EX NORWEGIAN Add Live Presentations To Two New Remasters

July 4, 2024

Independence means much for many an artist and many embraced it out of necessity, yet Miami Beach ensemble EX NORWEGIAN chose it as a means to be themselves. And they still are themselves, as 2003’s "Sooo Extra" demonstrated with much gusto, but sometimes there’s a need to cast a glance over the collective’s shoulder to assess their past and bring it into the future. The foursome’s first attempt to do so was "On The Sidelines: The Albums 2015-2017" – and now the quartet delved deeper into their years and prepared deluxe editions of two minor classics: 2010’s “Sketch” and “House Music” from 2012.

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THE FUZZTONES Release Rockpalast Report

July 3, 2024

A band’s name rarely screams “garage rock” as explicitly as that of THE FUZZTONES who still are going strong after more than four decades in punky business – despite delivering "Encore" in 2022 and, thus, suggesting the goodbyes were forthcoming. Even more vibrant fifteen years ago, the ensemble – who seem to have been based in Berlin for a few years now – became one of the many spectacular performers caught in the act for the German TV show “Rockpalast” while playing a selection of their best moments such as “Ward 81” and “She’s Wicked” with Rudi Protrudi, Lana Loveland and their coterie whipping the audience into a frenzy. And the document of that concert is ready for release on July 26th.

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TEN YEARS AFTER Issue Their Full Woodstock Performance

July 2, 2024

This ensemble had quite a few glorious moment, the creative success of their 1971 album "A Space In Time" merely one of those, yet a lot of the things TEN YEARS AFTER did appeared in the shadows of a legend forged at Woodstock. Strangely, the foursome’s entire performance at the festival has never been released as a standalone disc to provide an uninterrupted experience of the band in their prime. Fortunately, soon such a glaring issue will be remedied.

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T.REX’s “Born To Boogie” Gets It On Blu-Ray

July 1, 2024

Those who suggest that Ringo Starr’s most important gift to the world of cinema were the characters he played from “A Hard Day’s Night” onwards are wrong; arguably, the best thing the ex-Beatle contributed to the screen is “Born To Boogie”: a 1972 film based on T.REX concert performances which he directed. It’s about time the movie made it onto a Blu-ray – and this is what will happen on September 27th. Only one should think the 2005 DVD version still looks more alluring – not quality-wise but in terms of additional material.

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Lee Underwood Revives The Wonder Of His “Sigh”

July 1, 2024

Lee Underwood‘s name may not be on everyone’s list of greatest guitarists, yet without him such Tim Buckley albums as “Happy Sad” would have never attained sonic grandeur. Add to those platters ones by Essra Mohawk, and Lee’s place in popular music history could be secured even before he began editing “DownBeat” and contributing to “Rolling Stone” while also writing and publishing poetry. Underwood’s solo discography has been rather short, though, with a single six-string record, “California Sigh” issued on cassette in 1988, and two piano collections, “Phantom Light” and “Gathering Light” from, respectively, 2003 and 2009 – and it was the first of these that his fans wanted to hear again for a long time.

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