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SVETLANAS – The Alien Blues Single & Video OUT NOW!

Often called “The Most Dangerous Band in the World”, SVETLANAS manage to build a strong reputation in the music community enhanced by furious performances at international festivals like Vans Warped Tour (USA), South by Southwest (USA), Punk Rock Bowling (USA), Rebellion Festival (UK), Extreme Fest (FR) and Dead Of Winter (AU) just to name just a few.

SVETLANAS has earned and maintained the respect of legendary bands such as The Adolescents, D.O.A., The Dwarves, M.D.C, Bad Religion, Suicidal Tendencies, Sick Of It All, Phil Anselmo, Eyehategod, Jello Biafra and many more, giving life to international tours and record productions. The band also received a big and unexpected shout-out from Gene Simmons of the legendary rock band KISS who said “Their music will be listened to by 40 million Americans!”.

Nick Oliveri (Kyuss, Queens Of The Stone Age, Mondo Generator, The Dwarves) officially joined the lineup in 2016 recording along with the band “This is Moscow Not LA” LP at the official QOTSA’s headquarters, Josh Homme’s Pink Duck Studios, and performing a full month residency at the legendary Whisky a Go Go as a member of SVETLANAS. From that moment Nick will be part of every record release of the band, including “Disco Sucks” (2020) and the upcoming release of “The Alien’s Blues” (2022) 

SVETLANAS returned right now from their appearance at the DRAGON FIRE Tour as support of the undisputed NYHC Kings – SICK OF IT ALL! 

In order to support the new Album also called THE ALIEN´s BLUES, DRA and SVETLANAS managed to release a very special recordpackage only available at the SVETLANAS Merch – a liquid record, a handcrafted Beer incl. a Download Code of THE ALIEN´s BLUES”. Expect the Vinylrelease in Spring 2023! 

(music news) Frank Turner and Beyond The Lamplight released song ‘Shelter’!

Lead singers of Larry and his Flask, Ian Cook and Andrew Carew, continue the fun and songwriting alliance together in their new project Beyond The Lamplight. A new iteration of the time-tested sound that fans have grown to love. Soaring harmonies meld with deft lyricism and lightning-fast banjo-picking all against a double-time backbeat to form a quintessential electric barn burner.

‘Shelter’ is a song about loving another who has created a guarded existence from the outside world. A story about coaxing someone out of their shell that they hide inside of. Sharing your own strength with that person in hopes to bring them out of their shelter; their shield against the anxieties and stresses of life. Trying to show them the beauty of not only the world but also the beauty in themselves. British punk singer/songwriter Frank Turner was happy to sing guests parts in both the hook and the bridge of the first single of the new album:

‘Frank’s a longtime friend. We got really close with him and the Sleeping Souls over the course of several tours throughout the years with Larry and his Flask. When I sat down and wrote Shelter it just kind of all came flowing out in one big stream. When I finished and listened back to it, I could just hear him singing it so clearly in my head. The melody just lent itself to his voice and style. So I got a hold of him and asked if he’d be into being a part of it and he was super stoked to lend his voice to the song. He banged it out in a day or so at his studio and that’s what’s on the record.   It really elevated the song from a listener perspective. Having the back and forth from me to him. Playing off of each other. Total magic.”‘- Ian Cook, Lead Singer of Beyond the Lamplight

(book review) David Gamage- A Hardcore Heart Adventures In A DIY Scene

Well, growing up as hardcore kid in the nineties I can totally relate to this book. This is a really big book which tells about David´s adventures as a guitarist for touring bands. What I always loved reading in fanzines is tour diaries and this book reminds me of just that. Touring. All the troubles, all the joy, all the problems with promoters, sound, van breaking down or having a puncture, job worries. David is best known as guitarist for UK melodic punk band Couch Potatoes but also being a part of the UK hardcore punk scene for more than three decades now. This book is in fact a document of this life and work, but also a tour de force document about history of UK DIY hardcore punk scene in the nineties and all the bands, I must admit that I found couple of that I never heard before and will definitely investigate and have a listen. This book is just hardcore from the heart, written by hardcore kid for hardcore kids. More than 600 pages topped with superb photographs and also flyers and gig posters. A document about time which may have passed but remains in heart, also a coming of age story.