HALEY HEYNDERICKX – ” Worth It “

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Portland-based Haley Heynderickx has been making waves with her spirited musings on self reflection, religion, and growth. Her new single, “Worth It,” explores the difficulties of defining oneself in the shadow of other’s expectations. The ways in which the song unwinds itself, with a faster tempo in a dramatic buildup, is reminiscent of the triumphant feeling of overcoming those anxieties. Over winding guitar riffs, she sings, “Maybe I’ve, maybe I’ve been selfish/ Or maybe I’ve, maybe I’ve been selfless / Maybe I’ve, maybe I’ve been worthless, or / Maybe I’ve, maybe I’ve been worth it.”

Heynderickx informed a little bit about the song’s origin story. “I was living in a house with six women at the time and attempting to pursue music as more than a bedroom act,” she wrote. “In this, I was struggling to find confidence and purpose in it. Writing ‘Worth It’ was a cathartic release at the time, just allowing myself to take up space and make as much noise as I could in our basement without driving my roommates too crazy. After several weeks, this song got carved out. It has been through a lot and it means something new to me each time I hear it.

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The BLACK LIPS – ” Live At Third Man Records “

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The Black Lips bring the party to Third Man – a day we’d been waiting for for some time. Back in June, Black Lips performed a live set at Jack White’s Third Man Records in Nashville. That set was recorded and has been released this week as The Black Lips Live at Third Man, available on 12″ and digitally. It features a cover of “You Must Be a Witch” by Fred Cole’s pre- Dead Moon/Pierced Arrows group the Lollipop Shoppe.

Recorded live to analog tape on 06/11/12.

Setlist
Family Tree
Stuck In My Head
Oh Katrina
Make It
Lock and Key
Modern Art
I Saw A Ghost (Lean)
You Must Be A Witch (F. Cole)
Fad
Dumpster Dive
Drugs
I Got A Knife
Bow Down And Die

LAST OF THE EASY RIDERS – ” Unto The Earth “

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From high in the Rocky Mountains, Last of the Easy Riders descend with “Unto the Earth”, its new psych-infused country-rock long-player.

While the Easy Riders’ first outing exhibited the band’s kaleidoscope of trippy guitar sounds and production techniques, Unto the Earth unveils the band’s earnest songwriting chops and knack for genuine Bakersfield-Sound country. Though, the guys certainly didn’t abandon its lysergic-leanings, especially on the mind-warping title track – which also serves as the lead single.

With no shortage of jangly guitars, piano and pedal steel, the LP no doubt echoes Clarence White-era Byrds, but it doesn’t stray far from the band’s Southwestern-rock ‘n’ roll roots. The early-‘70s AM rock sounds of “Free Wheelin’,” the opening track, reverberates the band’s nomadic lyrical tendencies, while promptly setting up the sonic road trip Unto the Earth delivers. “Turn the Tide,” which closes Side A, melds brilliantly modest Tom Petty-esque guitar riffing with the Easy Riders’ signature vocal harmonies – which soar across both sides of the wax.
Being the first full-length for the band, the members – whom all share songwriting credits – were able to stretch out and laydown some lengthy and tastefully-stacked arrangements. From the fiery doors-esque jamming on “Woodland Echoes” to the ominous western guitar lines of “Shadow Cruiser,” numerous moods freely wander across the nine-song track list.

Last of the Easy Riders are 4 songwriters playing a mix of raw Midwestern treble and passionate deep-south rhythm and bass. Culminating in original High Country Folk Rock and Southwestern Psych.

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The band’s co-founder Christopher Minarik (guitar/backing vocals) is joined by the lineup heard on the LP is bassist/vocalist Dan Duggan, guitarist Bradley Grear and drummer Mitch Mitchum. Unto the Earth was recorded in March 2017 in Lansing, Michigan by producer/songwriter George Szegedy – who also offered up his own song for the disc, the twangy-and-wistful “It Won’t Be Long” After five months of mixing and fine-tuning, the Last of the Easy Riders were ready

FRED THOMAS – ” Changer “

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There’s a line on the Fred Thomas‘ last album, 2015’s “All Are Saved”, that perfectly captures his stream-of-consciousness style: “If you see me and I seem too entertaining / I’m not singing, I’m just talking to you.” Thomas delivers his songs in a conversational cadence, jamming as much as he can into each line. His sneakily catchy tunes aren’t effortless, but it feels as if he’s chatting with you on the street  or even talking to himself in the mirror rather than singing to you from a stage.

