#Alt.Rock

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Thanks to Feel The Energy for adding BELLHEAD to the alt.rock (all new & classic alternative rock hits) playlist on Spotify.

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A "Simple Is Better" Plan: Toronto Alt.Rock Sister Act CAARDIA Clean Out The Clutter On New Self-Titled Album

A "Simple Is Better" Plan: Toronto Alt.Rock Sister Act CAARDIA Clean Out The Clutter On New Self-Titled Album. #caardia

Part of growing up is learning to disentangle yourself from people and situations that no longer serve your best interests. Singing sisters Celia and Annie Siriopoulos—collectively known as Caardia—share the wisdom of that lesson on their new single, “Simple Is Better,” which finds them leaving behind the sounds and preoccupations of their child-pop past to enter a Renaissance of…

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"Rock'n'roll is alive, and I need it to stay that way": The Pretty Reckless are on the road with AC/DC, and Taylor Momsen is more than ready to rock

Supporting the Rolling Stones and AC/DC in the same week? Sounds like a pretty good few days

(Image credit: Sergione Infuso / Corbis via Getty Images)

Fronted by model/actress-turned-singer and rhythm guitarist Taylor Momsen, The Pretty Reckless formed in New York City in 2009. With their critically praised fourth album, 2021’s Death By Rock And Roll, the quartet ventured beyond alt.rock boundaries to embrace a more mature sound. Below, Momsen talks about the band’s current European tour as guests of AC/DC. 

How did you greet the news that The Pretty Reckless would be opening for AC/DC? 

One of the band members was driving when he heard, and he almost crashed his car [laughs]. Here’s a great story. Last November my agent asked me about touring. We were starting to make a record, and told him no – not unless AC/DC, The Who or the Rolling Stones called. Christmas and New Year passed, and we were in the studio. Then I get a text from Neil [Warnock, the agent] that says: ‘AC/DC, plus The Pretty Reckless. All [European] shows.’ And I go: ‘Oh shit.’ So we put the record on hold, and I guess we are going on tour. 

That’s amazing. 

Yeah, but here’s the thing. A week ago, the Rolling Stones called too. We are playing a stadium with the Stones in Las Vegas, then flying to Germany to join a tour with AC/DC in the same week. My mind is truly blown. 

AC/DC’s audiences can be pretty unforgiving of support acts. Does that bother you? 

We just get up there and do our thing. In that sense we have the same ethic as AC/DC. We’re loud – almost a bar band at the core. I can’t control how others view or perceive us, so I’m not really worried. I get to play music and then watch my favourite band every night. What’s not to love? 

You quit acting for music at the age of fourteen. What was the reason? 

Being in bands and writing songs was something I’d done since before I could even remember, but finally I reached an age where I realised I could do it. It was a bit of a fight to quit my day job, but I did it and it was the best decision I ever made. 

There’s probably a type of person who thinks of you as ‘playing at’ music, rather than playing it. 

Actually, I think the hate and negativity has kind of gone away. I was on a TV show that was a hit across the world [Gossip Girl], but we’ve been a band for almost sixteen years, we’ve toured the world relentlessly and made four records. To all those people who doubted us… [laughs] did I mention we are touring with AC/DC? You don’t get an AC/DC tour for being on a television show. It comes from paying your dues.

Kim Thayil and Matt Cameron from Soundgarden both guested on The Pretty Reckless’s most recent album, Death By Rock And Roll, as did Audioslave’s Tom Morello. Do these elder statesmen offer advice? 

Not really. We just play music together. I don’t see music as a business. It really isn’t like that any more. 

The Death By Rock And Roll album seemed to take The Pretty Reckless up several levels. 

I really like all of our records, but Death By Rock And Roll is my favourite. 

Of the track Harley Darling, Classic Rock said: “If someone said this song had fallen off Neil Young’s Harvest sessions, you’d believe it.” 

That’s an amazing compliment. Thank you. 

When might we hear the follow-up?

The record’s on hold, but we’ll get right back on to it when we finish this tour. 

Our legendary older bands are retiring, and older heroes passing away – the latest, recently, was Dickey Betts from the Allman Brothers. 

That was devastating. We had Warren Haynes [former Allmans guitarist, now with Gov’t Mule] play on Back To The River from our record Who You Selling For [ 2016]. 

Do you feel a responsibility towards keeping rock’n’roll alive? 

Rock'n'roll is alive, and I need it to stay that way. So if I can contribute to that, it’s what I’m going to do.

