Ella van der Woude: Sol Mineur

Swiss-Dutch composer Ella van der Woude let her fingers take over for Sol Mineur, the second single from her Solo Piano. If the sonorities felt right she took it from there. Adding her gentle but firm touch once more she explores every nook cranny of the G minor scale. It was Mozart's go-to scale when he wanted his music to sound sad and it still does the trick in the 21st century. The main theme of Van der Woude's album is saying goodbye to her tiny and cozy place of residence in Amsterdam and it works like a charm for this track.

The video was shot in Switzerland by Pierre Daendliker and Lea Favre.

Seazoo: The Pleasure

Memories can be false, piain wrong or painful, but Welsh noise-pop band Seazoo went for sounding deceptively lackadaisical on their new single The Pleasure and turned a loser into a winner. Giddy, quirky and self-deprecating, tongue in cheek lyrics make it an instant jukebox favourite. The video was made by Tom Diffenthal, Lauren Paige Dowling and Ben Hall.

Mark Foggo's Skasters: tour dates

English ska veteran Mark Foggo tks his trusty Skasters: on the road again to promote the Ska Pig Returns! album: "His music is still firmly grounded in the production values of the heyday of the genre when bands like Madness, The Beat and The Specials reigned the charts in the UK and beyond. Ska Pig Returns! is a joyous, upbeat album, with blaring trumpets setting a party mood that belies the underlying seriousness of the lyrics, with Rats and Mice about being still being alive as the stand-out track. Mark Foggo is a survivor, still assuring his fans that “This is just the beginning", 40 years after he released the classic debut single New Shoes".

AXLS: First Contact

English synth-pop trio AXLS go against the grain with reviving the almost lost art of recording a concept album. First Contact is a haunting collection of Eighties-inspired Sci-Fi songs. Extraterrestrials invite people in for a visit to their spaceship, an obvious scheme that is accepted without asking questions. No spoilers! In order to discover the outcome of the ensuing battle - with rockets and mind control struggling to get the upper hand - set aside 40 minutes or so and brace yourself for a journey through both outer and inner space.

Humming along as you are brandishing an air weapon pf choice is optional, but highly recommended. Singer Vic stars as Alias, a woman who fights back. She is one of the rare people who is immune to the addictive virtual reality trap that is used by the aliens to take over the Planet Earth. With synth player Chris and bass ace Nathan by her side she leads the dance on the volcano. AXLS is a crack team, an electronic power trio that could go far.

Rory Gallagher: new album "Check Shirt Wizard - Live In ‘77" March 6th

A new Rory Gallageher live album, Check Shirt Wizard - Live, will be released as a 2CD and 3LP set on March 6th. The tracks were recorded during his UK tour, promoting his 'Calling Card album, plus a wealth of material from his back catalog. The Irish blues guitarist thrived on stage. His best-selling albums were all recorded on the road:

This 20-song, previously unreleased, set is culled from four shows (London, Brighton, Sheffield and Newcastle) during an early 1977 tour across the UK in support of Rory’s then latest album 'Calling Card'. Featuring fantastic live versions of tracks from that album as well as songs from the 1975 'Against The Grain' album and other live favourites.

The Noodle Boys: Ocean

Sadness reigns on Ocean, the new single by Canadian indie band The Noodle Boys. The Vancouver bases quartet describe their sound as "ramen-infused rock and roll", which is pretty accurate if you add the melancholy bits of 10CC and a hint of powerpop. The video was made by Jana Trepto and Sebastian Breuninger.

Subterranean Street Society: So Sorry

Indie folk singer Louis Puggaard-Müller has made a video for So Sorry, a track from his forthcoming Subterranean Street Society concept album Twelve Steps, inspired by the Alcoholics Anonymous “big book”. His father gradually came under the spell of addiction and he had a front row seat, watching his decline. The songs refers to Step 8 of the program: "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all".

HCTF premiere - MUUK: Black Lodge

Art rock band MUUK do things differently, or more accurately, not giving a fuck about genres or niches. Based in Mexico City the quintet have been changing it up since they were founded in 2013. Their new album Balbuceo will be released in February. The lead single Black Lodge is a fuzzy trip, with radio static leading into a freaky post-rock journey, with Krautrock a la Can in their Future Days fase. They defy categorisation, but for what's it's worth labeling them as adventurous neo-psych space rock might do.