Though Thomas has made music since the late ’90s, both solo and with his Michigan band Saturday Looks Good To Me, All Are Saved was an artistic and critical breakthrough. After its release, Thomas quit his job, got married, moved from Ann Arbor to Montreal, and began focusing on music full-time. Hence the title of his new album, Changer, and its keen reflections on big decisions and life-altering memories.

Thomas explores the emotions behind those decisions with wry perspective and unsentimental honesty. He’s interested in elusive, incomplete feelings — or, as he describes them in “Voiceover,” “All those left-behind feelings / Those student-loan feelings / Those DUI feelings / The-phone’s-about-to-die feelings.” He opens the album with, “There was something I was trying to say / But I kept losing my grip on the slippery meaning,” and throughout Changer he chases that meaning, probing his experiences in the hope of figuring them all out.

 

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In “Brickwall,” Thomas examines how friends drift with age, waxing nostalgic for an indie-rock era — “Spending your time looking at books about New York from the 1990s / But you know it’s not the same anymore” — reflected in his jangly chords. A lament for opportunities lost in “Open Letter” includes a priceless couplet: “Love is always looming, but it’s tired of your attention / It feels like an excuse you use to rename old conventions.” He’s funny, too: In “August Rats, Young Sociopaths,” he imagines rats at the end of autumn complaining, “F***, man, can’t something be kinda good before it’s kinda gone?”

Thomas‘ rangy musings accompany music that’s impressively varied. Some tunes are riffs repeated into mantras; others are sharply crafted melodies that stay with you; some use minimalist electronics to create abstract, wordless atmospheres. Surprising touches add drama: Take the horns during the climax of “Voiceover,” the twangy accents of “2008,” or the soothing vocal interludes from singer Anna Burch in “Misremembered.”

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It all serves Thomas‘ main goal: to look hard at life and explore small moments that stick around longer than you’d expect. During the album’s plaintive closer, “Mallwalkers,” he asks, “Where you’re stoned in your basement, playing games / Hanging out with your dogs / Could it ever be possible to just pause on that feeling?” The answer is probably no, but hearing Thomas capture feelings so well on Changer might convince you otherwise.

I’m humbled that a record I released in January is being even remotely remembered, let alone showing up on year-end lists. When I made Changer it felt like a disorganized folder of raw nerves, shorthand lists of experiences. I’m happy it merits any outside perspective. Thank you!

“Brickwall” is taken from Fred Thomas‘ new album, Changer, out 1/27/17.

The LOVELY EGGS – ” Wiggy Giggy “

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5,4,3,2,1 BLAST OFF!!!! We have launch of “Wiggy Giggy” – the mind-melting new single from Northern psychedelic punks The Lovely Eggs. Taken from their forthcoming album This Is Eggland and working with legendary Flaming Lips producer Dave Fridmann “Wiggy Giggy” takes us on a cosmic odyssey where “normal” life and always “striving for more” meet something more magical! Where the grass is not always greener whatever side you look from. Holly explains more about the song: “It is inspired by a book we used to read to our son.

The book was about a spaceman who went off exploring other planets but every planet he went to, there was something inhospitable or wrong with it and when he landed back on planet Earth he realised that after all his cosmic travels that earth was the best place for him to live. It was pretty deep and we really identified with it. We feel the same about Lancaster where we live. It might be a shithole, but it’s OUR shithole and we love it. Not much goes on up here and there’s not much to do so it’s kind of like living in space. But you know, we like being cosmonauts!“

Brand new 7″ Single “Wiggy Giggy” (Released february 16th on Egg Records)

with artwork by Casey Raymond!
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The SMALL FACES – ” Ogdens Nut Flake ” Classic Albums Released 24th May 1968

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“The ballsiest-sounding piece of full-length psychedelia to come out of England in 1968” , Released: 24 May 1968

Marking a definitive break from Small Faces’ early mod and R&B underpinnings, the two-act Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake was a bold move into the realms of stylish psychedelia and the eccentric affectation of late ‘60s English invention. Although more than a hint of Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane’s Cockney humor was inescapable—the whimsical “Rene” and “Lazy Sunday” being obvious examples—two bold anthems, “Song of a Baker” and “Long Agos and Worlds Away,” predated Led Zeppelin’s arch bombast by several months. At the time, the round album cover, made to resemble a tobacco tin, and the sidelong gibberish of “Happiness Stan,” a pseudo fairytale narrated by English actor Stanley Unwin, also garnered plenty of attention. One of the first concept albums ever envisioned (and basically unplayable live), Ogden’s remains a little appreciated musical masterpiece. Small Faces would disband the following year.

