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Posted on 05/13/2005 12:42:11 PM PDT by Pyro7480
It seems like mainstream rock has been faltering as of late. Rock stations in major markets like Philadelphia have changed formats It isn't helped by the fact that hip hop/R&B is what is mainly marketed to young people these days, and that's what they like. In the music industry in general, there hasn't been an actual brand new genre since new wave/synth pop hit in the late 1970s and 1980s.
At the same time, there are "new" bands that are playing what has been described as "post punk" or "neo New Wave." These bands include the Bravery, Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party, and the Killers. They're not playing anything groundbreaking, since this genre dates from the late 1970s. In my opinion, however, it's nice to hear something "fresh," unlike the neo-punk acts like Green Day, et al.
There are other acts like Audioslave that are still going strong without the music scene backing them up.
Will bands like the Killers start a revival of rock, or will it continue to founder?
We won't see another Rolling Stones because as Little Stevens has said, they wouldn't make it if they came out today as a new band. There is no station to play them.
Rock is out in the MSM's eyes.
Meanwhile there is a viable club and festival circuit for bands. Civic auditoriums are corporate controlled these days.
Rock and Roll PING! email Weegee to get on/off this list (or grab it yourself to PING the rest)
Records are still being pressed today. Can't download vinyl.
Just because Best Buy doesn't carry it doesn't mean that there isn't a market for it. Same goes for these bands that are releasing new albums on wax.
Norton presents a series of 15 split Rolling Stones cover singles recorded by today's coolest hit makers and packaged in their own company sleeve! Grab this boss set! Ten split singles are available now!
KNAUGHTY KNIGHTS Connection/WILDEBEESTS Please Go Home (45-9641) Memphis' Knaughty Knights fronted by Jack Yarber (Oblivians, Cool Jerks, Compulsive Gamblers) sonically rip through Connection while those Lairds of the Boss Racket, the Wildebeests, pound out the psycho Diddley Please Go Home, recorded at London's famed Toe Rag Studios!
REIGNING SOUND I'd Much Rather Be With The Boys/HENTCHMEN Surprise, Surprise (45-9642) Another Memphis topside, as hometown faves Reigning Sound featuring Greg Cartwright (Oblivians, Compulsive Gamblers) offer a stunning take on I'd Much Rather Be With The Boys duking it out with Norton's legendary Hentchmen, who serve up the Surprise, Surprise (produced by Freddy Fortune) with a nod to their Motor City idols the Underdogs!
LITTLE KILLERS – Think/DARTFORD RENEGADES – Off The Hook (45-9643) Hot on the heels of their rippin’ debut album on Crypt, NYC’s Little Killers hammer out a fourth gear mash of an AFTERMATH favorite! On the B-deck, dig the debut of R&B pounders the Dartford Renegades, direct from the Stones’ own hometown!
QUESTION MARK AND THE MYSTERIANS – Empty Heart/DEXTER ROMWEBER DUO – Heart Of Stone (45-9644) Feel it once again, baby! The original 96 Tears hombres tip the shades to the Stones with a captivating romp of Empty Heart delivered with the patented Mysterians action! On the flip, Norton’s prodigal son Dexter Romweber (Flat Duo Jets) comes home to roost with Heart Of Stone – a true double whammy!
REAL KIDS Out Of Time/JANET ST CLAIR & THE REAL KIDS Ride On Baby (45-9645) John Felice and the boys from Boston serve up one of the best heart tuggin' Stones ballads on the mighty a-side and accompany controversial Starlite Date publishing heiress and socialite Janet St. Clair on a twelve string get-lost anthem!
QUEENSBERRY TERRORS Citadel/MAD SHADOWS Child Of The Moon (45-9646) Two of Europe's hottest new hitmakers clock in with magnificent treatments on our favorite eiderdown era tinglers! $4
THE SWINGIN’ NECKBREAKERS It’s Not Easy/THE SHANKS Doncha Bother Me (45-9647) serves up Jersey’s mighty Neckbreakers and Motor City maulers the Shanks (featuring ex-Detroit Cobra Jeff Meier) on a couple of raw primo AFTERMATH shakedowns for the loud crowd!
LYRES Now I’ve Got A Witness/THE NEW CONOLLY 5 Stoned (45-9648) Boston's rompous Lyres hop up a crack instro whammy on an early Nanker Phelge dance floor R&B workout in a cage match with flip elusives THE NEW CONOLLY 5, who polish off Phelger flip STONED from their unished 1 x 5 Brit LP!
A-BONES Miss Amanda Jones/ROTTING STUMPS My Obsession (45-9649) Talk about a Boogers Banquet! Topside’s the first new A-Bones recording in ten years! The magnificent Rotting Stumps (man)handle the B-deck in rip roarin’ style! Two over the top BETWEEN THE BUTTONS hammerings!
ANDRE WILLIAMS AND THE A-BONES The Spider And The Fly/GREASY CHICKENS Andre’s Blues (45-9650) Dig the Rolling Stones greasy grind favorite Spider And The Fly once Andre grabs hold of it! Keith Richards recently picked Jail bait as one of his all time favorites and Andre tips the pimp hat back at him here! Speakin’ of paying homage, the Greasy Chickens honor Mr. Rhythm with Andrew’s Blues, a reworking of the Stones X-rated classic!
