Check out a tune from Tiger Bell, a new all-female hard-rock group featuring ex-members of Satirnine, Fare You Well and Rewind. I can always hang with good, solid rock'n'roll with strong harmonies, so this fits the bill perfectly. The band has a self-released 6-song EP out now, the entirety of which is now streaming at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/tigerbellband
Tiger Bell - Look into my eyes
Rock-Metal-Punk talks to the excellent Swedish indie/emo/pop act Fare You Well: http://rock-metal-punk.org/interview.php?band=fare-you-well
Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:
01. [ingenting] - Halleluja!
02. TALK 1
03. Lama - Beginning
04. Hearts of Black Science - Gold and dust
05. Fare You Well - Come closer now
06. TALK 2
07. Hearts No Static - Part 3
08. No Balls - No
09. Brothers of End - Why
10. TALK 3
11. Loud Pipes - Clean your head
12. Astrid Swan - 2000-2010 (I'm not even 30)
13. David Åhlén - Spirit fall
14. Kornstad - Noir
15. TALK 4
16. C.Aarmé - Abyss song
17. Interlace - Nemesis
18. Toture Division - Traumatic inhuman severance
19. Strip Music - 24 hrs
20. TALK 5
21. Culkin - Twin lakes annual
Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XMU. That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers. Also: he doesn't know it yet, but Mathias from Culkin will be my guesthost on next week's show. I'll be letting/forcing him to pick the playlist...
I fully admit it, I love good emo-pop. When done right, it aspires to Journey-like levels of arena pop and there's no shame in that kind of rock'n'roll populism. The subject matter tends to be a touch more dour than ye 80s classic rock mainstays, but that is the zeitgeist after all. Oh woe is me/us/them! It's the sound of the 00s and yes, it is almost over, though I don't think that's what Fare You Well is singing about here. Why bother dissecting the lyrics anyway? Just sing along and join in on the "woo-ooh-ooh". Smile a little bit wider. And download the band's entire new free EP: http://www.myspace.com/fareyouwell
Fare You Well - It's almost over
Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:
01. Samtidigt Som - Vid min sida
02. TALK 1
03. Tortyr - Ingen anger
04. Tribulation - Beyond the horror
05. The Fine Arts Showcase - Lovesick
06. TALK 2 (Umeå Punk City set)
07. The Bombettes - Oh boy
08. Industri Royal - Location location location
09. Regulations - Different needs
10. Moloken - Followers
11. Inständg - Kött är mord
12. Knugen Faller - Jag vill inte vara med
13. The Rats - Everything is a trap
14. TALK 3
15. Elmo - Blind heart
16. Logh - Forest eyes (RBG version)
17. Shining - Plågoande O'Helga plågoande
18. TALK 4
19. NEI - City of gold
20. Svart - Honey, honey
21. Fare You Well - It's almost over
22. TALK 5
23. Samuraj Cities - 2 close 2 yr hrt
Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XMU. That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.
Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:
01. Samuraj Cities - 2 close 2 yr hrt
02. TALK 1
03. Pirate Love - Laughing gas
04. Fare You Well - Overload
05. Kap Kap - Steel wheels
06. TALK 2
07. Elmo - Two becomes one
08. Johndoe - Hardt som faen
09. The Black - On the descent to hell
10. The Amazing - Dragon
11. TALK 3
12. The Bear Quartet - I was a weapon
13. Aerial - All refrain
14. Mögel - Håll mig hårt
15. TALK 4
16. Je Suis Animal - Painted in my face
17. Katatonia - Deadhouse
18. Pixie Carnation - Little sister
19. Björn Kleinhenz - Show me love
20. TALK 5
21. New Decade - I guess you ran from something
Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XMU. That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.
It's been a long while since we've heard anything new from them, but Swedish emo-pop act Fare You Well is finally back with a new EP called "Overload" which they are offering as a free download: http://www.myspace.com/fareyouwell
If you dig stuff like Jimmy Eat World, you'll like these guys too. I know I do.
Fare You Well are in the studio right now recording six new tracks. See pics from the studio at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/fareyouwell
Here's the playlist for this week's radio show:
01. Timo Räisänen - Sixteen
02. TALK 1
03. Dreamboy - What have I done
04. Echo Is Your Love - Three ropes
05. The Raveonettes - Dead sound
06. TALK 2
07. Connny Nimmersjö - Dum i huvudet
08. Holiday Fun Club - Hamburg in the night
09. Elin Ruth Sigvardsson - Antidote
10. TALK 3
11. Christian Kjellvander - Two souls
12. Heroes & Zeros - The foolproof
13. Gåte - Sjå attende
14. TALK 4
15. Repoman - Chemically obsessed
16. The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Instant Repeater '99
17. Petter - Logiskt (ft. Säkert)
18. TALK 5
19. Dieter Schöön - Warm hearts
20. Springfactory - Stingy Friday afternoon
21. Sivert Høyem - Don't pass me by
22. TALK 6
23. Sweatmaster - Song with no words
24. Enslaved - Enemy I
25. The Concretes - Kids
26. TALK 7
27. Broder Daniel - Cruel town
28. September - Cry for you
29. Britta Persson - Cliffhanger
30. TALK 8
31. TLS - A song left for you
32. The End Will Be Kicks - Ass of a friend
33. Immanu El - Kosmonaut
34. TALK 9
35. Fare You Well - Deceiving eyes
36. Weeping Willows - So it's over
37. Firefox AK - Winter rose (ft. Tiger Lou)
38. TALK 10
39. Scraps of Tape - Death as it should be
Swedish emopop act Fare You Well has enlisted Andreas Wiberg from the band Vanessa as their new drummer.
