Amazing Songs & Other Delights #26 the Another Bag of New Songs edition airs today on YÊ YÊ Radio: https://yeyeradio.com/ or on the app 3-4pm (gmt+1). My bag is filled with new songs, newish songs or remixed songs. It is an upbeat edition with songs ranging from newcomer Lola Flowers to veteran Liam Gallagher. Jackie Down The Line by Fontaines D.C. is one of the dozen plus songs that will be played.
Amazing Songs & Other Delights #26 – The Another Bag of New Songs edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ YÊ YÊ Radio
The Another Bag of New Songs edition is Amazing Songs & Other Delights #26. It airs tomorrow on YÊ YÊ Radio: https://yeyeradio.com/ or on the app 3-4pm (gmt+1). My bag is filled with new songs, newish songs or remixed songs. It is an upbeat edition with songs ranging from newcomer Lola Flowers to veteran Liam Gallagher. Tracklist below.
Tracklist:
01 – !!! (Chk Chk Chk) – Storm Around The World (ft. Maria Uzor)
02 – Anthony Moore – Judy Get Down
03 – Emily Jane White – Poisoned
04 – Fontaines D.C. – Jackie Down The Line
05 – Horsegirl – Billy
06 – Hot Left Pole – A Very Wise Old Man
07 – Liam Gallagher – C’mon You Know
08 – Lola Flowers – I Look So Good
09 – Matt Dorrien – Dance
10 – Maxwell Farrington & Le Superhomard – Two Hopeful Lovers x
11 – Naoise Roo – Whore (John Agnello Remix)
12 – Perspex – Ceefax & Asbestos
13 – Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Dive Deep
14 – Ryan Egan – Alone For The Last Time
15 – Sean Riley w/ The Legendary Tigerman – Good Kids
16 – Sopa de Pedra – Fonte
17 – TheBobbyLees – Dig Your Hips
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Hi and Happy Sunday with From the Mouth of Babies by Johnno Casson aka Snippet.
Good morning with Storm Around the World (feat. Maria Uzor) by !!! (Chk Chk Chk). Have a nice weekend.
Good morning with our Middle of the Week Song – C’mon You Know by Liam Gallagher. Have a nice day.
Russian Circles + Helms Alee, Hard Club, Porto, 29.03.2022
text: Neno Costa (freely translated by Raquel Pinheiro); photos: Telma Mota
Helms Alee
Seattleâs trio Helms Alee returned to Portugal, ensuring they were a stimulating opening act, combining a rough sound texture with well-matched and creative melodic brushstrokes, avoiding the most commonplaces of noise rock. Portentous bass and energetic drums, refreshed by an intense guitar Helm Alee fulfilled the first part of the concert almost without fault (it seems that in Lisbon it was better), leaving our mouths watering to be better listened to.
Russian Circles
With a well-defined identity, Russian Circles belong to the sound universe of excellent composers of instrumental post-rock, such as Mono or Godspeed You! Black Emperor (some great concerts promoted by Amplificasom are fondly remembered).
Masters of an energy purified from the gratuitousness of the formulas that inhabit some worlds of the heaviest sounds, the Chicago trio saluted those who sold out Hard Clubâs Sala 2 with a first-class sonic trip. The pretext of their latest album Blood Year (2019), which promotion was cur short by the pandemic, served as a ride to revisit some of the many brilliant themes that inhabit Russian Circles seven studio albums.
In fact, only two themes from their latest work were included in the proposed menu -Arluck and Quartered- the first as an opening painting the air with Brian Cook’s portentous bass, followed by Dave Turncrantz’s vigorous beat dilating the walls of the room, merging with Mike Sullivan’s irreproachable guitar electrifying the hanging heads. A lingering guitar riff filled the air with Afrika (Guidance, 2016), on a journey from primordial ingenuity to an indefinable urgency to lead to redemptive hope. Subjective landscapes, yes, but also one of the merits of some aphonic bands, as is the case. Harper Lewis (Station, 2008) continued the well-woven progression of the line up, with punchy rhythmic phrases hand in hand with moving and fresh melodic clearings.
