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Iron Maiden-The Trooper (Bossa Nova Version)
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Promo Promo: Kurt Vile - KV Crimes
Kurt Vile plays out his own version of Game Of Thrones in this video. Loving this album.
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Promo Promo: Boards of Canada - Reach for the Dead
Empty landscapes and lens flares? Yes, there’s a new Boards Of Canada album out, and here’s a video for one of the tracks.
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Promo Promo: Joe Goddard Ft. Mara Carlyle - She Burns
Can’t think of many other songs that use the word “goose”. Out on Greco-Roman later in the year.
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Trailer Park: A Band Called Death
Interesting looking doc on the cult band described as being “punk before punk”.
“Before Bad Brains, the Sex Pistols or even the Ramones, there was Death. Formed in the early ’70s by three teenage brothers from Detroit, Death is credited as being the first black punk band, and the Hackney brothers, David, Bobby, and Dannis, are now considered pioneers in their field. But it wasn’t until recently — when a dusty 1974 demo tape made its way out of Bobby’s attic nearly 30 years after Death’s heyday — that anyone outside a small group of punk enthusiasts had even heard of them. Equal parts electrifying rockumentary and epic family chronicle, the story of Death is one of brotherly love and fierce, divinely inspired expression.”
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Promo Promo: Lightning Dust - Diamond
First video from the new Lightning Dust album Fantasy out June 25. MPfree here
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Short Attention Span Theatre: 12 Years of DFA: Too Old To Be New, Too New To Be Classic
Talking through the DFA label’s history, with James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture, Holy Ghost!, The Juan MacLean, Shit Robot, Sinkane, YACHT etc
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Trailer Park: The Stone Roses: Made Of Stone
The Shane Meadows doc is coming soon, with the resurrected Roses playing some more gigs this summer. That opening guitar riff for Made In Stone is still amazing.
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Promo Promo: The National - Demons
The National are back with a new album Trouble Will Find Me out 20 May
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New Mac
not Apple - Fleetwood… They’re back with four new tracks, under the inspiring title Extended Play EP
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Promo Promo: Black Sabbath - Together Again
They’re back (in black). “The whole thing’s been memorable. I’ll probably forget it next month…” Feat. Rick Rubin as rock’s OG Ben Gunn.
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Promo Promo: Jon Hopkins
Stylish, dystopian promo for the new @Jon_Hopkins_ track Open Eye Signal.
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RIP Storm Thorgerson
The acclaimed album art designer Storm Thorgerson has died. Obit here.
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Promo Promo: Biting Elbows
Bit slow on the uptake with this fun, ultra-violent POV promo for Russian band Biting Elbows. NSFW
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Promo Promo: Grim Towers - Reign Down / Lighting Dust - Diamond
Been hoping there would be some new Black Mountain Army activiity soon - and look - here’s two side projects on the horizon… Grim Towers finds Stephen McBean on a freaky “New Acoustic Death Folk” trip in the snow with Imaad Wasif. Album Anarchic Breezes is out May 21. ”Let the free ride the breeze”? Right on, snow bros. Meanwhile Black Mountain’s mellower wing Lightning Dust (Amber Webber and Josh Wells) are heading into Fleetwood Mac territory with Diamond, the first one from their new album Fantasy - out June 25. Various pre-order download options available. Should just about tide us over while we wait for a new Stormy High to finish off the giant mecha-smackdown playlist.
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