With Michael Plaster of SoulWhirlingSomewhere on vocals
Featuring Sam’s delicate acoustic guitar work and a stirring vocal performance from Michael Plaster (and drums from The Dresden Doll’s Brian Viglione), these four songs are interconnected, intimate stories of a broken heart. Bike Shop, Sam’s fifth consecutively-funded Kickstarter project, displays the tenderest side of Blacktape.
Only one of the four songs will be included on Black Tape For A Blue Girl’s August 12th CD. These fleeting moments, their 11th studio album, is 70 minutes of powerful, gorgeously yearning tracks, born from the same place as their classic 90s releases Remnants of a deeper purity and A chaos of desire.
Sam says, “The tracks on the EP are quite different from the ones on the album; they are sparse and sensitive pieces written for Michael’s vocals. They’re up close and personal reflections on places and moments, asking how things fell apart. I wrote ‘Bike shop’ and when Michael got involved I quickly wrote three additional songs to tell more of the story of the character. But these weren’t the direction I was taking the album. I decided to put them together on this EP as a stand-alone piece outside the context of These fleeting
The EP can be pre-ordered now! Not only on vinyl, but can be streamed or download on Bandcamp as well.
The organisation of WGT 2016 recently announced a whole bunch of names that has to be added to the already impressive line-up:
AGONOIZE (D) , DÉCEMBRE NOIR (D) , ESPLENDOR GEOMÉTRICO (E) , HENRIC DE LA COUR (S) , I LIKE TRAINS (GB) , PORTION CONTROL (GB) , SPETSNAZ (S) , TEST DEPT:REDUX (GB) , THE OCEAN (D) , THE SEXORCIST (D) , ALEXANDER NYM (D) , ANDI HARRIMAN (USA) , ANITA STEINER (D) , BELEN RUALES AGUILAR (YV) , BENJAMIN SCHMIDT (D) , BJÖRN BRÜNNICH (D) , CAROLINA SIRUI-CAO (D) , CHRISTIAN VON ASTER (D) , DAVID TIMM (D) , DENNY WILKE (D) , DIRK LEHMANN (D) , DUO LIED KUNST (D) , ELBISH ROCK
(D) , ELISABETH NEUSER (D) , EMILY HOPPE (D) , ENSEMBLE AMARILLI (D) , EVE MARTY (F) , FINISTERRE TANGO (RA) , HENDRIK SCHNÖKE (D) , ISABELGABBE (D) , JOANA GÖTTSCHE (D) , JOHANNA MAENNIKE (D) , JÖRG RICHTER (D) , JULIANE BREINL (D) , KARL-HEINZ GEORGI (D) , KATHRIN CHRISTIANS (D) , LEX WOHNHAAS (D) , LUCI VAN ORG (D) , LUKAS DREYER (D) , LYDIA BENECKE (D) , LYDIA GORSTEIN (D) , LYDIA KAVINA (D) , MARK BENECKE (D) MARKO KRUPPE (D) , MARKUS HEITZ (D) , MATTHIAS MÜLLER (D) ,
MENDELSSOHNORCHESTER LEIPZIG (D) , MORITZ EGGERT (D) , SASCHA BLACH (D) , SASKIA ETZOLD (D) , SEBASTIAN TAUBERT (D) , STEPHAN MEINER (D) , SVEN GEIPEL (D) , THALIA LAUER (D) , THOMAS MANEGOLD (D) , ULF WALLIN (D) , VEIT ETZOLD (D) , WOLFRAM KUHNT (D)
On May 27th, Metropolis Records will be releasing "The Burning Bridge," the first new material from the New York City based trio NOIR since their debut album Darkly Near in late 2013.
"The Burning Bridge," featuring vocalist Athan Maroulis (Spahn Ranch, Executive Slacks, Black Tape for a Blue Girl) was written by Maroulis and Erik Gustafson (16volt, Adoration Destroyed). An exclusive extended version of the song "The Burning Bridge" will also be released on the CD compilation Electronic Saviors Volume 4 in June. "The Burning Bridge" EP will also feature a cover of a very early Ministry song from 1982 entitled "Same Old Madness," along with a cover of Duran Duran's "The Chauffeur."
Also, "In Every Dream Home A Heartache" a Roxy Music song which appeared on NOIR's Darkly Near is also included here but is a live version recorded on WFMU radio on December 12th, 2013. Featuring Athan Maroulis on vocals, backing vocals and keyboards by Kai Irina Hahn and Demetra Songs along with programming and keyboards by Erik Gustafson.
"The Burning Bridge" is dedicated to David Bowie.
From the gutters of south Sweden, Liv “Sin” Jagrell emerged as a major force as the vocalist for hard rockers Sister Sin. Throughout their 13 year career, Sister Sin sold thousands of albums and toured the world with high profile tours supporting the likes of Slayer and King Diamond on the Rockstar Mayhem festival tour, as well as being a part of the Revolver Magazine ”Hottest Chicks in Metal” tour. Sister Sin toured relentlessly for over a decade across Europe and North America garnering an intensely loyal following of rockers that craved the band’s aggressive and melodic brand of hard rock.
When Sister Sin called it quits at the end of 2015, Liv knew that she had much more to give to her fans. From this, LIV SIN was born. Liv is currently working on a new music that shows the power, sexiness, and attitude that she is known for. Liv says ”for me it has never been an option to stop singing. I live for the stage and for my fans. I still miss Sister Sin, but I am very excited to work on my own project, and I can promise it will not be some soft pop rock. This is going to be metal deluxe, because that’s who I am!" LIV SIN offers a modernized hard rock sound to take Liv into her next phase, a sound that is destined to please both new fans and her longtime fans of Sister Sin.
ZOON POLITICON are back with a brand new album. "Black In White" is the follow up to their 1998 album "For Several Voices" and features 13 brillant new tracks that show the fascination of timeless electropop. Wonderful melodies, cool basslines and atmospheric harmonies make the quality of each track of the new ZOON POLITICON album. The first edition of the album is released as a double-cd. The bonus-cd features many great remixes of different album tracks (several of them exclusive to this album release). Remixers of the tracks were artists like e.g. Parralox, Orange Sector and Sinestar.
CD 1 (Album „Black In White“):
01. Run Forever
02. Mercy
03. Moments (Album Version)
04. Good Morning
05. Dreamer
06. Special Kind Of Love
07. New Phase
08. Candle Of Truth
09. Good Evening
10. Timekiller (Album Version)
11. Such A Bore
12. Sense Of Life
13. Galaxy
CD 2 (Remixes):
01. Sense Of Life (Orange Sector Remix)
02. Run (Vainerz Remix)
03. New Phase (Anxiety Remix by Sinestar)
04. Sense Of Life (To The End Mix by Zoon Politicon)
05. Run (Parralox Remix)
06. New Phase (People Theatre’s Plug Mix)
07. Special Kind Of Love (Tough2Mix by Zoon Politicon)
08. Timekiller (Zeitlos Mix by Zoon Politicon)
09. Run (Madmoizel Remix)
