Paulusma did an Onder Invloed session. They played The Crystal Ship (The Doors), My Autumn's Done Come (Lee Hazlewood) and Mornin' Coffee (from his latest album Pulling Weeds). The clips were edited by Matthijs van der Ven.
Paulusma:
Jelle Paulusma: guitar, lead vocals
Coen Paulusma; percussion, backing vocals
Theo Sieben: guitar
Elmar Klijn; keys
Funky Afrobeat big band The Brighton Beat always feels at home on the stage of the Brooklyn Bowl in New York. They released a recording of their April 5, 2015 show. An appreciative audience inspired them to stretch the tracks from their latest album Off We Go, vamping on the choruses and bringing them to a close way beyond the ten minutes mark.
Live music can be transcending experience when the crowd an the band lock into a groove and that happens more than once during the show, especially during Fortune Teller and Red Orange. They filled out the set with a notable funkified covers Debra (Beck) Swinging From The Rafters (John Tabacco), Mr. Clean (Freddie Hubbard).
Brooklyn Bowl - 4/5/15 is a self-released album. Buy it from the band's website. As per usual the FLAC version is served up in HD (24/48).
Tracks:HCTF review of Off We Go.
Dutch indie band Glossy Jesus have released their new single Art Student. It's the reworked version from their full-length The Hunt. The stop-motion video was directed by Laurens Hoekstra. The original version was released on the limited 7" single Cider For Breakfast in 2013 for Record Store Day.
HCTF review of The Hunt.
Watch progressive jam band Umphrey's McGee discuss and work on four tracks from their latest album The London Session - A Day at Abbey Road Studios: Glory, Cut The Able, Out Of Order and Bad Friday.
HCTF review of The London Session - A Day at Abbey Road Studios.
Cambridge band Tape Runs Out take it easy on their double A-side single Friends b/w Flowers, two gently flowing tracks that conjure up a boat trip with a group of friends on the river Cam, nibbling tidbits and drinking chilled white wine. Exquisite pastoral folk pop with sprinklings of early Pink Floyd sound effects.
Tape Runs Out:
Liam Goodrum Bell: vocals, guitar, keyboards
Anusha Iyer: backing vocals, percussion (on Friends)
Ali Barker: guitars
Nathanial Glynn: bass
Henri Salonen: percussion, drums
Friends b/w Flowers is released on Ear to Ear Records.
Hamilton rock band City and The Sea will be hitting the bars to play their energetic originals and choice covers.
Live dates:HCTF review of Trouble.
Power fusion instrumental rock trio The Aristocrats have posted a full album preview montage for their new album Tres Caballeros on the Guitar World website.
Tracks:The album will be released in a Standard Edition (CD) and Deluxe Edition (CD/DVD), which will include a 30-minute documentary featuring live and in-studio footage, outtakes, demos, and more. Release date: June 23. Pre-order from their website.
Live dates:HCTF review of Secret Show: Live In Osaka.
Neil Young has posted a video for A Rock Star Bucks A Coffee Shop, a track from his forthcoming new record The Monsanto Years, a protest album about a questionable multinational agrochemical company.
The Monsanto Years will be released on June 29th He debuted the new songs at a stealth gig on April 16. Young enlisted Willie Nelson's sons, Lukas and Micah, and the band Promise of the REAL. The "Rebel Content” tour kicks off in Milwaukee on July 5th.
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Philadelphia based sextet roots rockers Song Dogs burst upon the scene in 2013 with their remarkable debut album Wild Country. The follow-up Heartlands shows no signs of a sophomore slump. A bit more country has found its way into their sound, especially in the tunes sung by organ player Emily Southerton, with Ghost in New Mexico as the prime example. They are band who put the melody in the spotlights, with instantly hummable lyrics as an added bonus.
They follow the footsteps of classic artists (Neil Young, Dylan, Tom Petty, The Band). Song Dogs serve up gentle ballads (Same Night, Same Sky), acoustic singalongs (We Are The People) and in-your-face passionate anthems (Forevermore, Lucky (not a Pharrell fucking Williams cover). This is a band that can write songs that sound familiar and fresh at the same time. Triple-A Americana that never goes out of style.
