Modern Music Events

Chosen New Rock Singles
1.Tv on the radio - Wolf Like Me
2.Radio birdman - you just make it worse
3.Sleepy jackson - Devil Was In My Yard
4.Pete Yorn - For Us
5.Junior Boys - In The Morning
6.Grizzly Bear - Knife (New!)
7.Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - cursed sleep
8.Audioslave - Original Fire
9.Bob Seger - Wait For Me (New!)
10.Nouvelle Vague - The Killing Moon (New!)

From Readers:
The Longcut released an album called 'A Call And Response' in the UK earlier this year,
EP called 'Idiot Check' that came out in August and the forthcoming single 'A Tried And Tested Method' comes out early in October..Sometimes plain disco beats can be annoying but i liked the single,It is modest, lucid and tender.Also listen A Last Act another experimental,indie tune.I know it sounds closer with Sonic Youth.Their Myspace page

An animated music video from Atomic swindlers, it's been in five international film festivals and was featured in last months Paste Magazine and i can say it's a fantastic video and beautiful melody Watch it , Another link.And sex66 is a good song from their 2004 album Coming Out Electric.www.atomicswindlers.com

Thanks For other who mailed to me,i'm reading all of they but it takes time to write something down and there are lots of mail.I know you like MM,cool!

Bob Seger - Face The Promise

On September 12th, Capitol Records will release Face The Promise, Bob Seger's
first studio album in 11 years. Face The Promise (2006) opens a masterful new chapter in a songbook that has captured the dreams, ideals, yearnings and truths of the American experience for a remarkable forty years. The album’s lead-off single is entitled “Wait For Me.”This is also his first studio album since It's a Mystery in 1995.

Rating:6/10
MM review:
There are some albums which you don't like at your first listen.But after a while you can see that you missed somethings with the album.Then suddenly,everywhere turn great places which you haven't been there before.

At the same time,there are some kind of albums which you like a little it at your first
listen,but after a while you turn to listening again your favorite albums.So i call
this kind of record as a sluggish album.It doesn't notice you even if you noticed it.
So that shows You probably will never play it more than once or twice.

Actually 'Face The Promise' isn't a terrible record,there are remarkable songs ,but don't forget you're talking about Bob Seger,You can't forget his previous works like "Seven","Live Bullet","Night Moves".it's easy to feel routine atmosphere of the album, hard to find some excitement,newness or melodic rock & roll hooks.

'The strength of the album... involves how, with tons of melody and tone and a little cheese, Seger fearlessly remains Seger.'Rolling Stone

'No Matter Who You Are' and 'Are You' sound front haggard Seger vocals and some back black female vocals.Similarity between the songs is plain to see.You can use 'Face The Promise' as
a great road song.'The Answer's In The Question' duet with Patty Loveless.'Real Mean Bottle' another duet song with Kid Rock.'Won't Stop' is emotional,sound more heartland rock and it feels giving a chance to 'Face to Promise' wouldn't be wrong.
The song 'Simplicity' is a reason to cheer for the fans but again It is not persuasive.Closing song 'Long Goodbye' which is totally careworn,exhausted work.

It often feels sluggish despite various melodic tunes.It's an average rock'n roll album.
MM picks:Won't Stop,Between,Simplicity
The official Bob Seger website
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Wire - A Bell Is A Cup Until It Is Struck

MM Classics
Wire's return to full-time active duty came as something of a surprise. Colin Newman, Bruce Gilbert, and Graham Lewis (the latter two both separately and as the duo Dome) had been growing increasingly abstract and non-rock in the six years since the group had split up, but 1988's A Bell Is a Cup...Until It Is Struck is, at heart, an album full of pop songs. Admittedly, they're mainly peculiar pop songs full of stream-of-consciousness lyrics ("Money spine paper lung kidney bingos organ fun," goes the chorus of the catchiest song, sung by Newman in a dreamy reverie as if the unrelated non sequiturs were just another love song) and produced in an oddly detached way that emphasizes the atmospheres over the melodies, but they're pop songs nonetheless. Newman and Lewis coat the songs with overdubbed layers of gentle guitars, treated and phased into waves of sound that ebb and flow around the songs over Gilbert's throbbing bass and Robert Gotobed's dancefloor-based rhythms. Arguably Wire's best album and certainly its most accessible, A Bell Is a Cup...Until It Is Struck is a work of modern rock genius. The CD includes four bonus tracks, including a thoroughly reworked alternate version of "The Queen of Ur and the King of Um" and a chugging eight-minute live version of "Drill."
Well one of my favorite album stands right here.
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John Cale - Paris 1919 Remastered Edition

This ain't a new album review
[Reprise; 1973;WEA International; 2006]
MM Review
It's wanderful to hear again John Cale classics 'Hanky Panky Nohow',
'Child's Christmas In Wales' and the brilliant work 'The Endless Plain Of Fortune'.
This literary work which is also absolutely essential listening,a John Cale
classic his most accessible record.There are few albums which have only their atmosphere only their style.Obviously,Paris 1919 is that kind of album including its own poetic and music.Growing royal melodies(The Endless Plain Of Fortune), entertaining waggish guitar beat(Macbeth), beauty of snowy wheaters (Child's Christmas In Wales), sorrowful lyrics with orchestral tunes (Paris 1919), weird but cute cuts(Graham Greene), brilliant tunes majestic lyrics (Antarctica Starts Here)...

