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Monday, Jan 24 2022, 7AM
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This great record was released on this day in 2005. Look back at Pitchfork's 8.2 review of it: pitchfork.com
As part of the Deluxe 20th Anniversary Edition of Dubnobasswithmyheadman Underworld released remixes and alternate versions from the album sessions. Find a stripped back version of 'Dirty Epic', Dirty Epic (Dirty Ambi Piano) here: youtu.be
Brand new music from the Brighton UK artist. Order the deluxe edition double crystal clear 140g vinyl with lenticular sleeve & four art prints from Bandcamp, featuring collaborations with Jamila Woods, Jordan Rakei, Kadhja Bonet, Joji, O’Flynn and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson: bonobomusic.bandcamp.com
Once Twice Melody is the 8th studio album by Beach House. It is a double album, featuring 18 songs presented in 4 chapters. Across these songs, many types of style and song structures can be heard. Songs without drums, songs centered around acoustic guitar, mostly electronic songs with no guitar, wandering and repetitive melodies, songs built around the string sections. In addition to new sounds, many of the drum machines, organs, keyboards and tones that listeners may associate with previous Beach House records remain present throughout many of the compositions. beachhouse.bandcamp.com
Released on this day in 2005 (what a day that was for music!). Pitchfork called it "high-concept emo embossed with glittery snow angels, packing more synthy bombast than a Tangerine Dream/Mineral mash-up" but gave it 8.6 and Best New Music: pitchfork.com
School of Seven Bells (often stylized as SVIIB) was an American indie rock band from New York City, formed in 2007. It originally consisted of Alejandra Deheza (vocals, guitar), her sister Claudia Deheza (keyboards, vocals) and Benjamin Curtis (guitar, synthesizers, vocals). Claudia left the group in 2010, and Curtis died of lymphoma in 2013
Said Annie Lennox of this track: "The video is basically a little cameo story. I would say 'Love Is A Stranger' is a song about love objects. The concept of love in relationships is very often a person projecting what they want onto another person. We are all in love with the idea of love but what we want is not always good for us. We might get obsessed with something very dangerous. I wanted to put these ideas into a pop song."
Music Video: youtu.be
New Order play Climate Pledge Arena on Friday, October 14th. www.neworder.com
New single from the duo of Nicolas Jaar & Dave Harrington!
DARKSIDE are playing two festivals in LA in September -- learn more and pick up this track: darkside.bandcamp.com
The Smile is a new group comprising Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons Of Kemet’s Tom Skinner. Super Group Alert!
The Smile will play & stream three consecutive live shows within a twenty-four hour period at Magazine London on January 29 & 30. Performing to a seated audience in the round, the three shows will also be broadcast in real time via livestream.
Sign up for pre-sale tickets by joining the mailing list at: www.thesmiletheband.com
Warpaint’s JennyLee is releasing the second single of her ‘Singles Club’, featuring A-side ‘Tickles’ - which was produced and mixed by Danish dance producer, Trentemøller - and B-Side ‘Heart Tax’.
“I love, love, love collaborating with Trentemøller…he never ceases to amaze me!” JennyLee says of ‘Tickles’. “And more often than not, I usually like his version of the song better!”
New single from the upcoming album, 'PAINLESS.'
“It’s a song about recognizing what it feels like to be pushed down but wanting to resist,” Yanya says about “midnight sun,” adding, “I really like the imagery of ‘midnight sun’ as a lyric as it insinuates a light guiding you through darkness. The wings carry their own symbolism — freedom, lightness, flight, fantasy. If I could pick what people saw and heard it would be seeing the beauty of confrontation and the necessity of rebellion.”
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Nilüfer Yanya - "midnight sun" (Official Visualizer):
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'PAINLESS' is out March 4.
Nilüfer Yanya is playing The Crocodile on Saturday, May 21.
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“Senses Working Overtime” was released in advance of XTC’s 1982 album English Settlement. It became a top ten hit in the UK.
This album released on this day in 2011. Watch them perform this song at SXSW in 2011: youtu.be
From the 'Singles' soundtrack released on Epic, along with tracks by Screaming Trees and Alice in Chains. According to Billy Corgan, the success of "Drown" was stymied by the label behind the soundtrack due to their pushing of Alice in Chains' hit.
"That's classic record company. You would think, 'Hey, you've got this soundtrack. You've got two songs working radio, you're going to sell more soundtracks.' They killed our single to make sure that it wouldn’t hurt the Alice in Chains thing." - bit.ly
Released on this day in 1994. That's Michael Stipe collaborating with Kristin Hersh on this first track from her debut solo studio album, Hips and Makers.
