The wait is finally over for the millions (including me) of BIG THIEF fans, although,
let’s not forget we got frontwoman Adrienne Lenker‘s wondrous solo full-length Bright Future last year.
Three years since Brooklyn’s folk-pop-rockers released their enthralling
20-song strong LP, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, they
have recorded a new one, their 6th.
Five London disco-punk cowboys teamed up during the awful 2020 lockdown year
(many bored youngsters decided to do so, to kill time inside) and started FAT DOG.
Last year, they showed up for the first time with bombastic banger King Of The Slugs and several singles later they dropped their debut LP WOOF. One of the best debuts of 2024. And if you can catch them live (like I already did a couple of times) don’t hesitate to go out and have a ball with them.
Anyway, before embarking on their umpteenth tour, we get
a brand new frenetic flamethrower, named PRAY TO THAT.
Get on your knees, folks, and adore the dog priest.
TOUR
7/31 – Diepholz. Germany @ Appletree Garden 8/01 – Katowice, Poland @ Off Festival 8/02 – Waterford, Ireland @ All Together Now 8/06-10 – Winchester, UK @ Boomtown 8/08 – Cornwall, UK @ Boardmasters 8/10 – Budapest, Hungary @ Sziget Festival 8/14 – Paredes De Coura, Porgugal @ Vodafone Paredes de Coura 8/15 – Charleville-Mézières, France @ Cabaret Vert 8/16 – Crickhowell, UK @ Green Man 8/22 – Northampton, UK @ Shambala 8/23 – Málaga, Spain @ Canela Party 8/24 – Paris, France @ Rock En Seine 8/27 – Sheffield, UK @ Utilita Arena * 8/31 – Seattle, WA @ Bumbershoot Festival
9/02 – Sacramento, CA @ Starlet Room 9/03 – San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop 9/04 – Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room 9/05 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy + Harriet’s 9/06 – San Diego, CA @ The Casbah 9/07 – Las Vegas, NV @ Swan Dive 9/20 – Atlanta, GA @ Shaky Knees 9/22 – Raleigh, NC @ Kings 9/23 – Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery 9/24 – Philadelphia, PA @ Warehouse on Watts 9/25 – Brooklyn, NY @ Market Hotel 9/26 – Somerville, MA @ Warehouse XI 9/27 – Montreal, QC @ Toscadura 9/29 – Toronto, ON @ The Garrison
11/01 – Manchester, UK @ Aviva Studios
(Day Of The Dog Halloween Special) 11/06 – Reykjavik, Iceland @ Iceland Airwaves 11/08 – Kortrijk, Germany @ Sonic City
Band: EX HYENA (Boston, MA) Who: The musical project of Bo Barringer and Reuben Bettsak.
They got together in 2020, surfacing through the haze of the
global pandemic and have released 3 albums since.
Track: THIS IS YOUR LOVE
2nd shared piece from their upcoming,
4th full length, named XX Your Love .
TUTV: Order a truck full of sand, let it drop in your garden, install a cocktail bar,
buy the best earbuds you can find in town for your neighbors, invite your friends
and pretend all that you’re on a hot beach of an exotic island with DJs Ex-Hyena
spinning acid house, starting and ending with their brand-new bleep bleep
stomper ‘This Is Your Love‘, all night and all morning long.
You know the drill, 24-hour party
people, shake and sway those hips.
As communicated earlier on Swedish rock ‘n’ punk roll dropouts THE HIVES are back to be your new favourite band once again. They bagged their 7th album, named it THE HIVES FOREVER, FOREVER THE HIVES and it will crash our speakers on 29th August. More infohere.
Press info: “Lauded on all continents for their masterful skill and reckless abandon in the rock music field, have once again, sooner than you expected, created a new body of work the likes of which have never been heard or indeed probably will again. A new record so full of energy, joy, anger and life that you will be questioning reality as you have known it. They finally did it. Every single song a single, every single a hit, every hit a direct hit in the face of the man.”
Beastie boy Mike D and Queens Of The Stone Age
frontmanJosh Homme guest on the record.
Following the smoking lead-single Never Enough the punk cowboys come up with another whopper, called PAINT A PICTURE. It’s The Hives by numbers, fast and furious numbers as we are used to.
79-year-old NEIL YOUNG is one of those artists (such as Bob Dylan, Springsteen, the Stones, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, and many more) who were born with music in their DNA. They eat, sleep and breath music and have no intention whatsoever to retire.
Young is again omnipresent, with several releases of new old/live albums, a new LP
and an upcoming world tourThe Chrome Hearts , a concert movie, titled Coastal
which premiered last week
Last Saturday he played at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles.
Here he premiered a new robust rocker LET’S ROLL AGAIN,
and rollin’ it does. I suppose it will be on the upcoming LP with
his new band.
ANDY BELL, vocalist of British synth-pop duo Erasure with former Depeche Mode/Yazoo keyboardist/songwriter Vince Clarke, go a long way back. Since 1985, they have released 18 LPs.
Both musicians also write/record/release as solo artists.
As announced before Bell has another solo full-length bagged.
He named it Ten Crows, and it will see the light of day on May 2nd.
For taster #4 we get his duet with Blondie‘s icon Debbie Harry for
a fervid break-up pop gem. Two fabulous voices, one fabulous tune.
Band: FOR NINA Who: Irish indie trio that met in college in 2023, and quickly found common ground through a shared love of alternative rock and melding contrasting musical ideas.
“The track came out of nothing really. We were just jamming out over the main riff and
then everything seemed to click and within half-an-hour we had the song. We wrote the
chorus in a way that hopefully highlights the uncertain chaos of being ‘twenty-something.
We were in a tricky place with our college course at the time and the feelings manifested themselves within the song. At least those feelings led to something good!”
TUTV:Hounds opens with a roasting riff that boggles your mind and head on the spot. Immediately followed by poised vocalist Holly Owens and before you can say “the Pope
is dead” all hell breaks loose with a whopping wall-of-drums-bashing sound explosion.
This staggering rollercoaster process repeats itself a couple of times, testing
your speakers’ flexibility. These 20-something Irish dogs make a loud and clear
mark. You know where the repeat button is.
Blondshell: “The song is partially about being in your twenties and feeling like you’re
supposed to know everything (your parents even had kids around that age!) yet you’re
truly in the weeds trying to figure out who you are. I wanted it to have a bit of a nursery
rhyme feel. It’s a heavy subject so it was important to have fun when we made it.”
Danish garage glam pop duo THE RAVEONETTES – Sune Rose Wagner (guitar, vocals) and Sharin Foo (bass/guitar, vocals) will have a busy year. They launch their 10th LP, named PE’AHI II, the sequel to 2014 LP Pe’ahi, on April 25th and celebrate the 20th anniversary (released 3 May 2005) of their 2nd full length Pretty In Black.
Following the spectacular lead single Blackest the pair roll
out a 2nd preview with the slow-burning, distorted jam KILLER.
