Newcastle Upon Tyne based one-man post-punk band William Denton Wilde travelled North and found inspiration for two new songs: Paradise Lost on Leith and The Debatable Lands. The songs share a common theme, even though they tell stories that are centuries apart: the loss of independence and rough-around-the-edges charm as a port in Edinburgh became gentrified over the last decade or so, and disputed lands between Scotland and England were hammered into submission by Scottish king James VI in 1590.
Wilde states that there is still some beauty to be found, but it is lot harder to find. He makes his trusty bass Shirley sing and growl, with his deep voice playing catch with a synth and a handful of choice sound effects.
John Cale will perform @
Doornroosje in Nijmegen, The Netherlands on July 13. Tickets are available here. And he has been added to the bill of the Doune the Rabbit Hole Festival in Sterling, UK on July 17. Tickets are available here.
On December 24 last year 17 acoustic Lou Reed tracks popped on various digital outlets (as inferior AAC 256 kbps files). They disappeared shortly after that - just another Sony scheme to secure the copyright. I'm So Free: The 1971 RCA Demos now gets the vinyl treatment for Record Store Day (April 23). It is not the full set - Hangin' Around (Take 2), Love Makes You Feel (Take 2), I Can't Stand It and Walk It And Talk It did not make the cut. Still, it is nice to have Lou working through these songs, instructing the engineer to "fade" as a song is nearing the end. 7550 copies worldwide.
Side A:
1. Perfect Day – Takes 1 & 2 /
2. I'm So Free /
3. Wild Child /
4. I'm Sticking with You - Take 2 /
5. Lisa Says /
6. Going Down – Take 2 /
7. I Love You
Side B:
1. New York Telephone Conversation /
2. She's My Best Friend /
3. Kill Your Sons /
4. Berlin /
5. Ocean - Takes 1 & 2 /
6. Ride Into the Sun - Take 2
UK upbeat folk band Keston Cobblers Club have released their new single, Jupiter, a song that was inspired by singer Julia Lowe attending a "digital" astronomy class during lockdown. She found herself wondering what might be up there and considered the fact that her friends might be staring at the night sky as well, just as Jupiter showed itself. In other words: they might be sharing the same experience without being in each other's company.
It gave her hope and it led to a joyous piece of music, with the traditional instruments accordion, banjo and guitar interacting with synthesizers plus a drum kit fyring on all cylinders. The video has the band members dancing and moping out on the screen of an old school Commodore monitor, with the singer breaking out of the confines as if to celebrate the ability to reconnect with the outside world again.
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.
Four versions of the Blondie classic Sunday Girl will find their way to double 7" in a gatefold sleeve for Record Store Day. It is not that difficult to track down the single versions in English and French, but it is nice to have the demo and a rather good live version as well. 3000 copies worldwide.
After releasing two singles about a breakup that really hurt Brooklyn based musician Ryan Gross now finds himself in the early stages of new found love. However, not everyting is fine and dandy. There is a little voice whispering that things can go South without warning on Wedding Ring, the new track by his Skinny Dippers project. Wrapped in layers of jangling psych-tinged guitar he tries to make amends, hoping that his love can forgive his shortcomings, whether they are imaginary or real.
English singer Matt Saxton takes a look at his younger self on his new single It's Only Now That I Know. It is a theme that has been covered many times before, but this ballad with guitar and piano taking turns as the lead instrument manages to capture both the melancholy about lost youth and the wisdom that life has brought him since then as equal partners.
Micah Nelson has unveiled a video for Along the Timey Road, a track by his future-folk project Particle Kid. He used old school rotoscope animation, a technique that fits the theme from his upcoming new album Time Capsule, a throwback to the heyday of 60s psychedelic rock, with warbled vocals sounding like they were recorded underwater.
