April 8th: Born:

1971, Darren Jessee, drums, Ben Folds Five, (1997 UK No.26 single 'Battle Of Who Could Care Less').

1963, Julian Lennon, (1991 UK No.6 single 'Saltwater').

1963, Donita Sparks, guitar, vocals, L7, (1992 UK No. 21 single ‘Pretend We’re Dead’).

1962, Adam Mole, Pop Will Eat Itself, (1991 UK No.15 single 'X Y & Zee').

1962, Izzy Stradlin, guitar, Guns N' Roses, (1988 US No.1 & 1989 UK No.6 single 'Sweet Child O' Mine', 1991 US No.1 album 'Use Your Illusion II')

1962, Jerry Kelly, Lotus Eaters, (1983 UK No.15 single 'First Picture Of You').

1956, Justin Sullivan, New Model Army, (1985 UK No.28 single 'No Rest').

1947, Steve Howe, guitar, Yes, (1977 UK No.7 'Wonderous Stories', 1983 US No.1 & UK No. 28 single 'Owner Of A Lonely Heart'), Asia, (1982 US No 4 & UK No. 46 single 'Heat Of The Moment').

1942, Roger Chapman, vocals, Family, (1971 UK No.4 single 'In My Own Time'), Streetwalkers.

1929, Jacques Brel, French singer, songwriter, died of cancer 9/10/78. Scott Walker, Alex Harvey, Frank Sinatra, Dusty Springfield all Covered his songs.


April 8th: died:

1997, New York singer/songwriter Laura Nyro from cancer

1985, US songwriter J Fred Coots. Co-wrote, 'Santa Claus Is Coming To Town' and the Pat Boone US No.1 hit 'Love Letters In The Sand.'

Laura Nyro

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The legendary first Gaë Bolg CD "John Barleycorn must die" is being re-issued on May 2nd. This debut has been much demanded and highly requested since it was issued first on the Cynfeirdd label some years ago. On this album you can expect a mix of martial-medieval-industrial-symphonic music with a lot of trumpets and drums, operatic vocals and obsessive tunes. This new edition is strictly limited to 500 copies and comes in a simple cardboard-sleeve. It holds the same cover than the first edition but in a different colour (red on white). The CD was re-released by Gaë Bolg himself as a private ‘collector’s edition.

Due to massive request, NamNamBulu's first EP, "Blind?", will be re-released under the new name "Blinded!" via Infacted Recordings on April 25th...

The former six track (remastered) EP got extended with seven bonus tracks.

Tracklist:

1 Now Or Never
2 Ignorance
3 Surviving
4 Guardian Angel
5 Trapped
6 Nightmares
7 Now Or Never (reconstructed)
8 Beaten (V.2.0)
9 Surviving (outdated)
10 Ignorance (Perceive mix)
11 Trapped (unplugged)
12 Memories (Vox Celesta rmx)
13 Memories (Pearls of Dew rmx)

The question with regard to Wumpscut's new effort "Evoke" whirred through the air for a long time. Will Rudy Ratzinger celebrate harsher sounds again or is he continuing the milder direction of the recent past?

The latter is the case. Which means that fans of Rudy's prior 2000 crashing electro phase probably once more will sigh big time. People, who're following Rudy's music for a shorter time period and don't have those back to the roots hopes, or longterm fans who're a bit more open will find a solid release. Not overwhelming, but no disaster either.
Rudy wanted to evolve, and he did that. That`s a necessary thing for a band, and I basically respect and welcome that. How the evolution is finally turning out, that's written on another piece of paper. Rudy went the way he felt comfortable with - painting his tunes with a harmonic colour.
Based on repetitive lyrics, the bulk of the songs is slower paced, with sweet pop melodies, strings or atmospheric areas brought in ("Hold", "Obsessió", "Maiden") and 4 songs with focus on female vocals by Jane M. and Rudy's girlfriend Clara S.
Whilst those kind of tracks have been a smaller part on Rudy's records in his earlier years, they're now flown into the center of it all. In addition, the songs seem not so dark like in the past, the general fragrance is a more brightened one.
If you're looking for some more energetic moments, you've to stick to "Rush" with it's included siren sound, "Churist Churist" with it's artificial language lyrics or "Breathe" with it's provokingly aimed voice samples. Not new in the :W: world, and an ongoing discussion.
What else? With "Tomb" and "Krolok" (including voice samples) you can find some dreamy, a bit monotonous instrumental pieces on the record whilst the creation "Don't Go" offers a vocal interaction between Jane M. and Rudy (clean voice!), some pulsating beats but altogether a smooth flair.
Summarized said, the album only "evokes" an okay impression. There are some fresh and catchy moments and it's technically well done, but the real thrill is missing a bit. Electro must not necessarily be hitting and attacking and speedy all the time, even reserved paced stuff can be intense, heavy or exciting. But this isn't continuously the case on "Evoke". Some more vitamins next time and we'd all be happy.

