Alfredo & Edeath, are a couple of music lovers who met later in life but grew up loving almost the same bands and hating others but always listening to music, old and new, and apart from collecting vinyl and books and going to see every good band coming to town, (or a few miles away), got together and created "I think i better follow you around", a website/music blog, where they share all the music they like and help promote upcoming concerts, local bands from San Diego and Tijuana and amazing artists from around the world.
I think I better follow you around is an independent project.
Martin Gore released “Mandrill” in advance of his is new 5 song EP “The Third Chimpanzee” EP out January 29th, 2021.
The Third Chimpanzee EP’s cover art was painted by capuchin monkey Pockets Warhol
Gore said this about the release: “The first track I recorded had a sound that wasn’t human,”Martin explains. “It sounded primate-like. I decided to name it ‘Howler’, after a monkey. Then, when it came time to name the EP, I remembered reading the book ‘The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee’. It all made sense to call it that, as the EP was made by one of the third chimpanzees.”
This is Martin Gore’s first release since he issued the instrumental album MG back in 2015 and the one he made with Vince Clarke back in 2012. He has not released another “Counterfeit” covers album since the one he put out in 2003.
DARKSIDE, Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington, have announced the upcoming release for their 2nd album “Spiral” out in the Spring via Matador Records.
This album comes 8 years after their magnificent debut “Psychic”. They’ve now released their first single “Liberty Bell”.
As a sidenote/parentheses Nicolas Jaar did release 2 albums “Telas” and “Cenizas” last year. And Dave Harrington was busy with his group as well.
We were fortunate enough to see them live during their first tour at the Fonda Theatre back in 2014, and that show made it to the all-time highlights. Also, overstating the obvious, the album cover has a resemblance (tribute) to HAL-9000.
Puma Blue will release his debut full length album “In Praise Of Shadows” on February 5th, 2021 via Blue Flowers Music.
The tracklist is:
Sweet Dreams Cherish (furs) Velvet Leaves Snowflower Already Falling Sheets Olive / Letter To ATL Oil Slick Silk Print Is It Because Opiate Sleeping Bath House Super Soft
He’s released 2 videos in anticipation for the release of his album. The first one was “Velvet Leaves” which was directed by Harvey Pearson:
The second one is for “Silk Print”, which “Jacob Allen said was his tribute to the inimitable Jeff Buckley:
We were lucky to see him at the Casbah in November of 2019, back when concerts were a thing. We hope that we get to see him alive again.
The documentary “A Dog Called Money” which was recorded during the recording of “The Hope Six Demolition Project” by PJ Harvey was finally released.
Seamus Murphy directed this living art installation where PJ Harvey sets up a recording studio made into an art studio that allows the audience to see her, almost like a two way mirror, recording process.
This is not the first time that Seamus Murphy and PJ Harvey have collaborated. Back in 2011 they worked together when Murphy 12 videos for all 12 songs for PJ’s album “Let England Shake. This time around Harvey and photographer/director Seamus Murphy traveled through Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Washington D.C. before landing back in London to record in an unprecedented and experimental way.
Greg Puciato released his eagerly-awaited solo debut album, Child Soldier: Creator of God (Federal Prisoner), via Bandcamp, a full three weeks earlier than anticipated. The 15-song album arrived on all digital service providers on Friday, Oct. 9.
Child Solder: Creator of God’s early arrival follows an unauthorized album leak that began spreading through online communities. Puciato said of the leak and pivot to an earlier than anticipated release: “I can’t believe this is a thing someone thought would be cool to do to an independent artist in 2020, but some dipshit “reviewer” (we know who it was) leaked my record. Younger me would’ve put his name out there for everyone to see… but we’re going to use this as a chance to highlight the importance of being adaptable, flexible, and able to roll with the punches and call an audible. Shit happens and you need to be able to move quickly to adapt. Would I like everyone to go buy a digital copy now, or check it out on a streaming site next Friday? Yeah, that’d be cool. Vinyl will still be shipping around the original release date of Oct. 23rd. We still have some copies of the European variant and the Australian variant remaining … feel free to check ’em out here (https://gregpuciato.tmstor.es) and here (https://www.nervegas.com.au/GregPuciato), along with various other pieces of merch. We’re also cooking up something cool and related… I can’t really spill the beans on that yet….but will do so very, very soon. In the meantime, the stream for ‘Down When I’m Not’ is up now on all of the dsps. There’s no video because I’m smoked and there’s only so much time in a day and energy in a person, but it’s a fun little alternative summer song about feeling in love and feeling like you’re weightless, racing and being propelled because of it. Makes me think of when I was a little 13-year-old turd-muppet listening to music and crushing on someone. Quick little tidbit, the demo for this musically, which was pretty much the same structure as the final version, was done in 2010 or so, the chorus vocal melody is a spin-off of something else unreleased that I wrote in like 2002, and the other vocal melodies and all of the lyrics came just this last year. It’s kinda cool to hang onto stuff for that long and then have it all connect and come together, and still feel like me, considering all of the time periods it pulled from. It was always something that I knew I would get back to, I just didn’t really have the home for it, so now here it is. Hornbrook killed it on these drum fills and on the overall feel of the drums too, I’m pretty sure this is 180bpm and these fills are fuckin’ RIPPIN. Thanks for killing it, dude. Hey reader, I dunno if you run or not, but put this on in some headphones and go outside and just start running…that’s how this song makes me feel. Makes me wanna run off the road and into the sky. So to recap: fuck piracy, fuck that dude that leaked my record, here’s a song, support independent arts and culture(more now than ever), the album’s out now via Bandcamp and next Friday via streaming sites, some other shit is gonna be announced shortly afterwards, hope you’re all staying sane and safe, keep your wits about you and have some empathy and tolerance for one another, and stay intolerant of being turned against each other.”
