NYC guitarist Andee Blacksugar asked his Facebook friends to call out a key and tempo. He would the write a tune, name it after name it after the first respondent, and put it on Youtube. Ladies and gentlemen: Matthew T Rosethorne in F#m:
Features my gorgeous new Gibson Songwriter DLX 12-string, plus the usual gear (my custom, DiMarzio-loaded Blacksugar Strat, Fractal Audio AFX2, Eventide Pitchfactor, various other pedals and Cubase 5). Everything was recorded direct!
Get inside the time machine and go back to the heyday of the New Romantics with the new single by London based quintet Savage Nomads. Porno harks back to Heaven 17 and Depeche Mode, smart smooth pop with a danceable backbeat. Porno is part of a 3-track single with Jaded Edges, with a nice guitar synth showdown, and a remix of Porno by fellow Londoners The Noisettes.
Savage Nomads are mainstream without losing their street credibility. A guilty pleasure for the cognoscenti and a good time act for the general public. Thee will be on the cover of NME soon.
Savage Nomads
Cole Salewicz: guitar & vocals
Josh Miles: guitar & vocals
James Rose: bass & vocals
Benjy Miles: guitar, synth, percussion
Petr Matousek: drums
Porno will be released on Republic of Music. Release date: April 7th.
Live dates:The Pixies have made a video for Greens And Blues, a track from their latest release EP2.
NYC avant-jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood recorded an album with experimental guitarist Nels Cline last year. Woodstock Seesions was cut live in the studio last year. It will be released on March 24 (April 22 in North America). A 3-week European tour kicks off in France on March 27.
Live dates:» mmw.net
HCTF review of Free Magic.
John Cale will perform in Lawrence in April:
Watch the new video by De Staat for their single Get It Together. The Dutch alternative rockers will perform two showcases in London this weekend.
Live dates:
Galapaghost is the brainchild of singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Casey Chandler. The new full-length Dandelion was recorded during his stay in Italy in 2012. It's a gentle folk album mostly - the loud guitar in Smile comes a surprise, and the focus is on the vocals.
Chandler can be funny in tracks like I'm A Zombie For You!, but he is an observer first capable of capturing a life story in a couple minutes (Isabelle). And he find new ways to breathe life into the tired genre of the love song with Under The Willow Tree and the superior Trembling Happiness - only six lines of poetic, heartfelt lyrics sung by Giovanna Rostagno.
After finishing the album Chandler has packed his bags again. He is in Brussels right now, contemplating his next move as a travelling musician.
Galapaghost:
Casey Chandler: acoustic guitar, ukulele, vocals, piano, synths, bass, glockenspiel, harmonica, percussion
Ru Catania: electric guitar, lap steel guitar, bass, backing vocals, percussion
Federico Puttilli: acoustic guitar, electric guitar, lap steel guitar, backing vocals, percussion
Guests:
Mattia Barbier: drums
Giovanna Rostagno: backing vocals
Dandelion is released thru Lady Lovely. Release date; March 10.
Tracks:
The Meter Men, drummer Zigaboo Modeliste, guitarist Leo Nocentelli and bassist George Porter, Jr., teem up with Phish chairman of the boards Page McConnell for two shows at the Republic in New Orleans:
w/ Stanton Moore/Marco Benevento Duo
Friday April 25, 2014
9pm Doors 10pm Show
Tickets
w/ The London Souls
Saturday April 26, 2014
9pm Doors 10pm Show
Tickets
Singer-songwriter M. Lockwood Porter pays tribute to his musical heroes on his new single Chris Bell b/w Secrets. Guitarist Chris Bell was in Big Star but left after the first album, #1 Record, embarking on a solo career that did go anywhere. Only the brilliant single I Am the Cosmo and You and Your Sister made it to vinyl on Car Records during his lifetime. Quite Ironic considering he would died in a car crash shortly afterwards. The posthumous full-length I Am The Cosmos got the deluxe treatment in 2010. Lockwood came up with a touching song "the beauty in your music shows that you got what it takes", namechecking Paul Westerberg and quoting Neil Young, he describes that fatal night in Memphis. What if Bell never had made that drive?
The B-side Secrets is another A-side. He channels Stephen Malkmus, icon of the American Nineties indie scene with a slow guitar ballad that with vocals that show his country roots. Production-wise this new single is a step from his home-made debut album Judah's Gone, backed by a full band that is pushing him forward.
Chris Bell b/w Secrets is a self-released single. Buy it (pay-what-you-want)) from his website.
M. Lockwood Porter: vocals, guitars
Peter Labberton: drums
Bevan Herbekian: bass, vocals
Jeff Hashfield: keys
Jules Leyhe: pedal steel
HCTF review of Judah's Gone.
After a succesfully crowdfunding their double album project Separation Anxiety/Object Permanence in 2012 Chicago heavy blues organ trio Mutts have launched a Kickstarter campaign for their fourth full-length Fuel Yer Delusion vol. Whaaaat?
Live dates:# Mike Maimone solo
HCTF review of Separation Anxiety.