Song Dogs:
Michael Southerton: vocals, guitar, pedal steel, organ
Ryan McCloskey: guitar, harmonica, vocals
Sam Conver: bass, vocals
Mariama O'Brien: percussion
Dan Cooper: drums
Emily Southerton: rock organ
Heartlands is a self-released album. Buy it from the band's website.
Tracks:HCTF review of Wild Country.
Watch Mandy Lemons and Sturgis Nikides of screaming blues band Low Society tackle the Son House classic Grinnin' In Your Face, live @ Sunday Wilde's Women In Blues showcase at Rum Boogie Cafe, Memphis, TN - 2015/05/09.
» screaminblues.com
» Low Society on Facebook
HCTF review of You Can't Keep A Good Woman Down.
Guitar maestro Joe Satriani shares an audio only video for his new track On Peregrine Wings from his new album Shockwave Supernova, recorded with Marco Minnemann (drums), Bryan Beller (bass) and Mike Keneally (keys & guitar).
Shockwave Supernova will be released on July 24th. An extensive European tour kicks off on September 27th in Nantes, France.
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Oakland dream pop dance band Trails and Ways have released Jacaranda, the third single from their forthcoming full-length Pathology (out on Barsuk Records on June 2). It's a sunny song about escape, driven by old school synths and multi-layered vocals.
They have made a video for their Skeletons single. All four band members play scientists who beam in to autopsy a post-apocalyptic Earth, while Arthur Cadre does an interpretive dance.
Trails and Ways:
Hannah Van Loon: vocals, lead guitar, synths
Ian Quirk: vocals, drums, production
Keith Brower Brown: vocals, rhythm guitar, synths
Emma Oppen: vocals, bass
They will hit the road in June to promote the album. Fellow Oaklandlians Waterstrider are the support act.
Live dates:HCTF review of Skeletons.
Heavy blues rock trio Planet of the Abts have made a video for I'm Telling You, the hard hitting second single from their sophomore album "All Things The Valley, which will be released on June 2nd. 21st Century classic rock. The band consists of Gov't Mule drummer Matt Abts, with fellow Mule member Jorgen Carlsson on bass and T-Bone Andersson on guitar, keyboards and vocals. The band will be on he road in the US throughout the Sumemer.
Live dates:Welsh prog rock trio Godsticks will release their third studio album Emergence in August 10, They are sharing video a video of Much Sinister. It was shot and edited by Chris Vinnicombe during the recording sessions. Recommended if you like Adrian Belew-era King Crimson.
Godsticks:
Darran Charles: vocals, guitar, keys
Steve Roberts: drums, keys
Dan Nelson: bass
Emergence is available for pre-order from the band's website. All pre-ordered CDs will be signed by the band and will include: a free digital version of the album and remixes of two tracks by Bruce Soord (The Pineapple Thief), available for download on the release date.
John Cale will debut his new work Signal To Noise at the Supersense: Festival of the Ecstatic at the Arts Centre Melbourne, Australia, on August 9. He is joined on stage by Lisa Gerrard (Dead Can Dance) and electronic wizard Laurel Halo:
An artist whose biography incorporates some of the most adventurous, ecstatic and explorative output achieved by a single performer today, do not miss the iconic John Cale’s Signal to Noise, a major new work commissioned for Supersense that traces the line of experimentation through his career spanning over five decades.
One of the towering figures of modern music unleashes a new cross-media extravaganza set to spark the fires of the imagination, featuring a stunning line-up of performers including Dead Can Dance's Lisa Gerrard and Michigan electronic innovator Laurel Halo.
This genre-bending audio-visual trip furthers his quest to find new ways to startle and seduce the senses. Bespoke arrangements of both classics and rarely heard songs will be matched by intriguing glimpses into what the future holds for this fearless pioneer.