The first clear chords of Quatered progressed until collapsing in an eloquent and overwhelming harmonic avalanche. If digitally reproduced sound is tasty, live is even more superlative, full-bodied, crisp and immersive. Tuned like clocks, without scenic artifice or gestural theatrics Russian Circles guided the audience’s emotions through dynamic and fluid bridges between unique landscapes such as Deficit (Memorial, 2013), 309 (Empros, 2011), Conduit (recent theme) and Vorel. (Guidance, 2016) ending with Youngblood (Station, 2008) in a well-constructed visceral intensity to finish off an impeccable concert that we already miss.
texto: Neno Costa; fotos: Telma Mota
Helms Alee
O trio de Seattle Helms Alee regressou a Portugal, assegurando uma primeira parte estimulante, conjugando uma textura sonora ÃĄspera com pinceladas melÃŗdicas bem conjugadas e criativas, evitando os lugares mais comuns no noise rock. Baixo portentoso e bateria enÊrgica, refrescadas por uma guitarra intensa, os Helm Alee cumpriram a primeira parte do concerto quase sem mÃĄcula (parece que em Lisboa esteve melhor), deixando ÃĄgua na boca para melhores audiçÃĩes.
Russian Circles
Com uma identidade bem definida, os Russian Circles pertencem ao universo sonoro de compositores exÃmios nos trilhos do post-rock instrumental como sÃŖo, por exemplo, os Mono ou os Godspeed You! Black Emperor (recorda-se com saudade alguns dos grandes concertos promovidos pela Amplificasom).
Senhores de uma energia depurada da gratuitidade das fÃŗrmulas que habitam alguns territÃŗrios das sonoridades mais pesadas, o trio de Chicago brindou todos quantos esgotaram a sala 2 do Hard Club com uma viagem sÃŗnica em primeira classe. O pretexto do seu Ãēltimo ÃĄlbum âBlood Yearâ(2019), cuja promoçÃŖo se viu amputada pela pandemia, serviu de boleia à revisitaçÃŖo de alguns dos muitos temas brilhantes que habitam os sete ÃĄlbuns de estÃēdio dos Russian Circles. Com efeito, somente dois temas do seu Ãēltimo trabalho integraram a ementa proposta -Arluck e Quatered-, com o primeiro a abrir o concerto e a pintar o ar com o baixo portentoso de Brian Cook, seguido pela batida vigorosa de Dave Turncrantz a dilatar as paredes da sala, fundindo-se com a guitarra irrepreensÃvel de Mike Sullivan a eletrificar as cabeças penduladas. O riff prolongado da guitarra encheu o ar com Afrika (Guidance, 2016), numa viagem da ingenuidade primordial atÊ uma urgÃĒncia indefinÃvel para desembocar numa esperança redentora. SÃŖo paisagens subjetivas, sim, mas esse Ê, tambÊm, um dos mÊritos de algumas bandas afÃŗnicas, como Ê o caso. Harper Lewis (Station, 2008) deu continuidade à progressÃŖo bem tecida do alinhamento, com frases rÃtmicas enÊrgicas de mÃŖo dada com clareiras melÃŗdicas, comoventes e frescas.
Os primeiros acordes de Quartered, lÃmpidos, progrediram atÊ desabar numa avalancha harmÃŗnica, eloquente e arrebatadora. Se o som reproduzido digitalmente Ê saboroso, ao vivo Ê ainda mais superlativo, encorpado, nÃtido e envolvente. Afinados como relÃŗgios, sem artifÃcios cÊnicos ou teatralidade gestual, os Russian Circles guiaram as emoçÃĩes do pÃēblico atravÊs de pontes dinÃĸmicas e fluidas entre paisagens Ãēnicas como Deficit (Memorial, 2013), 309 (Empros, 2011), Conduit (tema recente) e Vorel (Guidance, 2016) terminando com Youngblood (Station, 2008) numa intensidade visceral bem construÃda a rematar um concerto irrepreensÃvel que deixou saudades.
Hi with A Peculiar Song by Fabian Simon & The Moon Machine.
Hi and Happy sunday with My Echo by Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever.
Set A Light – Lester Bangs Special by Raquel Pinheiro & Rui Pimenta @ YÊ YÊ Radio, Saturday, 30th, 7pm (gmt+1)
Set A Light Lester Bangs Special is a sound film/sound collage by Raquel Pinheiro & Rui Pimenta dedicated to music critic and larger than life person Lester Bangs who died 40 years ago today at the age of 33. It airs today, Saturday 30th on YÊ YÊ radio: https://yeyeradio.com/ at 7pm (gmt+1): (or on the app). Was Lester the greatest rock critic ever? Who knows. Jim DeRogatis thought he may, at least, be “America’s greatest rock critic”. Textbook Case by Birdland with Lester Bangs is one of the song featuring Lster himself that can be heard on the show. The full tracklist is below the text.
