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Aldous Harding is coming to The Tractor for two nights! October 15th & 16th. For a preview see her performing "The Barrel" in Paris back in May: bit.ly
Lead singer and songwriter Adrianne Lenker sayd the “Violet” in the song is a reference to her great-grandmother, who played music throughout her life and picked up electric bass when she was in her 80s. Big Thief will be at The Moore on October 26th. Tickets & info: bit.ly
Despite being a long term resident of Manchester, Hoop, has until now, returned to her native California to record. This time round however it was according to Hoop, “time to step out of my comfort zone, my safe place”, venturing south to Bristol to team up with producer John Parish (PJ Harvey, Aldous Harding, This is the Kit). Parish “was a gentle collaborator until he killed one of my darlings” Hoop jests. “I’ve never been so brutally edited, and I wasn’t shy about expressing my discomfort at the sight of my work on the cutting room floor. He said, you will forgive me, and in some way I think I actually enjoyed that treatment…being stripped back to the bare basics…albeit painfully”
Olsen's fourth studio album, All Mirrors, comes out Oct. 4. Olsen enlisted a 14-piece orchestra to turn her intimate compositions into something sweeping and massive, yet still unmistakably warm-blooded. (Olsen first recorded a stripped-down version of the album with producer Michael Harris; those recordings are likely to see release at a later date.)
The Acid speaking on their musical approach to Liminal: " It can be a hard thing to strip something to its core. Musically, some people tend to be afraid of space, they want to put a lot of things in to hear it bigger and better. Most of the time, allowing space for the critical elements makes them much more potent."
In the run-up to ANIMA, mysterious posters advertising something called “Anima Technologies” were popping in London trains, The Dallas Observer, and phone booths in Milan. All of them included a phone number that would supposedly help you remember your lost dreams with something called a “dream camera.”
These posters were in fact, advertisements for Thom Yorke’s new solo album. If you called the number, a voice said, “You are hereby advised that due to serious and flagrant unlawful activities, Anima Technologies has been ordered by the authorities to cease and desist from undertaking its advertised business and further, from taking any telephone calls in relation to the aforesaid business.” And after a tone, part of Yorke’s unreleased solo track “Not The News,” played.
There’s also a website for Anima Technologies. If you visited it, a statement claimed that the site had also been “seized by the Authorities” to prevent the company’s “serious and flagrantly unlawful activities.”
Not enough artists roller skate in their videos: bit.ly
Monkeytown is the third studio album by the German electronic band Modeselektor. It was produced "100% together in the studio and in one session over the course of ten weeks"
This solo number by Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke is from the soundtrack for the 2009 movie, New Moon. Like all the other songs this is original and exclusive to the soundtrack and was chosen by music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas. A relationship had already been established between Yorke and Patsavas, as the Radiohead track "15 Step" was licensed the previous year for the end credits of Twilight. Patsavas recalled to Billboard magazine: "Early on in the summer I was speaking quite a bit to [Bryce Edge, Yorke's manager] and he said Thom had something already recorded that would be appropriate for the [New Moon] movie. I was thrilled."
Quick check on Sault's Instagram.... yep, still 9 photos of their album cover and one of a t-shirt. www.instagram.com
Back in May, well before Sinner's release date, Moodymann was spotted at a BBQ selling copies of 'Sinner' for $10 a pop.
That sample of "Two Sisters of Mystery"
by Mandrill (1973) was also used by Public Enemy for "By The Time I Get To Arizona"
The song's refrain of "Everything's gonna be OK," is about the self-delusion that is sometimes necessary for surviving modern life. The band's Dave Sitek told NME: "The 'I keep telling myself...' line means that it might not be true. Everyone goes through that, on multiple levels. There's a lot of doubt floating around. What has modern living and its aspirations led to? ''Trouble' at least for me, is about putting your helmet on."
Slowdive’s reunion in 2014 didn’t just spawn a great fourth album and sensational victory-lap tour. The band’s singer-guitarist Rachel Goswell met her husband Steve Clarke when he tour-managed the reformed act and the pair have now created their own album as The Soft Cavalry, exploring the same spacey, effects-heavy pastures as Slowdive but with licence to roam further. Owen Murphy spoke to the band about the powerful inspiration behind their video for the song "Bulletproof" and what the future holds for this band after the release of their self-titled debut: bit.ly
"There She Goes" was released as a single, not once, not twice, but four times!
The first release scratched the UK Singles chart in 1988 at #51. The second release in 1990 was the peak, with #13 on the UK Singles and also charting in the US. The third release was in 1999, and it charted the UK Singles at #65. The fourth release was in 2008, on vinyl only for the song's 20th anniversary, and charted again at #181.