Words about music (519): Graham Nash

After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.

Graham Nash

John Cale: Chicago 2020/01/26 setlist

John Cale performed at the Rubloff Auditorium at The Art Institute Of Chicago in Chicago, IL, USA - January 26, 2020.

The band:
John Cale: vocals, electric guitar, keyboards
Dustin Boyer: lead guitar, samples
Joey Maramba: bass
Deantoni Parks: drums, samples

Setlist:

1. Helen of Troy
2. Dying on the Vine
3. Leaving It Up to You
4. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
5. Style It Takes
6. The Endless Plain of Fortune
7. Villa Albani
8. Hedda Gabler
9. Empty Bottles
10. Half Past France
11. Fear
12. Ghost Story
13. I'm Waiting for the Man
14. Cable Hogue
15. Wasteland
16. Hatred
17. Gun > Pablo Picasso
18. E: Emily

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HCTF premiere - Aaron Beckum: Mountains

photo: Chantal Anderson

Los Angeles songwriter Aaron Beckum only needs a guitar and his voice to tell a compelling tale on his single Mountains, a track from his new album Songs From A Triangle Room. Songs about heartbreak are a dime a dozen, but the ones to really hit home always stand out in the crowd. Beckum sounds like a country-tinged folkie from the early Sixties, by way of Howe Gelb and Clem Snide.

Salvador Dalí & Walt Disney’s "Destino"+ Pink Floyd = Win

Open Culture has an article about Destino, short animated film by Salvador Dalí and Walt Disney which was set to Pink Floyd's Time. a mashup that worked out really well:

In 1945, Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí began collaborating on an animated film. 58 years later, with Dalí long gone and Disney gone longer still, it came out. The delayed arrival of Destino had to do with money trouble at the Walt Disney Studios not long after the project began, and it seems that few laid eyes on its unfinished materials again until Disney's nephew Roy E. Disney came across them in 1999. Completed, it premiered at the 2003 New York Film Festival and received an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film. Now, fifteen years later, we know for sure that Destino has found a place in the culture, because someone has mashed it up with Pink Floyd.

» pinkfloyd.com

Elephant Stone: We Cry For Harmonia

Canadian psychedelic raga rockers Elephant Stone have shared We Cry For Harmonia, part 6 of the Dystopian story that makes up the tracks of heir Hollow album. The children aboard the space ship Harmonia have found out that the adults are either incompetent of blatantly lying. They are left to their own devies to come up with a solution. The video was made by Mike Turzanski.

The Bloody Mallard: Subject To Entropy

English guitarist Tom Walding mixes genres to create hard-hitting yet subtle soundscapes for his one-man project The Bloody Mallard. His upcoming new album Realm was inspired by his field trips in Kent, collecting mushrooms. Walking around he contemplated the steady decay of his surroundings and set out to compose Subject To Entropy. It's a pocket post-rock symphony, leaning to both pastoral psych and heavy metal, all within the space of a little over 4 minutes.

Kudos to Jarred Hearmen who captured all the hill and valleys @ Konk and City Sounds Studios.

Phish: Summer tour dates

Phish have announced their Summer 2020 dates:

Phish will embark on a 27-date Summer Tour beginning with two performances on the west coast at Matthew Knight Arena in Eugene, OR, and culminating with the band’s 10th anniversary of their annual DICK’S Sporting Goods Park trek to Colorado over Labor Day weekend. Other summer 2020 dates include a weekend at Piedmont Park in Atlanta, GA, Phish’s first-ever performance in Arkansas, and a special three-night run on the beach in Atlantic City, NJ.

A ticket request period is currently underway at tickets.phish.com and will end on Monday, February 3 at 12 Noon ET. Tickets will go on sale to the public beginning Friday, February 7. Specific ticketing information is available at phish.com/tours.

Lexytron: Tell The Vein

Manchester-born indie singer Lexytron goes full-on passionate power pop on her new single Tell The Vein, a plea for a gatekeeper of sorts to keep mishaps, heartbreak and grief. There is quite a lot of going on musically, with a Cure-alike bass part popping up, intricate background vocals, and a short and sweet electric guitar coda. The video was directed and produced by Michael Grice.

