The Fat Angel Sings

Jethro Tull live audio at the Los Angeles Forum June 23rd1972. This is one of my favourite bootlegs of the “Thick As A Brick” tour with great sound and a very enthusiastic audience, so I dressed it up with lots of photos. I especially like how Jeffrey’s bass playing comes to the front in the mix.

Among my favourite Jethro Tull show. Which is difficult to gage when considering the shows the band performed “A Passion Play” in 73 and The “Warchild” tour in 75.
This though was highly anticipated and a landmark in terms of rock concerts of the day, as funny as it was surprising and electrifying.

Setlist:

0:00 Introduction 2:48 01A. Thick as a Brick part 1 (opens with a few seconds of Only Solitaire) 7:11 Telephone Interruption “It appears there is a very urgent telephone message for a Mr Mike Nelson if he’s in the audience tonight – I think there might be a dover sole on the line” 7:39 01B. Thick as a Brick part 1 (continued) 16:48 02. Keyboard Instrumental 22:26 03. Thick as a Brick part 2 25:08 04. Flute Instrumental 26:27 05. Flute Solo (includes God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Bourée) 37:24 06A. Thick as a Brick part 3 40:32 Jeffrey: Ian is now playing a rhythmic link sequence . . . 41:26 06B. Thick as a Brick part 3 (continued) 46:59 07. News and Weather 52:22 08. Thick as a Brick part 4 54:05 09. Drum Solo 1:05:50 10. Thick As A Brick Jam (We are geared toward the average rather than the exceptional) 1:12:23 11. Thick as a Brick part 5 1:17:14 Applause 1:18:04 “And now for our second number”, Introduction to Jeffrey, Jeffrey introduction to Cross-Eyed Mary 1:19:36 12. Cross-Eyed Mary 1:22:36 “What’s the name of that song they used to play” . . . 1:22:58 13. A New Day Yesterday 1:37:45 14. Aqualung 1:44:36 Thank you, applause 1:48:09 Introduction 1:49:50 15. Wind-Up 1:54:46 15. Instrumental 1:59:31 16. Guitar Solo 2:06:19 17. Locomotive Breath 2:12:53 18. Hard-headed English General 2:14:00 19. Instrumental 2:15:50 20. Wind Up (reprise) 2:17:56 Applause

Newly announced today, on this session the Perth-based rock n roll machine Psychedelic Porn Crumpets rip through a full platter of their high-speed tunes, shot in two locations and heralding their new LP, Night Gnomes. The Perth-based psychedelic rock n roll machine rip through a full platter of their high-speed tunes, shot in two locations and heralding their new LP, Night Gnomes. A kaleidoscopic array of crunchy riffage, addictive melodies and no-holds barred psychedelia, all on tap to feed your head.

A mix of sprawling, exploratory, psych-pop, prog rock, and heavy garage riffs, Australia’s Psychedelic Porn Crumpets rose out of Perth’s indie underground, earning a devoted fan base through hard touring and releases like 2016’s “High Visceral, Pt. 1” and 2019’s more muscular “And Now for the Whatchamacallit“.

releases May 13th, 2022

Vocals/Guitar: Jack McEwan
Guitar/Backing Vocals: Luke Parish
Guitar/Keys: Chip Hazard
Bass: Wayan Biliondana
Drums: Danny Caddy

The Fuzz Club Edition comes on Fire Galaxy Vinyl and is limited to 300 copies.

Girlpool – the Los Angeles–based duo of Avery Tucker and Harmony Tividad – have followed up 2019’s “What Chaos Is Imaginary” with a new album called “Forgiveness“. Out now via ANTI-Records, the record was previewed with the tracks ‘Dragging My Life Into a Dream’, ‘Faultline’ and ‘Lie Love Lullaby’. “A lot of my songs on this record are about relationship dynamics where I experienced frustration and pain, and struggling to hold a lot of complexity in my emotions,” Tucker said in press materials. “Writing “Forgiveness” helped me fit all those pieces into an acceptance: that my fate pushes me exactly where I need to go.” Tividad added: “A lot of life feels like unavoidable experiences to me.

To me, “Forgiveness” is about accepting that concept. It’s about forgiving reality for having to be exactly what it is all the time.”

When Girlpool released their fourth LP at the beginning of 2022, it would have been hard to predict that by the end of the year, the folk-turned-synth-pop duo would have disbanded for the foreseeable future. That this may be the last statement from Avery Tucker and Harmony Tividad makes what was already a career high feel all the more poignant, from the forward-thinking industrial-pop of “Nothing Gives Me Pleasure” to the dreamy, folk-leaning farewells of “Butterfly Bulletholes” and “Love333.” It’s the sound of a longtime duo finding thrilling new paths forward, even if it means starting over anew.

