SEPTEMBER 11, 2015
(WEEK #36)
1.
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE-“LIVE AT 9:30” (9/4)
2.
BEIRUT-“NO NO NO” (9/11) (Zach Condon and his band Beirut will release
their fourth album No No No on September 11th via 4AD. Coming four years after
The Rip Tide, and recorded over a two week period during one of the coldest New
York winters - with blizzard after blizzard raging outside - No No No is
Condon’s most vibrant and spirited record to date. To coincide with the release
of No No No, Beirut will tour throughout North America and Europe this year,
including a headline appearance at Radio City Music Hall in New York.)
3.
BLANK
REALM-“ILLEGALS IN HEAVEN” (9/11)
4.
COIL-“BACKWARDS
(NEW ORLEANS MIXES)” (9/11)
5.
COLD BEAT-“INTO THE AIR” (9/11)
6.
GARY
CLARK JR-“THE STORY OF SONNY BOY SLIM” (9/11)
7.
THE
CLIENTELE-“ALONE AND UNREAL: THE BEST OF THE CLIENTELE” (9/4)
8.
ANA EGGE-“BRIGHT SHADOW” (9/11)
9.
MARY HALVORSON-“MELTFRAME” (9/11)
10. HELEN-“ORIGINAL
FACES” (9/4) (2015 album by the pop group from
Oregon. The band is comprised of Liz Harris (vocals/lead guitar), Jed Bindeman
(drums/tambourine), Scott Simmons (bass/guitar), and Helen (back-up vocals).
Originally started with the intention of being a thrash band, it turned into
something else entirely. The Original Faces was recorded over a period of
several years in Portland by the band members, their friends Nick, Chris and,
largely, Justin Higgins. Written together, some songs based on Liz and Scott's
demos.)
11. HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES-“HOLYWOOD
VAMPIRES” [2-CD] (with Alice Cooper, Dennis Dunaway, Perry Farrell, Robby
Krieger, Slash, Neal Smith, Joe Walsh, and other “I’m so famous so notice me
people”!) (In 1969 the Hollywood Vampires were born in the
upstairs bar at the Rainbow Bar & Grill. 'To join the club, one simply had
to out drink all of the members,' says Alice Cooper, a founding member of the
Vampires. 'I would walk in on a typical night' Alice says, 'and John Lennon,
Harry Nilsson, Keith Moon, Bernie Taupin, Jim Morrison and Mickey Dolenz would
be there.' Three years ago, Alice and good friend Johnny Depp got together and
decided the spirit of the Hollywood Vampires should live again (minus the
drinking). The Hollywood Vampires live again with the release of the Hollywood
Vampires new album. Alice and Johnny were joined by Joe Perry, who is an old
friend of both of them, and the recording began: a tribute to the original
Hollywood Vampires.)
12. THE JAM-“ABOUT THE YOUNG IDEA;
THE VERY BEST OF THE JAM” [2-CD] (9/11)
13. TH’
LEGENDARY SHACK SHAKERS-“THE SOUTHERN SURREAL” (9/11) ("The infamous explosive Southern wrecking crew The Legendary
Shack Shakers are back with a brand new full-length titled "The Southern
Surreal". Features guest appearances from Billy Bob Thornton and Duane
Denison (The Jesus Lizard). Their incendiary interpretations of the blues,
punk, rock and country are all-at-once irreverent, revisionist, dangerous and
fun. Their first release in five years, the album lands on the band’s 20th
anniversary!")
