New York’s haunting noiseniks A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS will follow their 2015 LP ‘Transfixiation’ with brand new studio album PINNED, their first with new drummer Lia Simone Braswell. The band just launched lead single NEVER COMING BACK . “That song is
a big concept,” says guitarist/singer Oliver Ackermann in a press statement. “You make these decisions in your life … you’re contemplating whether or not this will be the end. You think of your mortality, those moments you could die and what that means. You’re thinking about that edge of the end, deciding whether or not it’s over. When you’re close to that edge, you could teeter over.” The video is directed by Ackermann and Ebru Yildiz.
‘Never Coming Back‘ thunders like an all-crushing avalanche. Unstoppable and unavoidable. A haunting mind-fucker that will turn around madly inside your messed up head. Are you alive? Are you dead? Maybe you will find an answer when following the paranoid path of the girl here in the clip…
Spanish fury HINDS is back. The punky garage pop ladies have a new single, annex self-directed clip. NEW FOR YOU sounds exactly like they look. Flamboyant, cheerful, festal, open-minded and with tons of lust for life. Guitarist/co-vocalist Carlotta Cosials revealed the story behind the new video in a press statement: “I thought football cannot be more Spanish and that it cannot be a more male sport, and that it is good to present a different gender-reality without even trying hard. I think sports are such a good metaphor with life,
with goals, passion and suffer.”
Here’s your new favourite team…
NEW FOR YOU is the 1st single off upcoming album I DON’T RUN Out 6 April via Lucky Number…
The EELS led by singer/songwriter and life philosopher MARK OLIVER EVERETT return with new, 12th album DECONSTRUCTION in April. Ina press statement Everett says about the new record: “Here are 15 new EELS tracks that may or may not inspire, rock, or not rock you. The world is going nuts. But if you look for it, there is still great beauty to be found. Sometimes you don’t even have to look for it. Other times you have to try to make it yourself. And then there are times you have to tear something apart to find something beautiful inside.”
The first single is the gloomy title track. A downhearted I break apart ballad. Beautifully arranged and nostalgically orchestrated. A touching mixed emotions musing. Here’s the audio track…
IAN MCCULLOCH, charismatic frontman of legendary Liverpool band ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN is just one of the thousands of (famous/not famous) artists who was influenced by the late, genial THIN WHITE DUKE who died two years ago today – on
10 January 2016. This is what McCulloch once said in an interview with Mojo magazine: ““Bowie changed the face of music and the world. Everybody’s got dyed hair or mad clothes now, but until he kicked in ’72, it was rare to see that kind of flamboyance. I was 12 when ‘Starman’ came out and I remember hearing it on the radio before going to school. It connected with me in a way no other ever had. I saw him on Top Of The Pops, it was like ‘bloody hell’. The presence of it. I’ve met loads of people since who say it changed their life as well. He met me a few times (laughs). We supported him as ‘Electrafixion’. He was lovely, looks amazing, I preferred his old teeth though.”
Back in 2012 McCulloch released his fourth solo album, titled ‘Pro Patria Mori’. One of the most enthralling songs on that record is ‘ME AND DAVID BOWIE’. A wonderful tribute to one of the greatest artists/performers of all time. Rest in peace, Hunky Dory…
Hey now David Bowie
Thanks for all you showed me
Like how to smoke a cigarette better than anyone
And how to wear my overcoat so cool that I could freeze the sun
The school of David Bowie
Was where I learnt to know me
You taught me how to sparkle, and to realise what darkness means
You’re the man who told my world
And understood my stardust dreams
Tell me, tell me, what’s gone on
Tell me, tell me nothing’s wrong
Tell me, tell me
Tell me nothing’s wrong
Remember when you met me
Time took one of my ciggies
And put it in your mouth while your fingers pulled on my destiny
I remember when I met you by the Mediterranean Sea
So tell me, tell me, what’s gone on
Tell me, tell me nothing’s wrong
Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me
Tell me nothing’s wrong, tell me nothing’s wrong
Tell me nothing’s wrong, tell use nothing’s wrong
Now hear this David Bowie
Thanks for all you showed me
Like how to smoke a cigarette better than anyone
And how to wear my overcoat so coot that I could freeze the sun
Tell me, tell me what’s gone on
Tell me, tell time nothing’s wrong
Yeah tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me
Tell me nothing’s wrong