Released April 29th, 2022

Written by Girlpool

There’s a line from the first Melody’s Echo Chamber album where French psych-pop voyageuse Melody Prochet confesses “in the calm I find my truth”. Ten years on, that same principle bears some pretty heavenly fruit with “Emotional Eternal“, a more grounded and complete record than what has come before.

Melody’s Echo Chamber has released her third album, “Emotional Eternal”, via Domino Recordings. Like 2018’s “Bon Voyage“, the LP was initially recorded in the outskirts of Stockholm with Reine Fiske Fredrik Swahn of The Amazing. The singles ‘Looking Backward’, ‘Alma’, ‘Personal Message’ preceded the record. “I hope the record has that uplifting quality,” Melody Prochet said in a statement. “I wanted to be more grounded and mindful through the process. I guided the sessions with simplicity—a contrast with the maximalism of “Bon Voyage” and the wilderness of my delusions.

I made some big and impactful decisions and changes to my life. It took me to where it is peaceful, and I think the record reflects this. It’s more direct.”
 While admittedly not as adventurous or wildly experimental as her last release, “Emotional Eternal” supplements that with a much sharper focus and much more consistent sound.

released April 29th, 2022

After blazing a trail with 2020’s critically acclaimed “Good Luck Seeker“, The Waterboys waste no time in delivering their brand new record “All Souls Hill” on Cooking Vinyl. First track “The Liar” is a creeping, groove-laden masterpiece, taking a powerful, descriptive swipe at Trump and the lies and deceit that infest those in power.

 The video, featuring a haunting image by satirical collagist Cold War Steve, amplifies its subject matter in dark eerie fashion. Mike Scott says, “The Liar” is a comment on recent and still-current events, and both song and video speak for themselves. We are proud to work on this video with the brilliant Cold War Steve “.

The Waterboys have dropped the trippy video for their new single ‘Here We Go Again’ the third taste from their forthcoming new album, “All Souls Hill”, out May 6th on Cooking Vinyl. The album follows 2020’s critically acclaimed album “Good Luck Seeker”.

‘Here We Go Again’ is a rousing singalong whose freshness belies the lyrical subject matter. “It’s the idea we’re living through a communal Groundhog Day. We’re all looking at the news headlines, but nobody seems to learn the lessons,” Mike Scott said of the track. “As a culture we keep making the same mistakes. It’s a wry look at humans not being so smart – and yet I have good fun being one.” 

“All Souls Hill” is nine tracks of Waterboys brilliance, mixed by Scott himself. “All Souls Hil”l is current, on the money social commentary, but with an air of hope.

“All Souls Hill” is mysterious, otherworldly, tune-banging and emotional,” comments Mike. “I made it with Waterboys old and new and my co-producer, brilliant sonic guru Simon Dine. Its nine songs tell stories, explore dreamscapes, and cast a cold but hopeful eye on the human drama.”

All Souls Hill is nine tracks of Waterboys brilliance, all mixed by Mike Scott himself. “All Souls Hill” is current, on the money social commentary, but with an air of hope. “All Souls Hill” is mysterious, otherworldly, tune-banging and emotional.” comments Mike. “I made it with Waterboys old and new and my co-producer, brilliant sonic guru Simon Dine. Its nine songs tell stories, explore dreamscapes, and cast a cold but hopeful eye on the human drama.”

The Waterboys will headline at WICKHAM FESTIVAL in WICKHAM, near FAREHAM HAMPSHIRE, UK on Sun 7 August.

out on Cooking Vinyl  The Waterboys “All Souls Hill” To be Released 22/04/22

“Radiate Like This” — Warpaint’s much-anticipated new record, not to mention their first in almost six years — arrives with its own very modern mythology intact, continuing the strange, brilliant, beautiful story of the band and quite neatly picking up where “Heads Up” left off. If the previous album was the coming of age, “Radiate Like This” presents Warpaint mk II in all their glory, a luminous coalescence of sound and vision which stubbornly belies its genesis, with the quartet of Kokal, Theresa Wayman, Stella Mozgawa and Jenny Lee Lindberg all recording their parts separately in various cities. “It’s the first time we’ve ever made an album like that, but in a weird way, it made us take our time with everything”, muses Kokal. “The process felt more meditative, less rushed.”

This new sense of quiet confidence can be heard all through the album, which pulsates with ideas, energy and — most crucially — gorgeous melodies. Listen on in wonder.”

Rough Trade Nottingham is very excited to present a live performance from Warpaint at Metronome. This unique event celebrates Warpaint’s much anticipated new record, not to mention their first in almost 6 years ‘Radiate Like This’ released May 6th via Virgin / Heirlooms. Performing 6th May , METRONOME Nottingham,

“Sharon Van Etten has always been the kind of artist who helps people make sense of the world around them, and her sixth album, “We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong“, concerns itself with how we feel, mourn, and reclaim our agency when we think the world — or at least, our world might be falling apart. How do we protect the things most precious to us from destructive forces beyond our control? How do we salvage something worthwhile when it seems all is lost? And if we can’t, or we don’t, have we loved as well as we could in the meantime?

