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New Music Roundup 18/12/20

Hello everyone welcome back to the New Music Roundup! We’re here for a roundup of five of the best recently released tracks. They’re not all within the same genre and they’re all different in some way or another but that means that there’s a little something for everyone here but come on, let’s get down to the music!

First up this wee are Frank Iero and his band, The Future Violence with the second track from their upcoming EP, ‘Heaven Is A Place, This Is A Place’ set to be released on January 15th 2021 via UNFD.

This is just a true Punk track with raw vocals as well as blaring drums to match.

Next up this week we have the Bristolian pack Superlove with their standalone, raucous track “Not Me! Not You!”.  The track, which follows their recently released brand new self-titled EP also comes in support of Rude Records 20th Anniversary.

“This single represents a pure burst of energy that we wanted to release having been sat around for most of the year.” says singer Jacob.  “It’s a song about people not having a clue what’s going on in the world. It’s a step away from our last few singles from our recent EP & it just felt right to throw it out into the world and watch the reaction seeing as though we can’t go and play some live shows off the back of the EP’s release. We recorded it in the first week of the UK’s 2nd lockdown and it’s been the quickest turnaround for a release yet, we are so excited of the prospect of hopefully playing it live one day to a proper rowdy room.”

Continuing in recent form for the Sweedish Trio Normandie, the latest effort, ‘Atmosphere’, is the latest choice of single to come from the band’s upcoming record, ‘Dark & Beautiful Secrets’ which is set for a release via Easy Life Records on February 19th 2021.

Vocalist Philip Strand had this to say of the track.

“One in five people in Europe say they experience feelings of loneliness, and during the pandemic many more feel anxious and isolated. With ‘Atmosphere’, we wanted to highlight the issue of loneliness online and how hard it can be to reach out for real connections. With the video we tried to focus on the lyrics, and let the visuals reflect on the emotions in the song.”

We’ve been waiting on some Pale Waves news for a while and we got it with the first track ‘Change’ and now this is a little bit of a different track to say the least with the Indie influence mixed with Avril Lavigne vibes, we have ‘She’s My Religion’ which is off their upcoming record, ‘Who Am I?’ which will be released via Dirty Hit on February 12th 2021.

Now I had to choose this track for the final pick this week and that is David Hasselhoff.

The Hoff has teamed up with Austrian duo CueStack for an epic single and sci-fi-tinged video, Through The Night, with the band previously revealing of how it all came about: ​“The project started in 2018 and many demos were made, many meetings were held and what seemed like an impossible idea slowly turned into a reality. David finally recorded the track with us, CueStack, in 2019 in Vienna and we also shot a cinematic music video together.”

And that’s it for another week of a roundup of the best new tracks out in the world in the last week. Be sure to check back next-time for another round of great music videos. If you have any suggestions for me to check out, be sure to send an email or message us via the socials on Facebook or Twitter!

Just an announcement for the next two weeks New Music Roundup, there’s not going to be one post because of the holidays and will resume in the new year. Happy Holidays everyone from Almost Anything Music.

Frank Iero & The Future Violents Announce New EP

Frank Iero is back with his ever changing band, the Future Violents in the form of a brand new EP!

This EP is a follow up to last years full length record, ‘Barriers’ and will be titled as ‘Heaven Is A Place, This Is A Place’.

On the EP, Frank says:

“The Future Violents was the perfect band at the perfect time for me. The creativity flowed through us like rapids and we didn’t stop writing because we ran out of inspiration…it was just time to go to the studio. In fact I was still writing at the studio, but I allowed myself the luxury of 14 songs on the record leaving 3 to survive in the shadows. Lying in wait. I knew I wanted them to see the light, it was just a matter of how and when.”

