Sunday, October 27, 2019

Live: The Dream Syndicate @ Fuzz Club (Athens, October 26th, 2019)



Whenever The Dream Syndicate hit the road, it's a certain bet that sooner or later they will find themselves playing on a stage in Athens, a city where Steve Wynn's music has always found a supportive and enthusiastic audience ever since his band first played here in the mid-80s.


A lot of water has gone under the bridge since then, but what remains constant after all these years is the unique rock chemistry that Wynn and the rebooted Dream Syndicate can produce live on stage. It helps, of course, to have in your repertoire the songs that make up one of the greatest underground rock record of the '80s, the superb "The Days Of Wine And Roses" and several more classic tracks ("The Medicine Show", "Boston", "The Side I'll Never Show" to mention but a few) that are guaranteed to rock you to your bones every time you hear them.


Add next to all the classics, the fine new material that The Dream Syndicate has produced in the two records they have made in the last couple of years (2017's "How Did I Find Myself Here" and the recent "These Times") and it's easy to understand why the two hours that the band played in the last show of its current European tour went by in a flash, leaving us thrilled and feeling privileged to find ourselves once again here with this great rock 'n' roll band, putting some more miles on. May this journey go on forever!



The night opened by Dustbowl who provided some fine tunes to warm us up for the main event and presented us their new record, "The Story of Mr. Dandy Gasoline", which also features a collaboration with Chris Cacavas, the man behind the keys of The Dream Syndicate.

Dustbowl, live @ Fuzz Club (Athens, Oct. 26th, 2019)
The Dream Syndicate, live @ Fuzz Club (Athens, Oct. 26th, 2019)

The Dream Syndicate - Black Light (live @ Fuzz Club, October 26th 2019)

Sunday, October 06, 2019

New Releases: September 2019

Roundup of the most interesting albums, singles and EPs released in September 2019:

Albums

BAT FOR LASHES - Lost Girls 
FRANKIE COSMOS - Close It Quietly 
THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS - In the Morse Code Of Brake Lights 
PIXIES - Beneath The Eyrie
GIRL BAND - The Talkies
VIVIAN GIRLS - Memory
MOON DUO - Stars Are The Light
LOWER DENS - The Competition
CHELSEA WOLFE - Birth of Violence
JENNY HVAL - The Practice of Love
KAZU - Adult Baby
SHANNON WRIGHT - Providence
HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER - Terms Of Surrender
THE COMET IS COMING - The Afterlife
(SANDY) ALEX G - House of Sugar
METRONOMY - Metronomy Forever
TEMPLES - Hot Motion
GRUFF RHYS - Pang!
L’EPEE - Diabolique
BRITTANY HOWARD - Jaime
DEVENDRA BANHART - Ma
ADAM GREEN - Engine of Paradise
AUTOMATIC - Signal
CHASTITY BELT - Chastity Belt
LIFE - A Picture of Good Health
WARISH - Down In Flames
THURSTON MOORE - Spirit Counsel
IGGY POP - Free
THE MONOCHROME SET - Fabula Mendax
LIAM GALLAGHER - Why Me? Why Not.
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN - Days Of the Bagnold Summer
M83 - DSVII
65DAYSOFSTATIC - replicr, 2019
TRENTEMOLLER - Obverse
GHOSTFACE KILLAH - Ghostface Killahs
EBONY STEEL BAND - Pan Machine
JERKCURB - Air Con Eden
EFTERKLANG - Altid Sammen
STURGILL SIMPSON - Sound and Fury
DAVID KILGOUR AND THE HEAVY EIGHTS - Bobbie's A Girl
GIANT SAND - Recounting The Ballads Of Thin Line Men
CHRISSIE HYNDE WITH THE VALVE BONE WOE ENSEMBLE - Valve Bone Woe
MIKE PATTON AND JEAN-CLAUDE VANNIER - Corpse Flower
THE REPLACEMENTS - Dead Man's Pop
ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN - The John Peel Sessions 1979 - 1983

Singles & EPs

BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD - Sunglasses
MUDHONEY - Morning in America EP
ROYAL TRUX & ARIEL PINK - Pink Stuff EP
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE - The Blue EP
GUIDED BY VOICES - Heavy Like the World
HAMMERED HULLS - Hammered Hulls
SQUID - Town Centre EP
THE TELESCOPES - Strange Waves
NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS - This Is The Place
ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND ANDY PARTRIDGE - Planet England EP
WILD BILLY CHILDISH AND CTMF - Marc Riley Session 2019
STURGILL SIMPSON - The Dead Don't Die
HATER - Four Tries Down / It’s A Mess
SMILES - Gone For Good
LOVE FAME TRAGEDY - I Don't Want To Play The Victim, But I'm Really Good At It EP
STUDIO ELECTROPHONIQUE - Buxton Palace Hotel EP
JOVIALE - Crisis EP
TOT TAYLOR - Yoko, Oh
THE ROVES - Hey Little Man / Once A Prefect
JACK PENATE - Prayer


Black Country, New Road - Sunglasses