A Prince show recorded January 20, 2007 a during his Las Vegas residency in 2006-2007 will be released as 3LP (9400 copies on crystal blue curaçao vinyl) and 2CD (2700 copies) for Black Friday (November 27). Lots of songs from his 3121 and Musicology, plus classics from his back catalogue and a few covers.
Note for those with FOMO: this show can also be found on the Blu-Ray that comes with the expanded reissue of 3121, which will be available on December 6.
I think what makes a band great is that you're not trying to be someone else ever. At no point do you want it to become nostalgic; you never want to be a cover band for anybody.
Derek Trucks
Amsterdam-based Hungarian indie crooner Kristóf Hajós teamed up with like-minded American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jesse Blake Rundle for his new album Dark Matter, Light Heart. Rundle wrote and performed nearly all of the music, providing a safe space for all the doubts and fears that Hajós put into his words.
After tackling ageing on 6:00PM and feelings of displacement on Geography, he is now going for a lighter, more contented and self-assured approach while confronting life's roadblocks and pitfalls. Naming one of his songs Bravo, You Made Me Cry sums up that attitude quite nicely. And laughing at yourself with Oh Hope, You Whore can be helpful as well.
Watch Tame Impala perform the Seal classic Kiss From A Rose for Like A Version, a segment on Australian radio station triple-j. Pretty impressive call-and-response vocals on this one.
Welsh synth duo Martyrs are in full-on retro mode on their new single Grey Wolf Grey, using every '80s production trick they had at their disposal as they look into the mirror to find out that their hair has lost its shine and is turning grey. Lamenting the fact that nobody warned them that this could happen - "They don’t sing about it on the radio".
Jon Howells put his recently acquired Fender Bass VI to good use to supply both rhythm and melody, besides his array of guitars, synths and choice bits of tubular bells. Singer Michael Hall unleashed his inner New Romantics crooner capabilities. It does not sound new, but it does sound that it has been always there waiting to make itself finally heard decades after it was created.
