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WORLDS COLLIDE: LIAM GALLAGHER AND JOHN SQUIRE TEAM UP

December 21, 2023 Derek Phillips Leave a comment

If you‘ve watched any documentaries on the nascent punk scene in England in the
70s you have heard the story of how it seems every band that mattered had its
start at one event: Sex Pistols’ appearance at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in
Manchester, England, on June 4, 1976. Accounts vary, of course because that’s
how legends are, but it’s generally agreed that around 40 people were at this
event. And despite a relatively small showing, the number of bands formed from
this one event is astonishing. They include Joy Division, The Smiths and The
Fall, all who had members in attendance at the show. It was a watershed moment
for indie and punk music and a watershed moment for Manchester in particular.

Fast forward 20-odd years and you have another watershed moment with The Stone
Roses at Spike Island, an event that looms large in brit pop history and can
also be pinned as the moment Oasis formed as an idea. 

> “Maybe it was the drugs, but I think it was the music as well. I remember
> seeing them at Blackpool, Spike Island, and it was just… it’s youth, innit –
> you look back and nothing will ever compare to it: you’re young, you’ve got no
> kids, if you’ve got a job, who gives a fuck? You’ve got no bills to pay,
> you’re going back home to your mam, she’s cooking you breakfast, fucking life
> is free and easy, you know what I mean? And when you hear it, you go back to
> them times.” 

This is what Liam Gallagher said when serving as editor of the first edition of
NME Gold– a 100-page selection of exclusive interviews and features. Noel
Gallagher was there too and has gone as far as describing the Stone Roses at
Spike Island as “the blueprint” for Oasis. It was…a moment.

And now it’s come full circle with Liam Gallagher and The Stone Roses guitarist
John Squire announcing a new album, and a single out next month. Gallagher in
particular has been teasing this partnership for months in tweets and
interviews, but it seems we’re finally Here Now.

Supergroups are a tricky thing. Great tastes don’t always taste great together,
but I’m excited to hear it and am happy to just to see John Squire putting out
new music. 

The first single, “Just Another Rainbow,” will be released on Jan. 5 and a 7?
can be pre-ordered via their website. 

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NEW J MASCIS: SET ME DOWN

December 21, 2023 Jake Brown Leave a comment

Video: J Mascis – “Set Me Down”



Directed by Callum Scott-Dyson. From What Do We Do Now, out February 2 on Sub
Pop.

Oh wow new J Mascis solo music! This is the second single off his upcoming
album. We somehow missed the first one despite the fact that its video features
a bunch of J’s famous friends including Fred Armisen and David Cross. This new
video doesn’t have any celebrities in it but it does have an animated rodent who
goes on a bunch of adventures.

Unlike previous Mascis solo stuff, this new set features drums and electric lead
guitar. Which is fun. Still mellower than Dinosaur Jr material though.

Mascis says, “When I’m writing for the band. I’m always trying to think of doing
things Lou and Murph would fit into. For myself, I’m thinking more about what I
can do with just an acoustic guitar, even for the leads. Of course, this time, I
added full drums and electric leads, although the rhythm parts are still all
acoustic. Usually, I try to do the solo stuff more simply so I can play it by
myself, but I really wanted to add the drums. Once that started, everything else
just fell into place. So it ended up sounding a lot more like a band record. I
dunno why I did that exactly, but it’s just what happened.”

Glad it happened. I like the all acoustic stuff but there’s nothing quite like a
Mascis electric guitar solo.

J Mascis: web, bandcamp, amazon, apple, spotify, wiki.

Continue reading New J Mascis: Set Me Down →

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NEW LAURA JANE GRACE: CUFFING SEASON

December 20, 2023 Jake Brown Leave a comment

Video: Laura Jane Grace – “Cuffing Season”



Directed by Margherita Ballarin. From Hole In My Head, out February 16 on
Polyvinyl.

