Updated And Selected Videos and Albums About Rock Music
Thursday, August 31, 2017
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Beck - Dear Life (Lyric Video)
"Dear Life" arrives with a lyric video directed by Jimmy Turrell, Laura Gorun and Brook Linder with animation from Drew Tyndell and Rhiannon Tyndell. In the clip, strange scenes from real life are mixed with psychedelic animated sequences, though the two are often combined, like a surreal moment where a red-colored figure robs a man on a bridge.
The video's vivid, yet abstract aesthetic complements Beck's oddball lyrics. "With the price they put upon your soul, you can buy it back from the burning ashes of the devil you know," he sings over a jaunty piano, spry guitar and upbeat drums.
"Dear Life" follows previously released Colors tracks "Wow" and "Dreams." Colors marks Beck's 13th album and finds the musician embracing an experimental pop palette after the country-tinged folk of his Grammy-winning 2014 LP, Morning Phase. Beck produced Colors with Greg Kurstin, with the exception of "Wow," which was produced with Cole M.G.N., and "Fix Me," which Beck produced on his own. Colors is available to pre-order digitally and on CD and vinyl.
In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Beck noted that when Morning Phase won the Grammy for Album of the Year, he and Kurstin were already two years into working on Colors. The musician admitted that Colors probably could've come out sooner, but said the pop sound he was trying to achieve required meticulous attention.
"These are complex songs all trying to do two or three things at once," he said. "It's not retro and not modern. To get everything to sit together so it doesn't sound like a huge mess was quite an undertaking."
Beck is in the middle of a North American solo tour, though he's set to open for U2 during a string of dates starting September 3rd in Detroit and wrapping September 22nd in in San Diego.
Beck Colors Track List
1. "Colors"
2. "7th Heaven"
3. "I'm So Free"
4. "Dear Life"
5. "No Distraction"
6. "Dreams"
7. "Wow"
8. "Up All Night"
9. "Square One"
10. "Fix Me"
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Tuesday, August 29, 2017
LCD Soundsystem - tonite
The reunited band's fourth record will be released on September 1
LCD Soundsystem have revealed the artwork for their forthcoming new album ‘American Dream‘.
The record, which will be the New York dance-punk outfit’s fourth, is due for release on September 1.
The band have already confirmed the tracklisting for the record and shared two songs from it – the title track and ‘Call The Police’. They also debuted more of the album’s songs during a live residency at Brooklyn Steel earlier this year.
The artwork for ‘American Dream’ features a bright blue sky with some wispy clouds with the band name and title stamped on top in black lettering. Fans have reacted to the cover online and they’re not imp
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Monday, August 28, 2017
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Saturday, August 26, 2017
Turnover - Good Nature (Full Album Stream)
The last album from Virginia-born band Turnover found a sweet spot between pop-punk and dream pop, but their influences are more sedate and smooth this time.
Pop-punk and lush, lovelorn indie rock were enjoying a slow and steady undercover flirtation long before Turnover released their second LP in 2015, but Peripheral Vision was the one that took it public. Awkward reminders of their Warped Tour-friendly formative phase occasionally popped up, but that was OK: Peripheral Vision became a surprise hit because there were apparently plenty of other pop-punk kids who were transitioning towards shoegaze and dream pop, and they now had a band of this ilk to call their own. But on Turnover’s new album, Good Nature, getting on frontman Austin Getz’s level requires more than an updated vinyl collection. He turned vegan, moved with his girlfriend from Virginia Beach to California wine country, and made a record that sounds like he’d been there all along.
“I found my religion/When nothing was ahead of us/That week in California,” Getz sighs on the starlit carousel ride “Super Natural.” It’s an extremely low-key way to begin an album, but it’s still a bold introduction if only in contrast to where he was two years ago with Peripheral Vision’s thrilling streaks of self-loathing, “Cutting My Fingers Off” and “New Scream.” Regardless of his current location, Good Nature is SoCal to the core, a warm embrace of the area’s soft-focus spirituality and the optimism of young, beautiful creatives without much to worry about.