The Pretty Reckless are currently supporting AC/DC in Europe, with London shows on July 3 and 7, and Dublin on August 17.

[blackmarket-playlists]

PART 12 – a special one with a new re-release - with forgotten treasures of the shoegaze/dreampop genre and closely related styles.

• Artist: Movieland (Vancouver, Cn) • Song: I Relate (from the 90s) • Info: This is Movieland's advance single, ahead of the release of their full album Then & Now, out on Dec 13! This Vancouver shoegaze troupe from the ‘90s is having their work beautifully reissued on 604 Records’ new archival series, 604 Decades, which pays tribute to Vancouver’s overlooked artists from decades past. Movielands sound, often considered ahead of its time, defined a unique chapter in the underground music scene of the early ‘90s when Nirvana and Sonic Youth were on the cusp of breaking into the mainstream.

• Artist: Ether Aura (Detroit, Mi) • Song: „Falling“ from the album „Crush“ (2005) • Info: Active between 2004-2008. Band of Tony Hamera & vocalist Kate Hinote (then fronting alt.rock band The Blueflowers for 15 years, today she’s is making great „cinematic folk acoustic“ with the excellent Kate Hinote Trio)

• Artist: Mistle Trush (Boston, Ma) • Song: „Champion Jack“ (from the debut ep „Agus Amarach“, 1994) • Info: Active between 1993-2002.The former band of lead singer Valerie Forgione, who now plays outstanding, dreamy shoegaze/ indie rock with Lovina Falls

• Artist: Modern Charms (San Francisco, Ca) • Song: „When We Get There“ from the one and only self-titled album, 2013 • Info: Dreamy shoegazing bliss-pop. A re-press of the vinyl was planned for this year on KR Records @ketrobinsonrecords

• Artist: Roe-Deer (Prague; Cz) • Song: „Happy“ from the debut album „Everforever“, 2001 • Info: Active between 1999-2008. Various line-up changes. Singer Ema Brabcová and guitarist Filip Míšek founded the wonderful electronic/atmospheric pop group Khoiba after leaving the band in 2002. 

Playlistcover: Old Magic Pellas, Brazilian shoegaze band formed in the 90s. Just re-released their great debut "Pully My Daisy".

All songs in one playlist!

[littleeyesofpallas]

MOGY[モギィ] I believe from MOGURI[潜り] or MOGURU[潜る] meaning a "diving/diver" or "to dive"/"go under" playing into

FLEECE[フリース] like a woolen coat

OFFSHORE[オフショア]

TIGRE[ティグレ] "Tiger" in a few other languages like French and Spanish

BOSKO[ボスコ] I'm almost certain this is supposed to be a reference to the BASKOP MANm a humanoid skeleton found in South Africa theorized to be from a branch human species. It is however still a fucking weird racist caricature.

MAHARAJAN[マハラジャン] from MAHARAJAN[महाराजन्]: "great leader" a declension in Pali, specifically? This feels only barely marginally less racist than the last one...

BLACKIE[ブラッキー] Given MOGY's overall music gimmick, I can't help but want to say this is a reference to Eric Clapton's famous Fender Stratocaster guitar, but the design doesn't seem to support that... So i just have no idea what's going on here... Somehow Bosko wound up the racist design and not this one??

SOPRANO[ソプラノ] a singer/vocal range

ALTO[アルト] a singer/vocal range

B-BOY[ビーボーイ] a breakdancer

TRANCE[トランス] A subgenre of electronic dance music

CHANSON[シャンソン] the French musical style

PUNKY[パンキー] from PUNK[パンク] the music genre and MOGY?

GRUNGE[グランジ] the music genre

ALTERNA[オルタナ] from ALTERNATIVE[オルタナティブ] as in Alt.Rock the genre

THRILLER[スリラー] seems to be a reference to Michael Jackson's Thriller?

ORICON[オリコン] short for ORiginal Confidence Inc. is a big holding company in the Music industry

NYAGY[ニャギー] from NYAA and MOGY

RAVEN[レイブン]（モギィ+ドラゴン）

CHEMICAL[ケミカル] Not sure if this was maybe a misunderstanding of Acid Rock?

CASUAL[カジュアル]

EDGE[エッジ] maybe a loose play on Straight Edge because of its association with punkmusic?

TAP[タップ] like tapdance

RAPPER[ラッパー] self explanatory

EUROBEAT[ユーロビート]again a music genre

RELIGIOSO[レリジオーソ] a musical term used to describe the abstract quality of religious devotion supposedly conveyed through the performance

CLASSIC[クラシック] I assume from CLASSICAL music? Or maybe CLASSIC ROCK?