“The title of the EP actually comes from the night before we started recording Barriers at Electrical Audio in Chicago. The band went out to eat and get drinks at a local Tiki bar called, Lost Lake. On the menu that night there was a drink called Heaven is a place/This is the place.” shares Iero on the meaning behind the EP title. “I love when the universe gives you gifts like that. You just have to be in tune to your surroundings. The name struck me as clever and I started to think about how changing one word in that title meant something way more profound to me. Heaven is a place, if you believe in that sort of thing…It is the reward at the end of a long hard journey of fighting the good fight and living your life to whatever standards you hold dear. But it’s just a place. And so is this…This is a place, the earthly realm, miraculous on so many levels but also just a place. The difference is you and your perception.”

Here are all the details including Cover Art, Tracklisting and Cover of REM’s ‘Losing My Religion’.

01. Violence
02. Sewer Wolf
03. Losing My Religion
04. Record Ender

Pre-Orders are available via UNFD’s Webstore.

Check Out Frank Iero, Jamey Jasta & More Cover Misfits ‘Earth A.D’

Wow. I mean wow. holy all star squadron. Two Minutes To Late Night, the only heavy metal late night talk show is keeping busy, especially with this edition. The last few months they’ve been bringing on a few famous faces to cover a number of tracks.

This time around they’ve recruited Frank Iero, Hatebreed’s Jamey Jasta, The Dillinger Escape Plan’s Ben Weinman and Max Weinberg, the drummer for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street band as well as the father of Slipknot Jay Weinberg to take on Misfit’s classic track, ‘Earth A.D’.

“We got three of New Jersey’s most talented hoagies plus a Connecticut Hatebreed in King Danzig’s Court to assemble to form the punk supergroup you had no idea you needed. This is Max Weinberg, as in Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band/Late Night with Conan O’Brien-fame Max Weinberg playing a goddamn Misfits cover. What an absolute dream.”

Check out the cover of ‘Earth A.D’ below.

Music Video Roundup 02/08/19

It’s 4PM on a Friday! This means it’s time for the music video roundup. If you’re new to either the blog or these music video roundup posts, this is how it works. Every week, I watch some of the best recently released music videos and compile them into a list for everyone’s viewing pleasure. They’re span across all the different genres, so expect something different for most of the tracks. Up first in this weeks roundup are New Zealand based heavy metal trio ‘Alien Weaponry’. The video for ‘Blinded’ is the B-side to the ‘Ahi Ka’ 7″ single.

On the track, vocalist Lewis De Jong shared:

“The song has very personal meaning for me, but we wanted the video to leave things more open, so people can interpret it their own way. Piotr and Dwayne have really captured the notion of altered realities that we were going for, and we hope people will find their own messages in the images and the music.”

 

Next, this band wrapped up a set at this year’s 2000 Trees festival but the Danish powerhouse MØL have released a documentary-style video in a montage of footage of the band.

 

Cambridge rockers Mallory Knox are nearing the released of their self-titled fourth record this month and this is the latest offering which has followed ‘Guts’, ‘White Lies’ and ‘Black Holes’, all of which will be released onto the record.

Check out ‘Livewire’ below.

 

Heading into unfamiliar territory with this one, The Amazons have a fresh cut from their second record ‘Future Dust’ which was released earlier this year via Fiction Records, which comes ahead of their sets at this year’s Reading And Leeds Festivals later this month.

Frontman Mattew Thomson has shared:

“We fell in love with [director] Thomas James’ vision for Doubt It early on. He tapped into the themes of temptation and recklessness and applied his love and knowledge for the Horror genre to come up with something special. In a twist of fate, the video was shot in Wales, the country in which we wrote and recorded Future Dust.”

 

Heading straight into heavier territory, the legends that are Skunk Anansie have premiered their brand new video for ‘What You Do For Love’, which is the first new music in three years for the band.

It’s pulled together lots of live footage from the recent EU leg of their 25Live@25 tour.

Speaking on the track, vocalist skin shared: “People always use love as the reason to do the most heinous things to each other.”

“The hardest songs to write are political ones which is why we always try to avoid them.

