Iggy Pop's 19th studio album, Every Loser, is out today.
The record, which features backing musicians Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan, Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro and a posthumous appearance from Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, is enjoying some pretty solid reviews to date.
There are a bunch of audio clips from the record on YouTube... such as the one above for "Neo Punk."
East Village-based singer-songwriter Jesse Malin has released a new video for "Xmas, etc.," a re-recording of the song that appeared on his debut LP, The Fine Art of Self Destruction ... that record will be expanded and reissued in celebration of its 20th anniversary early next year. (Read more about that here.)
In this season of the listicle... a top-20 record contender — Excess, the second release from the Los Angeles-based trio Automatic. The video here is for "Teen Beat."
Here's more about the influential (and underappreciated IMO) band via NPR:
The Clean's open, do-it-yourself approach certainly stood the test of time, crystallized in a lyric Kilgour wrote: "Anything could happen and it could be right now / And the choice is yours, so make it worthwhile."That aesthetic heavily impacted later indie rockers such as Pavement, Yo La Tengo and Superchunk. The band's influence extended into numerous scenes around the world, from the Elephant 6 collective in America, to current bands like The Courtneys in Canada and The Beths back in New Zealand. They've all found inspiration in The Clean's impulsive creativity and lack of pretense.
The above video for "Dunes" from 1989 was filmed in NYC... and you'll spot some familiar and long-gone music venues on the Bowery and East Houston and elsewhere.
Chris Santana, aka "the book man of Astor Place," has released this seasonal single — going as SantanaClaus — filmed from his spot outside Cooper Union.
Please enjoy "It's Time for Christmas." (You can find more from him on SoundCloud.)
Don’t Know What You're In Until You're Out is the just-released second record from the Philadelphia-based band Gladie ... the video here is for the anthemic indie-pop track "Nothing."
They'll be at the Bowery Ballroom on Dec. 16, though that show is sold out.
P.S.
Today is Bandcamp Friday, where the platform waives its revenue share, and all earnings go to the artists.
Big week for local band Hello Mary... the trio — bassist Mikaela Oppenheimer, guitarist Helena Straight and drummer Stella Wave — announced the release date for their debut LP — March 3, 2023.
For the Halloween weekend... the Cramps with "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" ... with live footage from August 1980 and "Urgh! A Music War." (Not the best-quality video, unfortunately.)
The song also makes an appearance in "Halloween Kills," which you really don't heed to see.
A new video dropped this week for a previously unreleased Joe Strummer track titled "Fantastic" ... included on the record "Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years."
The video, including scenes around the East Village, features archival footage shot by Strummer, Dick Rude, Julien Temple, Don Letts and more.
Filmmaker Lance Bangs, who has directed videos for Nirvana, Sonic Youth, R.E.M., Green Day, and more, pieced together unseen footage from the artist's archives to lend a visual accompaniment to "Fantastic," and Strummer's lyrical oratory around dreaming, making change and better days...
And the track:
Recorded in December 2002 at the Rockfield Studios in Monmouthshire, Wales, "Fantastic" was one of Strummer’s final recordings, with vocals laid down just weeks after Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros played their last-ever live show at Liverpool University on Nov. 22, 2002, and exactly one month before Strummer’s untimely death on Dec. 22, 2002, at the age of 50.
Australian punks Amyl and the Sniffers released this live video clip this week from a recent show... a good preview of what to expect when they play Terminal 5 on West 56th Street next Friday night... in support of their most recent release, Comfort to Me.
And now for some 80s-style emotive synth-pop courtesy of Au Suisse, the debut record from NYC-based music vets Morgan Geist and Kelley Polar (aka Mike Kelley). Read more about the two here.
Enthusiasts of this era can check out their recently released record and spot the loving similarities here and there to Scritti Politti, Pet Shop Boys, Talk Talk, Visage and Tones on Tails, among others.