Here is Kite covering "I give you morning", one of my all-time favorite ballads. Like a lot of people who read this site, I suspect we all first heard the song when Weeping Willowsm/watch?v=3jjiTL-ldGk" target="_blank">covered it, though of course it's been a longtime Swedish evergreen from way back when Fred Åkerström first did it på Svenska (m/watch?v=p-6-iDu554o" target="_blank">"Jag ger dig min morgon") in 1972 on the album"Två tungor". And of course Håkan Hellströmm/watch?v=65SAJTOkvNI" target="_blank">did it as well on his "visor" EP "Luften bor i mina steg". There's probably more versions out there, but let us not forget the original by m/watch?v=wxWEIHFLBLg" target="_blank">Tom Paxton which I believe originally appeared on 1969's "The things I notice now" (and was rerecorded for 1982's "Even a gray day", an LP I have in my collection). Now, as far as ranking them goes, I consider the OG and WW versions to be my favorite, but this new one by Kite is pretty darn good, but even better: it's different. Reverence is for the weak; let's give it up for Kite's pulsating synth version!
, the reissue arm of , has announced that they'll be reissuing Gehenna's "Seen through the veils of darkness" (The second spell) as a 2LP and "malice" (the third spell, my favorite record of theirs) on 3LP.
will releasing new albums fromAss and Jobalites this spring, with the former's record "Salt marsh" due first in April. Also look out for a new Goran Kajfes album this coming fall.
will be releasing the vinyl edition of Danish act Kiss Kiss Kiss' debut album"Release the birds". They'll also be putting out a limited edition (300, hand-numbered) vinyl treatment of the new Salem al Fakir record "Ignore this". No official release date on either, but they say they should be ready in about three weeks.
After banging my head against CSS coding problems for five or so hours yesterday, I need to hear something that adequately reflects the state of my brain. Something noisy and repetitive. Bonus that it fills the gap between this week's other postings of m/n/33521-monument-monday">monument and m/n/33535-du-pacque-walk-straight">Du Pacque. That something: Ikons. monotonik beats meet loud guitars under a black shroud of destructive noise. "The hawk" is way more Kraut than goth, but they have those tendencies, let me assure you. Keep on droning, let me forget my problems, clear my mind; melt away the cobwebs, the fuzz. Block/black out the world around me.
Looptroop Rockers are hitting up the West Coast this month after SXSW:
03/23 - mount Tabor Theatre, Portland, OR
03/24 - Roxy's Vets Club, mt Shasta, CA
03/25 - Club 6ix, San Francisco, CA
03/26 - Viper Room, Los Angeles, CA
03/27 - Boomer's Bar, Las Vegas, NV
03/28 - Garage Theatre, Long Beach, CA
I believe that Chords, Timbuktu and Adam Tensta are on this tour as well.