I’m a middle-aged married man so I had never heard of cuffing season until this
song but apparently it refers to the chilly months when you want to hook up with
somebody and stay indoors. Which makes sense I suppose. God damn, it must be
tough to be a single person dealing with the complexities of dating today.
Wouldn’t wish it on my enemies. Good luck to all you single people out there!

And one day I’ll feel good again,
until then I’ll just white knuckle it
If you’re not afraid to die why don’t you fucking prove it?

Grace says, “I think as you get older and go through life’s hurts and
heartbreaks, it gets harder and harder to let yourself be open and vulnerable.
But when you do, it can be so worth it even if you just end up hurt and
heartbroken again. In the end, I don’t think you regret those kinds of losses. I
think you regret not trying.”

Laura Jane Grace: web, bandcamp, amazon, apple, spotify, wiki.
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TIME, TIME, TIME

December 18, 2023 Stephen Macaulay Leave a comment

There are things that we take for granted, which is reasonable given that there
are a whole lot of other things that we have to think about, so these things on
the mental wallpaper are simply assumed to be (when the decoration is first
applied it draws attention, but soon it simply blends into the background).

Take, for example, the calendar.

Prior to the period when Quintus Fulvius Nobilior was running things in Rome—153
BCE—the calendar had ten months, not 12.

The last month of the year, then as now, was December. And the month got that
name from Latin, decem, or ten.

But the Roman senate, perhaps being more scientifically capable and
knowledgeable than those who currently have offices in the U.S. Capitol, decided
that it would be better to have a calendar that was more aligned with what was
happening in the heavens, as it were: the lunar cycle—the time it takes the Moon
to go through all of its phases (i.e., from new to new)—lasts 29.5 days. And a
solar year, the time it takes the Earth to make a revolution around the Sun is
365.242 days. So going back to the lunar cycle and correlating it with the solar
year, there’s 29.5 x 12 = 365.25 days.

Thus, the senators deciding that the calendar would be 12 months, with the
addition of January and February. December stayed at the end of the calendar.
(And every four years February gets an extra day in order to keep the calendar
straight.)

Because December is the final month, it is understandable that it is a place
from which what had occurred during the previous 11 months is considered.

Like the people who died during the year.

Continue reading Time, Time, Time →

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NEW LIBERTINES: NIGHT OF THE HUNTER

December 15, 2023 Jake Brown Leave a comment

Video: The Libertines – “Night Of The Hunter”



Directed by Alexander Brown. From All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade, out March
8.

The first single from the upcoming Libs album was a stomper from Carlos. This
new one’s a sweeping orchestral ballad from Pete.

I’m just calling to tell you baby
They’ll be taking me away for a while
Well don’t blame me, it’s the world that made me.

Pete says, “The song’s about not staying ahead of the law. This fella doesn’t
really know why his mate’s dead, but he’s got a feeling his mate had it coming
to him. He fucked with the wrong people, and he stole something he shouldn’t
have, and he got stabbed. So, he’s angry and hurt and he has to go and get
revenge, so he does and that’s it for him, basically. Once he has stabbed the
lad who stabbed his mate, that’s it for him. He lashed out in revenge and he
knows they’re coming to get him and he’s not even going to try and run because
he knows he’ll just be running forever.”

Carl adds, “I started writing a riff and it ended up sounding a bit like Swan
Lake, and everyone went, ‘Yeah!’ Then we got Peter’s theremin player in which
took about a day to get in tune, then he played that sequence and it worked
beautifully.”

Funny that it took so long to tune the theremin considering the pitch depends on
the position of the player’s hand in comparison to the antenna… But you know.
Band guys always have excuses for being late.

The Libertines: web, bandcamp, amazon, apple, spotify, wiki.
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NEW HALLELUJAH THE HILLS: ALONE, IN LOVE

December 14, 2023 Jake Brown Leave a comment

Audio: Hallelujah The Hills – “Alone, In Love”



From DECK coming late 2024. Single out now.

