New Releases This Week [7/30/13]

New Releases This Week [7/30/13]: 

Five Finger Death Punch – The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell Volume 1


 
Emblem3 – Nothing to Lose


AlunaGeorge – Body Music

Brick + Mortar – Bangs


T. Hardy Morris – Audition Tapes

New Singles Available This Week [7/30/13]:


Parachute – “Hurricane”


The Naked and Famous – “Hearts Like Ours”


The Colourist – “Little Games”


New Releases This Week [7/23/13]

New Albums Available This Week [7/23/13]:

Gogol Bordello – Pura Vida Conspiracy

Various Artists – Reggae Gold 2013

Guy Clark – My Favorite Picture Of You

We Came As Romans – Trace Back Roots

Baroness – Live at Maida Vale – BBC

Serj Tankian – Jazz-Iz Christ

Devo – Something Else for Everybody

Weekend – Jinx

Jackson Scott – Melbourne

Half Moon Run – Dark Eyes

Fuck Buttons – Slow Focus

New Singles Available This Week [7/23/13]:

Kings Of Leon – “Supersoaker”

AFI – “I Hope You Suffer”

Yellowcard – “Ocean Avenue (Acoustic)”

Josh Thompson – “Cold Beer With Your Name on It”

Icona Pop – “All Night”

Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry

Let me introduce you to the british band “Roxy Music”.  This band is accredited for the creation of the rock genre of “Glam” rock alongside Marc Boland from T. Rex.  Roxy Music formed in 1971 by Graham Simpson and Bryan Ferry while attending art-school in the late 60’s in Newcastle University, UK.  The band current members include Bryan Ferry, Andy Mackay, Paul Thompson, and Phil Manzanera.  The band is mostly recognized for its great influence in the Bristish Pop, Rock, and Electronic music.  Ex-band members include the great Neil Hubbard, Paul Carrack, and Brian Eno.  Brian Eno is most known for being the father of “Ambient” music, and re-known producer who worked with such acts as (U2, Talking Heads, Devo, Coldplay) amongst other collaboration to include David Bowie, Depeche Mode, and Massive Attack.  Their debut album (Roxy Music) 1972 is known in the UK as the best debut album of all times, produced by legendary King Crimsom lyricist Peter Sinfield.  The band was charectirized by its alto saxophone solo’s and groovy bass lines.  Roxy Music’s sound progressed in a short amount of time, and towards the end it was mostly influenced by electronic synthesizers and samplers from the experimental music of the late 70’s.  Roxy Music was known for using semi-nude and provocative girls on their album cover, some of them banned at the times.  Roxy Music paved the way for early Punk music, and were a blue-print for the New Wave movement of the 80’s. Bands that where directly influence by Roxy music credited their influence in visuals and style includes, Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Flock of Seagulls, and ABC.  More contemporary acts include Morrissey, Pulp, Urge Overkill, and Blur.  Lead singer Bryan Ferry enjoyed a fruitful solo career throughout the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s.  Bryan Ferry is the most active member of the band and released his last solo album (The Jazz Age) in November of 2012.  His solo career includes various UK/US chart hits, and 14 studio albums.  Bryan Ferry’s solo career is best known for covering songs by Neil Young, John Lennon and Bob Dylan.

Roxy Music Discography:

Roxy Music (1972)

For Your Pleasure (1973)

Stranded (1973)

Country Life (1974)

Siren (1975)

Manifesto (1979)

Flesh and Blood (1980)

Avalon (1982)

Bryan Ferry Discography:

These Foolish Things (1973)

Another Time, Another Place (1974)

Let's Stick Together (1976)

In Your Mind (1977)

The Bride Stripped Bare (1978)

Boys and Girls (1985)

Bête Noire (1987)

Taxi (1993)

Mamouna (1994)

As Time Goes By (1999)

Frantic (2002)

Dylanesque (2007)

Olympia (2010)

The Jazz Age (2012)

Best Roxy Music Links:

http://www.roxymusic.co.uk/

http://www.vivaroxymusic.com/

http://www.roxyrama.com/

http://www.bryanferry.com/

311 @ Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow VA. (19/07/13)

Great live night in VA, with 311 covering their best songs. Highlights of the night where "HR" from Bad Brains as musical guest and Cypress Hill as the opening act. Great performance!

