The Fat Angel Sings

“Skinty Fia,” the newest song from Fontaines D.C. is out now! The titular track is the latest single from their highly anticipated third studio album, “Skinty Fia“, out April 22nd. The track comes with a Hugh Mulhern-directed music video, which shows frontman Grian Chatten maneuvering his way through a bustling party crowd that slowly morphs into a surrealist dreamscape. 

The band will also be going back on tour across the UK & Ireland in November and December, in addition to their European and North American tour dates starting this Spring.

The album we’ve been waiting to share with you for pretty much a year. Sorry it’s not disco, we lied. It’s an album of terrible lows and even worse highs. We love yous all. Fontaines D.C. x

the new album, “Skinty Fia“, out 22nd April on Partisan Records:

Somewhere along a frayed thread of time, a King Gizzard and a Tropical Fuck Storm convened under the cloak of night for a slumber party of the satanic persuasion…Pumped full of booze and adrenaline, two of psych-rock’s most powerful joined forces for a 20-minute “Hatjam” chockfull of sax skronks, brick-heavy distortion, and punchy riffs. “Satanic Slumber Party” arrives just in time for your possessed pleasure

“Satanic Slumber Party Part 2 (Midnight In Sodom)” from Tropical Fuck Storm + King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. Track comes off the three part masterpiece ‘Satanic Slumber Party’.

Directed by Nina Renee (GOODY GOODY GUMDROPS), and Tropical Fuck Storm. Edited and SPX by Sam Mapplebeck, first AD Rebecca Hawkey, Second AD Helena Holmes. Special guest star Bob Kean as Uncle Marty.

Glenn Donaldson has always been prolific (Art Museums, Skygreen Leopards, Vacant Gardens, Blithe Sons, etc.) but he seems to have hit on a mother vein of inspiration recently with his nom de plume The Reds Pinks and Purples. While the USA waits for the “Summer at Land’s End” LP to make it to shops, Donaldson, not constrained by mortal production backlogs went and put out a download only single so fine that it’ll make you forget whatever you just heard. “The Slow Torture of an Hourly Wage” is a song that Morrissey would kill for to bring him out of irrelevance.

Featuring a maudlin harmonica melody that sort of reminds you of “Hand in Glove”, but since the 80’s are 40 years ago and old idols have fallen your mileage may vary.  The fact that Donaldson tosses great shit like this off for free has me questioning the internet economy.  Can someone make this an NFT of this so this guy can get paid?

“As great masters in cataloguing the human condition, Placebo’s unique way of examining both its flaws and beauty finds fertile ground in 2021. Crawling out of the pandemic into a landscape of intolerance, division, tech-saturation and imminent eco-catastrophe, theirs is a voice that has rarely felt more significant to contemporary discourse, and more appropriate to sing these stories to the world. Within the magnetic slow-burn of new track “Surrounded By Spies” no punches are pulled in confronting the erosion of civil liberties, as Brian Molko’s deft lyrical delivery is married to a creeping sense of claustrophobia that fittingly makes the walls feel as though they are closing in from all around.

Placebo released a new track called ‘Surrounded By Spies’.The duo – comprised of Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal – recently returned with their first single in five years, ‘Beautiful James’. It served as a taste of the group’s forthcoming eighth album, the follow-up to 2013’s ‘Loud Like Love’.

Taking to social media Placebo confirmed that they’ll share another new song this month. ‘Surrounded By Spies’. “We had a lot of get-up-and-go, and then everything that happened, happened, so everything is sort of delayed by about two years now,” he said.

“I know it was frustrating for the fans. It was certainly very frustrating for us as well, the interminable wait to put out new music, but at least it was there. We knew we had it.”

Molko comments: “I began writing the lyrics when I discovered my neighbours were spying on me on behalf of parties with a nefarious agenda. I then began to ponder the countless ways in which our privacy has been eroded and stolen since the introduction of worldwide CCTV cameras that now employ racist facial recognition technologies; the rise of the internet and the cell-phone, which has turned practically every user into a paparazzo and spectators in their own lives, and how we have mostly all offered up personal information to enormous multinationals whose sole intent is to exploit us.”

The singer also said that Placebo had switched up their writing process this time around in an effort to “not make it easy on ourselves”.

“I have what I would describe as a boredom problem,” Molko explained. “Stefan [Olsdal, bassist and guitarist] has often said that he’s never met anyone with a lower boredom threshold than myself – and that really influences and informs the way that we work.”