5.6.7.8’S 19th Nervous Breakdown/CHURCH KEYS Who’s Driving Your Plane? (45-9651) Tokyo’s frantic femmes make a quick return to Norton wax with a manic reading of one of the Stones’ finest hours! On the flip, an old boozy Stones b-side reaches new blood alcohol levels in the hands of Brooklyn beat butchers, the Church Keys!
GREENHORNES Sad Day/SHAMS Under My Thumb (45-9652) It’s a Cincinnati slugfest! Internationally established hooligans the Green-hornes give a sorely overlooked early Stones nugget a stompin’ three chord rebirth! Thee Shams deliver a prime pounder outta their five star repertoire!
SKY SAXON AND THE SEEDS The Singer Not The Song/LAIRDS Something Happened To Me Yesterday
(45-9655) The latest split single in our Rolling Stones covers series! The legendary Sky Saxon lures a Jagger-Richards classic into the Seeds’ unapproachable web of sound while the mysterious Lairds cover the most uncoverable Stones song ever!
I'll pass along this account from Norton of the recent Stones press conference:
THE ROLLING STONES arrived in our fair burg to hold a press conference and play outdoors at Lincoln Center on Tuesday, May 10th.. an event which was topped off with an in-person presentation of the Norton Stones trib singles series to Herr Jagger hisself. Norton press korps bureau chief JANET ST CLAIR, who had arrived in grand style at the wheel of a '72 lime green Schwinn Charger, was seriously grappled by security on first attempt to make said presentation to the energetic warbler (to which MJ reprimanded the zealous protectorates with "Take it EASY, guys!")... Ms. St Clair then tramped directly over the fence and into said press meeting and capped off a rather staid Q&A with a memorable stageside presentation of glittering Norton fare to his Satanic Majesty himself, which he wholehearted accepted and responded to with a toothy THANK YOU! What better way to celebrate the 40th anniversary of SATISFACTION.. can you believe it... released four decades ago this week... time flies when you're sittin', thinkin'.... May means NEW RELEASES in the grand tradition at Nortonville.. check out all the new footlongs, seven inchers and hip pocket discos compactos from our home page... more more more as it develops....
I'd recommend The Ponys (from Chicago). Second album was just released.
Don't dismiss them as another synth band, that's all on guitar.
http://www.theponys.com/
http://www.myspace.com/theponys
Ha! John Kerry lied on the back of the album he released in the early 1960s and claimed he was from Oslo Norway.
Unless one travels back to the future.
A bigger label or more press doesn't bestow any better "skills" in the materials.
Good music is out there if people would just ignore top chart rankings (the books have been cooked for far too long).
Unless one travels back to the future.
I did JUST that a couple of weeks ago...
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THE MUFFS
Really Really Happy
LP only (edition of 1500) OUT NOW
Take a catchy pop song driven by punk energy, add an exuberant female singer with an inclination to scream occasionally, and what do you have? Avril Lavigne, no dumbs**t! THE MUFFS. Having had their start on Sympathy way back in 1992 they then went on to record for Subpop, Warner Bros and Reprise, THE MUFFS have now returned to their indie roots with Five Foot Two Records (cd) and Sympanthy for the Record Industry (lp) for their new release, "Really Really Happy". Fronted by Kim Shattuck and backed by bassist Ronnie Barnett and Roy McDonald on drums, THE MUFFS entered the studio and composed 17 hook-happy power pop songs that could be their best effort so far.
"Really Really Happy" is their first album for five years. This much beloved & venerable L.A. combo are back with a vengence and with their sharpest, most focused and dynamic set of songs yet! The album is a relaxed, raucous, sonically rich affair stacked with larger-than-life songs of hook-happy power-pop. These are some of the best songs of the band's career - a career that has spanned over a decade, with the release of four studio albums bursting at the seams with a slew of classic songs that have secured them a devoted following world-wide. If you're a fan of THE MUFFS (and who isn't) "Really Really Happy" is a definite must have release.
Here are a few recommendations for current rock acts:
Pinback: Amazing, progressive, cryptic musicianship. Blistering live shows.
Starflyer 59: Can run through every genre from sunny surf guitar, choppy metal, lush Britpop, all saturated with Jason Martin's diesel-powered guitars. My favorite band for the past decade and still getting better with every release.
The Doves: Straight on rock with a heavy undercurrent of British shoegaze. What could be sweeter?
McLusky: Braggart Welshmen who can walk the talk. Sound like the Pixies, Pavement, Metallica and the White Stripes thrown in a blender.
Low: This Duluth trio has left behind their hyper-minimalism and are now heading to a modern take on Neil Young and Velvet Underground flavored sounds.
Too everyone who doesn't listen to anything new, check out these bands. If you only get into one of them you will listen to them till the day you die.
Not sure but I think I should have intended this Muffs PING for you...
The Lazy Cowgirls were sounding great before this past few months when they split solo after 20 years.
They had hit a good country-edged Stones rock-ballad mix.
The accoustic show I saw was good too, some semblance will carry on.
Not a bad list, but Slayer can go screw themselves. Any act that plays up the Antichrist, anti-Christian bulls**t that those guys do is lame......and deserve the punishment they're bound to get in the hereafter.
I've always been into metal, but I've never been a Slayer fan. These "devil worship" bands are all image anyway.
Riiiiight..... :)
Wrong.
Right:
and of course...
Saw the Muffs a couple times at the late, great Bogart's in Long Beach, CA 10-12 years ago. Fun band, cute girl - at least way back when, anyway...
...and now Bogart's is a Ralph's.
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