Posts Tagged ‘Alternative Rock’

Ryan Adams and his superb new band performed on the Ellen Degeneres Show last night after other apperances on the other major networks TV shows Letterman and Fallon, Ryan was wearing a Black Flag T shirt ,the band ripped through the track “Gimme Something Good” from the new album

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Happyness have been one of my favourite new bands over the summer festivals great songs with great guitars, prolific songwriters from London the band released a brilliant album “Weird Little Birthdays” this year ,

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Evoking a sixties style sound reminiscent of Stevie Winwood and the Spencer Davis Group,  The Hidden Charms has a little influence of the music of the Small Faces and the Kinks…the track is a riducolusly cool with lots of energy through the song feeling like a lost nugget from decades ago, the band are recording an album ready for next year, catch them live if you can

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The 10th album from REM titled “Adventures In Hi-Fi released this day in 1996 featuring the singles “E-Bow the letter” with added backing vocals from Patti Smith, “Bittersweet Me”, “How The West Was Won” and “Where it Got Us” and “Electrolite” all the singles released had multiple added live songs or worthy outtakes and some great covers.The album was recorded after coming off the road in support of the previous album “Monster” with a lot of the recording process with tracks being recorded live on the road resulting in several songs being about travel and motion. It was also drummer Bill Berry’s last album with the band and the last of the Scott Litt produced, considered to be among their better latter day albums it also featured one of their best songs “Leave”.

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with their new album “Meteorites” and a number of live shows in the UK and USA  the Bunnymen performed the song “Holy Moses” on Letterman Show

Timothy Showalter has so far to date released some incredible music to my ears , he currently has a new release that has got excellent reviews and seems to be already destined to be one of this year top releases, which Im so pleased about as Tim is a great guy. Strand Of Oaks will be touring around Europe in September, this video was recorded at the Berlin Wall,

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recorded in downtown Chicago for the Hear Ya sessions, Vocalist Andrew Shepherd has a slight sound Of Tom Petty with his vocal style The band have driving rhythms with reverb laden guitars they also remind me of Other Voices at times, hope they tour the UK soon.

American band The Deep Dark Woods and a song from their session for Chicago’s Hear ya,
love the organ break in this,

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from the forthcoming album “Familiars” produced by the band themselves stark piano and simple drum back beat and Silbermans haunting anguished vocal just announced dates i the UK.

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Echo and the Bunnymen return with a new album and tour in the UK, desrcibed as one of their best in years, the album is out in early May with quite a few dates in the UK and summer European shows