New Albums 2024

JACK WHITE Returns To His Punk Blues Roots With 6th Solo Album ‘NO NAME’

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3 August 2024


Album artwork

Former white stripe JACK WHITE (aged 49 now) let the world know, only a week or so
ago, out of the blue (artwork) that his 6th solo LP NO NAME was ready to be shared.

And here it is.

Rolling Stone: “The album is some of the best, most lively garage-blues crunch he’s
given us in many many moons, with just the right amount of eccentricity thrown in.”

TUTV: White returns to his punk blues roots of the early days. Swipe after swipe, kick after kick, clap after clap, a total of 13 thunderstrokes. Ravenous guitars rule all the way, and as we are used to, White‘s perfervid voice puts some more oil to the sonic wildfire. You’ll be out of breath after the full, exhilarative 43 minutes of seven nation Jack White army’s rollercoaster.

Lyrically he looks back and forth. Closer Terminal Archenemy Ending is dedicated to his
wife Olivia Jean, who he married onstage in 2022 at a concert in his native Detroit. It looks like Jean has a volcanic impact on her husband. Anyway, White is on a riff-ripping roll on
No Name. Dope record!


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JW: Instagram

THE SMASHING PUMPKINS – New Album ‘AGHORI MOHRI MEI’ Online Now – Familiar Territory

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2 August 2024


New album artwork

Spread over two years, 2022-2023, THE SMASHING PUMKINGS,
fronted by general Billy Corgan released Atum: A Rock Opera
In Three Acts last year.

And general Billy Corgan‘s productive juices keep on flowing. The result is already
another new longplayer. Today they dropped AGHORI MHORI MEI on the internet,
only three weeks after its release announcement. No singles to warm up, the full
shebang – 10 songs – in one go.


Press photo

Physical copies of the LP will be released in the future on exclusive edition
Vinyl through frontman Billy Corgan‘s Chicago tea room Madade ZuZu’s.

Billy Corgan about AMM: “In the writing of this new album I became intrigued with the well-worn axiom, “you can’t go home again.” Which I have found personally to be true in form but thought well, what if we tried anyway? Not so much in looking backwards with sentimentality but rather as a means to move forward; to see if in the balance of success and failure that our ways of making music circa 1990-1996 would still inspire something revelatory.”

TUTV: To my ears, AMM resonates (so far, just had a couple of spins at this very
moment), like Atum Part IV. Vintage Smashing Pumpkins bombast featuring familiar sounding wall-of-guitar haymakers such as Edin, Pentagrams, War Dreams Of Itself and Sicarus, some high-voltage, mid-tempo jackhammers (999 / Sighomni), and a couple of amplified ballads, Pentecost, Who Goes There, Goeth The Fall and my favorite one,
closer Murnau.

Nothing awful, nothing supreme. Familiar territory.

Corgan cites ‘Siamese Dream’ and ‘Mellon Collie’ as references, although I’m sure
he knows that he will never get back to that outstanding, monumental level any
more.

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Pumpkins: Instagram

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

Hard Rock Giants DEEP PURPLE Have Album #23 Out – Only For Diehard Fans

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20 July 2024

British imperishable hard rockers DEEP PURPLE (1967–1976, 1984–present)
have no intention to retire. Their, brand-new, 23rd longplayer, weirdly named
=1 out now.

TUTV: #1 sounds like early DP album from the 60s/70s.

Yep, no surprises, it’s all vintage Purple with instantly recognizable screeching guitar
solos, recognizable organs, recognizable Ian Paice vocals (mind you, he still has a far
reaching and firm voice) recognizable stompers for fanatic headbangers, recognizable bombast and melodrama.

BUT not one tune comes in the neighbourhood of Smoke On The Water, Child In Time or Woman From Tokyo, not even close. If you sound the same for 58 years you still can stand out when you fabricate resistless, magnetic and ear-exciting TUNES with titanic choruses. Sadly this is not the case here. =1 is only for diehard fans.