Donna Blue: Billy

Dutch retro-pop duo Donna Blue have released Billy, the second single from their forthcoming third EP, due fore release on March 6. It is a two-faced song about a guy who couldn't take no for answer after his relationship went South. He keeps calling her incessantly and things are about to get really ugly. Danique van Kesteren and Bart van Dalen went for an innocent, sunny-side up Sixties pop feel, making the underlying message even more harrowing.

Roger Waters: North American "This Is Not A Drill" tour dates

Roger Waters has announced a lengthy North American This Is Not A Drill tour. All shows will be performed "in the round":

It’ll be a new show. It will be no-holds-barred. My work is to think, ‘Well, how can I make rock & roll more interesting or theatrical or exciting or visual or musical or whatever?’ That’s what I’ve spent the last 50 years doing, expressing myself.

Tickets go on sale on January 31 at 10 AM local time.

Kirk Knuffke: new album "Brightness: Live In Amsterdam" 02/21

Cornetists are rare in jazz and great ones are hard to find. Kirk Knuffke is one of them and a new album catches him in full flight, with bassist Mark Helias and drummer Bill Goodwin. Brightness: Live In Amsterdam was recorded at the Bimhuis, a much loved venue with superb acoustics. Knuffke always uses singing as the starting point for his compositions and he stepped up to the mike to add some vocals as well.

Oh Sees: in-studio performance @ KEXP radio

A video of the October 5th in-studio performance plus interview by American experimental rock band Oh Sees on The Afternoon Show @ KEXP radio in Seattle can be watched on the station's Youtube channel. Radio presenter: Troy Nelson.

Black Sugar Transmission: 2020 album trilogy

It's been almost four years since the release of In The City's Arms, so NYC singer and guitar ace Andee Black decided "to make up for lost time" by announced a new Black Sugar Transmission album trilogy, a massive collection of electro-rock. The first one is called Wandering Into The Bullseye and will be released in February. The other two, unnamed at this stage, will be available in the Summer and the Fall.

Words about music (518): Pat Mastelotto

My drumming is always an experiment.

Pat Mastelotto

Radiohead opens a public library

The members Radiohead will act as curators for their own public library:

Radiohead.com has always been a) infuriatingly uninformative and b) surprising. The most surprising thing to do next, therefore, is to suddenly become incredibly informative. So that is what we have done.

We present: the RADIOHEAD PUBLIC LIBRARY, an online resource containing everything we have ever done... well, more or less. Videos, music, artwork, websites, merchandise, and assorted ephemera.

» radiohead.com

Close Lobsters: new album "Post Neo Anti: Arte Povera in the Forest of Symbols"; stream "All Compasses Go Wild"

Scottish jangling rockers Close Lobsters are a sort of pop-up band. Founded in 1986 they released two well-received albums , before going on hiatus in 1989. They resurfaced for one-off shows in 2012 and 2014, followed by two singles and an EP in 2015. Then things went quiet again. Until now that is.

It turns out that they have been working in fits and starts on a new record since 2014 and the long-awaited third full-length Post Neo Anti: Arte Povera in the Forest of Symbols will be released by Last Night From Glasgow (UK) and Shelflife Records (USA) on February 28.

Ubiquitous Meh!: "It's Just Like Real Life" video

Sound and visuals artist Nigel Ayers, from the band Nocturnal Emissions, made a trippy video for It's Just Like Real Life, a track from the Ubiquitous Meh! album SouthWay Gothic. Recommended if you like Pere Ubu and related freak punk acts.

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HCTF review of SouthWay Gothic.

Railroad Earth: session @ Paste Studio NYC live from The Manhattan Center

Roots rockers Railroad Earth stepped by The Manhattan Center in New York to play a couple of songs and discuss the new album for Paste Magazine. They played The Great Divide (a tribute to the late RRE multi-instrumentalist Andy Goessling), Slippin’ Away, and All For The Song, the title track from the new record.

Baby Scream: Just Covers

Argentinian power pop maestro Juan Pablo Mazzola pays tribute to his heroes on his new Just Covers album, the latest release from his Baby Scream project. It's mixed bag of reworked mainstream hits like I'm Not In Love, Karma Chameleon and Time After Time, a surprisingly gentle version of Sepultura's Roots Bloody Roots and a touching adaptation of Aaron Neville's Tell It Like It Is.

