CHRIS FORSYTH with GARCIA PEOPLES – ” Peoples Motel Band “

Posted: March 23, 2020 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Recorded September 14th, 2019 before a packed and enthusiastic hometown crowd at Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia, Peoples Motel Band catches Chris Forsyth with Garcia Peoples (plus ubiquitous drummer Ryan Jewell) re-imagining songs from Forsyth’s last couple studio albums with improvisatory flair.

Forsyth and Garcia Peoples played a number of 2019 shows together, beginning with a semi-legendary jam set at Nublu in NYC in March (see NYCTaper.com), through a couple dates on Forsyth’s month-long weekly residency at Nublu in September and concluding with a five-date tour of the Northeast in December. The chemistry between the players is tangible.

As is often the case with Forsyth shows, the gloves come off quickly and the players attack the material – much of it so well-manicured and cleanly produced in the studio – like a bunch of racoons let loose in a Philadelphia pretzel factory.

Recorded and mixed with clarity by Forsyth’s longtime studio collaborator, engineer/producer Jeff Zeigler, the record puts the listener right in the sweaty club, highlighted by an incredible side-long take of the chooglin’ title track from 2017’s Dreaming in The Non-Dream LP (note multiple climaxes eliciting wild shouts and ecstatic screams from the assembled).

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This is not the new Chris Forsyth album, exactly, but then again, it kinda is because whenever he sits down to play, he makes it new.

Released March 20th, 2020

Chris Forsyth: guitar/vocal
Tom Malach: guitar
Danny Arakaki: guitar
Peter Kerlin: bass guitar
Pat Gubler: organ/synthesizer
Cesar Arakaki: drums
Ryan Jewell: drums & percussion

Recorded by Jeff Zeigler 9.14.19 at Johnny Brendaʼs, Philadelphia

SEA GIRLS – ” Under Exit Lights ” EP

Posted: March 22, 2020 in MUSIC
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Fresh from their first ever European tour, Sea Girls have just unveiled the video for their most recent single “Ready For More”. The track itself is taken from the band’s forthcoming new EP “Under Exit Lights”, out on March 6th via Polydor Records. The new video was directed by Sophia & Robert (Odelay Films), who have previously worked with the likes of Pale Waves, The Kooks, David Guetta.

Singer Henry comments on the video:

The video for ‘Ready For More’ is one part Alice, one part Harley, and I think a lot of me. At the time of writing it I was so unsure of who I was, what I was doing or if I could trust myself. I was my own worst enemy… [It] is a thinly veiled dark message in vibrant frenzied and down the rabbit hole way.

On the rest of the EP, which includes 3 unreleased songs as well as recent bangers Violet, and Closer, Henry says:

The lyrics for these songs draw their soul from my life of late nights and the mornings after – about being young and going out a lot. It involves dark thoughts, anxiety, but ends in hope, positivity and optimism.

Ready For More has already become a live favourite during their recent European tour. If you want to see the band live better be quick and get the remaining tickets for their Birmingham & London UK tour dates this April.

Their debut album is coming this summer and they are already the staple on several official Spotify playlists.

LIAM GALLAGHER – ” MTV Unplugged “

Posted: March 22, 2020 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Last summer Liam Gallagher joined the list of all-time greats (Paul McCartney, Page and Plant, Nirvana and many more) who have filmed a prestigious MTV Unplugged session. Having missed Oasis’s 1996 session through illness, the show at Hull’s City Hall found Liam fulfilling some unfinished business entirely on his own terms. Now Liam releases the ‘MTV Unplugged’ live album of the show.

The show’s electrifying atmosphere is palpable from the very beginning with a phenomenal reaction as Liam takes to the stage with Wall of Glass. Material from Liam’s solo career such as his personal favourite Once and the joyous Now That I’ve Found You resonates in this stripped-back format, with his vocal shining alongside a trio of backing singers and string arrangements performed by the 24-piece Urban Soul Orchestra.

Oasis guitarist Bonehead features on performances of Some Might Say, Stand By Me, Cast No Shadow and Liam’s first ever live vocal performance of the Definitely Maybe bonus track Sad Song. The show concludes on a crowd-pleasing high with an emotive take on the classic Champagne Supernova.

