NEIL YOUNG – ” Paradox ” OST

Posted: March 15, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Neil Young has confirmed details and release information for his next album: “Paradox”, the soundtrack to a new film in which he stars, will arrive digitally and as a two-record set on March 23rd. It will be available on compact disc beginning April 20th.

According to a news release, Young recorded the music on the MGM soundstage with three different groups: Promise of the Real, an orchestra and another backing band comprised of Jim Keltner, Paul Bushnell and Joe Yankee. In addition, Paradox contains several solo passages played by Young on electric guitar. There are three sides of music on the LP, with the fourth consisting of etched artwork.

Young composed the bulk of the material for the film, which was written and directed by Daryl Hannah, his girlfriend. He collaborated on “Running to the Silver Eagle” with Promise of the Real, the band fronted by Lukas Nelson; Nelson and his brother Micah has worked with Young on “Diggin’ in the Dirt.” There are also covers of Jimmy Reed’s “Baby What You Want Me To Do?,” the Turtles’ “Happy Together,” Lead Belly’s “How Long?” and “Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground.” The latter was written by the Nelson brothers’ father, Willie Nelson, who also provides narration in the opener “Many Moons Ago in the Future.”

Paradox will be screened at SXSW on Friday and will hit Netflix on March 23rd, with a limited theatrical release to be announced at a later date. A news release describes the film as a “fantasy, a loud poem and a whimsical tale of music and love,” adding that Paradox is a “sweetly idiosyncratic personal expression. Sometime in the future-past, a band of outlaws hides out high in the mountains. The ‘Man in the Black Hat’ (Young), the ‘Particle Kid’ (Micah) and ‘Jail Time’ (Lukas) and a band of cowboys and outlaws pass the days digging for treasure while they wait for the full moon to bring its magic, the music and let the spirits fly.”

Check out the trailer below.

COKE – ” EP “

Posted: March 14, 2018 in MUSIC
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Raw, unrelenting, and careening out of the Bay Area of California is Coke. A quartet who craft angry and raw slabs of post-hardcore that chunk and chew with angular riffs and acerbic vocals. Plus, they have a song called ‘Ray Liotta’. Everyone loves Ray Liotta. Right? They also have a song called ‘Da Da’. Which is also the name of a red wine that I really love. I don’t think that Coke drink red wine. I think they bathe in the blood of their enemies and drink from their hollowed out skulls. Maybe. ( OVERBLOWN )

Raw, unrelenting, and careening out of the Bay Area of California is Coke. A quartet who craft angry and raw slabs of post-hardcore that chunk and chew with angular riffs and acerbic vocals. Plus, they have a song called ‘Ray Liotta’.I mean everyone loves Ray Liotta. Right? for sure.

They also have a song called ‘Da Da’. Which is also the name of a red wine that I really love. I don’t think that Coke drink red wine. I think they bathe in the blood of their enemies and drink from their hollowed out skulls. Maybe.

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GENGAHR – ” Where Wildness Grows “

Posted: March 14, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The second album from Gengahr after 2015’s ‘A Dream Outside’, is a 12 track, 48-minute work produced by Neil Comber (Glass Animals, M.I.A, Songhoy Blues) and which sees the North Londoners move onwards and upwards from their inaugural outing.

For their second round, Gengahr introduce a bigger, bolder sound, working shimmering synths in with intricate guitars, and Felix Bushe’s melodic falsetto vocal. Sprightly opener ‘Before Sunrise’ zips along with uplifting twinkling percussion, leading on to ‘Mallory’s effectively winding, jangly guitar tones that are punctuated by abundant synths. It is here where we see depth emerging, yet still retaining the infectious rhythms.

Yet when hearing the more psychedelically tinged ‘Is This How You Love’, where Bushe’s falsetto reaches its powered heights over trademark melodies, and the more choppy, swaggering ‘I’ll Be Waiting’, that Gengahr start to really kick in; a catchy, swaying vibe carrying it along  on a buoyant wave.

Trademark distortion comes in again on ‘Carrion’, rolling from a quasi-experimental start, upping the ante in an unrestrained four and a half minute rush in its midway position. The album title track employs delicately constructed guitars in a more low-key song to those that have preceded it, although it does break away at one point into rampant moment of forceful distortion. But both this, ‘Blind Truth’, and the fuzzy ‘Burning Air’ rather pale against the rest of the album.

The big finale comes in the shape of the rather majestic ‘Whole Again’. A swooning roll of layered vocals and indelible lyrics (“A lost cause, but I’ll do better I’m sure / And we could be whole again”), the guitars in its last half especially are really quite delicious.