SINGLE

ALBUM

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THE SMASHING PUMPKINS – New Album ‘AGHORI MHORI MEI’ Out August 2

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Spread over two years, 2022-2023, THE SMASHING PUMKINGS,
fronted by general Billy Corgan released Atum: A Rock Opera
In Three Acts.

While on tour now, they just issued a statement via their socials saying
that album #13 is finished and bagged. It’s titled AGHORI MHORI MEI.

It’ll be shared digitally on August 2. Physical copies of the LP will be released
in the future on exclusive edition Vinyl through frontman Billy Corgan‘s Chicago
tea room Madade ZuZu’s. See their communication below.

Billy Corgan: “It’s a straight up rock and roll guitar record.
It very much sounds like the ‘Siamese Dream’ / ‘Mellon Collie’
version of the band“.

Pumpkins: Instagram

EMINƎM – Dreary Goodbye To His Iconic Alter Ego With New Album ‘THE DEATH OF SLIM SHADY (COUP DE GRÂCE)’

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18 July 2024

Non-stop machine-gun wordsmith Marshall Bruce Mathers aka EMINEM
has his 10th LP, called THE DEATH OF SLIM SHADY (Coup De Grâce) out.

Pitchfork says: Mostly, The Death of Slim Shady just feels sad. No matter how self-aware he is about becoming the old white guy scared of a changing culture, Eminem can’t seem to get in front of that fact. He was so provocative on his first few albums not because of his lyrics—plenty of horrorcore and gangster rap records were just as gnarly—but because he anticipated the criticism his lyrics would inspire. He set up the hall of mirrors and led you right into it… But now he’s stuck between contradictions; he claims to be above Slim Shady’s acidity but included that song anyway. If Slim Shady’s a mirror, as he asserts in “Guilty Conscience 2,” Marshall Mathers still can’t smash it. All the shards show the same reflection.” Score: 4.8/10.

TUTV: First things first. I’m not a hip-hop-rap fanatic, but one of the genre’s artists I really got/get thrilled by is EMINƎM. His 2002 album The Eminem Show was and still is a stroke of genius in my book. The way he embedded his manic rap rants into sickly sticky melodies was/is genial, but the new album is a stinker.

I feel sorry and happy for Slim Shady aka Eminem aka Marshall Bruce Mathers III. The guy had to endure a lot since he showed up for the first time in 1999 on his 2nd LP. And now, good for him, he gets the coup de grâce. Over and out (although you never know with E). He deserved a more fitting funeral than one with a farewell speech of 64 mediocre minutes, unworthy of the Detroit giant.

Slim here, Slim there, Slim everywhere, shoot Slim, hit Slim, tons of macho Slim rhymes etc. Musically we get only a handful of tunes that make me turn up the volume (tongue-in-cheek single Houdini, Habits, Brand New Dance, Evil, Antichrist, Guilty Conscience 2). Spread over those 64 minutes you need to skip over and over again, yet the master himself says you have to listen from start to finish to get the full story. Full story? Slim is dead, and that’s it. End of story.

The best lines are the first ones of Houdini. LOL!

“Hey, Em, it’s Paul (Paul Rosenberg = E’s associate)
Uh, I was listening to the album
Good fucking luck, you’re on your own”

SINGLE

ALBUM


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E: All Albums – Instagram

KASABIAN – British Stadium Meisters Have Their New Tailor-Made Album For King-Size ‘HAPPENINGS’ Out

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15 July 2024

British seasoned rockers KASABIAN, one of the best bands of the past 25 years on
record and on stage in my book, unleashed their 8th longplayer, titled HAPPENINGS.

Pizzorno (songwriter/frontman): “‘Happenings’ is a pop record, in a way – it’s just
big song after big song. I wanted to make the point, then leave as fast as possible.”