The Small Faces were such an influential band during the time when when there were great changes going on in music, especially in the UK. Listen to Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake which was the culmination of that change from a completely record company controlled ‘group’ to a band who were experimenting with the technology available and under the influence of psychedelia. Side 2 of this album featured a cockney themed story through narrative by Professor Stanley Unwin and songs which may not be to everyone’s taste. Song Of A Baker is a real highlight. The fairy tale follows Stan in his quest to find the missing half of the moon, after seeing a half-moon in the sky one night. Along the way, he saves a fly from starvation, and in gratitude the insect tells him of someone who can answer his question and also tell him the philosophy of life itself. With magic power,Stan intones, “If all the flies were one fly, what a great enormous fly-follolloper that would bold,” and the fly grows to gigantic proportions. Seated on the giant fly’s back, Stan takes a psychedelic journey to the cave of Mad John the Hermit, who explains that the moon’s disappearance is only temporary, and demonstrates by pointing out that Stan has spent so long on his quest that the moon is now full again. He then sings Stan a cheerful song about the meaning of life.

The album was originally released on vinyl in a circular novelty package of a metal replica of a giant tobacco tin, inside which was a poster created with five connected paper circles with pictures of the band members. This proved too expensive and not successful as the tins tended to roll off of shelves and it was quickly followed by a paper/card replica with a gatefold cover. There have been Two limited-edition CD releases (including a three-disc deluxe edition in 2006 that included the original mono mix of the album on CD for the first time) went even further by packaging the disc(s) in a circular tin (as the original vinyl release had). 

Small Faces
  • Steve Marriott − lead, harmony, and backing vocals, guitars, harmonica, piano on “Happiness Stan” and “Every Little Bit Hurts”, Hammond organ on “Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake”, bass guitar on “The Journey”, shared lead vocals on “The Hungry Intruder” and “HappyDaysToyTown”
  • Ronnie Lane − harmony and backing vocals, bass guitar, electric guitar on “The Journey”, upright bass on “Mad John”, lead vocals on “Song of a Baker” and “The Journey”, shared lead vocals on “The Hungry Intruder” and “HappyDaysToyTown”
  • Kenney Jones − backing vocals, drums, percussion
  • Ian McLagan − harmony and backing vocals, keyboards, electric guitar and bass guitar on “Long Agos and Worlds Apart”, lead vocals on “Long Agos and Worlds Apart”

With:

  • Stanley Unwin – “looney links”
  • Glyn Johns – recording engineer

The award-winning artwork for the album cover was done by Nick Tweddell and Pete Brown, who were art school friends of Ian Mclagan

Released: May 24th

BULLY – ” Kills to Be Resistant “

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The 12 new songs on Losing feel like perfect anthems for a generation still learning to harness the power of resistance. With a vocal style that is as pretty as it is powerful, and emotionally resonant lyrics, Alicia channels the loss of innocence and reveals a raw honesty in songs that are distinctly hers. I love Bully the way I love Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr and the Breeders.  A good reason to be with Sub Pop, who have always been associated with this type of music . Alicia says I feel like all my best work has been born of heartbreak and upheaval; maybe most musicians feel that way. “The title of the record – Losing – kind of says it all,” Alicia says. “After being on the road so long and coming back to Nashville we all had a lot of changes going on in our personal lives that we were trying to deal with / adjust to and that was really the motivation for this one.

“‘Cause what I want with you is none of your business,” Alicia Bognanno sings in a soft bedroom voice, layered above a repeating and driven guitar riff in the opening verse of “Kills to Be Resistant.”

This release off of Bully’s sophomore album, Losing, is not hard to identify with. The drums in this song lay down a foundation, perfectly mirroring Bognanno as she ebbs between gentle verses tip-toeing around the topic, and choruses riddled with gravel, grit and the pain that comes with accepting circumstances as they are. With just drums and bass to hold the words, Bognanno confesses, “When I’m alone, I stare at your picture,” a habit with which most of us are all too familiar. When the guitar riff comes back in for the bridge, it’s an embodiment of that cyclical, anxious thought process that’s attached to facing an end to or a shift in a relationship.

“It won’t stop / Do you feel nothing?” she asks in the chorus leading into an outro that matches the built-up frustration in the lyrics with dissonant chords and skillfully-played drum fills.

This is all anyone could have hoped for when anticipating new music from Bully. The sound is full, but nowhere near overly-complicated. Every necessary element is there, coming together to sound so effortless and raw. The only thing more to ask for is a ticket to a live performance.

Lately Alicia has been lending her voice as an advocate for gun control, women’s rights and speaking out in support of animal rights.

