Saturday, October 6, 2007
Friday, October 5, 2007
Vitamin Z
Vitamin Z founders Geoff Barradale and Nick Lockwood, both just 25 years old, were born and raised in the industrial wastelands of Northern England’s Sheffield, a city whose pop heritage included such notables as Dave Berry and Joe Cocker, as well as, Human League and Cabaret Voltaire.
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Barradale and Lockwood, recognizing early their mutual affinity for melodic evocative modern music, began developing material together, eventually forming a group that performed for increasingly enthusiastic crowds in and around their home town. They next traveled south to London to record their Geffen debut, choosing the famed Abbey Road Studios to cut the tracks that would eventually comprise 'Rites Of Passage'. Provocative, compelling, innovative - Vitamin Z, on 'Rites Of Passage', their debut album for Geffen Records, have fashioned a fresh and fully realized sound far ahead of its time. It’s an accomplishment all the more impressive given the fact that Vitamin Z is a brand new musical entity. While others were more intent on making their image fit the mainstream, Vitamin Z were working on their songs, smelting down their soul influences, manicuring their melodies, making modern sound with roots firmly embedded in the music they respected.
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Vitamin Z have been ominously quiet since 1985 but it transpires they were spending time doing what they've always done - seeking to perfect their notion of what music should be. The result of their labours is "Burn For You", a soaring affirmation of undying love, a meteorite among electric soul ballads. Strongly humanitarian, it carries the same message that runs through all Vitamin Z’s work that an experience honestly shared is a joy and a hope; a belief that shines through Sharp Stone Rain, their second LP, due for release in the Autumn.
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You may have heard of one of the hottest bands in the U.K. these days called the Arctic Monkeys. Well it was Geoff Barradale who saw the band and signed on as their manager. They had a hit in the U.K. with the song “I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor”, and released their first full length CD titled Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not.
Alison Moyet- The Turn
Alison Moyet has returned to pop music again this autumn. Her seventh studio album will be released on October 15, 2007. The album contains eleven tracks and “One More Time” will be the first single release. The album is available on her official 'The Turn' Micropage as well as the listening booth.
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Instant Hit: Human Hands- Trains Vs. Plains
"Trains vs Plains" was the first single for the L.A. based Human Hands which was released in 1981 by Faulty Products. The band broke up shortly after this and Independent Project Records
released a first edition double-album compilation of the band's work in
the 1982. The Complete Human Hands Vol. 1 was released in 1997 on CD by Grand Theft Audio.
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Monday, October 1, 2007
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Blondie- Necessary Evil
'Necessary Evil', scheduled for release in September 2007, is Deborah Harry's fifth solo album. It includes 17 tracks, including the first single "Two Times Blue", released on iTunes June 6, 2007. The album has already been released in the UK. It will be released in the USA on October 9, 2007.
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Monday, September 24, 2007
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Siouxsie Sioux- MantaRay
Siouxsie Sioux, the iconic frontwoman of both The Siouxsie & The Banshees and The Creatures, has made a solo comeback with her new album, 'MantaRay.' This release marks her return to the music scene after an illustrious thirty-year career. The album has already been released in the UK under Universal Records, with the US release scheduled for October 2, 2007.
The album gained positive reviews from music critics, including Pichfork Media. The first single fom the album is "Into A Swan" and it was released three weeks before the album release.
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Saturday, September 22, 2007
Alison Statton
Alison Statton was a member of the English Post Punk group Young Marble Giants. Best known for her feather light charming voice she was involved in several music projects in the early and late 80’s including Weekend and Young Marble Giants.
Source: Wikimedia commons
Cardiff-born singer Alison Statton's first group, Young Marble Giants, lit and carried a bright torch for the lo-fi indie scene that would flourish in the '90s It was one of the quirkiest and most idiosyncratic groups to emerge from the UK independent scene. YMG were New Wave more in strategy than in sound, subverting conventional pop/rock methods by stripping both song construction and instrumentation down to its essence. A reverberant funky bass, a shrill organ, short choppy bursts of guitar, a softly ticking drum machine - this was all the trio needed. Their haunting, spacious sound was made both more intimate and foreboding by Alison's dispassionate, almost neutral vocals. During the YMG period, they released only one single "Final Day" in 1980.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Duran Duran- Falling Down
"Falling Down" is the first single from Duran Duran's album 'Red Carpet Massacre' which is due to be sent to radio on September 25, 2007. It is a solid and radio friendly song with laid back atmosphere that reminds of some old Duran Duran Duran songs like "The Chauffeur" and "Save A Prayer". Nothing new, the usual pop sound with more or less chart potential. Check the link!
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