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Friday, August 25, 2017
BRAND NEW - "SCIENCE FICTION" NEW ALBUM (2017)
The writing on the t-shirts was real: Brand New, one of the most transcendent rock bands of the new millennium are, for all intents and purposes, no longer with us. Please send flowers.To be fair, Jesse Lacey and company have been doing the danse macabre for most, if not all, of their 18-year lifespan, in the form of moribund lyrics and recurrent stylistic resets. At last, with the unexpected arrival of Science Fiction, Brand New’s fifth and final album, the quartet’s casket has been suddenly, spectacularly wheeled out on center stage. The record marks the victorious resolution of to the band’s eight-year stint in creative purgatory—the record’s been shelved, teased, and delayed too many times to count–as well as an end-of-days for their rabid fanbase, a large contingency of which remain terrified to confront it. Their trepidation is understandable. The only thing scarier than the apocalypse is witnessing the demise of a band that played such a formative role in people’s lives, only to walk away unsatisfied. Fear not: A stunning, sprawling sucker-punch of a finale equally amenable to die-hards and newcomers, Science Fiction is a worthy (if bittersweet) send-off to one of the most brutally honest, forward-thinking rock bands of the new millennium. Read More
Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins [Full Album]
It’s little wonder that Jonny Greenwood – lead guitarist of Radiohead and supreme overlord of all that is ethereal – dubbed Grizzly Bear his favourite band almost a decade ago: since then, it would be fair to say that the group have done no wrong. With critical acclaim, legions of fans and musical collaborators coming in from all angles, it seems that frontman Ed Droste and co struggle to produce anything that isn’t a grand musical triumph (even when it's just a contribution to the Twilight soundtrack). That, too, could be said for Painted Ruins, the group’s hotly anticipated follow-up to 2012’s Shields. Opening with a dullened orchestral hum, Wasted Acres soon descends into a thrilling intricacy – one that leaves the imagination swimming in a pool of smooth strings and twanging guitar. Before long, the introduction of Droste’s richly trilling vocal carries the record one step further, lending it a frank quality that could never quite be achieved by the group’s masterful instrumentation alone. As the album flows from soundscape to soundscape, you can never be sure when a dreamlike hush of electronica will explode into a random tsunami of rich, almost colourful sound. Driven only by the rolling of slack drums, tracks like Aquarian and Cut-Out are almost Beethoven-esque in their wild unpredictability, and unapologetic utilisation of every instrument possible. It's this quality that renders Grizzly Bear one of the finest art-rock groups to date. Whilst their run-of-the-mill, dream-pop contemporaries experiment with a range of distortion pedals, this band continue to show that use of every crayon in the box (or, rather, every seat in the orchestra) can create a true masterpiece. Read More
Queens of the Stone Age - The Evil Has Landed (Audio)
Queens of the Stone Age’s new album opens with a spot of self-mythologising. “I was born in the desert, May 17, in 73,” croons Josh Homme on Feet Don’t Fail Me. “When the needle hit the groove, I commence to moving / I was chasing what’s calling me.” Since the departure of frequently nude bassist Nick Oliveri 13 years ago, Queens have had a largely stable lineup, familiar to most listeners as Homme and some other blokes who could have “I’m in Queens of the Stone Age” tattooed on their foreheads and still provoke the question: “I’m sorry, what band are you in?” The myth-making is likely all Homme’s.
Over the course of Queens of the Stone Age’s 20-year career, he has been adept at making it clear what the band represent, and manipulating perceptions. Their breakout song, 2000’s Feelgood Hit of the Summer – whose entire lyrics were repetitions of “Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol, c-c-c-c-c-cocaine” – helped create the image of chemsex desert vikings, riding out of the mountains on choppers to set up generator parties at which all attendees swallowed kilos of pills and had it off with anything that moved: man, woman or motorcycle.
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The Big Moon - Pull The Other One (Official Video)
Whether you’re a duo or a much larger collective, actually getting along and wanting to spend time together works wonders for your music. It’s why Little Mix, despite being manufactured, work - because they actually seem to like each other a lot.
