL unveils a new chapter in his musical odyssey, previewing Foo Fighters upcoming new albumYour Favorite Toy, which will land
on April 24th.
Check out the 2 tasters (so far).
YOUR FAVORITE TOY
CAUGHT IN THE ECHO
Also in the issue: The Clash back to the beginning; Cocteau Twins’ Liz Fraser speaks; Bad Company’s blues, and soul; Record Store Day’s hidden gems. U2; Booker T; Joe Jackson; Alex Harvey; Sunn O))); Jackie DeShannon; Hiss Golden Messenger; Courtney Pine; The Seeds; The Beat; Chris Rea; Procol Harum and more!
This month’s FREE CD is by none other than Dave Grohl and Nate Mendel from Foo Fighters.
It features Queens Of The Stone Age, David Byrne, Nick Cave, Hüsker Dü, Fat Dog, Pissed Jeans, Kim Gordon, and more!
You can purchase a copy of this new issue and have it sent to your home. Info HERE.
Artists: MOON MOTHER Who: MM is the voice echoing through a starless night, music born from darkness, yet always carrying a glimmer of light. From the rural landscapes of western Sweden, the duo has built an architecture of earthy, alternative slow rock and melancholic, atmospheric folk with a Nordic touch. A sound they call månrock.
Press Info: “On the new album, recorded and produced in their home, live takes and emotion are in focus. Minimalism with a large expression that has then been intuitively built on to create a raw and powerfully atmospheric soundscape that, with the help of traditional, acoustic instruments such as for example accordion and birch-trumpet with large reverbs, has built an earthy, unique and mysterious ambience.
A place where the past meets the present. In the magical world of Meadowlands, the vocals are in the spotlight, surrounded by experimental, string arrangements, grinding acoustic instruments and typical Moon Mother vocalizations, big choirs and the occasional blackbird.”
TUTV: Meadowlands‘s resonates as if Moon Mother recorded it in a covert cocoon far away, from the real world – not a harmonius one whatsoever, as we know – somewhere in the middle of a giant forest. Well, that’s what my mind put into images from what my ears hear.
The duo’s sonic universe doesn’t translate as an earthy one, rather one where reality meets surreality, where doom and gloom are kept under control, where a light shines that never goes out. Melodramatic orchestrations, progressing in slow-motion accentuate the otherwordly atmospherics that float around while Sara Mehner‘s delirious vocals cause goosebumps in the middle of it all.
This is music for twilight moments and deep contemplations.
This is a record that draws your attention away from everyhting
that happens around you.
