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  Su Freakout Magazine la versione in italiano As has happened to most musicians around the globe, the Covid 19 pandemic has literally disrupted work schedules, leading to rescheduled record releases and tour programmes, which were cancelled for a long time. Not even Uffe Lorenzen could escape this, who, after his experience with Baby Woodrose, recorded three solo albums before returning to form this new band called Lydsyn. A classic power trio that includes his old friends Palle Demant (The Sledge) on bass, author of many of Uffe's videos, and Jens Eyde a drummer discovered while watching videos posted on the net. The group, originally formed to stay active during the period of the pandemic lockdown, was to become the backing band that would allow Uffe Lorenzen to play songs from his recent solo albums live. During rehearsals to prepare for concerts that were systematically postponed or cancelled, the band started to compose new material, which we now find on this self-titled a...

  Versione Italiana su Freak Out Magazine Deniz Tek 's solo career continues with a certain regularity and with the proud independence of a musician who has nothing to prove, given the enormous contribution he made to the history of rock music with Radio Birdman and with the many other records he has released in a career spanning more than forty years. Today, the Ann Arbor guitarist is back with a new album, 'Long Before Day', for now only available on CD through   the American label Career , while the vinyl edition will be released next autumn by the Italy’s Wild Honey . Following the not-so-exciting 'Fast Fright' (Career/Wild Honey, 2019) signed as Deniz Tek & The Godoys , together with twins Art and Steve Godoy , and the subsequent 'Two To One' (Cleopatra, 2020) co-written with former Stooges James Williamson , certainly better focused than its predecessor, there was a certain expectation over this new work, to understand the 'state of h...

  photo by Juxe Areta Goñi versione in italiano pubblicata su FreakOut Magazine Stewart Cunningham founder and leader of Leadfinger is surely to be counted among the best songwriters of the modern Australian rock era. The confirmation came with the release of 'Silver & Black' (Golden Robot Records), the band's sixth album released last February ( review here ). An album where its author exorcised his personal vicissitudes, the lung cancer that struck him four years ago, the risk of dying and in the less inauspicious hypothesis, having to quit music forever. Then came the pandemic and the total paralysis of the music world, which undermined the certainties of everyone in the industry everywhere. The result was an album full of beautiful sounds and very deep in the themes dealt with in the lyrics, which went beyond the personal sphere and took on a broader scope. We spoke with Cunnigham about all these themes in this interview developed by e-mail. So Stew, first of a...

  Born after experience in various bands, the most important of which was that of The Fools , chosen by Radio Birdman as a backing band for their Australian concerts, at the time of the first reunion that led to the release of the album "Ritualism" (Crying Sun, 1996), Howlin' Threads settled into a trio line-up with Dylan Webster on guitar, Matt Houston on bass and Adam Fermo  on drums. Since their self-titled debut EP and single 'Edge Of The World' , both released in 2020, the trio have made it clear that they draw on the best tradition of Australian rock born on that Detroit-Sidney axis that we have all come to love on the records of Radio Birdman, The Celibate Rifles, The Saints, The New Christs, Deniz Tek, The Stooges, MC5, and the great Sonic's Rendezvous Band of Scott Morgan and Fred 'Sonic' Smith. It's all about Webster's excellent songwriting, which is confirmed in these four new songs that each boast prestigious guests. Start...

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  Twelve years between one record and another are definitely too many, even for a band like Hoodoo Gurus that has written indelible pages in the history of rock, in forty years of activity, even with a brief interlude of actual dissolution. Yet judging from what we hear in "Chariot of the Gods" , the time lapse that divides it from the excellent "Purity of Essence", the passage of time has not scratched the creative vein of Dave Faulkner and members who have returned with a record that is the sum of what was previously proposed. Opened by "Early Opener" a short intro in which the typical background of the voices of the patrons of a bar, you hear in the distance the same Faulkner singing on acoustic guitar the classic "Come Anytime" from the best seller "Magnum Cum Louder", before the tribal pace of the drums of Nick Reith introduces the real opening track that is "World of Pain" , a ballad mid-tempo gritty that imme...

