What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Scottish duo Honeyblood and their charming tour video for “Babes Never Die,” the title track of their 2016 record. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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“The Future’s Under Fire, The Past is Gaining Ground”
The great Japandroids are back, the Candian duo will release their new album Near To The Wild Heart Of Life in January 2017, available for pre-order on bandcamp. Already streaming is the title track off the record, and it speaks for itself. http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2689128306/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/track=304902461/transparent=true/ I’m excited.
We Are At Home In Our Bodies
For most, We Are At Home In Our Body is an obvious statement of fact. For many, We Are At Home In Our Body is a reaffirming mantra. For some, We Are At Home In Our Body is an unobtainable goal. Not feeling at home in your body can come in various forms. Society not …
Car Seat Headrest: Vincent
Damn, this is good The build up is amazing, reminds me not only of Television but also of Travels, the middle part got a twang and a groove that reminds me of Cake, and the lyrics really resonate with me. The songs is on one level about being at a party, as Car Seat Headrest’s …
No Future, No Problem
Match made in wordy rock’n’roll heaven: The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn and Titus Andronicus’ Patrick Stickles cover each other’s No Future song on this bandcamp single. https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3073943266/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/transparent=true/
Alabama Shakes new song “Don’t Wanna Fight” – wowza. One minute in, I’m in love and setting aside money for the new record (Sound & Color, out in April.) What a groove, what a voice. Brittany Howard is amazing.
Sleater-Kinney’s ‘No Cities To Love’: First Listen at NPR
The new album is even better than I hoped for and cements Sleater-Kinney as the best rock band there is.Sleater-Kinney’s ‘No Cities To Love’: First Listen at NPR
All Songs Considered recently had an episode about go-to windows-down songs .“Don’t Wanna Lose" by Ex Hex (the new band of Mary Timony of Helium, Wild Flag) should make that list. It’s totes the kind of song that needs to be loud and live – fast.
https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js Nirvana is one of those bands that are almost impossible to cover. Not only are they iconic, but they are perfect within the conventions of their genre, heck, they established the rules and then tore them down themselves. So to make a cover work, you need to go in a different but equally intense …
When Jimmy Page was rocking, I didn’t think he was rocking for guys. But there were definitely some bands I felt that way about, where I wasn’t invited to rock along with them. Like the white T-shirt, hardcore punk white guys. They were way meaner than the heavy metal bands and way meaner than some …
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