...here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/11/whitney-houston-dead-sing_n_1270889.htm\
l?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D134919


Jen

This is the 2nd time I've interviewed Michael, and it's always a blast! 
Therapy? have a new album, A Brief Crack Of Light, out now.

"Awesome bassist Michael McKeegan analyzes the long-running rock band's new
(13th!) album, touring info, and the state of the music industry."

http://www.adequacy.net/2012/02/interview-with-therapy/


Jen

...and it's looong and detailed!  I covered each song, including the 3 bonus
tracks on the special edition album.

"Media sensation Lana Del Rey is riding high on a lively worldwide wave of hype
– and it's justified. Read on to find out why…"


http://www.adequacy.net/2012/02/lana-del-rey-born-to-die/


Jen

DanseWolf are up at DOA:

http://www.adequacy.net/2012/02/short-takes-on-2-albums-and-1-ep-2/


Jen

It's not coming out for a couple of months, but the new Violens album 'True'
sounds like Ian Masters-era Pale Saints.  It will give you chills...

-Marty

Here's the link to the sad news:

http://music.yahoo.com/news/monkees-singer-davy-jones-dead-66-180151703.html

I think I first saw/heard about Davy Jones/The Monkees from a repeat of a Brady
Bunch episode that featured him.  I think Marcia wanted to get Davy Jones to
sing at her prom, so she goes all-out to contact him and get him to agree.

Here's a video clip from that episode where Davy sings "Girl" in the studio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7TxTU_LYp0&feature=related

and a video clip of a surprised Marcia meeting Davy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm39e0w8fzw&feature=related

and my fave song by the band, "Daydream Believer":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU615FaODCg


Jen

...and here are a few more new albums/EPs to add to the list:

1.  Blunderbuss / Jack White
2.  How About I Be Me (And You Be You) / Sinead O'Connor
3.  O'Doubt O'Stars / Ruby Throat (i.e., KatieJane Garside and Chris
Whittingham; out now)
4.  Reign Of Terror / Sleigh Bells(out now)
5.  Out Of My Hands / Morten Harket (out in March)
6.  Strange Behavior / Screen Vinyl Image (out now)
7.  We Are Not The Same / Lux (out in April)
8.  s/t / UNISON (great album by French 'witch house' band; out in U.S. in
April)
9.  Softly Mad 7" / mr. Gnome (made up of 2 b-sides from Madness In Miniature
time period; out March 20th)
10.  Silk Threads EP / Sarah Nixey (out April 23; single plus new song and
remixes)
11. Zoo / Ceremony
12.  Open Your Heart / The Men
13.  Hairdresser Blues / Hunx
14.  Love At the Bottom of the Sea / Magnetic Fields
15.  Sweet Heart Sweet Light / Spiritualized
16.  Port Of Morrow / The Shins
17.  Le Voyage Dans La Lune / Air (out now)
18.  Blues Funeral / Mark Lanegan (out now)
19.  Paralytic Stalks / Of Montreal
20.  Roses / The Cranberries
21.  Toward the Low Sun / Dirty Three
22.  MDNA / Madonna
23.  New Wild Everywhere / Great Lake Swimmers
24.  The Power Within / Dragonforce
25.  Out of the Game / Rufus Wainwright
26.  Electra Heart / Marina & The Diamonds
27.  Not Your Kind of People / Garbage
28.  Dedicated to Chaos / Queensryche
29.  Oceana / Smashing Pumpkins
30.  Bad Religion
31.  Muse (new album in September?)
32.  Rage Against The Machine
33.  Tresspassing / Adam Lambert
34.  Kylie Minogue
35.  Lady Gaga
36.  Battle Born / The Killers
37.  Killswitch Engage
38.  Kelis
39.  Guns N' Roses (?!)
40.  Green Day
41.  The Cult
42.  MGMT

You can check out loads more listings at Wikipedia here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_albums_scheduled_for_release_in_2012