War, huh, yeah
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing, uhh
War, huh, yeah
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Say it again, y'all
War, huh (good God)
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing, listen to me, oh
War, I despise
'Cause it means destruction of innocent lives
War means tears to thousands of mother's eyes
When their sons go off to fight
And lose their lives
I said, war, huh (good God, y'all)
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing, just say it again
War (whoa), huh (oh Lord)
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing, listen to me
It ain't nothing but a heart-breaker
(War) Friend only to The Undertaker
Oh, war it's an enemy to all mankind
The thought of war blows my mind
War has caused unrest
Within the younger generation
Induction then destruction
Who wants to die? Oh
War, huh (good God y'all)
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Say it, say it, say it
War (uh-huh), huh (yeah, huh)
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing, listen to me
It ain't nothing but a heart-breaker
(War) It's got one friend that's The Undertaker
Oh, war, has shattered many a young man's dreams
Made him disabled, bitter and mean
Life is much too short and precious
To spend fighting wars each day
War can't give life
It can only take it away, oh
War, huh (good God y'all)
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing, say it again
War (whoa), huh (oh Lord)
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing, listen to me
It ain't nothing but a heart-breaker
(War) Friend only to The Undertaker, woo
Peace, love and understanding, tell me
Is there no place for them today?
They say we must fight to keep our freedom
But Lord knows there's got to be a better way, oh
War, huh (God y'all)
What is it good for? You tell me (nothing)
Say it, say it, say it, say it
War (good God), huh (now, huh)
What is it good for?
Stand up and shout it (nothing)
He is a singer-songwriter. He is a multi-instrumentalist. He is an artist & illustrator. He is an award-winning animator. T.E. Yates should be famous, or at least well-known, but somehow that has hasn't happened yet. His new EP Strange Weather is a text book example of how to create superb folk-tinged music with hints of country, jazz and music hall thrown in for good measure.
Yates wears his Englishness as a badge of honour, using elements that were used to great effect by songsmiths like Nick Drake and Ray Davies. As a neurodivergent person he does not fit in, but he does not allow it to cramp his style. If anything he used it to jump ahead of any prejudice. Condition, the first track of the EP, is both sad and boisterous: "It’s a condition not a sickness //
Both a blessing and a curse //
And you know you shouldn’t worry //
Worry only makes things worse". Just as his voice is about to break, the brass section turn it up a notch to have his back... He has surrounded himself with a circle of musicians who are capable to bring his vision to life. The cinematic Fierce Horses is a widescreen experience, but he also zooms in every now and then to have a closer look at details, where he can add a few dabs of musical saw.
The Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album Live Seeds comes to vinyl for the first time for Record Store Day (April 23). The songs were recorded during the 1992-1993 tour, when they promoting Henry's Dream. 2700 copies on red vinyl.
Gary Brooker, the singer and pianist of influential English band Procol Harum, has succumbed to cancer. He was 76. This obituary posted on the band's website:
With the deepest regret we must announce the death on 19 February 2022 of Gary Brooker MBE, singer, pianist and composer of Procol Harum, and a brightly-shining, irreplaceable light in the music industry. Aged 76, he had been receiving treatment for cancer, but died peacefully at home.
From his earliest onstage duets with his musician father, through his youthful recording career with Southend’s The Paramounts, Gary exhibited and developed a highly-individual talent. His first single with Procol Harum, 1967’s A Whiter Shade of Pale, is widely regarded as defining ‘The Summer of Love’, yet it could scarcely have been more different from the characteristic records of that era.
Nor was it characteristic of his own writing. Over thirteen albums Procol Harum never sought to replicate it, preferring to forge a restlessly progressive path, committed to looking forward, and making each record a ‘unique entertainment’. Gary’s voice and piano were the single defining constant of Procol’s fifty-year international concert career. Without any stage antics or other gimmicks he was invariably the most watchable musician in the show (he played several other instruments in the studio).
Sion Trefor and Benjamin Zombori have unveiled dark yet alluring video for My Brothers And Me, the new single by their Future Kult project. Two knights are circling around each other, waiting for an opening to land a deadly blow. It is an intense, brooding slice of electro-pop, which is set to go all out, but that never actually happens. A smart choice as it leaves the listener in limbo, wondering how it will pan out.
Watch the Krokus promo video for Rockin' in the Free World, Neil Young classic. The Swiss hard rock veterans stayed close to the original. It can be found on their Big Rocks covers album.
Original manuscripts of lyrics by Jimi Hendrix are extremely rare, but by change the two parts of a page that he tore out of his lyrics book to accomodate two young fans who wanted his autograph, shortly before his performance at the Bath Pavilion in England on the evening of 20 February 1967, have been reunited. From The Guardian:
Before the concert, two local girls, aged 15 and 16, made their way to the backstage door in search of an autograph.
Hendrix stepped out to meet them but had no blank paper. Instead, he tore out a page from an exercise book he had to hand, ripped it in half and signed both pieces.
Fellow band members Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding also added their signatures.