The Big Moon have that bond in buckets. From interviews through to their live shows, there’s an electric chemistry between the four of them. They’re just four mates having a laugh. And with something as simple as that, they’ve become a band that really feel special.
With their debut album, Love in the 4th Dimension, they’ve captured lightning in a bottle. It’s an album ....
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The Clientele - Review / Tour Dates
The Clientele Announce First New Album in 7 Years
“Lunar Days” is the first offering from Music for the Age of Miracles
The Clientele have announced a new album called Music for the Age of Miracles, out September 22 via Merge. It marks the band’s first new record in seven years, following 2010’s mini-LP Minotaur. The new album features cover art from the late British painter Carel Weight, who depicts a picture of “London’s Russell Square at twilight,” according to a press release. Frontman Alasdair Maclean describes the image as “things on the edge of sight.” Below, see the Music for the Age of Miracles cover artwork and tracklist, as well as the Clientele’s upcoming tour dates. In addition, watch the lyric video for the first offering from the record, “Lunar Days.” Since the release of Minotaur, the Clientele have reissued Suburban Light (2000) and Strange Geometry (2005). Maclean has also released two records with Lupe Núñez-Fernández as Amor De DÃas: 2011’s Street of the Love Days and 2013’s The House at Sea.
The Clientele TOUR DATES
09-22 London, UK - Oslo 10-31 Toronto, Ontario - Great Hall 11-02 Washington, DC - Rock & Roll Hotel 11-03 Philadelphia, PA - Boot & Saddle 11-04 Boston, MA - The Sinclair 11-05 Brooklyn, NY - The Bell House 11-07 Chicago, IL - Subterranean 11-09 Seattle, WA - Neumos 11-10 Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios 11-12 San Francisco, CA - The Chapel 11-14 Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroo
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PWR BTTM - Album Review
PWR BTTM: Pageant review – explosive, emotional glam rock
Glam was as much a sartorial movement as a musical one – with glitter, platforms and androgynous fashion forming an exciting and, to some, frightening new visual language. Dressed in blouses and smeared, sparkly makeup, PWR BTTM certainly seem to hark back to the era with their aesthetic, as well as their brand of intermittently explosive rock. But the New York duo deviate from the glam template in tone – instead of arch, attention-grabbing camp, their flamboyance is simply a symptom of their earnest self-expression. Liv Bruce and Ben Hopkins – who alternate between drums and guitar/vocals – are both queer and use they/them/their pronouns.
During this debut they sweetly and pithily recount painful experiences related to this: Styrofoam articulates body dysmorphia, New Trick bemoans strangers who stare, and LOL rues a certain strain of vulnerability. But like all successful pop music, PWR BTTM can convert their highly specific sentiments into something universal – most notably in Answer My Text, which amusingly rages against the curse of the blank phone screen.
Marika Hackman - I’m Not Your Man [FULL ALBUM STREAM]
Hurrah for Hackman! The British musician has, for her second album, set fire to her twee-ish sound and risen from the alt-folk scene like a proper stomping pop star, all sharp suits and songs that brood with breakup angst and simmer with sexuality. Her pearlescent lightness is still there in her sweetly sung cut-glass vocals, but in place of acoustic twangs there are heavy lidded licks and an overall louche noir. Grunge and shoegaze set the tone this time: the diaphanous guitar chimes enveloping like a cape.
Standout track Good Intentions has an Alt-J-like intricacy to the rhythm until Hackman erupts into dissonant playground yeah-ing and L7-ish crunch, while Gina’s World and So Long have an excellent, lip-curling sultriness – bedroom pop gone sinister. There’s more straightforward upbeat festival indie on My Lover Cindy – the wry twist being that she’s not some mop-top bloke singing about a girlfriend – and Cigarette echoes her former beautifully plucked form. But make no mistake: this is a fiercer Hackman, joining the ranks of Wolf Alice and letting her inner swagger shine.
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