Tracklist
1-Maiden
2-Churist Churist
3-Don't Go
4-Evoke
5-Tomb
6-Hold
7-Krolok
8-Breathe

9-Rush
10-Perdition
11-Obsessió
12-Churist Churist by Recently Deceased
13-Maiden by Nersoton (vs :W:)

Mike Johnson (Agonoize, Infekktion, Virtual Embrace) and his crew are back with the second release.

Compared to Agonoize or Infekktion, Sero.Overdose's music shows the pop side of the menu. With a focus on harmonic sounds and rhythms, plausible pop melodies as well as Andre Hartung's clean, varied vocals, the Berlin based band created a relaxed piece of work between synthpop, future pop and relaxed electro.
Whilst balancing on that mix rope, Sero.Overdose deliver ballads ("Killer", "Spirits") as well as midtempo tracks ("Ever", "Sometimes") and stuff to move your body to ("Never", "She"). So this diversely painted picture is a plus point.
The songwriting itself is done in a solid way, but - and this is a bit of a minus - some totally overwhelming kicks are missing.
It's a nice record with some nice and emotional moments, but in a way you feel you've heard it all before many times. Apart from Andre's noteable vocals, the individuality's missing a bit. Kinda flaw that many artists within the synthpop and future pop branch have.
However, you can hear Sero.Overdose invested much work to come up with a feelingly album, and everyone into De/Vision, Colony 5, Angels & Agony and Covenant's smoother side wouldn't do wrong to
check them out.

Tracklist
1-Ever
2-Rain
3-Missing
4-K
iller
5-Sometimes
6-Never
7-She
8-Horizont

9-Spirits
10-Over
11-Stay
12-Harmony
13-
Hoffnung
14-Wir
15-She (version)

After last year's full-length attack "Assimilation: Chapter One", the German electro industrial crew returns with a new EP.

Like we know it from their previous releases, Mike Johnson (Sero.Overdose, Infekktion, Virtual Embrace), Oliver Senger (Sero.Overdose, Infekktion) and Chris L. (Unknown, live keyboards in Dance Or Die) are painting their sound pictures with similar colours as the Belgian pioneer Suicide Commando. Some people noted them as copycat, some stated they're only influenced heavily.
However, what you can't deny is the fact that Agonoize are talented with regard to create smashing, easy-to-get-into-your-head stuff for the dark dancefloor. Tough rhythms, harsh'n'noisy industrial sounds, simple keyboard melody spots and heavily (not very varied) distorted vocs is the mix we're given.
Please forgive me that I'm oldfashioned and won't call their style, like it's trendy these days, "endzeit electro". It's dark electro with an apocalyptic touch.
Sometimes with a fast pace ("Chains Of Love", "Eye On You"), sometimes in a midtempo region ("Sick", "Running"), sometimes slow ("Evil Inside").
And offering solid standard throughout. Not more, not less.
So if you're into Suicide Commando, old Wumpscut or generally hammering electronics, you won't do wrong to check this release.
The promo version didn't offer the remixes, so sorry, no words on them.

Tracklist
1-Chains of love
2-Sick
3-Running
4-Evil inside
5-Eye on you
6-Masturbation generation
7-With the eyes of a criminal
8-Sick by Destroid
9-Chains Of Love straight electro version
10-Sick by Captive Of Society
11-Chains Of Love by Combichrist
12-Sick by Analogue Brain
13-Sick - live video

A first impression was brought to us with the fiery advance single "Born To Be (Hated)". So, now it’s time for the album by Mexico’s electro weirdos. Will it deliver the dangerous stuff electro heads are longing for?

Well, also their meanwhile fifth studio album is no lovely sweety for romantic hearts. Hocico's music still is what it is: a harsh and disturbing dark/splatter electro assault, combined with Erk Aicrag's aggressively distorted vocs and sparkling melodies. Following up the basis laid down with their prior album "Signos De Aberracion" (2002), Hocico created a modern mixture of unmercifully hitting beats and threateningly seething soundcsapes but also loads of gloomy ambient parts. „Bizarre Words“ is a good example for this interaction as it’s both aggressive and spheric. Whilst listening there’s kinda feeling that the two musicians more than on the last record picked up some of those certain rough splinters from their early days. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that they did a step back in their evolution. It’s more like they brought their „punky“ roots home to themselves again and found a good way to mesh it with their up-to-date technology costume. „Sprit Of Crime“ amongst others is one of the potential club tracks. Lyrically dealing with jealousy, the song effects exciting cause of its breaks within the way through. Hocico managed to serve a neatly composed album with the right dose of devilish energy and apocalyptic atmosheres.