NME says: “At just 28 minutes in length, Kasabian’s eighth studio effort is concise, precise and generally focused. This allows a vibrant emotional clarity to bleed through its swaggering fabric, adding up to Kasabian’s strongest album in some years.”


Frontman Serge Pizzorno – Werchter Fest 2023, photo by Turn Up The Volume

TUTV: Since former frontman Tom Meighan left the group in 2020, their wild drugs-fueled rockin’ days are over. Well, sort of. Yes, all 10 songs are disco-dance spiced stompers, but not the Taylor Swift way. Many decibels and pyrotechnics are still involved like on Call, How Far Will You Go, and Hello of It.

Half of the tracks are tailor-made for big festivals, stadiums’s and other mammoth happenings where fans want to forget the daily rat race for a while. As Serge puts
it : “Art, for me, is relaxation – I panic when I’m not doing it.”.

Key singles: Algorithms / Darkest Lullaby

– ALGORITHMS –

– DARKEST LULLABY –

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Kasabian: Instagram

New Live Boxset “BOB DYLAN AND THE BAND – THE 1974 LIVE RECORDINGS” Featuring 431 Tracks Out In September

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10 July 2024

A new heavy-loaded Bob Dylan deluxe boxset with a ton of live tracks will be
shared with the world on September 20. It celebrates the 50th anniversary of
his return to touring that year, after a hiatus due to a motorcycle incident.

BOB DYLAN AND THE BAND – 1974 LIVE RECORDINGS BOB DYLAN features
27 discs with 431 live tracks of which 417 are previously unreleased and 16 newly
mixed recordings. Pre-order info here

But that’s not all.

In conjunction with The 1974 Live Recordings, Third Man Records has announced the September release of The 1974 Live Recordings – The Missing Songs From Before the Flood,
a 3-LP / 1 x 7-inch set culled from the same recordings, featuring hand selected versions of every song Bob Dylan recorded that was not included on the original 1974 live album. Pressed exclusively on colored vinyl, the set will be available through The Vault, Third Man’s direct-to-customer mail order service. Pre-order info TBA

BD: Website

JOHNNY CASH – The Late Country Icon Is A Masterly ‘SONGWRITER’ As We Know It

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8 July 2024

The late great country icon JOHNNY CASH recorded an LP’s worth
of self-penned songs in 1993 that weren’t released until now.

The 11 songs are collected on a new album, titled SONGWRITER and is
released on 180g black vinyl with a printed LP sleeve, and also digitally streamable/available. Order info here.

The Guardian (British newspaper): “This posthumous patchwork is a pleasant surprise
A collection of songs recorded before the Man in Black’s 1990s Rick Rubin revival and reworked by his son has much to offer. A collection of songs that he’d written over the preceding 30 years, the demos lay forgotten until his son, John Carter Cash, found them in 2023. Aware that the arrangements sounded dated, he stripped back the tracks until all that was left was his father’s unmistakable voice, and then assembled a crack band – some of whom had previously backed Cash – to complement it.” Score: 4/5.

TUTV: It’s always an aural pleasure to hear Cash‘s heart-and-soul warming
Americana voice. Whether it’s a romantic ballad, a jaunty country tune or a
(rare) rocker his vocals/phrasing both stir and calm down my mind.

All 11 songs at play here are definitely no leftovers from some studio sessions.
Each track charms and endears. Imagine sitting on a swing chair on a cosy porch surrounded by green trees and a soft sun, with a bottle of red wine at hand and
the masterly Songwriter Johnny Cash as your musical companion.

Blissful, just blissful.

STREAM ALBUM


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JC: Website

KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD – 26th LP In 14 Years Coming Up

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6 July 2024

Australian‘s psych-prog-rockers KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD are, without
a shadow of a doubt, the hardest working band this century. The Aussies launch their
26th LP in 14 years, titled FLIGHT b741. It lands on August 8.

Here are the flight details.

TOUR Canada/US 2024

KG & TLW: Instagram