Blue Monday Remedy

To Hell With Blue Mondays Here’s JACK WHITE With An EDDIE VAN HALEN Guitar

Posted on by JL

Last Saturday bluesman-at-heart played JACK WHITE
on American TV show Saturday Night Live.

He performed a perfervid firework medley of ‘Ball and Biscuit’,
‘Don’t Hurt Yourself’, ‘Jesus Is Coming Soon’ and the title track of
his 2014 album Lazaretto which he performed with an Eddie Van
Halen who passed away last Tuesday, only 65.

Jack White said: “I thought it could be a nice gesture for me to use this blue
Eddie Van Halen model guitar that was designed by Eddie. He was very kind to me
and saw to it that this guitar was made for me to my specs. I won’t even insult the
man’s talent by trying to play one of his songs tonight. Thanks again Eddie for
this guitar and rest in peace sir.”

Hit it, Jack…

To Hell With Blue Mondays – Fasten Your Seatbelt For Symphonic Metal Orchestra PYJAMA PLANET

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Rowdy rippers to kick Mondays in the face to…

5 October 2020

MARK PYJAMA is a Cape Town based centipede who’s mixing and producing music for artists, video games, and films. He develops audio plugins and writes his own breed of heavy metal.

With his PYJAMA PLANET project he just unleashed a new king-sized instrumental piece called THE PRELUDE (feat. Kris Xenopoulos from Vulvodunia). It’s the first single from his upcoming album MADJENTA.

Mark states that “This song has been 3 years in the making. It was a journey. The song developed as I did as a person over these years, and it was my rock when I needed creative escapism!”

After a short, frolicsome classical music intro with strings and piano all hell breaks loose. Layers of rollicking guitars and slam-bang drums flood you like a tsunami at supersonic speed with a gigantic resonance. Mind you, it’s not about making just noise.

Definitely not, Pyjama Planet sounds like a symphonic orchestra – a blasting one – with classical structures and violins and piano sequences popping up now and then. It’s prog-rock metal with euphonious textures and Mark Pyjama as composer and conductor.

Fasten your seatbelt before you press play…

PYJAMA PLANET: Facebook

 

To Hell With Blue Mondays – Here Come DEFTONES With Drilling Blast ‘ERROR’

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28 September 2020

Last Friday metallic power-rockers DEFTONES
unleashed their ninth longplayer OHMS.

One of the deafening highlights is the opening track
ERROR. A slow-burning brain-breaker. A raucous wallop.
Perfect to kick this Monday in the face. Between the eyes!

Yeahhhh…

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DEFTONES: Facebook

To Hell With Blue Mondays – Here Are Ass-Kicking Garage Noiseniks CRACKUPS Getting The Vibes

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29 June 2020

These Belgian garage rock motherrockers not only look scary but they also sound scary.
These are a bunch of deranged gunslingers you don’t want to meet in the dark and by the day it’s better to keep a large social distance from them.

The 4-headed bulldozer’s new ass-kicking jackhammer GETTING THE VIBES is a nasty piece of mental exorcism sounding like sonic sex. Oh yeah, this Molotov cocktail’s heated intensity and prurience appetite grows monstrously along its volcanic course until the orgiastic finale hits you in the balls. Get it? Arrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhh! Run and hide before the vibe crushes you.

Go go gol…


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CRACKUPS: Facebook

To Hell With Blue Mondays – Here’s Punk Force IDLES…

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22 June 2020


(photo Turn Up The Volume!)

No better way to knock Mondays in the face than with Bristol’s punk force IDLES.
The fierce hit team announced their third album a few weeks ago. ULTRA MONO
will be out on 25th September.

So far they shared two wall-shaking firecrackers. Go apeshit here…

– MR. MOTIVATOR –

– GROUNDS –

IDLES: Facebook


(photo by Turn Up The Volume!)

To Hell With Blue Mondays – Here Are… THE BREEDERS

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Weekly firework to kick Blue Mondays in the ass…

There are three reasons to play THE BREEDERS on this blue Monday. One: twin sisters Kim and Kelley Deal are the coolest rock ladies ever in my book. Two: the band will tour Europe again this fall with me in the front row at their show in Antwerp as I bought a ticket for the gig last week. Three: my ears actually don’t need a specific reason to get spoilt by this brill gang. It’s sonic firework I can listen to any day of the week. Let’s roll some cannonballs…

HUFFER

SAINTS

CANNONBALL

THE BREEDERS: Facebook – Twitter –  Discography

To Hell With Blue Mondays – Go Nuts With… KINGS OF LEON

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Weekly havoc to kick Blue Mondays in the ass…

The fierce Nashville family KINGS OF LEON released their third album BECAUSE OF THE TIMES – one of their best, ten years ago – in 2007. A raw fireball full of Southern garage rock. This acclaimed LP brought them one step closer to world fame. My favorite highlight is BLACK THUMBNAIL . A nasty roller coaster killer with scorching guitars and frontman Caleb Followill‘s rusty voice almost collapsing. Here’s a smoking live rendition…

KINGS OF LEON: Website – Facebook – Twitter