Tracklist
1-El Infierno Que Viene
2-Tales From The Third World
3-Bizarre Words
4-Spirits Of Crime
5-Born To Be (Hated) - original odium
6-Love Posing As A Prostitute
7-Ecos
8-Oracion Nocturna
9-Death As A Gift
10-Padre No Nuestro

NamNamBulu has been rising at light speed in the electro scene, and "Alone" is another solid MCD from these up-and-comers.

To be honest, it doesn't really offer anything new in terms of style or sound, but it definitely isn't average, either. NamNamBulu have always had a very mature, polished sound that gets people moving and thinking.
The song "Alone" has some excellent lyrics that are brought to life with a great sense of emotion, courtesy of Henrik Iversen. Iversen has a very powerful voice that is unique and instantly recognizable. Vasi Vallis' song structures are excellent as usual.
I do have to say though that the opening of "Moments" was kind of disappointing, simply because it sounded just a little too much like VNV Nation's song "Epicentre". Actually, if Ronan Harris jumped on the mic, it would be a VNV Nation tune. "Moments" just has that VNV sound. I don't mean to take anything away from NNB, but this song was just lacked their distinctive sound. The 'Addicted to Endanger' re-mix of "Moments" fairs a little better, as the synth sound was changed up a little. But, the re-mix lacks Henrik's distinctive vocal presentation, and thus fails to satisfy me personally. The instrumental, "Contamination", is put together well but becomes overly repetitive after about three minutes. Overall, "Alone" is, as I previously stated, a solid addition to the NNB library, but doesn't offer anything overwhelming.

Tracklist
1-Alone
2-Alone (Extended Mix)
3-Moments (Duette Version featuring Endanger)
4-Moments (Addicted to Endanger)
5-Contaminated

It's hard to believe that Nine Inch Nails' mile stone, "The Downward Spiral", has been out for ten years. Their label, Interscope, took this fact as occasion to do an exquisite re-release...

People who know The Cure's deluxe edition of "Three Imaginary Boys" know that Universal come down handsomely when it comes to deluxe edition's packaging. In 2005, "The Downward Spiral" comes in the same double digipak as The Cure's first record, and of course it includes different tracks than the '94 original issue.
Disc one is now an SACD, playable on super audio as well as normal CD players, even if just SACD player owners will get to know all details, as the record was completely mastered and mixed in Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound.
The most interesting thing about this release is, especially for collectors, the package's second CD for which Trent Reznor pushed out some b-sides, demos, non album tracks and remixes.
Look forward to new, other or rare versions of classics like „Burn“, „Dead Souls“, „All The Pigs, All Lined Up“ or „Liar“. This re-release combines fine contents and packaging equally, and it's also an optimum appetizer for the new studio album, "With Teeth", due May 3rd, 2005.
The only problem with this double CD is the same one that The Cure's "Three Imaginary Boys" came with: fans already own this album, and it's really unfair to force them to buy another edition, even if there's no doubt about this record's quality.

Tracklist
CD1
1-Mr. Self Destruct
2-Piggy
3-Heresy
4-March Of The Pigs
5-Closer
6-Ruiner
7-The Becoming
8-I Do Not Want This
9-Big Man With A Gun
10-A Warm Place
11-Eraser
12-Reptile
13-The Downward Spiral
14-Hurt

CD2
1-Burn
2-Closer (Precursor)
3-Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)
4-A Violet Fluid
5-Dead Souls
6-Hurt (Quiet)
7-All The Pigs, All Lined Up
8-Memorabilia
9-The Downward Spiral (The Bottom)
10-Ruiner (Demo)
11-Liar (Reptile Demo)
12-Heresy (Demo)

ANTICHRIST:
Nine Inch Nails

ANTICHRIST:
NamNamBulu

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“Antics” is a steady and confident album, from which you can hear that Interpol has matured. Since “Turn on the bright lights” they gradually crystallized a style of their own, leaving a great deal of the often mentioned comparisons like Joy Division, The Chameleons and The Smiths behind. Through “Antics” it becomes more clear what Interpol itself stands for.

The bright sounding album presents a rich collection of diverse songs, from the strong and pushing “Slow hands” (which is the hardest track) to the mournful “A time to be so small”. If there were a connecting theme between the songs it would be romanticism, because the bulk of the lyrics deals with (disappointed) love and also musically the album breathes a very romantic and passionate atmosphere. The track “Narc” with it’s semi-70’s-discobass even reminds me a bit of the Loveboat.

“Evil” and “C’mere” serve as catchy poptunes for the change in respect of fine-spun musings “Take you on a cruise” and “Public pervert”, two achingly beautiful tracks. The latter starts with a weird minimal, almost tango-like tune that eventually ends up in a dramatic guitar orgy. Another highlight is the exciting “Not even jail”, in which a big brewing atmosphere is built by sparkling guitars and enchanting keyboards on top of ongoing snare hits. When at the second chorus the vocals go up, you think the song can’t possibly last any longer, but then you are surprised again by an even more majestic instrumental epilogue, slowly fading away into eternity.