A great story from Stephen Fry about sponsoring Blur to become members of the Groucho Club and being yelled at by Liam Gallagher. All without knowing who any of them were. www.blur.fr
In 1999, when Death Cab For Cutie were only a couple of years into their career as a band, a gas pipeline exploded in their Bellingham, Washington hometown. A gas leak ignited, and the resulting fireball killed three people: One 18-year-old boy and two 10-year-old boys. Today, Death Cab For Cutie memorialize those kids, in a way, in a reflective new song called “Kids In ’99.” Twenty years after the explosion, Ben Gibbard sings, “In the waters where we used to swim / Where we thought we would be young forever / But beads that glisten on your sunburnt skin / Evaporated in the flames and embers.” Death Cab are playing at Marymoor Park September 7th & 8th.
In a new interview with Billboard, guitarist/bassist Jonathan Nunez talked a little bit about the new sounds the band used on this album:
We had just finished an Eastern European tour. I was extremely under the weather and really out of it. I definitely had the flu or something, and it always feels so bizarre when you’re just engulfed by an illness. It was like 100 degrees outside, and I was far from friends and anything that I would consider my comfort things, like working in the studio or writing music. I was like, ‘Man, I need to do something,’ so I downloaded a little drum machine app. I found all these dance beats that I thought were interesting. None of them were what we would consider a Torche beat, but I wanted to do something different. I wrote around these leads, which ended up being reflective of not being in the most positive state but still optimistic. It’s sad and uplifting. When I hear it back, it was definitely written in a delirious state.
Scott Hackwith of Dig:
"“Believe” was written during the riots in Los Angeles. It was a very intense time in the city. It affected everyone. People were starting to separate and go into their own groups, a true segregation. I thought people were searching for something to believe in, to find their own God."
Their debut single “Athens, France” sold out of its pressing on Speedy Wunderground in mere days. Black Country, New Road have released their 2nd single, “Sunglasses.” “It describes a series of events, loosely connected, all yet to happen,” says frontman Isaac Wood. “The song was intended to be highly inspirational. The lyrics are sometimes concerned with symbols of wealth or affluence but they are not written from a critical or even external position.”
"Leave a Clean Camp and a Dead Fire: Juno's This is the Way it Goes and Goes and Goes Has Been Going for 20 Years" With Rewind, KEXP digs out beloved albums, giving them another look: bit.ly
Lost Under Heaven’s new song challenges listeners to think about humanity’s role and responsibility when it comes to current world crises. A statement from Roberts explains further:
“‘Teen Violence’ is an allegorical tragedy about an Androgynous Prophet of the Divine Feminine who is brutally silenced by an aggressively ignorant society that is unable to comprehend his/her vision due to the paralysis of Cultural Immaturity. It is a song of our time: this formative moment in human history where we are faced with a plethora of crises that threaten the extinction of the species. Our Politics fail to make adequate response as the wider culture continues to fracture into increasingly oppositional individualist hysteria.”
Iggy said of the album: “This is an album in which other artists speak for me, but I lend my voice… By the end of the tours following Post Pop Depression, I felt sure that I had rid myself of the problem of chronic insecurity that had dogged my life and career for too long. But I also felt drained. And I felt like I wanted to put on shades, turn my back, and walk away. I wanted to be free. I know that’s an illusion, and that freedom is only something you feel, but I have lived my life thus far in the belief that that feeling is all that is worth pursuing; all that you need – not happiness or love necessarily, but the feeling of being free. So this album just kind of happened to me, and I let it happen.”
Nick Cave is coming to The Moore October 11th... but it is sold out. All his US dates are, except for Austin, TX.
In a statement about the record, which follows 2015’s No Cities to Love, the trio detailed the lyrical themes that informed the new songs. “We’re always mixing the personal and the political but on this record, despite obviously thinking so much about politics, we were really thinking about the person — ourselves or versions of ourselves or iterations of depression or loneliness — in the middle of the chaos,” Brownstein said. Guitarist Corin Tucker added, “[The LP] drops you into the world of catastrophe that touches on the election. And almost like a mission statement, at the end of that song, it’s like the band is finding its way out of that space by becoming a rock band.” They're playing the Paramount on November 23rd
In a statement, Phantogram said “Into Happiness” “embodies the personal journey that both of us have taken since we released Three; it’s been a long path, coming out of the darkness and into the light.”
The band say their debut details “a spectacular return to bad form; a romantic encounter; and a chronic fear of intercourse”.
