Snowman, a band from Perth, Australia, have released a new record. It’s full of shouted, punk-like vocals, hard, thumping percussion, and lots of ambient noise. It’s a difficult album to describe, because the band mashes together several different styles, such as Sex Pistols style vocals, industrial noise a la My Bloody Valentine, and the occasional surf punk guitar riff. On the whole, it all sounds very new and excellent. Could these guys be Australia’s best band? They could be indeed. Here’s a video of their song “We Are The Plague.”
Also, while we’re talking about Australian bands, this is far from new, but I really like Silverchair’s song “Straight Lines” from their 2007 album Young Modern. There are several alarm bells going off in my head telling me I should not like this song, but I can’t help it. Very catchy.
I confess unfamiliarity with Detroit soul singer Betty LaVette’s music, although I’ve read about her (quite positively) on several occasions. Via this Stereogum article, I discovered that the Drive-by Truckers were her backing band on 2007′s The Scene of the Crime.
Somehow I missed this. I’ll assume others did, too, and post this even though the album is nearly a year old.
I own all of the Drive-by Truckers’ studio albums, so I’m definitely intrigued. The Drive-by Truckers have been known to destroy lesser universes live, and it sounds like LaVette may have the same superpower. Did they take this on the road? If not, they should.
You can get an MP3 of Bettye’s take on Don Henley’s “You Don’t Know Me At All” here.
Drive-by Truckers videos that aren’t live performances are hard to come by for some reason–if it’s a record company crackdown on fan videos, at least put up some official videos! Anyway, here’s one–”Never Gonna Change” from 2004′s The Dirty South.
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I confess unfamiliarity with Detroit soul singer Betty LaVette’s music, although I’ve read about her (quite positively) on several occasions. Via this 
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