While all of the afore mentioned tracks will be familiar to most listeners, the inclusion of songs from the hugely underrated Fastball (Warm Fuzzy Feeling) and Orville Stoeber's Stay Forever, My Love, from of the cult horror classic Let's Scare Jessica to Death, make this collection more that just a sop gap release. Mazzola always inserts a little off-kilter weirdness into his own songs and thankfully that signature approach is still very much present on this album as well.

It's Karma It's Cool: "Wooden Buddha" lyric video

Watch the new It's Karma It's Cool lyric video for Wooden Buddha, a track from their double A-side for the Big Stir Digital Singles series: "great vocal harmonies wrapped in retro Sixties psych pop. Both songs are about travel - in real life as well as an inner exploration. And as per usual the actual journey is far more important than the actual destination".

» It's Karma It's Cool on Facebook

HCTF review of Wooden Buddha b/w Ghosts of Rome

Hanya: I'll Do It Tomorrow

photo: Jordan Rose

English dream pop quartet Hanya obviously own a lot of albums that were recorded by their precursors in the Nineties. They connected all the dots on the new single I'll Do It Tomorrow about failing to get things done, because better things are taking precedence, including taking it easy and not bothering about anything in particular.

R.E.M. : live @ Capitol Theatre in Passaic, NJ - 9 June 1984

Watch a pro-shot early R.E.M. show filmed @ Capitol Theatre in Passaic, NJ on June 9, 1984. After kicking off with The Velvet Underground cover Pale Blue Eyes they played songs from their first two albums and their debut EP. A couple of very famous guests join them during the second all covers encore. Roger McGuinn nailed his parts, while John Sebastian was obviously having fun, but came up short in the end.

It was broadcast on 17 July 1984 as an MTV special Rock Influences: Folk Rock.

Ubiquitous Meh!: "Have You Been To The Fair?" video

It makes sense that the video for Luke Richards's solo project Ubiquitous Meh! song Have You Been To The Fair? features footage from the abandoned rides in Chernobyl. The harmonium player of freak folk punk power trio Zapoppin' has a wicked sense of humour after all. It's a track from his SouthWay Gothic album: "a serious contender for underground dance parties - think Mike Oldfield after being exposed to Gang of Four records for quite some time".

The clip was created by Ross Oliver-Carter and Owen A. Groombridge.

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HCTF review of SouthWay Gothic.

Seattle Stomp: Maudlin Madness

When you run your own boutique label like musician Alex Molica it is no-brainer to release an album yourself. Maudlin Madness by his one-man project Seattle Stomp is a fuzzy lo-fi collection of songs, on which garage punk and acoustic grunge collided to create an update of the sound of Jonathan Richman and Syd Barrett.

Recorded at Noisy Chairs in Bloomington, Indiana, he tackles anxiety, being on the road, the death of his brother, and turns the classic fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood into a sexy come hither song while he is at it. This is an album that would have been championed by John Peel, had he been still alive. Let's hope a tape find its way to the desk of Iggy Pop's BBC 6 radio show as the next best thing. Mentioning the Ann Arbor, Michigan, connection won't hurt.

The Wood Brothers: Jam In The Van session videos

Watch roots trio extraordinaire The Wood Brothers perform Snake Eyes and Little Bit Sweet for a Jam Jn The Van session. The latter song is the lead single for their new album Kingdom In My Mind, out on January 24 via Honey Jar/Thirty Tigers. Gthe session was filmed @ last year's edition of AmericanaFest in Nashville, TN.

Kapok calls it quits

photo: Anouk van Kalmthout

Dutch jazz trio Kapok is calling it quits. The members no longer live in the same city (or country for that matter) and committing to the band as a working unit is no longer feasible. Three more shows and then the musical inventors are going their separate ways.

Words about music (517): Steven Wilson

photo: Turner Hall

There was a time when pop music and rock music were really reaching for the stars and were not ashamed to be experimental. You think of a song like 'Shout' by Tears for Fears. That's a massive global No. 1 hit, and yet the subject matter is very dark.

Steven Wilson

John Cale: Bognor Regis 2020/01/10 setlist

John Cale performed at the Rockaway Beach festival @ Butlins, Bognor Regis, UK - January 10, 2020.