ULRIKA SPACEK – ” Silvertonic “

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Ulrika Spacek released their second album, Modern English Decoration. Much like their debut album released in early 2016, the band chose to record, produce and mix the entirety of the record in their shared house – a former art gallery called ‘KEN’, so named because of a cryptic inscription found above the front door. The relatively short amount of time between their first and second albums is testament to the band’s self-contained creative environment and the productivity it encourages. There’s a tendency to label this degree of self-reliant creativity ‘DIY’ – and the band do certainly feel emboldened by that ethos – yet to consider Modern English Decoration solely in these terms is a disservice.

Their craft is considered and purposeful, the means of its production reflecting the band’s overall vision  “We enjoy listening to music through the album format and want our records to reflect that”, says Rhys Edwards (guitars, vocals, synthesiser). Ulrika Spacek formed in Berlin in one night, when 14-year-long friends Rhys Edwards and Rhys Williams conceptualised ‘Ulrika Spacek’ and came up with The Album Paranoia as their debut album title. Moving back to London with the intention to record it, they were joined by Joseph Stone (guitars, organ, synths, violin), Ben White (bass) and Callum Brown (drums, percussion), ossifying into the five-piece they are now.

The album was released soon after with little forewarning and was accompanied by a year long, near-monthly club night called Oysterland. Given the lyrics often favour abstraction and the vocals can be more impressionistic than declarative, the album title itself offers perhaps the most telling entry point to the record. With three guitarists in the band guitars were always going to be central to the music, but what is less expected is the dynamic interplay between the trio that suggests a three-headed version of the Verlaine-Lloyd axis at the heart of Television. What’s more, the absence of reverb is integral, in part attributable to the ambience of the studio, but also a conscious decision in order to add focus. And focus is the abiding term: this is an album designed to be just so – a 45 minute commitment, a surrender.

Taken from the album, Modern English Decoration

The SEEDS – ” A Web Of Sound ” Reissue Originally Released in October 1966

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Big Beat’s second instalment in its much-anticipated upgrade of the catalogue of garage legends the Seeds continues with their second album, “A Web of Sound”, released in October 1966 just as their classic Pushin’ Too Hard 45 began to ascend the US hit parade. Written and recorded during the band’s residencies at Hollywood’s underground haven bido litos, alongside Love and the embryonic Doors in the summer of 1966, A Web of Sound showcased a more mature, developing Seeds sound. The record became notorious for the 14-minute showstopper Up In Her Room, but it also includes some of the group’s signature tunes including Mr Farmer, Tripmaker and A Faded Picture.

2CD – The bulk of the contents of this deluxe two-disc set are new to compact disc, including the original stereo mix, which has not been available since the 1960s. Also featured is the album’s mono incarnation, as well as an unused mono mix of the stop-gap 1967 lp A Full Spoon of Seedy Blues, made in late 1966. A selection of previously unreleased outtakes rounds out the package. As with all Big Beat’s Seeds reissues, A Web of Sound comes as a trifold Digipak with extensive illustrations and fresh commentary from assorted participants on both its contents and the career of these garage rock avatars.

2LP – This definitive 2LP edition features the original stereo mix of A Web Of Sound, unavailable on vinyl since the 1960s. The accompanying bonus album of rarities includes mono mixes and outtakes, such as the cryptic early demo of The Wind Blows Your Hair, with its mildly controversial original lyric. Most are new to vinyl and one cut, an alternate take of Rollin’ Machine, is completely unreleased. As before, the deluxe A Web Of Sound comes in a handsome tip-on style Gatefold sleeve, faithfully reproducing the record’s iconic original artwork. The extensively illustrated eight-page insert features detailed liner notes from compiler Alec Palao on the making of this psych-garage classic.

The MYRRORS – ” Warpainting “

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Hypnotic, psychedelic, desert drone krautrock: The Myrrors from Arizona! Their 4th album Hasta La Victoria (2017) is a ”masterpiece” (said influential online magazine CVLT Nation) and their spacey live shows are a huge experience! ”The raddest psych band you will hear today” (cvlt nation).

Band Members
Nik Rayne / Grant Beyschau / Miguel Urbina / Kellen Fortier / Casey Hadland

Burning Circles In the Sky (2008).
Thanks to Grant, the Myrror’s drummer, here’s a link for the LP :
http://www.mediafire.com/?wdkyb1q7a8q…
Notify me if anything goes wrong with it. And if you’re loving the band, consider showing your love by buying the album via their Bandcamp page :
http://themyrrors.bandcamp.com/

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