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Throwback: Happy Belated 61st Birthday, Anthony Kiedis!
Throwback: Happy Belated 61st Birthday, Anthony Kiedis! @ChiliPeppers @kiedis
The past few days are busy and auspicious days in music history:
U2‘s Larry Mullen, Jr. celebrated his 62nd birthday on October 31
Def Leppard‘s Rick Allen celebrated his 60th birthday yesterday, November 1.
Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ frontman Anthony Kiedis celebrated his 61st birthday on November 1. So let’s also celebrate Kiedis and his work today — even if it’s belated. Happy birthday,…
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#1980s#1990s#2000s#2010s#alt-rock#alternative rock#Anthony Kiedis#funk rock#music#music video#rap rock#Red Hot Chili Peppers#singer/songwriter#throwback#video
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Candy Apple Grey, Hüsker Dü (1986)
In 1986 it was all falling apart (as everything does), the Dü had barely a year left. But that didn’t stop them from accelerating full-pace towards that thick brick wall of gleaming pop rock. Candy Apple Grey is, I think, the group’s most radio-friendly release, with an entire acoustic cut (emo voice breaks and all) plus a piano ballad. It takes a little adjusting to the new direction but once attuned, Candy Apple Grey is equal parts ferocious, energetic, wistful and melancholic; as good as either of the Dü records either side of it.
Pick: ‘Sorry Somehow’
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Lecture 21: “1979” - The Smashing Pumpkins: “1979” was the second single released from The Smashing Pumpkins third (double) album Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995). The album was a monster hit, debuting in the #1 position on the Billboard 200 and earning critical acclaim. This song (“1979”) was by far their biggest hit, rising to #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on both the Billboard Alternative Songs and the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks. The song remains a classic rock anthem of the mid-nineties, and the video presents a very Nineties-ified (if that’s a word???) portrayal of the late 197
#The Smashing Pumpkins#1979 (song)#Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness#1995#Alt-Rock#1990s#Billy Corgan
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Tyler Posey Is Alone & Alive While Seeking Freedom On Debut Album ‘UNRAVEL’
If you’re looking for adrenaline-filled pop-punk, beach-ready love songs, and more mellow moments of introspection, look no further! Tyler Posey has officially released his debut album, UNRAVEL, and this is seriously one project you can’t miss. We love it when you can really understand who an artist is from their first full-length, which UNRAVEL flawlessly pulls off.
Being an independent…
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假假條 (JaJaTao) - 時代在召喚（The Rite of Spring
When I moved to China I was 18 and didn’t know anything about their music scene. Now I’d hardly consider myself an expert but I have some opinions. One is that Jajatao has revolutionized noise rock and grunge and should be the biggest band in the world. This album blew my mind on my first listen and I’ve been listening to it nonstop since. Genuinely one of the best records world wide to have come out during the 2010’s. If you haven’t heard of them, or if you don’t know anything about the Chinese scene, listen to this record and have your mind changed. Fixed even. 10/10 record.
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Don't you be unkind
That's a human crime
Don't you be so blind
It will come back to you sometime
#I feel like the Pixies went up to their director#and said#you know tumblr?#we want that but like...in real life#and the director was like#sure thing!#Pixies#Human Crime#Alt-rock#Alternative#Music
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That Cool Quote by Kim Gordon
That Cool Quote by Kim Gordon
Kim Gordon is best known for being bassist, guitarist and vocalist in
alt-rock band Sonic Youth.
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Rain City Drive - Self-titled
Sometimes bands tend to flourish when they remove a problematic member, and it’s also even better when multiple bands feature the same member, who ultimately kick him out for being a huge pain in the ass. That member would be vocalist Jonny Craig of both Dance Gavin Dance and Rain City Drive (formerly known as Slaves, which we’ll get to in a little bit). Craig is known for being DGD’s first vocalist, and he put out an EP with the band and their debut full-length back in 2007, only to be kicked out for being a problem to the rest of the band, whether it was his behavior towards them or other people. Who remembers the infamous Macbook situation? Anyway, Craig went onto form the band Slaves in the mid-2010s, especially after he was kicked out of DGD again in 2011 (to be fair, the second album they put out with him was pretty good, even though it was a cheap knockoff of their debut; even so, the two albums that Kurt Travis put out with the band before then were some of their best), and despite putting out a few albums with them, they kicked him out in 2019, I believe, only to get a new vocalist and change their name. They mainly changed their name due to the growing racial unrest in the country, thanks to the Black Lives Matter movement, and having a very problematic name wouldn’t really do them any good, but I also felt like a rebranding in general might be good. Rid themselves of their vocalist, who has the most notoriety, and start again, which is what their self-titled album seems to be trying to do.
