It’s so rare that I get to do a post that fits on both Songs:Illinois and Swedesplease . I like to do them too because I can expose a worthy artist to both groups of readers. Lucas Dawson is certainly worthy.
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Lucas Dawson – “Another Way To Say Goodbye”
Sometimes it really surprises me what I post on and don’t. I swear, I think that I post on an album, then I look through some older posts, and I completely skip some albums that I listen to all the damn time
Visage celebrate the 30 year anniversary of the bands biggest hit “Fade To Grey”. The compilation album is entitled ‘The Face – The Very Best of Visage’ and features several different versions and remixes of the song “Fade to Gray” and all the single releases except the “Beat Boy”. It’s out on Universal from March 1, 2010.
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The Face – The Very Best of Visage
This morning I almost wrote about new records by Matt Harlan and Zoe Muth & The Lost High Rollers but in both cases other blogs beat me to the punch and did a good job sharing their music ( here and here ). So instead I will mention the new record by Raina Rose called When May Came
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Raina Rose – “When May Came” (February, Constant Clip Records)
Stephen McBean and Amber Webber deliver grungy anthemic performances on today’s track No Satisfaction, from the Vancouver-based indie-rock collective Black Mountain’s self-titled 2005 release. Generally regarded as a critical success (ironically, one of the few negative reviews comes from PopMatters, who critiqued the band for taking themselves too seriously), the album marks the…
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Black Mountain – No Satisfaction
I love The Steal. Besides being my favorite hardcore band from the UK, actually fuck that, they are one of my favorite bands in general. When they broke up, I was pretty bummed out, and even though I didn’t know any of the songs at the time, was fortunate enough to see them once (that’s how I heard of them).One good thing did come out of their breakup though, and that is they released all of
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The Steal – Split With Set Your Goals (For fans of Paint it Black, Kid Dynamite, Good Clean Fun)
The British synth-pop group b-Movie have announced their 30 Year Anniversary Tour. London is confirmed among the live dates and they will also play two venues in Spain, Barcelona on April 16, 2010 and Madrid on April 17, 2010. Check out the last.fm and other pages for more details.
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B-Movie’s 30 Year Anniversary Tour
Elizabeth Fraser has returned to the music scene with the new single “Moses” which is her first solo release in many years. The former Cocteau Twins singer has recorded this song some time ago with Massive Attack’s drummer Damon Reece, and close friend Jake Drake-Brockma. You can download this single from her official website, or you can buy a vinyl version of it on Amazon, that site also sells the tracks as mp3 downloads.
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Elisabeth Frazer returns with "Moses"
The whole female/male dual vocals found in crust punk is incredibly difficult to pull off. The general idea is to take the usually harsh dude’s vocals and have it melodically mix in with the (slightly) less harsh and dudette’s voice. The problem is too many bands simply switch vocal duties in a call/shout back manner rather then blending the voices, giving the band more of a B-52s vibe than
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Witch Hunt – Burning Bridges To Nowhere (For fans of F-Minus, Aus Rotten, Leftover Crack)
Man, The Casualties get a lot of shit from the punk scene. I’ve heard complaints ranging from they just recycle riffs (Ramones anyone?) , they care too much about their hair (I’m not looking at them on CD buddy), their fans are all younger (we all start somewhere…listen, no one comes out of the womb blasting Crass) and that their lyrics tend to be stupid (ok..
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The Casualties – Die Hards (For fans of The Unseen, The Virus, The Boils)
“Adventures in Modern Recording”, was the second album by the British synthpop duo the Buggles which was recorded in 1981.The album was mostly produced by Trevor Horn with the assistence of Bruce Woolley. The album was re-issued for the first time in 1992 by Japanese label Jimco Records and completed with bonus tracks in 1997
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The Buggles- Adventures in Modern Recording 2010
Ever since the demise of Atom and His Package, there has been quite the rising of quirky as dancy synth driven music in punk. Sure, I guess you can argue it started with New Wave, but those were the 80s, and everyone was smoking crack then anyway.Just ask Nancy.Team Robespierre is the punk rock answer to Matt and Kim: catchy electronic dance music with a bit of a punk rock bite
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Team Robespierre – Everything’s Perfect (For fans of Atom and His Package, Matt and Kim, Intro5pect)
Chocolate cake, muffins and two birthdays in one week, here at the TreatHer office we’ve been slightly over-indulging during the Valentine’s Day rush. (We did manage to nibble on a few carrots on Friday, if that’s any consolation.) Ok so it has nothing to do with gifts but it’s a new week and a new healthy start for us – she says munching on a banana. So we were wondering if it’s possible to resist temptation on Pancake Day
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Healthy Pancakes – Is that really possible?