New Releases This Week [7/16/13]

New Albums Available This Week [7/16/13]:

Sara Bareilles – The Blessed Unrest

Sick Puppies – Connect

Cody Simpson – Surfers Paradise

Mayer Hawthorne – Where Does This Door Go

Matt Nathanson – Last Of The Great Pretenders

Bob Saget – That’s What I’m Talkin’ About

Court Yard Hounds – Amelita

Robert Randolph – Lickety Split

Frank Black – Oddballs

San Cisco – San Cisco

Becky G – Becky G EP

Sons Of Hippies – Griffons at the Gates of Heaven

New Singles Available This Week [7/16/13]:

Pearl Jam – “Mind Your Manners”

Avenged Sevenfold – “Hail to the King”

Soda Stereo/Gustavo Cerati

“Soda Stereo” is an Argentinian band that started in early 1982 emerging from the “Post-Punk” movement at the time in the Buenos Aires, Argentina underground music scene.  Soda Stereo is considered the most important band from Ibero-America and has sold over seven million albums worldwide.  Original members included Gustavo Cerati, Charly Alberti, and Zeta Bosio.  The following years the band played various venues and clubs where they quickly initiated a following throughout Latin America and North America.  Some of their most important concerts at the time include Rock & Pop Festival ’85, & Viña del Mar ’86.  On their third album “Doble Vida” the band was collaborating with producer Carlos Alomar who was a former guitarist that played with such legendary acts like James Brown, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and David Bowie amongst many others.  Soda Stereo kept raising the bar on their live performances and gaining new fans throughout the “Americas."  By the 1990’s, they co-headlined with Tears for Fears where their impressive musical talent and influence was eminent.  Their 5th album “Canción Animal” is considered by critics the bands best creative album and most influential to this date.  By 1994, the band had a significant tragedy when the two young sons of Soda Stereo's bassist Zeta Bosio died in a car accident.  The tragedy created tensions to disband the band and each member took separate ways for the next year. On that same year Gustavo Cerati released his first solo album “Amor Amarillo” where a different direction in music was being started.  In 1995, the band re-united to release their 7^th and last studio album “Sueño Stereo” where the album experienced a massive success throughout North/Latin America.  In 1997, the band announced via press-conference their breakup, soon followed by a farewell tour.  The band reunited back in 2007 playing some American locations.  The band had its most recent tragedy when lead singer Gustavo Cerati suffered a massive “stroke” in May 2010 in a concert in Venezuela.  Until this date, the lead singer endured therapy and hasn’t been able to recover from this incident.  Cerati is currently under medical treatment and is assisted by a mechanical respiratory system where little brain stimulation is present.  Soda Stereo united the world of Rock and to this day, their music has influence many other acts that followed their foot-steps.  In 2011 Bono, while on tour in South America, took the time to send some love and a quick recovery to Cerati.  Bono’s action reflected the importance of Cerati and Soda Stereo in the world stage, and their influence.

Soda Stereo (Studio albums)

Soda Stereo (1984)

Nada Personal (1985)

Signos (1986)

Doble Vida (1988)

Canción Animal (1990)

Dynamo (1992)

Sueño Stereo (1995)

Videography

Ruido Blanco (1988)

Canción Animal (1991)

Una Parte de la Euforia (2004)

El Último Concierto (2005)

Comfort y Música Para Volar (2007)

Gira Me Verás Volver (2008)

Gustavo Cerati (Solo Albums)

Amor Amarillo (1993)

Bocanada (1999)

Siempre es Hoy (2002)

Ahí vamos (2006)

Fuerza Natural (2009)

World Wide Mundo Rocks \m/

Welcome everyone to Mundo Rock where we unite the world of rock into one.  Weekly we will have album reviews, past + future Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Famers, and each week we will introduce a new band/artist to the blog.  This week we will be talking about the Argentinian band (Soda Stereo) and focusing on its lead singer Gustavo Cerati.  Feel free to leave any comments as we go, thanks for joining...

~DJ Gish