From co-founding The Velvet Underground to collaborating with the likes of Brian Eno, Patti Smith, The Stooges, Happy Mondays and LCD Soundsystem, John Cale seems to have had a hand in every major moment of musical innovation for half a century.
Tickets go on sale on June 1st.
Minneapolis rock trio EDGER don't give a fuck about sounding clean. Their EP Rudiments is a warts-and-all tribute to bands bashing out their self-penned tunes in garages and sheds. With tons of leakage, dissonants, off-key vocals and stray notes their tear through six shoe-tapping songs. Props to Mike Wisti at Albatross Studio in Minneapolis who kept the live energy intact and realized that mistakes can sound great. Power pop mixed with a DIY punk attitude.
EDGER:
Justin Lawson: guitar, vocals
Nate Bartley: drums
Scott Hefte: bass
Rudiments will be released on June 10 via Land Ski Records.
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John Cale will perform at the Centre Pompidou in Metz, France on July 3 2015.
Avec Lou Reed, John Cale a cofondé en 1965 le groupe de rock américain The Velvet Underground, dont Andy Warhol devint ensuite le manager et le producteur.
À l’occasion de l’exposition Warhol Underground, qui célèbre les cinquante ans de la rencontre de Warhol avec le groupe de rock new-yorkais, John Cale rejouera une sélection de titres issus de ce répertoire devenu culte.
UK pop artist Prints Jackson has released the genre crossing A Could Life, episode 15 of his "one new song each month till the day I die" project. A song about wanting to be happy against all odds. Power pop, a bit of spoken word and a children's choir (just a snippet thankfully).
A Could Life is a self-released single. Buy it (pay-what-you-want) from his website.
HCTF review of The Silence of Puget Sound.
Aussie pyschedelic rockers Tame Impala have released a trippy video for 'Cause I'm A Man , a track from their new album Currents. The clip was directed by Nicky Smith.
North American dates:
Dutch lo-fi psychedelic indie band Lost Bear have a knack for coming up with harsh songs that sound like they were recorded under water. Their new album Monkey Pop is filled with songs telling stories about nightmares set in dystopia. Pretty bleak stuff that will be appreciated by fans of Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth and early Seventies Krautrock.
Monkey Pop is a soft-spoken, disturbing and claustrophobic album. Think The Cure having a sleepover with Pavement, with marching drums and keyboards and guitar rolling down the road like tumbleweed filmed in slow motion. If you are hungry for menacing music, order a plate of Slaughterhouse Pancakes or go for the hipster repellent Friday Night Live Music.
Lost Bear:
Arno Breuer: drums
Gino Miniutti: bass
Gibson Houwer: keys
Stefan Breuer: guitar
Casper Steenhuizen: vocals
Monkey Pop will be released on Tiny Room Records. Digital and limited edition cassette (25 copies). Release date: May 31st. Free download of the first track A Short History Of Chrome.
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Phish have posted streams of the first ever performance of Carini (2/17/97) and Ghost (7/01/97) from the 8-CD box set Amsterdam.
The box set will be released on June 12 via JEMP records. Pre-order from Dry Goods.
Warren Haynes (Gov’t Mule, Allman Brothers Band, The Dead) teamed up with roots folkies Railroad Earth for his new album Ashes and Dust. Warren plays a lot of acoustic and slide guitar, foregoing his signature jammed out bluesy guitar licks. One of the album tracks, Spots of Time co-written with Phil Lesh and a live favorite, is streaming on Consequence of Soond.
Ashes and Dust will be released on July 24, 2015 via Concord Records. Pre-order it from his website. All orders will come with an exclusive download or disc version of bonus live tracks.
Tracks:Stream the 28 minutes plus Stash from the forthcoming Phish 8-CD box set Amsterdam. It was recorded on July 2, 1997, the third and final night they performed at the Paradiso in Amsterdam.
The box set will be released on June 12 via JEMP records. Pre-order from Dry Goods.