A release date for Placebo’s new forthcoming album ‘Never Let Me Go’ – out March 25th, 2022. 

“Saying Cowboy Junkies ‘cover’ songs doesn’t quite do them justice. Like greats from the classic pop standards era, the Cowboy Junkies interpret the music of others. They embrace the songs, adapting them in their own style. The band’s latest release, “Songs Of The Recollection“, finds the band as distinctive and individual as when they started. Long admired for their carefully chosen covers, the new album consists of nine songs by some of the band’s favourite artists. Some of the tracks are newly recorded, while some are collected from earlier projects. Listen to “Songs Of The Recollection” and you’ll hear works originally written and recorded by Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot, Bob Dylan, The Cure, Gram Parsons, Vic Chesnutt, The Rolling Stones and David Bowie that the Junkies make their own — and make them sound perfectly natural beside each one another. “Long before we were musicians, we were music fans,” says guitarist Michael Timmins.

We didn’t grow up sitting around the kitchen table playing instruments and harmonizing. We grew up sitting around the record player listening to each other’s record collections and having our minds blown. This was the passion that we shared.”

Musicians Margo Timmins (vocals) Michael Timmins (guitar) Peter Timmins (drums) Alan Anton (bass and keyboards) Jeff Bird (electric mandolin)

Songs of the Recollection which is released on March 25, 2022.

Today marks the 20th Anniversary of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers’ induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame by Jakob Dylan in 2002. TPATH performed legendary renditions of “American Girl” and “ Mary Jane’s Last Dance” at the ceremony. “Tom Petty made us all believe by singing about ordinary experience in an extraordinary way. His vocals captured our soul with songs that sounded like hits the first time we heard them. He made his mark on music and our lives.” – Greg Harris, Rock Hall CEO

In celebration of the band as well as the critically acclaimed documentary Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free: The Making of Wildflowers  the Rock Hall has opened a new exhibit to spotlight the Wildflowers album. The exhibit features artifacts from the Wildflowers-era sessions and tour, including handwritten lyrics, instruments, and items from Tom’s personal wardrobe and has been extended through December 2022.

Last year, they sanctioned a four-CD box set titled Wildflowers and the Rest, which restored 10 songs excised from the original release, along with demos, alternative takes and live recordings of material from the original sessions performed over the next two decades. Wharton’s film draws on two primary sources – footage shot in the 90s during the Wildflowers recording sessions and fresh interviews she conducted with the Heartbreakers’ Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench, as well as with the album’s producer, Rick Rubin, and Petty’s daughter, Adria. The vintage footage, shot by the longtime Petty chronicler Martyn Atkins, ran four hours. Only 11 minutes of it has been seen before, as part of a press kit created at the time. The new documentary project began, said Wharton, after Petty’s daughter “found these cans of film in Warner Bros’ vault that she didn’t know existed. She felt something should be done with them,” she said.

The album Tom Petty considered to be the best work of his career chronicled the most tumultuous period of his life. Between the summer of 1992 and the spring of 94, the stretch in which he recorded his classic album Wildflowers, Petty’s 22-year marriage to the mother of his two children fell apart, he fired the drummer with whom he had worked since his Heartbreakers band began nearly three decades before, and he left both the record company for which he recorded all of his hits and the producer who shaped some of his biggest ones. “He was blowing up every aspect of his life,” said Mary Wharton, who directed a new documentary set in that dense era, titled Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free: The Making of Wildflowers. “From his personal life to his business life to his creative life, Tom was trying to figure out how to put things back together in a way that made sense to him in that moment.”

In early 2020, a collection of 16mm film from 1993-95 was discovered in the archive of legendary artist Tom Petty. The film was shot while Tom was on a prolific song writing streak for years making what he intended to be a double album called Wildflowers. Tom Petty was known for being reclusive about his personal life and his creative process. “Somewhere You Feel Free” allows you to spend 90 minutes immersed in the candid and musically rich world of Tom’s creativity as he makes his first album with legendary producer Rick Rubin. With collaborators providing unrivalled access and featuring never before seen footage captured during the making of Wildflowers – Tom’s personal favourite album. “Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free”, a small slice of rock history that becomes a loving and lovely portrait, has the ability to change the way you hear and see him too.” – “An enthralling experience” –

On 2nd October 2017, Tom Petty died at the age of 66 from what was ruled an accidental overdose of opioids, sedatives and an anti-depressant. An official statement by the family at the time stated that the musician had been taking that mix of medications to numb the escalating pain of emphysema, issues with his knees and a badly fractured hip.