SummersRadio™ New Music! Mazzy Star - 'Common Burn' California's Mazzy Star are set to release their first new single in 15 years tomorrow! It's called 'Common Burn' and it will be available on itunes tomorrow (in the U.K. - Tuesday here in North America) - along with the b-side track 'Lay Myself Down'. The song will also be released on a limited coloured 7 " single on November 8th on their own Rhymes Of An Hour label.
The new single will be followed with a tour in early 2012, with their as yet untitled fourth studio album planned for release in the second half of next year. This is Mazzy Star's new song 'Common Burn'... Enjoy!
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SummersRadio™ Concert News! EMA - 'California'/ 'Milkman' Portland based Erika M. Anderson aka EMA released her first solo album - since disbanding her noise-folk band Gowns - in May. The album is called 'Past Life Martyred Saints' and is released on Berlin's Souterrain Transmissions label.
EMA is currently touring in support of 'Past Life Martyred Saints' - playing shows throughout Europe this month - and returning to North America in October. She'll be performing in Vancouver at the Biltmore Cabaret on October 8th (with Wild Beasts) - you can check out her full tour itinerary here:
http://www.souterraintransmissions.com/souterrain/artist_shows.jsp?artist=22740
EMA has cited Lou Reed as a major influence in her songwriting for 'Past Life Martyred Saints' - and you can hear elements of his signature spoken word delivery in her second single (and first video) 'California'. Musically speaking her sound is often both dark and alluring... Enjoy!
This is her second video - for the third single released from 'Past Life Martyred Saints' - 'Milkman'... Enjoy!
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SummersRadio™ Music News! Grandaddy! This week Grandaddy and former singer/ guitarist/ keyboardist and lyricist Jason Lytle posted this teaser video...
Grandaddy were an indie rock band from Modesto California that were together from 1992 - 2006. They released four studio albums - along with several self released albums, compilations and EP's. 'The Sophtware Slump' was their second studio album and was released in May 2000. It's considered by some to be a concept album about the problems with modern technology in society. I believe it to be that and much more - while Radiohead's 'Ok Computer' reflected the themes of pre-millenium tension, Grandaddy's 'Sophtware Slump' was the first release of the new millenium to reflect life after NYE 1999 - the opening track on the album 'He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot' features the lyrics 'How's it goin' 2000 man? Welcome back to solid ground my friend'.
The indie music magazine 'Under The Radar' ranked 'The Sophtware Slump' at number 15 on it's Best Albums of the Decade list for 2000-2009. While it would be a tough list to make, it would also rank in my top 10 albums of all time! So while there are no further details as yet on what the new deluxe edition will include - I present here a revisit to the beauty of 'The Sophware Slump'.
The album features two tracks about Jed - an alcoholic robot. Jed was first introduced in a song called 'Jeddy 3's Poem' on their rare 1999 EP called 'Signal To Snow Ratio' - which was included on a 2cd limited edition of 'The Sophtware Slump' - hopefully this new deluxe edition will feature those four tracks as well. This is a fan made video for the album track 'Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)' which was made with a vintage 1979 Apple computer... Enjoy!
Grandaddy didn't make a lot of official video's - this is one of two that were made for 'The Sophware Slump' - this one is for 'The Crystal Lake' - which was the first official single... Enjoy!
Here's another fan made video for another album track called 'Underneath The Weeping Willow'... Enjoy!
More Grandaddy to come when further details of 'The Sophtware Slump' Deluxe Edition are released - Cheers!