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THROWING MUSES – ” Sun Racket “

Posted: March 22, 2020 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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‘Sun Racket’ is the brand new album from legendary Boston trio Throwing Muses, consisting of Kristin Hersh, David Narcizo and Bernard Georges. The follow up to 2013’s ‘Purgatory/Paradise’ is an outpouring of modal guitars, reverbed shapes, echoey drums and driving bass set behind Kristen Hersh’s well-thumbed notebook of storylines.
A ten-song opus of suitably wrought tales set against a wall of sound that’s at once calm and ethereal before building into glorious cacophonous crescendos.
When Throwing Muses wrote their last album, they were shattered. Pieces were coming and going, elements repeating and charging the whole. “It sounded beautiful jumping around like that”. Two-minute songs reappearing as twisted instrumentals or another song’s bridge.
They mimicked the effect live which kept them on their toes. Whatever was happening was already over in other words. ‘Sun Racket’ is the opposite. It refused to do anything but sit still. It says, “sit here and deal”.
“All it asked of us was to comingle two completely disparate sonic vocabularies: one heavy noise, the other delicate music box.

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Turns out we didn’t have to do much. Sun Racket knew what it was doing and pushed us aside, which is always best. After thirty years of playing together, we trust each other implicitly but we trust the music more” –
Kristin Hersh

Releases May 22nd, 2020

CHASTITY BELT – LOOSE TOOTH – ” The Process / Lonely “

Posted: March 19, 2020 in MUSIC
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Chastity Belt and Melbourne band Loose Tooth have shared a “digital split single” featuring new material from both acts: Chastity Belt’s A Side “The Process” and Loose Tooth’s B side “Lonely.”

Fifty percent of Bandcamp sales for either track will benefit Australian wildfire relief efforts, specifically the Fire Relief Fund for First Nations Communities and the Country Fire Authority.

Of “The Process,” Chastity Belt songwriter Lydia Lund explains, “The lyrics came later and are a sort of reminder of the way self-criticism can compound. When I’m in that critical state of mind, I try to suspend judgement for that current state and I find it reassuring to remember that it’s temporary – a process.”

As for “Lonely.” Loose Tooth says, “We wrote ‘Lonely’ at the end of 2019. It is about an experience we witnessed when we were teenagers. #MeToo brought up a lot of realizations for many people, and for us; thinking back to us as young and vulnerable women, finishing high school and feeling invincible; we didn’t realize that we could be taken advantage of by predatory and powerful men. ‘Lonely’ is about the power dynamics and manipulation of these relationships, and the lasting cycle of trauma that they can bring.”

released January 31st, 2020

Swept together from the ashes of your finest night on the tiles, Loose Tooth are a Melbourne three-piece who craft sweet guitar pop with frayed edges.

“Everything Changes unspools like your standard low-slung churner in the manner of The Velvet Underground, but Loose Tooth make it interesting with both sweetened female vocals and a surreal, hot-boxed atmosphere.

SHANNON LAY – ” Living Water “

Posted: March 19, 2020 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Debut release on Kevin Morby’s new imprint with Woodsist Records. Shannon Lay’s “Living Water” is an instant classic. Recorded by Emmet Kelly (Cairo Gang, Bonnie Prince Billy, Ty Segall) in his Los Angeles home studio, this is an album where you can hear the room reacting to the music taking shape around it.

Shannon has a voice that transcends time and space. You can’t tell if she’s old or new, if she’s sitting next to you, on a mountain top, or down in some canyon. Already her second LP to be released in 2017, Shannon is a prolific songwriter, one who lives and breaths melody and with guitar skills to boot. Despite it’s 14 tracks, “Living Water” comes in well under 40 minutes, but like Pink Moon or Just Another Diamond Day before it, this is music so potent it exists outside the realms of time – but in a world specific only to itself and the new feelings it creates.

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Shannon has been dominating the local scene in Los Angeles over the past two years, leaving everyone who witnesses completely breathless. Having just finished a tour with Ty Segall, Shannon is set to support Kevin Morby on a national tour this fall.”