HARD-LUCK[ハードラック] But I kind of wonder if it wasn't supposed to be HARD ROCK instead?

HOOLIGAN[フーリガン]

KUCHI-BIRINU[クチビリーヌ] KUCHIBI[唇] bit I assume is "lips" but I have no idea what's going on with the back half... it's technically how the Japanese phoneticize the French Le blé[ル・ビリーヌ]: "The Wheat"???? Previously the same mixbreed was called PEACE[ピース]

PERCUSSIO[パーカッショ] from PERCUSSION

CHANSON[シャンソン] I forgot this one was in here twice.. Used to be AMABILE[アマービレ] in the 2nd GBA game, although the Chanson in the first GBA game was a subtyle ducken, not suzurin.

CYBERNETIC[シベルネティコ] but previously THRASH[スラッシュ] like the metal genre

FREE-BIRD[フリーバード] The Lynyrd Skynyrd song?

SEIMEI[セイメイ] as in ABE-NO-SEIMEI[安倍 晴明] the famous legendary onmyouji, a kind of mystic derived from Chinese daoism that was prominent in court life of feudal era Japan prior to the samurai civil war.

KAJUMARU[カジュマル]from the KAJUMARU[榕樹] the Chinese Banyan tree.

[betterwatchout]

Dot-Com Bubble Snowglobe

After a couple of decades of lackluster Christmas music action, record labels started promoting Christmas records again in the 1990s. It's easy to blame the entertainment industry's clumsy habit of chasing a hit to find a trend. But there were also heartfelt efforts to make good Christmas records. Gen X apparently got tired of synthesizers, glam and arenas in the 1990s, and so alt.Rock and Emo kids made a safe space for Indiepop Xmas. Really, the 90s were an incubator for the explosion of great Christmas music we're still glowing in.

White Town's band name makes me think of the entirely unrelated White Front, but this 1994 track nails the vibe.

Post-Housemartins The Beautiful South caught the alt.pop spirit and recorded this unreleased single in 1995.

I'd include Fantastic Everlasting Gobstopper's 1997 "Schoolgirl Psychedelia" on my playlist based purely on the band/track names, but it also happens to be a cool song.

Kindercore's 1999 Christmas comp is great. Did I put this song by I Am the World Trade Center on my 2001 comp? I did. For the people.

After months of tinkering with the perfect 90s playlist, I finally listened to it all the way through on a balmy day in Central Park last December, and it made me laugh/cry, but then what doesn't.

For other 90s Alt.Xmas featured songs, tap that first tag.

[autistic-pink-lemonade]

what I've got for @blueengland's tournament prompt so far:

01- Plex (Yo Gabba Gabba!)

-Artists featured on Yo Gabba Gabba (Thundercat, Jack Black, The Aquabats)

-Nickelodeon/Nick Jr. Media (Fresh Beat Band, Bubble Guppies)

02- Autumn (OC)

-Songs related to self-love, hate, and confidence

03- Tyrecordslol (YT)

-Songs Featured in his YT Shorts

-Songs He's parodied

(Tek It, That Boy's A Liar)

05- Kai (Ninjago)

-Songs by The Fold, and artists associated with Ninjago/Lego media in general

-Songs in the Rock/Alt.Rock genre

-Songs related to Fire, and Spinning

06- Spirit Pony (Spirit Phone/Equestria Girls Mashup)

-Songs by Neil Cicierega

-Songs Featured in MLP media, including popular brony media

(Friendship Is Witchcraft, PONY.MOV, Brony Polka)

-Songs related to Ponies, Spirits, Phones, and Alternate Universes

07- Sans (Earthbound)

-Songs Featured in Undertale/Delatrune

-Songs Featured in popular UT fanmedia (ECHO, Down To the Bone)

09- CN STARS - Steven Universe & Gumball Watterson (Fazobeats - not my sins.)

