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21:00 | Carl Barat & The Jackals |
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The Libertines' Carl Barat and his band The Jackals released their debut album Let It Reign in the beginning of 2015, a few months after the Libertines reunited for their first shows in four years. The LP, which was recorded in LA and London, features guest musicians including Beastie Boys percussionist, Alfredo Ortiz. The album was out on Cooking Vinyl in the UK and Grand Jury in the U.S. "I actually started making this record solo, but the long and short of it is I just didn’t like my own company," - Barât said in a press release. - "I was lucky, because I found a bunch of people who genuinely fit together as a gang." The band also released the Second World War-themed video for Glory Days (it was the first single from Let It Reign), which is in memoriam of the 306 British & Commonwealth soldiers shot for desertion during the Great War. The Jackals were formed after Barat posted an advert on Facebook for a drummer, bassist and guitarist. The applicants had to learn two songs - one by each of Barat's other bands, The Libertines and Dirty Pretty Things, and submit their performances as auditions. The chosen ones were Billy Tessio (guitar), Adam Claxton (bassist) and Jay Bone (drummer). Barat is still working with Pete Doherty on a new Libertine's album. More info
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Arguably the most influential and successful European thrash metal band ever, Germany's Kreator are also by far the most enduring. Like many of their European speed metal brethren, Kreator fused Metallica's thrash innovations with Venom's proto-black metal imagery, sparked it with Motörhead's balls-out velocity, and capped it off with the nihilistic outlook typical of heavy metal since the seminal days of Black Sabbath. Kreator's career also mirrored speed metal's rising and waning fortunes: building from strength to strength throughout the 1980s, only to fall on hard times in the 1990s. Now seemingly reborn in their third decade of activity, Kreator are certified worldwide superstars who still tour as widely and frequently as bands half their age - now that's resilience. Originally named Tyrant, and then Tormentor, Kreator were founded in 1982 by vocalist/guitarist Mille Petrozza, bassist Rob Fioretti, and drummer Jürgen Reil (aka Ventor) in the industrial capital of Essen, Germany. They were still known as Tormentor when their first two demo tapes, one fittingly named Blitzkrieg (1983), and the other End of the World (1984), fell into the hands of thousands of heavy metal fans engaging in the era's bustling underground tape-trading network. Positive word of mouth soon attracted the attention of Germany's own metal start-up, Noise Records, which signed the newly re-christened Kreator to a deal and immediately put them to work on their first album. Recorded in just ten days at Berlin's Musiclab Studios, 1985's Endless Pain was a savage debut, but its crude thrashing quickly had the underground metal world abuzz with excitement. A second guitar player, Wulf, was hired for touring purposes, and with Kreator's reputation preceding them, lucky fans within the band's modest touring radius were soon clamoring for tickets. Read more
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The Norwegian power-pop band titled Sweden from Fredrikstad which is situated on the border of Norway and Sweden. The founders of the band Christian Spro and Fredrik Gretland have met when they were teenagers: both went to Sweden for... caramels. Now Sweden are Christian Spro (vocal, guitar), Fredrik Gretland (back-vocal, guitar), Oystein Frantzvag (bass), Johan Edvardsson (drums), Jon Kristian Furuheim (keys). The band released two albums "Under the Sycamore Tree" and "Sixes & Sevens" at the famous Scandinavian lable Vestkyst Rec. where Torgeir Waldemar and Janne Hea also issued their discs. Thanks for these albums Sweden have a great army of fans including musical critics from such popular national newspapers as Aftenposten, Dagbladet, VG and promouters of the whole interesting festivals in the country. Sweden in a Norwegian answer to Teenage Fanclub, Dinosaur Jr., Broder Daniel, Weezer and of course Brainpool and (why not?!) Pixies. Though their young age Sweden have worked with The Cumshots, Monica Heldal, Sivert Hoyem, Los Plantronics and with legendary Norwegian sound producers Bjarne Stensli (Sivert Hoyem, Marion Ravn, Ingrid Olava), John Goodmanson (Blonde Redhead, Death Cab For Cutie, Sleater-Kinney) and Bjarte Lund Rolland (Kvelertak). Interestingly that the frontmen of the outfit Christian Spro is known to Oslo inhabitants as a hairdresser of the fashionable rockabilly saloon "Billie Bangs". Sweden's music is happy, ironic, hooligan. And it's the best guitar power-pop from Scandinavia, isn't it? Don't miss Sweden's first performance in Russia.
Mumiy Troll Music Bar |
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