As the teenagers walked home after the gig they turned over the pieces of paper to find handwritten lyrics headed “51st Wedding Anniversary” with the side heading “Key of B”.
Just three weeks later, 51st Anniversary was released as the B-side to Hendrix’s second top-10 UK chart hit Purple Haze (HCTF note - the US version of the Purple Haze had The Wind Cries Mary as the B-side).
Chicago-based singer and multi-instrumentalist Justin Sconza recorded his new single Underneath the Cottonwoods on a Tascam 8-track in the comfort of his own home, reliving a great day out with his friends. It is easy to picture him shooting the breeze, sitting on the grass and enjoying food and drink. A slow moving psych-tinged folk song, with his electric guitar commandeering the spotlight.
The Jefferson Airplane show @ Monterey Pop Festival on June 17, 1967 will be released for Record Store Day (April 23). This show has made it to vinyl and CD in the past. Fingers crossed that they used the master tapes for this one.
Power pop guitarist and singer Lannie Flowers started sharing free downloads of singles in 2019. These were tracks that would not fit on his Home album, but he wanted them out in the world. The series was dubbed March To Home and it did not take long for people to ask him if there would be an album to collect them all. During the pandemic Flowers decided to remix the tracks, in order to get the sound right for at home listening, in stead of the more punchy sound of the originals - those were fine for car radio and run-of-the-mill earbuds. Exhibit A: the new mix of the orchestral psych-pop extravaganza About You blows the original mix out of the water.
It was time consuming task, but now Flavor Of The Month is here and it was well worth the wait. The songs are allowed to breathe like they did in the 70s, whether is it the mostly acoustic Let It Go - the song that got the whole remix thing started - or the full-blown, sunny side up approach in Summer Blue, that will strike a chord with fans of The Foreign Films. Flowers can rock out in the title track Flavor Of The Month, and make his guitar howl and stutter in Day Glow All Night. Since all tracks were originally released as singles, there is no sign of filler. It is an album with 14 A+ A-sides.
Watch the new Great Lakesvideo for Easy When You Know How, a track from their latest album Contenders: "The main theme on this album is longing for the carefree attitude of youth, when taking risks is the rule of the day and being convinced that the world is your oyster. Those days of the Born Frees are long gone, but that is OK. Crum and his longtime fellow members Kevin Shea (drums) and Suzanne Nienaber (vocals) are the axis, with the other musicians circling and swirling around them to create a starting kit for anyone who is looking for a gateway drug to get into superb, melodic Americana".
Blues rock singer and guitarist Warren Haynes has announced that he will be playing four solo shows, before hitting the road again with his band Gov't Mule.
Live dates:
03/08 South Deerfield, MA @ House Theater at Tree House Brewing Company
03/09 South Deerfield, MA @ House Theater at Tree House Brewing Company
Shoegaze duo Whimsical returned to the scene in 2015 after a hiatus that lasted a decade. Their new single Rewind has all the trappings of a 90s indie rock song, with guitarist Neil Burkdool building a complex structure to be scaled by Krissy Vanderwoude's vocals. The tension between music and words works like a charm, with a few carefully place stop-and-starts acting as breathers. The accompanying video follows this game of light and shade closely. It will be included on their new album Melt, due for release on April 1st via Shelflife Records (USA) and Through Love Records (Europe).
An unreleased Rory Gallagher show broadcasted on the King Biscuit Flower Hour radio show will be released on Record Store Day (April 23). Live In San Diego '74 is a 2LP on black vinyl. 4000 copies worldwide. Taking into account that it is recorded in 1974 - a peak year in his career as a live performer - this will sell out quickly.
Sander van Munster of Dutch indie folk project No Ninja Am I has released Custom Pope, the second single from his forthcoming album, Plenty of Blankets, due for release in the Spring. He takes it slow, but the lyrics pack a punch. He urges the listener to check the facts, like New York Times journalist Michael Barbaro does with his podcast The Daily. Van Munster never raises his voice, carefully riding the crest of the wave created by the music, with Wubbo Siegers (Novack, Klangstof) once again acting as producer and drummer.
Canadian psychedelic raga band Elephant Stone choose to use the second language on their country for their new EP, Le voyage de M. Lonely dans la lune. It is a mini rock opera in four parts, telling the tale of a single man trying to survive amidst a catastrophe, holing up like a hermit and wondering where to go next.