About a year ago Hallelujah The Hills announced a super ambitious project: DECK,
a 52 song collection with one original song for every card in the deck, divided
into four 13 song albums, one for each suit. Plus, “a physical deck of original
playing cards designed with artwork to complement each song.” Yes, the whole
idea is bonkers. But exciting!

So far, they’ve released two songs: “Superglued to You” and “God is So Lonely
Tonight.” And now we’ve got a third: “Alone, In Love.” It’s a 7+ minute epic
with gnarly “Sister Ray” guitars and sad lyrics about overthinking and
inadequacy (“I thought I overdid it but I guess I didn’t do it enough.”). But
since it’s a Hills song, it’s also funny.

Now that you made it this far, you wanna show us how it went down
But no one likes a chatty magician in this part of town.

Three down, 49 to go! But wait, the band says they’re halfway done. And they
plan to finish by the end of 2024. I have faith. Of course, I also believe that
Sufjan’s 50 State Project was more than a promotional gimmick even though that
quitter gave up after only three states (Michigan, Illinois, and Oregon), so
what do I know? But DECK is going to happen, I can feel it! And from the three
songs we’ve heard so far, it’s going to be nuts. Can’t wait to hear more.

Hallelujah the Hills: web, bandcamp, amazon, apple, spotify, wiki.
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OWNERSHIP: WHAT IT ISN’T

December 11, 2023 Stephen Macaulay Leave a comment

Although it seems as though car companies are proclaiming the wonders of
electric vehicles and making it sound as though their dealerships are chock full
of them, with models to fit every need, that is far from being the case. On the
one hand, most original equipment manufacturers don’t have all that many—Ford
has two, three if you count a cargo vehicle aimed at contractors; GM has three,
and during the first nine months of 2023 it sold 6,587 of them combined; it, too
has a cargo vehicle, so if its 333 units are added, that still isn’t very many:
if all of them were parked at the Mall of America’s parking lots about half the
spaces would still be empty. On the other hand, these vehicles are pretty much
pricy: according to Kelley Blue Book, the average transaction price for an
electric vehicle—as in what people actually paid at a dealership—was $51,762: in
2022 the U.S. median income was $74,580; with 20% down and a five-year loan,
buying that average EV would set someone back about $805 per month, or about 13%
of household earnings (although the $74,580 is a pre-tax figure, so it would
actually be a lower number).

What a real area of interest that OEMs have is something that isn’t widely
talked about because were it to be it might be perceived as being rather greedy.
What they want are recurring sources of revenues. That is, traditional OEMs that
sell through dealerships (those that don’t use dealers can be counted on your
fingers) actually sell the given vehicle to the dealer, then the dealer sells
the SUV to you and makes a profit on the difference to what it paid the OEM and
what it charges you. This means that the OEM gets money once for each vehicle.

What the OEMs would like is to sell subscriptions to individuals, not so much
for entire vehicles (although there is that), but for options. What is perhaps
the most notorious example of this is what BMW tried to do a while back, which
is to charge a fee for those who wanted to use the heated seat function that was
installed in the vehicle. That was pretty much on the heels of its earlier idea
that if you wanted to use Apple CarPlay in your 3 Series, then you would pay a
fee to BMW to do so. While that CarPlay play isn’t going to occur again, there
are efforts by OEMs to develop their own competitive systems, which is where the
fees are likely to sneak in. What’s more, what is becoming more common and
seemingly acceptable are fees that are charged by OEMs that will allow one’s
electric vehicle to go faster: this is activated by an over-the-air software
update.

While that may be exhilarating, it is also expensive for the individual who has
both the vehicle: they have paid for the motor that is capable of performing at
X + 2 but that motor is limited to X until they pay more to get that 2.
Presumably a motor that can only provide X would be less expensive than one that
can go X + 2, which means that those who have no intention of ever going X + 2
are paying more, and those who are interested in X + 2 pay a recurring fee to
the OEM, so it makes money on both ends.