‘Where Wildness Grows’ grew out of the two years spent writing and recording ‘A Dream Outside’, a process which saw them reject multiple recordings and eventually return to the drawing board, re-group and head back to the studio with a renewed clarity and artistic determination. From little seeds, big albums grow.

MIEN – ” Earth Moon “

Posted: March 14, 2018 in MUSIC
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Newly formed psych project Mien is a supergroup as meeting of the minds. It brings together the talents of Elephant Stone sitar player Rishi Dhir, Black Angels vocalist Alex Maas, The Horrors keyboardist Tom Furse, and electronic manipulator John-Mark Lapham of The Earlies. The members are separated by geography and much of the album was written and recorded long distance, but they’re united by a love of classic psychedelia and cutting-edge studio voodoo.

“Earth Moon,” the second single off their forthcoming self-titled debut, is a baroque testimony to what can happen when heads like these get together. Cascading sitar and billowing layers of Krauty keyboards ride a driving, motorik beat to a peak of eerie elation. The hyperreal production is made possible by technology, not to say drugs, that they just didn’t have in the ’60s. Listen close and you can hear a bit of each musician’s signature in the song’s psilocybin swirl – and plenty of what the future holds for mind-expanding music.

Mien incarnates on this plane April 6th via Rocket Recordings. The band makes their live debut in April at Levitation Festival.

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Band Members
Alex Maas
John Mark Lapham
Rishi Dhir
Tom Furse

CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – ” Live At The Fillmore West ” San Francisco March 14th 1969

Posted: March 14, 2018 in MUSIC
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1969 was an amazing year for Creedence Clearwater Revival, witnessing the release of albums Bayou Country, Green River and Willy and the Poorboys. When John Fogerty ran the show, the results were often stunning, and his leadership strengths are quite evident in this live recording from the Fillmore West. It showcases CCR’s two essential strengths: wonderful, hook-laden rock songs and focused yet extensive jamming. CCR was one of the under-appreciated great bands of their era, and this set is packed with some solid material, both on the concise and exploratory sides.

Working the pop angle, CCR delivers the Fogerty-penned originals “Proud Mary” and “Bootleg” with tight arrangements that mirror the recorded versions. The band also brings rock ‘n’ roll energy to the Wilson Pickett cover “Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won’t Do).”

They dirty things up with their version of “Suzie-Q,” which clocks in at over 12 minutes. CCR was a Bay Area band but their instrumental passages were quite different from the colorful psychedelic sounds emerging from San Francisco in the late ’60s. Whereas a Grateful Dead jam could take off in any number of directions, CCR instrumentals often barreled along in one intense direction like a freight train, constantly building to impressive peaks. The “Suzie Q” solo section finds the band stomping into a swampy, hypnotic groove as Fogerty gradually works up to an electrifying climax.

There is little filler in this set, save for a nearly nine-minute instrumental blues jam that sounds cliched 35 years after the fact. Regardless, it’s a small price to pay for an invaluable show.

John Fogerty – vocals, guitar; Tom Fogerty – guitar; Stu Cook – bass; Doug Clifford – drums

ARCADE FIRE – ” Money + Love “

Posted: March 13, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Arcade Fire have made the announcement that they will soon be sharing a brand new short-film ‘Money + Love’ to work as a double-header video for two of their more recent tracks ‘Put Your Money on Me’ and ‘We Don’t Deserve Love’. The full film will drop on March 15th.

It comes ahead of the scheduled UK tour, which you can see the dates for below, and will see the band work with not only David Wilson, whom they collaborated with in 2014 on ‘Reflektor’ and ‘We Exist’ but also Australian actress Toni Colette.

Win Butler has said: “The concept of a double video really appealed to us, we’d always loved songs being put together as A and B sides… and these songs seemed perfect together. David has been a great collaborator for us since Reflektor and we were finally able to work with Toni whom we’d been wanting to work with for some time.”

UK Dates:

06/04 Dublin 3Arena
08/04 Manchester Arena
11/04 London SSE Arena Wembley
12/04 London SSE Arena Wembley
13/04 London SSE Arena Wembley
15/04 Birmingham Genting Arena
16/04 Glasgow SSE Hydro

MADONNATRON – ” Mermaids​ /​ Ich Liebe Dich “

Posted: March 13, 2018 in MUSIC
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Label mates with Fat White Family & Meatraffle

“Much in the manner a devotional feline will proudly massacre vermin, leaving it’s sacrificial remains to fetter your hallway carpet, we bring you Madonnatron.”  “Songs that will make you dance and sing along while you feel the seedy, swirling force”

“If Madonnatron was an amplifier, it would be a mutha of a Krell beater, a class A with plenty of power in reserve. Better than Led Zeppelin ” – Zsa Zsa Sapien of Meatraffle 

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Band Members
Stefania, Charlie, Beth, Joanie

FIRST AID KIT – ” You Are The Problem Here ” Record Store Day Release 2018

Posted: March 13, 2018 in MUSIC
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The live version of “You Are The Problem Here” was originally recorded in honor of International Women’s Day and is exclusive to this Record Store Day 2018 single. First Aid Kit special 7” for Record Store Day, which will include the live and studio versions of You are the Problem Here. The band have also shared a live version of the song for International Women’s Day 2018 and to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the song’s release.