To be fair, their last album, 2020′s To Better Days, has their former name removed from the cover, and it’s credited as Rain City Drive (which is a stupid name, but it has a cool meaning; it’s taken from the band met, so that’s kind of neat, I guess), but I decided to check out their new album a couple of weeks, just out of pure curiosity, since I saw them on Apple Music and I totally forgot that it was just the new incarnation of Slaves, they just changed their name. They also changed their sound, at least on this new record, because they went from a post-hardcore band to a pop-rock / alt-rock band with some new wave and electronic tones and ideas. Honestly, I’m all for it, because their self-titled album is really good. It’s not necessarily one of the best albums of the year, but it’s still a lot of fun. I wasn’t expecting much out of this, but I got more than I bargained for. It’s a catchy 36-minute album that showcases their new vocalist very well, as well as showcases a change in sound that suits them well, even if it’s relatively bland. There’s nothing new in their brand of pop-rock, but it’s catchy, slick, and a ton of fun. Songs like “Psycho,” “Dying For,” “Waiting On You,” and “Gardens Of Misery” are catchy as all hell, and if you’re not careful, you might get these songs stuck in your head. Yeah, sure, their sound is pretty generic, but it’s done well, their vocalist is great, and the lyrics are surprisingly good, too. Nothing super out of the ordinary, but they’re written pretty well, and I enjoy them, for the most part.
I have to say that I like this album a lot as a whole, and I don’t really have too many issues with it, minus the album’s sound being generic. It’s still done well for what it is, so I have to give it credit for that. I’ve listened to some of their stuff with Jonny Craig, too, just to get some context for what they sounded like before this record (I’ve also heard their last album, too, and I didn’t really like it as much; it’s got a similar sound to this, but it’s more generic and not that interesting), and it’s fine, but really generic post-hardcore that sounds really dated. It sounds like his work with Emarosa in the mid-00s, and not really in a good way, because at least his couple of records with them were very good and influential at the time, whereas this just sounds like sloppy leftovers that were sitting in the fridge for too long. It’s not bad, and you can still enjoy it, but it’s nothing like when it was fresh. This album, though, is a new flavor, especially for this band, and it’s good. I don’t think it’s amazing, or unique, but it’s done well for what it is, and what they’re trying to do. If you want a good, slick, and catchy pop-rock album, you can’t go wrong with this. It’s only 36 minutes, so it’s really short, and it breezes by. It’s over before you really know it, but I’ve been going back to it a lot, especially compared to other albums I’ve been playing this past week. I just cleared out some reviews that have been in the backlog for this past week, including the new Norma Jean and Royal Coda records, which I’ve been debating on reviewing, but I just didn’t know if I wanted to. The more I thought about it, the more I thought I should, because I haven’t gone back to those as much as I’d hoped, but this one is a ton of fun. If you’re looking for something catchy, this is a great option, but I would like to hear more unique ideas from them, so hopefully they keep making records and keep moving their sound forward. I’d love to hear more.
#rain city drive#thriller records#metalcore#post-hardcore#pop-rock#alt-rock#alternative#jonny craig#emarosa#dance gavin dance#kurt travis#royal coda#norma jean#metal#rock#pop
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i've had this song on repeat for like two weeks now, i think i might be heading back into an alt-rock phase..... maybe i can still transition the momentum to something new, like grunge?
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Throwback: Happy 54th Birthday, PJ Harvey!
Throwback: Happy 54th Birthday, PJ Harvey! @PJHarveyUK
I’ve been obsessed with acclaimed, British singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist PJ Harvey since the release of 2000’s Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea.
Harvey celebrates her 54th birthday. So let’s celebrate her life and her expansive, towering work. Happy birthday, Ms. Harvey! May there be many, many more!