In March 1991, Melody Maker printed an album review written by Steve Albini – at the time best known as the former frontman of Chicago noise trio Big Black, though gaining recognition for his work recording other bands. He was writing about the second album by a little known band from Louisville, Kentucky, whose first record he had recorded. He was unequivocal about Spiderland, by Slint. "It's an amazing record," he wrote, "and no one still capable of being moved by rock music should miss it. In 10 years' time, it will be a landmark and you'll have to scramble to buy a copy then. Beat the rush."
"New Big Prinz" (as well as its alternative version, "Big New Priest") is based on "Hip Priest" from the group's 1982 album Hex Enduction Hour; the original track was also used in the ballet, I Am Curious Orange, loosely based on the 300th anniversary of William of Orange's ascension to the English throne.
Someone has made a video for this out of original Star Trek clips: bit.ly
World Outside is the seventh studio album by the Psychedelic Furs, released on this date in 1991. In case you missed it, they're at Showbox SoDo tonight with James and there are still tickets!?!
“Distractions” is the first single from Vancouver BC's Orange Kyte. The forthcoming third LP Carousel is out in October
Hatchie will be back in Seattle on September 28th at Barboza. Tickets & info: bit.ly
The New Order quartet were undecided over who should fill the role of lead vocalist when they first started recording Movement. All three male members were in contention and bassist Peter Hook sang lead on this song and "Doubts Even Here", before they finally decided that Bernard Sumner should take the main vocalist's role. Hook later recalled to TeamRock:
"The whole song was written on a six-string bass, and I sang as well, which was quite unusual. So it was unusual for me to play – I was a singing bass player, which I always think are the kiss of death. Until I became one, and then I realised it was the kiss of death!
We'd just lost our singer, so that was very daunting. It's amazing how vulnerable and naked you feel singing. I realise now why people play and sing, because it's so much better. Even now, if I break a string and I lose the guitar, I really feel like my pants have fallen down."
The band recorded the album in multiple locations. Like previous albums Sound of Silver and This Is Happening, one of the recording locations was DFA Studios in New York City. Murphy announced after finishing recording that American Dream would be the last record to be recorded at the original DFA Studios building.
In a 2018 interview, frontman Richard Ashcroft said he hasn't written his definitive song yet, but this one sure comes close. "The definitive Richard Ashcroft song will be when the cream of a particular emotion or a particular scenario in the human condition plays out, and that song mirrors it," He said. "So, if it happens to be 'Lucky Man' for that feeling of transcendence, of liberty within yourself, your body, your partner in life, you can actually fleetingly feel that moment and you want to put it in a bottle. And that's what music's about. It should be about capturing those moments for yourself and then the listener can put it on over and over again, if they want."
Shortly before his death in May last year, Scott Hutchison and his Frightened Rabbit bandmates went on tour to celebrate a decade of their 2008 album, The Midnight Organ Fight. The band also curated a selection of artists, including Aaron Dessner of The National and Chvrches' Lauren Mayberry, to cover songs from the record for a future release.
That release was postponed by Hutchison's untimely death but was finally released on July 12. Both Julien Baker and Scottish rock band Biffy Clyro offer their takes on "The Modern Leper," the opening song from the 2008 album. Other artists to have contributed include Ben Gibbard, Daughter, The Twilight Sad, and comedian Sarah Silverman.
Karen O described this to The Sun as "a love song to despair." She added: "It's a feeling that you have that visits you time and time again. It's an incredibly uplifting song , though, about wanting to run away from certain darkness in your life.
"It's a reassurance," she continued, "and just what I needed when I was writing it. It was like a nurturing and reassuring letter to myself and to anyone else going through something hard."
"Fried My Little Brains" was the second single off The Kills' debut album Keep on Your Mean Side and it peaked at number 55 in the UK Singles Chart.
According to a statement, First Taste is a more introspective effort compared to its predecessors,
“Lines of struggle wind through the songs as Segall reflects on family, re-encountering pasts, anticipating futures. He skates through oneness, self-esteem, the parents – all the joys of a rain-filled childhood – while reaching outward in the here and now, feeling for a shared pulse.”
"Ahead of their highly anticipated 'DRIFT SONGS' LP which is set to arrive this October, UK dance music giants Rick Smith and Karl Hyde aka Underworld have linked up once again with their friend Ø [Phase] to present 'Border Country'.
The track marks the final part of DRIFT Episode 4 as part of the group's ambitious DRIFT series - an ongoing, fifty-two-week experiment where they publish new material every week of the year.": mixmag.net