“They’re supposed to just instantaneously spill out of you due to pure vexation, or they sound insincere and you fall into tired old clichés. This is one of those moments of rage! Love always seems to be the reason why people do hateful things, which I’ve never been able to understand.”

 

Up next are Post-hardcore up and comers Anemoria who’ve debuted a video for ‘Cashmere Jungle’ which is the first piece of new material following last year’s self-titled EP.

It’s uncertain whether or not the song will remain as a stand-alone single, or if it’ll feature on a yet-to-be-announced EP or Record.

 

Heading over to Bristol, the Punks known as Idles have a new animated video for ‘Never Fight With A Perm’, which is a fan-favourite taken from last years record ‘Joy As An Act Of Resistance’.

It was created by the great team at Fluffer Records who used the beat ’em up video game concept for the song’s lyrics to tackle toxic masculinity.

 

Taken from the record, ‘Barriers’, Frank Iero & The Future Violents have dropped a video for ‘Great Party’.

Starring Surfbort, the video gets weird after Frank and his band performs.

On the track, Frank has shared:

“I knew immediately when we finished writing ‘Great Party’ that it needed to be a single off the record and that we needed to make a video for that song. when I wrote the treatment for it I could see the whole thing playing out in my head, and I knew that our friends needed to be cast in it! I saw this weird gathering that you couldn’t tell if it was an AA meeting or the worlds bleakest birthday, and I knew our friend Dani from Surfbort had to be the one to light the fuse that would turn everything on it’s head. I really love this video, it may have turned out even better than I first imagined it.”

 

Heading to the heavyweights for the final videos, the band making a name for themselves are TheCityIsOurs as they have released a video for ‘Don’t Wait For Me’, a single from their upcoming record, ‘Low’.

Mikey Page (Vocals / Guitar) has shared:

“‘Don’t Wait For Me’ was written about a relationship that was incredibly toxic. We wanted to highlight the effects that relationships of this nature can have. Toxicity in these scenarios is horrible for all those involved, but there is still a general stigma that often men are at fault within these relationships or they should just ‘suck it up’ and get on with it, and even though it isn’t widely spoken about, we’re just as vulnerable… We wanted to juxtapose the lyrical message with the music, to symbolise this stigma. On the surface, this track has a feel-good vibe, but if you dig deeper, you’ll uncover something far more vulnerable.”

 

Ending on the giants known as Asking Alexandria this week and just in case you’ve been living under a rock, they have recently released the mega video for ‘The Violence’ the band’s latest single which sees a little role reversal of the zombie genre and humans are the infected and zombies are their prey.

Danny Worsnop (vocals) has shared:

“‘The Violence’ was an incredibly rewarding song to create. Ben and I both got to go way outside anything we’d done before and create something fresh and engaging. Thematically the song is about the way mainstream media and politicians manipulate and spread mistruth amongst the people to encourage and create anger, fear, division, and conflict in their quest to control and acquire power. As the history books have shown, this only goes so far before the people stand up and say enough is enough. I hope everyone enjoys what we’ve created here, we had a great time making it, and even more fun shooting the video!”

Frank Iero & The Future Violents announce Co-Headline Tour With Laura Jane Grace

Frank Iero is set to return to the UK with the latest iteration of his band, this being the Future Violents as well as co-headlining the tour with Laura Jane Grace And The Devouring Mothers.

Frank Iero is set to play 2000 Trees Festival in July but will return for the tour in August 2019.

Here are the dates.

August 2019

26th – Glasgow St Luke’s

27th – Edinburgh Liquid Room

28th – Manchester Academy 2

29th – London Scala

30th – Bristol Academy

31st – Birmingham O2 Institute 2

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Frank Iero Signs With UNFD, New Record Name Revealed

Former My Chemical Romance guitarist Frank Iero has some news. Number one is that he’s signed to the Australian music label, UNFD.

