American film soundtrack composer DANNY ELFMAN has a new album
out, titledBIGGER. MESSIER., on 12 August with reimagined versions of
songs from his last year’s Big Mess longplayer. More info here.
It features guest vocals from Trent Reznor, Iggy Pop, HEALTH,
Zach Hill of Death Grips, Xiu Xiu, Squarepusher, Ghostemane.
Elfmann:“At the onset of Bigger. Messier., I asked the same thing of every artist:
‘express me through your own eyes.’ Not only was I surprised at the artists that
wanted to participate, but completely blown away by what everyone contributed.”
And here comes IGGY POP, the on-target
neurotic voice for neurotic jam KICK ME…
Welch: “I was thinking about Nick Cave, I was thinking about Leonard Cohen. I was thinking about how, in some ways, although everyone undergoes huge changes, their physical bodies – especially moving through touring – have been allowed to remain unchanged and they can commit their body entirely to the stag. In the singing, I’m trying to still embody them. In the lower baritones, I’m trying to do a Leonard or a Nick or an Iggy Pop.”
Florence sounds a bit like Siouxsie Sioux here and searches not to destroy
this Stooges punk classic. Instead, she turns it into a Machine belter.
Worshipped metal freaksONI from Canada launched a new maddening missile called SECRETS from their new, forthcoming album Loathing Light, out on 17 June.
The song is a collaborative effort by frontman Jake Oni and Lamb Of God leader Randy Blythe
It was Oni who came up with the idea
of a second vocalist. Enter Iggy Pop.
Oni: “Iggy’s vocals are so iconic and instantly recognisable, his style is what we were after.
But we figured, let’s see if we can get the man himself to check it out,” Oni explained in a press release. “He came down, we had some food and just chilled. And then he did his thing all over the song. He asked me for ideas about how to approach it, which was just crazy and cool. It all worked so well and came out sick.”
The one and only real Punkfather was born James Newell Osterberg Jr
aka IGGY POP on 21 April 1947 in Muskegon, Michigan. He started moving,
falling, standing up, going totally nuts, and yelling like a madman in 1960.
He canned 5 albums with The Stooges and 18 solo LPs (so far). For the past few
years, he was a guest on countless tracks of other artists. I wonder sometimes how
all these (former) junkies and 24-hour party animals survive and still kickin’ hard.
Anyway…
Happy 75 to the passenger!
The dog is getting older but he still has the heart of a young party animal.
Here’s the living legend still going berserk off and on stage!
Artist: THE CRYSTAL METHOD Who: Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland started this
electro project in the early 90s in Las Vegas, Nevada.
It’s now, for about 5 years, the solo show of Kirkland
New album: THE TRIP OUT – his 7th LP Out: 15 April 2022 – Pre-order info here
Kirkland invited pre-punk Iggy Pop (you can hear him almost any day on
a new collaboration, the past few years) and his British buddy, composer/DJ Hyper in his studio. The raving result is a banging techno boom, bursting all
the way, with Pop‘s voice strangled by a blender sounding spooky, sounding Iggy.
Breaking news: Iggy is not a punk anymore!
“I don’t want to be a punk
I don’t want to belong to any of it
I just want to be”
Why?With his era-defining group The Stooges, Iggy Pop created furious rock music by
blending together blues and free jazz influences with the roar of the Michigan automotive industry. With his courage, initiative and raw power, Iggy Pop paved the way for punk and
post-punk. Groups like the Sex Pistols, Ramones, Blondie, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy
Division and Nick Cave all followed in his footsteps.
As a solo artist, Iggy Pop has never slowed down, and has instead pushed this art form forwards for half a century. Iggy Pop is “the chairman of the bored” who portrays alienation
in poetic language. A wholly unique artist who personifies and embodies what rock music is about.
Krautrock act BEAK> including Geoff Barrow (of Portishead), Billy Fuller (Robert Plant’s Sensational Space Shifters) and Will Young (Moon Gangs) do once again what they’re addicted to. Producing synth loops with their fingers on the repeat button over and
over again, so their circling grooves can go on like forever.
The hardest working acid house junk on the planet gave birth – oh my, what a mess – to his sixth LegPuppy. He’s so proud of his newborn little monster. And so should you. To celebrate, here’s the dope opener ‘Dick Pic’.
Wow! This sultry psychedelic jackhammer just exploded in my face the moment it blasted out of my stereo, and I loved it so much that I started all over again. Mystica‘s ardent vox and her burning Courtney Love intensity makes the hair in your neck stand up. Wow!
“I was definitely inspired by grunge and the idea of a neo-psychedelic wall of sound. I wanted
it to sound dark and hypnotic. But with more direct and simple pop-like melodies and lyrics reminiscent of 90’s Britpop bands like Ride and Oasis. My vision for this song was to juxtapose these deeper story-like lyrics, with a more raw rock n’ roll inspired soundscape. I wanted it to feel like a balance of structure and stream of consciousness, especially in places like the outro
of the song. I wanted it to feel really free,” says Rosa about her new slam dunk.
Who? “Marcel is a carnival ghost who likes to make a lot of noise by rubbing himself on human cheeks with tenderness. Like a lame cat with cymbals attached to its tail. Insufferable but oddly sympathetic. Their music owes as much to Jonathan Richman as it does to the strained strikes of Steven Gerrard, the twisted guitars of Sonic Youth as it does to German expressionist painting, the silly cartoons of their teenage years, as it does to pre-Socratic philosophy.”
These slash and trash crackpots have a new boiling self-titled EP out. You can stream the whole shebang here.
And hear/watch the riff-insane opener crooked harmony below.
Putain, putain, c’est vachement bien…
“Get The Money” is an upbeat anthem about the incessant challenge of American work-life balance. “Get The Money” features witty lyrics accompanied by warm acoustic guitars before exploding into a chorus of wiry 90’s guitars, and funky bass lines creating an eclectic combination of instruments accompanied with the anthemic lyrics.
These are the hip-shaking slo-mo grooves that trigger your best moves once you finally
get yourself out of your lazy couch. And as it is about money and getting rich, you’ll start drooling from the very first second. Right here, right now…
Let’s have some mad metal with the infamous noise experts of Atlanta, Georgia to end this week’s M7 feature. Their new supersonic hardcore smack – from upcoming double album Hushed and Grim (out 29th October) – is what you need to start a mad-for-it moshpit. Got it? Now, go go go.
I think I’m ready to start
I thought I heard you scream
We’re all part of this fucked up devastation…