14. THE LIBERTINES-“ANTHEMS FOR
DOOMED YOUTH” (9/11)
15. LOW-“ONES AND SIXES” (9/11) (Ones and Sixes is the new album from
the Duluth-based trio of Alan Sparhawk, Mimi Parker and Steve Garrington,
collectively known as Low. Ones and Sixes was co-produced by Low and BJ Burton
at Justin Vernon’s April Base Studios in Eau Claire, WI. “In our 20+ years of
writing songs, I’ve learned that no matter how escapist, divergent, or even
transcendent the creative process feels, the result is more beholden to what is
going on at the moment. It’s hard to admit that one is so influenced by what is
in front of us. Doesn’t it come from something magical and far away? No, it comes
from here. It comes from now. I’m not going to tell you what this record is
about because I have too much respect for that moment when you come to know it
for yourself.” — Alan Sparhawk, Low I spent much of 2002 in Germany, studying
literature, collecting new experiences and attempting to process the
existential crises so typical of your early 20s. Low – especially their album
Things We Lost in the Fire, which I listened to for countless hours – was one
of the few bands who helped me along with this. Their slow-growing, minimal,
yet expansive songs just beg for introspection. Demand it, even. They cultivate
a sense of grandeur and inquiry with their melancholic tone, which, if you’re
anything like me, sets you right down in front of the mirror for some much-neglected
self-assessment. Is Low somehow The Velvet Undergound’s song “I’ll Be Your
Mirror” transubstantiated into band form? As Alan said above, the meanings of
the songs are transitory. Even if there was a specific impetus, nothing needs
explaining beyond what the song itself reveals. It’s an exercise on Low’s end
and, when the music is released, it becomes one for us. Ones and Sixes takes
everything Low excels at and dips it in a heavy gold plating of
industrial-leaning electronics. This catapults to new and extreme heights the
innate beauty their music has always had. It’s a series of contrasts: stunning
and menacing, gorgeous and frightening, giving and desperate, and, ultimately,
unbearably heavy and unbearably light. From one to six and back again. —Dee Dee
Penny (Dum Dum Girls), NYC, June 2015)
16. MICACHU
AND THE SHAPES-“GOOD SAD HAPPY BAD” (9/11)
17. PUBLIC
IMAGE LTD-“WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW…” (9/4) (Public Image Ltd (PiL) release their 10th studio album
on 4th September. The 11-track album follows the huge critical success of
2012's 'This is PiL', the band's first album in 17 years. Commenting on the new
album, John Lydon says, ''Buy now while stocks last.'' Widely regarded as one of the most innovative
and influential bands of all time, PiL's music and vision earned them 5 UK Top
20 singles and 5 UK Top 20 albums. With a shifting line-up and unique sound,
John Lydon guided the band from their debut album 'First Issue' in 1978 through
to 1992's 'That What Is Not'. After a 17 year hiatus, Lydon reactivated PiL in
2009. Last year the band returned to Steve Winwood's Wincraft studio in the
Cotswolds to record this new album. 'What The World Needs Now…' precedes the
start of their 23-date UK/Europe tour, which kicks off in Glasgow on 18th
September. The European tour will be followed by North America dates.)
18. SAUNA
YOUTH-“DISTRACTIONS” (9/4) (Consisting of
Richard "Boon" Phoenix (drums, vocals), Lindsay Corstorphine
(guitar), Jen "Ecke" Calleja (vocals, sampler), and Christopher
Murphy (bass), Sauna Youth are a punk band that's happy to embrace all of the
contradictions that go along with that notion. They are at times furious,
unstoppable, and severe, with the sampler wailing like an alarm coming from a
parallel universe; then chugging, poppy, harmonious, and fun. Forever loud. As
Kurt Cobain once asked, "Why can't we be both Black Sabbath and The
Beatles?" Sauna Youth consistently pose the question, "Why can't we
be both the Ramones and Steve Reich?" They recorded Distractions over a
couple of days in July 2014 at Sound Savers in Homerton with Mark Jasper, mixed
it themselves, and had it mastered by Kris Lapke. It's an album that feels
instinctive and natural, flowing freely from a band that has come to terms with
the sum of its parts. Ultimately, though, Sauna Youth have made a colossal
record that is impossible not to dance to. "Transmitters" races off
with its guitars pulsing and chopping before the chorus crashes in like a wave.
Ecke and Boon sing in unison, creating a voice of no specific gender and
allowing the songs to be sung from multiple perspectives and from a place of
shared experience. On "Cosmos Seeker," the drums pin the jabbing
guitar chords and vocals in place, surrounded by a propulsive swarm of sound.
Distractions also includes two poems put to music: "(Taking a) Walk,"
by Ecke, is a rumination on the body, specifically female, in public spaces;
"Paul," by Boon, explores individuality and authentic performance. In
addition to performing as Sauna Youth, all four members, in swapped roles, also
make up the band Monotony, which they formed while writing Distractions in
2014. Later in 2014, they did two sessions over two days as both bands for Marc
Riley on BBC 6 Music, and performed as both bands at DRILL Festival: Brighton,
after being invited by Wire. Members of Sauna Youth also play in Tense Men,
Primitive Parts, Feature, and Cold Pumas. They've previously played with Pissed
Jeans, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, and Protomartyr; toured with Ceremony and Cold
Pumas; and played at both the Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia
and Oslo Psych Fest.)
19. SHANNON
AND THE CLAMS-“GONE BY THE DAWN” (9/11)
20. SPC
ECO-“SMILE” [EP] (9/11)
21. STEREOPHONICS-“KEEP
THE VILLAGE ALIVE” [2-CD DELUXE EDITION] (9/11)
22. SUEDE-“DOG MAN STAR” [2-CD 20TH
ANNIVERSARY EDITION LIVE AT ROYAL ALBERT HALL] (9/4)
23. THE
VIEW-“ROPEWALK” [EP] (9/11)
