The Fat Angel Sings

There’s a new compilation out that celebrates the legacy of pop greats The Everly Brothers. “Hey Doll Baby”, released earlier this year, includes hidden gems and rarities from the American rock pioneers. The 17-track project was compiled by Tom Petty’s daughter Adria Petty, and it was the last contribution from the last living brother Don Everly, who passed away last year. Today, we’re sharing a tribute to The Everlys from Best Coast‘s Bethany Cosentino and Butch Walker covering “Bye Bye Love.”

“The Everly Brothers were a big influence to the early Best Coast sound, so when my friend Butch Walker asked me to cover this with him—I of course said yes,” Cosentino says. “I can’t think of a more quintessential Everly Brothers track than ‘Bye Bye Love’ either—a perfect catchy melody that will be lodged in your brain for days, and some of the most beautiful vocals ever. It was super fun to get to sing this as a duet with Butch and harmonize together, I love singing with him.”

Walker adds, “My love for the Everly Bros. goes deep, and when I told Bethany I was doing ‘Bye Bye Love,’ she said she would kill me if i didn’t ask her to sing it with me. So here we are. I love how we sang it together!”

Hey Doll Baby Virtual Festival: Celebrating The Lives & Music Of The Everly Brothers 2022

Silversun Pickups have shared the second single off their upcoming album “Physical Thrills”, and this one’s an ethereal, climactic song fuelled by a powerful vocal performance by bassist Nikki Moninger who says she was channelling her inner Kate Bush for this one.

In a few weeks, Silversun Pickups will unveil their sixth studio album titled “Physical Thrills“, which was produced by Butch Vig and will be released on August 19th through the band’s own label New Machine Recordings. With the buzzing and vaguely funky lead single “Scared Together” featuring vocals from bassist Nikki Monninger on the chorus, the title of the second single “Alone on a Hill” reflects Monninger’s solo vocals on the track. 

“This song exposes a side I didn’t know I had in me,” she shares of the more stripped-back tune. “It felt freeing, especially with everything going on in the past couple of years. I’m grateful everyone gave me so much support during the recording process as I am a bit timid when it comes to hearing the sound of my own voice. [Lead vocalist Brian Aubert] just kept telling me to channel my inner Kate Bush.”

A friend that was finally introduced to Butch Vig, once we got vaccinated, and blew through his studio like a tornado made of cotton candy, leaving little pieces of residue everywhere. But most importantly, this friend really doesn’t give a fuck. I know. That sounds brash. I just mean it’s a thing that is truly free. And now, this little living headspace no longer visits me. I visit it through this album. I hope you like it. My friend wouldn’t care. Little rascal.

New album “Physical Thrills” out August 19th! 2022, New Machine Recordings

Sorry are currently on tour across North America opening for Sleaford Mods. Get down early enough and catch them performing their new song, written about the ways we all become clichés the moment we feel even the slightest bit alone.

North London’s Sorry have shared new single “There’s So Many People That Want To Be Loved” – a thrilling first taste of a new body of work slated for release later this year. The exciting return of Sorry comes with a video, directed by Sorry’s Asha Lorenz and frequent collaborator Flo Webb and produced by Asia Amad.  

Lorenz on the new track: “’There’s So Many People…’ is supposed to be a bit of a sad-funny love song! When we’re out of love we can feel detached and think ‘oh we’ll never be in love again… cry, cry’ but also try and laugh a bit… It’s easy to laugh or think you’ll never be That person then the next moment you can feel like the loneliest person in the world.” 

“There’s So Many People That Want To Be Loved” is the first taste of new music to emerge from Sorry since the “Twixtustwain” EP arrived in February 2021, alongside the official digital release of their 2017 mixtapes Home Demo/ns Vol I. and Home Demo/ns Vol. II. The single will be pressed as a limited 7” with “15’4” featured as the B-side.  

Comprised of best friends and co-conspirators Lorenz and Louis O’Bryen, joined by drummer Lincoln Barrett, multi-instrumentalist Campbell Baum, and Marco Pini on electronics, Sorry rose from a thriving scene of bands in London; unveiling a series of mixtapes, sporadic singles and generally experimenting with the disparate tastes and sounds that would eventually give their March 2020 debut album “925” its distinctively modern and apocalyptic sound. 

Woodstock riff rockers The Bobby Lees will release new album “Bellevue” on October 7th via Ipecac. “I named the album “Bellevue” because when I listen back, I hear someone going through that stuff, who is now able to laugh about it and have fun re-telling the stories,” says bandleader Sam Quartin. “It’s a reminder for me that the most painful and intense things I go through end up being the most rewarding creatively.” New single “Monkey Mind” is fun.

