BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – ” Tuscon Train “

Posted: May 30, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The march towards Bruce Springsteen’s 19th studio LP release continues. Bruce has shared another track from the upcoming album “Western Stars” “Tuscon Train,” an expansive ode to escapes that don’t leave everything behind. After outrunning his “darkness,” our narrator now finds himself pausing, waiting for his love to catch up—”I’m wailing down at the station,” he sings, “Just praying to the five-fifteen/I’ll wait all God’s creation Just to show her a man can change”—while our 69-year-old rocker leans, again, into his Western influences.

Springsteen hasn’t released a new collection of original material in seven years but the rocker’s hardly been resting on his laurels. The past several years have seen him celebrate the 35th anniversary of his 1980 LP, The River, with a massive tour with the E Street Band as well release his highly regarded memoir, Born to Run. He then adapted the work for a lengthy stint on Broadway, which kicked off in October 2017 and stretched halfway through the following year.

So far, he has also shared the forlorn “There Goes My Miracle” and the reflective “Hello Sunshine,” named one of the best songs of 2019. Western Stars is due out June 14th, and while thematic details remain sparse, Springsteen seems to be steadying his gaze on the grittier, more difficult corners of his mind and personality—something he’s comes to terms with throughout his life.

“I have come close enough to [mental illness] where I know I am not completely well myself,” the singer and songwriter confessed in 2018 . “I’ve had to deal with a lot of it over the years, and I’m on a variety of medications that keep me on an even keel; otherwise I can swing rather dramatically and . . . just . . . the wheels can come off a little bit. So we have to watch, in our family. I have to watch my kids, and I’ve been lucky there. It ran in my family going way before my dad.”

Western Stars is Springsteen’s first album since 2014’s High Hopes. Expanding on his upcoming album, Springsteen said, “This record is a return to my solo recordings featuring character driven songs and sweeping, cinematic orchestral arrangements. It’s a jewel box of a record.”

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FOXWARREN – ” Lost On You “

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Subtle and thoughtful, Foxwarren – the four person band comprised of Toronto solo artist Andy Shauf and his hometown friends, who released their self-titled debut album last year – draws parallels to Shauf’s solo work while leaning on collaboration and looseness rather than Shauf’s meticulous arrangements. The new music video for Foxwarren’s “Lost on You” also makes a strong case for following your gut instincts. Canadian filmmakers Mark Klassen and Hope Little were about to depart on a road trip across Nevada’s Death Valley to the Pacific Coast of California and at the last minute decided to bring their lighting design equipment with them, to experiment with along the trip’s route. Along the way they stopped when the conditions were just right to film and from this footage the “Lost on You” video was born.

“Lost on You” by Foxwarren from the self-titled album, available now on Anti- and Arts & Crafts

WAND – ” Thin Air “

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Wand, the continuously evolving Los Angeles psych-rock crew, have returned this spring with the new album “Laughing Matter”. Its Radiohead-esque first single “Scarecrow” demonstrated that the band’s continued growth away from the psychedelic riffage of their salad days.

Does Wand ever take a break? Releasing four full length albums and one extended play in just four short years while touring North America and Europe during any downtime, they’re tireless in laying the groundwork for a vital rock n roll future. Wand are proof you don’t have to be an industry toy to sell records – that, with devotion and time, the seeds you plant with intention and care will grow back into the world. Fresh off announcing their addition to select Stereolab dates this summer and finishing up their second jaunt through Europe in the last year, Wand are quick to say: “But wait, there’s more!” Another leg of European dates are now announced. And to celebrate, the band have released a brand new visual element, a flicker show to feed your endless craving.

The meticulously constructed “Thin Air” takes its time to really get going, its percussive ripples of gamelan-inspired guitar gradually building and erupting in fiery bursts. “Don’t you dare turn your back again,” Cory Hanson cries.

Track from “Laughing Matter,” available on 2xLP/CS/CD from Drag City Records Released April 19th, 2019.

SONTALK – ” The One Who Breaks Your Heart “

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Joseph LeMay found himself in while writing his new single as Sontalk, “The One Who Breaks Your Heart”. The beautiful folk rock number lowers a sturdy head against a bleak situation with steady guitar strums and LeMay’s open, willful voice. Yet the seemingly balanced rhythm is constantly broken by electronic interference, a quick stutter or a wilting strain.