Jen

--- In Stratosphere_Fanzine@yahoogroups.com, "sidewaysgaze" <jdloc4@...> wrote:
>
> Here are the albums to be released in 2012 that I'm looking forward to:
>
> 1.  Trent Reznor's on a roll, what with his new band How To Destroy Angels
(with his wife and Atticus Ross) releasing a self-titled 6-track EP this year,
and also Trent doing the soundtrack for the highly-anticipated remake of the
film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.  He's got more news to share: a
full-length album from How To Destroy Angels and a possible new NIN album.  Read
all about it here:
>
http://www.spin.com/articles/trent-reznors-how-destroy-angels-album-set-early-20\
12
>
> and an interview with Trent:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/15/trent-reznor-the-girl-with-the-dragon-t\
attoo-golden-globes_n_1152300.html
>
> 2.  Brett Anderson is on fire too, with the release of his 4th solo album
Black Rainbows back in September - and news of a possible new Suede album in
2021!  Read up here:
> http://www.xfm.co.uk/artists/interviews/suede-to-record-new-stuff
>
> 3.  .The return of rock - I mean, the return of Queens Of The Stone Age is set
in stone for 2012, after a 2011 delay.  Can't wait to blow out the eardrums with
that band's latest.  More here:
>
http://banana1015.com/queens-of-the-stone-age-to-drop-new-album-in-2012-music-pr\
eview/
>
> 4.  I've already mentioned in a previous post about The Twilight Sad releasing
a new album in February, so let me just post the link to the band's blogspot
where you can still get the free download of the acoustic album:
http://thetwilightsadblog.blogspot.com/
>
> 5.  Morten Harket (of a-ha) will be releasing a new solo album in March 2012! 
I'm swooning already… More info here:
http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=47030_0_2_0_C
>
> 6.  Ever-prolific and entrancing Steve Kilbey will not only have a 3rd album
release with Martin Kennedy in 2012, but also a new sophomore album (titled Life
Somewhere Else) as Isidore with Jeffrey Cain of Remy Zero, to be released on
Remy's label Communicating Vessels on February 21st.  Label site here:
http://communicatingvessels.net/
>
> 7.  Never-say-die Irish rockers Therapy? return in February with 13th album A
Brief Crack of Light.  A single titled "Get Your Dead Hand Off My Shoulder"
precedes it.  Official word here:
http://www.therapyquestionmark.co.uk/news/read.php?newsid=297
>
> 8.  Actor Thomas Jane will be releasing an EP in the new year!  I'm not sure
if he's just producing or singing/playing guitar as well.  More details to come…
:
http://rawstudios.typepad.com/thomas_jane/2011/02/recording-the-hammond-organ-wi\
th-scott-thomas.html
>
> 9.  As previously mentioned Little Boots will have a new album out in 2012,
and "Shake", the 1st single, is out now.  At the following site you can also
hear "I Wish":
http://www.coupdemainmagazine.com/music/playlist/5462-little-boots-listen-to-two\
-new-songs-shake-and-i-wish
>
> 10.  Again, as mentioned before, Band Of Skulls come back in February with new
album Sweet Sour:
>
http://consequenceofsound.net/2011/11/band-of-skulls-detail-new-album-sweet-sour\
/
>
> 11.  New album from noir rock chanteuse Rykarda Parasol in spring or summer. 
Official site here: http://www.rykardaparasol.com/home.html
>
> 12.  Norwegian noise-rockers Maribel return with 2nd album, Reveries, on
February 13th: http://elbo.ws/post/3937234/maribel/
>
> 13.  Lana Del Rey drops debut, Born To Die, on Interscope on January 31st.
>
> 14.  Lastly, but not "leastly", The Smittens release new heart-warming,
smiling-inducing, toe-tapping album Believe Me in the new year:
http://smittens.com/
>
> Jen
>

I know that fellow Lush-lover Bill S. (Lush site:
http://www.lightfromadeadstar.org/ )already posted to Jen G.'s PVSG Lush Group
(http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/purpleveinsscenicgreens/ ) about a new
site that has tons of videos of Lush shows, but I also wanted to mention that
there are lots of gig-long videos for other amazing bands that made their names
in the 1990s like Curve, Jesus And Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Nirvana, and
many more.

Check out the goodness here: http://coolerthanjesus.webs.com/


Jen

"Follow along with alt-folk artist Sharron Kraus as she mulls over her on-going
musical and philosophical journey."

http://www.adequacy.net/2012/03/interview-with-sharron-kraus/


Jen

"they drag the canal, i swim with birds, here is my stone dress
http://www.facebook.com/katiejanegarsiderubythroat

friends dear, ruby throat album no. 3 o' doubt o' stars will let go its tethers
and make its creaking
squeaking way into the world any day now, informed by devastating departures and
heavenly arrivals
she got herself born aboard our narrowboat balthazar 2010-2011 (recorded while
navigating the lea river
and the waterways of north london)

track listing as follows:
stone dress

shoe
in steerage
a dog hair in the weave of the wool
forget me nots of stepney
broken machine
black rk 50:08'.68N 05:01'.74W
arctic fox
o' doubt o' stars
kono
wake of swans
tottenham resovoir
this release will be a 34 page ribboned and hand assembled little art book,
500 numbered copies, more information and links for this on sunday feb 5th


a new ruby throat facebook page is here:
http://www.facebook.com/katiejanegarsiderubythroat

we are doing our best to plant a little garden in this oh so convenient strip
lit milk bar, bear with us
thanks for everyone's sweet messages regarding our `if ` and
whereabouts....slipping into the lull,
the longhand reach of a solar wind, we make our tiny scratches on stones,
perhaps we were here
sometime ago a gnat a fleck of consciousness quietly resting on the rub of
steel....so said katiejane's
poetry book is in the longterm making, blessings and thankyou to all
contributers


i am looking out to sea, a grand adventure to follow,
will let you know more over the coming tides

with love to all"

http://www.katiejanegarside.com/

"Whether or not this song is about Angelina Jolie (It's more fun to imagine it
is), it's a supremely kicky, sticky piece of ear candy."