The band:
John Cale: vocals, electric guitar, keyboards
Dustin Boyer: lead guitar, samples
Joey Maramba: bass
Deantoni Parks: drums, samples

Setlist:

1. Helen of Troy
2. Dying on the Vine
3. Leaving It Up to You
4. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
5. The Endless Plain of Fortune
6. Hedda Gabler
7. Half Past France
8. Fear Is A Man's Best Friend
9. Ghost Story
10. I'm Waiting for the Man
11. Villa Albani
12. Pablo Picasso

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Cover Me: After the Gold Rush

Watch Patti Smith tackle the Neil Young song After the Gold Rush @ The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. The song is preceded by her reading a poem from her latest book Year of the Monkey. With Tony Shanahan on keyboards. The studio version of this cover can be found on her album Banga.

» pattismith.net
» neilyoung.com

(thru Neil Young News)

HMLTD: West of Eden

London art-rock quintet HMLTD serve a full-course meal on their debut album West of eden. Over the top glam-rock, post-punk, dance, vaudeville and psych-pop are clamoring for a place in the spotlights in a carefully sequenced bunch of tracks: the Devil popping up in all his guises, hedonism, dressing up for a night on the town and celebrating life like there is no tomorrow. Eccentricity as a guiding light and haters be damned. Not Paradise Lost, but paradise right fucking now, as the world's balance of powers is changing and drifting off to uncharted waters.

They took the wildest party bits of every decade since the Seventies and made a highly entertaining album that is quintessentially English: witty, quirky, and pretty damn smart. Traditional concepts of what is right or wrong are questioned and ridiculed. A distorted mirror to gaze at in wonder.

Johnny Dowd: working on a new album

photo: Andy Muscroft

Johnny Dowd is messng around in the studio, reinventing himself again for his next album, the follow-up for Family Picni. Technology and rock 'will meet and weird and wonderful things could happen as part of the process:

Working on some new stuff — going in a whole new direction. Samples and heavy drum machine. Somewhere between brilliant and total self-indulgence. At the same time, I’m working with buddy Mike Edmondson on some straight-up rock songs. Can I put the two together? My point is, I’m still cranking it and chasing the dream — or my own ass. Whichever comes first.

Ronan Conroy: "Now is the Winter of our Discontent" video

Ronan Conroy has posted video of him revisiting his instrumental trsck Now is the Winter of our Discontent:

This instrumental is an old track I wrote in 2005 and finally recorded for my debut solo album, Discontent, released in 2014. It's a cold emotionally stark track and it felt right to play it when I was recently holed away for a few days in northern New Hampshire while the snow fell outside.

» ronansconroy.com

Elephant Stone: Keep The Light Alive

Canadian psychedelic raga rockers Elephant Stone offer Keep The Light Alive, part 5 of the Dystopian story that makes up the tracks of heir Hollow album. Planet B is basically a huge ball of ashes and the children aboard the space ship Harmonia are scared and start asking questions. The video was made by Sketch MacQuinor.

Jack Poels: debut solo album "Blauwe Vear" in March; stream "Elf oaver elf"

Jack Poels, the leader of Dutch Americana band Rowwen Hèze, will release his debut solo album Blauwe Vear on March 27. In a change of pace from the Text-Mex and polka commonly associated with his band, it will be mostly acoustic, with just his guitar and voice as the main instruments. As per usual he sings in the Limburg dialect, the language of his native province. Lead single Elf oaver ef is a tribute to the clock of the church tower he has taken pictures of countless times over the years. The idea came to him after hearing Virginia May by Gregory Alan Isakov:

"In the Virginia May lyrics I read about a searchlight, a beacon. Then I thought of the pictures I have been taking here for years in my garden, of the church in our village. The view is always there, under all weather conditions. I walk through the village in the shadow of the church tower and at night on the way back home I look up to see what time it is. When I travel I try to catch a last glimpse of it from the train. That tower is a beacon, rain or shine. It makes time stand still, preferably on eleven past eleven.

Pavlove: Savages

The core of Belgian psych-op quintet Pavlove is made up from the half-Iranian siblings Fabian and Reina Rasti. The sound of the Middle-East is mixed with late Sixties and early Seventies pop. Case in point: their new single Savages,the title track from their forthcoming EP.

Pavlove:
Reina Rasti: keyboards, vocals
Fabian Rasti: guitar, percussion, vocals
Helena Mayorga-Paredes: guitar, percussion, backing vocals
Daan Van Isterdael: bass
Arno Grootaers: drums, percussion

The video was made by Reina Rasti.