Check out Fare You Well's Japanese tour video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PltjCuClzDo
The playlist for this week's radio show:
01. TALK 1
02. Repoman - Chemically obsessed
03. Moder Jords Massiva - Vapen
04. Kornstad Trio - Intornette
05. TALK 2
06. Ghost Brigade - Autoemotive
07. Rather Sound Than Safe - The beat
08. September - My neighbourhood
09. TALK 3
10. Ebba Grön - 800°
11. Torpedo - My evil twin
12. Jonna Lee - Dried out eyes
13. TALK 4
14. Marvins Revolt - Bugs in time
15. Pimentola - Death is a secret
16. Nils Berg - Sailors fighting in the dance hall
17. TALK 5
18. Lampshade - By and by I come
19. Midnight Choir - Will you carry me across the water
20. Moonbabies - Walking on my feet
21. TALK 6
22. Candlemass - Elephant star
23. Front and the Factory Lies Beneath - Under a black sun
24. Cortex - Warrior night (live)
25. TALK 7
26. The Grizzly Twister - This city is a halo
27. New Decade - I guess you ran from something
28. The Grand Opening - Don't drop off
29. TALK 8
30. The Bear Quartet - I'm still her
31. Paper - My life is going under
32. Darkthrone - Wisdom of the dead
33. Detektivbyrån - Nattöppet
34. TALK 9
35. Mob - Ghost track
36. Fare You Well - Deceiving eyes
37. TALK 10
Forgive me, but I must take exception to Jonas Appelqvist's review of Fare You Well. His description of the music is spot-on, but his conclusion? Totally false. It's far from groundbreaking, but I can honestly say that I haven't heard as solid an emopop record as this in many, many years. That might be because I'm woefully and willfully ignorant, but I stand by my statement! It's certainly on par with Last Days of April and, at moments, comes awfully close to matching the highs of Jimmy Eat World. Sure, you can barely recognize the theoretical hardcore/punk heritage this stuff is supposed to possess, though I'd argue that hardly matters anymore. Promise Ring and the Get-Up Kids were only subversive in the context of a tough-guy scene, nowadays this stuff might as well be Bon Jovi. Underground? Who cares. If this is the new arena rock, that's totally okay by me.
Fare You Well - Take me away
The playlist for my radio show this week:
01. Säkert! - Allt som är ditt
02. TALK 1
03. Madrugada - Shine
04. My Midnight Creeps - Don't let 'em bring you down
05. TALK 2
06. Asha Ali - A promise broken
07. Detektivbyrån - Hemvägen
08. Pelle Carlberg - Clever girls like clever boys much more than clever boys like clever girls
09. TALK 3
10. Enslaved - 793 (Slaget om Lindisfarne)
11. TALK 4
12. Fare You Well - Take me away
13. The Kissaway Trail - Smother + Evil = Hurt
14. Emmon - Wake up time (Thermostatic remix)
15. TALK 5
16. KVLR - Traitors and thieves
17. Magnus Carlsson - Va med mig
18. Jonas Kullhammar Quartet - Bebopalulia
19. TALK 6
20. De Må Være Belgiere - Cirkler
21. Johndoe - Kjøtere
22. Manes - Deeprooted
23. TALK 7
24. Khoma - Stop making speeches
25. The Giant's Dream - Significant dawn
26. Las Puertas - The water
27. TALK 8
28. Lordi - The chainsaw buffet
29. Logh - A sunset knife fight
30. Lack - 5 o'clock in the evening
31. TALK 9
32. The Bear Quartet - Before the trenches
33. Jan Johansson - Visa från Utanmyra
34. TALK 10
35. Kashmir - The aftermath
A wall of sound? Check. Attitude? Check. Lots of harmonies? Check. Breakdowns? Check. Emo? You bet! When Canan from Satirnine teams up with members from The Ackermans, the result is somewhat blurry. Like a job half done. 'Cause when you're in this emorock genre, it doesn't matter if the musicianship is brilliant (and it is on this disc, I give them that), you need strong melodies and big choruses. Something Fare You Well is missing. There are, on the other hand, some tracks that stand out. The poppy "Take me away" offers up a nice touch that sounds a bit like a darker form of The Promise Ring and the heavy "Traps" follows the vein of Bad Astronaut. But as a whole, the album isn't as edgy as I want this kind of music to be and it is certainly not what I expected from Canan. A sign of the times I suppose. Sounds like a serenade? Nah, sounds more like a sleeping pill.
- Jonas Appelqvist