That gorgeously unsure composition mirrors the lyrical drive of “The One Who Breaks Your Heart”, as LeMay sings of refusing to let go of a romance despite his continued emotional bungling of the whole thing. “Maybe you’ll tell me that you’re feeling unloved/ Maybe you’ll tell me that you’re feeling left out,” he agonizes. “Yeah, but I’m the one who loves you, baby/ I’m the one who holds your hand/ I’m the one who talks you off the ledge/ And I will be the one who breaks your heart, baby.”

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JUST MUSTARD – ” Frank / October “

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Just Mustard are a band based in Dundalk, Ireland. Debut album “Wednesday” releases 2/5/18. In the past several years, a new wave of intriguing guitar bands have emerged from Ireland groups that are honing in on a particular kind of rushing-but-brainy punk-inflected rock, or groups that dismantle and implode structures and genres to locate their own unique sound. The Dundalk five-piece Just Mustard belong in the latter category.

Their sound  noisy, electronic-indebted, and often playing like a heavy and foreboding iteration of shoegaze — has already won them acclaim in their homeland, where their debut album Wednesday was nominated for a Choice Music Prize last year. It’s easy to imagine Just Mustard are garnering more international attention in the near future, too.

On the heels of album Wednesday, Just Mustard’s have returned this year with a double single. “Frank,” and its companion, “October.” While “Frank” was a loopy, unnerving track, sounding like images bleeding out of focus, “October” is harsher, and darker. Onstage, their waves of distorted and mutated guitar began to sound like a bunch of chainsaws tossed around in a hurricane. “October” skews closer to that; while its guitars linger like haunting images creeping up in the back of your mind, you can already picture the band unleashing this song live, letting their instruments take over.

Throughout, vocalist Katie Ball sounds like a ghost, a memory. When those guitars first screech in, it’s as if hearing a person erased in front of you. As the track goes on, she returns, fighting against the static that surrounds her. It’s a quietly intense track, suggesting both the tensions and the eruptions Just Mustard have already proven themselves capable of in their young career.

The BAND CAMINO – ” Daphne Blue “

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On May 7th, Elektra Records signed pop-rock group The Band Camino. Co-frontmen Jeffery Jordan and Spencer Stewart and guitarist Graham Rowell formed the band in Memphis in 2015 — later recruiting drummer Garrison Burgess and have built a loyal fan base with their independently released EPs, 2016’s My Thoughts On You and 2017’s Heaven.

Elektra’s senior director of A&R Johnny Minardi was one of those early fans, thanks to his friends who had introduced him to the band’s song “What I Want.” Minardi, who was at Equal Vision Records at the time and joined Elektra in 2017, says he was drawn to the song because it didn’t sound like everything else from rock bands today. “They have such great melody, and hooks that live with you. You can listen to the band and walk away for two weeks and be like, ‘Why is this still in my head?'”

As the band continued releasing music independently, Minardi kept in touch with their manager, Jameson Roper. And once they released the roaring electric guitar-heavy jam “Daphne Blue” in August 2018, Minardi wanted to act fast: “That’s when I truly head over heels fell in love.” So earlier this year, when The Band Camino was looking to sign a record deal, Minardi got to work and sent several coworkers to the band’s New York show at Music Hall of Williamsburg in February. After Elektra’s A&R reps Caterina Nasr and Danny Rakow saw them perform, Minardi remembers, “They called me freaking out.”

“They’re a younger rock band — which is hard to say these days — that actually puts people in venues, but has a modernized pop appeal to it as well, compared to a lot of the bands [just] having success at pop radio,” Minardi says of the foursome, who are all in their early 20s. “They bring the full gambit of what a true pop-rock band is these days.”

After announcing their Elektra signing on May 14th, The Band Camino have re-released “Daphne Blue” and unveiled the heartbreak anthem “See Through.” They also announced their biggest headlining tour to date, hitting 1,000 to 2,000-person rooms around North America. The group has continued making music with frequent collaborator (and Nashville superproducer) Jordan Schmidt and Minardi assures there will be new music before they hit the road — also hinting that the new material will bring even more impactful energy to The Band Camino’s sets. “We all set out to be the biggest band in the genre ever,” he says. “That’s where we’re trying to go.”

YONAKA – ” Don’t Wait ‘Til Tomorrow “

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The latest addition to Elektra’s long-running alternative music imprint Fueled By Ramen is Yonaka, a fiery English guitar band gearing up for its debut full length.