I was on stage and I looked out, and I knew they weren't ready. We were doing 'Piece of My Heart.' You know you can do a lot of different things: you know sometimes they get up spontaneously. Out in the Midwest they don't. They aren't supposed to stand up and they know it. It's hard to get 'em up. But I remember I was singing 'Piece of My Heart,' you know that 'Come on, well, come on' line -- well, you know the guitar solo that leads into that part? I came in early, and I walked all the way to the front of the stage and shouted [in a hoarse whisper], 'Come on, come on!' and just fucking stamping my foot, and saying, 'I'm not going to sing anymore unless you do something,' you know, and they're going, 'Whoo-ooo-ooo, yes ma'am! Yes ma'am, yes ma'am!' A riot. Groovy. All they want is a little kick in the ass. You know, sometimes I jump off the stage and grab somebody and say, 'Let's dance.' When they reach a certain level, you know, they want to be lifted, but they're scared. Then all you gotta do is give the old kick in the ass, a big fucking kick in the ass, man. Then the promoters get goony, turn the lights on, pull the power, but by then it's all over [crackles]. I dig it! I dig it so much, man!
Janis Joplin
The new archival Phish release Amsterdam features all three shows performed by Vermont jam band @ Paradiso in Amsterdam in 1997 (February 17 and July 1-2). The 8-CD box set is available for pre-order from Dry Goods:
The shows have been fully mixed and mastered from the band's multitracks.
On February 17, 1997 Phish first played Paradiso, a converted former church turned rock-club/cultural center with a capacity of about 1500. Over the next four months, Phish logged three breakthrough shows at this historic venue where the intimate setting pushed the music to new heights again and again.
From the Soul Shakedown party opener and fluid, psychedelic improvisation-clinic-of-a-set II (Down With Disease > Carini > Taste > Down With Disease) on 2/17/97 to the "back of the worm" Ghost opener, Reba and another peak transcendent Set II [Fish Keyboard Jam > Timber (Jerry) > Bathtub Gin > Cities] on 7/1/97 through the Mike's Groove Sandwich and must-hear Stash > Llama > Wormtown Jam plus the double encore of 7/2/97, these three shows spread over 8 CD's comprise some of the most experimental music Phish ever played. The three shows on the Amsterdam box, the only Phish shows to-date at Paradiso, combine to deliver the full impact of a shared peak experience in an exotic locale seamlessly integrated and sizzling with creative intensity.
The box set will be released on June 12 via JEMP records.
German-Dutch indie duo Palvine consists of Kassandra Papak (vocals/violin) and Tim Coehoorn (guitar). Their debut full-length Folie à Deux is a study in sparse intensity. Papak has mastered the art of pizzicato and Coehoorn alternates between rhythm and lead guitar without missing a beat.
Don't let the gentle vocals fool you. They pack a punch despite wearing velvet gloves. There's more anger in the first eight lines of Averse than most putdown songs that you know. Palvine can paint a full-colour picture with just two instruments and vocals. The jazzy pop But I Want To is a prime example of their less-is-more approach and the shuffling menace lurking the back beat of Nothing To Take Fright shoot by shortlisted for inclusion in David Lynch's forthcoming Twin Peaks project.
Folie à Deux is a self-released album. Buy it from their website. The CD version comes in a handmade art book.
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Atlanta's The Good Graces have landed a support slot on the upcoming Summer tour by The Indigo Girls. An excellent opportunity for Kim Ware and Co to promote their brand of folk music and their latest album Close to the Sun.
Live dates:HCTF review of Close to the Sun.
Bass ace Bryan Beller (The Aristocrats, Joe Satriani, Dethklok) will be sharing his knowledge about becoming a low end expert:
I really enjoy doing group instructional work, and I’ve missed doing clinics. Touring is great, don’t get me wrong, but the opportunity to connect with bassists and musicians on a more intimate level is something I’m looking forward to doing again.
All start times 7pm except for Bass Break Live. He will be on the road with The Aristocrats this Summer. A Fall tour with Joe Satriani is next.