Band leader Rishi Dhir's love for Sci-Fi is a guarantee for a consistent story arc, but he leaves plenty of space (no pun intended) for the listener's imagination. The main theme is rather bleak, but it is served in full-colour, with each band member adding to an intricate tapestry of sounds and licks.
Brighton based sextet Opus Kink like to head their audience over the head with a spicy mix of blues, jazz and ska. Their latest single, I Love You, Baby, is brimming with energetic wild bursts of saxophone and trumpet, nervous guitar licks and breakneck vocals. Think Madness and The Levellers joining forces while on steroids. Utterly danceable stuff that will create good-natured mosh pits on the Summer festival circuit.
A new Patti Smith compilation album, featuring favourite tracks from 1974–1996 when she was signed to Arista, will be released on Record Store Day (April 23). The track listing, supposedly chosen by the staff of record stores, is rather predictable, but the cover art is great. Curated By Record Store Day is a 2LP on black vinyl. 5050 copies worldwide.
NYC noise rock trio A Place To Bury Strangers have unveiled a video for Love Reaches Out, a track from new album See Through You: "Ackermann's dark thoughts work best when there is an infectious melody trying to come up for air, with subsequent tension garanteeing an intense listening experience. Sonic Youth and The Jesus and Mary Chain are obvious reference points, but APTBS are first and foremost about creating a Wall of Sound that would have scared the shit out of Phil Spector. The psychedelic touches are by no means candy-coloured. See Through You is a journey into darkness and a cry for help rolled into one".
The band have invited renowned horror movie directors to take care of the visuals. The one was directed by Gabriel Carrer (For The Sake Of Vicious, The Demolisher).
Singer-songwriter Amy Correia has been lying low mostly, since the release of her You Go Your Way album in 2012. She wrote the music for The Tiger Hunter with guitarist Paul Masvidal and she played one-off shows every now and then. It seemed her days as a recording artist were a thing of the past, but fast forward to 2022 and there she is with a brand new EP, As We Are. She mixes blues (Bow to the Fire) and country (Sunday Driver, The Beggar), but it all comes together in the late night crooning with a jazz twist With All of Us. If they had had rock 'n'roll in the days of the Weimar Republic, it would have sounded like this.
Correia was always a fine lyricist, and now that she is getting older the words have become simpler, but more urgent. She doesn't hide herself behind smart metaphors and tells like it is. It is rather brave to kick off Sweet Things with a disclaimer "This is a song for no one // sung in the key that cannot be sung // A song that'll never be heard by anyone // under the sun". Well, she is wrong about that. Any Americana show that is worth its salt should playlist the Hell out of this unexpected, but very welcome, return of an artist who wears her heart on her sleeve.
Phish have announced a Spring + Summer Tour, playing 34 shows. The tour is divided in three parts: a short run in May and June, followed by busy schedule in July and August, culminating in a four-night stand at Dick's Sporting Goods Park for the Labor Day weekend in September. A ticket request is underway. Tickets go on sale to the public beginning Friday, March 4th.
Italian alt-rock/psychedelic band Earthset go all out on their new single The Mirror, coming as close to prog metal as they ever got. Think King Crimson on steroids picking a fight with Tool.
It is a track from their forthcoming concept album Bound about relations and connections, due for release in March 2022 as part of a audio-visual work of art, with each of the 11 tracks being accompanied by a video. The clip was edited and filmed by Elide Blind and Simone Tacconelli in close collaboration with the band.
Swedish finest jazz punk band Viagra Boys have announced tyour in North America and Europe to promote their Welfare Jazz album: "Imagine the Stooges in their Raw Power phase having a ball with The Birthday Party and De Staat, with Tom Waits smiling in the background. Monolithic dance grooves clash with a prog rock flute solo or a screaming saxophone. But when all is said done they just want to settle down in the country with a nice lady. No wonder that they end the album with a cover of the John Prine classic In Spite of Ourselves, with Amy Taylor handling the part of Iris DeMent".
The four Phish shows at Riviera Maya in Mexico (February 24–27) are offered as pay-per-view
webcasts. 4-night passes or single shows in HD. Download and T-Shirt bundles are available.
Watch the new Johnny Dowd video for Silk Scarf, a track from his latest album review of Homemade Pie. The clip was made by Truus de Groot, a Dutch musician and visual artist who has created quite a few videos for him over the years.