Fueled By Ramen broke the news sharing Yonaka’s latest single “Don’t Wait ’Til Tomorrow.” It’s the title track from the four-piece’s forthcoming album, due today (May 31st). In the weeks following, they’ll play a pair of Stateside shows: June 11 at Rough Trade in Brooklyn, NY and June 13 at Los Angeles’ House of Machines.

Based out of Brighton, England, Yonaka debuted with 2017’s “Heavy” EP and released another pair of EPs last year, most recently October’s “Creature” .

Fueled By Ramen will serve as Yonaka’s U.S. label; they’re with Warner Music Group’s Asylum Records in the UK.

Fueled By Ramen has enjoyed immense commercial success in recent months from the likes of Panic! At the Disco and Twenty One Pilots.

Yonaka’s official music video for their song ‘Don’t Wait ‘Til Tomorrow’ from their album Don’t Wait ‘Til Tomorrow – available May 31st.

GLOVE – ” No Blades No Bones “

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Glove is collaboration between artists SloSilver and Stephanie Finegan. It flowed forth that now is the time for Glove. And so, from one sleepy jam, 12 songs were born. Every now and then, at one of these music showcase events, you see band that changes your life. A mesmerising, talismanic piece of magic that is beyond.

Glove are that band. Two wild painted women who turn music inside out and reinvent the wheel.
Stunning. nothing is going to match these two wired women who are oozing art, poetry and a musical brilliance that sets your mind racing and your heart pounding.
Theres is a stripped down basic sound – rhythm comes from a pounding tom tom played against a bass or in other songs a scratchy guitar. It’s pounding and highly effective – most of the songs are given a running bass line backbone and the minimalistic no wave combination is perfect for the poetry in motion of the vocals that switch between volumes of wild eyed beat poetry and stunningly sung vocal lines. The songs follow no rules. There are no reference pints. It’s uttley original. You type out words like Patti Smith or The Slits but that’s lazy old man thinking.

“Something entirely revolutionary. Minds were blown.” Drowned In Sound

Glove ‘No Blades No Bones’ 10″ Vinyl EP

Tracks: Saiyeh
No Blade No Bones
Death Is Rebirth
Escalator

The EP will be released as a limited edition 10″ Vinyl (300 copies) with download code, and as a CD single via Louder Than War Records.

WITCH FEVER – ” Daddy Part Two “

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In Manchester Witch Fever have brilliantly reinvented riot Grrrl for the 21st century. This all girl punk band WITCH FEVER, formed through the love of loud music and tits. They are raw, in your face and making a glorious and beautiful racket, are full of explosive and kinetic energy and collapsing new riffs and are going to make a noise musically and culturally angry, honest and probs naked, bringing grungey riffs, a heavy beat and eclectic vocals!’. Witch Fever are just what we needed. A shot of raw the thrilling energy like a high octane caffeine rush.

The band deal in raw polemic but it’s laden with hooky riffs and that just about to collapse style of playing that we love – that edge of the precipice peering down, colliding riffs that somehow makes a perfect sense. They are raw, in you face and making a glorious and beautiful racket and are full of explosive and kinetic energy and collapsing new riffs and are going to make a noise musically and culturally

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Amy, Alisha, Alex, Annabelle

STRANGE BONES – ” Blind Faith No Future “

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Blackpool’s Strange Bones have been making quite a mark on the Manchester music scene recently. The three brothers Will, Bobby and Jack Bentham and friend Spud Newborn deliver “disaffection in a bleak neo political-climate, their lyrics cry anger and frustration towards the manufacture of narrative and public opinion through state-run toxic media outlets and the crocodile tears cried by an elitist government.”

We caught them supporting The Blinders and described the sound as ‘Obliterating Punk’. Seeing Bobby Bentham leading this band, diving into the crowd and stalking the audience is something you have to witness. Their nihilistic approach and sound extends to new track “Blind Faith No Future”. Released in the lead up to their UK tour this May after a shortlist nomination for ‘Best Live Act’ at the 2018 Unsigned Music Awards. It’s three-minute aural onslaught with the claustrophobic video is in stark contrast with their ferocious and chaotic live shows. See for yourself below after a few words from lead man Bobby Bentham:

“Blind Faith in a twisted system of plutocracy and venomous media, allows people to be manipulated like soft clay. The constant barrage of fear, hatred and justifications that litter the all mighty stream of information that we as
humans consume daily, offers no future, only oppression, conformity and the illusion of independent thinking.” 

‘Blind Faith No Future’ is out now,

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