New Music: You Got Me Searching

          

After just announcing his 2025 tour dates, Jack White returns with a blistering and bursting brand new single "You Got Me Searching" which arrives today as the B-side to the No Name track, “That’s How I’m Feeling." now this is an energetic rock tune that jumps between its head-banging refrain and bluesy breakdowns, with White’s vocal wail serving as the anchor throughout. The single is available to stream today, scroll below to listen to it. Next Friday (November 22nd), the song and its A-side, “That’s How I’m Feeling,” will arrive on a limited-edition 7-inch vinyl via Third Man Records.

New Music: Night Or Day

          

Franz Ferdinand presents "Night Or Day" from the forthcoming album "The Human Fear", out 10th January 202, a song about the ups and downs in life, according to Alex Kapranos who revealed: "Life may never be easy, but damn, we'll make sure we live it up night or day. Night into day", the band colaborated with director Rianne White to capture the Drama-Noir of the environment where we recorded this and the rest of the album, and also because she has a sensitivity and energy which exploded into that space, giving a glimpse of the world where we made the music, filmed entirely on location at AYR Studios with a powerful meeting of visual and sound, all caught in the eye of 16mm black and white film.

New Music: Nobody Loves You More

          

Taken from Kim Deal's debut studio album "Nobody Loves You More" due up to be this November 22,  her new single under the same name, it's big band ballad with Deal playing a tender guitar accompanied by strings and a brass band, the video is directed by Alex Da Corte, and offers a visual take on the album's cover art inspired by the Dutch artist Alex Da Corte, showcasing Deal playing and sing the song on a small stage floating in the vast sea accompanied by a flamingo.

New Music: Ghost

          

The South London based band "Honeyglaze" a haiky-loving trio comprised of vocalist and guitarist Anouska Sokolow, bassist Tim Curtis, and Yuri Shibuichi on drums, presentes their latest single "Ghost" from their latest album "Real Deal" released last 20 September, now this is a powerful hypnotic song with a visualizer by Max Taeuschul

The Re-Issue: Band Aid/Do They Know It's Christmas? 40th., Anniversary

Band Aid's legendary and iconic 1984 charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?", is being reissued to mark 40 years since the original release.

 

Written by Bob Geldolf and Midge Ure, Do They Know It’s Christmas? was of course performed by ’80s pop stars of the era, including George Michael, Paul Young, Sting, Duran Duran, Phil Collins, Boy George, Heaven 17, Spandau Ballet & Bananarama amongst others.

The reissue is being released on CD and vinyl and features the original recording from 1984, the Band Aid 20 version (from 2004) and the song as sung by ‘Band Aid 30’ in 2014. It also features the “if you’re going to cock it up…” rendition performed at the end of Live Aid in 1985. However, this release’s claim to fame is a new ‘Ultimate Mix’ created by Trevor Horn that mixes vocal contributions of the many artists who have recorded the song over the decades into one seamless whole. 

So basically, you can hear a Sting sing alongside Ed Sheeran, Boy George with Sam Smith, and George Michael with Harry Styles, and this practically is not so good, at least to me, because I think the 2014 version is probably the most weak and boring of all.

Unfortunately, the 1989 "Band Aid II" version isn’t included in this new edit, since the multi-tracks cannot be found, although that doesn’t explain why the 89 version isn’t included on the CD and vinyl in its original form.

And just like 40 years ago, this is all for a good cause, with proceeds going to the Band Aid Trust.

Do They Know It’s Christmas? will be released on 29 November 2024. It will be premiered online on 25 November.

 

Do They Know It's Christmas? Track List: 

 

1. Do They Know It's Christmas? (1984 Version)

2. Band Aid 20 - Do They Know It's Christmas? (2004 Version)

3. Band Aid 30 - Do They Know It's Christmas? (2014 Version)

4. Band Aid - Do They Know it's Christmas? (2024 Ultimate Mix)

5. Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? (Live At Wembley Stadium, 1985) 

New Music: Look At You Now

          

Taken from the lastest album by OMD "Bauhaus Staircase" released last year, their brand new single "Look At You Now" it's a fantastic smooth synth pop tune just like the good old days of the band, indeed their laster recording sounds exactly like that, bringing back the 1980s in plein 2024, the video was shot anc created by Cine1080Studio, another AI animation with powerful girl fighting scary living skeletons and other things in a far far away galaxy.

Primicia: New London Boy (Boy Harsher Remix)

          

Taken from Pet Shop Boys' new double A-side single "New London Boy" / "All The Young Dudes Remixes", this is the Boy Harsher Remixwith brilliant 80's vibes that turns this into something truly better than the original remix, personally I think this should be the main single.

New Music: All The Yound Dudes/West End Girls with The Manchester Camerata Orchestral Version

          

The Pet Shop Boys were honored at the last EMAS gala with the Pop Pioneers Award, also delivered a fantastic performance along with the Manchester Camerata the medley "All The Young Dudes"/"West End Girls" the performance was so cool and fantastic, that the duo decided to stream a new studio recording of the medley available in two versions, the one they performed at the event and a more solemn orchestral version

New Music: All The Young Dudes/West End Girls With The Manchester Camerata

         

The Pet Shop Boys were honored at the last EMAS gala with the Pop Pioneers Award, also delivered a fantastic performance along with the Manchester Camerata the medley "All The Young Dudes"/"West End Girls" the performance was so cool and fantastic, that the duo decided to stream a new studio recording of the medley available in two versions, the one they performed at the event and a more solemn orchestral version

Rocktrospectiva: The Funny Retro Pop On "The Honeydrippers: Volume One" Turns 40

 

Released on 24 September 1984 and then on 12 November in the UK, "The Honeydrippers: Volume One" was a mini album by a band led by English rock singer Robert Plant, a project originated when Atlantic Records president Ahmet Ertegun wanted to record an album of his favourite songs from the 1950s., so Plant was chosen because Ertegun had seen his pick-up band the Honeydrippers performing 1950s standards. Included in the band were Chic front man Nile Rodgers, Late Night with David Letterman bandleader Paul Shaffer, and former Yardbirds guitarists Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page a former co-partner of Plant with Led Zeppelin, the album spawned the single "Sea Of Love".

As a curious fact, "Sea Of Love" became Plant's biggest-selling single, but according to Plant, the original single was "Rockin' at Midnight," with "Sea of Love" as the "B" side, the single was eventually "flipped" because radio stations were playing "Sea of Love" far more than Rockin' at Midnight. Plant feared his career would be ruined by this, and that people would think of him now as a "crooner", instead of the rock and roll singer he'd always been.

In the years to come, Plant stated that this was his personal favorite project that he ever recorded, so the plans to do another Honeydrippers album was under discussion between Plant and Ertegun, but unfortunately the second one died in December 2006, so the plan was shelved permanently. 

This retro-rock project that hauled out five golden oldies from the pre-Beatles era and served them up authentically, or at least as authentic nostalgia. There is a certain sense of pastiche here, particularly in how "Sea of Love" is drenched in oceans of strings, far more than on the Phil Phillips original, which manages to evoke the era of lily white pop covers in a way that no straightforward cover could, but that's part of the charm of the record. Some may find this kind of pastiche a bit distancing, even campy, but there's a genuine warmth in Plant's performance, and his group of Honeydrippers both had a great time running through these handful of oldies, particularly on "Rockin' at Midnight." It may not be much more than a lark, but it's truly fun, even if it might have been slightly more fun making it than it is listening to it.

 

The Honeydrippers Volume One Track List:

 

1. I Get A Thrill

2. Sea Of Love

3. I Got A Woman

4. Young Boy Blues

5. Rockin' It A Midnight