On signing, Iero has said:

“Super excited to be joining the UNFD family. We’ve known each other for a long time and the opportunity to be finally working together with people who really understand the project and believe in it is the greatest thing you could ever ask for.”

With every record cycle, Frank Iero takes up a new moniker for him and his band, with the next incarnation being Frank Iero And The Future Violents.

With this new name, the upcoming Third record will be titled as ‘Barriers’ which is set to be released on May 31st 2019.

 

Erik Chandler Parts Ways With Bowling For Soup

It’s a sad sad day for Bowling For Soup fans as the band has announced that longtime bassist Erik Chandler has parted ways with the band.

This news has quickly taken its toll on myself because Bowling For Soup was one memory I share with a dear friend as we both went to see them for the first time together and that memory sticks out just because of how genuine and wacky everyone was as a person and more recently in the last year, I got the opportunity to interview Erik In Newcastle. He’s one of the hardest working people in music I’ve seen and if somehow he does read these words, I just wanted to say thank you so much for the memories Erik, they’re ones I’m not going to forget.

A statement from Bowling For Soup was made via Facebook which says:

After 24 and a half years, we have some bitter sweet news to share.

As many of our fans know, Erik has not been playing with BFS for a while now.

Erik has recently come to the decision, for personal reasons, that touring and being in a band full time has become too much for him. Together, Erik and the band have decided to part ways. This split is on good terms. We will always be Erik’s biggest fan and brother, and support him in his decisions and future endeavors. We also hope that our fans will support him and respect his decision and privacy in all of this as he enters the next chapter in his personal and professional life.

Now for the good news. Rob Felicetti, who has been playing with BFS since May of 2018, has been jumped in and will continue as the bassist in our band! Rob has been touring with us with his band Patent Pending for years and fits in better than any of us could have imagined!

Patent Pending fans, never fear, Rob will still be in Patent Pending, unless our schedules cross…Which almost never happens!

We are sad to see the end of the Erik era, but more than overjoyed with the things we have planned in the coming months and years! We know you will all absolutely LOVE Rob as we and so many of our fans already do!

Thank you all for being the best.

We love you all!!

 

Frank Iero Explains that MCR Black Parade Teaser Video

Does everyone remember that My Chemical Romance video from a few years ago to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of The Black Parade? The one that sent fans straight into a frenzy?

This one?

Well, Frank Iero has explained just what that was all about. Speaking with Dan Patrick for his ‘Off the Seton Path’ show, Iero has said:

“So what happened was, we wanted to do a 10-year anniversary release of it, and we had some demos left over and some songs that didn’t make the record and we were like, ‘Oh, cool. We’ll put it all together.’ Every year, we meet and have a barbeque kind of thing. We’ll have the barbeque, kids will hang out and we’ll discuss business for the next year. And we were like, ‘Oh, that would be really cool. We should do a little teaser trailer for it. Alright, that’s what we’ll do.’ So, we told the lady what we wanted, and they made this trailer, and we released it. And all of a sudden we were like, ‘Oh, wait. Everyone’s real confused’.”

“We were always a theatrical band. So we wanted to continue in that fashion, but when you’re not a band any longer, it’s probably harder to do that. We didn’t realize.”

And if you’d like to, check out the full interview below.

Frank Iero Announces Name Of New Band

This is the moment we’ve been waiting for, for a long time.

Frank Iero has been teasing for months on the name of the new iteration of his band for a while and now we’ve had to go on for a clue is Frank Iero And The _______.

Now though, we have the name… The Future Violents.

Frank Iero Releasing LEathermouth Record, ‘XO’ On Vinyl

Frank Iero’s a man who doesn’t rest lately. His punk side project Leathermouth are releasing their debut record, ‘XO’ on vinyl.

After teasing yesterday that the for My Chem guitarist has an announcement to make, speculation was just rife that we might finally find out what his new band is going to be called. Now though, this announcement is pretty good as well.

But don’t worry, there’s still more coming!