The only outsider in my opinion is the opener “Next exit”, which could deter a listener at the first hearing, especially when he is expecting another dark and moody Interpol album. I have been told that this one actually was the first track Interpol ever wrote and that it was originally intented as an overture for concerts. Well, don’t let this apparently happy on-the-road evergreen put you out, but try to persist; it shouldn’t be hard considering all the magnificent music to follow. I can only say that Interpol again delivered a true beauty.

Tuesday: Pretty sure Eddie was a cop.....alot of his family was :)

Daddy was a cop, on the east side of Chicago

anyone know the song that starts with those words?

Paper Lace, The Night Chicago Died.

very nice
anyone want the song I can email it to them

Paper Lace

it's on here!

Sometimes there are shows that evoke such a special atmosphere that it just feels like they have to be conserved on record...Hocico´s concert in Israel on last year´s tour definitely falls into this category. The spirit of the masses, the ambience and the energy of the band - everything falling into place perfectly. The result was so impressive that Erk and Racso decided to make the soundboard recording for this show available to a wider audience, though this concert was never recorded / performed with a release in mind. The recording shows Hocico in their purest form - raw and unrefined : a frontal attack made of pure energy, decimating all in its path. On "Blasphemies In The Holy Land" Hocico perform a selection of their tracks with a pure flow of power - with the presence of the audience and its interaction with singer Erk Aicrag felt throughout its duration. "Blasphemies In The Holy Land" is presented with brand new artwork in digipak format and is strictly limited to 2000 copies only. A must for fans, collectors and all electro-freaks attempting to grasp the phenomenon that is Hocico...


Tracklisting:
01. El Infierno Que Viene
02. Spirits Of Crime
03. Ecos
04. Tales From The Third World
05. Distorted Face
06. Poltergeist
07. Bloodshed
08. Keep Barking Dogs
09. Born To Be Hated
10. Odio Bajo El Alma
11. Death As A Gift
12. Untold Blasphemies
13. Forgotten Tears

Andre Faria:
Hocico

Andre Faria: Ganda som, méne...

A press release from the Depeche Mode camp was sent out recently, giving us the information that the trio's next album is supposed to come out this autumn. As we have told you before, this new as yet untitled album is produced by Ben Hillier, who has produced Elbow, Doves and Blur, amongst others. The band is recording in Santa Barbara right now, and according to Dave Gahan, the mood is great and they're excited about the new material.

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nobleheart: LOL..."born to bwild

Tuesday: The Guess Who

Tuesday: Actually it is about a American woman. The guess who were in the states somewhere and were waiting to play on stage. Everyone but Burton Cummings was on stage tuning up and jamming. Cummings was talking to a girl at the back stage entrance and suddenly heard the band onstage playing a riff, he believe it or not....ran on the stage and picked up on the guitar riff Bachman was playing and started singing about the girl he just met and was talking to..................and hence the song American Woman...true story! That's how quick minded Burton Cummings was :)

Tuesday: I was wrong............he was in Canada when he did it :)
"It started as a jam," said co-writer Kale. "We were playing in Ontario after being on the road in the States, trying to solidify our hold in the American marketplace with 'These Eyes.' We were playing a two-set situation, and for one reason or another we were late getting back onstage for the second set. In order to dispel the ominous air that was hanging over the place -- as we raced on the stage, one by one we picked up on just this simple rhythm. Cummings came up, ad-libbed some lyrics, and it worked. We recorded it just like that. It was an accident -- completely spontaneous.

John Foggerty from CCR did a album called Preminition.........if you get a chance listen to it..........if you like CCR you'll like it :) And it's called Fortunate Son ;)

Tuesday: Burton Cummings was once said to be one of the best vocalists ever.......of course that was back when there were dinosaurs ;) lol

Tuesday: Share the land is a great song! I like Life in the Bloodstream too :) The Guess Who love it here in Kelowna.........just a small town.......well 100,000 but he's been here twice......once with Joe Cocker, and he's suppose to be here again this year! Cocker i think stoled the show! :)

Tuesday: That's what i like listening to, and of course the newer stuff by the same old bands:) I still have my old hippie jacket from the 60's LOL......only thing i kept through 2 marriage! LOL!

I have a good cd for you to try i think you'll like..... It's called "But you can call me Bruce" It's by Lawrence Gowan....he's from Styx....really good :)

Tuesday: I'll have to download BOA's songs.......i've totally forgot about them.........they were good :) Lawrence Gowan's cd dosen't sound anything like Styx stuff.....totally different.it's a cross between Leo Sayer and someone else i can't put my finger on?