At this point—or a few hundred words back—you are wondering whether this was
actually something written for Motor Trend, not Glorious Noise.

Continue reading Ownership: What It Isn’t →

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NEW EMILY FREMBGEN: FENTANYL

December 8, 2023 Jake Brown 1 Comment

Video: Emily Frembgen – “Fentanyl”



Directed by Clare O’Kane. From No Hard Feelings, coming soon. Single out now on
Don Giovanni.

I wonder how many songs we’re going to get about covid-induced alienation? This
one by Brooklyn alt-country songwriter Emily Frembgen is a good one.

Two years of doing nothing makes everybody crazy
and I’ve never spent so much time in bed
and every time I see somebody I’d rather be alone
and when I’m alone I go through everything that we said.

My only issue with this song is that Frembgen, like a lot of people, pronounces
“fentanyl” to rhyme with wall and call. It’s fentaNYL, like nil, not fentaNALL.
Oh well. I know it’s a losing battle and a dumb hill to die on, but hey, the
pandemic has made me grouchy. Aw who am I fooling? I was grouchy way before
SARS-CoV-2 showed up and changed the world.

Emily Frembgen: web, bandcamp, amazon, apple, spotify, wiki.
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NEW JESUS AND MARY CHAIN: JAMCOD

December 7, 2023 Jake Brown Leave a comment

Video: The Jesus And Mary Chain – “jamcod”



Directed by Ben Unwin. From Glasgow Eyes, out March 8 on Fuzz Club.

There’s something about blasting the Jesus And Mary Chain that just makes you
feel cool. Even after forty years these Scottish brothers still manage to make
everybody else seem tame. Their DGAF attitude reverberates out of the speakers
along with the distorted guitars. They’re just cool.

Breaking up and then falling down and my heart beats much too slow
Best notify the other brother there’s no place to go.

Jim Reid says, “Our creative approach is remarkably the same as it was in 1984,
just hit the studio and see what happens. We went in with a bunch of songs and
let it take its course. There are no rules, you just do whatever it takes. And
there’s a telepathy there — we are those weird not-quite twins that finish each
other’s sentences.”

The title of this new single reminds me of my freshman year of college when I
attended a NORML event and the overly serious guy leading the meeting pointed
out that throughout history nobody has ever died from a cannabis overdose, and
that it would require smoking 1,500 pounds of marijuana within 15 minutes to
induce a lethal response. Some long-haired joker in the back of the room raised
his hand and said, “I propose we test that theory.”

You may not be able to physically OD on JAMC but it’s sure fun to try.

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NEW GRANDADDY: CABIN IN MY MIND

December 6, 2023 Jake Brown Leave a comment

Video: Grandaddy – “Cabin in My Mind”



Directed by Aaron Beckum. From Blu Wav, out February 16 on Dangerbird.

Jason Lytle says, “A while back I was traveling with a friend, doing some shows
and just riffing, and he came up with this phrase ‘Cabin in My Mind.’ It made so
much sense to me and had so many things just within the title itself: shutting
off and just, like, going inward. It’s fun to imagine literally a cabin inside
your mind. ‘I’m out of here, see ya, guys’ and you walk in the front door, shut
the door, and disappear for a while. It was perfect like an old country song
where the title says everything. I remembered the phrase, and it was easy for me
to pick it up and just make it work.”

This is the second single from the upcoming Grandaddy album and — just like
“Watercooler” — it also features pedal steel, which is new for Grandaddy but
sounds like a perfect fit, like it should have been there all along.

The album title Blu Wav is meant to be a mash-up of “bluegrass” and “new wave.”
That’s pretty funny but it’s not particularly descriptive…at least not of these
first two songs. But that’s alright. They sound good!

Grandaddy: web, bandcamp, amazon, apple, spotify, wiki.

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