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THE UNDERGROUND YOUTH Inspired By LEE HAZLEWOOD And SERGE GAINSBOURG For New LP ‘DÉCOLLAGE’

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Manchester‘s psych post-punk mavericks THE UNDERGROUND YOUTH,
orchestrated by voice/face/songwriter Craig Dyer have canned their 12th LP.
They named it Décollage and will share it with the world on April 4th.

Pre-order details right here.

Dyer about the new album: “Décollage is the art of creating an image by ripping, tearing
away or removing pieces of an original existing work. My idea was to apply this technique to music. I built walls of static coated hip-hop drum samples, layers of Lee Hazlewood style string arrangements and Serge Gainsbourg inspired mellotron melodies, then I began tearing away at these beautiful, chaotic walls of noise, exposing a new sound for The Underground Youth.”


New album artwork

Dyer citing 60s singer/songwriter/producer Lee Hazlewood (who did countless duets
with super-glam-star Nancy Sinatra) and 60s/70s French controversial songsmith/producer Serge Gainsbourg as inspirations for a new TYU full length is enough to have your and mine attention, right away. Sounds amazingly cool.

And I’m pretty sure that Dyer listened a lot to The Cure‘s last year’s masterpiece
‘Songs Of A Lost World‘ before or during the writing of lead single YOU (The Feral
Human Thunderstorm) with its slo-mo, melancholic synths infused progression
and lament resonance. Entrancing effort.

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Instagram – Bandcamp

Folktronica Sisters COCOROSIE Release 8th LP In March – Info, Singles & Tour Dates Below

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17 January 2025


📷 Kate Russell Photography

Folktronica siblings COCOROSIE – Sierra Rose Rosie” and Bianca Leilani “Coco” Casady are gearing up for their 8th album in 20 years. It’s baptized LITTLE DEATH WISHES. It comes out on 28th March. Pre-order info here.

Press info: “Little Death Wishes is as open and tenderhearted as anything they’ve ever created. The songs tell a kaleidoscopic story of the generational hardship of women and the shattered realities of their lives, the precarious and precious nature of being human, of being done wrong by love, and a final wish to be unbroken. It boils everything CocoRosie down to its most brutal essence: turning pain into knowledge, sisterhood into polemic, trash into treasure, and recalcifying kitsch and cliché into fresh truths.”

So far the sisters have shared 2 impressive,
dance-infused pieces from the forthcoming LP.

– CUT STITCH SCAR –

– LEAST I HAVE YOU –

TOUR 2025

Instagram – Website – All Albums

ARCHITECTS – New Single, New Album, New Tour Dates For The British Metalcore Giants

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Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine

26 November 2024

English metalcore giants ARCHITECTS were formed 20 years ago by twin brothers
Dan and Tom Searle. Over two decades they became gargantuan heavyweights within
the genre with millions of sales of albums and millions and millions of streams on
Spotify.

Their new, 11th longplayer, named The Sky, The Earth & All
is ready for launch on the last day of February, next year.


Album artwork

They dropped three preview tracks so far, with
ear-splitting monster WHIPLASH as the new one.

I have no idea what vocalist Sam Carter eats, drinks
or swallows but his vocal range and unreal stamina
is beyond belief. Of course, it helps when you have
4 lungs.

Wake up people,
go straight to YT,
and scare yourself
and your neighbours.

All 3 singles

Euro Spring Tour Dates 2025

Instagram – Website

LINKIN PARK – Veteran Nu-Metal Motherrockers Premier New Jagged Juggernaut ‘CASUALITY’ Live In Dallas

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12 November 2024


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In July 2017 devastating news hit the huge fan base of nu-metal rockers
LINKIN PARK when the passing of frontman Chester Bennington was
announced. He committed suicide at the age of 41.

The Californian band released 7 albums between 2000 and 2007 and
their future was in doubt. But a couple of weeks ago re-start rumours
were confirmed.

It’s official. LP are back with a new line-up. Long-time members Mike Shinoda,
Brad Delson, Dave “Phoenix” Farrell, and Joe Hahn, alongside two newcomers
Emily Armstrong of grunge rockers Dead Sara and drummer Colin Brittain
(songwriter, producer for G Flip, Illenium).


New album artwork

They have canned a new longplayer, baptized From Zero. Yes, they start
all over again. The LP will hit the streets this Friday, on November 15th.

We already got 3 preview tracks.
Stream them here.
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And a couple of days ago they played another
new one live in Dallas, named CASUALITY.

Spotify – Instagram

DITZ – Brighton’s Mean Raging Machine Prepare For 2nd LP With Storming Single ‘SPACE/SMILE’

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17 October 2024


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Brighton‘s post-punk dropouts DITZ fabricated the best debut album of 2022, according to Turn Up The Volume’s ears, with their blaze & rage LP THE GREAT REGRESSION. Since then the band are on a non-stop tour.

And the tour will go on and on, as the turbulent bohemians just announced their sophomore LP. It’s named NEVER EXHALE. It’ll show up 25 January 2025.

Pre-order info here.

Press info: Never exhale’ is the sound of a band that hasn’t stopped for a breath. DITZ have toured relentlessly since the release of their first album ‘The Great Regression’. The songs that form their newest offering were written across Europe, often on off days and in borrowed rehearsal rooms. It could be said that the band treat recording and release of music as an afterthought. Often playing songs live years before their release, tweaking them as they go. The songs on the final record may change before they are ever heard as part of the album.”


Album artwork

C.A. Francis (charismatic voice/face) about first single SPACE/SMILE: ‘I feel like Space/Smile is pretty unique within the album. It’s the shortest track by a fair margin. We’ve kind of become known for using dynamic shifts to create drama in our music and with this track we tried to avoid it. It’s all about the escalation.’