Dutch rock band Moke are back with a new single. Let It Burn is the first new studio recording as a quartet after guitarist Phil Tilli left the band, citing "musical differences". With only one guitarist in the band the weight of carrying the melody has been transferred to keyboard player Eddy Steeneken. A new album will be released later this year.
Singer, bassist, and songwriter Glenn Hughes will be on tour in Europe throughout September and October. Expect an evening with choice cuts from his days with Deep Purple, Black Country Communion and the short lived power trio California Breed.
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English rhythm & noir band Alberteen took their time to come up with a follow-up for their 2012 album Metal Book, but it's been worth the wait. Miss World is a journey through the back roads of Southern England, paying visits to forgotten villages and nuclear facilities.
With a professor of English Literature on vocals and a playwright on bass, the lyrics are far more intellectual that most of their post-punk competitors. Greek mythology, modernism, physics, poetry and history have found their way into overall melancholy of the songs.
Miss World is an album that can be savoured on different levels. There is a thin line between dreams and reality, madness and sanity. The band themselves call it a trip from Folkestone (the city that hosted the first Miss World pageant in 1908) to London, where they dream of the highrises of Canary Wharf being demolished by Godzilla and Mothra (Princess Noise).
A French Connection, capturing the lure of a love affair in Paris kicks off the album, with more than a hint to Lenoard Cohen's First We Take Manhattan making it clear that it isn't to last. The Au Pairs' inspired jagged rhythms in King's Evil sound like the running feet of the demonstrators attacking the car carrying Prince Charles to the Royal Variety Show in 2010.
The slow Prospect is the soft-spoken tale of the shut down of the nuclear power plant in Dungeness that prevented another Fukushima disaster. It is by no means as angry as London Calling, but far more scary in the end. Alberteen is well aware that there are two sides of the coin in life, a concept that comes to the fore in We Are The Mods (youthful hope for a brighter future) and We Are The Last (sadder but wiser).
Miss World is an album for adults and smart kids. With Mike Bennett (The Fall, Ian Brown) once again the producer's seat, they have come up with a timeless post-punk album filled with a wealth of cultural references that never get in the way of enjoying the music as such.
Alberteen:
Ade Berry: bass, acoustic guitar, keyboards, piano
John Rose: acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals, keyboards, piano, melodica
Phil Shaw: vocals
Gareth Warden: drums, percussion
Julia Knight and Kathryn Stephens-Berry: backing vocals
Miss World will be released (vinyl/cd/digital) on Rhythm & Noir records. Release date: May 25th.
Tracks:HCTF review of Metal Book.
Watch the video for the new Waterstrider single Frayed, a feelgood song about loss. The video is made up of 40,000 photographs. Director Marta Dymek:
From the moment I first heard “Frayed” I could tell that it was telling a story of trying to get something one can’t have. Being in the presence of something unattainable. It reminded me of those dreams where something amazing almost happens with someone, but then the mind interrupts it and puts all these obstacles in the way. My dreams rarely have any satisfying ending to them. Using only photographs in the form of stop motion and not your regular video, I wanted to show that broken dreamlike feeling of longing—illustrated beautifully through the choreography by Zander Brown. I teamed up with an amazing photographer Anastasiia Sapon, knowing that she could fully convey that emotion through her photography.
The track will be included on the forthcoming OIM Vol. 1 album, the first release on the indie label Oim Records showcasing Oakland indie bands.
Live dates:# w/ Trails and Ways
HCTF review of Nowhere Now.
NYC based story tellers Spottiswoode & His Enemies are sharing the band version of the English Dream album video (HD on Vimeo):
This version features the band in all but one of the videos. If the results vary in quality it's because twelve of them were shot in one day! All against the projected backdrop of British Council archive footage. Another insane Enemies undertaking.Live dates:
Many thanks to the remarkable crew who spent a very long Saturday with us at St. John's Lutheran Church in Greenwich Village. Particular credit to Brian Dilg, our tireless Director of Photography, and to Kim Matela who wrangled together a wonderful assortment of period costumes for the entire band. Alas, Candace couldn't make the shoot since she was barely able to walk at the time on account of her busted knee - now replaced and healed!