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#1980s#1990s#2000s#2010s#2020s#alt-rock#art pop#art rock#Live Footage#music#music video#PJ Harvey#PJ Harvey Stories from the City Stories from the Sea#singer/songwriter#throwback#video#women who kick ass#Youtube
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Song of the Day: April 20, 2024
Railroad Jerk: Bang The Drum
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There were dozens of indie rock bands worth listening to in the late ’80s and early ’90s, and one of my favorites was Railroad Jerk. After listening to Pavement’s second album, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, I went on a nostalgic search for the debut by Railroad Jerk. Although their first two albums aren’t out there, their next two…
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Futurama (2000), Highvision (2002), Answer (2004), Supercar
Taking an electronic turn is, by now, something of a cliché for a certain kind of rock (usually indie rock, the product is known as ‘indietronica’ after all) band. But back in the very early 2000s the trope was decidedly much less worn, and these three Supercar albums typify just how exciting that time was. Here is a band on the brink of the unknown; on the hunt for methods of electrifying rock and rocking up electro – and not discounting anything from their vision.
Futurama, the first after Supercar’s shift, was a wide-angle sweep of the many, many potential futures open to indietronica. From enormous, pummelling dance-punk and sun-glazed alternative dance to Boredoms-esque electro-krautrock, the trio rather remarkably combined the most thrilling elements of Supercar’s first four albums – namely the band’s propensity for the stratospheric, their layers of sound, vast sonic heights and glorious climaxes – with all kinds of programmed percussion. Sure, Futurama was wildly overlong, but it was also sprawling, beautiful, captivating.
Follow-up Highvision was more focused. Less loose and exploratory, this time Supercar dialled up the sheer beauty of the band’s sound, bringing back the dense noisiness that had marked out their earliest records and moulding it into arcs of exceptional lavishness. While one could – and, one day, perhaps one shall – go into the mechanics of Highvision’s consistency and prettiness, I think it is most remarkable, for me, on an experiential level. In an omnipresent, landscape-defining sort of way, Highvision brings to mind things like suns swishing shadows across pavements, bird’s-eye views of snakelike trains criss-crossing a city, the cycles of birth and death in nature. Horizonal ambitions, executed phenomenally.
As you can likely guess from the cover, Answer, the final Supercar work, leant more heavily into psychedelia. Trancelike repetition here was the name of the game, from the hooks and basslines to the looping beats – but that isn’t to take away from the record’s other qualities. There’s more rhythmic and percussive variation on Answer than any previous Supercar work; it’s also likely the group’s most soulful effort, combining that with the band’s usual drive and detail. Answer is often overlooked in the Supercar discog, but it certainly shouldn’t be.
So how does one sum up a band like Supercar? From noisy power pop and shoegaze to indietronic pioneers, it is simply no wonder that this band has been held up like so few others among the current generation of Japanese musicians. And with influences like these, it’s no wonder Japan’s indie scene is so diverse and exciting.
Pick(s): ‘White Surf Style 5’, ‘Aoharu Youth’, ‘Wonder Word’
#supercar#futurama#highvision#answer#rock#pop#indie#indietronica#alternative rock#electronic#shoegaze#dream pop#alt-rock#synthpop#psychedelic rock#psychedelia#neo-psychedelia#2000#2002#2004#music#review#music review
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We Demand Parachutes harness the weight of the world with ‘Cheerful Coping’ due April 12th
We Demand Parachutes harness the weight of the world with ‘Cheerful Coping’ due April 12th. #wedemandparachutes @WDPtheband
With a quick look around and a scroll up and down our social media feeds, it’s easy to feel the weight of the world and become completely overwhelmed by the chaos that surrounds us. But many have created their own unique ways to stay positive and power through, and for We Demand Parachutes, that involves a heavy dose of what they call “Cheerful Coping.” And it sounds pretty good, no matter what…
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NEW ALT ESSENTIALS 2024.02
Listen to NEW ALTERNATIVE ESSENTIALS 2024.02 byPomona Rocks on hearthis.at
Ep. #174. Tom Featherstone presents eight essential new alternative releases for February 2024. Featuring new music from second-time cover stars GURL, plus RAIZER, DRIP FED EMPIRE, DUST MICE, SOUTH OF SALEM and more.
Short link for sharing: go.pomona.rocks/174
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RAIZER – Fight To Infinity
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