Bangs wrote for Creem, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice and several other publications. He was excessive, passionate, unmerciful and honest when it came to write about music. Is too blunt a thing? Again, who knows, but Lester often certainly was. He also didn’t shy from confrontation, even in interviews. His interview with Lou Reed, originally published in Let It Rock in November 1973 is such an example: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/nov/08/lou-reed-lester-bangs-interview Is that even an interview or is it a roasters fight? Hard to say, but it may be better not to try it at home, or if we happen to be interviewing someone. Lester and Lou can pull it off, the rest of us are mere mortals. Did he took it to far when he played typewriter on stage at Cobo Hall in Detroit with the J. Geils Band? Who’s to know. What it is knows is that his riff, sorry, typewriting inclued “VDKHEOQSNCHSHNELXIEN(&H-SXN(E@JN?”. And that, afterwards, Lester destroyed the typewriter like a proper rock star. You don’t get it? Nor do we. Or do we? … If you think we’re making it up just to make things more interesting, we’re not. The story is told by the man himself in My Night of Ecstasy With the J. Geils Band that is part of Lester’s posthumous writings Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor DungâThe Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock ânâ Roll As Literature and Literature As Rock ânâ Roll, edited by Greil Marcus.
Set a Light Lester Bangs Special starting point is Almost Famous, Cameron Crowe’s film in which Philip Seymour Hoffman, another larger than life person, plays bangs and Patrick Fugit as 15 years old William Miller (William, the teenage wanna be music writer. Lines from the movie and inter-weaved with Lester’s own bands, or bands he played with, bands he trashed like MC5’s Kick out the Jams – does Detroit Sucks? we don’t think so, but, who knows … Maybe Lester did… – bands he loved, Teenage Jesus And The Jerks, bands who mentioned him in their songs, R.EM., Scott B. Sympathy and even a band he liked, at least early on and wrote a kind of despondent, but honest and unmerciful? biography about Blondie. There are a little over 60 minutes of a few things Lester Bangs on this special Set a Light. All things Lester Bangs would require a whole day show and we may (who are we kidding, we would) still fall short.
Set A Light is a forthcoming regular radio show by Raquel Pinheiro & Rui Pimenta that focus on things, and people, around and behind a band/artist. From music writers to producers through graphic designers, photographers, fans, and others/more.
Tracklist:
01 – Almost Famous – Introducing Mr. Lester Bangs
02 – Lester Bangs – Let It Blurt
03 – Almost Famous – if you like Lou Lester Bangs to William Miller
04 – Lou Reed – Walk On The Wild Side
05 – Almost Famous – do you take drugs Lester Bangs to William Miller
06 – John Coltrane – This Are A Few of My Favourite Things & Typewriter
07 – Almost Famous -an assignment Lester Bangs to William Miller
08 – Silence (from John Cage’s 4’33) & Black Sabbath (Planet Caravan)
09 – Almost Famous – honest Lester Bangs to William Miller
10 – Teenage Jesus And The Jerks – I Woke Up Dreaming – (from the No New Work LP, 1978, compiled and produced by Brian Eno)
11 – Lester Bangs – About Music
12 – Roxy Music – Just Like You
13 – Birdland with Lester Bangs – Textbook Case
14 – Lester Bangs – on Beatles Nostalgia (1981)
15 – John Lennon – Gimme Some Truth
16 – Lester Bangs and The Delinquents – I Just Want to Be a Movie Star
17 – Almost Famous – women Lester Bangs to William Miller
18 – Blondie – Little Girl Lies (Live at El Mocambo, Toronto, August 3rd, 1978 – FM Radio Broadcast)
19 – Count Five – Psychotic Reaction
20 – The J. Geils Band – So Sharp
21 – Almost Famous – unmerciful Lester Bangs to William Miller
22 – MC5 – Borderline (live at Detroit’s Grande Ballroom)
23 – Almost Famous – starry eyes Lester Bangs to William Miller
24 – R.E.M. – It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
25 – Scott B. Sympathy – Lester Bangs Stereo Ghost
26 – Almost Famous – the day it ceases to the dumb it’s the day it ceases to be real Lester Bangs to William Miller
Good morning with Hello, Hi by Ty Segall. Have a nice weekend.
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