For this lavish new remastered edition, Rhino UK has unearthed 11 previously
unreleased rehearsals and alternate takes,including one completed outtake.
There are great alternate version of the songs.Piano Mix of song Paris 1919 is really
worth to listen,it's longer than the original version.Paris 1919 is one the best
effort in 1973,you'll love this new edition which was a masterpiece the original version.
MM picks:The Endless Plain Of Fortune
Listen:Hanky Panky Nohow(Drone Mix), Andalucia(Alternate Version), Macbeth(Rehearsal)(...)
john-cale.com
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Grizzly Bear - Yellow House

A succesfull post-rock/experimental album of the year
Rating:9/10
The new material that comprises Yellow House (2006) puts the band at the vanguard of
contemporary song writing. The album was self-recorded during an idyllic summer. The makeshift studio was provided by Droste's mom's living room in a yellow
house just off Cape Cod.

'The lo-fi has gone large-scale, each song slowly unfurling to reveal dense,
dreamy rhythms, choirs of silky voices and opulent melodies rich in atmospherics.'The Guardian

Magical, haunting melodies are still their mainstay. Grizzly Bear always craft their songs from start to finish - meticulous instrumentation and arrangements are their specialty. On Yellow House, Grizzly Bear still flex their lo-fi connoisseurship, but with a better recording - DIY embellished with Taylor's fine sonic engineering acumen. Droste and Rossen share initial song writing
duties, although the entire band collaborates to breath life into the tracks.

MM review
Like Jim O'Rourke,High Llamas,Mercury Rev, you feel Grizzly Bear's music in yourself.
Natural atmosphere goes on till the last track.'Lullabye' a velvet melody which is also
very solid like a rock.'Knife' including some Beach Boys vocal styles and combines it
some Post/Rock tunes.The result was awesome.They improved their songwriting.'Central and Remote'sounds more serious than other song and middle song 'Plans' is a good balance for album."Yellow House" is truly spinning around you,charming and it's impossible to be unimpressed.

First impressions:Actually it's very hard to understand too many things from a post-rock/ experimental album at your first listen. Honestly i felt a lot of from "Yellow House",
wheather of country , bunch of flowers, grief of natural life, nameless happiness...

MM picks:Lullabye,knife,Plans
Listen:Lullabye, On A Neck, On A Spit
Official site of Brooklyn-based group Grizzly Bear

Nouvelle Vague - Bande A Part

Cover Album
French retro-futurists Nouvelle Vague aren't just a one-off musical kitsch deal,
as they're setting out to prove with their second collection of bossa nova takes
on '70s and '80s punk and new wave songs.Bande à Part (2006) is French bossa nova group Nouvelle Vague's second album.Bande A Part finds the duo of Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux transforming and slowing down such classics as Blondie's "Heart Of Glass," Echo And The Bunnymen's "The Killing Moon," The Cramps' "Human Fly" and New Order's "Blue Monday." Several different singers take care of the vocals.

Rating:5/10
Modern Music Review
Opening track "Killing Moon" is so majestic and awesome it doesn't need any praise at all.
But for the second song,i do not prefer to listen a song which was an energic,truly classic of Buzzcock,because Buzzcocks had some kind of cheer,fun,lovely melody in their song,i see that Nouvelle changes this side of the old song unites with bossa nova style.This can be an emrassment
for classic punk rock lovers ,your ears wants the original version anyway,but "Dance With Me" is a reason for forget this,with its warm melody combinations.Sometimes vocals seem always the same but shiny melodies are really cover it."Don't Go"(Yazoo cover) including some changing with the vocals."Blue Monday" is so ordinary cover and worse than the original version.Anyhow,
There are resolute tunes such as Human Fly,Bela Lugosi's Dead...

"Bande A Part" doesn't include not-related sounds,Tunes are faithful even if
original version of songs are from too many different styles.But sometimes a little it repeats
itself however if you love Bossa nova style you'll like the whole album.
Cute female vocals are worth to see.
MM picks:Killing Moon,Don't Go,Human Fly
Listen:Bela Lugosi's Dead
Nouvelle Vague official website

Great Female Vocals of Rock Scene

This sunday i prepared seven female voices for you to listen.All of them magnificent,so what we got?Soaring vocals of Grace Slick(Jefferson airplane),a dream pop queen Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star),Orgasmic vocals of Johnette Napolitano (concrete blonde) , Harriet Wheeler who was vocalist of British indie band The Sundays.Kim Deal who known for her work in the seminal alternative rock bands Pixies and The Breeders.Gothic vocals of Siouxsie Sioux(Siouxsie & the Banshees),popular singer Fiona Apple and one of my favorite singer/songwriter Marianne Faithfull.

Jefferson airplane - Surrealistic pillow
Marianne faithfull - Broken english
Mazzy star - She hangs brightly
Concrete blonde - Mexican moon
Breeders - Last splash
Siouxsie banshees - the rapture
Fiona apple - Tidal