Another week has passed in the land of rock’n’roll and it seems that Perry Farrell and Dave Navarro of Jane’s Addiction may have had a difference of opinion regarding their votes in our Song of the Week contest. That can be the only reason, right?
Anyway, congrats to Dirty Honey, whose Don’t put out the fire found himself at the top of the pile after a grueling duel, edging out Steve Cropper & The Midnight Hour’s You can’t refuse (ft. Tim Montana) and Happiness and strange that guitarist from Pink Floyd.
This week? It will be someone else.
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All we know is that it will be one of the following.
Grace Bowers & The Hodge Podge – Wine On Venus
Rising 18-year-old guitar star Grace Bowers and singer Esther Okai-Tetteh star on this title track from GB&THP’s highly anticipated debut (produced by Osborne Brothers guitar hero John). A bunch of young musicians doing old blues rock, but this one actually offers something a little new: a laid-back, subdued, but quietly inventive take on the style, peppered with old-school funk and slick production with a modern twist. Definitely the ones worth seeing.
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The Damn Truth – Love Outta Luck
An early sample of the Montreal rockers’ next album – produced by Bob Rock (Metallica, Bon Jovi, Bryan Adams, etc.) and due out in 2025 – Love Outta Luck is a big, brash, swaggering mix of old-school chops, pounding keys, and the raw, soul-ed vocals of powerhouse Lee-La Baum (think Janis Joplin alongside Beth Hart). Ultra-classic stuff with a fiery punch. They are also worth catching live.
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KOYO – Addicted
After a period of silence and figuring out their identity, moving forward, Leeds alt/prog rock mavericks KOYO are back with a new album, Oneismwhich comes out in November. Leaning towards the clever, quirky end of their arsenal, while also boasting one of their most insistent hooks to date, Addicted (not a bad title there…) it’s a great taster – aloof and quirky without sacrificing the kind of oomph and immediacy that most of us really want from a rock song.
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DeWolff – In Love
Billed as a “funky soul ode to cheating”, the retro Dutch dudes’ new single sounds like what you’d expect from the self-titled cut Muscle shallow; all the dreamy warmth of old soul, the wonderful Hammond swirls and the loose, swagger of the Isley Brothers. “Even before we started doing southern rock, Luka got a southern soul album as a kid and most of it was recorded at FAME,” says singer/guitarist Pablo van de Poel, about his drummer brother. “Our introduction to Soul didn’t start with James Brown; we started with Wilson Pickett.”
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Gen & The Degenerates – Girls!
With proceeds going to the Malala Fund (founded by education activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai), the new single/music video from British “accidentally punk” alt.rockers combines global issues with a personal story – the death of singer Genevieve friend Lara. Bursting with light, energy and penetrating views on gender dynamics, it’s one of our favorites from their latest album, Anti-entertainment propagandawhich is now out.
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The Courettes – Keep Dancing
Husband and wife duo Flavia and Martin Couri have a dose of sweet, 1960s swinger pop rock with a melancholic heart shaped like Keep dancing – an ode to the death of Flavia’s father, fresh from their game-raising next album The soul of beautiful curets. “My dad passed away from COVID,” explains the singer/guitarist. “But my relationship with my father was non-existent. He left me and my sister. It was a very difficult relationship and it is not so easy for me to talk about it. Keep dancing it’s about his death and how he still has power over me and brings me down and what it’s like to be free of that.”
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Cardinal Black – Your Spark (Blows Me to Pieces)
As if being named Hot New Young Best Guitarist In The World or something like that wasn’t enough, Chris Buck also plays in Cardinal Black, the hot rockers from Cardiff. Gentle, mentally slow-burning, Your Spark (Blows Me to Pieces) it steadily builds to a rousing peak of soloing by Buck (one of those guitarists who makes the instrument seem to speak and cry and sing) and vocals matched by Tom Hollister’s raspy throat.
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Bobbie Dazzle – Merry-Go-Round
With a band name like that, it might not surprise you that Bobbie Dazzle are inspired by Bowie, The Sweet, T. Rex and Suzi Quatro. fortunately, Carousel delivers, with a thunderous riff and chorus that soars into the glamor sphere like an eagle of chrome and glitter. The song then heads towards Planet Prog with solo flute and twinkling keyboards, the way Abba might sound if you grew up in the Midlands listening to the Edgar Broughton Band.
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