Child Soldier: Creator of God was recorded in Los Angeles from the halcyon days of 2019 throughout the early, tumultuous months of 2020. The album was produced by Nick Rowe (Vampire Weekend, Haim) and mixed by Steve Evetts (The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Cure). Participating drummers are Ben Koller, Chris Pennie and Chris Hornbrook.
Here’s the video that was released for “Do You Need Me To Remind You”, directed and edited by Greg Puciato, Jim Louvau and Tony Aguilera:
The video for “A Pair Of Questions” was shot by Greg Puciato and Jesse Draxler (who also released an incredible album via Federal Prisoner):
The video for “Fire for Water” was also edited and directed by Draxler and Puciato:
Pallbearer celebrated the release of Forgotten Days (Nuclear Blast; https://www.pallbearerdoom.com/forgotten-days) with the release of “The Making of Forgotten Days”, a deep dive into the making of the eight-song album.
The new album Forgotten Days was released on October 23rd via Nuclear Blast.
Tracklist: 1. Forgotten Days 2. Riverbed 3. Stasis 4. Silver Wings 5. The Quicksand Of Existing 6. Vengeance & Ruination 7. Rite Of Passage 8. Caledonia
“It’s been inspiring creatively, I think we’ve written so much more material over the past year than ever before,” bass player/songwriter Joseph D. Rowland explains in the first moments of the interview. “We were able to really let some of the lyrics develop earlier in the process than we have in the past. We were able to really focus in on ideas, develop riffs, with lyrical patterns in mind, themes in mind… this time there was so much more opportunity to tightly hone in on those things.”
Here’s the video that was released for “The Quicksand Of Existence”, directed by Ben Meredith:
The Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Earth, Johan Johannson) produced album was recorded at Sonic Ranch Studios in West Texas. Forgotten Days (https://www.pallbearerdoom.com/forgotten-days) is available in a number of limited edition vinyl variants with physical bundles available via both the Nuclear Blast and Pallbearer webstores, as well as digitally and on CD/cassette.
Yes the song, “You’ll Have To Scream Louder”, is a cover from the band Television Personalities and it will be included in their upcoming album “Distractions” due out in February via City Slang.
Stuart Staples said this in a statement:
Late may, early June, 2020 was a twitchy and angry time for many of us. There was a growing agitation inside of me.
I woke on a Saturday morning with no plans but just this fucking Television Personalities song going round in my head, it pushed me into the studio.
4 or 5 hours later I had made the basis of this recording, though I had to wait for windows of opportunity within our confinement to work with the band to bring it to a conclusion.
I have loved the TVPs since buying the Bill Grundy e.p. with its photocopied sleeve on one of my regular after school bus trips to the Virgin record shop in a basement on King Street, Nottingham.
Some years later, 1984, I was living around the corner on the 17th floor of Victoria Centre flats, they swayed in the wind. I was working a few days at a local record shop and The Painted Word was released. It became at the soundtrack to that semi-slum, those times. I was 19.
To be young in the early 1980’s there was much to be angry about, battles to be fought – Thatcher, racial and gender injustice – and (one of the motivations for this song) nuclear disarmament. Although we may not have thought those battles were ever won, we believed we had helped push things in a different direction, that changes were made.
In the spring of 2020 we were shown painfully that these battles are ongoing.
After 8 years Quakers are back with Quakers II: The Next Wave. Quakers is Supa K (Katalyst), 7STU7 and Fuzzface (Geoff Barrow) as executive producer, along with an ever-expanding cast of MCs they invite along on the adventure.
Quakers II: The Next Wave was released via Stones Throw November 13th.