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Deleyaman: Sentinel

photo: Isabelle Fleury

French dark wave band Deleyaman have perfected their sound on their new album Sentinel, mixing their own poetry with the words from established writers, and recording them with quiet intensity. They have always been adamant to provide the listener with a rich palette of sounds and moods. Singing in French sits comfortably with Beatrice Valantin, the bands's singer and multi-instrumentalist Aret Madilian is fluent in English and Armenian, his native tongue. Gerard Madilian plays the duduk, a traditional woodwind instrument that could be mistaken for and English horn by uninitiated. Bass player Guillaume Leprevost always picks his notes carefully and also acts as the band's second guitar player.

With birds whistling softly as the intro for the first tracks Exil the album unfolds slowly, like a chrysalis in slow motion. The orchestrated psych pop in Keep the Light and the pastoral Electric Sky lead to the two reinventions of a smattering of their favourite poets: De Roses Vermeilles by Gérard de Nerval and The Valley in an inventive coupling of poems by Winifred M. Lets and Arthur Gorges, an intriguing maze without a road map. Brendan Perry (Dead Can Dance) lends a band on the latter track, playing cimbalom, bouzouki and drums.

Pocket Knife Army + LIJO: show in Gouda

Dutch avant-electro pop acts (and label mates) Pocket Knife Army and LIJO join forces again for a show @ So What! in Gouda on March 27. Both acts love to take risks and are always looking for something out of the ordinary. They are also playing @ Vrijplaats Leiden on February 15.

Oysterhead: confirmed for Bonnaroo 2020

Alt-funk rock superband Oysterhead return to Bonnaroo as part of their reunion shows. Bassist Les Claypool (Primus), guitarist Trey Anastasio (Phish) and drummer Stewart Copeland (The Police) last appearred at the Manchester, TN festival in 2006.

Record Store Day 2020: April 18

Record Store Day will be celebrating its 13th anniversary on April 18. Mark your calendars and start saving.

» recordstoreday.com

Hypergear: Death Screening

Italian alternative electronic rock trio Hypergear are obsessed with technology, but don't turn a blind to the side effects. The new single Death Screening asks some pretty serious questions mental health in the social media era. Addiction, loneliness and the subsequent fear of missing out can be crippling. They wrapped their meessage in towering arena rock, topped off with sci-fi sound effects.

STASJ: Lullaby for the Overdrive

Dutch singer and guitarist STASJ has released a new song: Lullaby for the Overdrive, the first new material since the release of her album Soft Forces in 2018. It is a dark, intense blend of avant-electronics, a bit of prog, post-rock, and of course her vocal range, urging the listener to take control and set firm boundaries.

Black Cat Bones: Tattered & Torn

Tuscon, AZ blues quintet Black Cat Bones perform heartfelt songs that provide some solace when life has dealt the listener a really bad hand. They have been there as well and while the music on their new album Tattered & Torn isn't a sure fire cure for all kind of trouble it can help to get another perspective.

Lead singer Charles Pitts is not a run of the mill blues belter. His nasal delivery could have been drowned out by Gary David's and Richard Rivera's twin guitars, but producers Jeff Daniels and Duncan Stitt carefully balanced the band's sound in the studio. Tattered & Torn has a Seventies swagger a la Johnny Winter and pre-MTV ZZ Top. It's brutally honest, and loud and soft in the all the right places.

De Staat: Festival shows

photo: Pooneh Ghana

Dutch alternative rockers De Staat have announced a couple of festival shows, including a support slot for the Editors.

Live dates

• 05/23 Utrecht, Netherlands @ Central Park
• 06/19 Hradec Králové, Czech Republic @ Rock For People
• 06/27 Den Haag, Netherlands @ Zuiderpark (supporting Editors)

» destaat.net

Johnny Marr: Saltwater Festival in Ireland

Guitar maestro Johnny Marr performs @ Saltwater Festival Westport in Westport House, Mayo in Ireland on May 29. It is the only conformed show for this year so far. There are rumours about a club tour in the Fall.

» johnnymarr.com

Words about music (516): Gerry Mulligan

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it.

Gerry Mulligan

Pocket Knife Army: "The Draw" live in the studio

Dutch electronic pop duo Pocket Knife Army have posted a live video of their new song The Draw, episode 12 of their "one new song each month" series. It's an amalgam of the sound kf the Eurythmics and prog-laden keyboards part, making it a truly smart pop song.

