Anyway, anyhow, anywhere

 

Maybe a song you haven't heard 100000000x this season... from 2013, it's !!! with "And Anyway It's Christmas." 

Relive your 'Feelings'

 

A favorite track/album from 2021... London-based Dry Cleaning with "Strong Feelings" from their debut release New Long Leg.

Horse sense

 

The Chicago-based teen trio Horsegirl recently released this video for "Billy," a forthcoming 7-inch single (with a cover of the Minutemen's "History Lesson Part II" on side B) via their new label, Matador. 

The band has said the song is "a love letter to past music scenes we wish we could have witnessed."

True romance

 

Valentine, the second record from Snail Mail, aka current East Village resident Lindsey Jordan, will likely end up on some best-of year-end lists. (Here's a nice recap on her two-album career via NPR.) 

The video for the title track is from "The Late Show" earlier this month.

'Tomorrow' never dies

 

In case you were looking for some new dream pop ... the Swedish quintet Makthaverskan just released a new record titled För Allting via Run For Cover. 

The audio track above is for "Tomorrow." 

Hopefully, the band will be back around these parts someday.

Boxing Bush Tetras

 

Today is a good day to celebrate Bush Tetras, the local post-punk pioneers who formed in 1979.

Today marks the release of the career-spanning box set "Rhythm and Paranoia: The Best of Bush Tetras," which features 29 songs across three LPs pressed onto 180-gram vinyl and remastered by Carl Saff, plus a 46-page book with photos, an original essay on the band by Marc Masters, and shorter essays by Thurston Moore, Nona Hendryx and Topper Headon, among others.

As you may know, Dee Pop, the band's longtime drummer, passed away on Oct. 9. According to an announcement by the band, he died in his sleep. He was 65. 

Don Christensen, who played in Bush Tetras for a time in the 1980s as well as the Contortions and the Raybeats, will be taking over on drums ... as there's a record-release show tomorrow night at LPR on Bleecker Street. 

BTW, Stereogum has an interview with the band's two veteran members, Pat Place and Cynthia Sley, right here. 

Now to the video... Wharf Cat Records recently released a remastered version of "Too Many Creeps" from 1979... a song and video (filmed along the Bowery) that remains an all-time EVG favorite.

Previously on EV Grieve:

• Things that go boom in the night: As Bush Tetras prepare for their 40th-anniversary show

How 'Soon' is now

 

Loveless, My Bloody Valentine's sonic masterpiece, turned 30 yesterday. (Happy anniversary!) 

So enjoy the video for the album's last track — "Soon." 

You can read more about the record here ... and here.

Up the down 'Staircase'

 

Let Siouxsie and the Banshees conjure up some Halloween spirits with this video from 1979 for "The Staircase (Mystery)."

Like a 'Dream'

 

New Order is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the release of their first album, Movement. 

On this occasion today, the band released this video of "Dreams Never End" — Movement's lead track — from their concert (Nov. 18, 1981) at the Ukrainian National Home on Second Avenue between St. Mark's Place and Ninth Street.

(We've posted the full show before, like here.)

'Star' power

 

Surfbort released a video this week for their latest single, "Big Star" ... from the new release Keep on Truckin'.

The 'Power' and the passion

 

Johnny Marr's latest EP, Fever Dreams Pt 1, is out on Oct. 15. The video here is for a single off that release titled "Spirit Power and Soul."

Adult swim

 

Local singer-songwriter Vlad Holiday has a new EP out on Nov. 5 titled Write Me Off the Show. The video here is for the single titled "Skinny Dipping."

Also, today is another Bandcamp Friday, in which the platform foregoes its revenue and gives the bands all the $$$ from the day's sales.

Days of your youth

 

Going back to 1981 for this live clip of Delta 5 performing "Anticipation." 

Julz Sale, the lead singer of the UK-based post-punk band, died this week. Details about her death were not disclosed. 

Some background, cutting-and-pasting from Pitchfork: "Although the Delta 5 only released one full-length album —1981's See the Whirl — they released several other singles, which Kill Rock Stars collected in the 2006 set Singles & Sessions: 1979-1981."

Like a 'Rollin Stone'

 

Little Simz, the UK-based rapper, released her fourth record, Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, at the beginning of the month. 

The video (flash warning!) is for "Rollin Stone."

'Hertz' so good

 

The video for "Hertz," the latest single by Amyl and the Sniffers, dropped a few days back... the Australian band just released their latest record, Comfort to Me.

'State' of grace

 

East Village-based singer-songwriter (and bar owner!) Jesse Malin releases his next record, Sad and Beautiful World, on Sept. 24. 

The video here is for the single "State of the Art." (Relix has more on the song and video here.)

'Rocks Off' on the Bowery

 

Revisiting a few videos by the Rolling Stones after the passing of drummer Charlie Watts this week at age 80. 

Robert Frank shot this footage of the band for a "Rocks Off" video circa 1972... filmed in NYC and Los Angeles... There are some moments on the Bowery here — you may catch a glimpse of the intersection at East Houston...

Pace yourself

 

Parquet Courts this week announced details about their new album, Sympathy For Life, due out in October. Read more about that here. 

The first single from the Brooklyn-based band's forthcoming record is "Walking at a Downtown Pace" ... as seen in the above video.

One's own worst enema

Surfbort released a new single and video yesterday. Please enjoy "White Claw Enema Bong Hit."

A 'Night' like this

 

"End Of The Night" is the first single off the recently released EP by Brooklyn veterans A Place to Bury Strangers... which is also the first release on their own newly formed label, Dedstrange. 

And, FYI, today is Bandcamp Friday — where the music platform waives its revenue share for the day.