A brand new version of Mystery Woman, with Will Sexton, on guitar is for sale on his Bandcamp page. First released on his
Pictures From Life's Other Side album in 1999, this new recording is sparse but very, very intense. It was captured at Sun Studios in Memphis last year. If Lou Reed had decided to cover it back in the day, this is what it have sounded like.
Too Many Hands is one those slow, shapeshifting folk songs, where the lead melody comes out on top every single time, never mind who sings it. Songwriter Drew Danburry recorded five different versions with his band Icarus Phoenix and the one with he shares vocals with Josaleigh Pollett might be the best one.
The video uses footage from the classic movie The Last Time I Saw Paris and the lyrics fit the on-screen interaction between Elizabeth Taylor and Van Johnson like a glove. Do listen to the other four versions as well. You can't have too much of a good thing.
Steven Wilson's autobiography Limited Edition of One will be published in April 7. He wrote it with veteran music journalist and biographer Mick Wall:
The book was written under a “no rules” philosophy with the collaboration of legendary rock biographer Mick Wall. In addition to containing autobiographical material, it has a lot on my broader ideas about music, as well as list and discussion chapters on the kind of things I get asked about a lot (favourite films, songs, record shops…etc), and some that I don’t. Also among its pages are photos from my personal archives, and a short story (which might be my favourite part). I’ve chosen to focus on the stuff that people really don’t know about me, rather than what is well known and documented by now. The tongue-in-cheek subtitle ‘How to Succeed in the Music Industry Without Being Part of the Mainstream’ perhaps tells you more about what to expect.
Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.
Power fusion rock trio The Aristocrats come out of hibernation with a massive North-American "Defrost" tour, playing 50 shows. Their last tour was cut short by the pandemic in early 2020. And yes, guitarist Guthrie Govans, bassist Bryan Bellers and drummer Marco Minnemanns will be playing new material:
We’re beyond thrilled to get back out there and do what we do best - playing together, live and loud, in the same room - for our amazing fans who’ve been so generous with their support of what we do as a band. Even though modern technology is great, we wanted to wait until we were physically together before playing any new material, because that’s just how we do it. That’s finally going to happen right before we head out on the road, so it will be really fresh and exciting. We can’t wait
Dutch harpist Remy van Kesteren has released Places I may have visited, people I may have met Pt. 2, the second of a four-part series, serving as musical diary for his travels. Taking elements from both minimalism and neo-classical he has developed a signature sound that is far more percussive than the music his instrument is usually associated width.
The first track, above all, with a loop of a single note, is almost upbeat and decidedly cheerful. He is an avid improviser and baoan is the result of letting his fingers do the talking, adding layers to create a mesmerizing, spontaneous composition. The cinematic for a script (what's in a name) and a wealth of slow tinkling notes to invoke his visit to fuji bring the EP to a close.
Leeds garage rockers Eades have made a video for their latest single, Delusion Spree: "The quintet put in a lot of work to make it sound spontaneous. As it turned out it worked best when they played it in a live setting, taking cues from their musical heroes Parquet Courts, Pixies and The Velvet Underground".
It is the title track from their forthcoming debut album due for release via Heist or Hit on March 4th (digital) and May 6th (vinyl, CD).
Singer-songwriter Spottiswoode has a couple of solo shows lined up, as well as two gigs with his band Spottiswoode & His Enemies. Be prepared for a bit of jazz, some vaudeville, and ace lyrics.
The Trey Anastasio Band will do a short tour in May, playing two shows at the recently opened Roadrunner theatre in Boston, and two outdoor shows in Colorado.
Tony Valentino was the guitarist for LA based garage rock band The Standells, one of the progenitors of the catchy punk sound that became all the rage a few years later. Now he is back with a new band reimaginging the band's classic 1966 record Dirty Water. The title track was a huge hit and became an anthem for Boston based sports teams Boston Bruins and the Boston Red Sox. Two new tracks have been added to the original tracklisting, with the rollicking lead single Barracuda serving as taster. Duane Waider is on vocals and drums, and Gary Kaluza plays bass.
English avant-garde musician Colin Robinson (Jumble Hole Clough, Churn Milk Joan, Big Block 454) broadcasted the first episode of his monthly Answers on a Postcard show on Otto Radio on February 6th. Missed it? It is now on Mixcloud.