On Friday night, I took the 1 and a half hour drive out to punk rock bowling alley Asbury Lanes in my home state of New Jersey to catch one of my favorite sing a long bands, Off With Their Heads.Cloak/DaggerI arrived in the middle of these guys set, but the very little that I did see made me interested in checking out more by these Richmond hardcore dudes.
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Off With Their Heads with Cloak/Dagger, Slow Death (Live in Asbury Park 2/12/10)
is the eighth studio album by the English musician Peter Gabriel, set to be released on February 15, 2010 in the UK and March, 2 2010 in the U.S. The album, recorded at Air Lyndhurst and Real World Studios during 2009, consists of Gabriel covering twelve songs by various artists, using only orchestra and voice rather than normal rock instruments
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Peter Gabriel- ‘Scratch My Back’
LoneLady, AKA Julie Campbell is a self-styled writer, vocalist and tight guitarist. Inspired by post-punk legacy of her hometown, Manchester, England, as well classic college rock of the ’80s and early ’90s, LoneLady began her forays into lo-fi art punk by making four-track recordings with her guitar and drum machine in 2004. Her first single, “Hi Ho Bastard”/”Fear No More”, was released by ‘Filthy Home Records’ in summer 2005.
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Next Wave: LoneLady
Best Coast’s Bobb Bruno & Bethany Cosentino Hello everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Far too many exceptional shows last week including last night’s NO CANCER! Benefit show with No Age , Vivian Girls , Best Coast , Graham Forest , Darker My Love and more.
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This Week In LA: This Week In LA: St. Vincent, The Album Leaf, Sea Wolf, Imaad Wasif, Mumford & Sons, Pocahaunted
Videosex is a new label on the Burning Flame Blog which will feature music videos which have caused a lot of contraversary during the 80′s musical era. Most of them have been banned, censored or edited due to the explicit content of of nudity, sexuality or viloence which they showed.
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Videosex: Duran Duran- Girls on Film
I hate to admit it, but these days, it’s getting really hard to find good ska. Over are the third wave ska hey days of the 90s, and ska bands seem to be dropping left and right or releasing sub-par albums (*cough* Fluent In Stroll *cough*) , and I’ve got to admit, it makes me gravitate away and not really want to check out any ska releases anymore.
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Ruder Than You – Creation Sounds (For fans of The Slackers, The Pietasters, The Toasters)
When I went to see Hub City Stompers about 2 and a half weeks ago, they referenced a Crucial Unit song and the only thing running through my mind was “holy shit, I haven’t listened to those dudes in a while”. On the drive home, I popped in Crucial Unit’s “These Colors Get The Runs”, and had a complete thrash-fest for my entire ride from NJ to Killadelphia.Crucial Unit plays unconventional, tongue
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Crucial Unit – These Colors Get The Runs (For fans of Municipal Waste, DRI, Bones Brigade)
-picture from inventorspot.com For once the shuffle setting on my iPod wasn’t trying to kill me! It spewed out a great set of songs, Grapevine Fires by Deathcab for Cutie, Sorry Bunch by the Dresden Dolls followed by Chemo Limo by Regina Spektor and then Nothing But a Child by Steve Earle. Rock on!!! I want to say that I really really liked Cockroach by Rawi Hage .
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Cockroach, Leaving, iPod Life-Affirmation
Take a good long hard look at the cover of Bones Brigade’s “Endless Bummer”, that pretty much sums up how I feel as of late. Two weeks ago, I thought it was finally starting to get warmer, then Mother Nature goes and takes a huge, cold, white shit on us and something about some groundhog now sees his shadow and there’s supposed to be 6 more weeks of winter (what the fuck? I thought groundhogs
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Bones Brigade – Endless Bummer (For fans of Municipal Waste, LxExAxRxN, Crucial Unit)
Go check your record collection (or mp3 library) real quick and see if you have any of the following bands: The Ramones, Teenage Bottlerocket, Screeching Weasel, The Vapids, The Queers. If you do, then you’ll definitely dig Mean Jeans “Are You Serious”. If you don’t have any of those albums, what the hell is wrong with you?Oregon’s Mean Jeans play Ramones influenced punk rock (in case you didn’t
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Mean Jeans – Are You Serious (For fans of The Ramones, Teenage Bottlerocket, Screeching Weasel)
The Soft Pack 10 Release Shows In 1 Day This Sat. Jan 30th, 2010 We’re back from an extended hiatus while we were out on the road!!! First things first – Beach House ‘s amazing 3rd album “Teen Dream” is available NOW on Sub Pop. The album is already #10 on the iTUNES album chart! People seriously this record is a MUST LISTEN.
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THIS WEEK IN LA: The Soft Pack, VV Brown, Patti Smith, Pink Floyd Experience