Seabird brings the early, unpolished PJ Harvey and American songstress (Izzy Hagerup) .
She sounds like a whimsical wanderer who writes songs about the daily thoughts troubling her mind, also expressed in the abstract artwork of the album..
The album is out now on CD, and will be fully
stream on the Internet from October 2nd.
I’m sure if you remove the masks of this band, you’ll find the key members of Deftones. President‘s wall of nu-metal noise sounds that familiar, and it gained them thousands and thousands of fans during their summer festival appearances.
French Painter Eugene Delacroix
The album’s front cover artwork is a replica of a painting by French artist Eugene Delacroix. It depicts a scene of the Battle of Poitiers from 1830.
The battle, part of the Hundred Years’ War between France and the British Empire.
It was the decisive victory for the English forces led by Edward the Black Prince against
a French army commanded by John II of France, who was captured in the fighting.
In 2014, to mark 20 years since the release of their 3rd LP, the masterwork named The Holy Bible, the band embarked on a sold-out tour performing the album in full.
‘The Holy Bible Live’ captures the record performed at London’s Roundhouse
during that tour. It will be available in Deluxe, 2LP Blue Marble, CD & Blu-Ray,
and Digital formats.
In 2012, the band abruptly finished their journey following
the untimely death of co-vocalist and bassist Adam MCA Yauch
due to cancer.
At 60, former BB MIKE D is back. He returned early this year with his first solo music.
After a couple of singles and some gigs here and there, he launched his solo debut LP, named THANK YOU a week ago.
A bouncy collection of kicky hip-hop tunes without hot Beastie Boys‘ party
anthems but still inviting your body to hop around like a kangaroo.
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Mike D: “It’s been so much fun making this music with people I love and I have grown to
really appreciate in our collaboration. And I just hope it’s fun for others and not overly serious, because let’s be real, I’m releasing this music into a very strange and dark and power-fixated world that really devalues art and feelings and compassion and empathy and equality.”
“We so much loved all three of us being in a band with each other for Beastie Boys. When Yauch died, it was an extremely sad time for me so making music was just not on the table. Then being a dad was something I put myself into and eventually I worked on the ‘Beastie Boys Book’ with Adam (‘Ad-Rock’ Horovitz] and that really helped both of us as we were really able to shine a light on our past together.”
THANK YOU
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Live, he’s backed by his band 5D, featuring 2 sons.
New dates for US/UK and Europe are below.
Press info: “Interpol’s first album in four years finds the band turning inward while continuing to move forward. Across the record, reflection, distortion and perception become a lens through which familiar shapes are refracted into something slightly
alien, as if seen through a different kind of light.”
Paul Banks told NME: “The drive of the record is a spirit of striving for elation,
enlightenment and clarity. I was born uncertain, that’s what keeps me intact”.
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Mojo Magazine writes: “The results display more radio-friendly polish, while the grooves
are enhanced with percussive syncopation, and strings and woodwind are employed for
added sonic swirl.”
TUTV: Finally, after all these years, Interpol made an album that’s up there with their
first 2 outstanding ones, Turn Up The Bright Lights (2002) and Antics (2004).
This Mirror Weighs a Ton is, as the cliché goes, a return to form, stupendous form that is. The record excels because of its strong, utmost, dark romantic songs. Sterling songwriting, not one dull moment.
It feels like Paul Banks was wandering through his beloved New York City for many nights, absorbing its grandeur and also its shadowy mystique, and translating his observations and thoughts into commanding tunes, vocally, lyrically, and sonically.
The tracks’ pace shifts frequently with slow-progressing reveries (title track / Ever The Actor / Enemy / Sudden), amplified mid-tempo jams (Wounded Soldier / Darling Thoughts / Wake-up) and a couple of straight-up rockers (See Out Loud / Wings Of Fire).
Full aural ravishment for 53 minutes. A striking comeback achievement.
The recordings were canned at their 2025 concert at the historic building.
Half of the 13 songs are from their 2nd LP Show Your Bones from 2006.
Massive hits Maps (2003) and Zero are included too.
A physical album, out October 23 via Secretly Canadian, will include today’s
13-track live album as well as a handful of bonus recordings from U.S. shows,
which will come to streaming the same day.
The album’s sound quality is TOP! Stream it below.
They also have a 22-minute concert film streaming now via the The Criterion Channel.
It was recorded at Los Angeles’ Orpheum Theatre and will screen in a handful of theaters around the world this month.
Some (actually many) words from the band on the live album.
Band: WEEZER Who: The veteran nerd
rockers from Los Angeles.
Album: WEEZER
Their 4th self-titled one decorated with symbols,
think Led Zeppelin‘s 4th longplayer. The record
is already dubbed The Gold Album.
Rolling Stone: “Weezer’s Gold is, in fact, Weezer gold.”
Pitchfork says: “Spurred on by producer Kenneth Blume, Weezer get
back in a room together to write rock songs that wallow, reminisce, and,
very occasionally, wow.”
TUTV: Mixed critical verdicts. Weezer is one of these bands that goes back to
their (very) old recipe, to their fan-pleasing formula, over and over again, but
forget regularly, to write enough top-tier tunes to fill a full record. As usual,
the singles are catchy and fun, but the rest is mediocre for a band of their
calibre. No, I’m not impressed.
The band’s seventh. Its title and cover art are borrowed, with Yoko Ono’s blessing,
from an artwork she made in the 1960s. The artwork is simple: a cream piece of
paper with a circle cutout, intended as a lookout through which to see the sky.
TUTV: A puissant psych guitar pop crackajack, riveting and sonically
seductive. It sets the mesmeric tone for their new magnifico full-length.
At 82, American singer-songwriter shero CARLY SIMON, who became worldwide
known for her magnific hit You’re So Vain (more than 700 million streams on Spotify)
in 1972, released her 24th album, her first in 18 years, titled COMES IN WAVES last week.
A charming, romantic, and heartfelt work
with gripping stories and Simon‘s voice
still impactful.
Far Out Magazine (UK) says: “It feels like she’s never really been away. Back with a breezily effective batch of numbers that flashes a torchlight on the human condition and reveals all its absurdities and passions in equal measure, Comes the Waves will delight long-time fans and stand as a solid entry for anyone late to Simon’s unique song canon.”