Proudly outspoken and riotously loud, The Bobby Lees are Ipecac Recordings’ newest signing. Following on from the success of the “Hollywood Junkyard” EP and their Summer tour dates, the band announce their brand new full-length album, “Bellevue“, thirteen tracks of uninhibited rock and roll arriving on 7th October.

Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry, Henry Rollins…these are just a few of the punk icons who have shown support for Woodstock, NY based band The Bobby Lees. Sam Quartin [vocals, guitar], Macky Bowman [drums], Nick Casa [guitar], and Kendall Wind [bass] — make music that is punk in spirit and soul; unfettered and resolutely honest. To say their sound is wild and untethered is an understatement. It’s the kind of aural exorcism any listener can tap into, something that struck a chord with Henry Rollins who brought them to Ipecac Recordings where Mike Patton and Greg Werckman signed them. The latest single “Monkey Mind” explodes with a head-crushing hook, seesawing back and forth with manic intensity. Sam expands, “It’s about your head talking to you too loudly or being mean to yourself.”

The Bobby Lees are: Macky Bowman (drums) Nick Casa (guitar) Sam Quartin (vocals/guitar) Kendall Wind (bass)

The new single from the new album, “Bellevue“, coming October 7th.

2021 year marked 11 years of The Reverberation Appreciation Society record label, and we’ve updated this 60 track compilation, which spans over a decade of releases. Download it for free or pay what you want. Thank you for listening, thanks to all the great artists we’re lucky enough to work with. We’re looking forward to many more great records.

This label & Levitation fest are really what still make Austin the music capitol of the world. Austin City Limits definitely isn’t doing it haha These 60 tracks are like VIP tickets for those that have no idea what’s going on.  

They are among all my “favourite tracks”. Of all the Psych music, I’d have to say The Reverberation Appreciation Society captures best the current sound I’m into the most. Every band is full of high level musicianship. This compilation is quite a gem to own (name your price!). Looking forward to more Levitation sessions, releases from these bands, and new bands signing onto the label that fit the feel and vibe of groovy psych scene. 

“Credit Note” is the new EP by south-coasters Holiday Ghosts. It’s a rollocking garage rock record which compels you to hit the open road, even if the car air-con is bust and the pack of Marlboro lights you so desperately crave cost more than anything at Rough Trade East. It’s a touch more lo-fi than last year’s ‘Off Grid’ and a textbook advert for going into the studio recording live with an affinity for warm tones and single coil guitars. 

Appetites were already whetted in spring when the title track dropped – sporting sounds akin to fellow FatCat alumni Milk Maid and emphasising the slight departure from perhaps the more acoustic, ‘Las’ type melodies which tracks like ‘Mr Herandi’ championed in the last record. 

Punkish in track length, speed and gumption – the lyrics in ‘Credit Note’ are up-front, visceral but with a hint of 1970s malt shop and mystery machine America. None more so in the frenetic fuzzball contradictions of ‘Plain Dumb’. 

Save for the twang-filled bulwark, ‘Bright Lights Big City’, Credit Note is a record of refreshingly low viscosity, whose effortless fizz and fusion of blues, rockabilly and indie rock rivals that of Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin’s cult collaboration on the Reverse Shark Attack EP from 2009. It leaves you wanting more – so I hope the bonus two tracks that are hidden from you mere mortals on the streamers surface some day! 

Speaking of sharks, Holiday Ghosts are from Falmouth, Cornwall – the quartet’s nerve centre being the tight collaboration between partners Katja Rackin and Samuel Stacpoole, now joined by B. Spanks and Morgan Lloyd-Mathews. A big tour spanning dates in London (Shacklewell Arms), Cambridge (Portland Arms), Manchester (Gullivers) is on the horizon – culminating in an autumnal finish at the iconic Left of The Dial showcase festival in Rotterdam, Netherlands. 

“Credit Note” EP is out now on FatCat Records.

Joined by a lush string section, the group covered ‘Why Does It Always Rain On Me?’ – the breakthrough 1999 single for Scottish band Travis. Frontman Dave Le’aupepe says he remembers first hearing the “timeless, beautiful song” on rage as a kid.

Having covered The Middle East and LCD Soundsystem in the Like A Version studio before, this time, Dave joked Gang of Youths wanted to lean into their “adult contemporary, Bridget Jones, London-era vibe.”

Le’aupepe also gave us an emotive performance of original “Angel in Realtime”. track ‘brothers’, which we’ve called “a stunning, piano-and-voice centrepiece that allows a much-needed moment of quiet amid the grand epics.”

Like A Version is a segment on Australian radio station triple j. Every week a musician or band performs one of their own songs and cover a song they love.