Palmers & Ka-Spel’s Haunting Stop Motion Music Video

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Amanda Palmer & Edward Ka-Spel’s I Can Spin a Rainbow album is the opposite of taking LSD in outerspace. It’s dreamy but it isn’t dream pop. It’s magical but there’s no unicorns. It’s a ghost addressing hard reality. It’s eerie and full of loss looking at love. It’s indescribable by me but that’s ok ’cause the haunting stop motion video for the song ‘The Clock at the Back of the Cage’ will do it for me. It’ll speak to you in profound ways if you play it fullscreen and listen … Continue reading →

‘Time for Bedlam’ & Good Rock Morning

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The sun is out, the clouds are dead and a smile is on my face. 7 days of very hard work and long hours compiling a corruption report is behind me (i won’t share it yet). It feels like a rock ‘n roll morning so i’m making that my reality. Half of the planet knows the song ‘Smoke on the Water’. For the majority who don’t know whether that classic song is from the Sixties, Seventies or Eighties, it’s probably the only DEEP PURPLE song they know. They likely think … Continue reading →

Cherries on a Blacklist – Amazing ‘Glorious Days’

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The greatest 2016 insult to rock music is that CHERRIES ON A BLACKLIST isn’t famous. Glorious Days, their sophomore album, is my favourite of the year. I can’t get enough of it! ‘Barrel of a Gun’, the first single, kicks off with an infectious punctuation of verses and melodic choruses. As catchy as it is, it’s too gritty to be called radio rock. ‘Storm’, ‘Sweetness of Youth’ and ‘Head in the Ground’ make for more commercial listening whilst never selling out. The guitar solo and vocal breakdown of ‘Head in … Continue reading →