Wow! So many cool music releases coming over the next few months! As if I wasn't excited enough to see that Vintage Trouble is performing in Dana Point on May 19, now comes word that the band has a new release coming out on May 10...
Vintage Trouble announce the release of 'Chapter II – EP II' on Friday, May 10, 2019
Vintage Trouble has announced the release of Chapter II – EP via Ingrooves on May 10, 2019.
With Chapter II Vintage Trouble distill swaggering rock, soulful rhythm & blues grooves and pop into a bold new sound. This body of work introduces a combination of influences from the gip-gyrational soul dance songs of the band's adolescent years to the revolutionary poetic and powerful protest music of the 1960s and '70s, to today's hard-thumping radio jams, to the intoxicating swing and sway of the Grand Cayman Islands where they recorded it. The songs make your body bounce and your heart swell, with tales of lasting love, lust, lessons and loosening the reigns on life.
Chapter II – EP 1, released late 2018, is a dance record. Featuring five new tracks including acoustic versions of each song, it has the vibes of late-night after hours parties, family barbecues and cruising down Pacific Coast Highway.
Chapter II – EP 2, pays honor to the band's soul roots, and rings of Marvin, Al, Sam, Otis and Percy, but with the fullest modern scoundscaping. It also includes live renditions of five famories captured everywhere from New Orleans to Edinburgh.
Known for their electrifying live shows, Vintage Trouble has logged 3,000 shows across 30 countries on tour with legends such as The Rolling Stones, The Who, AC/DC, Bon Jovi and Lenny Kravitz.
Information: VintageTrouble.com.
Two Door Cinema Club releases "Satellite" - band announces upcoming release of new album "False Alarm" via Glassnote Records on June 14, 2019
Two Door Cinema Club have today announced details of their fourth studio album False Alarm, out June 14, 2019 via Glassnote. Also unveiled today via Zane Lowe’s World Record on Apple Music’s Beats 1 is new single ‘Satellite”, an infectious Krautpop-influenced slice of future pop that accepts as a species we’re “in it together” – be it Brexit, climate change or any other man-made modern day terror. Details of the release were unveiled in a typically irreverent live stream which saw the trio launching the new album cover into space, whilst simultaneously commentating on the event and answering questions from fans. View the launch event here.
Listen/share "Satellite" here.
False Alarm finds the three piece gloriously unshackled and creatively at the peak of their game. Across its ten tracks False Alarm wryly scans and satirises the social and environmental woes of 2019 through the prism of wonderfully off-kilter pop, simultaneously borrowing from and warping elements of future pop, disco, rock, funk and soul.
“I love the pop thing,” frontman Alex Trimble explains. “I love experimenting and going to different places, I love doing things that are a little bit wonky and I love the idea of doing something we haven’t done before, why can’t we do all of those things at once? That’s what it was, doing whatever felt right… It sounds like Two Door Cinema Club – not a Two Door Cinema Club there’d ever been before but that’s what I love. We can always do something new but it always feels like something we’ve done.”
Elsewhere on Two Door Cinema Club’s eagerly anticipated fourth album ‘Satisfaction Guaranteed’, ‘Nice To See You’ and ‘Once’ address our relationships with the dopamine dispenser that is social media through cheery New Romantic style funk, moody Bowie-esque art-pop and grandiose synth-pop respectively. Punk funk channeling anthem ‘Dirty Air’ has Alex prowling a ruined city’s dancefloors, posing through the ecological collapse.
Recorded in sessions between London and LA with producer Jacknife Lee (U2, REM, The Killers), it’s an LP that takes the familiar and twists it, to startling and stimulating effect. Take the distorted boudoir soul of ‘Think’, or ‘So Many People’, which electronically skews classic Chic-style disco guitar, and the multidimensional lounge pop of ‘Break’ which sounds like an AI trying to write a Beatles song. It all makes for a wide-eyed, culture-encompassing leap forward for the band, a record liable to break, ruin and remould pop in 2019.
False Alarm tracklist:
- Once
- Talk
- Satisfaction Guaranteed
- So Many people
- Think
- Nice To See You
- Break
- Dirty Air
- Satellite
- Already Gone
'Bachman: Special Edition' coming to Blu-ray and DVD on May 10, 2019
The story of Randy Bachman from his early days in The Guess Who
to Bachman-Turner Overdrive to present day
As a member of The Guess Who, Bachman was part of the first ever No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 by a Canadian band with "American Woman / No Sugar Tonight," and then topped the Hot 100 again in 1974 with another band, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, with "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet."
"That's a pretty rare thing for a recording artist who gets two No. 1s with two different bands," notes John Einarson," biographer and music historian, at the start of the new documentary, Bachman, chronicling the life of this 74 year old who is still regularly making music and performing. The film follows Bachman as he looks to the past for inspiration from rarely seen footage, pictures and documents that have been stored at the National Archives in Ottawa for decades.
Among the other hits Bachman has written or co-written are "These Eyes," "No Time," "New Mother Nature," "Takin' Care of Business," "Let It Ride," and "Roll On Down The Highway."
"He was like my biggest influence when I was a kid," says Neil Young in the film. "Watching him play guitar, he had an amazing sense about the way he played. And the feeling that you got when you listened to him. It was more than just chops."
Young, who has known Bachman for about 55 years, added, "I hear Randy - when I see him, I hear him, and I feel him."
The documentary made its world premiere in Toronto at Hot Docs 2018 before a festival run, and eventual airing in Canada on CBC's Documentary Channel. Incorporating numerous present-day interviews with family, management, and fellow musicians, director John Barnard (2012's The Sheepdogs Have At It) touches on everything from Bachman's childhood to his various rock bands -- The Guess Who, Brave Belt, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Bachman-Turner -- and solo work.
- Neil Young on Winnipeg
- Randy's Crazy Horse
- Building a Reprise 'Here Comes the Sun'
- On Chords
- Songwriting 'When No One Knows'
- Theatrical Trailer
- 5.1 Surround, Stereo
- English subtitles for the deaf and hearing-impaired
Posted by Robert Kinsler
