Despite the ongoing, and some cases renewed, lockdowns in many parts of the Überverse, we are still receiving a healthy bundle of submissions for our coveted ‘Video Of The Week’ title. Many of them are produced against the background of continuing quarantine conditions in some countries, while others reflect artists being able to return and flex their creative muscles once again.
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It’s hard to believe it’s been a fortnight since the Singles Club opened its virtual doors and we fired up the death decks with a selection of the finest single-track releases to have come our way in recent weeks. Yet, here we are again with another bumper pick of the crop – actually, for the second successive iteration it’s one of our biggest clubs in a long time, with just shy of two dozen tracks for your aural and visual delectation, whittled down from the more than 400 submissions which have come our way over the past 14 days or so, and once again hopefully containing something to tickle almost everyone’s musical taste buds as we traverse multiple subgenres of the glorious artform we like to refer to as rock ‘n’f’n’ roll…
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The first question that has to be asked about this double CD is, we suppose, “does the world really NEED another ‘Best Of Rory Gallagher’ compilation?” And, it has to be said, with hand on heart, that Monk’s initial answer is, most likely, “probably not”. After all, there are several such compilations out there, although it could be argued that not one of them is definitive – after all, ventures such as this are very much subjective to the view and feelings of the people responsible for putting together the track listings. Equally, it is very hard, if not virtually impossible, for such releases to bring anything new to the table, as it were, despite the extensive canon of work that the Irish guitarist left behind…
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Naked Roommate is a side-project that grew legs, a relaxed, inexpensive, creative diversion that was the 2018 brainchild of Amber Sermeńo and Andy Jordan, previously of Oakland post-punk dance outfit The World. They released a six-track self-titled digital mini album in September 2018, which was also available on a cassette tape, which was limited to one hundred copies of course. Ah the nostalgia. Later joined by Alejandra Alcala (Blues Lawyer/Preening) and Michael Zamora (bAd bAd/Exit Group), the fully formed Naked Roommate gained a decent live reputation and produced the 33-minute, ten-track debut album ‘Do The Duvet’. This time we get red or black vinyl and a red-case cassette option!
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What do you do when your vocalist departs the band mid-way through recording your new album? Do you just abandon the whole project and start again after recruiting a new vocalist or do you get creative? Well Ecuador’s Black Sun opted for the latter and got their producer to recruit some of Finland’s finest metal vocalists to finish off their EP ‘Silent Enemy’ with some fantastic guest slots.
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