Hugh Cornwell’s new album, Hooverdam, is out September 8th on Invisible Hands Music. The songs combine rhythm & blues, rockabilly and post-punk – and will surely appeal to fans of The Stranglers while winning over younger audiences. Though he’s an elder statesman of the music world, he’s taken a progressive approach to releasing this new work. The album is available for free download via his website. The site can be viewed in twelve languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Farsi, Russian, Mandarin, Turkish, Italian and Japanese), making the music freely available to most of the world’s population.
65 Days Of Static / Primer
I was playing at Summer Sundae in Leicester a couple of weeks ago and this band were playing whilst I waited to go on stage. They are quite remarkably different from anything out there at the moment, and no vocals! Astounding.
Art Brut / Alcoholics Unanimous
I am very fond of Art Brut and their nonchalant pop. This is the first track from their new album Art Brut Versus Satan. I love the title of this song.
Charlotte Rawlings / Any track
A friend turned me on to this girl’s astounding voice recently and I’d like to write with her at some stage.
The Airborne Toxic Event / Gasoline
People say this band sound like AC/DC, and I like the fact that new versions of old formats are always surfacing, proving that music is just a melting pot, as my old friend Roger Cook once said.
Jimi Hendrix / Voodoo Chile
There’s nothing better than listening to this on a hot night in a bar in Spain, which is where I’ve been listening to it this week.
Velvet Underground / Cool It Down
One of my favourite slinky Velvets’ tracks, from their last album Loaded. Lou said it was loaded with hits and he wasn’t wrong.
Asie Payton / I Love You
A relatively new face on the blues scene, he only made one album a few years ago, and then promptly died! He never played any concerts. He just used to play every Saturday night at his local 7/11 store. I first heard him on the soundtrack to The Badge, a film with Billy Bob
Peggie Lee / I’m A Woman
This is one of the most shit kickin’ girlie songs of all time. It’s old, Peggy Lee is dead, so what?
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fuck… I love you Hugh Cornwell.