http://www.adequacy.net/2012/03/nameless-angelina-video/


Jen

Hi evryone, if you like the sound of Syd Barrett-meets-Elliott Smith whimsy with
Ivor Cutler guesting on keys, why not check this out? It's less than 2 minutes
long, whaddya got to lose!

http://soundcloud.com/pope-8/bunker-bill

Thanks

...is up at DOA.  "Jen Stratosphere reviews an album from Tycho and EPs from
Lola Dutronic and Inca Gold."

http://www.adequacy.net/2012/03/short-takes-on-1-album-and-2-eps/


Jen

"This SXSW 2012 Artist Showcase feature reviews of several acts that are "made
of win" and deserve more attention, including mr. Gnome, The Twilight Sad, The
Black Ryder, Therapy?, Gossip, Dragonette, The Men, Ryat, Deafheaven, Tycho, La
Sera, and The Drums."

So many music artists, so little time and ability to cover them all, so I picked
out several of my personal highlights that hopefully will strike a chord with
you too.

Whew, it was a whirlwind writing and listening session to get that all in line,
but it's finished and posted at Delusions Of Adequacy.

http://www.adequacy.net/2012/03/sxsw-2012-artist-showcase/


Hope you enjoy my picks - and feel free to post here about those bands and
singers.  What you like too, or if I didn't cover an artist that you like who's
performing or performed at SXSW 2012.

I did forget, and then didn't have time, to include several acts like Stars,
Redgrave, Chains of Love, Chairlift, and Metric - and probably a ton more that
escaped my notice!

Jen

...at DOA.  I keep wanting to call the album Confessionals! LOL  "The always
stirring Florence Welch is at it again, blurring the line between the earthly
and the spiritual with her restless rave-ups and pained, emotive vocals that
seek release in song."

http://www.adequacy.net/2012/03/florence-and-the-machine-ceremonials/


Jen

"DIY duo Leah and David sketch out their noise-pop sound, alternating vocals,
and new album We Are Not The Same."

http://www.adequacy.net/2012/03/qa-with-lux/


Jen

"The alt-folk noir and post-rock of The Nocturnes is another feather in the cap
of Red Sparowes member Emma Ruth Rundle."

http://www.adequacy.net/2012/03/the-nocturnes-aokigahara/


Jen

"French duo Mélanie and Julian reveal details about the storming electronic
sonics and Mélanie's bewitching vocals on their intense self-titled debut
stunner."

http://www.adequacy.net/2012/04/interview-with-unison/


Jen

...is up at DOA.

"Sharon Shy and Toppy have returned with a recent EP and single bearing the
attention-grabbing title Lack of Technology Made Me a Killer."

http://www.adequacy.net/2012/04/the-ropes-lack-of-technology-made-me-a-killer/


Jen

"Danielle Johnson AKA Computer Magic is flying high with a new synth-pop EP and
upcoming full length."

http://www.adequacy.net/2012/04/qa-with-computer-magic/


Jen

"This macabre video follows a video store clerk during his daily grind and
disturbing after-hours activities and exposes the anomie at his core."

http://www.adequacy.net/2012/04/the-twilight-sad-another-bed-video/


Jen

I absolutely love this UK music mag, at least its issues from the early 90s!  It
covered cream of the crop bands like Lush, Curve, Suede, Nirvana, and Babes In
Toyland - everything I was into at that time period (and, well, that I'm still
into - LOL - talk about arrested (musical) development).  Only certain pages
from each issue have been scanned, but it's a real blast from the past:

http://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/?p=2304


Jen

http://www.theboombox.com/2012/05/04/adam-yauch-dead/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7\
Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D157970

The new classic: "Sabotage":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE

The old classic: "You Gotta Fight for Your Right (to Party):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBShN8qT4lk


Jen

"Lead singer George Clarke reports from the front lines during the band's
gruelling tour schedule."

http://www.adequacy.net/2012/05/interview-with-deafheaven/


Jen

"en Stratosphere reviews albums by Nedry and Lux and an EP by Computer Magic."

http://www.adequacy.net/2012/05/short-takes-on-2-albums-and-1-ep-3/


Jen

"KatieJane Garside and Chris Whittingham are back with a third alt-folk noir
album of sonically subtle, yet emotionally acute reflections and reveries."

http://www.adequacy.net/2012/05/ruby-throat-o-doubt-o-stars/


Jen

...and directed by Paul McCartney, as well as a link that points out some sign
language errors in the vid:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/14/my-valentine-video-johnny-depp-natalie-\
portman-paul-mccartney_n_1425056.html?ref=email_share

and

http://www.spinner.com/2012/04/18/paul-mccartney-my-valentine-video-natalie-port\
man-johnny-depp/


Jen