Desirée Coumans and Erwin Tuijl set up shop in the big hall of Dutch Railways company NS, which i located quite conveniently next to their recording studio in Utrecht. The clip was filmed by Jesse Immanuel Bom.

Johnny Dowd, et al: 13th Annual Ithaca Musician’s Office Party

Johnny Dowd is perhaps the biggest name on the bill for the 13th Annual Ithaca Musician’s Office Party @ Maxie's Supper Club and Oyster Bar on January . The profits will benefit some of the community members. Artists include: Janet Batch, Billy Cote, Jennie Stearns, Mary Lorson, Pierce Walsh, Sam & Mandy, Strange Heavy, The Long Now, Venissa Santi, Wingnut.

» johnnydowd.com

HCTF review of Live at GrassRoots 2006.

Ella van der Woude: Bye Bye Little House

Swiss-Dutch composer Ella van der Woude made a name for herself scoring movies like Halina Reijn's Instinct and Ena Sendijarevic's Take Me Somewhere Nic. It gave her the ability to lay down the tracks for her first album Solo Piano, a post-classical record as a showcase for her gentle but firm touch. Leda single Bye Bye Little House is a love letter to her former abode in Amsterdam, a tiny safe haven where she could get away from the bustle and hustle of the city. The video was made by Emo Weemhoff.

Cover Me: Burn

Watch British rock band Inglorious tackle the Deep Purple song Burn. Recorded live @ their rehearsal space. Singer Nathan James dresses like the Dude in this clip, but he can scream pretty damn good.

» inglorious.com
» deeppurple.com

The Foreign Films: interview on SweetSweetMusicBlog

SweetSweetMusicBlog has an interview with power pop singer and multi-instrumentalist Bill Majoros about where to go next after the release of his magnum opus The Record Collector, a 3LP set by his project The Foreign Films. About measuring the level of success he has achieved after the universal critical acclaim for the album:

Personally, this album is a defining artistic statement, that was one of the main goals. It’s a personal high water mark, I consider it a success as of now. I set out to create my own musical world, a triple vinyl album with creative artwork and a short story. It was a creative marathon but we crossed the finish line. The ending is now the starting point for the next album because I love the process; it gives me hope for the future.

Them Jones: The Saturn Cinema

Philadelphia neo-psych band Them Jones made another journey through the past and came back with the songs for their new album The Saturn Cinema. Their dreamy, imaginative lyrics paint pictures of another era or even another world, a place where Syd Barrett did not become an acid casualty. They are an American band that find itself in the wrong era and the wrong country. They would have been big in the UK in the late Sixties and early Seventies.

Jacco Gardner fans will appreciate the rhythm in the easy going Not in this Land. The orchestral To the Shoreline Crawling is a heartfelt revisit to their youth when they could drop everything and traverse the globe to find new insights. The production values of Nick Drake's second album Bryter Layter shimmer through The Doctor: "Are you born of skin too thin, too few? // Do you waste your days in servitude? // As if you ever got to choose // Well, the doctor can help you // he lights the dark he sees // he'll lift you up with a bit of speed // bring you down to help you sleep // but you might grind your teeth // Away // Away // that's all he will say".

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Distant Sky Live in Copenhagen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have posted the full Distant Sky Live in Copenhagen movie on YouTube. Recorded @ Royal Arena in Copenhagen, Denmark on October 20, 2017.

Wille and the Bandits: tour dates

UK acid world rock band Wille and the Bandits will hit the road, playing shows in The Netherlands, Spain and the UK, promoting their latest album Paths: "This band is all about energy, honing their craft as a touring band. [...] they set up a catchy grove and let the melody take care of the rest. That may sound like a no-brainer, but it is actually quite hard to pull off. Should one of the musicians drop the ball, the music would come to a grinding halt, but these guys know their stuff".

Phish 2019 NYE run SBD + torrents: New York 2019/12/31

Official MSG 2019 NYE poster by Pedro Corrêa

Phish
2019/12/31
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY

Set 1:

1. Martian Monster
2. Buried Alive
3. AC/DC Bag
4. Halley's Comet >
5. Prince Caspian >
6. Sparkle >
7. Axilla
8. Maze
9. Fluffhead >
10. Rise/Come Together