We've shared some of these separately already. This is clearly overload. A journey from the Second World War to the Fifties, back to the First World War then on to the Seventies with the band dressed up as steampunks, beatniks, glam groovers and respectable middle-aged English gentlemen. Not for the faint of heart.
HCTF review of English Dream.
Austin based garage blues duo The Sideshow Tragedy premiered the video for Let the Love Go Down on Diffuser.fm. They added a second show in Marfa (07/31) to their tour to promote the release of their new album Capital.
Live dates:HCTF review of Capital.
Power fusion instrumental rock trio The Aristocrats have posted a trailer for their new album Tres Caballeros, featuring snippets of the new songs Texas Crazypants and The Kentucky Meat Shower.
The album will be released in a Standard Edition (CD) and Deluxe Edition (CD/DVD), which will include a 30-minute documentary featuring live and in-studio footage, outtakes, demos, and more. Release date: June 23. Pre-order from their website.
Live dates:HCTF review of Secret Show: Live In Osaka.
Dutch country noir band Point Quiet has a couple of gigs lined up to promote their latest album Ways And Needs Of A Night Horse.
Live dates:HCTF review of Ways And Needs Of A Night Horse.
Americana outsider Johnny Dowd will make some noise as a support act for The Mekons in July. Guitarist Mike Edmondson joins him on stage to make it even more interesting.
Live dates:HCTF review of That's Your Wife on the Back of My Horse.
Dutch electro duo NNENN crosses the bridge between triphop and female fronted power pop. Singer-songwriter Johanneke ter Stege and producer/sound designer Tonny Nobel have just released their debut EP All Right, three multi-layered tracks that dig deep.
With the vocals taking the edge of the cold electronics they have created an intense and gentle batch of songs that will be appreciated by dance and pop fans who will be surprised that they can like the same act after all.
All Right is released thru ONusual Records. Buy it from their website.
Live dates:» nnenn.nl
Primus will perform the final Primus and The Chocolate Factory shows in September.
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Canadian garage rock quintet July Talk hit the road again for a second North American tour. Imagine Tom Waits having a good-natured dispute with bubblegum pop.
USA tour dates:Politician - Live on the Hello Goodbye Show - Resonance 104.4FMFollow us @therealsabattahttps://soundcloud.com/sabatta/politician
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Watch rockers Sabatta perform Politician (I'm Not A) live on Hello Goodbye Radio Show on London's Resonance 104.4FM. A raw, rough and real song. They used a bit of footage from the sublime satirical show Blackadder. A new album, Middle of the Night, will be released in Autumn.
HCTF review of Know My Name.
Churn Milk Joan, an avant-garde duo consisting of American Richard Knutson (Plum Flower Embroidery. Neutral Sons, The Chacers) and Englishman Colin Robinson (Big Block 454, Jumble Hole Clough), are creating films to compliment the songs on their latest album Dethroned Hog. Aspiring film makers are invited to contribute.
Videos are up for Ewe Lifts Mutton and I've just injected an unknown substance into my eye.
HCTF review of Dethroned Hog.
Aussie / British quintet Family Friends must have been listening to Tame Impala quite a lot. Their new single On Your Mind is a neo-psychedelic pop song with a nice hook. It is a taster for their debut EP Across The Water.
Mike Gordon will be performing a hometown show at the Grand Point North Festival @ Burlington’s Waterfront Park in Vermont on September 12-13. His Summer tour kicks off in Charleston on June 5th.
Live dates:Power fusion instrumental rock trio The Aristocrats have posted the live Furtive Jack video from their Culture Clash Live CD/DVD combo. It was recorded @ Club Citta, Tokyo, Japan on August 19, 2014.
They will release their third studio album Tres Caballeros in June.
Live dates:HCTF review of Culture Clash Live.