The tracklist:
1. Electrify 2. Start It Like This (feat. Phat Kat) 3. One Of A Kind (feat. Guilty Simpson) 4. Sell Your Soul 5. Bare Essentials (feat. The Niyat) 6. A Myth (feat. Sageinfinite) 7. This Station (feat. Jeremiah Jae) 8. Alive 9. Heat On It (feat. Grandmilly) 10. Double Jointed (feat. The Koreatown Oddity) 11. Who Dat (feat. Chester Watson) 12. Radiola (feat. Radioactivists) 13. Gun Control (feat. The Black Opera) 14. We Tried 15. Duck & Cover (feat. Guilty Simpson, Cysion) 16. Morphine (feat. Bob Banner) 17. Approach With Caution (feat. Sampa The Great) 18. The Streets 19. Looking For Love (feat. Denmark Vessey) 20. Fa Real (feat. Jeru The Damaja) 21. A Quick Fix (feat. YC, Super Vic) 22. Test My Patience (feat. Jonwayne) 23. Too Many To Count 24. Greatness (feat. Nolan The Ninja) 25. Hit List (feat. Cazeaux O.L.S.O) 26. Another Kind Of War (feat. Jeremiah Jae) 27. Leaflet Drops 28. One O’clock 29. All Of It (feat. Boog Brown) 30. Machine Room (feat. Fat Ray) 31. Pain (feat. Sav Killz) 32. The Line (feat. Cavalier) 33. Blocks (feat. Dionté Boom)
Quakers via Stones Throw: “Since the 2012 release of Quakers’ debut LP, “Katalyst has evolved into Supa K, 7STU7 has taken up intergalactic smuggling, and Fuzzface only communicates telepathically, silently overseeing the Quakers operation from afar.” True to the group’s collaborative spirit, the three producers invite over thirty rappers from the Stones Throw stable and beyond to contribute to Quakers II: The Next Wave. The new wave of Quakers MCs includes The Koreatown Oddity, Guilty Simpson, Sampa the Great, Jonwayne, Jeremiah Jae, Chester Watson, Boog Brown, and many more. All adding their weight to the sonic arsenal. Much like Quakers’ self-titled debut, The Next Wave is loud, unapologetic and blunted. It’s also more explicitly political, with songs that speak directly to systemic corruption, racism, and the climate crisis. The artwork for The Next Wave, created by graphic novel artist Joe Currie, reflects this renewed focus on “interplanetary eco battles.” “The project has evolved organically, similar to last time,” explains Supa K, but “the world has changed and the music reflects that. We’ve all had enough of the global corruption and all those profiting from it.” Quakers leave us with this quote from the late, great Left Rev McD: “We have killed the very earth beneath our feet, yet we still kill each other and talk of the future.” The time for change is now.
Mr. Bungle, who recently released their first album in over two decades, The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo (Ipecac Recordings, https://lnk.to/MBWrath), have partnered with acclaimed Director Derek Cianfrance (“The Place Beyond The Pines,” “Blue Valentine”) for the band’s “Sudden Death” video.
“If you lived in Lakewood, Colorado, during the early 1990s, there’s a slim chance you would have seen and heard a 16 -year-old boy driving slowly around town in a white, 1974 Mustang II, with his windows rolled down, disrupting the neighborhood by blaring the music of Mr. Bungle. That 16-year-old kid was me, and that music that I listened to, over and over and over again, set the bar for my life as an artist,” explained Cianfrance. “So, 30 years later, when I got a call from Mike Patton asking me to direct a music video for one of the songs on their new album, The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo, I questioned whether my life was really a dream… I informed Mike that I had never directed a music video before, but he wasn’t dissuaded. I listened to the album and asked if I could work with the song “Sudden Death.” It reminded me of the feelings of angst I carried throughout my youth while growing up in the shadow of a looming, forbidding thermonuclear war. I decided I could make a short film (well, not so short – the song is almost 8 min!) about these fears that haunted me. I was also interested in meditating on the theme of desensitization in modern society, where citizens are gradually and systemically numbed to the possibility of cataclysmic consequences. Since the song was written in the mid-‘80s, I determined that the video should feel like it was made during that time and imagined it as some sort of rediscovered relic. Shooting during a global pandemic proved a fitting backdrop to the malaise of the song. It also presented a unique challenge as I was too nervous to work with actors – so I had to come up with another solution. making this video with a small team of trusted collaborators, and working with my life-long heroes, was nothing short of a total dream come true.”
Cianfrance and Patton came to know one another after working together on the 2013 film “The Place Beyond The Pines.” Cianfrance said, in an interview with Pitchfork, that once he shot the film, he knew the only person who should compose its score was Patton. Cianfrance has also incorporated music from Patton’s discography into his current project, HBO’s “I Know This Much Is True.”
“When we first worked together, he told me he was a fan, and I didn’t believe him,” said Patton. “Years later, he told me he gravitated to the most difficult tunes on Bungle records (“Dead Goon,” “Merry Go Bye Bye,” “Goodbye Sober Day”) so him choosing “Sudden Death” for this iteration of Bungle actually made perfect sense. The least commercial and longest song? That’s where his ears and eyes go.”