TOM PETTY and the HEARTBREAKERS – ” Live In Dockside Hamburg ” 1999

Posted: March 18, 2020 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers finest show from 1999! The entire set at this remarkable German concert was recorded for FM radio broadcast and simultaneous TV transmission, and this two instalment release features this extraordinary performance in its entirety. Released here for the first time on vinyl, the group rip through an enticing set-list to include a quartet of cuts from the new record alongside many choice Tom Petty classics and, as always, many unique covers, including Buffalo Springfield’s ‘For What It’s Worth’, the Louvin Brothers’ ‘Lay Down That Old Guitar’, and JJ Cale’s ‘Call Me The Breeze.

Setlist: 1) Around And Around 2) Jammin’ Me 3) Running Down A Dream 4) Breakdown 5) Call Me The Breeze 6) Swingin’ 7) Don’t Do Me Like That 8) Diamond Head 9) Mary Jane’s Last Dance 10) I Won’t Back Down 11) Listen To Her Heart 12) Green Onions 13) It’s Good To Be King 14) Lucille 15) Little Maggie 16) Lay Down That Old Guitar 17) Walls 18) Angel Dream 19) For What It’s Worth 20) Room At The Top 21) Guitar Boogie Shuffle 22) American Girl 23) Honey Bee 24) I Don’t Want To Fight 25) You Wreck Me 26) Free Girl Now 27) Free Fallin’ 28) G-L-O-R-I-A 29) Learning To Fly

TROPICAL FUCK STORM – ” Suburbiopia “

Posted: March 18, 2020 in MUSIC
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Suburbiopia is an epic exploration of the upside of being in a suicide cult. Below is their new clip; filmed in a parallel universe by Oscar O’Shea, you will be enlightened and inspired once you’ve gazed through it’s glory hole into the third eye of your Raëlian overlords. TFS put out this 7″vinyl which sold out in minutes featuring
Suburbiopia and a cover of The Saints song The Perfect Day with Amy Taylor from Amyl & The Sniffers on vocals and Sean from Surfbort on the tubs

Suburbiopia is an epic exploration of the upside of being in a suicide cult.

Filmed in a parallel universe by Oscar O’Shea, you will be enlightened and inspired once you’ve gazed through it’s glory hole into the third eye of your Raëlian overlords. FiFi sings, RKO helps with the singing Gaz plays guitar and programs beatz Sean Powell plays the drums and monotron synth Amy Taylor plays the OP-1 synth Dan Kelly plays the Protech Kinder Keyboard

The first single off the new 7″ out on Flightless Records 3rd of April

WAXAHATCHEE – ” Can’t Do Much “

Posted: March 18, 2020 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Burnished by nostalgia, “Can’t Do Much” beams an easy warmth, and it’s the easygoing brand-new single from Waxahatchee. The track is taken from her upcoming album “Saint Cloud”, Katie Crutchfield’s  due out on March 27th, you can pre-order coke-bottle-clear-vinyl, black-vinyl and CD versions of it from Merge Records

WAXAHATCHEE (aka Katie Crutchfield) is gearing up to release her highly anticipated new album Saint Cloud, album out March 27th worldwide. Critics are already hailing Saint Cloud as a career-defining album with Crutchfield’s songwriting front and center.

Previously released songs like “Fire” and “Lilacs” have set the stage for what fans can expect from this release, and this week, Crutchfield has released another track and video for, “Can’t Do Much,” which she says is the first song she wrote for the album. Waxahatchee tells us, “It’s meant to be an extremely unsentimental love song, a love song with a strong dose of reality.”

From the album Saint Cloud, out March 27th on Merge Records

RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON – ” The Bestial Light “

Posted: March 18, 2020 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Bolstered by the addition of a vocalist and second drummer, the incendiary ‘Bestial Light’ LP sees the band move on from the electronic experimentations of the Subversive album trilogy (culminating in their most-recent LP, 2018’s ‘De Spelende Mens’) and last year’s ‘Bliss’ EP. Their new direction, instead, finds them journeying into a dissonant industrial punk sound that’s Einstürzende Neubauten and early Swans by way of Neurosis and Godflesh. Fusing heavy industrial rhythm sections, biting post-punk vocals and crushing “acid metal” riffs.

“Eden In Reverse” · Radar Men From The Moon  Fuzz Club Records Released on: 2020-03-04

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