“You are the Problem Here” is a powerful, direct statement against sexual misconduct and rape culture with proceeds donated to Women for Women International. Given the worldwide #MeToo movement and current landscape which is seeing women speak out against sexual harassment, the song is more pertinent now than ever.

First Aid Kit Say: “You are the Problem Here is a song that was written out of pure frustration and anger. We, as women, felt really sick of being afraid all the time. We wanted to ask the perpetrators of rape crimes why they commit such horrendous acts. Instead of putting the blame and shame on the victim, we wanted to put it back where it belongs. The song has been gaining more and more attention since its original release last year, especially with the #MeToo movement growing. It’s sad that it’s so relevant, but we’re glad to be talking about these issues and taking sexual assault seriously. We all need to keep the conversation going.

“You Are The Problem Here (Recorded Live in Stockholm)”/“You Are The Problem Here (Studio Version)”

First Aid Kit – You are the Problem Here (Live From the Rebel Hearts Club)

HIT THE NORTH FESTIVAL Various Venues 4th-6th May 2018

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Newcastle’s Hit The North Festival has announced the 2018 festival line-up.

Taking place on Sunday 6th May across 15 venues in Newcastle City Centre, Hit The North will continue to champion new music, from established bands with new releases to new bands on the scene. The Horrors have been announced as the first headliner for Hit The North 2018, following the release of their fifth studio album ‘V’.

Joining them on the line-up are acts including Marmozets, Tom Grennan, Blaenavon, Sunset Sons and Pale Waves. LMLL favourites Marsicans, Sea Girls and Hockey Dad also join this year’s line-up, championing new music.

This year, Hit The North Festival will take place across the full weekend with opening parties on Friday 4th May (Drenge, Jungle and Circa Waves), Meet The North on Saturday 5th May and the Hit The North on Sunday 6th May.

Tickets for the full weekend are priced at £50, with day tickets for the main festival available for £30 via Gigs North East. Find out more about the full Hit The North Festival 2018 line-up via HitTheNorthFestival.co.uk!

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QUEEN – ” Seven Seas Of Rhye ” Released March 1974

Posted: March 13, 2018 in MUSIC
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In early March of 1974, Queen did something that they’ve now done 54 times to date. They made the UK singles chart for the very first time, as ‘Seven Seas Of Rhye’ took its bow at a modest chart place No. 45. It was the first of what currently stands at 440 weeks overall on the British bestsellers or, to put it another way, nearly eight and a half years.

The song has, of course, taken its rightful place in Queen history, both for being their chart breakthrough and for representing the band at the height of their rocking powers. But when Roger Taylor spoke to Record Mirror in 1975, he revealed that he hadn’t expected it to do well, and that he had thought their earlier, debut single, which wasn’t a chart item, would perform better.

“Apart from ‘Killer Queen” he said, “which was obviously catchy, I don’t think of our singles as being immediately commercial. For instance, when ‘Seven Seas of Rhye’ was a hit, I was very surprised. It was only intended really to draw attention to the album. I thought that ‘Keep Yourself Alive’ was a much more commercial song. I think it is probably an advantage not to know exactly what will sell, “because then you are not inhibited in your choice of a single.”

As ‘Rhye’ made its chart debut, the album it was on, Queen II, was new in the shops, and the single and LP would climb the UK charts in tandem. After that No. 45 entry, ‘Seven Seas’ climbed to No. 30 and then No. 15, where it seemed to have stalled before it rose again, peaking at No. 10 in mid-April. Queen II would within two weeks it was in the top ten, for a No. 5 peak. Queen’s sales momentum was now well and truly under way.

“Seven Seas of Rhye” was primarily written by Freddie Mercury, with Brian May contributing the second middle-eight. The song is officially credited to Mercury only. A rudimentary instrumental version appears as the final track on the group’s debut album Queen with the final version on the follow-up Queen II , The completed version served as the band’s third single, It was publicly premiered when Queen were offered a sudden chance to appear on Top of the Pops in February 1974, and was rushed to vinyl two days later in February. It became their first chart entry after gaining airtime on BBC Radio 1.

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