Did we try hard enough? In considering these questions and her own vulnerability in the face of them, Van Etten creates a stunning meditation on how life’s changes can be both terrifying and transformative. “We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong” articulates the beauty and power that can be rescued from our wreckages.”

“Used To It” by Sharon Van Etten, out now on Jagjaguwar.

Lead by the three guitar attack and vocals of songwriters Tom Russo, Joe White and Fran Keaney, the Melbourne five piece are to release their highly anticipated third album ‘Endless Rooms’.

Often compared to bands like R.E.M, The Strokes, The Smiths and The War on Drugs, Rolling Blackouts are much loved by BBC Radio 6 Music and have wowed fans at festivals all over the world including Coachella and Primavera Sound as well as headlining the UK’s Deer Shed festival in 2019.

Praise for their second album ‘Sideways to New Italy’, released on the legendary American record label Sub Pop

‘Masterful Guitar Pop’ – NME, ‘The guitar album of the year – romantic and exhilarating’ – MOJO

Melbourne’s Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, which includes three singer/songwriter/guitarists, produced themselves for the first time for their third album. They call it, “Doing what we do best: chasing down songs in a room together.” Judging by the two songs released from it so far, that sounds about right.

“Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever return in 2022 with “Endless Rooms“, the quintet’s third album. Described by the band — Fran Keaney, Joe White, Marcel Tussie and brothers Tom Russo and Joe Russo — as them “Doing what we do best: chasing down songs in a room together”, “Endless Rooms” stands as a testament to the collaborative spirit and live power of RBCF. While initial ideas were traded online during long spells spent separated by lockdowns, the album was truly born during small windows of freedom in which the band would decamp to a mud-brick house in the bush around two hours north of Melbourne built by the extended Russo family in the 1970s.

There, its 12 tracks took shape, informed to such an extent by the acoustics and ambience of the rambling lakeside house that they decided to record the album there. The house also features on the album cover. For the first time, the band self-produced the record (alongside engineer, collaborator and old friend, Matt Duffy), creating their most naturalistic and expansive document yet. The result is a collection of songs permeated by the spirit of the place; punctuated by field recordings of rain, fire, birds, and wind. “It’s almost an anti-concept album,” say the band. “The ‘endless rooms’ of the title reflects our love of creating worlds in our songs. We treat each of them as a bare room to be built up with infinite possibilities.”

Rolling Blackouts C.F.’s forthcoming album ‘Endless Rooms’ (out May 6th).

Since their 2004 self-titled debut, Pink Mountaintops have supplied an outlet for the more arcane fascinations of Black Mountain frontman Stephen McBean. On “Peacock Pools” Pink Mountaintops’ first new music in eight years — the B.C. singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist shares 12 songs sparked from his magpie-like curiosity for a wild expanse of cultural artifacts: The sci-fi body horror of David Cronenberg, Disney Read-Along Records from the 1970s, early Pink Floyd and mid-career Gary Numan, John Carpenter movies, Ornette Coleman live videos, a 1991 essay on the cult of bodybuilding by postmodern feminist Camille Paglia.

Featuring counterculture icons like Steven McDonald of Redd Kross and Dale Crover of Melvins, “Peacock Pools” alchemizes those obsessions into a body of work with its own enchanting power, the sonic equivalent of falling down a thousand rabbit holes at once and landing somewhere gloriously strange.”

“Nervous Breakdown” is from Pink Mountaintops‘ upcoming album ‘Peacock Pools’.

The bands first recording since 2010’s “Croweology”, The Black Crowes celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the incredible year in music, 1972. The band covers 6 songs released in that year by The Temptations, The Rolling Stones, T-Rex, Rod Stewart, Little Feat and David Bowie. “The Black Crowes’ new covers collection 1972 is a tribute project to celebrate the 50th anniversary of some of the best rock ’n’ roll songs. “The year 1972 was a watershed moment, some of the greatest rock and roll songs ever made came out of that year. To get our band back together in the studio, it had to be a celebration of rock and roll,” said singer Chris Robinson. “This record is about love and devotion to something that makes us feel good. We hope that it makes fans around the world feel the same.” The album will feature covers of The Rolling Stones’ Rocks Off, Rod Stewart’s You Wear It Well, Little Feat’s Easy To Slip, The Slider by T-Rex, David Bowie‘s Moonage Daydream and the aforementioned cover of The Temptations’ Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone.”

The Black Crowes’ new EP titled 1972 includes covers of legendary cuts from the Rolling Stones, Temptations and Rod Stewart. The Police’s 1982 documentary film “Around the World” returns with restored picture and remastered audio, along with complete performances of four bonus songs.