Stipe has said that the song is about "when somebody actually thinks that, through words, they're going to be able to convince somebody that they are their one and only."
Aeon Station is a new project from Kevin Whelan of Wrens. Discussing the new single, Whelan said: This song was inspired by one of my all-time favorite songs, "The Winner Takes it All" by ABBA. It’s about betting on the real you. Like a game of high-stakes poker, you push all your chips to the center of the table and aren’t afraid to go “all in.”
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For Joy up in Bellingham!
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From Brian Eno's debut solo album, 'Here Come the Warm Jets', released in 1973. brian-eno.net
Mark Edward Smith died on this day in 2018. He was the lead singer, lyricist and only constant member of the post-punk group the Fall. Smith formed the Fall in 1976 after attending a Sex Pistols gig at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in June that year. The band went on to feature over 60 different members, and released 32 studio albums. He died at the age of 60 after a long illness.
Yard Act will be at Madame Lou's (The Crocodile) on Monday, April 18.
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"Waspish portraits of the country’s worst people – from alpha male businessmen to middle-class foodies – are punchily delivered by this excitingly undeveloped Leeds quartet"
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New single from the Dublin-based band. Check them out on Bandcamp:
silverbacks.bandcamp.com
Gang of Four guitarist Andy Gill passed in 2020. His spouse, author and activist Catherine Mayer, appeared on KEXP's Sound & Vision in 2020 to discuss his legacy. Enjoy the full segment here:
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New music from the Vancouver group: spectresvancouver.bandcamp.com
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RIP, Don Wilson, co-founder and rhythm guitarist for Tacoma’s band the Ventures, has died at 88. According to The Tacoma News Tribune, Wilson passed away from natural causes at his home in Tacoma.
Don Wilson and Bob Bogle first met in 1958, when Bogle was looking to buy a car from a used car dealership in Seattle owned by Wilson's father. Finding a common interest in guitars, the two bought two used guitars in a pawn shop for about $10 each.Initially calling themselves the Versatones, the duo played small clubs, beer bars, and private parties throughout the Pacific Northwest. When they went to register the band name, they found that it was already taken. Disappointed, they cast about for an appropriate name. Wilson's mother suggested the name "The Ventures", upon which they eventually agreed in 1959.
The band had their first big hit with “Walk, Don’t Run,” a cover of a Johnny Smith track that was popularized by Chet Atkins, in th early 60’s, pioneering the surf guitar sound while their rendition of the Hawaii Five-O theme reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1969.
In the 1960s and early 1970s, 38 of the band's albums charted in the US, ranking them as the 6th best album chart performer during the 1960s, and the band had 14 singles in the Billboard Hot 100. With over 100 million records sold, the Ventures are the best-selling instrumental band of all time.
In 2008, the Ventures were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Wilson continued to play live with the Ventures throughout the years until his retirement in 2015.
Rolling Stone deemed this "the ultimate Seventies teen anthem" and ranked it number 471 on its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
"Jimmy James" is the first song from the Beastie Boys' third album Check Your Head. This song has been described as a tribute to Jimi Hendrix by Beastie Boys member MCA, and contains samples from several Hendrix songs including "Foxy Lady", "Happy Birthday", and "Still Raining, Still Dreaming", a sample from the live version of "Surrender" by Cheap Trick, and more - www.whosampled.com
Boy Harsher will be at The Crocodile on Friday, April 15th, 2022.
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The Runner's "narrative component follows a nameless woman (King Woman’s Kris Esfandiari) as she sprints away from a motel bedroom massacre. Scenes cut between Boy Harsher (Jae Matthews and Augustus Muller) filming a garage studio music video and the girl’s continued journey, connected by the rhythms of each new track." Read more about this 40-minute horror film: www.pastemagazine.com
The mysterious Parisian-based producer writes on their Bandcamp: "I'm in the middle of that bridge between innocent romantic and rave. I don't want to choose between those two feelings. Music in general is a non-binary place where everyone can express their deepest feelings."
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The Lazy Eyes are a four-piece psychedelic rock band based in Sydney, Australia. thelazyeyes.bandcamp.com
Happy birthday, Mary!
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Euphrates is the longest river in Western Asia, and also this song on the Pixies debut album 'Surfer Rosa.'
Check out the Philly artists Bandcamp: marissapaternoster.bandcamp.com
F!RES are a Seattle rock band!
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