Seems so long ago now
You were the start of my story
So long ago now
You were the heart and the glory
Just want you to know now
All you did for me
Just wanted to know now
If you’re hunky dory
Just want you to know now
All you did for me
Just wanted to know now
That you’re hunky dory
Just wanted to know now
That you’re hunky dory
THE BREEDERS will release their first album in ten years ‘ALL NERVE‘ on 2 March. After sharing first flaming single Wait In The Car last October , the band now launched the title track. A fragile and profound love musing. Discover the gracious song here…
Scottish melancholic pop experts BELLE AND SEBASTIAN are in the middle of the release of a trilogy of new EPs under the umbrella title ‘How To Solve Our Human Problems’. The first one came out last month with the second planned for 19th January. Here’s THE SAME STAR, its first track sung by Sarah Martin and designed with all Belle characteristics we know and love: moodiness, catchiness, nostalgia and romanticism. It sounds exactly like the very early days of a new year: hopeful, lively and electrical. Music, maestro, please…
Sonic havoc that thrills us in a way we want to scream out loud…
THE MEDICINE DOLLS are special for several reasons. One: They sound like the nasty The Cramps having a sonic fight with blues freaks The White Stripes. Two: unlike the two aforementioned bands The Dolls do not care about a career plan, because they obviously
hate long-term bullshit, marketing sharks, and all related stress. Three: their primal punk screams come straight from the inside, honest and in your face. Four: in a world where everybody wants to rule everybody on this doomed planet they just want to get rid of
their nasty demons. Five: they look awesome, they sound awesome and they are for real. Six: their newest ripper is ace. Here’s TAKE THE BITTER WITH THE BETTER….
Wayne Doyle, singer-songwriter for Welsh band V0iD has written a most affecting tribute for a lost friend, who died after fighting Leukemia for over ten years. It’s a heavy-hearted homage where melancholia, passion, pain, grief and eternal friendship come together.
BROTHERS IN ARMS is a human song for sad hearts and sorrowful souls. I just came back from my father’s grave who died last year and I’ve been listening on repeat to this most appropriate pearl for today’s All Saints’ Day with the volume turned down for a change. And for some reason, I feel like this beauty is about hope too…
We championed this thrilling electronic power pop quartet herebefore for the simple reason that they produce delightful symphonies that make you smile all day long. Yes,
indeed, THE BANKROBBER is a thrilling Italian band without sonic frontiers, formed in 2008. After last year’s delectable 5-track Land Of Tales EP, they return now with brand new single CLOSER. An irresistible dance floor filler, that you’ll have on repeat after one spin. Saturday night fever all the way. Although the song is apparently about an on/off mixed-love-emotions relationship its addictive drive will be certainly approved by electro dance experts New Order, while moaning for not having written this cracker themselves. Get ready, time to stretch your limbs, here we go…
Let’s draw an agreement up before we go
before we go any further with this love.
I don’t feel up to hang out with you tonight
I’m going to lose myself in m’tv screen
and I feel like I told you I’m away
but you’re still always calling me at night
you know it hurts, but I want to be sure
please leave me alone, you got to let me go
I feel it in my bones
I am sorry it’s not worth it I am human and you are perfect we just met but we are distant I’m so sorry we were closer, closer
smoking calms me down I want to drink with you I want to clear up this mess but I feel like I told you I’m feeling fine the ocean is screaming you know it hurts, but I want to be sure your voice is calling me and I won’t go I here take it slow
I am sorry it’s not worth it I am human and you are perfect we just met but we are distant I’m so sorry we were closer, closer
John Spencer and his New York blues-punks BOSS HOG fronted by his charismatic wife Cristina Martinez released, last March, their very first new album in nearly two decades. BROOD X is a mighty, robust beast of a record filled with a series of dynamite killers. Dark, ominous and firing. The torrid kick-ass clan will invade Europe at the end of this month for several concerts. Check the cities and dates here. Until then we’ll have this smoking taster to prepare us for the storm. Here’s one of the nastiest cuts on the new longplayer, the spine-tingling SHH SHH SHH with Martinez explaining “The lyrics began as an exercise in
free association. I imagined a place of chaos, panic, and loss of control and that’s what emerged.” Yes, Halloween is just around the corner…