SPACE/SMILE is a slash/trash stormer, pushed by fulminating percussion, fierce guitars and Francis spitting and sneering, fueled by his three lungs, without breathing, for 108 seconds. DITZ is a mean raging machine. Helter-skelter!


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EURO TOUR 2025

Catch them when you can.
Trust me, their concerts
are a blast.

Linktree – Bandcamp

NEIL YOUNG – Colossal Box Set ‘ARCHIVES VOL. III (1976-1987)’ Lands In September

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28 July 2024

NEIL YOUNG‘s are truly inexhaustible. For some years now he
has come up with lots of previously unreleased music, mostly
live recordings.

And here comes a colossal one.

ARCHIVES VOLUME III (1976-1987) contains 198 tracks, spread over 17 CDs
and 5 Blu Rays. The giant box includes 121 previously unreleased versions of live,
studio mixes, or edits, and 15 songs that are being released for the very first
time.

It’s 28 hours of material in total, which as a press statement points out, could take you driving from New York to Denver, with some music left over. The collection also includes
a 176-page book, a 16-track sampler named Takes, a poster and a NYA pin.

Only 5000 boxes available.
Release date: September 6.

Pre-order info here.

Along with the news comes this
taster, titled Bright Sunny Day.

NY: Website

THE CURE – Acoustic Versions Of Their ‘GREATEST HITS’ Soon Streamable And On Vinyl

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23 July 2024

Goth-pop giants THE CURE released a Greatest Hits album back in 2001.
The CD featured, on several international releases, a bonus disc with
acoustic versions of the hits.

The band now announced that the acoustic set will be, for the first time,
on all official streaming platforms from August 9 on, and sometime later
a vinyl version will also be available. Pre-order here.

To promote it all, we get acoustic studio versions of 3 of their classic pearls,
The Lovecats, A Forest and Close To Me. Watch/listen to them on these pretty
cool black and white videos.

– THE LOVECATS –

– A FOREST –

– CLOSE TO ME –

Instagram – Website

Workaholic THURSTON MOORE Has 5th Solo LP In 7 Years Out In September – Hear New single ‘SANS LIMITES’

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22 June 2024


New album artwork

Former Sonic Youth force THURSTON MOORE
has his 5th solo LP in 7 years ready for release.

At the age of 66 he doesn’t slow down whatsoever. Over the past months
he released 3 singles, but just now he announced that they’ll be on a new LP,
named FLOW CRITICAL LUCIDITY . It’ll show up on September 20.

More info here.

Along with the news comes another new piece, titled
SANS LIMITES, featuring Stereolab’s Lætitia Sadier.

Moore in a statement via Clash magazine: “Sans Limites” begins with a cyclic
guitar & piano figure which expands further and further with each revolution before
settling into a two-chord measure introducing lyrics intoning not only about eradicating
any limitations towards enlightenment, but going beyond limitations. The idea that
a soldier can fight the good fight. A warrior against war.”


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TM: Instagram

MC5 – After More Than 50 Years A New Album Titled ‘HEAVY LIFTING’ Featuring Several Famous Guests Comes Out In October

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11 June 2024

With the passing of Wayne Kramer (75) last February and drummer
Dennis Thompson (75) last month all 5 original MC5 members are
gone. Together they released 3 longplayers, including their live classic
Kick Out The Jams (1969)

Back in 2022 Kramer broke the news that he was working on a new MC5 LP,
with co-songwriter Brad Brooks (they composed 12 of the 13 tracks together),
featuring famous guests like Tom Morello, Slash, Vernon Reid and many more.
It sounds more like a tribute to the iconic Detroit band.

Kramer told Rolling Stone at the time: “We are all part of the same mindset, living
in the same world, and we all want to make a difference. Each collaborator to a person
has helped me to relay that message. Also, my songwriting with Brad Brooks has really
been a therapeutic process … for both of us. And then to layer Bob Ezrin on top added
a whole new layer of complexity that then widened my scope and my ideas even further.
It’s just an outgrowth of the band’s core ideology”

Bob Ezrin (the legendary producer of the LP): “It has a revolutionary message but also
a good sense of humor. There’s a little bit of heavy metal. There’s quite a bit of funk. But it
is a heavy record, and it’s a guitar record left, right and center — just a wall of guitars most
of the time, and mostly driven by Wayne and his ethos. It’s a snapshot of a guitar man at
the height of his powers. We all feel a responsibility to make sure that his work is heard,
and he is celebrated. We poured our hearts into the project.”

Heavy Lifting is slated for release in October. More details TBA.

The first taster is called BOYS PLAY WITH MATCHES. No idea who the singer is.
The track roars and rolls, but understandably, it’s impossible to bring back the
original MC5 kick out the jams spirit.

MC5: Website

Previously Unreleased JOHNNY CASH Album ‘SONGWRITER’ Out In June – Hear Track ‘WELL ALRIGHT’ Here

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26 May 2024

The late great country icon JOHNNY CASH recorded an LP’s worth of self-penned songs
in 1993. A year later he released the first of 6 albums of the stately American Recordings produced by the legendary studio wizard Rick Rubin. It revitalized his career and got him a whole new generation of fans, along with the countless old ones of past generations.

The new album is titled SONGWRITER and will be released on
180g black vinyl with printed LP sleeve, on June 28. Order-info here.

One of the songs is this vintage, heartwarming Cash one, named Well Alright.


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Tracklist

A1. Hello Out There
A2. Spotlight
A3. Drive On
A4. I Love You Tonite
A5. Have You Ever Been To Little Rock?
B1. Well Alright
B2. She Sang Sweet Baby James
B3. Poor Valley Girl
B4. Soldier Boy
B5. Sing It Pretty Sue
B6.Like A Soldier

JC: Website