Set aside for an hour of music by Eno, Zappa, Can, Captain Beefheart, Funkadelic, Richard and Linda Thompson, King Crimson, a chat about improvisation with Simon Partridge from Cold Bath Street and much, much more.
Liverpudlian slacker-punk trio Good Grief have mastered the art of fuzzy lo-fi rock on their new single The Pony Remark, a track inspired by the
Seinfeld episode, wherein the uttering of a few words evokes all kinds of havoc. Performed at breakneck speed, they manage to keep it all together for what best described as a shot of high quality adrenaline that will keep the listener's ears ringing and buzzing with joy. The track will be included on their forthcoming album Shake Your Faith. The video was made by Sohrab.
Good Grief:
Will Fitzpatrick: guitar, vocals
Paul Abbott: bass, vocals
Matiss Dale: drums
Shake Your Faith is released via Happy Happy Birthday to Me records (US - vinyl, digital) and Everything Sucks Music (UK - vinyl, digital). Standard black and limited yellow vinyl. Plus a very limited (80 copies) black vinyl version in a brown board screen printed cover.
Live date:
03/04 Manchester, UK @ The Talleyrand
(w/ Swansea Sound)
Looking for something else for Valentine's Day? Johnny Dowd will unveil a new single, Mystery Woman, as well as a brand new video made by Truus de Groot for Silk Scarf, a track from his latest album review of Homemade Pie.
Mystery Woman was previously released on his
Pictures From Life's Other Side album in 1999. This new version "was recorded at Sun Studios in Memphis last year, and features the amazing Will Sexton joining Johnny on guitar. More romantic than roses, sexier than chocolate, cheaper than a Ferrari".
Dreampop duo Wings of Desire have built their new single Perfect World on top of a relentless backbeat as if to underline their statement that things have to get worse in order to get better.
Taking cues from art rock, New Wave, and the sound of the fabled record label Factory, Chloe Little and James Taylor strive to a bit of darkness to the disenchanted youth looking for a bit of substance as well as entice them to hit the dance floor.
Minneapolis-based quartet Palm Friends follow the path that was first explored by bands like The Sundays and Belle and Sebastian. Their latest single, Hidden Perks, is a jangling sad pop excursion that leads to a happy ending of sorts. It is a slice of well-crafted indie pop, a dead ringer for airplay on college rock radio shows who can appreciate lyrical imagery and jangling guitars. It is the lead single for their new album, The Delivery, due for release on March 24 via Forged Artifacts.
Thw Who have just announced their The Who Hits Back tour, playing 28 shows in North America. They will be accompanied by a full orchestra. The first leg kicks off on April 22 in Ft. Lauderdale. After a Summer hiatus they will pick things up in Toronto on October 2. Pre-sale starts on Friday 11th February
at 10:00am local time.
Live dates:
04/22 Hard Rock, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
04/24 Vystar Veterans Memorial Arena, Jacksonville, FL
04/30 New Orleans Jazz Festival, New Orleans, LA
05/03 Moody Center, Austin, TX
05/05 American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX
05/08 Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, The Woodlands, TX
The eagerly awaited KingCrimson documentary In The Court of the Crimson King wil have its worldf premier @ SXWS in Austin, TX in March. Directed by Toby Amies the film hopes to shed some light on the creative process and internal dynamics within this long-running progressive band, with founder member and band leader Robert Fripp as the instigator and keeper of the flame throughout it 50 years existence.
One guy can ruin an instrument. Jimi Hendrix, bless his heart – how I wish he was still around – almost inadvertently ruined guitar. Because he was the only cat who could do it like that. Everybody else just screwed it up, and thought wailing away (on the guitar) is the answer. But it ain’t; you’ve got to be a Jimi to do that, you’ve got to be one of the special cats.
Canadian psychedelic raga band Elephant Stone have unveiled a video for their new single M. Lonely, a track from the new Le voyage de M. Lonely dans la lune EP, telling the tale of a solitary traveller trying to survive in outerspace.
Watch the new Viagra Boys live videos for the fast and furious 16 Wheeler Horse and the slow roots country rocker Blue Bone, two tracks from the deluxe version of their Welfare Jazz album. It is intense, it is over the top, and it's damn catchy. Punk is alive and well in the capital of Sweden.
Dutch avant-pop singer LIJO sings about a breakup that left her in a dark place on her new single, the sparse Spell. Using her voice as the main instrument, with just a few blink-and-you'll-miss-them synth parts, the hurt and grief take center stage.