-CN Media from the mid 2000's-2010's

-Songs remixed by Fazobeats

-Songs and media related to blame, sins, rocks/gems, and felines/cats

10- Kart Kid (Tower Heroes)

-Songs Featured in Tower Defense games

-Songs Featured in Racing Games -Songs about Racing, and Boxes

11- Umbert Actually & Misterman Guyfella (Animation Workers Ignited)

-Animated Media pre-2023-24

-songs related to extreme measures, anti-corporation, and yaoi topics

-LGBTQIA+ media, specifically cartoons and animated media

13- Gilded Gungeoneers (Gildedguy & The Bullet from Enter/Exit The Gungeon - Indie Media)

-Songs Featured in Devolver Digital Media

-Songs Featured in rougelikes

-Songs Featured in/Related to indie Games and Animation

-Songs Related to Gold, Swords, Guns/Bullets, and The Past

15- The Guitar of Neil Cicierega (What) -Songs heavily influential to Mashup Week's aesthetic

-Songs about inanimate objects

[alarrytale]

Another 28 Clothing drop and all the style magazines ignore it like they did the other drops. Harry must have good connections at Vogue so couldn't he recommend 28 to them? Plus all the Style mags write about Pleasing and got excited over Gucci Ha Ha Ha.

Hi, anon!

Thing is, that these fashion magazines are all snobs, it's about the brand and the person behind it, not the actual clothes. Hypebeast did an article about the launch, and that's what i expected to happen.

But also, it's gender neutral, overpriced atheisure wear aimed at louies, queer people and indie/alt.rock/punk rock fans. It's just a small step above merch. I don't think he's selling much outside of these target groups, and i think most of the buyers are louies. Personally, i think it's all pretty ugly, even though i might be in the minority here. I would be really surprised if any of the fashion magazines would even touch on this, and i would be really surprised if Louis wanted them to.

We also need to stop expecting H to fend for L at every corner, when we don’t know if it's wanted or needed. H is his partner, not his agent.

[maximuswolf]

Weissmuller - Endlessly fall [alt.rock]

Weissmuller - Endlessly fall [alt.rock] https://youtu.be/U7fgZbhGCSw?si=y0vn3JABiys58C9x Submitted April 29, 2024 at 02:03AM by neverywhere https://ift.tt/aTk0B5P via /r/Music

[lejournaldupeintre]

Twelve years ago : the death of Mike Kelley

In the days following his death the tributes to Mike Kelley flooded in from the art press, broadsheets and online alt.rock sites, many proclaiming him the greatest American artist of his generation. That Kelley was a significant figure is not in doubt, which is part of the problem. Born in 1954 into a working class family in the suburbs of Detroit, Kelley was one of a number of American visual…

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Robbi Niles Unleashes 'Fiji,' Blending R&B, Pop, Hip-Pop, Alt.Rock ... - That Eric Alper

Robbi Niles Unleashes 'Fiji,' Blending R&B, Pop, Hip-Pop, Alt.Rock ...  That Eric Alper http://dlvr.it/Sy768W

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Theresa’s Sound World recommends…

Band: American Darlings

Country of Origin: USA

Genre/s: Alternative Rock; Indie-Rock; Psychedelia

📚From one of my reviews from back in 2021:

‘Imagine a hybrid of Sonic Youth with The Osmonds or ABBA.’

Read the review: https://www.backseatmafia.com/album-review-american-darlings-afterglow-sophisticated-and-psych-infused/

Listen to American Darlings & check out more content: https://americandarlings.bandcamp.com/

[vinyltrials]

Sacrilege - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

[radioeuroextasis]

Lonely - Grimm Jack

Grimm Jack de Nueva York es considerada una de las mejores bandas de rock and roll de Estados Unidos. La banda echó raíces en la década de 1980 y sigue siendo un acto duro pero melódico, con un poco de sabor blues sureño. El cantante principal Billy Kohout trae la voz empapada de whisky. Jimmie Mack y Joey Masters son los lanzadores de guitarra. GG Zen-Garten y John Zaletel suministran el ritmo de fondo. Juntos, aportan una actuación escénica de alta energía. Mira los videos musicales "Lonely", "Damned" y "Ultra Violet" y muchos más en YouTube. La biblioteca de música de Grimm Jack se puede escuchar en Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music y dondequiera que se pueda transmitir o comprar música. Read the full article

[yellowsnow77]

dEUS - How To Replace It

Siempre recordaré como me explotó la cabeza el primer día que vi el vídeo de “Suds & Soda” en la MTV. Esa combinación entre un violín histriónico, una agresiva parte central, y un estribillo pop, me cautivó al instante. Y luego llegó “Hotellounge (Be the Death of Me)”, un pedazo de baladón que explotaba con una guitarra cruda y rota. Lo que derivó en que allá por 1994 me comprara el álbum de…

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Smashing Pumpkins - Perfect (Live at the Guggenheim Museum)