  Dodici anni tra un disco e l’altro sono decisamente troppi, anche per una band come gli Hoodoo Gurus che ha scritto pagine indelebili nella storia del rock, in quarant’anni di attività, seppure con una breve parentesi di scioglimento effettivo. Eppure a giudicare da quanto si ascolta in “Chariot of the Gods” il lasso temporale che lo divide dall’ottimo “Purity of Essence” il trascorrere del tempo non ha scalfito minimamente la vena creativa di Dave Faulkner e soci che si sono ripresentati con un disco che è la summa di quanto proposto in precedenza. Aperto da “Early Opener” un breve intro in cui dal sottofondo tipico del vociare tra gli avventori di un bar, si sente in lontananza lo stesso Faulkner cantare con la chitarra acustica la classicissima “Come Anytime” tratta dal best seller “Magnum Cum Louder” , prima che l’incedere tribale della batteria di Nick Reith introduca il vero brano d’apertura che è “World of Pain” , una ballata mid-tempo grintosa che mette subito in ch...

  Una delle ultime uscite targate Area Pirata, riguarda il nuovo lavoro del trio bergamasco Le Muffe , che esce a ben cinque anni dal precedente “Fuoco e Fiamme”. Un lasso temporale che non ha scalfito l’interesse per la band capitanata da Gianluca “Ol Pjpa” Daghetti che continua a proporre un suono classico di garage beat, suonato quasi senza la presenza di chitarre, ma incentrato sulle linee musicali dell’organo che conducono le danze , nei dieci brani orchestrati insieme a Luca “Sick Boy” Togni al basso/cori e da Alberto “Bert” Capoferri alla batteria e cori. “Down Down Down” ripropone ancora una volta il perfetto mix tra la ritmica serrata, a tratti quasi di derivazione hardcore, e le melodie dia sapore retrò garage/beat sui quali vengono declamati testi a volte ironici, altre volte di denuncia sociale e cantate in lingue diverse (italiano/inglese e francese). Nell’album trovano spazio i due singoli “Ragazzo Beat” e “Bogside ” usciti in precedenza con i quali il trio ber...

eMusic Live presenta Concerto evento esclusivo in streaming degli Hoodoo Gurus 8pm AEDT / WST, 10 marzo 2022 La band suonerà il nuovo album Chariot of the Gods nella sua interezza per la prima volta a livello globale prima della pubblicazione l' 11 marzo. Biglietti in vendita ora su emusiclive.com - Maggiori informazioni qui In un'anteprima esclusiva, i fan degli Hoodoo Gurus di tutto il mondo potranno ascoltare  l'imminente 10° album in studio della band, Chariot of the Gods , suonato  interamente per la prima volta, mentre eMusic Live trasmette in streaming un evento speciale pre  registrato ai Damien Gerard Studios, Central Coast, NSW. Il set in streaming sarà condiviso alle 21.00 (ora italiana) di  Giovedì 10 marzo prima dell'uscita ufficiale dell'album, prevista per il successivo venerdì 11 marzo ( Big Time Records /EMI Music) con alcuni membri della band che saranno online per  chattare con i fan.         ...

Silver & Black  is Leadfinger 's sixth album, and it's a record that marks in an amazing way the rebirth of one of the best bands of Aussie-rock, which seriously risked to see its run ended, after Stewart Cunningham had to face a long fight against lung cancer, diagnosed in 2017 and that forced him to two long years of treatment marked by a slow and uncertain recovery. After this terrible period, the band (composed in addition to Cunningham, by Michael Boyle, Dillon Hicks and Adam Screen) has tried to resume the thread of the discourse interrupted by "Friday Night Heroes" among the many difficulties that have arisen with the pandemic of Covid-19 and the consequent long lockdown. But as soon as the four were able to enter the Rancom Street Studios in Botany, NSW with producer Brent Clark to give body to the nine songs (12 in the double vinyl version) that make up "Silver & Black" , the magic was recreated and is now available to all. The album tel...

  “Silver & Black ” è il sesto album dei Leadfinger , ed è un disco che segna in maniera stupefacente la rinascita di una delle migliori band dell’Aussie-rock, che ha rischiato seriamente di vedere finita la sua corsa, dopo che Stewart Cunningham ha dovuto affrontare una lunga lotta contro il cancro ai polmoni, diagnosticatogli nel 2017 e che lo hanno costretto a due lunghi anni di cure contraddistinti da un recupero lento ed incerto. Dopo questo periodo terribile la band (composta oltre che da Cunningham, da Michael Boyle, Dillon Hicks e Adam Screen) ha cercato di riprendere il filo del discorso interrotto da “Friday Night Heroes” tra le non poche difficoltà che sono sopraggiunte con la pandemia di Covid-19 ed il conseguente lungo lockdown. Ma non appena i quattro sono riusciti ad entrare nei Rancom Street Studios di Botany, NSW con il produttore Brent Clark per dare corpo alle nove canzoni (12 nella versione doppio vinile) che compongono “Silver & Black” , la magia s...